hello and welcome to lesson one of the beginner level and this is the studio where you and I will learn English together but first let me tell you something about our lessons together at the beginning of each lesson you will watch a video story and in the video story there are five friends from America from Australia and from Canada and they use the language that we learn together in the studio so after the video story here you and I practice the language together for example the first lesson is the verb to be you know the
verb to be I am you are he is she is very important verb in English well we will practice that together here now let me help you with the first episode Jack is American he arrives at Anne's house for the first time now when you watch listen to how they use the verb to be and then together here we will practice it okay so let's watch the video together now and I'll see you later for the lesson hello I'm Jeff hello my name is Ann nice to meet you it's a pleasure so this is the
house it's really beautiful 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 Bologna Italy is wonderful my sister is in Italy at the moment yeah she's in Rome studying Italian painter's she's really happy Italians are so friendly oh that's Alice she's also part of the family it's nice to meet you Alice this is Jack the new flatmate yes and he nice
to meet you Jack I'm from Sydney in Australia and you are amazing I come from America and from New York Wow the Big Apple yes okay 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 was that difficult well don't worry it's always difficult at the beginning now let's practice the verb to be
together listen carefully I'm Louise I'm your teacher I'm from Cambridge and I'm English now you you are my student and you're very intelligent he is my boyfriend he's a jazz musician he's from South America he's Brazilian and he's very good-looking now she she she she she she's my dog she's a puppy she's a Jack Russell terrier she's black and white and brown and she's lovely she's so cute no it's it uh-huh it is a hat it's it's a big hat it's a very big hat and it's South American like my boyfriend it's Mexican now you
and I we're a team we are fantastic and you are interested in English and you're here to learn the language with me they my CDs their music CDs and they're very good that's they now why am I saying these things well every sentence had the verb to be and now to practice that when I get into this position you will see a screen on my left so denim you see this is your language screen and in this moment we concentrate and we focus on the grandma so let's look at the verb to be together I
am you are he is she is it is we are you are they are now when we speak English we contract the forms so that I am becomes I'm you are becomes your he is becomes he's that's important okay so look at the phrases I'm your teacher you're my student he's good-looking she's a puppy it's a Mexican hat we're a team you're interested and they're very good now in the video our friends used some sentences let's look at those together now change screen screen okay now an said I'm an I'm from Oxford she said also
he's from New York and also Alice said you're a Capricorn you're American other things it's a Mexican hat it's an African mask remember the African mask it's really beautiful Italy Italy is wonderful we are flatmates your students they're so friendly now let's listen to the video again together and listen carefully for those phrases and then we'll meet again here and we'll do some more practice with the verb to be so let's go