Learn English Conversation - English Today Elementary Level 1 - DVD 5

hello and welcome back to english today and this is 5 and the first dvd of the elementary level and in this dvd you will see three more episodes of our story that's life followed by our special tv programs you see our travel expert in the discussion around the world followed by a discussion about the differences between generations then in the grammar section we will study the verb have and have got and also the past tense of the verb to be we will also learn to give instructions and directions using the imperative okay so enjoy your studying and have fun good morning alice wake up good morning jack please give me a cup of coffee bring me back to life i'm still asleep here you are so what are you doing today well first i'm taking a shower and after that i have my daily appointment with ask the stars ask what don't you know it sorry no it's the horoscope i listen to every morning on the radio it's fantastic i can't start my day without it how can i go out in the morning without the advice of ask the stars please jack this is not a joke our entire life is driven by planets by the way what are you doing today well i'm going to work just like every day and today is tuesday isn't it i have to go to the karate gym wow are you doing anything this evening no i don't have anything planned well sharon ann and i are going to the cinema maybe peter is coming too would you like to come that sounds great which film we're seeing interview with a vampire not that film guys i hate horror films why don't we go to see the latest julia roberts film oh please we don't need more romance we already have our love story in the apartment next to us with peter and sharon i mean okay you are right let's go to see interview with the vampire then well i think i prefer to stay at home now i've got to go to work see you later is everything okay jack yes why it's late that's all bye hi hello and welcome back to english today your live tv program where you can learn the english language and in this lesson we're going to look at the verb have now the verb have you think well that's easy it's not true it's actually quite complicated because there are two ways of using the verb have in english i can say i have a scooter or i've got a scooter well in this lesson we'll look at the first way i have a scooter now in that our last episode do you remember that alice said i have my daily appointment with ask the stars you know she believes in the stars i have my daily appointment just simply the verb have now i want to give you a little test before we move on if i say i have a scooter how would you ask me the question about that the scooter how would you do it have you a scooter um no that's not possible something missing like an auxiliary that's it do you have a scooter now this is a typical mistake people often think that have you a scooter is a question but the verb have needs an auxiliary do you have a scooter okay listen to this he has a scooter he has mr snake a scooter what's the question careful what's the question has he no no no no does he have a scooter yes that's it so you need the auxiliary does he have a scooter fantastic let's look at the screen and check on that so the verb have i have blue eyes you have a new car she has third person mr snake s look at the spelling h-a-s she has a cat he has a dog it has four doors we have a garden you have a course an english course they have three children now they're negative i don't have blue eyes you don't have a new car she doesn't look at the pronunciation she doesn't have a cat he doesn't have a dog it doesn't have four doors we don't have a garden you don't have a course they don't have three children okay the question do i have blue eyes do you have a new car does she have a cat does he have a dog does it have four doors do we have a garden do you have a course and do they have three children okay so that's the verb have don't forget the auxiliaries do and does now another interesting thing about the verb have is that often we use it in special expressions which make up verbs with particular meanings and in other languages here in these situations you hear make let me show you we say to have breakfast breakfast in the morning to have lunch one o'clock and to have supper so to have breakfast to have lunch to have dinner now dinner is what time dinner and supper what's the difference dinner at eight o'clock in the evening supper is something we have at about 10 30 or 11 o'clock at night all right so we use the verb have for these we don't say to have a breakfast but to have breakfast have lunch have dinner have supper other things we say to have a cigarette we say to have a cup of coffee to have a drink of any sort we also say to have a shower in the morning you know to have a shower in other languages they use make a shower or make a bath for example but in english we say to have a shower to have a bath in the bathroom we also say to have a rest we say to have a party did you have a good party we say to have fun which means to have a good time okay so these are very common expressions which we always use with the verb have have breakfast have lunch have dinner okay now when we go back and listen to our friends they will introduce the other form have got and then afterwards i'll tell you all about it all right so see you then bye i've got a problem with my computer uh i don't know very much about computers and i'm going out they're waiting for me at the theater always busy huh okay okay sharon take it easy shall we have a look thanks peter you've got a big heart let's see if i can help you before you thank me all right i can't use this program i use it every day and today it is an opening hmm why don't you turn the computer off and then turn it on again okay peter that's really a great idea you're a genius how can i do without you i know my dear what are you working on i'm writing my curriculum because i would like to find a new job listen peter i don't know how to write it can you help me please i'm sorry sharon i'm in a hurry i have no time i'm late they're waiting for me very kind as usual listen peter and alice and i are going to the cinema this evening would you like to come i'd like to but i can't i have to go to the theater yes i know you always have something else to do no come on sharon what's the problem maybe you're jealous of my career oh peter i'm just tired of always coming second