Indice

Student’s Syllabus: Objetivos del programa.

Structures and Notions: Las estructuras que se estudiarán durante el nivel.

Progress Measuring: Hoja de avance (la hojita de los números). Cada estructura aprendida está dentro de
un orden numérico. Por lo que cada vez que se haya adquirido, se marcará como tal.

Divisions Cada libro está compuesto de seis divisiones y se avanza de acuerdo a las instrucciones del
profesor.

-Structures and Notions. La explicación de nuevas estructuras y sus correspondientes

ejercicios de práctica.

- Interaction. Actividades de producción oral.

- Vocabulary.

-Listening.

-E-mail. Guías de ejercicios para escribir e-mails.

- Business. Aquí encontrarás guías y actividades en relación a: reuniones de negocios,

negociaciones, presentaciones, conferencias telefónicas, etc. (más detalle en Inglés de
Negocios)

-CD. Es una copia de los listenings y presentaciones del nivel.

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 Programa

El objetivo de este programa es desarrollar y practicar cada nueva estructura tanto en inglés general como
en inglés de negocios. Ambos se van estudiando en paralelo.

Inglés de negocios incluye:

- From business interaction with foreigners to interacting with foreigners in open contexts
- Phone conversations
- Being a host to a foreign visitor
- Traveling abroad
- From basic informal presentations to formal presentations
- From basic informal meetings to formal meetings
- From e-mail writing to report writing
- Negotiations

Estas habilidades se estudian de acuerdo al nivel de cada grupo/alumno.

No se debe considerar el material de apoyo como un libro, sino como parte de un programa estructurado
que avanza paso a paso, y en el cual se sigue adelante sólo si la nueva estructura ha sido adquirida.

Se solicitará que el alumno complete tareas y actividades extra en casa, además de escribir y enviar e-mails
de acuerdo a las instrucciones del profesor.

Siglas y Organización

Cada nivel tiene un nombre y un color que encontrarás, en la mayoría de hojas de actividad, en la esquina
derecha. Esta se desglosa de la siguiente manera:
nivel Progress Measuring
Division

A1 Phone Conversations (8-9)

Además los ejemplos están marcados con un círculo en blanco.

o Example Example Example

En algunas hojas de vocabulario verás:

Syn.: Sinónimo
Trans.: Traducción
Mean.: Significado
Ex.: Ejemplo
BrE: British English
AmE: American English

Enjoy!

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 A1. Objetivos
Al final de este nivel serás capaz de:

• Intercambiar información personal básica en todo tipo de contexto.

• Deletrear y pedirle a alguien que deletree palabras.
• Pedir y dar descripciones simples de personas.
• Hablar acerca de tus habilidades.
• Describir tu casa, barrio y ciudad.
• Pedir y dar indicaciones en la calle.
• Preguntar y entregar información acerca de la hora.
• Dar instrucciones simples acerca de cómo cocinar tu comida o de cómo tocar un
instrumento o jugar un deporte
• Hablar acerca de gustos.
• Hablar acerca de las cosas que tienes.
• Hablar acerca de rutinas y su frecuencia.
• Usar conectores simples de frecuencia.

Business skills

• Atender y finalizar llamadas telefónicas.

• Pedir nombre y número.
• Tomar y dejar mensajes.
• Pedir confirmación de información.
• Recoger a un visitante extranjero en el aeropuerto.
• Llevar un visitante extranjero a su hotel.
• Despedirse apropiadamente.
• Hacer check-in en el counter del aeropuerto.
• Tomar un taxi al hotel.
• Hacer check-in en el hotel.
• Pedir indicaciones en la calle.
• Preparar y mostrar una presentación simple acerca de:
- Tu compañía
- Los productos y servicios que ofrece
- Tu perfil: tus responsabilidades en el trabajo
• Escribir un perfil de tu compañía, sus productos, y servicios
• Escribir un perfil acerca de tu área
• Escribir un perfil acerca de ti mismo y tus responsabilidades
• Solicitar productos

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Structures and notions

1) Verb to be: affirmative / interrogative/ negative: 1st and 2 person

nd

Possessive adjectives: my and your

2) Formula to make requests: Could you?

3) Verb to be: affirmative / interrogative/ negative:3rd person singular

Possessive adjectives: his and her
4) Verb to be: affirmative / interrogative/ negative:3rd person singular
Possessive adjectives: his, her and its
Question: What is he/she like?
5) Verb to be: affirmative / interrogative/ negative:1st and 3rd person plural.
Possessive adjectives: our and their
6) ´S- Possessive case.
Whose? –possessive question word.
7) Nouns – singular and regular and irregular plurals

8) Can – ability : affirmative / interrogative/ negative

9) There is / are – existence: affirmative / interrogative/ negative

10) There is / are – existence: affirmative / interrogative/ negative

11) Question for description: What is your house like?

12) Time

14) I would like / Would you like? / What would you like to eat?, to drink – offers.

15) Imperatives

16) Likes and dislikes - Simple Present: Affirmative / negative and interrogative:1st and 2nd
person singular and plural.
Object pronouns: me, you, it, us and them.
Degree markers: A lot / very much/ a little/not at all.
What kind of …? – Classification
17) Likes and dislikes - Simple Present: affirmative/ interrogative/ negative:3rd person singular.
Object pronouns: him, her, it.
18) Have – Possession - Simple Present:

19) Routines – Simple Present: affirmative / interrogative/ negative: all pronouns.

Cohesion -Sequence connectors: first /then /next /after that /finally

20) Adverbs of frequency – Frequency.

How often…? Frequency question.

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A1
TEACHER’S PLAN – General English –

Structures, notions, functions, vocabulary and communicative objectives

Communicative Objectives
Functions
Structures and Vocabulary (Oral Composition and Sustained
(Interactions)
notions Monolog)
General English Business English General English Business English General English Business English

1) Verb to be: 1) Greeting others 1) Small Talk, at 1) Nationalities. 1) Professions. 1) To be able to 1) To be able to
affirmative / formally. a cocktail party, communicate communicate
2) Countries. 2) Occupations.
interrogative/ coffee break in a basic personal basic personal
2) Greeting others
negative: 1st and conference, etc. 3) Numbers 1-100. 3) Fields. information. business
nd
informally.
information.
2 person 4) E-mail
3) Introducing oneself.
addresses.
4) Asking and answering
5) Marital status.
Possessive about nationality.
adjectives: my and 5) Asking and answering
your about hometown.
6) Asking and answering
about
profession/occupation.
7) Asking and answering
about employer company.

8) Asking and answering

about field of activity.

9) Asking and answering

about address.
10) Asking and answering
about telephone number.

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11) Asking and answering

about marital status
2) Formula to make 12) Asking for spelling of 2) Asking for 6) The alphabet. 4) E-mail addresses. -- --
requests: Could and spelling words in spelling of and
5) Money.
you? general. spelling last
names, names
of companies,
streets,
e-mail addresses,
etc.
3) Verb to be: Asking and answering Functions listed 7) Family 6) Positions in a 2) To be able to 2) To be able to
affirmative / about nationality under GENERAL members. company. report basic report basic
interrogative/ ENGLISH, but personal personal
Asking and answering Organizational Chart
negative:3rd within information information about
about hometown
BUSINESS Company about other colleagues.
person singular
Asking and answering ENGLISH Departments people.
about contexts.
profession/occupation
Possessive
adjectives: his and Asking and answering
her about employer company
Asking and answering
about field of activity
Asking and answering
about address
Asking and answering
about telephone number

Asking and answering

about e-mail address

4) Verb to be: 13) Describing people. 3) Describing 8) Basic 7) Basic adjectives to 3) To be able to 3) To be able to
affirmative / own adjectives to describe own make a simple make
14) Asking for description
interrogative/ company. describe physical company. description of a a simple
of people.
negative:3rd appearance. person. description of a
colleague.
person singular 9) Basic
adjectives to
describe
personality traits.

