English No Problem - Language focus

Hello everyone and welcome to your first English lesson! My name is Gabrielle and I’m here with you to teach you some English. Did you see the first episode of our story? In our sitcom today, Elena, the Spanish student, arrives at Agatha’s house. Elena is very brave – going to England, a new country, to study the language! Don’t you think? Anyway, are you ready to start the lesson? First of all you are going to learn personal subject pronouns, like I, I am Gabrielle, you, you are my student... Then we are also going to study the verb ‘to be’, you are Pedro, he is Marcel, she is Ute… and finally, we will look at the contracted forms of the verb ‘to be’, You're... you’re Pedro, He's... he’s Marcel, She's... she’s Ute… So, let’s get started: our screen is going to help you understand everything! Personal subject pronouns. We have the first person, ‘I’, I’m Gabrielle, and the second ‘you’, you're my student. Then we have the third person singular ‘he’, which is masculine, he is my father, my dad! ‘She’ which is feminine, she is my mom, she is Diane... and ‘it’ for things or animals. Then we have the first person plural ‘we’, we are friends now! And the second person plural, ‘you’ which is the same as the second person singular, you’re my students. This is an important point, we say ‘you’ for one person and ‘you’ for many people. Finally we have the third person plural, ‘they’, they’re our books. Excellent! Now it’s very important to remember that with the first person singular ‘I’ we always use a capital letter. ‘I am your teacher’. Ok? In English, we don’t have different pronouns for formal and informal situations. You can use ‘you’ with a young boy or ‘you’ with the Queen of England! If you want to make a situation less formal, you can say: Call me by my first name, like when Agatha said to Elena: Call me Agatha, you’re part of the family now. Do you remember? Now, are you a little tired? Maybe just a little… but we have a bit more to learn today. So let’s look at the verb ‘to be’. First we have ‘I am’, for example: I am Gabrielle, I am American. Then we have ‘you are’ - you are... French. Or: you are... tired. Then ‘he', 'she' or 'it is’. For example: he is Jack, and she is Diane, it is a cup of tea. Then ‘we are’: We are Brazilian, We are Italian, We are Spanish. Remember, ‘you’ in the plural form is the same as in the singular form, so we can say: ‘you are funny’ to talk about one person or lots of people. Then finally we have ‘they are’ for example: They are heavy. Ok? Great! Now, when we are speaking in English, we often use the contracted form of the verb ‘to be’, so instead of ‘I am Gabrielle’ we say ‘I’m Gabrielle’. ‘I am’ becomes ‘I’m’. Do you remember in the sitcom today, Agatha said: You’re part of the family? Well, ‘you’re’ is the contraction of ‘you are’. ‘He is’ becomes ‘he’s’ ‘she is’ ‘she’s’ and ‘it is’ becomes ‘it’s’ – it’s my tea’. ‘We are’ is ‘we’re’. ‘You are’, again becomes ‘you’re’ and ‘they are’ ‘they’re’, like when Elena in the sitcom describes her brothers – ‘they’re big boys.’ Well, I don’t know about you, but I’m exhausted after all this studying, and I bet you’re tired too! See you soon for our next lesson! Bye!