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  • Here we are. . .

  • Here we are. Tea for two.

  • Thank you!

  • Milk and sugar?

  • Yes, please.

  • Have a biscuit. They're homemade.

  • No, thank you.

  • Now you must tell me about yourself. Your family: mum, dad. . .

  • l have four brothers. . .

  • and three sisters.

  • Well, l'm a student, and l go to a language school.

  • To study English.

  • Yes, my English is not very good.

  • No, no, no, no. . . it's quite good. Where is the school?

  • lt's near here, on Exeter Avenue.

  • That's very close!

  • Good.

  • Just ten minutes.

  • Oh, that's easy.

  • Perhaps Victor could take you by car.

  • Victor? Who's Victor?

  • My brother!

  • Your brother. . .

  • That is a photo of Victor.

  • Oh, he's a big boy!

  • Well, he's twenty-five!

  • And that is my boyfriend Harold.

  • Your boyfriend. . .

  • He works in a bank.

  • . . . in a bank.

  • That's my brother Allan.

  • Oh, your brother.

  • He lives in Sydney.

  • ln Australia!

  • Yes, he loves it!

  • l want to see Australia.

  • Me too! Perhaps one day. . .

  • And whose's that photo?

  • Oh, that's just my sister Betty.

  • Oh, your sister. . .

  • She lives near here. l see her every day.

  • Every day?

  • Yes, we go shopping together.

  • You go shopping.

  • She's a very difficult person.

  • But she's your sister!

  • Yes, she's a very difficult sister!

  • And this. . .

  • this is a photo of my mother and my father.

  • Your mother and your father, your parents?

  • Yes. My parents, on their anniversary day.

  • Sorry, l don't understand.

  • On the day that they got married.

  • Oh yes, their anniversary day.

  • And here. . . is the rest of my family.

  • That's interesting.

  • Oh, that's Victor! He is punctual like always.

  • He arrives at home at five o'clock every day.

  • Every day? He lives here?

  • Yes, he lives with me!

  • Oh, he lives here.

  • Yes, with my cat Felix. . .

  • . . . your cat Felix. . .

  • . . . and my canary Tweetie. . .

  • . . . and your canary Tweetie!

  • Hello Victor! Come in and meet Elena.

  • Hello there, and welcome back to your English lesson!

  • Did you enjoy the sitcom today?

  • l like learning about people's families, do you?

  • Elena certainly has a big family, doesn't she!

  • What about you?

  • Do you have a big or a small family?

  • l have a small family, like Agatha:

  • me, my husband, Dylan,

  • he comes from sunny California

  • and he's a radio dj and...

  • Lady Coco, my fluffy cat!

  • But anyway. . . to the lesson!

  • Today we are going to talk about the conjugation of some regular verbs

  • in the present simple

  • and some city names in English.

  • Well, before we start, let's have a look at ways of greeting people

  • with the help of our screen.

  • Greeting people is very important in any language.

  • When we greet people in English,

  • we can say 'hello' to everyone

  • or 'hi' to family and friends,

  • as 'hi' is less formal.

  • We can also say 'good morning,

  • good afternoon or good evening',

  • depending on the time of day.

  • When people are leaving we say

  • 'see you, see you soon, goodbye,

  • bye or goodnight' if it is night time.

  • When you leave someone, you can also say 'have a nice day!'

  • There are many ways of greeting people in English, aren't there?

  • Now, are you ready for some grammar?

  • So, the conjugation of regular verbs in the present tense.

  • With the verb to come we have

  • l come, you come, he comes,

  • she comes, it comes, we come,

  • you come and they come.

  • We always use the word 'come', apart from the third person singular,

  • where we use 'comes'.

  • This is the same in all regular verbs,

  • you just add an -s to the verb with he, she or it. Easy, right?

  • We can say l come from London, he comes from Boston,

  • we come from San Francisco, they come from Glasgow.

  • Ok, let's look at another verb, to live.

  • We can say l live in Madrid, you live in Moscow

  • and he lives in Chicago.

  • Remember what we do with the third person singular?

  • We add an -s at the end - lives.

  • Agatha's brother lives in Sydney - remember?

  • Finally let's look at the verb to work.

  • l work, you work, he works,

  • she works, it works,

  • we work, you work, they work.

  • Do you remember where Agatha's boyfriend works?

  • He works in a bank.

  • Dylan, my husband, works in a radio station,

  • they work in a restaurant.

  • Now, restaurant is a French word -

  • we often use French words in English.

  • Mary works in a boutique, Jack works in a hotel.

  • Ok, so now let's look at some other city names in English.

  • Do you know any?

  • Well, we have New York, fabulous for its shopping,

  • Tokyo in Japan, Paris in France - very romantic,

  • Saint Petersburg in Russia - brrrr it's very cold there!

  • Florence in ltaly - such a beautiful city,

  • Barcelona in Spain and Berlin in Germany.

  • Have you been to any of these cities?

  • l want to visit them all!

  • Well l think that's enough work for one day -

  • well done for working so hard!

  • l look forward to seeing you next time.

  • Don't forget to practice those regular verbs.

  • See you soon and have a nice day! Bye!

Here we are. . .

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