Learn English Conversation - English Today Beginner Level 1 - DVD 1

[Music] hello and welcome to English today my name is Louise and I will be your English teacher now with this new multimedia course you really will learn the English language and you'll have fun learning English with English today is easy just like watching television now in every DVD you will see some programs led by our presenters Lucy Ross and Eric Brown about Cinema music sport the weather travel as well as cooking and the news just like a real TV network and along with these programs you can also enjoy our story that's life which tells the adventures of five young flatmates now in each TV program there will also be an English language lesson we'll take you through a full immersion course which will help you learn the language step by step in an enjoyable and stimulating way a really Innovative method where you are at the center of the learning process so are you ready to look at today's programs now in this DVD you'll see three episodes of our story that's life and then two special TV programs the first welcome to the team the second an interview about the famous star George Clooney then after in the grammar section we'll study the verb to be question words the alphabet and possessive adjectives okay well enjoy your studying and have fun bye hello again now we're going to watch our story that's life and this story is about five young people from different countries from Canada from Australia from England and from America now they meet and become friends and all sorts of different situations develop over a period of time and they will use the language that we are going to learn here in this live TV studio this is where we're going to do our lessons together so let's go and join them now in the first episode of that's life and I'll see you later [Music] bye hello I'm Jack hello my name is an nice to meet you it's a pleasure so this is the house it's really beautiful oh yes it is but but it's very difficult to keep clean sorry not a good start don't worry your accent is very clear where are you from I'm from Oxford wow Oxford 100% English yes and you are American is that right yes but my family is from Italy bolognia oh Italy is wonderful my sister is in Italy at the moment where she's in Rome studying Italian painters she's really happy Italians are so friendly oh that's Alice hi she's also part of the family it's nice to meet you Alice so this is Jack the new flatmates yes and he is from nice to meet you jack I'm from Sydney in Australia and you are a Capricorn yes amazing I I come from America I'm from New York wow the Big Apple yes okay um can I put my things in the bedroom let me help you hey this is nice I'm glad you like it it's a Mexican hat you look great and what is this it's an African mask is it magic of course but look at this a bottle of Italian wine do you like wine did you see the first part of our story that's life was it difficult don't worry it's always difficult at the beginning now let's do our first lesson the verb to be listen to me carefully I'm Louise I'm English I'm from Cambridge and I'm your teacher you you're my student and you're here to learn the English language and you're very intelligent I'm sure sure he let's look he he he ah he is my boyfriend he's Mexican he's a jazz musician and he's very good looking she she yes she is my puppy she's sukie she's a Jack Russell terrier and she's lovely sukii she now it yes it's a hat it's a big hat it's a Japanese hat okay now we we're a team and we're here to learn the language together and you you're my students they that's see they they are their my CDs their music CDs and they're very expensive now in every lesson that we do together we will have a moment like now when I go in this position and we will work with a screen let's look at that Tada the screen now this is a moment when we focus on the grammar so all the things that I said then had the verb to be so let's look at the verb to be here we are I am you are he is she is it is we are you are and they are now when we speak in English we contr ract the form so that I am becomes I'm you are becomes your he is becomes he's she is she's it is it's we are we're you are your they are there okay so there is quite a difficult pronunciation there they are there now let's look at the sentences I'm your teacher you're my student he's good-looking she's a puppy it's a Japanese Hat wear a team you're interested and they're very good now in our story that's life there were some phrases using the verb to be for example an said I'm an I'm from Oxford and then Alice said you're a Capricorn you're American other examples were he's from New York she's really happy it's a Mexican hat it's an African mask it's really beautiful Italy is wonderful we're flatmates your students and they're so friendly okay now that's the verb to be be careful with the pronunciation you're we're there now you're going to see the first episode of that's life again but this time listen very carefully and see if you can recognize all the parts of the verb to be all right and then I'll see you later okay [Music] bye hello I'm Jack hello my name is an nice to meet you it's a pleasure so this is the house it's really beautiful oh yes it is but but it's very difficult to keep clean sorry not a good start don't worry your accent is very clear where are you from I'm from Oxford wow Oxford 100% English yes and you are American is that right yes but my family is from Italy bolognia oh Italy is wonderful my sister is in Italy at the moment where she's in Rome studying Italian painters she's really happy Italians are so friendly oh that's Alice hi she's also part of the family it's it's nice to meet you Alice so this is Jack the new flatmate yes and he is from nice to meet you jack I'm from Sydney in Australia