hello and welcome back how are you all did you notice that sharon is tired of coming second well i understand her if you live with a musician you need to be very patient now sharon said in that last episode she said have you got a moment then she said i've got a problem with my new laptop have got and this is what i want to study with you now the second use of have have got now in order for you to understand it better let's do something in the typical tong context where we would use have got let me tell you about my present situation i'm in a flat but i have to leave the flat and find another one and i saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a flat which looks quite interesting so i want to call the owner of the flat and ask him some questions all right so listen to what i say all right now his name is mr james 4 6 5 6 7 8 9 i hope he's in let's see mr james hello mr james yes hello my name is louise evans and i saw your advertisement in the newspaper for a flat and i wondered if i could ask you some questions great okay um how many rooms has it got yes okay so two bedrooms good a living room a kitchen bathroom and toilet very good fine um has it got a garage no okay so i have to park my car in the street okay fine and a garden does it have a garden no ah uh okay a small balcony on the second floor good fine and has it got central heating central heat yeah and kitchen kitchen electricity oh well getting an electric kitchen is fine why not um another thing is air conditioning it gets very hot in england in the summer now no all right does it have easy access to public transport oh good so there's a tube nearby fantastic good um another thing is um um has it got big windows because i love a lot of light small windows right has it got any views the road and the neighbors garden okay and one more important thing um how much does it cost a month 1250 pounds right okay thank you very much yes yes i'll think about that and i'll call you back okay fine thank you very much thank you goodbye bye bye 1250 pounds oh my god that's a lot of money for a flat i can't afford that it's impossible now did you notice that i used has it got a lot as a construction has got have got that's what i want to talk about now this construction have got was introduced into the english language to describe possession in fact but now we use it in different situations not only possession so the americans in fact use the verb have more than have got in british english we use have got a lot all right now let's have a look at the construction in the positive form i have got gets contracted to i've got i've got some money you have got becomes you've got you've got a scooter she's got she has she's looks like the verb to be but it is in fact has she's got long hair he's got a shop it's got a balcony we've got a house you've got some cds and they've got some plants all right so that's the positive now the negative in the negative the auxiliary have turns in to a negative auxiliary so i haven't got any money you haven't got a scooter he hasn't got long hair she hasn't got a shop it hasn't got a balcony we haven't got a house you haven't got any cds and they haven't got any plans so hasn't and haven't and then in the questions the questions are easy we use have or has so have i got any money have you got a scooter has she got long hair has he got a shop has it got a balcony have we got a house have you got some cds and have they got some plants so it's not really difficult grammatically you have to remember the auxiliary have and has and then remember to put got all right now you come across this a lot especially in subtitles in films so watch out for it and we'll keep practicing it great so that's the end of this lesson and i'll see you again live very soon bye hey anne house worker yeah at last can i ask you a question sure oh how are you and peter we're fine thanks listen i want to go to that book shop do you remember oh yes the one with lots of photography books yeah and thriller books yeah and with the red coffee tables and flowers on the windows yeah where you can sit down and drink a delicious hot chocolate yes anne that's the one the london reader it's a great place yes how do i get there um is it far you can walk from here it's about 10 minutes away great oh okay let's see go out the front door and turn left easy enough go straight ahead past the traffic lights right straight ahead past the traffic lights turn right into june lane june lane then follow june lane to the end of the street and turn right into may avenue just a moment turn left on may avenue no no no turn right into may avenue and the bookshop is hi sharon what are you girls talking about i'm giving sharon directions for the london reader so uh turn right into may avenue and the bookshop is the second shop on the left next to the butchers no anne sharon the bookshop is on the right past the museum and between a chemist and a bank no no jack you are wrong the bookshop is okay okay guys be quiet don't worry i've got my map uh sharon i can come with you if you don't mind great that's very kind of you jack jack housework do you remember hello and welcome back again now ann's a bit jealous isn't she i mean how can she attract jack if she asks him to do the house cleaning i mean she's more like a mother than a lover isn't she well anyway now she gave some directions to sharon because sharon wants to go to the bookshop and actually mr monkey wants to go to the same bookshop so i want to test those directions to see if they work let's imagine this is the bookshop okay mr monkey wants to go there so let's see her directions so go out of the front door and turn left okay mr monkey turn left great then go straight ahead go straight ahead until the traffic lights you know traffic lights traffic lights are red amber green okay traffic lights and at the traffic lights turn right like that into dune street okay follow to the end of the street then turn right again okay and go down may avenue this must be may avenue and the bookshop is the second on the left one two here's the bookshop they work now i was using the language of directions so i want to go to the screen now and show you that language the language we use for giving directions to people all right now we usually use the imperative form what is the imperative the imperative is just the infinitive form of the verb so you can say take the first left or the first right take okay that is just an