Warm Up

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Warm ups (Remember to go over these warm ups several times this week)
The alphabet
e g j i x w y z @ .
Times and days of the week.
Sunday evening, Monday noon, Tuesday morning, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday later in the day, Friday earlier, The day before yesterday, The day after tomorrow, In a week, A week ago, In a few weeks, A few weeks back.
Tuesday 9:30
Saturday 9:45
Thursday 3:15
Monday 7:15
Wednesday 12:45
Friday 6:30
Possessives
It is mine. / It belongs to me. / That’s my computer.
It is yours. / It belongs to you. / That’s your computer.
It is his. / It belongs to him. / That’s his computer.
It is hers. / It belongs to her. / That’s her computer.
It is ours. / It belongs to us. / That’s our computer.
It is theirs. / It belongs to them. / That’s their computer.
Holidays
New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Valentine's Day, April Fool's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Summer Holidays, Halloween, Boxing Day, Winter Holidays, Leap Year.
Prepositions with /about
We went with friends. / He left with me. / I did it with a computer. / She succeeded with help.
He knows a lot about cars. / He doesn’t talk about work. / They know about the market.
Phrasal verbs To look
in up over with away into off
They looked in the window. / The consultant looked up the problem. / The assistant looked over the document. / The participant is looking away from the presentation. / The team looked into the problem. / He looked off.

Grammar Point (This grammar point will be presented in more detail in the grammar point Friday)

This week’s grammar point using the modal “had better”. Can be used as ‘better’.

I had better get the report.
You had better get there.
He had better see when they will arrive.
She had better go.
It’d better be great.
We’d better get going.
You’d better see if you can visit.
They’d better do the presentation.

The boss had better not go.
Jane’d better not see the report.
It’d better not fail the test.
He better go.
They better get back.
The team better visit the client.
Jack better not present today.
They better not find out.