Welcome to class 2

The days of the week

- they are always capitalised (se scriu intotdeauna cu litera mare)
1. Monday
2. Tuesday (grupul de litere tu- se pronunta /t/) - pictur(e) e final nu se pronunta
3. We(d)n(e)sday (w se pronunta intotdeauna /u/)
4. Thursday
5. Friday
6. Saturday
7. Sunday
Which is your favourite day?
Spelling
What is your first name?
Alise.
How do you spell your first name?
A
/ei/

L
/el/

I
/ai/

S
/es/

E
/i:/

What is your last name?

Dinu.
My last name is Dima.
It's Dima.
How do you spell your last name?
D
I
/di:/ /ai/

N
/en/

U
/iu/

What is your middle name?

Syulbie
How do you spell your middle name?
S

/es/

/uai/ /iu/

/el/

/bi:/ /ai/

/i:/

Personal pronouns and the verb to be (present simple)

pronumele personale si verbul a fi (prezent simplu)
Formal
I
am
you are
he
is
she is
it
is
we are
you are
they are

Short forms (in speech)

I'm
- eu sunt
you're
- tu esti
he's
she's
it's
we're
you're
they're

Negative form
I am not
you are not
he is not
she is not
it is not
we are not
you are not
they are not

More common in speech

I'm not
I amn't
you're not
you aren't
he's not
he isn't
she's not
she isn't
it's not
it isn't
we're not
we aren't
you're not
you aren't
they're not
they aren't

Cum ne adresam politicos

sir
madam

- domnule (fara nume)

- doamna (fara nume)

How are you, madam?

How are you, sir?
Mr. (mister)
Mrs. / misi:z/
Ms. /mis/
Miss /mis/

- Ce mai faceti, doamna?

- Ce mai faceti, doamna?

- domnule (+ numele persoanei)

- doamna
- doamna
- domnisoara

How are you, Mr. Smith?

How are you, Mrs. Dinu?
Personal pronouns
I
you
he
she
it
we
you
they

and possessive adjectives (before a noun)

my name - numele meu
my books
your name - numele tau
his name - numele lui
her name - numele ei
its name
- numele lui/ei
our name - numele nostru
your name - numele vostru
their name - numele lor

- cartile mele

Question words (cuvinte interogative)

What
Which
Who /hu:/
Where
When
Why
How /hau/

- ce
- care
- cine
- unde
- cand
- de ce
- cum

What's your name?

Which is your name?
Numbers
0
- zero / oh
1
- one
2
- two
3
- three
4
- four
5
- five
6
- six
7
- seven
8
- eight
9
- nine
10
- ten
2 boys
2 girls
200 girls

- Care este numele tau? (what o varietate infinita)

- Care este numele tau? (which lista de nume)

11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

- eleven
- twelve
- thirteen teenagers
- fourteen
- fifteen
- sixteen
- seventeen
- eighteen
- nineteen
- twenty
- twenty-one

- two boys
- two girls
- two hundred girls

30
40
50
60

- thirty
- forty
- fifty
- sixty

100

- a hundred

- doi baieti
- doua fete
- doua sute de fete

Large numbers (numere mari) www.economist.com (global debt clock)

figures = cifre
1,000
10,000
100,000
1,000,000
10,000,000
100,000,000
1,000,000,000

- a thousand
- ten thousand
- a hundred thousand
- a million
- ten million
- a hundred million
- a billion (un miliard)

1,000,000,000,000 - a trillion (un catralion)

500,000,000
160

- five hundred million

1
o suta
a hundred
9
noua sute
nine hundred

60
saizeci
and sixty
07
sapte
and seven

$855

eight hundred

and fifty-five

wife
life
(k)nife
leaf

- wives (sotii)
- lives (vieti)
- (k)nives
- leaves (frunze)

907

(k)now

dollars

I don't (k)now.

Welcome to class 3
213 - two hundred and thirteen
2,213 two thousand
two hundred
thirteen
1,000,709 a million, seven hundred and nine
279,333,715

two hundred seventy-nine million,

three hundred thirty-three thousand
seven hundred fifteen
98,900
ninety-eight thousand
nine hundred
110, 001
a hundred and ten thousand
and one
$237,353,278,689 two hundred thirty-seven billion - miliarde
three hundred fifty-three million - milioane
two hundred seventy-eight thousand - mii
six hundred eighty-nine dollars dolari
140,488,737

$1,683.77
8.0%
12.3%

a hundred forty million

four hundred eighty-eight thousand
seven hundred thirty-seven inhabitants = locuitori
a thousand
six hundred eighty-three dollars seventy-seven (cents)

- eight percent
- twelve point three percent

decimal point (=virgula)

$12,093,957,103,825

twelve trillion
ninety-three billion
nine hundred fifty-seven million
a hundred and three thousand
eight hundred twenty-five dollars

$96,790.03

ninety-six thousand
seven hundred ninety dollars and three cents

124,997,267

a hundred twenty-four million

nine hundred ninety-seven thousand
two hundred sixty-seven

257.5%

two hundred fifty-seven point five percent

-1.4%

negative one point four percent\

erase = a sterge
eraser = guma de sters
= burete de sters tabla

Can I erase the board? = Pot sa sterg tabla?

speakers
video projector
notebook
remote controller
pencil case
pencil holder
stapler
hole-punch
stamp
highlighter
diary
socket
plug in
erase the board
folder
file
paper
piece of paper

= boxe
= video proiector
= caiet
= telecomanda
= penar
= suport de creioane
= capsator
= perforator
= stampila
= evidentiator
= agenda
= priza
= a baga in priza
= sterge tabla
= dosar
= fisier
= hartie
= foie de hartie

to need

= a avea nevoie

I need a piece of paper.

I need the stapler.

De regula, vocalele neaccentuate se pronunta // - // precedate de o consoana

com-pu-ter
/km-piu-tr/
Ireland
Finland
Norway
Sweden
Greece
Portugal
Romania
Bulgaria

Irish
Finnish
Norwegian
Swidish
Greek
Portuguese
Romanian
Bulgarian

Bra-zil
/Br-zil/

eleven
/i-le-vn/

about = despre

Hungary
Canada
Peru

Hungarian
Canadian
Peruvian

Welcome to class 4
Expressions with the verb to be
(It's) good to see you. = M bucur sa te vd.
Good to see you too. / You too.