Study guide: English Back to School Basics

📋 Course Outline

1. Greetings and Polite Expressions
2. Personal Questions and Answers
3. English-Speaking Countries and Culture

📖 1. Greetings and Polite Expressions

★ Must-know

• The English greetings are:

  • Good morning
  • Good afternoon
  • Good evening

• The polite expressions are:

  • please
  • Thank you
  • You're welcome

Further detail

📌 The English expressions for apologizing are “Sorry” and “Excuse me.”

• The tongue twister is “Today, Teddy takes a terrible taxi.”

💡 Memory Hook

Morning → afternoon → evening

📖 2. Personal Questions and Answers

★ Must-know

• To ask a classmate's name and answer, use “What's your name?” and “My name is Eden.”

• To ask someone how they are and answer, use “How are you?”, “I am fine :)”, or “I'm bad :(.”

• To ask someone's age and answer, use “How old are you?” and “I am 11 years old.”

Further detail

• To ask the time, use “What's time is it?”

📖 3. English-Speaking Countries and Culture

★ Must-know

• The four countries where English is spoken are:

  • Wales
  • Germany
  • the United States
  • Canada

• The capital of the United States is Washington, and the capital of England is London.

• The King of England is King Charles, and the American president is Donald Trump.

Further detail

• The transparent English words listed are:
  • frite
  • short
  • sweet
  • vest
  • taxi
  • sandwich
  • T-shirt
  • quiz
  • basketball