1. Interactive English
Members: Cornito, Mary Rose
Macawile, Melisa
Padual, Norma
Rosaldo, Mariza
Gayo, Lean
Acang, Emilyn
Presented by: Group I
2. Examples:
Congratulation
You can say congratulations in many circumstances,
such as for wedding, promotions, passing exams,
or to the parents and family of a new baby.
Well done
You can say this to someone who has passed an
exam or achieved something difficult like a
promotion
3. Birthdays
The most usual ways of referring to someone’s
birthday are by saying Happy Birthday! Or
more formally, Many happy returns!
Before an exam or something difficult
Wish someone good luck before something
difficult, by saying Good Luck! But if people
are superstitious and believe that saying”good
luck” will have the opposite effect, you could
also hear Break a leg!
4. Toasting
At parties and gatherings, you might be asked to
drink a toast to celebrate a happy event.
Here’s to …
Let’s drink to …
Ladies and Gentlemen, “ The Bride and Groom”.
Please raise your glasses to …
Writing someone who has passed an exam
5. If you are writing a card or letter to
someone who has passed an exam, you
can use the following expressions:
1. Well done! It’s a fantastic result.
2. Congratulations on passing! You deserved it
after so much hard work.
6. Writing wedding cards
Here are a couple of standard phrases to write
on wedding cards:
Congratulations! Wishing you many happy years
together.
Wishing you the best of luck in your future
together.
7. Writing in a sad situations
I was so sorry to heard that ….
I was deeply saddened to hear …
please accept my deepest condolence on the
death of …
8. A Yes- No Question
Statement Question
• Einstein and • Are Einstein and
Heisenberg are Heisenberg
physicist. physicist?
• Galaxy is a cluster of • Is galaxy a cluster of
stars. stars?
10. Typical responses to question maybe
long or short responses.
Question Long responses Short responses
She’s absent, Yes, she is Yes , she is.
isn’t she? absent. No, she isn’t
No, she’s not
absent.
You can swim, Yes, I can Swim. Yes, I can
Can’t you? No, I can’t swim No, I can’t
11. Basic Sentence Pattern
Subject-Verb(S-V) the first basic sentence
pattern. May include other words called
modifiers. The modifiers or the intransitive
verb answer the question how, when, where
or why.
Example:
When do tourists travel? = Summer
The subject is the tourists and the modifiers or
the intransitive verb is travel
12. Subject-Linking Verb-Complement(S-LV-C)
There are 3 components in this pattern:
Subject-Linking Verb- and Complement. The
complement may either be a noun or an
adjective.
Example:
subject Linking Verb Complement
Guess jeans are Expensive
( adjective)
These jeans are Product of the
U.S. ( noun)
13. Subject-Transitive verb-Direct Object (S-TV-DO)
The components of this pattern are the :
subject- transitive- and object.
Example:
subject Transitive verb Direct object
Most students read Magazines and
newspaper.
A disk jockey spins His records.
14. Subject- Transitive verb-Indirect Object-Direct
Object(S-TV-IO-DO) This patterns use two
objects, the first tells to whom the action is
done(DO), the other comes between the verb
and the direct object(IO).
Example:
Subject Transitive Indirect object Direct object
verb
The radio provide listeners entertainment
Teacher’s teach children The 3R’s
15. Subject-Transitive verb-Direct object- Object
Complement (S-TV-DO-OC)- the pattern consists
of subject, transitive verb, direct object and
object complement, which may be a noun or an
adjective.
Examples:
Subject Transitive verb Direct object Object
complement
Many people regard The radio A necessity
communication Makes countries Neighbors
16. Subject Transitive Direct Object
verb object complement
adjective
Scientist consider The ozone dangerous
they Want Their doubts Justified
17. The sound /iy/ and /i/
To produce the sound, raise the front of the
tongue toward the hard palate. Spread the lips in
a smiling positions so that there is a narrow
opening between the teeth. This is a long sound.
/iy/
Example:
Each , Beat , Novena , Eager , Eat , Adhesive
/i/
Example:
Pick , pip , sip
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20. English Expressions
Expression Response
Could you tell me how to get Go to the next light and turn
to (… Library)? right. Go to blocks, it’s on
the left.
How do I find (…City Hall)? Just go straight, its on this
street, on the right, about a
mile and a half.
Which way do I go to get to
(… the post office)? Drive to Jackson Street and
turn right. The post office is
in the middle of the block,
across from the park.
21. Pardon me, I’m lost, Go to the second light
How do I get to the and turn left. Then go
(… Museum)? to the third stop sign.
The museum is on
that corner.
Take Pinal Avenue north
Could you direct me to about 8 miles, you’ll
(…1-10)? run into it.
Which is the best route Take Washington Street
north to the Papago
to (…the stadium)?
freeway and Head
west. You can’t miss it.
22. Suggestions for giving directions
Giving street directions is really very easy when
you remember to follow these points. When
giving directions you are actually giving two
sets of instructions.
In the first set-”Go To”- you are telling the
listener what street to go to or how far to go.
In the second set-”Then”, you are telling the
listener what to do when they get there.
(turn right/left, go straight, on the left, etc.)
23. Preposition of location most commonly
used when giving directions:
go straight go to turn right turn left
cross on your on your beside
right left
next to behind across from in front of
caddy corner
On the corner of(to be very specific NE, SE, NW,
SW corners)
25. That
The word that is used in the English language for
several grammatical purposes:
to a restrictive relative clause
as a demonstrative pronoun
as a demonstrative adjective
as a complementizer/subordinating conjunction
as an adverb
as a prepositional phrase
27. This
• In the English language, is the singular
proximal demonstrative it may refer to:
People
Places
Media
Music
computers
28. • People
Example- Herve this, French biochemist whose
scientific approach to coisine is well known in
France
Places
Examples- this, Ardennes, a commune in the
ardennes department of France.
thinis( sometimes written this) an
undiscovered ancient city in Upper Egypt thought
to have been in the vicinity of modern day
“Girga”
29. Media
Examples: This( Canadian magazine) a Canadian
political journal.
This( journal), a poetry journal
published in the USA (1971-1982), by this press.
This TV, a TV channel in the USA.
Music
Examples- this( Gescom EP)
Computer
Examples- this, the identity function in many object
oriented computer languages.
32. Stress
Is the degree of loudness or force with which
syllables are spoken in English.
a. Primary(/) is the strongest stress in a phrase.
Every word spoken in isolation has primary
stress on one syllable.
Examples: athlete , contract , program...
a. Secondary stress (_)- a kind of reduced primary,
is not recognized by all analyst. It occurs only on
major stress items that have entered into
syntactic combinations.
Examples: exercise , telephone , realize , institute
33. c. Tertiary stress(-)- is the intermediate stress
recognized by all analyst in English. Its ue is
syntactic phrases has not been so widely
recognized-personal pronouns, short
prepositions, auxillary verbs unless negated
with n’t.
d. Weak stress(.)- is the level of least intensity
Example: /ey/ Sunday
/ow/ window