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Possessive 4) To be able to
adjectives: his, her make
and its a simple
description of own
Question: What is company.
he/she like?
5) Verb to be: -- -- -- -- 4) To be able to 5) To be able to
affirmative / make a simple make
interrogative/ description of a a simple
negative:1st and group of people. description of a
group of people
3rd person plural.
within a business
context.
Possessive
adjectives: our and
their
6) ´S- Possessive 15) Expressing possession. -- -- -- -- --
case. 16) Asking about
Whose? – possession.
possessive question
word.
7) Nouns – singular -- -- 10) Personal 8) Office supplies. -- --
and regular and care
(contrast with
irregular plurals products.
stationery)
8) Can – ability : 17) Asking and answering Functions listed 11) Basic action 9) Basic action verbs 5) To be able 6) To be able to
about personal abilities. under GENERAL verbs that denote that denote abilities to briefly briefly specify own
affirmative / ENGLISH, but abilities and skills and skills at work. specify and a colleague´s
interrogative/ 18) Asking and answering
within in general personal abilities and skills
negative about other people´s
BUSINESS contexts abilities. at work.
abilities.
ENGLISH
To be able to
contexts.
briefly specify
other people´s
abilities.

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9) There is / are – 19) Describing own 4) Describing own 12) Parts of 10) Parts of the 6) To be able to 7) To be able to
existence: house. office. the house. office. make a simple make a brief
description of description of
affirmative / 20) Finding out 5) Showing a visitor 13) The 11) Office
own house. own office and
interrogative/ about other round the office apartment equipment.
company.
people´s houses. building.
negative 6) Describing own 12) Office
city. 14) Outside furnishings.
the home.
15) Location:
Prepositions of
place. (contrast: in
front
of/across from)

10) There is / are – 21) Speaking about -- 16) Shops and 13) Parts of the city. 7) To be able to 8) To be able to
existence: own neighborhood. places in the make a simple make
neighborhood. description of a simple
affirmative / 22) Asking for and
(contrast: own description of
interrogative/ giving directions in the
bookstore/library/ neighborhood office
street.
negative and city. neighborhood.
bookcase)
17) Prepositions:
11) Question for direction.
description: What is 18) Adjectives to
your house like? describe
house/apartment,
neighborhood,
city, holiday resort
12) Time 23) Asking and telling -- 19) Numbers 14) Business figures. -- --
the time. to express
time.
13) Time -- -- 20) Seasons. -- -- --
21) Months.
22) Days of the week
23) Times of the day.

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14) I would like / 24) Eating out with 7) Eating out with 26) Typical -- -- --
Would you like? / friends foreign business international
/ family. visitors or food and
contacts. dishes.
27) Meats,
What would you like
vegetables and
to eat?, to drink – fruit.
offers.
Describing food.
28) Beverages
and drinks.
29) Courses
in a meal.
15) Imperatives 25) Giving Instructions: 8) Giving 30) 8) To be able to 9) To be able
favorite recipe instructions: Vocabulary give simple to give
/hobbies/crafts related to instructions in instructions in
how to carry out a
the social/general business
simple process at
instructions. contexts. contexts.
work.
9) How to use a
simple machine
in the office
16) Likes and 26) Expressing likes Functions listed Expansion of -- 9) To be able to 10) To be able
dislikes - Simple and dislikes. under GENERAL basic action make a simple to make a
Present: Affirmative ENGLISH, but within verbs. oral report of simple oral
Asking about likes
/ negative and BUSINESS ENGLISH personal likes. report of
and dislikes. 31)
interrogative:1st and contexts. personal likes
Weekend
27) Asking for at work.
2nd person activities.
classification.
singular and plural. 32)
Object pronouns: Vacation
me, you, it, us and activities.
them. 33) Kinds of
books, music and
Degree markers:A lot films.
/ very much/ a little/
not at all.
What kind of …? –
Classification

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17) Likes and 28) Speaking about Functions listed Expansion of -- 10) To be able to 11) To be able to
dislikes - Simple other people´s likes under GENERAL basic action make a simple make a simple
Present: and dislikes. ENGLISH, but verbs. oral report of oral report of
within BUSINESS other people’s other people’s
affirmative/ 29) Asking about Expansion of
ENGLISH contexts. likes. likes at work.
other people´s likes weekend
interrogative/
and dislikes. activities.
negative:3rd
person singular. Expansion of
vacation
Object pronouns: activities.
him, her, it.
18) Have – 30) Speaking about 10) Speaking 34) Objects in 15) Objects in 11) To be able to 12) To be able
Possession own possessions. about company’s general that general that make a simple to make a
- Simple Present: possessions. people own. companies report of own simple report
31) Asking about
Personal own. Company possessions. of company’s
other people´s 11) Asking
possessions. assets. possessions.
possession. about other
company’s
possessions.
19) Routines – 32) Speaking about 12) Speaking 35) Routines 16) Own routines, 12) To be able to 13) To be able to
Simple Present: own routine. about own and habits: general activities make a simple make a simple
affirmative / company’s and responsibilities description of description of
33) Speaking about daily/ morning /
interrogative/ services. at work. own personal own company’s
other people´s after work/ local /
17) Own routine. services.
negative: all routine. 13) Asking about vacation /
department´s
persons. other people’s weekend To be able to 14) To be able to
routine activities.
companies’ services. / at home make a make a
18) Company´s simple description simple description
14) Speaking about 36) Free
routine of of own
own time
Cohesion -Sequence activities. other routine at work.
responsibilities at activities:
connectors: first work. people’s 15) To be able
Sports / hobbies
/then to make a
15) Speaking routine.
/next /after that simple
about other
/finally description of a
people’s
colleague’s
responsibilities at
routine at
work.
work.
16) Asking about
other people’s
responsibilities
at work.

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16) To be able to
make a simple
description of
own
responsibilities
at work.
17) To be able to
make a simple
description of
colleagues´
responsibilities at
work.
20) Adverbs 34) Speaking about 17) Speaking Expansion of 19) Vocabulary to 13) To be able to 18) To be able to
of frequency frequency of own about frequency daily routines describe make a simple make a simple
routine personal of own routine own/client´s description of description of
Expansion of
How often…? activities. activities at work. company own personal own routine at
free time
Frequency organization. routine adding work adding
35) Speaking about 18) Speaking activities.
question. frequency. frequency.
frequency of other about frequency
people´s routine of other people’s To be able to 19) To be able
personal activities. routine activities make a simple to make a
at work. description of simple
36) Asking about
other people’s description of
other people´s 19) Asking about
other people’s
routine personal other people’s Routine
routine at
activities. routine activities adding
work, adding
at work. frequency.
frequency.
20) To be able
to make a
simple
description of
own
responsibilities
at work,
adding
frequency.