and you are a Capricorn yes amazing I come from America I'm from New York wow the Big Apple yes okay um can I put my things in the bedroom let me help you hey this is nice I'm glad you like it it's a Mexican hat you look great and what is this it's an African mask is it magic of course but look at this a bottle of a Italian wine do you like wine hello again was that a bit easier yeah good now let's continue with our lesson about the verb to be but this time we're going to study the negative form so listen to me again I'm not English I'm Welsh you know Wales Wales Scotland England Wales I'm Welsh and I'm not a teacher I'm a singer you know singer but don't worry don't worry now you aren't fluent in English yet you aren't fluent but you will will be now he my boyfriend H he isn't Rich he isn't famous and he isn't tall but he's still wonderful ah she yes she isn't a pedigree and she isn't very obedient but she's smashing it yeah well this hat it isn't very practical it isn't very practical is it now we aren't friends yet but we will become friends so we aren't they those they they aren't English music and they aren't cheap okay so those are examples of the verb to be in the negative and now it's time to move to our language screen where we can study the grammar together now like in the positive form we have a contraction in the negative let's look at the negative I am not you are not he is not she is not it is not we are not you are not they are not now to contract those when we speak we say I'm not English you aren't you see that aren't are not AR difficult pronunciation you aren't worried he isn't famous she isn't obedient it isn't comfortable uh we aren't relatives you aren't fluent and they aren't cheap so the difficult here is the pronunciation of are not which is aren't okay a good so that's the negative of the verb to be be and now it's time to go back to our story that's life and I'll see you soon bye cheers this wine is very good M yes it's really good by the way you're very lucky look it's raining now yes I am lucky oh that's my photo album there the pictures of all my friends are in here oh that's interesting show me yes so this is Mary she's from Ireland her mother and father are Greek her parents are from Greece yes they're Greek they're from Athens oh and who's that uh that's Alice no that's not Alice yes it is after a party a Halloween party that's funny and oh and who are they uh that's Aron and Peter they live in the flat near here they're good friends she's very [Music] pretty hi again and how are you now in that last part of that's life did you hear nationalities and countries because that's what we're studying now nationalities and countries and to help me do this I'm going to use my CDs let's have a look now Brazilian Samba fantastic this is from Brazil the Brazilian Samba yeah what about this ah Spanish flamco aha this is Spanish flamco from Spain next one hm Irish folk music very interesting Irish folk music from Ireland next ah Italian opera from Italy yeah M cool American Jazz from America oh and here we have French romantic music from France and then unusual chin Chinese music unusual Chinese music from China so those were nationalities and countries let's now go to our language screen and look at those words together now if you look on the left you can see the countries and on the right you will see the nationalities or the languages because they are the adjectives all right let's look together so Australia is the country Australian is the nationality Brazil is the country Brazilian is the nationality or language for example China Chinese England English France French Italy Italian Japan Japanese Portugal Portuguese Spain Spanish Switzerland Swiss the United States American okay so those are some of the more important important countries and nationalities good so we've studied the verb to be and countries and nationalities and this is the end of our first lesson but come back for more because this is the program the Live program where you can learn English see you soon bye hello my name is Jack I'm the new flat mate it's nice to meet you hello Jack I'm Peter Nash and Sharon okay and this is Sharon it's a pleasure how are you Sharon fine thanks oh good your friends so guys guys there's work in the kitchen for [Music] everyone please help me sure here's the form I'm not very good with computers okay let me see yes it's simple what is your last name Alice my last last name is Dub and where are you from I'm from Australia but I'm proud to have French blood really yes my grandmother was from Aenon fascinating and how do you spell your last name d u b o i s zua and the name is a l i c e okay what's your job well actually I'm a student but I consider myself a painter yes I know and what's your address the same as you 45 Trinity Lane right how old are you I'm 28 years old are you married well I'm on the market are you interested you know Alice I only love my music and what about Sharon [Music] did you see Sharon's face she was really surprised to see Jack wasn't she and did you notice in that episode of that's life how Peter helped Alice with a job application form and there were a lot of questions that she needed to answer about her personal details those are very important questions and now I'd like to look at those with you on the screen because we use them very often all right the first one is what's your first name what's your first name well my first name is Louise and you what's your first name next what's your surname now we can say surname last name or family name so we have three possibilities for that what's your surname well my surname is Evans and you what's your surname sounds difficult next one where are you from where are you from I'm from Cambridge and you okay next question what's your job what's your job I'm a teacher and