December 7th, 2012 – Class N° 6

Grammar Focus review – page 6

Review of the exercises 1 to 7 and remembering some expressions:

- I’m looking for: estoy buscando- Over there: allí

Tips of pronunciation

|s| sound: When words finish in letters p – k – f – t – θ.

Examples: shop – shops book – books giraffe – giraffes hat - hats |s| |s| |s| |s|

|z| sound: When words finish in all other letters.

Examples: dog – dogs tree – trees flower – flowers pencil - pencils |z| |z| |z| |z|

|iz| sound: When we have endings in “es”

Examples: fox – foxes – box - boxes |iz| |iz|

When we say the indefinite article a or an?

A + Consonant sound

A cat – a game of golf – a human emotion – a Peruvian – a very fat woman

An + Vowel sound

An apple, an easy job, an interesting film, an old man, an umbrella

Vowel letter with consonant sound

A European countryA one – day conferenceA university

Consonant letter with vowel sound

An honest manAn hourAn FBI agent

BE CAREFUL: We pronounce a as |a| BUT not as |ei| because a is an indefinite article but no the letter A of the alphabet.

Pronunciation of the definite article “The”

|ᵭa| + Consonant sound

The cat – the game of golf – the human emotion – the Peruvian – the very fat woman

|ᵭi| + Vowel sound

The apple, the easy job, the interesting film, the old man, the umbrella

Vowel letter with consonant sound|ᵭa|

The European countryThe one – day conferenceThe university

Consonant letter with vowel sound|ᵭi|

The honest manThe hourThe FBI agent

PRACTICE

The man enters the bar and looks around. Then he sees her. The woman looks beautiful. When she notices him, she looks into the eyes of the man. He walks towards the lady, gives her a kiss and hands her the orange flower.

When we use a/an or the?

The definite article The is used to metion a particular thing

The indefinite article a/an is used to mention a thing in general.

Examples:

- The capital of France is Paris BUT I was born in a town (in any town)

- I clean the car BUT she buys a car (any car)

- I have a blue pencil BUT do you have a pen (any pen)

PRACTICE

A man and a woman were walking in Oxford Street. The woman saw a dress that she liked in a shop. She asked the man if he could buy the dress for her. He said: "Do you think the shop will accept a cheque? I don't have a credit card."

Homework:

Finish the page 6 and practice the first text to read it faster.