Focus on Grammar

1. Focus on Grammar Review Session

2. Pronouns: Say the pronoun for each noun • Turki • He • Amal • She • Ms. Wilder • She • The students • They • People • They • My book • It • My family • it

3. Remember: Pronouns and verbs must agree! • She do (homework) • She does her homework. • They do (homework) • They do their homework. • I do (homework) • I do my homework.

4. Remember: Pronouns and verbs must agree! • People be (happy) • They are happy. • My family be (big) • It is big. • People be (busy) • They are busy.

5. There is/ There are • There is/ there are is used to state that something exists.

6. What’s in a room? • Talk with your partners. Tell them what you see in this room. Use there is/there are.

7. Be Vs. Have

8. Adjectives for Describing people • A man with no hair • Bald • The opposite of short… • Tall • Used to describe how many years someone is • _____ years old. • Dark color of eyes • Brown • Length of something • Long/short – for things not height.

9. Nouns for describing people’s appearance • Glasses • Hair • Beard • Man/Woman • T-shirt • Neighbor • Business woman/man • Scar • Earring

10. Be/Have Be is used with adjectives. Have is used with nouns. Complete these sentences: She ______ a blue t-shirt. • Has He _____ bald. • Is She _____ gold earrings. • Has He ______ a beard. • Has She ______ 21 years old • is

11. Trying it Partner a: Describe a friend to your partner. Include some nouns and some adjectives. Partner b: Listen to the description. Can you imagine the person they are describing, or do you need more information? Do the verbs seem to match the nouns/adjectives?

12. Present Continuous vs. Simple Past • Simple past: habits, facts and routines • Present Continuous (present progressive): NOW, or general now

13. On Holiday Directions: Use the words below and write a post card to a friend about your holiday in Paris, France. You must use all these verbs, and include both simple present and present progressive. Verbs • Have • Go • Take • Enjoy • Listen • Stay • Show • Go • Love

14. Do/Does and Yes/No questions

15. Questions To make a yes/no question form your sentence like this: Do/Does + subject + base verb+ object or complement Example: Mary goes shopping becomes: Does Mary go shopping.

16. Questions: Two people are talking about their husbands. Change the following statements to questions. (p. 5) • Jim helps with the kids. • Steve washes the dirty dishes. • Steve does not do the ironing. • Jim never goes out to dinner with me. • Steve often talks about things with you?.

17. Questions: Two people are talking about their husbands. Change the following statements to questions. (p. 5) • Jim helps with the kids. • Does Jim help with the kids? • Steve washes the dirty dishes. • Does Steve wash the dirty dishes? • Steve does not do the ironing. • Does Steve do the ironing? • Jim never goes out to dinner with me. • Does Jim ever go out to dinner with you? • Steve often talks about things with you?. • Does Steve talk about things with you?

18. Questions: Ask your partner about what he/she does after school. Use do/does in your questions. • Example: Partner 1:Do you play video games after school? Partner 2: Yes, I do. Partner 1: Do you eat snacks after school? Partner 2: No, I wait for dinner. *NOTICE: The answers for partner 2 can only be Yes or No.

19. No vs. Not • When can we use notin a sentence? • When can we use no in a sentence? Discuss with your partner.

20. NOT: 1.) Use with adjectives Example 1: I am nothappy. How do we know that happy is an adjective? Because it describes a noun. In this case the noun isI. Example 2: He is nottall. What is tall describing here? Tall describes he.

21. Not 2.) use with (a + adjective + noun) • When there is an (a +adjective + noun) we use not. • Example: I am not a happy camper. • Without the adjective we would still use not. • Example: I am nota camper.

22. Not 2.) a + adjective + noun MORE examples • Example: She is nota bad student. OR • Example: She is nota (bad) student. • She is not a student. *With or without the adjective we still use notwith (a + [adjective] + noun), however the meaning of the two sentences is very different.

23. NOT 3.) is + NOT + verb • When the negative is followed by a verb, use not. This will usually be an –ing verb Example 1: He is not studying. Example 2: She is notsleeping Example 3: They arenot leaving. Example 4: We aren’t meeting at the café, we are meeting at the movie theater.

24. NO 1.) no + noun • The negative no should be used when describing a general nouns, plural nouns, or any non-count noun. Nois used with no article (no an, an, the…). “no means no article” Example: • There are nochildren here. • There is no coffee available. • I am nofool. • Is the word children plural or singular? Is the word coffee count or non-count. Is fool a noun or an adjective?

25. NO 2.) NO + adjective + noun When there is no article, but there is an adjective + a general, plural, or non-count noun, use NO. Example 1: I have no small pets. * notice that pets is plural, so there is no article. (So we use not.) Example 2: I have noclean clothes to wear. I need to do the laundry.

26. Not/Not

27. Practice Now, write these phrases into your notes with the correct negative. Fill in the blank with no or not. • She’s got _____free time this week. • He’s ______ studying very hard this week • He is ______ interesting. • They are ______ feeling very well. • She’s ______ very patient with her friends. • He is _____ a very mean person. • We are _______ very lazy people. • I have _______ unintelligent friends. • They do _____ know my teacher.

28. Describe yourself Directions: Describe yourself to your partner using the negative. You can also use the positive, but make sure to practice using no and not.

29. Count Vs. Uncountable Nouns • Some words are countable, and some words are not countable. Example:

30. Practice (p. 8) Directions: Now draw a chart on your paper just like the example. Make one column countable and one column uncountable. Put these words into the right column on your paper:

31. Practice (p. 8) Answers:

32. Countable vs. Uncountable • Some words can be used with uncountable nouns and some can only be used with countable. Do you know which of these words can go with countable nouns? • Some • Many • Much • A • Several • One, two three….

33. Countable vs. Uncountable • Let’s see… • There issome luggage by the window. (uncountable) • There aresome suitcases by the window. (countable) • I have many shirts. (countable ONLY) • There is too muchfurniture to move today. (uncountable ONLY) • I have a blue chair. (countable ONLY) • We have several largechairs in that room. (countable (ONLY) • One, two three…. (countable ONLY)

34. Shopping Spree! You just won a shopping spree! What will you buy with your free money? Tell your partner. Example: I will buy some designer clothes. I will buy a video game. I will buy some furniture.

35. Simple past tense Directions: Talk with your partner. • How is the simple past tense formed with regular verbs? • How is the simple past formed with irregular verbs? • Now complete the irregular verbs worksheet.

36. Prepositions of time Directions: Fill in the blank. • I can be there ____ 3:00 p.m. • The receptionist called me ____ the morning. • She has an appointment _____ February. • He has an appointment ______ the end of February. • She went to the doctor ____ September 3rd, 2011. • I had a snack ____ midnight.

37. Prepositions of time Answers • at • in • in • at • on • at

38. Prepositions of Time and location • Turn to p. 14 in your books. • Compare your answers to the homework with your partner. • Complete “Checking together” • Activity- see handout.

39. THE END!