Grammar
To be: am, is, are
To be has three present forms: I am, he is, we are. English also uses it where Dutch says ‘hebben’ (to have): I am hungry.
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Grammar
To be, the present simple and continuous, the past simple, asking questions and can, must and have to.
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Present simple: what you always or often do
You use the present simple for habits and facts. With he, she and it the verb takes an -s: she plays, he watches.
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Present continuous: what is going on now
With am, is or are and a verb ending in -ing you say what is happening now: I am eating, it's raining. Habits stay in the present simple.
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Past simple: what happened yesterday
You use the past simple for something that is over: I walked, we played. Many verbs are irregular: go, went. Negatives and questions take did.
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Asking questions: who, what, where and do
You build an English question with a question word and do or does: Where do you live? With to be and can you do not need do.
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Can, must and have to: ability, rules and permission
Can is about ability or permission, must and have to about rules. Careful: mustn't means not allowed, don't have to means not necessary.
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Words
Plurals and articles, possessives, comparing, prepositions and false friends for Dutch speakers.
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Plurals and articles: a, an, the
You choose a or an by the sound, you make plurals with -s, -es or -ies, and you learn the words that do it differently.
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Possessives: my, your, Tom's
Whose is it? You learn my, your, his, her, its, our, their, the apostrophe in Tom's bike and the girls' room, and mine and yours.
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Comparing: taller, the tallest, more beautiful
Short words take -er and -est, long words more and most. After a comparative comes than, and when things are equal they are as tall as each other.
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Prepositions: at, on, in
At a clock time, on a day, in a month or a year. And for places: at a point, on a surface, in a space.
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False friends: words that trick you
Some English words look like Dutch words but mean something else. Eventually means ‘in the end’, brave means ‘not afraid’ and slim means ‘thin’.
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Listening and speaking
Numbers, the time and dates, asking the way and ordering or buying, with sentences you can listen to.
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Numbers and time: thirteen, half past seven, £3.50
Hear the difference between thirteen and thirty, tell the time the British way, read dates, prices and phone numbers. And do not fall for half seven.
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Asking the way: Is there a bank near here?
Ask the way politely, understand turn left, go straight on and take the second street on the right, and say what there is with there is and there are.
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Ordering and buying: Can I have..., please?
In a café, a shop or at the ticket office: asking politely with Can I have...? and I'd like..., asking prices, buying a ticket and paying.
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Reading and writing
Reading a text for the main idea and writing a short message or an email.
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Reading for gist
You do not need to know every word to understand an English text. Look at the title, the first and last sentence and the key words.
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Writing a message or an email
A good message has a greeting, an opening line, your message, a question back and a closing. You write to a friend differently from a teacher.
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