1. Routines
1st PARAGRAPH
Think about your daily life. Do you follow the same route to work every day? Do you sit in the same place in class? When you get dressed, do you always put the same leg or arm in first? You probably do, because we all have routines in our lives.

2. Imperatives
USE : si usa per dare ordini, consigli o per invitare qualcuno a fare qualcosa.
FORM : è uguale alla forma base del verbo.
Turn left at the next crossroads.
Pay here.
Try again.
Come and have dinner with us.
Have some more meat.

3. To have (da non confondere con HAVE GOT)
AFFERMATIVA
INTERROGATIVA
NEGATIVA
I have
You have
He has
She has
It has
We have
They have
Do I have?
Do you have?
Does he have?
Does she have?
Does it have?
Do we have?
Do they have?
I don’t have
You don’t have
He doesn’t have
She doesn’t have
It doesn’t have
We don’t have
They don’t have

4. IL PLURALE (exercises)
REGOLA GENERALE: si aggiunge –S
book books thing things
ECCEZIONI
Le parole terminanti in:
S bus – buses
SH dish - dishes
CH aggiungono –ES church - churches
X box - boxes
Le parole terminanti in CONSONANTE+Y trasformano la Y in I e aggiungono –ES:
city cities lady ladies

5. Le parole terminanti in –F o –FE trasformano -F o –FE in -VES:
shelf shelves wife wives
PLURALI IRREGOLARI
Mouse – mice child - children
Foot – feet penny – pence
Tooth – teeth person - people
Man – men
Woman – women sheep – sheep
fish - fish

6. Aggettivi possessivi AGGETTIVI POSSESSIVI
sono sempre seguiti da un sostantivo (exercises)
MY mio/a, mie, miei
YOUR tuo/a, tuoi, tue
HIS suo/a,suoi/sue DI UN MASCHIO
HER suo/a,suoi/sue DI UNA FEMMINA
ITS suo/a,suoi/sue DI COSA O ANIMALE
OUR nostro/a, nostri/e
YOUR vostro/a, vostri/e
THEIR loro

7. 2nd PARAGRAPH
Routines save time and energy because you do them without thinking. That’s why they are so important in the morning when your brain isn’t very active. Here’s Jo talking about her morning routine.

8. Pronomi personali (exercises)
PRONOMI SOGGETTO
Vanno prima del verbo
Ex. THEY want your address.
PRONOMI COMPLEMENTO
Seguono verbo o preposizioni
Ex. Don’t tell THEM anything I
You He
she It We
They Me
Him
Her Us
Them

9. 3rd PARAGRAPH
‘Oh yes, I always do exactly the same things. I wake up at seven o’clock every morning, but I don’t get up till quarter past seven. I switch on the radio and listen to the news. Then I go to the loo and I brush my teeth. I have a shower and dry my hair. Then I choose my clothes and I get dressed. I don’t eat anything for breakfast. I just have a cup of coffee. Then I go to work. Yes, it’s always the same.’

10. Common expressions with have
Have breakfast, lunch, dinner,
Have (a cup of) tea/coffee, a drink,
Have something to eat/drink
Have eggs/toast for breakfast, fish for lunch
Have a shower, a bath
Have a good time, a bad day, a nice evening
Have a party, a holiday
Have a good flight/trip
Have a conversation
Have a baby
Mary had a baby in June.
What time do you have lunch on Sundays?

11. 4th PARAGRAPH
Routines are very useful, but they also make you uncreative. So sometimes it’s a good idea to break your routines. Get out of bed on the opposite side. Listen to a different radio station. Take a different route to work. Eat something different for breakfast. Change your routine. You never know it could change your life.

12. Summary
1ST PARAGRAPH – If we think about our every day life, we’ll realize that we all do things in a regular and fixed way.
2ND PARAGRAPH – Routines are useful because you can do things without thinking.
3RD PARAGRAPH – Jo describes her morning routine: she gets up and gets ready for work.
4TH PARAGRAPH - However, routines are also bad because when we do things without thinking we don’t use our creativity.