Irregular verbs ~4 min of the core left

A1 test

Start the lesson Core 4 min · steps: 5 · optional: +1

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

Twenty questions on the grammar of the level, one dictation, one reading aloud and one piece of writing from a model. The pass mark for moving on to A2 is 80% in grammar (16 out of 20). The dictation is checked word by word, but it does not count towards the pass mark; reading aloud and writing are not marked: they are shown with a breakdown.

Irregular verbs

4 min
break → broke understand → understood teach → taught hurt → hurt dream → dreamt
spell → spelt become → became begin → began lose → lost pay → paid

In total for the level: forty forms — twenty in lesson 29, ten in lesson 30 and ten here.

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Grammar: twenty questions

1–5. Fill in the right form.

  1. I Anna
  2. He from Spain
  3. They students
  4. I got two brothers
  5. She got a dog
Show the answers
am, is, are, have, has.

6–10. Put the verb in the right tense.

  1. He (work) in a hotel every day
  2. I (read) now
  3. Yesterday I (watch) a film
  4. Last year we (go) to Italy
  5. Next week I (be) going to visit my sister
Show the answers
works, am reading, watched, went, am.

11–14. Questions and negatives.

11) Make a question: You speak English. 12) Make a negative: He works on Sunday. 13) Make a question: She can drive. 14) Make a negative: There is a café here.

Show the answers
Do you speak English? / He doesn't work on Sunday. / Can she drive? / There isn't a café here.

15–17. Articles and quantity.

15) There is ___ café near my house. ___ café is small. 16) We haven't got ___ bread. 17) ___ many apples do you want?

Show the answers
a / The; any; How.

18–20. Error correction.

  1. I want go home.
  2. I speak well English.
  3. You was at home yesterday.
Show the answers
I want to go home. / I speak English well. / You were at home yesterday.
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Dictation

Six sentences to write down from listening:

My name is Anna and I'm from Rio de Janeiro. / I work in a big office. / I usually get up at seven. / Yesterday I was at home. / Last summer I went to Italy. / Next year I'm going to visit my sister.

Reading aloud

I live in Rio de Janeiro and I work in an office. I usually go to work by bus. I like reading, but I don't like getting up early. I can cook, but I can't drive. Last summer I went to Italy. It was hot and sunny. Next year I'm going to visit my sister in Spain.

What A1 has covered

The verb be in all the tenses of the level, the simple present and the Present Continuous, the past tense of regular verbs and of forty irregular verbs, going to, have got, can, articles, numbers, dates, there is / there are, some / any, How much / How many, the imperative, prepositions of time, place and movement, word order, reading rules.

Next — A2 #1: telling a story in the past, where questions and negatives in the past tense and the past participle (the third form of the verb) appear.

End of the core

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

All lessons

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Writing

A story about yourself in eight to ten sentences — following the model and checklist from lesson 35.

The draft is saved on this device
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