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TECHNICAL WORK PLAN II – Business English -

Business Skills: basic business interaction with foreigners and e-mail writing

BASIC BUSINESS INTERACTION WITH FOREIGNERS E-MAIL WRITING

FUNCTIONS FUNCTIONS

1) Small talk: the first two minutes with a foreigner. Basic, simple interaction. 1) Opening.
2) Asking an interlocutor to slow down. 2) Closing.
3) Asking an interlocutor to speak more clearly. 3) Making inquiries.
4) Asking an interlocutor to repeat the message. 4) Replying to inquiries.
5) Exchanging basic personal information. 5) Sales letters/sending out advertising.
6) Showing a visitor around the city. 6) Introducing oneself to a foreign colleague. Own profile
7) Showing a visitor around the company. 7) Introducing new colleague. Colleague´s profile.
8) Giving and asking for directions to go to a specific place. 8) Describing own city to a foreign contact, colleague, friend.
9) Eating out. 9) Giving written directions of how to get to different places.
10) Making a request.
Topics and issues related to the student´s specific business field. Building a phrase
bank.

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Business Skills: phone conversations, being a host to a foreign visitor, traveling abroad, basic informal presentations and e-mail writing

Being a Host to a
Phone Conversations Traveling Abroad Basic Informal Presentations E-mail Writing
Foreign Visitor

Functions Vocabulary Functions Functions Vocabulary Functions Vocabulary Functions

1) Picking up the 1) Parts of 1) Picking 1) Checking 1) Parts of 1) Preparing a 1) Basic 11) Writing a
phone. a up the in at the the airport. simple, basic signposting profile of own
telephone. visitor airport presentation expressions. company.
2) Being 2) Parts of
from the counter. about:
understood. 2) Verbs the plane. 2) Services. 12) Writing a
airport.
related to 2) Taking a - own company profile of own
3) Asking for name 3) Parts of 3) Products.
speaking on 2) Expansion cab to the products/services.
and number. the hotel. - products it offers
the phone. Small hotel.
13) Writing a
4) Taking a Talk. - services it offers
3) Checking description of
message.
3) Taking the in at the - own company own
5) Leaving a visitor to hotel. organization department.
message his/her hotel.
4) Asking for - own department 14) Writing about
6) Checking details. 4) Seeing the directions in own
- own
visitor off. the street. responsibilities.
7) Ending a call. responsibilities
15) Placing orders.
- own
16) Dealing
department
with orders.
members´
Additional topics
responsibilities.
and issues related
to the student’s
specific business
field.
Building a
phrase bank.

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TECHNICAL WORK PLAN I – General English –

Structures, notions, functions, vocabulary and communicative objectives

Communicative Objectives
Structures and Functions
Vocabulary (Oral Composition and Sustained
Notions (Interactions)
Level Monolog)
Business
General English General English Business English General English Business English
English
1) 1) 1) 1) 1) 1) 1)
2) 2) 2) 2) 2) 2) 2)
3) 3) 3) 3) 3) 3) 3)
4) 4) 4) 4) 4) 4) 4)
5) 5) 5) 5) 5) 5) 5)
6) 6) 6) 6) 6) 6) 6)
7) 7) 7) 7) 7) 7) 7)
8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)
9) 9) 9) 9) 9) 9) 9)
A1 10) 10) 10) 10) 10) 10) 10)
11) 11) 11) 11) 11) 11) 11)
12) 12) 12) 12) 12) 12) 12)
13) 13) 13) 13) 13) 13) 13)
14) 14) 14) 14) 14) 14)
15) 15) 15) 15) 15) 15)
16) 16) 16) 16) 16) 16)
17) 17) 17) 17) 17) 17)

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19) 19) 19) 19) 19) 19)
20) 20) 20) 20)
21) 21)
22) 22)
23) 23)
24) 24)
25) 25)
26) 26)
27) 27)
28) 28)
29) 29)
30) 30)
31) 31)
32) 32)
33) 33)
34) 34)
35) 35)
36) 36)

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I, you, he, she, it, people!

These words are used to talk about people and are very important.

They are called pronouns.

to speak about
I -
yourself
to speak about the
you -
person in front of you
Carlos
my father
he to speak about a man
the president
the CEO
Laura
to speak about a my sister
she
woman the president
the CEO
My car
the rain
to speak about one
New York
it thing that is not
my dog
human
the office
Christmas
Laura and I
to speak about one
we my friends and I
other person and you
these people and I
the tables
the buildings
plural, not including my parents
they
you your friends
the cats
my colleagues

Exercises

Replace with the correct pronoun.

Martha _______________ You and I _______________ the class ____________________

The sun ______________ buildings _______________ my teacher _________________

James ________________ people __________________ my boss ____________________

Brothers ____________ women _________________ children ____________________

Cats _________________ Jess and I _______________ happiness __________________

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I am a teacher, you are my student

To describe, to talk about characteristics, to say how old you are, to ask about personal
information, to speak about profession, etc.

There is an independent verb in English. It is a verb but it is special because you can use it
for many things.

I am = I’m I’m a lawyer

/ai am/ = /aim/ I am a businessperson
I’m not a teacher
I am not = I’m not I am not hungry
/ai amnot/ = /aim not/

You are = You’re

You’re a teacher
/iu ar/ = /iur/
You are 30 years old
You’re not tall
You are not = You’re not = You aren’t
You aren’t from London
/iu ar not/ = /iur not/ = /iu aren’t/

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Exercises

Complete with the correct form according to your reality and the person in front of you.

1. I ……………….. from Santiago. 1. you ……………….. from Santiago.

2. I ……………….. 30 years old. 2. you ……………….. 30 years old.
3. I ………………. short. 3. you ………………. short.
4. I ……………… old. 4. you ……………… old.
5. I ……………… cold. 5. you ……………… cold.
6. I ……………… hungry. 6. you ……………… hungry.
7. I ……………... 18 years old. 7. you ……………... 18 years old.
8. I …………….. tall. 8. you …………….. tall.
9. I ……………. an engineer. 9. you ……………. an engineer.
10. I …………… thin. 10. you …………… thin.
11. I …………… from the south of Chile. 11. you …………… from the south of Chile.
12. I …………… .. your colleague. 12. you …………… .. my colleague.
13. I …………… .. married. 13. you …………… .. married.
14. I …………….. interested in science. 14. you …………….. interested in science.
15. I …………….the head of my department. 15. you ………..the head of my department.
16. I ……………. interested in money. 16. you ……………. interested in money.
17. I ……………. a student. 17. you ……………. a student.
18. I ……………. single. 18. you ……………. single.
19. I ……………. from the U.S. 19. you ……………. from the U.S.
20. I ……………. a man. 20. you ……………. a man.

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Am I a teacher? Are you a student?

Am I? Am I right? Yes, you are.

Am I late? No, you’re not.
Am I bothering?

Where are you from? No, I’m not.

Are you?
Are you ok? Yes, I am.
How old are you?

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Exercises

A. Complete with the correct form.

1. …………….. you from Santiago? Yes, I ……………………….

2. …………….. I too loud? No, you ……………………
3. How old ………………… you? I …………………… 28 years old.
4. …………… you English? No, I …………………….
5. Where ……………. you from? I ……………... from New Zealand.
6. ………….. you a nurse? No, I ………………………….
7. ………….. you at home? Yes, I …………………….
8. ………….. I late? No, you …………………….
9. ………….. you at work? Yes, I ………………………
10. How old ……….. I? ………. . How old ………………. you?

B. Game. Guess the famous character.

• One person thinks of a famous character, the others ask questions.

• Use yes/no questions.
• Ask and answer correctly.
o Are you a man?
- No, I’m not.
o Are you a fiction character?
- Yes, I am.
o Are you…
• Ask the character’s name only when you are sure. If you say the name and you are
wrong, you lose.