infinitive take the first right or the first left you could say take a bus to take a train to take the subway now in america they say subway and in britain we say tube take the tube too okay another example turn left turn right so turn is the verb turn left turn right okay another possibility is go straight on straight on which is an expression we use in britain or go straight ahead which is an expression that they use in america but we use both straight on straight ahead all right then we can say go past the shop or go along the street a road or an avenue again we use go it's the infinitive and it's the imperative form all right another example at the end we can say the position it's next to it's near to it's opposite it's between it's on the left it's on the right you remember the prepositions that we did at the beginning well that's to indicate the actual spot great so that's giving directions using the imperative form now let's go back to our friends in that's life and listen to jack who is giving alice instructions about using the internet and listen to the imperatives that he uses and i'll see you later alright bye for now hey alice what are you doing do you mind giving us a hand with the housework please can't you see i'm cleaning the computer i see i see why is the computer on just a moment i don't understand how to connect to the internet on this computer can you help me okay but just for one moment thanks jack okay click on that icon what's an icon that symbol on the screen do you mean this picture of a telephone yes click on that right now what enter your username and password okay and click on that button there click on the button and now you're connecting to the internet hey that's easy it's very easy alice you are hopeless with computers and with housework too come on alice it's time to clean up this mess now hello again did you notice how jack was giving alice instructions to go on the internet well i want to give you some instructions to do something at home now in order to do that you need one of these what's this a what it's a napkin a napkin so take a napkin all right put it down open it up like this okay so we have an open napkin anyway now take the bottom of the napkin and fold it over a little bit like that okay then fold it again like that then fold it again and again and again until you reach half way and press it down like that press it down all right now take the whole napkin lift it up and put it in this position you turn it over okay press that down now take the bottom of the napkin and fold it in half over like this again press it down well now take this part of the napkin here on the right and fold it right down along the folds on the left press down then take all of it up like this and fold this bit over so you create a support like that then turn it around and bing there you have something nice to decorate your table with a romantic dinner for example all right so i gave you instructions in order to do that and we're going to look at that on the screen because i used imperatives to give you the instructions as i used for giving directions all right so let's see let's use some other examples related to the computer and the internet plug in the computer now you notice we use plug which is the infinitive form and we use it for both you singular and you plural so plug in the computer thing switch it on connect it to the internet and ling click on the internet icon all right so imperatives they're all infinitive verbs now the negative if you want to use the negative of the imperative we say do not which is contracted as always in english and we say don't click click too many times or don't press the exit button or don't overload the desk top okay so this is the negative imperative form very interesting that and don't forget to be here for your next lesson all right see you then bye jack where were you yesterday evening why there was a great party at mary's really i wasn't invited i can't believe that everyone was invited i'm sure i wasn't anyway i was busy yesterday ah did you have a meeting with some clients no i didn't so what where were you i was with robert at the red lion pub that's impossible robert was at the party oops i always get them mixed up i was with charles charles was at the party too come on jack who are you with you are too curious alice okay okay i was with a girl uh-oh and and what well what's her name do we know her how old is she stop alice stop it's none of your business okay okay you don't want to tell us that's okay i like mystery it makes life exciting well let's change the subject peter where were you yesterday evening why weren't you at the party i was at the theater we are preparing the performance and you sharon where were you me where were you um i was at a home watching a film on tv which one um the latest film starring nicole kidman what's the name yes moulin rouge really that's strange i remember here look it's on tv today really oh they always show the same stuff on tv oh don't get up i'll get the door hello again everyone well done sharon that was a bit embarrassing wasn't it now where were you last night well i wasn't at a party i wasn't in a pub like jack i wasn't at the theater i was at my first samba lesson and it was great fantastic you know the music was really fantastic really loud and exciting and there were 30 people there it was difficult to see the teachers you can imagine two teachers 30 people um excuse me excuse me anyway as usual there were too many women and not enough men and that's typical but the teachers were fantastic they were really really professional one was brazilian and the other was from argentina yeah argentina great really really good and in the first lesson it was it was easy because we did some you know basic steps but it was really really enjoyable and i can't wait for the next lesson because that was so so exciting can you samba i bet you can now in most of those sentences i was using the verb to be in the past and that's what i want to look at with you now let's look at the screen to be in the past when we talk about something specific in the past let's look at the form i was i was in new york last year you were see how it changes you were at the party last night he was at a meeting on tuesday i was you were he was she was fine yesterday for example it was beautiful we were at school on monday you were happy and they were in london two weeks ago so you see i was you were he she it was we