YES, I CAN

LEARN & SPEAK

ENGLISH

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HOW TO LEARN ENGLISH

EFFECTIVELY
SITTING AT A TABLE LOOKING AT YOUR
NOTEBOOK IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO
STUDY ENGLISH. MOST OF THE TIME,
YOUR MIND IS NOT ACTIVELY USING
THE INFORMATION THAT YOU ARE
STUDYING, AND PRACTICAL LEARNING
DOES NOT TAKE PLACE. HERE ARE
SOME TECHNIQUES THAT WILL HELP
YOU LEARN MORE EFFECTIVELY.
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WRITE A JOURNAL
Writing every day lets you see your grammar clearly in
front of you, express your ideas, and use a non-oral method
in communicate in English. Then read the corrected
version out loud.
It is a good idea to re-copy the corrected journal too, so
that you will have the experience of writing your ideas
down in proper English.

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READ A BOOK
By Reading A Story, You Create A Picture In Your
Imagination That Will Connected Different Parts Of Your
Brain To English. Find A Book That Is Not Too Difficult.
Do Not Stop Every Time You Find A New Word.
Guess What The Word Probably Means, Continue
Reading, And Check In Your Dictionary At The End Of
The Page Or Chapter.

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Re-write your class notes every day.

Writing your notes a second time will allow you to
remember more strongly what you study.
It will also make your notebook neater, making it
easier to study.

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WATCH TV AND MOVIES, AND LISTEN TO THE RADIO.

Even if you dont understand everything, you will

still be learning.
It is possible to understand the content even if you
know only 30% of the words that you hear!
Your listening ability will improve day by day-and
its fun!

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KEEP A VOCABULARY NOTEBOOK IN A

SEPARATE NOTEBOOK FROM YOUR CLASS
NOTES

Take an active approach to learning new vocabulary.

If you find 5 words a day, 6 days a week, you will learn about 140 new words a month;
10 words a day would bring you over than 280 new words a month.
Hint approach new words by subject: things connected to your hobies, to your
interests etc.
Do it this way:
Think of a word you know in your language.
Look it up in your dictionary.
When you find the English word, write it down on the left side of your vocabulary note
book.
In the midle of the page, write down if the word is a noun (n), verb (v), adjective (adj),
etc. so that you will know how to use the word.
Look the word up in an English-English dictionary.
Write the English definition on the right side of the the page (or on the next page).
Copy a sentence from the dictionary. This will help you learn how to use the word
correctly.
Practice reading this sentence untll it becomes natural for you.

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SPEAK LOTS OF ENGLISH WITH

YOUR FRINDS
You improve your spoken English by speaking
English in different situations with people of all
nationalities.
If you want to speak English better in the future,
speak it as much as possible now!

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THINK POSITIVELY
People who say I cant speak English well are corrected.
People who say Every day in every way, my English is
getting better and better are also correct.
What you think is what you get.
Practice saying the second sentence every day, and you will
see greater improvement in your English and in your
confidence.
Remember: the more fun you have with English,the easier it
will be to learn ENJOY

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English Grammar
In Easy Way

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Definitions
Nouns
Pronouns
Verbs
Adjectives
Adverbs
Prepositions
Conjunctions

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Interjections
Determiners
Subordinators
Interrogatives
Qualifiers
Sentence combinations
Yes/no questions
Information questions
Punctuation rules
Capitalization rules

Grammar
DEFINITION
The grammar of a language is a complex of systems
that may be analyzed and studied on these three
levels: (Noam Chomskys UG)
1. Phonology (set of sounds/ symbols)
2. Morphology (combinations of sounds that
carry single units of meaning)

3. Syntax (how single units of meaning are

combined to form words, phrases and
sentences.
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Parts of speech
Nouns
1.
2.
3.
4.

Definition
Proper / common
Singular / plural (annex)
Count / non-count /abstract
(annex)
(how much
how many)
5. Collectible (group nouns)
6. Units of measurement
(Reference: Schramper Azar, Betty,1996.
Basic English Grammar)

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(Nouns)

Definition
(proper and common nouns)
Nouns words used to name a
person, place, thing, object,
quality, idea, concept, or an
action.
Ref. (American Heritage Dictionary, 2001)

Proper Nouns- special or

particular name given to common
nouns to distinguish them from
others of the same kind.
Example: common- woman
proper
Martha

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a country
Puerto Rico

A person
Carlos

Ryder
Hospital

Proper
Nouns

a pet
Puppy
many
others

a place

a day
Monday

a monument
The Statue of
Liberty

Proper and common nouns

COMMON

PROPER

COMMON

PROPER

day

Saturday

associations

Members Club

month

October

movies

Titanic

mountain

El Yunque

planets

Neptune

river

The Amazon

city

San Juan

ocean

Pacific Ocean

historical periods

Middle Ages

book

Applied
Linguistic

language

Spanish

newspaper

New York Times

nationality

Puerto Rican

religion

Catholic

School course

English 101

brand of product

Cadillac

institutions

University of
Puerto Rico

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Nouns (singular and plural)

Rule No. 1 (Add s to the end of noun)
cup
student

cups
students

Rule No.2 consonants before y

change y to i and add es
city -cities party- parties lady-ladies

Rule No.3 vowels before y

add s
boy boys key keys day -days
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Singular and plural (cont.)