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Could you do me a favor?

When you need to ask someone to do something, use:

Could you + verb + rest of the sentence ?

o Could you open the door, please?

o Could you come here?
o Could you send this e-mail?
o Could you call this person, please?

Exercises
Who says what? Match the sentences to the pictures.

1. 2.

Could you tell me where the

museum is, please?

Could you open your suitcase?

3. 4.

Could you lend me your new disc?

Could you finish this exercise for Friday?

5. 6.
Could you turn the music
down, please?

Could you answer the phone?

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Martha is a teacher. Jon is a businessman.

To give characteristics of other people, we use:

Jon isn’t a lawyer

He is = He’s He’s a businessperson
My dad is 67 years old
He is not = He isn’t = He’s not His brother isn’t married

Martha is a teacher
She is = She’s
She isn’t tall
Jenna is 30 years old
She is not = She isn’t = She’s not
Her dog is 4 years old

Exercises

Look at the pictures and write sentences using he/she and the words below.

afraid angry cold hot hungry thirsty

1. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

6. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Match the synonyms.

Now think of a person in your family, or a friend. Use the adjectives and describe that
person.

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Is Martha a teacher? Is Jon a businessman?

Questions:

Is he alright? Yes, he is.

Is he? Is Jon late? No, he isn’t.
Is Tom tall?

Is she from Peru? No, she isn’t.

Is she? Is your sister OK? Yes, she is.
Is she 27 years old?

Is the car from the USA? No, it isn’t.

Is it?
Is it cold outside? Yes, it is.
Is it old?

His car, Her job, Its people

Santiago:

o Its people aren’t very friendly.

o Its smog is a huge problem.
o Its river is Mapocho.

When you talk about something that is not human, you use IT. And when that ‘it’ is the
owner, you use its.

Use Interaction (3) change it to questions.

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So, in the end, it is like this:

Exercises

Complete with my/your/his/its/her/our/their.

Use Interaction (3) change it to questions.

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Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative Exercises

A. Fill in the gaps with ‘m not –isn’t – aren’t .

1. I _________ a boy.
2. Susan __________ at home. I’m not Chinese.
Josh isn’t from Jamaica.
3. Alex _________ Portuguese.
My mother isn’t a vet.
4. It __________ rainy.
It isn’t a fast car.
5. They _________ in the park. You aren’t late.
6. Phil _________ 5 years old. We aren’t lazy students.
7. My teacher ________ old. They aren’t 10 years old.
8. You _________ kind.
9. We _________ late.
10. Judy ________ from Mexico.
11. It _________ a kite.
12. They _________ oranges.
13. His father _________ a dentist.
14. My brother ________ clever.
15. You __________ fine.

B. Make negative sentences.

1. teacher – she – is - a
____________________________________________________________________________
2. are – you – French
____________________________________________________________________________
3. years – I – old – am – thirty
____________________________________________________________________________
4. sunny – is – it – today
____________________________________________________________________________
5. students – they – are
____________________________________________________________________________
6. late – we – are – for – school
____________________________________________________________________________
7. my – is – sister – nurse – a
____________________________________________________________________________
8. friend – from – is – the UK – her
____________________________________________________________________________

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C. Fill in the gaps with am – is – are.

Is English fun ?
1. ________ I late ?
2. ________ you French ?
3. _______ your father at work ?
4. _______ they good students? Yes, it is.
5. _______ she nine years old ? English is fun.

6. _______ your sister a nurse ?

7. _______ it a cat ?
8. _______ we OK ?
9. _______ he from France ?
10. _______ your name Ali ?
11. _______ I wrong ?
12. _______ her brother naughty ?
13. _______ it sweet ?
14. _______ you fine today ?
15. _______ Maria from Portugal ?

D. Make questions.

1. today – it – sunny – is
_______________________________________________________________________________
2. years – you – old – are – eleven
_______________________________________________________________________________
3. mother – a – is – his – lawyer
_______________________________________________________________________________
4. good – are – friends – you
_______________________________________________________________________________
5. teacher – she – is - a
_______________________________________________________________________________
6. big – school – is - your
_______________________________________________________________________________
7. her – British – father - is
_______________________________________________________________________________
8. is – George –Greece - from
_______________________________________________________________________________

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E. Fill in the gaps with am – is – are.

1. I _________ from Germany.

2. My friend _________ Japanese.
3. Dora _________ at the library now.
4. Pete and Lucy _________ Irish.
5. My name _________ Emma.
6. It ________ a nice day. I am Linda.
7. They _________ on holiday. Josh is from Jamaica.
My family is at home.
8. You ________ a good boy.
It is a cute cat.
9. Her dog _________ in the kennel.
You are late.
10. His teacher _________ English. We are Turkish.
11. I _________ ill today. They are 10 years old.
12. It _________ a red apple.
13. My sister _________ a doctor.
14. Their father _________ in Italy.
15. Mandy _________ six years old.

F. Make affirmative sentences.

1. is – George – England - from

_________________________________________________________________________________
2. years – I – old – am – 45
_________________________________________________________________________________
3. mother – a – is – my – nurse
_________________________________________________________________________________
4. good – are – colleagues – we
_________________________________________________________________________________
5. Spanish – Maria –are – you – and
_________________________________________________________________________________
6. bad – a- it – prediction – is
_________________________________________________________________________________
7. is – big – company – our
_________________________________________________________________________________
8. fun – English – is
_________________________________________________________________________________

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Whose job is this?

When you don’t know about the owner of something, you ask like this:

Whose book is this?

So, when you answer with the name of a person, you answer like this:

In Spanish, it is: La cámara de Kate

In English, it is Kate ‘s camera

The order changes, but you are saying exactly the same thing.

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Exercises

Look at the family tree and complete the sentences.

Check these sentences. If there is no mistake, write OK. Correct the mistakes.

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Look at the pictures and answer the questions.

Look at the pictures. Write the question and the answer. Follow the example.

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Plurals! Or Singular?
FORM

To make the plural we usually After nouns which end in –y we change

add –s to the noun. the –y to –i and add –es.

book
books pen
pens berry
berries lady
ladies

Write the plurals in the correct list.

After nouns which end in –s,
-sh, -ch, -x we add –es. cat bush child glass boy
bus
buses brush
brushes class beach potato tooth day
box shelf person baby shirt
watch
watches box
boxes
foot woman story knife city

After nouns which end in –f or –fe we

change the –f to –v and add –es.

half
halves wolf
wolves

Some words that end in –o take –es.

potato
potatoes
tomato
tomatoes

Some words have irregular plurals.

You have to learn them.

man
men
person
people child
children
mouse
mice foot
feet
tooth
teeth sheep
sheep
fish
fish woman
women

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Can/Can’t

To talk about abilities you use can.

+ can/can’t + verb + rest of the sentence

can + + verb + rest of the sentence

o I can finish this.

o You can cook really well.
o He can’t fly on airplanes.
o They can’t swim.

Exercises

Ask Steve if he can do these things.

Can you do those things?

1. ________________________________________________ 2. _______________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________ 4. _______________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________ 6. _______________________________________________

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There is/There are

In Spanish, we use only one word (hay), but in English, you need to separate singular (there
is) from plural (there are).

It follows the same order as the usual is/are

Exercises

A. My city is very small. Look at the information on the left, and write sentences about it. Use
there is/are isn’t/aren’t.