were you were they were be careful about that it's easy to make a mistake now what about the negative form well was becomes wasn't listen to the pronunciation wasn't wasn't okay so i wasn't on time this morning you weren't here yesterday he wasn't at the party last night she wasn't very happy and it wasn't difficult okay we weren't at work on saturday you weren't on time for work and they weren't on holiday last month so wasn't and weren't question form listen to these where was i yesterday where were you last night where were you last night where was he was he last week was she at work yesterday was it an easy test when were we there what time were you at school yesterday and how often were they in class so the verb to be in the past tense i was you were he she it was we were you were they were very important you can't live without that verb to be in the past all right great well we will continue with the past in the next lesson so see you then bye there's a postcard for you alex for me um it's from my father he was in the bahamas last week really i was in the bahamas last summer just you oops sorry sharon we were in the bahamas last summer it was sunny and hot perfect weather for swimming and relaxing it was fantastic fantastic yeah fantastic i'm sure it was oh i prefer holidays in the winter it's too hot in the summer i like going to the mountains and skiing my last holiday was two years ago two years ago yes it was a long time ago i need another holiday soon anyway was your father on holiday in the bahamas alice no he wasn't he's working on a new play there oh how fascinating it must be being a director fame money and a lot of traveling around the world and no time for family just a few calls postcards and a lot of misunderstandings why don't you call him now i don't think that's a good idea why when was your last call three weeks ago that's a long time come on alice call in i'm sure he'll be happy to hear from you well maybe you're right okay i'll call him thanks jack for your advice i mean hello again for another important lesson we're in the past tense now i want to help you remember how to use the past tense so i have another acronym you know acronym look oil whey oil way now these letters represent the time words when you use the simple past tense what do i mean by that well this one for example let me give you an idea this stands for yesterday okay yesterday now when you have yesterday in the sentence you always use the simple past okay now do you know what the other words are let's have a look an easy one could be this last last do you know that last week i was in paris last week okay now what about this one two days ago very good so two days ago uh we were at the sea for example so this is a go we have last yesterday a go this one that's more difficult yeah it is difficult it's on in english and we use it with days and dates and in some languages it doesn't exist so we say on monday on the 7th of july for example on this one here in okay when do we use that yet months for example in january in february in march and also for years in 1961 in 1970 etc this one when okay with when we use the past tense so for example when were you there so oil way on in last when ago yesterday it's like a rhyme on in last when ago yesterday you need to memorize those we'll look at them on the screen now but it's important for you to memorize them to remember that when you're speaking on in last when ago yesterday help you to remember to use the simple past so to revise that our acronym oil way on we use with days or specific dates so the party was on friday or he was in london on the second of march okay the date then in in with a specific year or with months so for example she was born in june in 1976. next last last with for example the previous week last week or month or year so the examples are they were in vienna last month when now when with a past time clause sometimes in the question sometimes in the middle of the phrase so i was very happy when i was a teenager okay that's when then ago for example two days ago two months ago three years ago we were at the meeting three weeks ago right and then the last one easy yesterday with the previous days so i was at the cinema yesterday all right oilway don't forget it memorize it on in last when ago yesterday always with the simple past all right that'll open up a world for you great we will still do more about the simple past it's an important tense but the verb to be is often the one which people forget so be very careful when you're speaking all right great well happy studying and i'll see you again very soon bye good evening and welcome to this week's edition of the travel programme the programme about everything to do with travelling and holidays here in the studio with me as always is christina tang our travel expert hello lucy well summer's approaching and and the summer holidays are too so have you got any suggestions for the holidays well let's see are you bored with your usual holiday are you tired of beaches or trips to the mountains would you like to say no to museums city tours and shopping well why don't you try something new and exciting what exactly do you have in mind how about a holiday hunting for ghosts in a castle in great britain hunting for ghosts in a castle that's certainly a change from lying on a beach it sounds exciting it is exciting something really different just right if you love adventure hmm but what do you have to do do you spend all the time looking for ghosts no not all the time in some ways it's like a normal holiday in the morning you have a traditional english breakfast then you go for a walk or visit a local town in other words you do the things you always do when you visit a foreign country but the fun starts in the evening you have dinner and then the ghost hunting starts with the help of one or two ghost experts you search through the haunted castle until late at night oh it sounds frightening it is frightening there are strange sounds doors and windows open and closed by themselves yes it's really frightening but exciting too tell me lucy do you believe in ghosts yes i do but i'm not very brave i don't think i'd like to visit places like that especially not at night are there any haunted castles in great britain oh yes there are especially in scotland many of the castles in scotland have got ghosts there are some fascinating ghost stories there are lots of books about haunted castles why not read