Tricky point ~15 min of the core left

Review 2 (lessons 7–11)

Start the lesson Core 13–15 min · steps: 3 · optional: +1

Declared core time. Two of the core blocks carry no figure at all, so the real lesson is longer than this sum.

The irregular verbs block does not apply: there is no past tense yet.

Tricky point

3 min

an goes before a vowel SOUND, not before a vowel letter. What matters is how the word sounds, not how it is spelt.

an hour the h is silent, so the word starts with the sound /aʊ/
a university spelt with u, but it sounds /juː/ — this is a consonant sound
an engineer /e/
a European country /jʊ/
an hour and a half both cases in one phrase
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Exercises on lessons 7–11

10–12 min

1. Mixed gap fill.

  1. you speak English?
  2. He work on Sunday
  3. I a teacher
  4. she live in Rio de Janeiro?
  5. They from Italy
  6. I like early mornings
Show the answers
Do, doesn't, am, Does, are, don't.

2. Error correction.

  1. He work in a shop.
  2. You speak English?
  3. I speak well English.
  4. I get up always at seven.
  5. I don't never work.
  6. Does he works here?
Show the answers
He works in a shop. / Do you speak English? / I speak English well. / I always get up at seven. / I never work. / Does he work here?

3. Word order.

  1. [ usually / at seven / I / get up ]
  2. [ you / do / in Rio de Janeiro / live / ? ]
  3. [ doesn't / German / he / speak ]
Show the answers
I usually get up at seven. Do you live in Rio de Janeiro? He doesn't speak German.

4. Matching.

  1. Do you work here
  2. It's half past seven
  3. Sometimes
  4. Does she speak
Show the answers
Do you work here → Yes, I do; What time → It's half past seven; How often → Sometimes; Does she speak → No, she doesn't.
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Summary

Covered: lessons 7–11 in full. Next — lesson 13: describe your home.

End of the core

The lesson counts as done once the exercises are done. Everything after this is optional.

Lesson 13

optional

Mini production

Talk aloud and then write down six or seven sentences: where you live, what your job is, what time you get up, how often you do things — and the same about someone in your family.

Checklist before lesson 13:

  • is there do or does in the question?
  • is there -s after he, she, it, but not after does/doesn't?
  • is the adverb of frequency before the main verb and after be?
  • does the doer come first, with nothing between the verb and the object?
  • is it at before an exact time, on before a day, in before a part of the day?
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Practise this lesson in the other sections

Dictationbased on this lesson Write down what you hear. The check shows every word that differs, and how. Write the dictation Reading and listeningA1–C1 Texts at every level with comprehension questions; the transcript opens after you answer. Try it

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