TRANSCRIPT			Speaking & Listening

Student Sample: Stage B2 Beginning Video 1  

Transcription:

Today for our Speaking and Listening Workshop we’re going to be playing a game that involves past tense and using compound sentences, and perhaps some plurals:  the things that we’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks.  I’ll ask you to turn over one orange card, one yellow card, and use the words in a sentence.  For example, “Last week I wished for it to rain because I had been working in my garden very hard and I wanted the plants to grow.”  So I changed ‘wish’ from present tense to past tense, okay?  At the end of the game when we’ve all had a turn each I will ask you for one thing that you think you did well and one thing that you think you need to improve on:  a star and a wish, okay?  Are there any questions?  No?

No.

Cool.  Your turn.

In 2001 I take, oh, in 2001 I was in little bit, oh, I mean one years old, then my father take me to my friend house.

Very good.  Okay, you’ve used excellent compound sentence, but again our plurals, I mean our past tense, we need to work on that.

What does this one say?  

“Yesterday afternoon.”

And?

“Swim.”

Swim, so ‘yesterday afternoon’, and if you change ‘swim’ to past tense.

Easy.

Yesterday I went to the swimming pool with my friend, and I come back to my home, I play game.

Excellent compound sentence.  This one I swim, today I swim…

Swim.

…if I did it yesterday?

Swimming.

Swimming, okay.