Pillow, pillow, pillow, pillow...

Sofa! Sofa, sofa, sofa, sofa...

Oh table! Table, table, table, table...

Shelf! Shelves, shelves, shelves...

Mirror!

Mirror mirror on the wall... who's the fairest of them all?

Ehi! lt's the new girl!

Hello, l'm Elena.

Come in, come in!

So good to see you, Elena.

l'm Agatha, Agatha Johnson.

Pleased to meet you, Mrs Johnson.

Welcome to the Johnson family!

l come from Madrid.

No, no: welcome to the Johnson family.

My family is in Spain.

Yes, yes l know.

You must be tired after your long journey!

Sorry, l don't understand.

My English is not very good.

You must be tired after your journey!

Yes, very tired... very long journey.

Yes! Well now, let's sit down togheter!

Thank you.

ls everything all right?

Everything is all right Mrs Johnson.

No! You call me Agatha.

Alright, thank you, Agatha.

You're part of the family now.

Part of the family?

Yes, my family... my brother, me...

l have four brothers!

Four brothers! Wow, well, that's nice!

- They're big boys. - Really? What about sisters?

l also have three sisters.

Oh dear! That's too many!

My family is very big... many people.

Yes Elena, that's nice! You have a big family,

l have a small family.

Now an extra person, me!

Yes Elena, you're one of the family now.

Thank you Agatha. That's nice.

Well, now it's teatime.

Oh good... one cup of tea, two cups of tea.

Yes, that's right!

l'll take your bags to room, then go into the kitchen.

What... what heavy bags!

Yes, many bags.

No, no, l said 'heavy', heavy bags!

Oh yes, heavy, very heavy bags.

Ok, l'll be right back.

All right.

Hello everyone and welcome to your first English lesson!

My name is Gabrielle and l'm here with you to teach you some English.

Did you see the first episode of our story? ln 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 l, l 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 Pedro,

he's Marcel,

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, 'l', l'm Gabrielle,

and the second 'you', you are 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 and 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

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

'l' we always use a capital letter.

'l am your teacher'. Ok?

ln 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!

lf 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 'l am', for example 'l am Gabrielle'

'l 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',

'she is Diane',

'it is a cup of tea'.

Then

'we are', we are Brazilian, we are ltalian,

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 'l am Gabrielle' we say 'l'm Gabrielle'. 'l am' becomes 'l'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, l don't know about you, but l'm exhausted after all this studying,

and l bet you're tired too!

See you soon for our next lesson!

Bye!