2 Read the text and check your ideas. Would you like to learn English in a classroom like this? Why? / Why not?
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a We use 1
to talk about something for the first time.
There's an interactive whiteboard in our classroom
b We use 2 when we mention something again.
Our teacher often uses the interactive whiteboard.
C We use? when it is clear what we are talking
about, or when there is only one of something.
We play basketball in the gym. (The gym at school)
The sun is shining
d We use * to say what someone's job is.
My mums a teacher.
e Note these set phrases.
: listen to the radio, go to the cinema, play the
guitar
: watch TV, listen to music, in/ to bed, to / at /
from school, at home / work, in hospital
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3 Read the Learn this! box. Complete the rules with a / an, the,
or no article (-).
4 Read the text in exercise 2 again. Match each of the
highlighted words with a rule in the Learn this box.
