Grammar Practice for ALL English Beginners
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grammar practice a beginner grammar
review so I’m going to focus on speaking
slowly and we’re going to look at three
main grammar points today today we’re
going to look at simple present tense
we’re going to look at simple past tense
and we’re going to look at simple future
tense so today I want to practice making
some very basic sentences but I want to
review like the key the key ways that we
make these kinds of sentences and I hope
that you if you’re a super beginner you
can use today’s grammar to make small
sentences about your everyday life so I
am going to share the video and then I
am going to begin by talking about
simple present tense simple present
tense so to begin with simple present
tense though we use simple present tense
to do a couple of different things I’ll
show you this diagram in just a moment
we use simple present tense to one talk
about your regular schedule so regular
schedule here this means for example
like your work schedule or your study
schedule your school schedule so this on
this diagram I have this point the star
is now so now is this point in time
today here watching this live stream
live or not so this is the present now
we use simple present tense to talk
about things that happen regularly so
for example every week I teach a live
stream this live stream so teach is my
verb teach is simple present tense I do
not use teaching I do not use I’m
teaching I use I teach so simple present
tense verbs are used for these regular
actions so this could be every day it
could be every week every month every
year every hour something that’s a
common part of your schedule so every
Monday or every Tuesday we use these to
talk
about the regular parts of our schedule
so a really great way to practice simple
present tense is to think of your daily
schedule so I wake up at 8 o’clock I go
to work at 9:30 I eat lunch at 12
o’clock and so on these are very good
ways I think to practice using simple
present tense so we use it for that
that’s point one here then we also use
simple present tense to talk about
general facts general facts so this
means things that are true so a great
example is like she speaks English she
speaks English that’s a fact so speak is
my verb in that sentence speaks is the
simple present tense form and it’s
conjugated for this subject she she
speaks English that’s a general fact so
these are the two basic uses of simple
present tense so please remember these
two points for today’s lesson especially
I want to continue then talking about
how to make simple present tense so here
I have subject so in my example sentence
for example just now I said she speaks
English she speaks English
so when we make a simple present tense
statement when we make a simple present
tense statement we need to think about
the subject so when the subject of your
sentence is for example I like in my
example sentence I said I wake up I eat
lunch I teach a live stream when the
subject of the sentence is I for example
as in many of your cases you talking
you’re talking about your everyday
schedule you simply use I plus your verb
I plus your verb so I eat I speak
I teach this is a very basic very basic
subject and verb pair and of course we
can add something else for example I
speak English I teach this live stream
so when your subject is I just add the
verb no change to your verb here
however when your subject as I said is
she
for example she or he or it so in these
cases talking about someone else so
you’re not talking about yourself she
her schedule for example or his schedule
or an object it when your subject is she
he or it we have to change the verb so
instead of a basic just adding the basic
form of the verb here we need to add an
S to the verb so this is a plus so we
use the verb plus an S sound so I’m
writing s on the board here yes s this
is an S but depending on the verb the
spelling changes a little bit so think
of this for now as an S sound we add an
S sound when the subject is she he or it
for example she speaks English or he
walks in the neighborhood or it looks
good for example so when your subject is
she he or it please use verb + s you can
send some example sentences in the chat
to if you like I will try to check your
example sentences we can make a negative
as well so these are positive sentences
I teach English she speaks English
to make a negative then to make a
negative statement we need to change
these two sentences to make the negative
form if your subject is I for example I
don’t teach Spanish before the verb
right here so my verb is here in this
case I want to say teach before my verb
right here I include don’t don’t I don’t
teach Spanish unfortunately I don’t
teach Spanish so when my subject is I
when I want to talk about me and my life
I use don’t before my verb I don’t speak
Spanish I don’t teach in Spanish here
however when my subject is she he or it
we have to make a different change so I
can’t use don’t she don’t or he don’t
that’s not correct don’t is used when
the subject is I if your subject is he
she or it we add a different word before
the verb doesn’t doesn’t she doesn’t
speak Italian he doesn’t speak French
great nice one she doesn’t pay attention
good good okay so for these I have used
just I and she he or it but some of you
in the chat are using some other
subjects for example you you when you
use you as the subject we follow this
pattern here so let’s add another one to
my subject list here I
or you I or you so you look you speak
this follows the same pattern as the I
subject so when you use he she or it you
need to add this s to make the negative
will use doesn’t good my cat doesn’t eat
cheese nice example sentence that’s
interesting
good good so let’s practice then using
this grammar point in these four simple
statements so the first one here let’s
try to send it in the chat you can send
it quickly if you like the first verb
here is work work so how do we make work
into a sentence with I hear a very
simple phrase in this case I work is
