Warm greetings to all! For a long time you have been mastering the course "So they say in America." I hope you have already accumulated a fairly rich store of knowledge, which we will replenish today with new English words and expressions. The purpose of our today's lesson is to learn to understand and describe in English step-by-step actions in any workflow. In addition, we will review and reinforce the vocabulary that you have learned earlier. Workflow steps in English

Today you will need to learn a lot of new English words, with the help of which you can gradually decompose any work process or talk about your work, type of activity. During the lesson, we will also remember ordinal numbers and find out what other words are used to describe our own or other people's actions in stages. In general, a very interesting and voluminous, but at the same time very simple, lesson awaits you.

To talk about your profession, remember the lesson Tell us where we live and work

And now, according to tradition, let's move on to studying a small dialogue, the background and summary of which is as follows: Martin Lerner visits a woodworking workshop. There, the journalist talks with an instructor who teaches teenagers how to make various wood crafts. The mentor of young people tells about all stages of the woodworking process:

isaiah:I'm a teacher. I've been a teacher for ten years. - I'm a teacher. I have been a teacher for ten years
Martin:Did they ask you to do this project? Did they ask you to do this project?
isaiah:No, I asked them. I started the project. I wanted to do this. No, I asked them. I started a project. I wanted to do it
Martin: That's wonderful. - This is amazing
isaiah:First I told them what I wanted to do. Then I told them where I wanted to do it. Next I told them how much it would cost. They talked about it. Finally, they said OK. “First I told them what I wanted to do. Then I told them where I wanted to do it. Then I told them how much it would cost. They talked about it. Finally they said ok.

I'm sorry for the somewhat ear-piercing translation, but it's necessary for you to understand the process of how the instructor managed to get permission to start a project and work as a teacher. Reread the fragment of the conversation again and try to highlight these stages by numbering them with ordinal numbers or special words like “then”, “then”, “after”, etc.

And now, with the help of an audio recording of the lesson, listen to how to correctly pronounce all these and other useful words that are used when describing the stages of a process. Listen to the entire audio lesson, and try to catch the peculiarities of the sound and pronunciation of American words: /wp-content/uploads/2014/11/russian_english_089.mp3

Following the recommendations of A. Filippova, carefully listen to the English speech of native speakers, repeat all the words after the speaker in order to learn to perceive English by ear and pronounce correctly all expressions in general and individual sounds in particular in English in the American version.

Workflow steps in English

With the help of the table, you can learn nouns related to the woodworking process, as well as verbs that characterize the stages of a certain process and other vocabulary. And after the table, you will study the grammar help, which explains which English words and numbers are used to describe the steps of the workflow.

Grammar help:

When we need to talk about the stages of our own or someone else's actions, step by step, we use ordinal numbers first, second, third, fourth - “firstly”, “secondly”, “thirdly”, “fourthly” etc. We can also use English words like " first" - "first", "next" - "then" and "then" - "then" . For example:

• First I go to the store and buy vegetables and fruit First I go to the warehouse (storage) and buy vegetables and fruits
• Next I wash them and clean them Then I wash and clean them
• Then I eat them Then i eat them

Remember these features, and then you will not have problems using English ordinal numbers and other words in speech to describe your own or others' actions in stages.

Now let's get on with the practical. Homework (Homework):

1. Make up a short story on the topic “My Day”, write down your day in stages.
2. Answer the questions and write down the answers:

• What do you do first when you get up?
• What do you do next?
• What do you do then?

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There are many key phrases in English that are important for studying a certain topic, which will help to explain to another person what you do, what you think, what you do, etc. Let's take, for example, those activities that we perform daily from morning to evening, which fill the life of each of us, and see how they sound in English. And since they are all regular, we use grammatical tense to translate them into English.

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We wake up (wake up) all at different times (at different times), for example, at 7 am (at 7 o'clock) and get up at 7.30 (get up at 7.30). We take a shower (have a shower), or wash our face (wash face and hands), brush our teeth (clean teeth), comb and brush hair and get dressed. Women also put on make-up (put on make-up). Someone makes coffee (make coffee), someone makes tea (make a cup of tea), eats sandwiches (has sandwiches) or never eats in the morning (never eats in the morning). If we work in an office, we have to iron clothes to look neat. Before leaving the house, we usually take with us the necessary things that will come in handy at work or during the day, i.е. pack the bag with needed things - now you can go out (leave the house).

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If you don’t have your own car (a private car), you will have to walk to the bus stop (walk to the bus stop) to catch the bus (catch the bus), or take the subway (use the underground). In transport, we pay the fare (pay the fare) and sit down (sit down). Each road takes a different time, let it be 35 minutes to the destination (It takes about 35 minutes to get to the destination). Perhaps after getting off the bus (get off the bus) you have to walk (walk to ..) to the place of work or study. A full time working day usually lasts 8 hours (lasts eight hours) with a break for lunch (break for lunch), and part-time (half-time) - 4 hours.

Everyone has their own menu, but most often they eat sandwiches (sandwich), hamburgers (hamburger) or French buns (baguette) with coffee at the local cafe (at the local café). Then it's time to get back to work. On the way home, you can make the necessary purchases (do shopping), and when you return home, relax (relax) or cook dinner (cook dinner), which will have to meet the household. After dinner, they wash the dishes (wash up), sweep the floor (sweep the floor) and tidy up (tidy up).

In the evenings, someone does the laundry (do the laundry), and someone hangs out in social networks - facebooking, twittering or instagramming, browsing various sites on the Internet (surf the Internet) or watching TV (watch TV). Family members usually share the news for the whole day (catch up on the day), and finally go to bed (go to bed).

Of course, it is impossible to cover all the activities that we can do on a daily basis - it depends on the type of activity and habits, we just sketched out a diagram according to which everyone can tell about themselves.

With practice, your vocabulary increases, replete with a variety of not only grammatical structures, but also a huge number of words. And at the same time, speech is transformed, acquires expressiveness, liveliness. In this article, we will look at the most commonly used verbs that will help build any statement logically.

You probably already know what a verb is: a part of speech that expresses an action, a state and answers the question of what to do. In any phrase, it plays a very important role, without it there is not a single sentence (remember the clear structure of the sentence). If you want to diversify your speech, you will have to learn more than a dozen English verbs with translation.

Ways to make it easier to remember

We will divide all these parts of speech according to the nature of the action, according to what they convey. It is better to learn English verbs with translation, consider examples and memorize. And the easiest way to do this is in groups.

1. Verbs of motion form a group of those that convey a change in the state, position of an object or person. Let's look at the table, which shows the main English verbs of this group.

2. State verbs

Not all verbs convey movement. Some, for example, describe feelings, perceptions, mental activities. Their main feature is (unlike the previous group) that they cannot emphasize the process, the duration of the action, but are used only in special cases, which you can learn about from the article “Verbs not used in Continuous”.

As you can see, there are quite a few English verbs, and that's not all, but only the main ones. But it's not worth it to memorize them all at once. This will only cause irritation and disgust. Some you already know, and some you will have to learn, 4-5 a week, and believe me, soon your vocabulary will quickly increase in size. So, you will not only be able to understand more, but also to speak.