you what's your job next one what's your phone number what's your phone number my phone number is 071 563 4121 and you what's your phone number all right next one what's your address what's your your address my address is 140 Gilbert Road Cambridge England and your address I'm sure it's difficult next one are you married are you married now I'm not married but I hope to get married to my boyfriend sometime we'll see and you are you married and the last question how old are you how old are you I'm not telling you how old I am what about you how old are you no okay fair enough good so those are some of the most important questions that you need when you're talking about your personal details so memorize them they're very important to use okay so now let's go back back and see more of that's life bye and you are a great cook thank you Jack big announcement finally I have all the points and I can get that marvelous set of Chinese plates what yes with the cookies help me fill in the form Jack please all right let me see the questions what's your name are you joking okay okay a n n e and what's your family name um my surname yes right uh Baxter b a x t e r and what's your phone number it's um 0454 uhhuh 78620 97 0454 7882 097 no it's 0454 786 2097 right you have to remember this is your telephone number too you're right are you married no I'm single what a pretty girl like you is still single stop it Jack please yes for the moment I'm single next question please where are you from um there are a lot lot of questions it's for your Chinese players okay for the last time I'm from England from Oxford a x f o r d no o x f o r d just joking that's okay what's next just two more questions the address is 45 Trinity Lane flat C what's the post code ec1 4 RN e c14 RN and what's your job I'm an employee in a publishing company oh well you're just the right person for me I have a great love story to [Music] write hi I'm welcome back to English today that was a lot of questions wasn't it for some Chinese plates now do you know how to use the English alphabet well I'm going to give you a little test now at home take a piece of paper and a pen and write this word you ready right WM just a minute w e a t h e a Ah that's difficult let me see what you got did you get this weather it's difficult especially this R it's ult so what I want to do now is we'll go to the screen and I will explain how the alphabet is divided into different groups to help you remember okay so let's look at the screen the first group is with the sound a and the letters are a h j and k all right the second group is with the sound e at the end so the letters are b c d e g p t and V okay the next group is with the sound e for example f l m n s x and Zed e in the middle Zed all right next group is I the sound I and the letters are i and y the next group is O which is the letter O and then U the sound U and the letters are q u and W and then the last one is ah and that is the letter R and that's difficult now look at the screen and let's have another test so write this word ready K I look at the screen t c h E look at the screen n there you go and what did you get did you get the same as me this is the word kitchen not easy is it if you follow that system it really works now we also heard them using numbers and I want to look look at that with you now at the screen again so the easy numbers which I'm sure you know already 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 okay from 1 to 9 we use on the telephone and we also say on the telephone o or zero the Americans say zero let's move on 11 12 now these are interesting numbers that follow listen 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 19 now all of those numbers finish with teen and if you are the AG age from 13 to 19 then you are called a teenager that's where it comes from teenager okay great now let's move on 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 and 100 I think that's enough for now because we've learned a lot of things we've learned the alphabet and numbers so keep practicing those because you're going to use them all the time all right and I'll see you again in the next lesson here on English today bye hello and welcome back to English today the only live TV program where you can learn the English language now did you see that last episode of that's life do you ever have that problem in the morning you know you get up and you can't find anything yeah me too now in that episode there were a lot of questions and that's what I'd like to do with you now look in particular at question words the words that we put at the beginning of questions okay and we need to look at the screen in order to do that now the most important question words in English are where what who when why what time how and which let's look at those individually now what well let's start with where now where is a question word which we use for a place for example an said where's my watch she said where are my keys and Jack said where's my sweater all right so where next one what what is used for things for example I ask what is your job well I'm a teacher what is your job okay next one who who is a question word that we use for people so for example I ask who's your favorite person who's your favorite person well my favorite person is my godmother who's your favorite person okay next next when when is a question word that we use with the time or with a date for example so when's your birthday you could say when's your birthday well my birthday is April the 2nd when is your birthday good next one why why is a question word we use when we want a reasons so for example why are we here why are we here well we are here to learn English next thing what time now what time is used when we want the exact time so I could ask what time is it it's 2:00 for example