Rule No. 4 (f and fe endings)
change the f or fe to v and es
life lives wife wives thief thieves
Rule No. 5 (sh, ch, x, ss endings) add es
bush bushes
match matches
box
-boxes
kiss
-kisses
Rule No. 6 (consonant + o) add es (vowel +o) s
tomato tomatoes
radio radios

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PRACTICE EXERCISES
USE THE PLURAL FORM TO FILL IN THE
BLANKS. (PROVIDED LIST)
They have one girl and two ______.
Baby
I visited many _______ last year.
Boy
Women give birth to _______.
City
She lost the _____ of the car and the house!
Country
_____ rides horses in Texas.
Lady
Madrid and Paris are beautiful _______.
Party
We must bring ______ to the English class.
Tray
Good evening _____ and gentleman.
Key
On Saturday nights, I like to go to _______.
Dictionary
People carry their food on _____ at the cafeteria.
cowboy

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Pronunciation of plurals (s /
Group A Final s is pronouncedes)
/z/ after voiced sounds
(taxicabs, beds, dogs, balls, years, days, boys, trees, etc.)

Group B Final s is pronounced /s/ after voiceless sounds

(books, cups, groups, cats, students, desks, etc.)
Group C Final s, es is pronounced /ez/
after s sounds (classes, horses, boxes, faces)
after z sounds (sizes, roses, noises)
after sh sounds (dishes, bushes)
after ch sounds (matches, sandwiches)
after ge/dge sounds (pages, ages, bridges, edges)
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Irregular plural forms

(exceptions)

Child
children
Foot
feet
Man
men
Woman women
Mouse
mice
Tooth
teeth
Fish
fish
_____
people
(is always plural) (no s)

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Count and noncount. nouns

Count nouns
a book
one book

books
two books
some books
a lot of books
many books
a few books

Non-count nouns
money

some money
a lot of money
much money
a little money

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Common non-count nouns

advice, furniture, love, peace,
homework, luck information, food,
mail, music, traffic, weather, work,
bread, cheese, coffee, rice, sand,
meat, milk, water, sugar, money, oil,
liquids
abstracts
food
gases

materials (paper)
general

ORAL PRACTICE

(COUNT VS. NON-COUNT)

Chair

Traffic

Music

Work

Furniture

Cars

Coffee

Water

Coin

Fact

Library

Jewelry

Money

Information Peace

Rings

Letters

Homework

Justice

mail

assignment job

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Advice

sugar

Pronouns
Definition
Personal pronouns (subjectobject)
Possessive adjectives
Possessive pronouns
Reflexive
Indefinite
Interrogative
Demonstrative
Relative
reciprocal
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Verbs (verb tenses

/conjugation)

Definition
Regular
Irregular verbs
Spelling / pronunciation
Conjugation (annex-practice)

Auxiliary verbs/ modals (annex)

Infinitives
Gerunds

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Verbs
Regular/ Irregular/ verb tenses
Regular verbs (d or ed endings)
/d/ sound pronunciation
/t/ sound pronunciation
/ed/ pronunciation
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Irregular verbs
Three forms

Two forms
One form

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Verb conjugation
Simple present tense

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Work

You

Work

He, she, it

Works

We

Work

You

Work

they

work

Verb tenses
Simple past

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Worked

You

Worked

He, she, it

Worked

We

Worked

You

Worked

they

Worked

Verb tenses
Simple future

will work

Another way to express the

simple future

You

will work

He, she, it

will work

We

will work

You

will work

they

will work

I am going to work tomorrow.

She is going to work next
week.
They are going to work on
Sunday.

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Present progressive
I

am working right now.

You

are working.

He, she, it

is working.

We

are working.

You

are working.

They

are working.

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Past progressive (continuous)

I

was working last night.

You

were working yesterday.

He, she, it

was working last summer.

We

were working a few hours ago.

You

were working last week.

They

were working last Monday.

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Future progressive (continuous)

I

will be working tomorrow.

You

will be working this afternoon.

He, she, it will be working next weekend.

We

will be working tonight.

You

will be working next summer.

They

will be working next semester.

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Adjectives

Definition
Articles as adjectives
Order of adjectives in a series (color, size, origin, nationalities,
shape, age, etc..)
Past participles / gerunds used as adjectives
Comparatives and superlatives comparisons (annex-practice)
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Adverbs

Definition
Adverbs of frequency (annex)
Adverbs of time
Adverbs of location (place)
Adverbs of mode

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Prepositions
Definition
IN, ON and AT (annex
time and location)
All prepositions
Transitional expressions
(prep. Phrases-annex)

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Conjunctions

Definition
Correlative conjunctions
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinate conjunctions
Conjunctive adverbs
Other subordinators (annex)

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Interjections and other words

Definition and examples
Onomatopoeias
Numerals (cardinals,
ordinals)
Determiners
Qualifiers
Subordinators
interrogatives

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Capitalization Rules (annex)

Punctuation Rules (annex)
Sentence Combinations
YES/NO questions
Information questions
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 THANK YOU AND KEEP GOING

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