I’m a foodie: Introduction

Hello everybody, welcome to your English class. In this video we will study and practice how
to describe your favorite dish and some communicative strategies that you can use when
going to a restaurant or just eating out.

Let’s hit the road!

When we describe food, we normally use adjectives or expression.

For example:
“My favorite dish is ____” or
“I really like _____”
or “Ceviche is delicious”

For this reason, when you go to a restaurant

you can order your food by saying: “Is there
any fish or meat in the menu?”

Did you notice that I used “is there” with fish and meat? It’s because they’re
uncountable nouns and do not have a plural form

For this reason, when you go to a restaurant you

can order your food by saying:
“Is there any fish or meat in the menu?”

Did you notice that I used “is there” with fish and
meat? It’s because they’re uncountable nouns and
do not have a plural form
 Also, we will practice how to ask some eating habits with questions like:
-How often do you eat fish? Or
-How often do you order food from a restaurant?

And expressions of quantity:

-He drinks little coffee
-Few restaurants have gluten-free bread

Remember that normally, you don’t translate the names of dishes to English,
so Ceviche is Ceviche and Causa Rellena is Causa Rellena. However, you can
translate the name of the ingredients and say:

Causa Rellena is made of potato,

chicken and mayonnaise
(You translate the ingredients not the
name of the dish)

Ceviche is made of fish, lemon,

onions and corn.
Also, I’d like to remind you that some
ingredients have specific flavors. For
instance, lemons are acid and
peppers are spicy.

Finally, you can say if you dislike a

dish by saying:

My least favorite dish is “Ají de

Gallina”

Thanks for your attention and good luck!

 Countable and uncountable nouns.
Useful Expressions in a restaurant

I’m sure you remember that in the last video we mentioned

Hi!
some ingredients and dishes, as well as the expressions for you
to say if you like a dish or not.
In this video we will learn some nouns that can help you
when preparing a recipe or ordering a dish in a restaurant.

Let’s hit the road!

When you want to prepare a recipe for the dish that you like,
the ingredients will pro bably be mentioned as:

An Apple + A banana + A pineapple + A little sugar

In a recipe you can identify countable and non-countable nouns like apple or sugar.
Note that countable nouns can be singular or plural "apple” or “apples”

- A. Hello! What’s todays special?

- B. It’s Alfredo Spaghetti.
- A. Oh great, I’ll have that plate and please, add
some extra cream. Do you have something to
Now, when you go to a restaurant
drink?
and want to order a dish with you
- B. OK, sir. I have fresh lemonade and Chicha
might have a conversation like this
Morada.
- A. Great, I’ll have the lemonade, but with no
sugar, please.
- B. Sure. I’ll bring your order in a moment.

As you can see, in this conversation we have used countable and

uncountable nouns. I hope this point is clear to you. Now we’ll put it
into practice with some exercises on your platform.

Good luck!
 Countable and uncountable nouns
Countable nouns

Contable nouns are those nouns that can be counted and you can make
them plural by adding “-S” o “-ES”

For example:

A pencil Two cats Three houses

To make it clearer, check out the table below:

Uncountable nouns

Uncountable nouns are those nouns which cannot be counted because they
cannot be defined individually, but rather are part of a whole. As such, they are
treated as singular (you cannot make them plural by adding “-S” ).

For example:
You can use “some” when you are building
affirmative sentences and you can
use “any” when you are constructing negative
sentences :

We can use “some” as follows in affirmative sentences:

There is some meat in the fridge We use “is some” whit uncountable noun

There is some cheese in the fridge

There are some pencils on the desk We use “are some” whit plural countable noun

There are some rulers on the desk.

We can use “any” as follows in negative sentences:

There isn’t any milk in the shop We use ‘isn’t any’ with uncountable noun

There isn’t any coffee in the shop

There aren’t any dishes under the bed We use ‘aren’t any’ with plural countable noun

There aren’t any watches under the bed

Note: Please note that "ANY" is also

used to ask questions.
 The question “How often”
is used to ask
how often an action ocurred

General Never
Always Often
Usually Normally

Example of sentences:

How often do you eat at

How often do you
restaurants?
download
games to your
computer?

How often do you upload

photos to your Face- How often do you
book? watch TV?
Let’s practice
Make questions using how often and one of the expressions in the box below:

Go to the movies See your family

Write a letter Play sport
Send a text message travel by plane

1 How often________________________________________________?
Not very often. They live in a different city.

2 How often________________________________________________?
Twice a week. I’m on a college basketball team.

3 How often________________________________________________?
About once a minute! My cellphone is addictive.

4 How often________________________________________________?
Only once a year. I’m not into movies.

5 How often________________________________________________?
Once or twice a month. I have meetings all over the world.

6 How often________________________________________________?
Never. I always use e-mail.
 MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF, LITTLE, FEW
Negative and
MANY interrogative MUCH
Countable nouns sentences Uncountable nouns

FEW affirmative LITTLE

(NOT MANY) sentences (NOT MUCH)

A LOT OF
Examples

I don´t have many apples I don´t have much time

MATH

How many lessons do you have How much homework do you have

I have few caps I have little water

I have a lot of apples I have a lot of food

 Ocupaciones y Want to

Hello everybody, welcome to your English

class. In our previous lessons we talked about
food and some useful expressions.

Now, in this unit, we will learn how to express

the names of different countries and national-
ities. For example, do you remember the cor-
rect word to express the nationality of a
person from the UK?

Let’s hit the road!

For example, you can use the question:
Where are you from? And then ask where in.

Where are you from?