one before visiting scotland i see a holiday spent looking for ghosts a night in a haunted castle would certainly be a memorable experience it certainly would and if you want to see even more ghosts before you return home try a ghost walk in london visit places in london famous for strange and unusual happenings christine this is definitely an interesting idea for a holiday with a difference well if you're curious about ghosts and you love adventure this could be just the holiday for you thanks christine for this unusual holiday idea you're welcome goodbye and goodbye to all travellers see you again soon do you believe in ghosts to believe in ghosts means you think that ghosts exist if you do then you say i believe in ghosts we say that a castle is haunted when it has a ghost or more than one we say it's a haunted castle now there are lots of different kinds of holidays and the holiday christine just told us about is an adventure holiday looking for ghosts in a castle is an adventure but personally i prefer beach holidays they are definitely more relaxing or perhaps you prefer city holidays a city holiday is when you visit a city so let's look at some of the things you can do when you have a beach holiday you lie on the beach in the sun and relax this is called sunbathing you go for a walk on the beach or go for a swim in the sea notice the expression go for you can visit a local town local means that it's near the place where you are what about when you have a city holiday you can go on a city tour a bus takes you on a tour round the tourist sites of the city a tourist site is something that tourists want to see for example the coliseum in rome or buckingham palace in london you can go for a walk around the city and visit the tourist sites we call this sightseeing and we say go sightseeing just one last thing remember there is a difference between travel and trip to travel is a verb when you go on holiday to a different city or country you travel a trip is a noun and it's like a short holiday you say go on a trip this means to go somewhere for a short time for example go on a trip to scotland goodbye for now and see you next time good evening and welcome to this week's edition of let's talk the saturday debate with our commentators tom and marie good evening eric good evening well this evening let's talk about the differences between the generations what do you think about this issue tom i think that over the last 50 years lifestyles have changed a great deal there's been a lot of progress new technologies have helped here think about healthcare it's very good today television and internet tell people about the world and what's happening so lots of progress do you think life is easy today yes i think it is there are lots of opportunities for everyone let's take travel as an example in the past it was impossible to travel a lot today we can fly to lots of cities in europe and it's very cheap i'm sorry i don't agree with you tom i mean it's true that lots of things are easy now but there are also lots of things to worry about and there's lots of stress in the past life was simple it was all about the family and family values do you think that people today are confused about how to live life that's exactly what i mean today people marry when they're 30 or 35. when my grandmother was young it was usual to marry young and start a family well things are different today i mean women work now 50 years ago only a minority of women worked i think this is very important for female emancipation i agree with you eric today women are fulfilled they play an important role in society yes but it's not easy for women they have less time for the family the children and the housekeeping i'm not sure that my grandmother would agree life was hard for her there weren't any washing machines dishwashers or vacuum cleaners she was the washing machine the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner and after all that work there was nothing to do she stayed at home all the time today people go out three or four times a week to the pub to the cinema or to the disco my grandparents were always at home well life is definitely different now according to tom life was hard in the past now everything is easy marie doesn't agree she thinks that life today is difficult and that people have lots of cares worries and stress and what do you think well it's time to say goodbye to our commentators goodbye and we'll see you again soon on the next edition of let's talk okay first of all let's have a look at the expressions we use to discuss our different ideas and opinions what do you think about this idea this is a good way to ask someone's opinion or simply what do you think how about when you don't agree with someone's opinion you can say i'm sorry i don't agree with you this is a polite way to say i don't agree if you do agree with someone then you say i agree with you when we give our opinions we usually start with i think or i don't think the use of that after think is optional so we can say i think it is important or i think that it is important another useful expression is i mean and when we use it to explain our ideas better let me give you an example things are different today i mean women work now so i say things are different and then with i mean i explain how they are different what about the vocabulary we use to talk about the things that have changed in the last 50 years let's take health it's the protection a country gives to its people like doctors hospitals and medicines these are all parts of health care another important thing is female emancipation the freedom of rights that women have and some things that we have in our houses now which make our lives easier are the washing machine this is the machine that washes our clothes the dishwasher the machine that cleans the dishes plates and glasses and the vacuum cleaner the machine that cleans the floor before i say goodbye i just want to look at a little word that we use a lot it's a lot and we use it to express quantity we can say a lot or lots of and it means a big amount we use it with verbs we say a lot and it comes after the verb for example today people travel a lot and when we use it with nouns we usually say lots of and it comes before the noun for example there's lots of stress today well that's all for me see you soon for another edition of let's talk you

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Published: Sun Aug 23 2015