ADJECTIVES TO DESCRIBE A HOUSEBig

A BIG HOUSE

Small

A SMALL HOUSE

Clean

A CLEAN HOUSE

Dirty

A DIRTY HOUSE

Beautiful

A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE

Ugly

AN UGLY HOUSE

Elegant

AN ELEGANT HOUSE

Modern

A MODERN HOUSE

Old-fashioned

AN OLD-FASHIONED HOUSE

ACTIVITY:Choose one of the houses

below and describe it

ACTIVITIES:

Describe your house and your bedroom.  Listen and repeat the home and furniture vocabulary. http://www.eslgold.com/vocabulary/home_furniture.html

There is / There are

are used to say that something exists (or does not exist).

"There is" for singular nouns

Example:

• There is a TV in my bedroom

• There are" for plural nouns; that is to say, we use there are with a plural subject.

Example:

• There are 3 bedrooms in my house

• To say the opposite, (the negative form of this structure), use:

isn't  (is + not)   

or   

aren't   (are + not)• To make questions, (to ask whether

something exists or it doesn`t)  just change the order of there is and there are...

Is there …?

Are there …?

• To express the idea of quantity,  we usually  have to use "some"  and   ''any"  with there is and there are.

• This happens when we have to mention an unspecified amount of something, for example,  when we are using uncountable nouns.

 

• We generally use

SOME (for positive statements)

 

Examples:

There are some chairs in the kitchen.

There is some milk in my refrigerator.

• ANY (for negative and interrogative statements)

Examples:

Is there any TV in your kitchen?

There aren’t any pictures in my living room

____________ three apples in the table.

______________ a mouse in the kitchen?

_____________ melons in the Fruiterer .

a) There are b) There aren´t c) There isn´t d) There is

a) Are there b) There aren´t c) There isn´t d) Is there

a) There are b) There aren´t c) There isn´t d) There is

There is ____________ type of wine.

There are not _____________ pink shoes.

Are there four chairs in the dining room? ________________

a) some b) any c) an d) are

a) some b) any c) an d) are

a) Yes,There are b) No, There aren´t c) No, There isn´t d) Yes, There is

Buildings and Places

BankBarber Shop

Book Store Drugstore

Buildings and Places

Church

Department Store

Fire Station

Gas Station

Hospital

Library

Movie theater

Museum

Buildings and Places

Post office

Restaurant School

Mall Supermarket

Buildings and Places

FAMILY VOCABULARY

Family Members

Hi!I´m Jane and…..

…..This is my Family

GrandfatherGrandmother

MotherUncle FatherAunt

Cousins

Jane´s Family

Motherin law

Father in law

Daughter

Sister

Son

Brother

Nephew

Wife Husband

Daughter in law

Sister in law

Son in law

Brother in law

Do you want to practice more about the topics seen in this session?

Just CLICK on the following links• http://www.tcet.com/eaonline/GrammarCentral/thereis.html

• http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/some-any/exercises

• http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1684

• http://www.manythings.org/vocabulary/games/r/words.php?f=buildings_1

• http://www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/launch.do?activityID=405&level=0&unit=6&type=Cup_hangman&stage=1

• http://www2.cambridge.org/interchangearcade/launch.do?activityID=540&sortbytype=a&level=0&unit=7&type=Cup_click_stress