This Is EnglishUnit 1 Talking About People

By Liu Yan

Content

Session 1Session 2Session 3Focus

Session 1

New Words Language Points Grammar

New Words

职业： worker, salesman, doctor, clerk, shop assistant, soldier, nurse, receptionist, officer, editor, postman, director, chef, civil servant, baker, CEO

Grammar

To Be A/an Work To be & to do

To Be

1.To be 与“是”意思基本相同；

2. 不同人称， to be 形式不同；

3. 表示否定时，在 be动词后加 not ；

4.be 动词有缩略形式。

Matching:

I are

You is

He/She/It am

I is not

You are not

He/She/It am not

A/an

辅音开始的单词前用 a ；元音开始的单词前用 an 。

Matching:

worker, salesman, doctor, clerk, shop assistant, soldier, nurse, receptionist, officer, editor, postman, director, chef, civil servant, baker, CEO

Work

work 表示“工作”，与不同介词连用表示不同含义：

work with a person. work for a company. work at a place. work in a town.

Please make sentences by using the above structures.

To be & to do

I am a woman.

I’m a woman.

I am not a woman.

Are you a woman? He is a doctor.

He’s a doctor.

He is not a doctor.

Is he a doctor?

I like films.

I don’t like films.

无缩略形式 Do you like films? He likes films.

He does not like films.

无缩略形式 Does he like films?

Language Points

I am from China. He is not Chinese. Is he a Chinese? Yes, he is./No, he is not. What is your name? Where are you from? How old are you?

Session 2

Language Points Grammar

Grammar

I—my I work—He works job—jobs;man—men疑问句

I--my

I you he/she/it we you they

my your His/her/its our your their

I work—He works

单数第三人称（ he ， she ， it ）后行为动词加 s 。

e.g. He works at a bank.

She studies English at BTVU.

It runs fast.

job—jobs ； man--men

名词复数加 s ：e.g. bank—banks

book—

brother—

child—

但是，有部分名词复数形式是不规则的。可以参考语法书或查字典。

疑问句

Are you a student? Do you like reading? What’s your name? What’s your job? How old are you?

Yes, I am./ No, I am not. Yes, I do. / No, I don’t. I’m Liu Yan. I’m a teacher. I’m 30.

Language Points

I am Liu Yan. My name is Liu Yan. My husband’s brother lives in Hu Nan. He works in an administrative office.

Session 3

New Words Grammar

New Words

Bungee jumping, playing football, walking, studying Chinese, dancing, swimming, cooking, gardening, watching TV, playing the piano, reading, playing computer games

Play football; play the piano

球类不加 the ； 乐器类加 the 。e.g. I like playing basketball.

I don’t like playing the violin.

Grammar

Like+doing

e.g. I like swimming.

He likes reading.

Focus for Today(1)

a/an to be/ to be not/ I’m work with/ for/ at/ in Are you…?/ Do you…? What/ where/ when/ why/ which/ who/

which…

Focus for Today (2)

I--my He/She/It works job--jobs I like doing…/He likes doing…