Lesson People and personality Grammar: english word order

Lesson 3. People and personality
Grammar: ENGLISH WORD ORDER

Sue	reads	the newspaper	every day
Subject	verb	object	Time expression

The verb and the object are usually together. We say:

Sue reads the newspaper every day. {not Sue reads every day the newspaper)
Sue (subject)the newspaper (object)


Verb + object

He I Did you We Paul often I I always I'm going to

speaks like watch invited wears opened make borrow

English Italian food television a lot of people a black hat. the door the same mistake. Some money.

very well, (not He speaks very well English) very much, (not I like very much . . . ) all evening? to the party. slowly. From the bank.

Place and time
Place is usually before time. We say:
We went to a party last night. (not last night to a party)

We went	to a party	last night
	Place	Time

place time
(where?) (when? how long? how often?)

Liz walks Will you be I usually go We arrived They’ve lived Jim’s father has been

to work at home to bed at the airport in the same house in the hospital

every day. (not every day to work) tonight? (not tonight at home?) early, (not early to bed) at 7 o'clock. for 20 years. since June.

Exercises 1 Put the words in order.

1. 
   (the door / opened / slowly) /opened the door slowly.
   
2. 
   (two letters / this morning / wrote) I
   
3. 
   (entered / quietly / the house / the thief)
   
4. 
   (Megan / very well / French / doesn't speak)
   
5. 
   (a lot of work / did III yesterday)
   
6. 
   (Mary / do you know / well?)
   
7. 
   (we / enjoyed / very much / the party)
   
8. 
   (the problem / carefully /1 / explained)
   
9. 
   (we / at the airport / some friends / met)
   
10. 
    (did you buy / in Canada / that jacket?)
    
11. 
    (every day / do / the same thing / we)
    
12. 
    (football / don't like / very much / I)
    

Exercises 2
a) Put the words in order then put them in a right column.
(to work / every day / walks / Liz) Liz walks to work every day.

1. 
   (at the hotel / I / early / arrived) I…………….
   
2. 
   (goes / every year / to Puerto Rico / Julia)…………
   
3. 
   (we / since 1998 / here / have lived) We……………
   
4. 
   (in Montreal / Sue / in 1980 / was born) Sue…………….
   
5. 
   (didn't go / yesterday / Paul / to work) Paul……………..
   
6. 
   (to the bank / yesterday afternoon / went / Megan)Megan……………
   
7. 
   (I / in bed / this morning / had breakfast) I……………..
   
8. 
   (next September / Barbara / to college / is going)Barbara ……………….
   
9. 
   (I / a beautiful bird / this morning / in the yard / saw)I…………………
   
10. 
    (many times / have been / my parents / to Tokyo) My………………
    
11. 
    (my umbrella / I / last night / left / in the restaurant) I……………
    
12. 
    (to the movies / tomorrow / are you going?) Are
    

13.(the children/ took / this morning / to school) He…………….



Vocabulary
Brainstorming
What do you ask from a person who you don’t know?
Make a cluster





Around the world
Activity 1 a) Divide into 6 groups. Each group takes a card with the description of one person. Draw the chart below on the board. Then one representative from each group comes to the board and describes him/her
e.g.Her name is Belen.
She is __________(age)
She is __________(nationality)
She is from __________(home town)
She is __________(job)
She likes __________(hobby)
The rest of the students should complete the chart.

1) Hello! My name is Belen Lopez and I’m twenty-two years old and I’m from Madrid in Spain. I’m a nurse. I work long hours, but in my free time I do a lot of sport. And I like eating out with my friends. In Spain we eat very late in the evening.	2) Hello. I’m a 20-year-old Russian university student (engineering). I live with my family in Moscow. My hobbies are computer games and the Internet. I nearly forgot-my name is Michael Pavlov.
3) Hi! My name’s Claudette Romand and I’m French. My home is in Lyons, but I work in Meribel- I’m a ski instructor there. I work in the winter- but in the summer I like to travel. (I went to Russia last summer.) I like photography too- so I always have a camera with me! Oh yes, I’m 25 years old.	4) Hi! My name is Paulo Dias and I’m Brazilian. I live in Rio de Janeiro near the sea- I love water sports! I teach music in a school. I love music too! What else? I’m twenty-four years of age and I’m single.
5) I’m Stefan Zilliken and I work in a travel agent’s in Munich in the south of Germany. I was 23 on January 1^st. My hobbies are football- I play and I watch- and walking in the mountains. I also get some free holidays with my job!	6) I’m Maria Szopen , twenty-one years old, and I’m from Warsaw, the capital of Poland. I’m a computer programmer. In the evenings I go to the cinema- but English films are difficult for me! I also like running- I’m a member of a big athletics club.