correct alone so no change to the verb
here no change because the subject of
the sentence is I so I work is correct
here though my subject is he my verb is
study study so we learned here when the
subject is he or she or it to make a
positive statement we use verb plus an
s-sound verb plus an s-sound so in this
case he plus study becomes he studies he
studies in this case because study ends
in why we changed the spelling here we
drop Y and add i.e s nice yeah everybody
is writing he study is perfect perfect
great studies is correct he studies at
night hey Carly hi long time no see
he studies good I’ll be careful of your
spelling Moochie go man he studies not
apostrophe s he s tu di es IES check the
chat
the correct spelling lots of people are
writing the correct spelling there
okay let’s try then a negative the next
example here is this negative
I have exercise my subject is she this
it’s hard to see sorry that says n eg
negative negative so let’s use this
pattern I talked about here how do we
make the negative form with the verb
exercise and the subject she so to do
this she plus doesn’t to make this
negative
she doesn’t exercise so when we make the
negative form there is no s sound
exactly nice one we stop that wrote she
doesn’t exercise exactly so when you’re
making when you make the negative form
even if your subject is she he or it
there is no s when you make a negative
statement exactly right everybody’s
writing it in the chat nice she doesn’t
exercise yes or she does not exercise so
if you can reduce this she doesn’t
exercise that sounds much more natural
she doesn’t exercise does not is also
correct but doesn’t sounds much more
natural so try to reduce where possible
okay finally some of you are already
going to the last one when the subject
is you and the verb the last verb here
is cook cook when the subject is you we
have the same pattern here yeah with I
so no change to the verb that means you
cook you cook so this is a review of
simple present tense simple present
tense
yes Gish you don’t cook if it’s a
negative sentence objective nice okay
Luis can I use I’m working at Bank ABC
if it’s your regular job please use
simple present tense
I work
at Bank ABC if you’re not like if it’s
not part of your regular job if it’s for
today only I’m working at Bank ABC today
okay good we’ll finish there I wanted to
talk about one more point but that’s
going to take too much time so simple
present tense a quick review of simple
present tense if you want to know more
about simple present tense
please check the English class 101
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simple present tense
I made a lesson about this like a year
and a half ago so please check the
lesson to practice more with this okay
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the second part the second grammar point
for today’s lesson so if you’re
just joining today is a beginner grammar
review I talked about simple present
tense to start now I’m going to talk
about simple past tense simple past
tense so if you have not yet please make
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gonna switch red markers this one is
freaking let’s continue on to simple
past tense point do for today simple
past tense okay
simple past tense I’ll come to this in
in just a moment we use simple past
tense for actions that started and ended
in the past actions that started and
ended or finished is also okay so on
this diagram here again this is now this
is the past this is the future for this
grammar point we’re going to talk about
this time period between the past and
now so here’s a start point for the
action and a finish point so this action
is done it’s finished it’s over so for
example I could say I talked simple
present tense so I taught taught is the
past tense of teach teach so here I said
I teach this live stream every week but
the past tense of teach is taught so I
use simple past tense to talk about an
action that started and finished in the
past
I taught simple present tense so we can
use this to talk about repeated actions
in the past as well so if an action
started and finished or if we did the
same action every week in the past we
can use simple past tense to talk about
that we can add a word like every day or
every week or every summer or every
month and so on so I taught English
every week last year for example that’s
a simple past
statement okay let’s move on to the next
point which is making so we practiced
making simple present tense I want to
practice making simple past tense now so
to make simple past tense again we have
our subject but let’s not worry too much
about the subject right now let’s focus
for this grammar point let’s focus on
the verb here so when we make a simple
past tense statement as I just did
I talked English or let’s choose a
different verb for now let’s see so like
walk like I walked from the station
today we need to use verb plus IDI so
this pattern we have the basic verb in
my case walk so for example walk plus e
D becomes walked walked so this is the
pattern we use for regular verbs regular
verbs we add an e dee dee dee there are
three different pronunciations for this
IDI sound as I just said there’s walked
that sound walked there’s a D sound too
soft D sound like breathe and then
there’s an eID sound as well
so it and are the possible endings for
edy sounds okay so when we make a simple
past tense statement with this we add
our subject here to make a very simple
statement subject + verb + IDI so I
walked he listened yeah someone has a
question regular verb by this regular
verbs regular verbs means verbs which
use this pattern verbs which use this
pattern however I mentioned in my
example sentence the verb teach so teach
is not a regular verb the verb teach
does not use this edie pattern so teach
does not correct teach is not a regular
verb teach has a special past tense form
teach becomes taught as I said so the
difficult point about these irregular
not regular verbs is there’s not a rule
there’s no rule for changing to past
