This is an out line of what we covered. I had more details, we worked on many examples and other things as they came up.

I asked about Monday’s class. What they did.

Verbs

We reviewed the basics of what we have long been doing: (for new student)

• Simple present, past and future
• Progressive past, present and future – stressed only To Be changes for the tense. To Be + -ing of verb.
• Regular and irregular verbs – need to start presenting irregular verbs!
• To Like: it needs an object. You should never say “I like.” – even in conversation when we know what you are referring to. You like something, someone, or at the least use ” it”.

Adjectives

We continued Comparative and Superlative.

Comparative

• Must have at least two things, or more, to compare
• Using “than”
• Examples as a class, including -y to -ier as in tiniest

Superlative

• You can only have one, “the best” “the shortest” “the nicest”
• Using “the”
• Examples as a class, including, -y to -iest

Long Words

(New student brought this up. Excellent!). Noted that most long, multi-syllable, words do not follow this format. Instead they use words like:

• Some, many, more than, much more than, the most

Objects

Pronouns

• When they receive the verb action, including with prepositions (see above).
• me, you, him, her, it, us, them, you
• I like her.
• She hit him. (A lot of violence today! Hit is easiest to demonstrate.)

They liked this class a lot.

Reminders

• Create online exercises for Comparative and Superlative – done.
• Remember to prepare Irregular Verbs – some learning, portable practice, format. Cards? Online cards? Both?

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