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Beginner S1 #4
What's Your Ethnicity?
CONTENTS
2 English
3 Vocabulary
4 Sample Sentences
4 Vocabulary Phrase Usage
5 Grammar
# 4
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ENGLISH
8. MIKE: How about you Vicky? I know youre Asian-American, but I dont
know which ethnicity.
ENGLISH
CONT'D OVER
8. MIKE: How about you Vicky? I know youre Asian-American, but I dont
know which ethnicity.
VOCABULARY
SAMPLE SENTENCES
What's up? > Not much. Not much has happened since you left.
What's up? > Not much. I tried some delicious Ukrainian borscht at
the international expo.
In this lesson's dialogue, Mike asks Vicky, "What's up?" This is a common way for friends to
begin a conversation. The meaning is the same as, "What are you doing?" or "What is
happening now?" However, we often use it as an informal, simple greeting, such as "Hi." You
can answer the question by explaining what is new with you. However, the most common
answer is "Not much." "Not much," simply means that there is no special news to report. Also,
people often do not answer the question, "What's up," but instead respond with, "What's up?"
The next word we will look at today is "ethnicity." Ethnicity is the noun form of the word
"ethnic," as in "ethnic food." Something that is ethnic is associated with a national or cultural
group. For example, Italian food and Mexican food are considered ethnic foods by
GRAMMAR
"Be" is one of the most common and important words in the English language. In this lesson,
we will look at how we use it as a copula and how we conjugate it. By copula, we mean that
we use it to link the subject with an adjective, another noun, or an expression of place. You can
think of "be" as being like an equal sign (=). The conjugation of "be" can be difficult, so let's
look carefully at how to do it using the simple present tense.
Conjugation
The basic sentence pattern using "be" as a copula in the simple present tense is like this:
The conjugation for "be" depends on whether the subject is in the first (e.g., "I"), second (e.g.,
"you"), or third person (e.g., "he"), and whether the subject is singular (only one person) or
plural (more than one person). The conjugation also depends on the verb tense (for example,
past, present, future, etc.). But in this lesson, we will only consider the simple present tense.
Examples
1. "She is Ukrainian."