ESOL Beginners

ESOL Beginners

Welcome to your ESOL course

What do we know about English?

English language

• 26 letters in alphabet

• Big and small letters (A, a, B, b, C, c, D, d)

• Consonants and vowels (a, e, i, o, u)

• Left to right

• Some sounds do not exist in Arabic (give me example)

• The name of the letter is sometimes different from its sound (e.g. a)

• Verb to be and to have

Greetings

Hello/Hi

Good morning

Good afternoon

Good evening

Good night

Goodbye

Introducing myself

My name is ...

I am from...

I live in ...

I am married

I have 3 children

The verb to be

• I am

• You are

• He/She is

• We are

• You are

• They are

• Give me an example of a sentence using the verb to be

The verb to have

• I have

• You have

• He/She has

• We have

• You have

• They have

• Give me a sentence using the verb to have

I am from Syria

I am Syrian (both male and female)

I am from Tunisia

I am Tunisian

What do you notice?