Destination English

LESSON 3: PRESENT SIMPLE VS. PAST SIMPLE. CONNECTING WORDS. ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY. REGULAR & IRREGULAR VERBS.

An introduction to the Past Simple/Simple Past tense & the related vocabulary necessary to link and express yourself more concisely.

UPDATE ON TEACHING 900 STUDENTS (6-16)

I’ve been teaching for a month now since I arrived in October.
My mission here is to get the students to speak!
Their text books and work shows they are intermediate students but their speaking is elementary.

I’ve put together a program to give them confidence and master the present simple tense before moving on to more difficult grammar.
I think a lot of them have been faking it or memorising stuff without actually understanding it.

So, an introduction to phonetics and drilling routines verb phrases as well as writing it all out on the board for every class, will help them to click
And understand it better. A focus on asking questions too as it’s always easier to answer questions for beginners than to actually get a conversation started.

Present Simple for Routine & Habits

1. Wake up
2. Get up
3. Have/Take a shower
4. Get dressed /t/
5. Have breakfast
6. Go to work/school
7. Get to work/school
8. Have a coffee/Tea
9. Start work/class
10. Have lunch
11. Go Shopping
12. Finish work
13. Go Home
14. Go to Italian Class
15. Go to the gym
16. Get home
17. Make dinner
18. Have dinner
19. Take the dog for a walk
20. Watch TV
21. Do homework/housework
22. Go to bed
23. Sleep/Go to sleep

See if you can remember the whole sequence by heart! Then add a time…
E.g I wake up at 6:00, I get up at 6:10 etc…

DAY 1: .goa MY FIRST PERFORMANCE AT TAJ CIDADE BAR.

Places visited:
Ritz Authentic Restaurant (Nothing to do with the posh one in London. This is where the locals eat). Fountainhas - Portuguese Heritage Quarter. Marriot Hotel Goa.

Goa offers a variety of destinations for all budgets. From dormitory living to 5 star luxury. There’s something for every budget & lifestyle.

After waking up around 10ish, having a tea and light breakfast at our hotel, our air-condition vehicle driver, Amir, arrived at exactly 2pm to pick us and take us to Panjim (capital of Goa)…

In the evening I was invited to sing (check out the law suit Andy Summers & Stuart Copeland have taken out against Sting for royalties going back 40 years in this song!) by a local performer in the Taj Cidade Bar.

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Zack is sporting touristic elephant mural T-shirt & cotton (super comfy) lime trouser from .goa

Recommended healthy beverage:
Lemon 🍋 honey 🍯 ginger ☕️