I’m from Peru.
Where in Peru?
Trujillo
Also, we will learn how to talk about professions and occupations and also
to express our abilities and talents using phrases like “I’m good at math” or
I’m good at singing. Or express interest in an activity or hobby. For
instance: “I’m interested in videogames” or “I’m interested in football”.

We are going to learn Adjectives That Describe Personality, for example:

Brave
Friendly
Funny
Generous
Kind
Lazy

On the other hand, we are going to study The movement verbs that describe
motion. For example:

Dance
Push
Run
Crawl
Finally, we will practice the use of the expressions “Want to” and “Would Like”
to express what we want or desire and “need to” to express something that
has to be done.

For example:

I want to study English

or
I would like to visit Cusco
or
I need to finish my homework before 10

Just keep this in mind: the contraction for I would is “I’d”

Thank you and Remember to use the vocabulary and expressions learnt in
the last session.
 Adverbs of manner
Adverbs of Manner!!! An adverb of manner is an adverb (such as completely and beautifully)
that describes how and in what way an action is carried out. Let’s learn how to form the adverbs of manner.

1. In a large number of the cases, the adverb can be formed by adding “-ly” to the adjective:

Adjec�ve Adverbs
Cheap Cheaply

Quick Quickly

Strong Strongly

2. If the adjective ends in with “y”, replace the “y” with an “I” and add “-ly”

Adjec�ve Adverbs
Ready Readily

Merry Merrily

Easy Easily

3. If the adjective ends with “-le”, replace the “e” at the end with “y”

Adjec�ve Adverbs
Understandable Understandably

Forcible Forcibly

Possible Possibly

4. If the adjective ends with “-ic”, add “-ally”- An exception public -> publicly

Adjec�ve Adverbs
Idio�c Idio�cally

Tragic Tragically

Basic Basically

5. Some adjectives do not change form at all

Adjec�ve Adverbs
Fast Fast

Straight Straight

Hard Hard
 ADVERBS OF MANNER LIST
The next vocabulary is about adverbs of manner.

POSITIVE / NEGATIVE
POSITIVE MANNER NEGATIVE MANNER MANNER

Beautifully Justly Angrily Noisily Accidentally Rarely

Boldly Kindly Anxiously Madly Busily Really
Bravely Obediently Awkwardly Nervously Daringly Reluctantly
Calmly Patiently Badly Poorly Deliberately Sharply
Carefully Openly Blindly Recklessly Exactly Sleepily
Joyously Perfectly Carelessly Sadly Fast Slowly
Easily Powerfully Cruelly Stupidly Fiercely So
Elegantly Promptly Foolishly Violently Hard Speedily
Equally Rapidly Irritably Tensely Hurriedly Swiftly
Faithfully Quietly Lazily Inquisitively
Faithfully Well Loudly Loosely
Generously Noisily Mysteriously
 It’s raining cats and dogs.
Hello everybody, welcome to your English class.
In the previous unit we studied the names of countries and nationalities,
as well as the use of “would like”.

Now, in this unit we will learn how to describe the weather

and the regular clothes that we use during habits related
to weather. For example: During the winter season,
I usually wear a jacket and a cotton scarf.

In addition, we will practice how to talk about different professions and occupations
and the skills that we need to have. But consider this: sometimes there are obligations
in our lives and we normally use the expression Have to when there is one.

For instance: In order to be a nurse, you have

to be good with people. An epidemiologist has
to be interested in public health. A firefighter
has to know how to give first aid.

Don’t forget to take notes and to participate in our forums.

Good luck!
 VERBS ABOUT CLOTHES
We use the present continuous or present progressive to talk about actions happening now.

Put on for example: Take in for example:

She put on her coat and went out I’ll have to take this dress
in at the waist it’s too big.

Take of for example: Zip up for example:

Rosa took off her sandals He zipped up his leather jacket

Have on for example: Hang out for example:

Fiorella had her new dress on Have you hung the washing out?
PRESENT SIMPLE VS PRESENT CONTINUOUS

Hello everybody, in this video we will learn how to create sentences that
describe current actions

I’m sure you remember this from previous sessions.

For example:

Are you paying attention

Now, I am learning English. to the lesson?

I am reading an interesting
book at the moment.

And in order to express this, we normally use the present continuous tense
which is made with the present form of the verb to be and a verb with the ING
form.

We are going to review the difference between present simple and present
continuous in the next chart.

Present simple vs present continuous

Present simple Present continuous

The doctor wears a uniform at work The doctor is wearing a uniform.

The nurse doesn’t work on weekends The nurse isn’t working today.
Does she cook in her house? Is she cooking today?
Yes, she does Yes, she is
No, she doesn’t No, she isn’t.

Keep this in mind: We do not use the present continuous tense

to talk about regular actions or habits.

Don’t forget to take notes and to participate in our forums.

Good luck!
 HAVE TO / DON’T HAVE TO

Hello everyone, in this video we will learn to use the expression: "Have to or don't
have to" Let's start: we will use "you don't have to" when there is no obligation to
do something. For example: I don't have to get up early.

The structure that we must take into account is:

Affirmative sentences: Negative sentences:

I/you/we/they have to work Use Don’t or doesn’t
He/she/it has to work I/you/we/they don’t have to work.
He/She/it doesn’t have to work.

Interrogative sentences:
Use do or does Does He/She/It have to work?
Do I/You/We/They have to work? Yes, she does.
Yes, I do. No, she doesn’t
No, I don’t.

As you can see you have to use carefully Have to and Don't have to.

Don’t forget to take notes and to participate in our forums.

Good luck!