Vocabulary: Food and the House

Listening: cooking

Let's listen to the following recipe on "Broccoli soup"

1) First listening: we will write down the ingredients that we need to make the soup
2) Second listening: we will write down the cooking procedures, just simple, short sentences



Vocabulary: Parts of the House

Let's click on the following link to learn more about parts of the house and to listen to their pronunciation.

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/rooms.htm

We will learn more about vocabulary and their pronunciation here:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/furniture1.php
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/appliances1.php

PRACTICE: Parts of the House (and utensils)

A general quiz on furniture:
http://iteslj.org/v/ei/furniture.html
A simple exercise:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/furniture_quiz1.php
More:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/furniture_quiz2.php
One more:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/furniture_quiz3.php
Listen to the word and choose the correct picture:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/furniture_quiz4.php
Hangman:
http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/furniturehang.php
Furniture:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/vocab/furn1.htm
Things in the kitchen:
http://iteslj.org/v/ei/kitchen.html
Writing exercises:
http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/studyzone/200/vocab/furn2.htm

Vocabulary: Food

In this session we will review some vocabulary on food, restaurants, kitchen utensils, etc.

How food is cooked
boiled – cooked in boiling water

steamed – cooked over a saucepan of boiling water

fried / sauteed – cooked in oil in a frying pan

stir-fried – fried fast in hot oil

pan-fried – fried in a frying pan

roasted – cooked in oil in the oven

grilled – cooked under a grill

baked – cooked in the oven

stewed – cooked for a long time on a low heat

casseroled – cooked slowly in juices

Types of food
meat = lamb, pork or beef

poultry = chicken, turkey, goose, duck

game = rabbit, hare, partridge, pheasant

fish = salt water fish / sea fish, fresh water fish

seafood = prawns, shrimps, lobster, scallops, mussels, crab

vegetables= artichoke, lettuce, broccoli, peas, beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, eggplant, zucchini

fruit=apple, pear, banana, pineapple, persimon, orange, apple, grapes, watermelon, 

berries= cranberries, strawberries, cranberries, black currant, blueberries, lingonberries, cloudberries

Dishes
starter / hors d'oeuvre / appetiser
main course
dessert / pudding

READING

Let's read a little bit about berries and we will discover how good they are for our health.

http://www.berrywiseinc.com/power_of_berries.html

PRACTICE

Let's review vegetables here

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/vegetables_picture.htm

Let's learn more about food here

http://www.eflnet.com/vocab/dictionary/foodquiz1.php

At the restaurant:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/restaurant.htm

More words:

http://www.susancanthony.com/Resources/esl/4vocfoo.html

Listen to the pronunciation of these ones:

http://www.languageguide.org/im/food/eng/

Are you ready for a quiz?

http://a4esl.org/q/h/vc-food-lb.html

Food and drinks. A scrambled game:

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/food_drinks/scrambled_letters3.htm

Want to know about some idioms with food expressions?

http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/foodidioms.htm

How to use quantifiers for food:

http://www.eslpartyland.com/quiz-center/foodcross.htm

LISTENING

Listen to these people and their likes in food:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Mixer/61-Food.html

What are your preferences?

Let's now listen to this short extract and try to answer the questions:

http://www.esl-lab.com/snack/snackrd1.htm

Verb + Preposition

General classification of prepositions

Prepositions in English can have different meanings. Below is a summary of some of the most usual meanings for the most common prepositions in English

Click on the image to make it bigger.

Prepositions of Time


Prepositions of Place (Position and Direction)



Other important prepositions



Verbs + prepositions: Prepositional Verbs

Some English verbs are special in the fact that they require specific prepositions to complement the meaning of the action they represent. Some examples are: listen + to, look + at, talk + about, etc.

Another type of compound verb is the so-called "phrasal verb". Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs are different: in phrasal verbs, the meaning of the action cannot be inferred from the sum of the parts. Some examples are: look into (investigate), look after (take care of). In prepositional verbs, the meaning of the verb is basically the meaning of the main part of the verb: listen to, look at, talk about can all be described as conveying the meaning that is carried out by the lexical verb: listen, look, talk.

There are no rules to understand which prepositions come after which verbs. The only way to acquire this part of the English vocabulary is by practicing the language: reading and listening, especially.

List of the most common prepositional verbs in English

Click for Audio to listen to the pronunciation AS you are reading them.



