Category: vocabulary

Today is the great day. We are going to study Present Continuous tense. In order to make Present Continuous construction we do the following: Recall to mind Present Simple form of the verb to be: (I am/We, You, They are/She, He is), Add the infinitive form of the main verb plus –ing. Study the result: I am…

Used to something/to do something vs get (be) used to something/to doing something In English, we have two kinds of phrasal constructions with “used.” Let’s study the first one – “used to do.” We need it to show that we did something in the past on a regular basis, but that was finished in the…

Have you practiced the material from the previous classes? Usually, I ask my students to practice as often and as much as possible. I know, you had holidays, you had almost no time to speak English. But I am joking, you have 24 hours per day to find five minutes to speak English! Today we…

Today we are going to learn the verb “have” and the verbal construction “have got.” I want to encourage you: native speakers use both variants interchangeably. Our goal is to find the use of the verb “have” and the verbal construction “have got.” As usual, we start from conjugation of the verb: I have =…