Thank you for visiting The Orchard English Evening Cafe. We recently prepared this specialized lesson to help you improve your English conversation. We are very thankful to serve you in this way. If you have any question, contact: Shohei, 224-764-4046.
*English tutor needs: No teaching experience is necessary.
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When: Tuesday, 6:40pm-around 8pm
Where: 1330 N. Douglas Ave Arlington or 1301 S. Grove Ave Barrington
Schedule: Sep 11, 18, 25 / Oct 2, 9, 16, 23 / Nov 6, 13, 27 / Dec 4, 11 / Jan 8, 15, 22, 29 / Feb 5, 12, 19, 26 / Mar 5, 12, 19 / Apr 9, 16 23, 30
Lesson fee: Free
Final lesson for this session, Thursday, April 26: Future (PDF Download)
uploaded our last lesson for our English Evening Cafe, but we will come back September 10th, 2012…
Oct 27: Introduction (PDF Download)
All tenses video
- present tense & present progressive (video)
- present tense / present progressive (definition)
- test 1 , test 2 (Quiz）
Nov 3. Travel & Vacation (PDF Download)
- present tense & present progressive (video)
- present tense / present progressive (definition)
- test 1 , test 2 (Quiz）
Nov 10: Shopping (PDF Download)
- past tense (be), (regular verbs), (irregular verbs) / past progressive (video)
- past tense / past progressive (definition)
- test 1 , test 2 (Quiz）
Nov 17. Food (PDF Download) uploaded now, thanks for your patient: )
Thanksgiving story (PDF Download)
- past tense & past progressive (video)
- past tense /past progressive (definition)
- test 1 , test 2 (Quiz）
Dec 1. Weather Forecast (PDF Download)
- future tense (be going to, will, be + ing) (video)
- future tense: will / be going to / be + ing (definition)
- test 1 , test 2, test 3 (Quiz）
- ESL weather terms (vocabulary)
- ESL weather cast (video)
- ESL weather cast (audio and listening quiz)
Dec 8. Gift-giving (PDF Download) now available
Christmas story chart (PDF Download) now available
- future tense (will, be going to, be + ing) (video)
- future tense will + be going to / be + ing (definition)
- test 1 , test 2, test 3, test4 (Quiz）
Jan 19: Staying healthy Part 1: Diet (PDF Download)
Modal auxiliary verbs part 1, part 2, (video)
- had better, should, ought to, maybe, may, might (video)
- All Modals (Definition)
Jan 26. Exercise (PDF Download)
Expressing Ability
English pronunciation between CAN and CAN’T
- can, could, is able to, was able to (Video)
- can, could, is able to, was able to (definition)
- Test 1, 2
Feb 2. Dentist (PDF Download)
Expressing Obligation and Necessity
- Have to (have got to), must no1, no2, (video)
- Have to (have go to), must, must not (definition)
- Test1, Test 2
Feb 9. Stress (PDF Download)
Expressing Degrees of Possibility
- may, might, maybe (video)
- may, might, maybe (definition)
- Test1, test 2
Feb 16. Landline vs. Cell Phone
Polite Requests
- Would, Could, Will, Can (Video)
- Would, Could, Will, Can (Definition)
- Quiz 1
Mar 1. Buying a Used Automobile
Starting Preferences
- Prefer, Like…Better, Would Rather: Part 1 / Part 2 (Video)
- Prefer, Like…Better, Would Rather: Part 1 (Definition)
- Quiz 1, Quiz 2
Mar 8. Automobile Repair (PDF Download)
- present perfect: part1, part 2 (video)
- present perfect: part 1, part2 (definition)
- test1, test 2 , (Quiz）
Mar 15. Animal and Pets (PDF Download)
- Gerund and Infinitive: 1) Gerund and infinitive sentences 2) Gerunds with preposition form 3) Go + gerunds 4) common verbs followed by the gerund and infinitive (video)
- Gerund and Infinitive:part 1 (definition)
- test1, test 2, test 3, test 4 (Quiz）
- Would and used to / would and used to (video)
- Would and used to (definition)
- test (quiz)
April 12: The Internet (PDF Download)
- 1) Gerund and infinitive sentence (2) common verbs followed by the gerunds or infinitive (video)
- Infinitive, gerunds (definition)
- test 1 , test 2 (Quiz）
April 19: Gardening (PDF Download) uploaded now
- present perfect 1, present perfect 2 (video)
- present perfect 1, present perfect 2 (definition)
- test 1, test 2 , test 3 (Quiz）