1. _______________________________________________________

2. _______________________________________________________

3. _______________________________________________________

4. _______________________________________________________

5. _______________________________________________________

6. _______________________________________________________

7. _______________________________________________________

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B. Complete with there is/are isn’t/aren’t

C. Write about your hometown or where you live right now.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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What is your house like?

Look at these adjectives and find 8 adjectives that cannot go with the word HOUSE.

ENORMOUS FAVORITE MODERN INTERMEDIATE CONVENIENT

SLOW SMALL

NOISY

COZY
HOUSE LIGHT
SHY
WELL-FURNISHED
LUXURIOUS
HISTORIC
LAZY
HUGE
TIDY
SPACIOUS
BIG
GENTLE
FASHIONABLE
CARELESS
DARK UNTIDY

SHABBY
LOYAL CHEAP GLOOMY

Answer.

What is your house like?

What is your neighborhood like?

What is your office like?

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What time
What's is it?
the time?
o'clock
It's one o'clock.

It's five past three.

Could you tell
me the time
please?

It's (a) quarter

past one.

past
a quarter a quarter
to

to past

We don't use the

It's ten to eight.
word "minutes" with
5, 10, 20, 25, 30, 35,
40, 45, 50, 55.
It's five past three.
It's (a) quarter to five.
But!
half past 1:11
It's eleven minutes
past one.
a.m.

It's half past three.

Latin - ante meridiem REMEMBER!
= before noon

in at
p.m. in the morning at noon (at midday or at lunchtime)
in the afternoon at dusk
Latin - post meridiem in the evening at night
= after noon in 5 minutes at midnight
at dawn
Eg. I get up at 8 at 2 o'clock
a.m. at 11:30
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Exercises
Write the correct time under each clock.

1............................................ 2............................................ 3. .......................................

4............................................ 5............................................ 6. .......................................

7............................................ 8............................................ 9. .......................................

10............................................ 11............................................ 12 .......................................

13............................................ 14............................................ 15. .......................................

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Would you like …?

We use “would you like…?” to offer things

Would you like…? = do you want…?

Would you like some coffee?

o No, thank you
Would you like some tea?
o Yes, please
What would you like, tea or coffee?
o Tea, please

Would you like some tea?

=
Do you want some tea?

Would you like to go to the cinema tonight?

o Yes, I’d love to.
Would you like to finish the meeting now?
o Yes, sure. I think it’s a good idea.

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Exercises

1. What are the people in the pictures saying? Use “Would you like…?”

2. What would you like to eat today?

o I would like some rice noodles.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. What would you like to drink?

(for breakfast) ________________________________________________________________________________________

(for lunch) ____________________________________________________________________________________________

(in the afternoon) ____________________________________________________________________________________

(with friends) ________________________________________________________________________________________

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Exercises

You can give orders. Practice now. Play Simon says with your group.
We form THE NEGATIVE
IMPERATIVE
with DO NOT (DON’T).
We form THE IMPERATIVE
We use it when we tell
with a verb without a subject. We use
THE IMPERATIVE MOOD to: people not to do
give orders something.
give instructions
make requests
to give directions
to make offers

ORDERS INSTRUCTIONS REQUESTS DIRECTIONS OFFERS

Close the door. Open your book Give me your Turn left. Have a rest.
on page 5. telephone number.
Go away! Go straight. Have some
Press this button. Write your name lemonade.
Stop talking!
here.

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Likes and Dislikes

Affirmative Sentences (+) Negative Sentences (-) Questions (?)

I I I
You like dancing You don’t dancing Do you like
We We like we dancing?
They They they

Exercises
Look at the signs and fill in the blanks. Use these verbs:
run, fly, draw, swim, ski, read, watch, listen, sing, study, sleep, play, do, eat.

……………………………

1. (-) I ___________________ 2. (+) Peter and his son _______ 3. (+) I _______________ 4. (+) You ______________

___________________________ _________________________________ ________________________ _________________________

5. (?) ______ you _________ 6. (+) My children _____________ 7. (-) My neighbors _______ 8. (?) __________ you

___________________________ _________________________________ ________________________ _____________________

9. (?) ______ you _________ 10. (-) I ________________ 11. (+) My friends and I _______ 12. (?) _______ you

___________________________ ________________________ __________________________________ _______________________

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Me, you, it, us, them

Look at the examples. What are the man and the woman talking about?

o It’s nice. I like it. (it=dress)

o They’re nice. I like them. (they=them=shoes)

You already know the words that go at the beginning of a sentence.

I me

You you

It it

We us

They them

When they are not the subject, but the object of your conversation, you use

o I like shoes
o I like these shoes
o I like them

o The manager talks to my colleagues and me every morning.

o He talks to us every morning.

o I don’t like jazz

o I don’t like it

o You like me
o I don’t like you

See Vocabulary 33G

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You also have degrees of ‘like’.

A lot
Very much
A little
Not at all

o A: What type of movies do you like?

o B: I like horror movies.
o A: Ugh. Really? I don’t like them at all.

o A: Do you like romantic novels?

o B: Not very much.
o A: What kind of books do you like?
o B: History books.
o A: Really?
o B: Yes. I like them very much.

See Vocabulary 33G

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Likes and Dislikes

Affirmative Sentences (+) Negative Sentences (-) Questions (?)

He He He
She likes dancing She doesn’t dancing Does She like
It It like It dancing?

Exercises

1. Complete the sentences with likes, or doesn’t like and the correct form of the verbs in
brackets.

1. Jenny ________________________ (read) books.

2. Tony _________________________ (snorkel).
3. Jenny ________________________ (ride) a horse.
4. She __________________________ (ski).
5. Tony _________________________ (ski).
6. He __________________________ (play) football.
7. Tony ________________________ (sing).
8. She _________________________ (take pictures).
9. She doesn’t like _________________, ________________ or ___________________.
10. Tony likes _________________, ___________________ and __________________.

See Vocabulary 36G

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2. Complete the questions.

1. ____________ Tony like reading books?

2. ____________ Lucy and Alex like fishing?
3. _____________ Jenny like taking photos?
4. _____________ Jenny and Tony like painting?
5. _____________Tony like singing?
6. ___________ Lucy and Alex like playing chess?
7. _____________ they like swimming?
8. _____________ Jenny like skiing?

3. Create questions and negative sentences.

1. Jenny likes bungee jumping.

________________________________________________ ?
(-)_____________________________________________
2. Jenny and Alex like rollerblading.
________________________________________________ ?
(-) ____________________________________________
3. Tony likes waterskiing.
________________________________________________ ?
(-) _____________________________________________

4. Put the sentences in order.

1. like / Jenny / photos / . / doesn’t / taking

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Lucy and Alex / ? / tennis / like / do / playing
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. books / Tony / does / reading / like / ?
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. do / skiing / Lucy and Alex / ? / like
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. pictures / Lucy / . / painting / likes
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________

See Vocabulary 36G

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Me, you, it, us, them

I dont
I know know her.
her.
him.

Look at the examples. What is the man saying?

o I know him. (him=Peter)

o I don’t know her. (her=Susan)

Let’s add to the list.

I me

You you

He him

She her

It it

We us

They them

o You like me
o I don’t like you
o He likes her
o She likes him
o I know him
o He knows her

See Interaction 28-29

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Have

Affirmative Sentences (+) Negative Sentences (-) Questions (?)

I I I
You have a car You don’t time Do you have time
We We have we now?
They They they

He He He have a
She has many She doesn’t a car Does She ustionspri
It pets It have It vate
office?

o I have blue eyes.

o Tom has two brothers.
o I don’t have time.
o They have a lot of work.
o We don’t have a car.
o She has a headache.

