Unit 01: Vocabulary on Education
Ticket to English 1 Unit 1 Education
1. Vocabulary
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2- Functions / communication asking for and expressing opinion
A- Asking about opinions
- What do you think about….
- In your opinion, …?
- What’s your opinion….?
- Do you have any particular views on …?
- Are you for or against…..?
- Do you think that …..?
- If I asked your opinion about …………, what would you say?
- Would I be right in saying …?
- How do you feel about …?
- Do you share the view that …?
- Please tell me your opinion on …
- Would you agree that …?
| Expressing opinions |
- I think/ guess/ believe ..…
- As far as I am concerned, …
- To my mind, …
- According to me, …
- Some people may disagree with me, but …
- As I see it, …
- It seems to me that…
- In my point of view / my opinion,…
- From my point of view…
- To the best of my knowledge, …
- To my mind / To my way of thinking, …
- I am of the opinion that…
- I have come to the conclusion that …
- Personally speaking / Speaking for myself, …
- I’m no expert (on this), but …
- I take the view that. ..
- My personal view is that…
- In my experience…
- As far as I understand / can see/see it,…
Agreeing
- I agree with you / I do agree you’re definitely right.
- I share the same view
- I couldn’t agree more.
- We seem to be on the same wavelength.
- It’s so nice to meet someone who thinks that way too.
- That is logical.
- I can’t argue with that.
- (I have) No doubt about it.
- That is a more convincing argument, I must admit.
- That’s a good point.
- I see your point.
- (That) makes sense (to me).
Disagreeing
- I’m afraid. I can’t agree with you.
- No way.
- I disagree with you.
- I don’t agree with you.
- That’s not always true.
- You could be right, but…
- It’s hard to argue with that, but…
- I’m not sure I agree with you
- I think you’re wrong
- I can see a hole in that argument.
- That’s not the way I see it.
- Sorry, but I am not convinced.
- It is quite old-fashioned to say that.
Examples:
Alex: What do you think about single-sex schools, Suzy?
Suzy: Well, I think that they will perform better in mixed schools
Alex: I do not share the same point of view.
Bob: Any initial thoughts on studying English at university?
Quinn: That sounds a good idea.
3 – Grammar: The Simple Past Tense
I – The form of the simple past tense
There are two types of forms for the simple past tense: REGULAR and IRREGULAR :
1 – Regular form: verb + ed
Watch → watched
Listen → listened
Play → played
Cry → cried
2 – Irregular form: has no rule (this means we change all the spelling of the verb)
Be → was/were
Do → did
Have → had
Speak → spoke
Affirmative
I watched
You watched
He watched
She watched
It watched
We watched
You watched
They watched
Negative (Didn’t = did not)
I didn’t watch
You didn’t watch
He didn’t watch
She didn’t watch
It didn’t watch
We didn’t watch
You didn’t watch
They didn’t watch
Interrogative
Did I watch?
Did you watch?
Did he watch?
Did she watch?
Did it watch?
Did we watch?
Did you watch?
Did they watch?
Affirmative
I Spoke
You Spoke
He Spoke
She Spoke
It Spoke
We Spoke
You Spoke
They Spoke
Negative (Didn’t = did not)
I didn’t speak
You didn’t speak
He didn’t speak
She didn’t speak
It didn’t speak
We didn’t speak
You didn’t speak
They didn’t speak
Interrogative
Did I speak?
Did you speak?
Did he speak?
Did she speak?
Did it speak?
Did we speak?
Did you speak?
Did they speak?
Verbs ending with – e
- calculate – calculated
- combine – combined
- hope – hoped
- hate – hated
Verbs ending with vowel + y
- enjoy – enjoyed
- delay – delayed
- stay – stayed
- destroy – destroyed
Verbs ending with consonant+y
- study – studied
- copy – copied
- cry – cried
- try – tried
Other forms
- work – worked
- push – pushed
- greet – greeted
- ask – asked
Other spelling rules
a– verbs ending with (-l), the consonant is always doubled after a single vowel.
Examples:
travel – travelled
cancel – cancelled
quarrel – quarrelled
b – Verbs having one syllable and ending with a vowel + consonant, we double the consonant:
Examples
stop – stopped
hop – hopped
beg – begged
c – verbs with more syllables if the stress falls on the last syllable then we double the last consonant:
Examples
ad’mit – admitted
con’fer – conferred
kid’nap – kidnapped
But If the stress is not on the last syllable, we do not double the consonant:
Example:
‘enter – entered
II – The use of the simple past tense
We use the Simple past tense :
- to talk about a completed action in the past.
I watched a movie yesterday.
I did some jogging last weekend.
- to talk about a series of completed actions in the past.
He came home, switched on TV and sat down.
- With time expressions like.
-yesterday
-last day, week, month, year…..
-in 2008
-…..ago
-when…..(used to talk about past action)
-The previous lesson, hour, day, week…..
Grammar: Reflexive Pronouns
Reflexive pronouns are words that finish with either -self or -selves. They are used when the subject and the object of a sentence are the same.
Personal pronouns
- I
- You (singular)
- He
- She
- It
- We
- You (plural)
- They
Reflexive Pronouns
- Myself
- Yourself
- Himself
- Herself
- Itself
- Ourselves
- Yourselves
- Themselves
Examples:
– Tom thinks of himself
– I did the exercise myself. No one helped me.
– Bob and Quinn blamed themselves for the accident.
Notice:
reflexive pronouns cannot be used after Feel, relax, concentrate, meet.
Tom is upset, he can’t relax (not relax himself)
I need to concentrate (not concentrate myself)
4- Writing: Paragraph
A good paragraph should have these elements:
- A topic sentence
- Supporting sentences
- Concluding sentence
- Linking words (and, also, Furthermore, because, first, finally, to sum up, etc)
- Punctuation
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