The following is a list of verbs and prepositions which commonly appear together.

accuse (someone) of ([doing] something)
add (something) to (something else)
admire (someone) for ([doing] something)
agree on (topic)
agree with (someone)
apologize to (someone) for ([doing] something)
apply to (a place) for (something)
approve of (something)
argue with (someone) about (topic)
arrive at (a building, room, site, event)
arrive in (a city, country)
ask (someone) about (someone/topic)
ask (someone) for (something)

believe in (something)
belong to (someone)
blame (someone) for ([doing] something)
borrow (something) from (someone)

care about (someone/something/topic)
comment on (topic)
compare (something) to/with (something else)
complain to (someone) about (something)
concentrate on ([doing] something)
congratulate (someone) for/on ([doing] something)
consist of (some things)
consent to ([doing] something)
contribute to (something)
count on (someone) to (do something)
cover (something) with (something else)

decide on (topic)
depend on (someone) for (something)
discuss (something) with (someone)
distinguish (something) from (something else)
dream about/of (someone/something)

escape from (somewhere)
explain (topic) to (someone)
excuse (someone) for ([doing] something)

forgive (someone for ([doing] something)

get rid of (something)
graduate from (a place)

happen to (someone)
help (someone) with (something)
hide (something) from (someone)

insist (up)on (something)
introduce (someone) to (someone else)
invite (someone) to (an event)

keep (something) for (someone)

matter to (someone)

object to (something)

participate in (something)
pay (price) for (something)
pray for (someone/something)
prefer (something) to (something else)
prevent (someone) from ([doing] something)
prohibit (someone) from ([doing] something)
protect (someone) from (something)
provide (someone) with (something)

recover from (something)
rely (up)on (someone/something)
remind (someone) of (something)
rescue (someone) from (something)
respond to (someone/something)

save (someone) from (something)
search for (something)
separate (something) from (something else)
scold (someone) for ([doing] something)
smile at (someone) for ([doing] something)
speak to/with (someone) about (topic) /br>stare at (something/someone)
stop (someone) from ([doing] something)
subscribe to (something)
substitute (something) for (something else/someone)
subtract (something) from (something else)
succeed in ([doing] something)
suffer from (something)

take advantage of (someone/something/ situation)
take care of (something/someone)
talk to/with (someone) about (topic)
thank (someone) for ([doing] something)
travel to (somewhere)

vote for (someone)
vouch for (someone)

wait for (someone/something)
wish for (something)
work for (company/something/someone)

Grammar Practice

http://www.english-zone.com/preps/vp-a.html
Time Prepositions 1
Time Prepositions 2
Location Prepositions
Location Prepositions 2
Direction Prepositions
Direction Prepositions 2
Position Prepositions
Position Prepositions 2

Numbers

Let's review numbers in English here

Let's practice listening to English numbers here

Let's practice writing numbers here

More exercises:

http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/vocabulary/numbers/exercises

The date

http://www.agendaweb.org/vocabulary/numbers.html

The hundreds

http://www.nonstopenglish.com/allexercises/vocabulary/vocabulary-numbers.asp

Learn easily with a game!

Pronunciation

Silent -e-

Many words in English finish with a single -e- When that happens, this letter is usually silent and the previous syllable is pronounced with a diphthong:

/ai/

smile

type

side

abide

nice

fine

mine

/ei/

tame

lame

same

name

fame

sane

/o/

sore

before

more

/A/

done

some

tongue

Can you find other examples?

Spelling and pronunciation

There are 12 vowels in oral English, still, only 5 letters are used to represent them. Sometimes spelling, however, can be useful.

a) -o- in: son, tongue, ton, come.

b) -o- in: long, song, shot.

c) -ou- in: fought, sought, four.

d) -a- in: man, sand, land.

e) -i- in: fit, six, minute.

f) -ee- in: see, feet, need.

g) -oo- in: foot, good, look.

h) -oo- in: food, fool, wool.

i) -u- in: full, put.

j) -u- in: luck, cut, nut.

Can you find more examples for this list? More sounds to add to the list?

Sentence Order (2)

Fronting

Sometimes, the canonical order of the sentence in English is broken, usually because we want to emphasize a particular part of the sentence by placing it at the beginning.

a) Direct object.

When the direct object is fronted, the sentence does not suffer further changes.

I watched a movie with John

A movie I watched with John

b) Adverb of time

When the adverb of time (or any other expression of time) is fronted, the sentence keeps its canonical order.

I went to the movies yesterday

Yesterday I went to the movies

c) Indirect object and other adverbs

When other parts of the sentence are fronted, this suffers a subject-verb inversion (as much as it happens in questions)*** The exception would be long subjects (see example below)

I told the story to John

To John did I tell the story

I walk my dog in the park

In the park do I walk my dog

MORE EXAMPLES

Waddle his name is.
 Rich I’ve never been.