okay what time how how is a question we use when we ask about the state of things so for example how are you I'm fine thanks and the last one is which that is a question word that we use about particular things for example which lesson is this good so those are the most important English question words where what who when why what time how and which okay very important words when you're conversing in English great now go and listen to that episode again listen for the question words but also listen for some prepositions prepositions for example on in under and we'll look at that in the next lesson okay so see you later bye good morning Alice how are you hi and good morning I'm fine and you fine thanks excuse me where's my watch I don't know isn't it under the magazines no it isn't are you sure yes I'm sure it's not under the magazines and and I'm late I have an appointment at 8:00 maybe it's here on the table no the watch isn't here behind the apples next to the pasta oh there it is thanks Alice you're welcome and [Music] bye oh no it's late Alice what time is it just a moment it's half 7 half 7 my train is at 8:00 hurry up Jack you're late okay okay where are my keys they're here on the table oh thanks Alice now another problem where is my sweater maybe it's on the chair no it isn't where is it calm down Jack you're wearing it oh thanks Alice you're a lifesaver hurry up go go go too much stress I must go back to bed again hi again and how are you now did you see in that life how Anne said where's my watch and it was on the table or under the magazines now on and under are English prepositions and that's what I want to do with you now and to help me do that I need the help of my assistant M the monkey T here he is he will help me now listen MrMonkey is on the table he's on the table now MrMonkey is is under the table under the table now MrMonkey is in the Box he's in the box then he comes out of out of the box then he goes through difficult pronunciation that he goes through through the box now where is is mixer monkey now look at this he's next to next to the box now he's near the Box near the box next this he's in front of in front of the box and now he's behind behind the box okay this one here MrMonkey is between the box and the computer between okay so those are some of the most important prepositions now let's put MrMonkey to bed for the moment he's tired and let's go to the screen and look at those prepositions written in English so MrMonkey is on the desk he's under the desk he's in the Box he comes out of the box he goes through the box he's next to the Box he's near the Box he's in front of the Box he's behind behind the box and he's between the box and the computer okay those are the most important English prepositions great so good lesson I hope you're learning well let's continue now and go back and see more of our story all right and I'll see you later bye okay okay girls what time is the dinner tonight at the restaurant uh it's at halfast 8 are you sure I think it's at halfast 9 okay guys when is it I'm certain it's at 8:30 sorry it's at [Music] 9:30 okay okay it's tonight right yes it's tonight but what time is it by the way there's a clock over there it's A4 to 7 so if it's after 6 Sharon's at home uh no she isn't she's at work no usually she comes back home after 6 hi Sharon good evening hi guys Sharon please help us what time is the dinner tonight it's quite late it's at half 10 see Jack 10 okay you're right I'm wrong [Music] women hi and welcome back to English today how are you now did you notice in that life the girls were very confused about the time for dinner 8:30 9:30 10:30 well that's what we're going to do in the lesson now is look at how you tell the time in English and for that I need a clock so here we have a clock now when the hand is in this position on the hour in English we say o'l it's look at this 6:00 now if we move the hand into this position so it's 15 minutes after we say it's a quarter 6 a quter 6 let's move it again and here we have half past this is halfast 6 all right 30 minutes after half past let's move again like this this is a quarter 2 six a quarter to 45 minutes all right now let's look at those things on the screen because they're quite difficult to pronounce all right let's go and see them now so the questions were what time is it or what's the time then we said it's 5:00 with on the hour it's a quarter past 2 for example it's a half past 3 and it's a quter to 9 those are the examples all right just a minute hello hello yes oh yes yes about the romantic weekend in Paris yeah yeah yeah yes I'm very very interested yes it's my my my boyfriend's birthday uh okay yeah um what time is departure departure at 9:15 okay and what time is arrival 10:30 okay that's good 10:30 great and what about the romantic dinner for [Music] two yeah in the evening 8 okay yes 8:00 that's perfect and then there was a a boat trip on the sen what time is that 8:45 in the morning that's a bit early okay but that's fine and our arure from Paris when is that okay good 3:40 in the afternoon fantastic yes thanks great I love it yes I'll book it okay great thank you very much thank you yes bye fantastic that is a holiday that I've booked for my boyfriend and I for his birthday for a romantic weekend now did you hear when I was speaking I was using digital time in English now let's look at that on the screen digital time well it's very easy because you just read the numbers so for example 915 is 915 look at the screen 10 30 8 45 so very easy if you know the English numbers digital time is very easy now in English we use the 12h hour clock so we say 10:00 in the morning we don't say 10:00 a. m. we say in the morning we say 340 in the afternoon not p.

m. 3:40 in the afternoon okay and then we say 7 o' 7 o' in the evening we don't use p. m.