tense we have to practice and memorize
these verbs so there are regular verbs
and your regular verbs we have to
practice these so as you study verbs you
can remember is this a regular verb or
is this an irregular verb does it have a
special ending so how do I practice this
what do I do
so every new verb you learn as you study
it you need to memorize how to make the
past tense form a good resource maybe
you can check on the YouTube channel
there’s a series called know your verbs
know your verbs so in that series I
explain all the conjugation so
conjugation means that changes the
different tense changes for the verb
okay someone said can I use the repeated
action simple present tense instead of
simple past tense well it depends on
your situation like do you want to talk
about something true now or something
true in the past so I teach every week
that’s true now I taught every week
maybe that was true in the past so it
depends on your situation what do you
want to communicate so this is basic
verb conjugation to make a positive
statement a positive statement as we
practice with simple present tense
earlier we have to change the sentence
change the phrase to make a negative
statement in simple present tense we
used don’t and doesn’t to make a simple
present tense negative statement but
here in past tense again we put our
negative word before the verb and don’t
change the verb but the word we use is
didn’t didn’t it’s hard to see sorry the
spelling is di D note2 ID and apostrophe
T did not or didn’t did it I didn’t he
didn’t she didn’t and when we make the
negative form there is no change to the
verb no change when do you use did we
use did for emphasis like I did see you
or I did talk to you so you use that
only to emphasize a past action to make
this simple past tense statement you
don’t need
use did so Brazilian guy in the YouTube
chat I I had breakfast this morning I
had breakfast this morning so let’s
practice this point let’s practice
making simple past tense so we have this
negative didn’t there’s only one change
for negative forms so let’s try first
one same verbs our same verbs you’re
going to use the same verb first one is
work work so some of you know if you
don’t know is this a regular verb or an
irregular verb work work so subject I
let’s make it past tense I work I know
there’s some delay the correct answer
here is worked worked I worked I worked
so work is a regular verb we add Edie
Edie to make the past tense form simple
past tense
I worked it’s good okay nice yes
everyone’s writing I worked I worked
okay good you can see the next verb same
one study study
so here study I mentioned this why rule
in our present tense portion the why
rule here oh my god the why rule so we
have to change the spelling here but why
does follow the IDI pattern the regular
verb pattern okay so he studied the he
studied studied so the spelling here
again okay the spelling here again we
drop why we remove why we replace with
IE d he studied the studied is the
spelling yeah nice everybody’s got it in
YouTube chat and facebook chat nice job
everybody
so yes the spelling changes when the
verb ends in Y studied okay the spelling
the spelling is a little irregular yes
but it follows the
pattern okay let’s go sighs let’s go to
this one exercise again let’s make it
negative hard to see this is n eg- how
do we make exercise negative past tense
my subject is she she plus what to make
it exercise we learned sorry we use
didn’t plus a verb to make the negative
form of the past tense so in this case
the answer is she didn’t exercise
she didn’t exercise is how we make a
simple negative past tense statement she
didn’t exercise nice good job everybody
she didn’t exercise perfect perfect and
yes she did not exercise that’s also
okay but again try to reduce didn’t
sounds more natural did it good good
good good
everybody’s writing didn’t exercise good
nice okay uh Andy on YouTube wrote she
doesn’t exercise she doesn’t exercise is
a simple present tense statement
she didn’t exercise is a past tense this
was a past action
she doesn’t exercise means now she
didn’t exercise past so this is the
difference last one you plus hook my
verb is cook I have to answer the
question because I’m out of time so the
answer here is cooked cooked you cooked
so cooked is a regular verb we use the
IDI ending with regular verbs cook is a
regular verb you cooked you cooked is
the answer good okay I have to quickly
end with the last two points for today’s
lesson so I’m going to continue on to
simple future
simple future tense there are two points
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here I have simple future tense there
are two points I want to talk about with
simple future tense
they are will and won’t and going to and
not going to what’s the difference we
use will again on this diagram this
point the star right here is now the
present right now watching this watching
this lesson here’s the future this is
going to the future this is my past we
use will and won’t when we make a
decision
during the conversation for example okay
now I’ll take a break or now I’ll use
the red marker I just decided that in
the conversation we use won’t the
negative form will not in the same way
like conversely then in contrast going
to and not going to we use these four
things we’re sure about 100 percent plan
in the future
so I’ll write this on the board so
decisions made
in the conversation I will I won’t do
something going to and not going to are
100% certain certain means we’re sure we
know we want to do that thing 100%
certain and decided before the
conversation so that’s what this dotted
line means this refers to some things
some like conversation you had before
the present time you talk to somebody
before you emailed somebody before and
you decided before your conversation
what to do so that’s what that’s when we
use going to and not going to to talk
about that so I can’t talk about all of
these points because I have talked too
much about the other two point we’ll
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