Exercises

1. What about you? Write sentences. Use I have or I don’t have.

(a laptop) _____________________________________________________________________________________________

(a car) _________________________________________________________________________________________________

(a dog) ________________________________________________________________________________________________

(brothers/sisters) ____________________________________________________________________________________

(green eyes) __________________________________________________________________________________________

(brown hair) __________________________________________________________________________________________

See Interaction 30-31

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2. Read the questions and the answers. Then write about what David has.
Mike David

Do you have a car? Yes, I do. __________________________________________

Do you have a PC? No, I don’t. __________________________________________

Do you have a dog? No, I don’t. __________________________________________

Do you have an i-phone? Yes, I do. __________________________________________

Do you have any Yes, I do. I have 2 sisters. __________________________________________

brothers or sisters?

3. When the subject is in plural, change it to singular and vice versa.

They have two children. _____________________________________________________________________________

She doesn’t have a key. ______________________________________________________________________________
He has a new job. _____________________________________________________________________________________
They don’t have much money. ______________________________________________________________________
Do you have an umbrella? ___________________________________________________________________________
We have a lot of work to do. _________________________________________________________________________
I don’t have your phone number. ___________________________________________________________________
Does your father have a car? ________________________________________________________________________
How much money do you have? ____________________________________________________________________
Carla has a very good job.____________________________________________________________________________

See Interaction 30-31

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I am always nice, I never eat broccoli

• We use frequency adverbs to describe how often something happens.

We place the frequency adverbs BEFORE the main verb.

o I always walk to work.
o He doesn’t usually wear jeans.
o Do you often write letters?

BUT, we put them AFTER the verb TO BE.

o He is never late.
o The children aren’t usually tired
after school.

o Are you often sad?

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How often…?

To ask about the frequency of an action, we place it at the beginning of the

question.

do you verb
How often ?
does he / she / it

we
o How often do you go to the cinema?
o How often does Mary cook?

Other expressions of frequency

Use once / twice

once day
twice a NOT one time
week
three times two times
month
o We go to the theatre once a week.
o Peter plays football five times a month.

evening / morning / night…

every
day / weekend…

Saturday / Monday…

o Mary cooks every day.

o I play tennis every Sunday.

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Exercises

A. Put the words in the correct order to make sentences, as in the example.
o play /often / on / Sundays / they / football
o They often play football on Sundays.

1. late / is / she / sometimes

___________________________________________
2. early / up / sister / never / Sundays / on / gets / my
___________________________________________
3. usually / he / goes / to / on / Fridays / the / cinema
___________________________________________
4. go / you / restaurant / often / a / do / how / to / ?
___________________________________________
5. she / the / beach / to / always / goes / in / the / summer
___________________________________________
6. sometimes / her / does / she / Fridays / on / shopping
___________________________________________
7. go / we / twice / month / the / theatre / to / a
___________________________________________
8. never / in / is / the / at / mornings / Peter / home
___________________________________________
9. he / work / rides / bike / to / his / often
___________________________________________
10. home / they / get / six o’clock / usually / at
___________________________________________
11. every / homework / students / their / good / do / day
___________________________________________
12. you / out / how / in / do / evenings / often / go / the / ?
___________________________________________

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B. Put the frequency adverbs and expressions in the right place.

1. Susan is late for school. (never)

__________________________________________________
2. My brother doesn’t write letters to his friends. (usually)
__________________________________________________
3. We go on holidays. (twice a year)
__________________________________________________
4. Peter wears a tie. (sometimes)
__________________________________________________
5. I eat fish. (once a week)
__________________________________________________
6. Do the children watch TV? (often)
__________________________________________________
7. My father is very busy. (always)
__________________________________________________
8. Peter tidies his room. (never)
__________________________________________________
9. My brother and I go fishing. (every week)
__________________________________________________
10. My mother goes shopping on Saturdays. (always)
__________________________________________________
11. Do you get up late on the weekend? (usually)
__________________________________________________
12. I drink tea. (every morning)
__________________________________________________
13. Mary rides her motorbike to work. (sometimes)
__________________________________________________
14. I exercise in the afternoons. (often)
__________________________________________________
15. Does Jane have lunch at home? (usually)
__________________________________________________

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C. Use the words on each number and a frequency adverb to speak about yourself.

always usually often sometimes never

1. get up at seven o’clock

___________________________________________
2. take a shower in the morning
___________________________________________
3. have lunch at work
___________________________________________
4. study English
___________________________________________
5. play computer games in the evenings
___________________________________________
6. cook dinner
___________________________________________
7. watch TV before I go to bed
___________________________________________
8. go to bed early
___________________________________________

D. Answer the following questions using frequency expressions.

1. How often do you eat pasta?

___________________________________________
2. How often do you meet your friends?
___________________________________________
3. How often do you brush your teeth?
___________________________________________
4. How often do you exercise?
___________________________________________
5. How often do you use the computer?
___________________________________________
6. How often do you go away?
___________________________________________

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E. Choose the correct sentence.

1. a) Jim never is at work.

b) Jim is at work never.
c) Never is Jim at work.
d) Jim is never at work.

2. a) We have usually lunch at 12 o’clock.

b) We usually have lunch at 12 o’clock.
c) We have lunch at usually 12 o’clock.
d) We have lunch at 12 usually o’clock.

3. a) She travels always by train.

b) Always she travels by train.
c) She always travels by train.
d) She travels by always train.

4. a) They go out sometimes in the evening.

b) They sometimes go out in the evening.
c) They go out in sometimes the evening.
d) They go sometimes out in the evening.

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I hardly ever go to the cinema

Remember that the adverbs of frequency are placed

before the main verb but after the verb to be.
She always goes to bed early.
Does she often read novels?
They are usually at home in the mornings.
Does she often lend you her dictionary?
Tom is always kind to me.

(to be)
am
… + (adv.) + is + rest of… …+ verb + (adv.) + rest of…
are

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Talk Shop

1) Introduce yourself. Give basic personal information. Make a difference between general
contexts and business contexts.

2) Report basic personal information about other people in general and colleagues.

3) Describe the person next to you. Describe a famous person. Guess the famous character
(basic description). Describe a colleague.

4) Describe your company. Describe your competition. Describe a group of people from a
different department.

5) Describe briefly specific personal abilities. Describe briefly other people´s abilities, a
family member, a friend, a colleague’s abilities and skills at work, your boss’ skills, etc.

6) Describe your house, your office, your company, your department, etc.

7) Describe your neighborhood, your office’s neighborhood and city.

8) Give simple instructions in social/general and business contexts.

9) Talk about your personal likes at home or when you are outside the office and at work.

10) Talk about what a family member likes, a colleague, etc.

11) Give a simple report of the things you have at your house, in your car, at your office, in
your kitchen, at your company’s kitchen, etc.

12) Give a simple description of your own personal routine.

13) Give a simple description of other people’s routine. Describe your company’s and other
company’s services. Do not compare.

14) Describe a normal day at work.

15) Simply describe a colleague’s routine at work.

16) Speak about your responsibilities at work.

17) Speak about a colleague’s responsibilities at work.

18) Give a simple description of your own and another person’s routine, using: always,
never, etc. What is the difference between weekdays and weekends?

19) Talk about your responsibilities at work, adding frequency.

20) Give a description of other people’s responsibilities at work, adding frequency.

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Hi/Bye or Good Morning /Good-Bye

Read with your teacher. Practice your pronunciation and write an F or an I if the greeting,
farewell or answer is formal or informal.

