Your speaking, measured

Grammar densityMedium · 6 vocabulary items

We spent the hour on contrast — although, even though, though — and then took it into the restaurant scene you asked for. You reached for although three times unprompted, and put it in the right half of the sentence twice.

The corrections below are nearly all about where the clause sits: although opens one of the two halves, it never stands between them the way but does. Worth a slow read before the homework.

Main corrections

The food was expensive, although. → Although the food was expensive, we stayed.
although joins two halves — only though can be left at the end of a sentence

I am agree with you. → I agree with you.
agree is a verb on its own in English, so it takes no am

We are living here since 2019. → We have been living here since 2019.
since + a starting point takes the present perfect, not the present

Can you explain me the bill? → Could you explain the bill to me?
explain never takes the person straight after it — the thing first, then to me

1. Although: two ideas, one sentence

We started from the sentences you wrote last week and joined them up, one pair at a time.

• although — in spite of the fact that
• even though — a stronger although — when the contrast is a surprise
• though — the same, and the only one that can sit at the end

Pattern: Although + [clause], [clause].

Note: although and but do the same job, so one sentence never needs both.

Vocabulary · 6 items

• although — in spite of the fact that — although it rained, we walkedB1
• even though — a stronger although, for a contrast that surprisesB1
• to run out of — to have none left — we ran out of breadB1
• the bill — what you pay at the end of a mealA2
• to book a table — to reserve a table in advanceA2
• to be worth it — good enough to justify the cost or the effortB2

Homework

• Write five sentences about your week using although, and one with even though.
• Read the six words out loud twice. The stress on although lands on the second half: al-THOUGH.

What to take from this one

You caught two of your own mistakes today before I said anything — that is new. Next lesson we take the same contrast into writing: a short review of somewhere you liked but would not go back to.