 Fish I can eat.
That I will tell you another time.
This vase I want you to sell to the Americans.

 Linda he believed to be less innocent than Jim.
Out darted a mouse.
In the corner of the room was a gas ring, a kettle and a single glass.
Only after a while did he notice that his mother was crying.
In the distance a sunlit range of mountains could be seen very clearly. (long subject is not inverted)***
After the birth of their son, Lily had been unable to cope with all the housework.

 

II. Fronting of the complement of a preposition

This computer I’ve had a lot of trouble with.

Carl is wonderful to work with.
Democracy is worth fighting for. (It is worth fighting for democracy)

Not only... but also

This expression requires a subject-verb inversion.

Not only did he bring his wife but also his children

Conditional

There are 3 forms for the 3rd conditional:

a) If we had taken it into account, John would not have lost his job

b) Should we had taken it into account, John would not have lost his job

c) Had we taken it into account, John would not have lost his job

Notice that b) and c) require a subject-verb inversion

Read more on Inversion here

Inversions In English

View more presentations from aliciambarajas.

Sentence order

Canonical order of English sentences

English sentences usually follow this structure:

SUBJECT + VERB + OBJECT

For example:
I(subj) like(v) bicycles(obj)

I(subj) like(v) running(obj)

The order of negative sentences
Negative sentences have a special order because we include the auxiliary (don't, aren't, hasn't, etc.) or the modal verb in the negative form (can't, needn't, mustn't, etc.) between the subject and the main verb.

For example:
I like bicycles (affirmative)
I DON´T like bicycles (negative) (or do not)
We are going to Paris (affirmative)
We AREN'T going to Paris (negative) (or are not)
He has learned to drive (affirmative)
He HASN'T learned to drive (negative) (or has not)


The order of questions
Questions also change the canonical order of sentences, but only when they are "direct questions".

For example:
What ARE you doing?
Are you Englihs?

"Indirect questions" do not change the canonical order of sentences. Indirect questions are used when we quote someone else's questions, or when we refer to questions indirectly (I want to know what you are doing is an indirect way to ask the question "What are you doing?" Indirect questions are sometimes used because they sound "more polite").

For example:
He wants to know what you are doing
He wants to know if you are English (indirect questions of yes/no type use the "if" as an introduction)


The position of adverbs
The canonical order of sentences gets complicated when we have adverbs. Adverbs can be of different types: frequency, manner, place and time are the most frequent. Let's have a look at them one by one.

1. Verb and object
The connection between verb and object can't be broken by an adverb

For example:
She speaks English well
I very much like English

Adverbs of manner usually go after the object: badly, well, wonderfully, etc.

2. Frequency adverbs
Frequency adverbs take 3 positions:

a) After "to be": I am ALWAYS happy

b) Before the "Simple Present": I ALWAYS work on Sundays

c) Between the auxiliary (or the modal) and the rest of the verb:
I have ALWAYS worked on Sundays. I don´t ALWAYS eat my dinner. I have ALWAYS been studying English late at night.
You must ALWAYS go to bed early

3. Place and Time adverbs
The general order of English is:

SUBJECT + VERB + (OBJECT) + PLACE + TIME

I eat lasagna at Luigi's on Sundays I run in the park in the evening

SUBJECT + VERB + DIRECT OBJECT + INDIRECT OBJECT + PLACE + TIME

I gave the book to John in the library yesterday

Adverbs of time can go at the end of the sentence or at the beginning of the sentence.

On Sundays I eat lasagna at Luigi's In the evening I run in the park

4. Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of manner can go in mid-position (before or after the verb) or end-position.

For example:
I angrily walked out of the room I walked angrily out of the room I walked out of the room angrily
5. Adverbs of "emphasis"
Adverbs of emphasis (certainly, really, definitely, etc.) can be placed right after the subject.

For example:
I really like it
We will certainly do it
He doesn´t probably know it

Sometimes, by placing the adverb of emphasis right after the subject, we can establish a difference in meaning:

I really don´t like her (I dislike her)
I don´t really like her (I don´t really like her, it is indifferent to me)

PRACTICE
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/word_order1/task.php
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/word-order
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/quiz.pl/adverbs_quiz.htm
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/averroes/~cepco3/patatas/eguisado/AdverbsWordOrder2.htm



READ MORE HERE:
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/adverbs.htm