Hello Nice to meet you How are you?

Hi Pleased to meet you How are you doing?
Hey! It’s a pleasure to meet you How are things?
Hi there! How’s everything?
Long time, no see How’s it going?
Good morning How do you do?
Good afternoon
Good evening Good-Bye
Bye
Bye-bye
See You Great
Welcome See you later Very well
Thank You See you soon I’m fine
Thanks So long Fine, Thank you
You’re welcome Take care I’m Okay
Please Good night All right
Sorry See you around OK.
Excuse me Have a nice day Not bad
Congratulations Have a good weekend Can’t complain
Good Luck Not so well

Repeat the following conversations. Use all the expressions you can (change from “nice to
meet you” to “how are you doing?”, etc.)
Good morning. My name I am Miss Elizabeth
Keep the conversation formal or informal. is Oscar Conde. What’s
Calderon.
your name? Pleased to meet you,
Hi. My name’s I’m Marlene. Pleased to meet you. too Mr Conde.
Horacio. What’s Nice to meet
your name? you, too.
Nice to meet you. Mr.
a married man
a single man
Mrs.
a married woman
Ms.
a married woman
a single woman BE CAREFUL:
Miss Mr. Tom Cruise OR Remember that in
a single woman Mr. Cruise formal conversations
NOT: Mr. Tom “titles” are used.

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Personal Information

To ask To answer

What’s your name? My name’s Tim.

What do you do? I’m an IT engineer.

Where are you from? I’m from Australia.

Are you married? Yes, I am.

What’s your position in the company? I’m the head of my section.

What company do you work for? For Nouvel.

Could you give me your e-mail address? Sure, no problem.

Could you give me your telephone number? Here’s my business card.

How old are you? I’m 34.

Where do you live? I live in Santiago.

Practice with your teacher or a classmate. Change roles.

Exercises

On the next page, you will have many identity cards. You are that person, and you will
answer in that way.

The idea is to complete as much information as possible on the second sheet.

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Could you spell your name, please?

Let’s review the alphabet. What does each letter sound like?

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Could you spell your last name?

Could you spell everyone’s last names?

Could you spell your company’s name?

Could you spell the following words? (the meaning is not important)

water
enough
eight
yell
dashboard
twenty
e-mail
interaction

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Could you
Could you Could you Could you
spell the last spell the name say the
spell the name
name of the of your alphabet
of the capital
person to favorite music backwards?
of Belgium?
your right? group?

Could you Could you Could you

Could you
spell your spell the name spell the name
spell the word
complete of a musical of the capital
‘murciélago’?
name? instrument? of Australia?

Could you Could you Could you

Could you
spell the name
spell your spell the spell the name
of your
mother’s name of an of your
favorite
name? animal? company?
sport?

Could you Could you

Could you Could you
spell the name spell the last
spell the name
spell of the capital
of your
names of
O’higgins? of your everybody in
favorite car?
country? this room?

Could you Could you

Could you Could you
spell the spell your
spell your spell the
name of this e-mail
first name? word yawn?
street? address?

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You don’t believe in star signs. Prove the mistake.

I am ______________________________________________________________________________

I am not____________________________________________________________________________

Talk about one person you know well (Mom, brother, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend, etc.)

o My brother is kind and careful. He is not very sensitive. He’s rude. He’s not nervous.

See Vocabulary 8G

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Who’s who? Student A Who’s who? Student B

William doesn’t have any brothers or sisters. Ian is Matthew’s father.
Julie is William’s girlfriend. Tim is Ian’s brother.
William’s uncle Paul is single. Tim isn’t married.
Mary is Tim’s girlfriend.
Lily is William’s mother and Jim is his father.
Robin and Liz are Tim’s nieces.
Lily and Jim are divorced. Liam is Tim’s nephew.
Liam is Lily’s boyfriend. James is Robin’s husband.
Lily, Sally and Steph are Paul’s sisters. Peter is James and Robin’s son.
Steph has four children, two sons and two Melissa is Robin’s aunt.
daughters. Gabriel is Peter’s grandfather.
Steph’s daughters, Sophie and Jenna, are Rebecca is Matthew’s aunt.
Pam is Matthew’s wife.
twins.
Emily is Peter’s cousin.
Michael is Steph’s husband. Jane is Emily’s great-grandmother.
Noah and Harvey are Sophie’s brothers. Jane and Gustav are Matthew’s
Noah is a baby. grandparents.
Cathy and Ken are William’s grandparents. Jane and Gustav are divorced.
John is Sally’s husband. Max is Jane’s boyfriend.
Sam and Rose are Sally’s kids.

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Giving directions

1 2

8 3

7 4

6 5

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33. 32. 31. 30. 29. 28.

What’s your Making Drinking Drawing, Playing a
FINISH favorite things alcohol with
Watching painting or musical
sports instrument or
hobby? your friends writing
singing

21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.

History or Eating in Playing Scary films, Backpacking to
geography thrillers or any country Cooking Collecting
restaurants sports and sleeping in
ghost films things
cheap hostels

20. 19. 18. 17. 16. 15. 14.

Romantic Listening to Travelling to Learning Listening Trekking, Going to

classical rich countries running or
films or new to pop or the cinema
music or jazz and staying in climbing in
comedies expensive languages R&B music nature
hotels
7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

Reading Going out Shopping for Chinese Shopping

Action or food, going to
magazines with friends cuisine, for clothes Photography
war films to bars or
markets and
Japanese
supermarkets
clubs cuisine
6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.

Italian Driving Walking Playing Reading Reading

cuisine. fast or for In town video comic novels or START
serious books
a long time and parks games books
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22

RADIOHEAD JAZZ OK MARIAH TERRIBLE DANCE NOT

CAREY MUSIC BAD

12 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 23

BEE GEES ELEC OK U2 JAMES GOSPEL CHRIS REGGAE JUSTIN

BLUNT BROWN TIMBERLAKE
TRONICA

11 36 45 24

AVRIL GOOD
LAVIGNE

10 35 48 47 46 25

CLASSIC JUSTIN NOT rap CELINE

MUSIC END BIEBER BAD DION

9 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 26

AMAZING FRANK POP NICKY AMAZING LATIN ROCK

SINATRA MUSIC MINAJ MUSIC

8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

GOOD ELVIS HIP-

HIP-HOP AKON NOT BAD SAMBA
PRESLEY

Instructions: Create sentences using the words on each square (I don’t know David Guetta, Michael Jackson is amazing, etc.) Follow the arrows. On the bull-
eyes ask a question about like or dislike to the person on your right.

