Class 4

Class 4

Basic discourse markers:  Gossip with the Girls

Language: Prepositions - A Man or a Woman's Thing?

Grammar:  

A or An:

The article a / an is used when we don't specify the things or people we are talking about:

• I met a friend.
• I work in a factory in New York.
• I borrowed a pencil from a passenger sitting next to me.

The: 

It's used when the speaker talks about a specific object that both the person speaking and the listener know.

• The car over there is fast.
• The president of the United States is giving a speech tonight.

Nothing:

1. Do not use an article with countries, states, counties or provinces, lakes and mountains

• He lives in Washington near Mount Rainier.
• They live in Northern British Columbia.
• They climbed Mount Everest.

2. we do not normally use an article with plurals  to talk about things in general.:

• He writes books.
• She likes sweets.
• Do you like jazz music?
• She ate bread with butter in the morning.

Practice: A, an, the or nothing?

Speaking:  Chatting using phrasal verbs