Name: English Way - DVD 01 - Lesson 01 - I'm Elena
Uploaded: 2015-08-02T14:21:34.000Z
Duration: 11 min 2 s
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Mirror mirror on the wall... who's the fairest of them all?

You must be tired after your long journey!

- They're big boys. - Really? What about sisters?

Yes Elena, that's nice! You have a big family,

Oh good... one cup of tea, two cups of tea.

l'll take your bags to room, then go into the kitchen.

Hello everyone and welcome to your first English lesson!

My name is Gabrielle and l'm here with you to teach you some English.

Did you see the first episode of our story? ln our sitcom today,

Elena, the Spanish student, arrives at Agatha's house.

Elena is very brave - going to England, a new country,

Anyway, are you ready to start the lesson?

First of all you are going to learn personal subject pronouns,

like l, l am Gabrielle, you, you are my student...

Then we are also going to study the verb 'to be',

and finally, we will look at the contracted forms of the verb 'to be',

our screen is going to help you understand everything!

Personal subject pronouns. We have the first person, 'l', l'm Gabrielle,

and the second 'you', you are my student.

Then we have the third person singular 'he', which is masculine,

And the second person plural, 'you' which is the same as the second

This is an important point, we say 'you' for one person

Finally we have the third person plural, 'they', they're our books.

Now it's very important to remember that with the first person singular

ln English, we don't have different pronouns

You can use 'you' with a young boy or 'you' with the Queen of England!

lf you want to make a situation less formal, you can say

- like when Agatha said to Elena 'call me Agatha, you're part of the family now'.