Welcome to this English in the Summer A2/B1 course. My name is Mark and I’ll be your teacher. Here you will find homework assignments and the notes from the day’s class. If you have questions or comments you can either post them here (in the comments section) or write to me at my email address.

Looking forward to getting to know you.

Class 2:

Thanks for a great class yesterday. Sorry for not uploading the notes yesterday.

Class 2 Notes:

Present Simple Questions:

Qu  +  verb (to be) + Subject                      Subject + verb + object

What is your name? –     My name is Mark

What kind of food do you like?

Which (thing) Folkuniversitetet do you work at? (which one?)

Where (place) are you from?                                   Qu   +  Aux   +   subject +  Inf    (quasi)

When did you come to Sweden?

Subject + aux + not + inf

I didn’t come here last year.

Subject + aux (do/does) + inf

She doesn’t get up at 6.

Why (reason) did you come to Sweden?

Who am I? (people)

How (many/much/long/far) …. ? (Quantity)

How many apples are in the bag?                           How much does an apple cost?

How do you create a video game?

Are you married?                                                       Do you like to play tennis?

Class 3:

How much is it worth?

How much did you pay?

Whose + subject (thing)

Whose key is this?

Asking for opinion:

How was the film? – was it good or not

What was the film like? – opinion + description.

Did you like the film? – yes/no opinion

What was the film like? Did you like it? Was it like the first film?

What kind of music … ? asking for genre.

Is she kind? – helpful, nice, considerate, generous (adj)

Who/whom:

“John gave the book to Jane”.

Who gave the book to Jane?

To whom did John give the book?

When in doubt, try this simple trick: If you can replace the word with he or she, use who. If you can replace it with him or her, use whom. Who should be used to refer to the subject of a sentence. Whom should be used to refer to the object of a verb or preposition.

Be careful!!:

A boring person – a characteristic of a person

A bored person – how someone is feeling at that moment

An adverb describes a verb (or an adjective)

I absolutely hate … – before verb (active verb – ‘to do’)

But I’m pretty sure .. – after the verb (stative verb – ‘to be’)

“How often …” – simple tenses

How often did you go to the cinema when you were at home?

I used to go to the cinema every week. – past habits

How often do you go to the cinema?

I usually go the cinema every week / I always go to the cinema on Fridays.

 

Class 4:

waste time / money – use time or money ‘badly’

Save time / money – keep it for later (money), do something more efficiently

Lose time / money –

“Sorry I’m late. I lost track of time.” – was unaware of the time

Spend time / money – how we use time or money (to buy something)

100%

Always

Almost always   normally usually

Often

Sometimes

Rarely   hardly ever

Never

0%

It’s an easy problem – not difficult

It’s fairly easy – “quite, sort of, pretty” – vague

Most questions are fairly difficult. But question 10 is particularly difficult.

Homework for the weekend:

• Read and do exercises on vocabulary handout – describe people.
• Write email (200 words approx) on prompts from Q4 of the writing handout, and include 2 personality adjectives from vocab sheet.

Don’t forget also to write comments about what you’d like to study next week in class. This can be a difficult grammar problem you have, or more focus on vocabulary or speaking in class. Whatever you feel is most important to your English development.

Thanks for today and see you all on Monday morning 🙂

Class 5:

Niece – brother/sister’s daughter

Nephew – brother/sister’s son

It’s your only option, so I got used to it. (become accustomed)

I got used to eating fika.

I like to read

I’m thinking of travelling to Africa this year. (verb after preposition + ‘ing’)

Past Continuous:

Subject was/were verb+ing

Why use past continuous?

• To describe continuous actions at a point (particular time) in the past.
• To describe an interrupted action in the past. “I was doing my homework when the doorbell rang.”

Hi all! Thanks for the class today and your suggestions. If any of the rest of the class have suggestions then, please, make a comment underneath. Tomorrow we will finish with the past continuous (very briefly), so a little on past simple pronunciation of “ed”, and then move quickly on to the present perfect. We will move onto modal verbs after that.