ESL Theatre of Arts-3

adverbs of frequency

: (100%) always (try to avoid using this "absolute"); almost always; often, frequently; occasionally; sometimes (50%); seldom; infrequently, rarely (make sure this doesn't sound like "really"); "once in a blue moon" (since 31 March had the second blue moon of 1999); almost never; (100%) never (try to avoid using this "absolute")

prepositions of time and place

(general to specific; big to small): Time:; in a month, a year, a week; on a day, a date, a certain day (Valentine's Day; my birthday....); at a time, at a time of day (breakfast, lunch, dinner); Space:; in a city, state, country; on a street; at an address, a certain place (Disneyland, the park,
the library--if we know which one you usually go to)

expressions of calendar time

: yesterday, the day before yesterday, last Sunday, last Saturday, last weekend,
last week, last month, last year; tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, this Wednesday, this week, this weekend,
this coming Monday, a week from today; next Monday, next weekend, next week, the week after next, next month,
next February (2000--February 1999 is past, has passed: today is 11 March 1999)

adding -ed, -ing, and -er to verbs

spelling and pronunciation of long and short vowels

doubling the end consonant with short vowels;

dropping the "silent e" with long vowels:
adding only -ed, -ing, and -er

changing y to i when we add -ed or -er: carry = carried, carrier;

adding -ing: carrying