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4
2 3 13 14 15 16
To take
1 Chinese E-mails/
written
To work out To travel Go Big companies/
START food/Italian letters at home/in a light/with a forward 3 small groups of
tests/oral
food fitness club lot of luggage spaces!!! people
tests
12
5 17
“The
Rock music/ Hot weather/
Beatles”/Elvis
classical music cold weather
Presley
6
8 11
Science 7 9 18
51 fiction/ Go back 4
To take
Books/screen
10 To work
Game shows/
FINISH pictures/make Free!!! indoors/
romantic spaces!!! versions talk shows
a video outdoors?
novels

50
19
To use a credit Ask the person to your right: Free!!!
card/to pay cash Do you like … or …?
Then report the answer to
49 your teacher: 20
Dramas/ He/She likes … Seaside/
comedies mountains

36 33 32
38
37 To watch the 34 To have a To work with 31 21
48 Miss Marple/ 35
Go back 7 news on Dogs/ substantial people/ work Go forward 1 To eat at
Free!!! Hercules Free!!!
spaces!!! TV/read it cats breakfast/light with space!!! home/out
Poirot
online breakfast documents
22
30
47 39 To watch
To stay up
To work To dress movies at
late/go to bed
alone/in a team up/casually home/at the
early
cinema
46 29
23
Art 40 A lot of
To live in a
galleries/history
museums
Free!!!
Do you like English changes/
routine
house/a flat

45
To study/to
41
To drive/to or Spanish? 28
Free!!!
24
Go back 11
work walk spaces!!!

44 42 27 26 25
43
Go forward 1 The city/the Autumn/ To talk/to Santiago/
Coffee/tea
space!!! country winter listen Valparaíso

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Rules:
1. Throw the dice and make a correct
sentence with HAVE.
2. Two or three players can be on the same
square.
3. You cannot repeat the same sentences.
4. Continue until someone reaches the finish.

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1. Draw 7 ships :
one of 4 squares; two of 3 squares and three of 2 squares and one of 1 square.
2. Place them on your board across (
) or down ().
3. You have to sink all your partner’s ships by asking questions:

Do the boys get up early? Yes, they do. / No, they don’t.

Does Tom like fish? Yes, he does. / No, he doesn’t.

listen to go to
play like read rap dance get up go to like fish collect
tennis bananas comics music classes early bed late coins

The boys

Sally

Tom

You

Your friend

The girls

Your granny

Mark the squares HIT MISS

listen to go to
play like read rap dance get up go to like fish collect
tennis bananas comics music classes early bed late coins

The boys

Sally

Tom

You

Your friend

The girls

Your granny

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WORK WEAR
• in town • a special
• at the fire uniform
station • a helmet

DRIVE USE
• a fire engine • a hose
• a ladder

• FIGHT fire
• SAVE people’s lives and property

WORK WEAR
• in town • a uniform
• at the police • badge
station • a belt with tools

DRIVE USE
• a car with a • a gun
siren and • a radio
flashing lights • a camera

• HAVE a dangerous job

• MAINTAIN order
• INVESTIGATE crimes
• ARREST people

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WORK WEAR
• in the office • smart clothes
• a tie

NOT DRIVE USE

at work • a computer

• WRITE letters
• ANSWER the phone

WORK WEAR
• in a restaurant • a uniform
• a white apron

NOT DRIVE CARRY

• at work • a tray with
food and
drinks

TAKE orders and SERVE meals

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WORK WEAR
• in town a white uniform
• in a hospital and sometimes
gloves

DRIVE USE
• an ambulance • a stethoscope

• TREAT sick or hurt people

• PRESCRIBE medicine
• OPERATE

WORK WEAR
• in a restaurant • a white uniform
• in the kitchen • a big white hat
• an apron

NOT DRIVE USE

• at work • a ladle, pots
and saucepans
• a cooker

MAKE lunch and dinner for people

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WORK WEAR
• in town • a white uniform
• in a bakery • a big white hat

NOT DRIVE USE

• at work • a rolling pin
• bowls
• an oven

• GET UP very early in the morning

• MAKE bread and cakes

WORK usually
• in a school NOT WEAR
a uniform

NOT DRIVE USE

• at work • a board
• books
• pencils

• WORK with children or young people

• TEACH them reading, writing and many
other things

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How to play the game:

Cut out the cards. In pairs or groups, match phrases from one side of their card with those on
other cards, thus gaining points. Each card is worth the number of points written in the circle.
You get the points of the card on the table. If you match more than one side, then you get all the
points of each matching side, but if it’s 3 sides touching, then the 3 sides need to match.

Each pair / group gets a set of cards. The cards are equally divided among students in a group.
Anyone can start the game but wins no point for the card they lay on the table (it is advisable that
a 5 point card be laid first). Going clockwise, the next student tries to connect one of his /her
cards to the one on the table. Absurd sentences are allowed (e.g. Grandma’ wears miniskirts.), as
long as correct grammar is used.

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1 I usually / 2 3 4 5 6
for breakfast
he he/
always / every they/ start Take an
after school morning school at…..
at….. extra turn! she/ not like

he/not often/
to work

26 27 28 29 30 8
What When/
Move back Move 2
Take an I / not /every time/usually
time/usually he /do
/do
to START spaces
spaces
extra turn! evening.
evening. /have lunch? homework?
31 back

25 9
he/always
morning
exercises
he / not go
they / three to school by
times a day bike
32
24 he/ 10
every
evening
Move 4 39 she /not like
spaces back
33
23 11
I /not How often? Move 3 spaces
do yoga forward
in the
the Move 3 spaces
38 forward.
orward.
morning
34
My mum/
mum/
22 every 12
evening
you/
you/ in
he/ winter?
37 36 35 he /twice
twice a day a week
Move 3
21 you/
you/ I / not / like spaces
spaces 13
read much?
much? oranges back
I usually/ They usually
at ….. o’clock /for breakfast

20 19 18 17 16 15 14

he/ he/ not he/ come

she /every Move 4 spaces
spaces every Move 2 home at
they / dinner forward
work hard/
day every day Sunday spaces
space s back 3.15
at 8 o’clock

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do see/go buy drive drink have brush

go to always 100%
once day
usually
twice a week
often look in the 3 times month
sometimes
Every hour, day,
not often
week, month, year…
never 0%
read watch
eat
do

take wear
drink sleep/go

make take
hold

Every
other
give go day eat
Remember
How often do
you + infinitive
(V1)
ride
ride e.g. How often play
do you play this
game?

visit
go travel
Once in
a blue
moon
eat cook

have/take play eat get up late play

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Mean.

Ex.

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Ex.

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Ex.

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Ex.

Notes:

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Notes:

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Ex.

Notes:

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Nationalities

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Circle the right option.

2. Mara is from Sao
1. Joe is from Sydney.
Paulo. She’s… 3. They live in Toronto.
He is … 4. He is from the
They are…
a) Belgian Netherlands. He’s…
a) Algerian
b) British
b) Australian a) Dominican
c) Brazilian
c) Austrian b) Danish
c) Dutch
a) Canadian
5. The Tower Bridge is
b) Chinese
an … monument.
c) Czech
a) Egyptian
6. They are from Paris.
b) English 7. He is from Berlin.
They are … 8. They are from
c) Estonian He’s…
Ireland. They’re …
a) Fijian
a) German
b) Finnish
b) Greek
c) French
c) Gambian

9. I am from Kyoto. I
a) Indian
am …
b) Irish
11. He comes from
a) Jamaican c) Italian
Cancun. He is …
b) Jordanian
10. Helena is from
c) Japanese a) Maltese 12. She is from Nigeria.
Reykjavik. She is …
b) Mexican She is …
a) Italian c) Moroccan
b) Israeli a) Namibian
c) Icelandic b) Nigerian
c) Norwegian
13. They are from
Lisbon. They’re …
14. Matryoshkas are … 15. He is a … bagpiper.
16. He comes from
a) Peruvian wooden dolls.
a) Scottish Turkey. He is …
b) Polish
a) Romanian b) Spanish
c) Portuguese a) Tanzanian
b) Russian c) Swedish
b) Tunisian
c) Rwandan
c) Turkish

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Numbers 1-999

0 zero, oh 11 eleven 21 twenty-one 40 forty (no "u")

1 one 12 twelve 22 twenty-two 50 fifty
2 two 13 thirteen 23 twenty-three 60 sixty
3 three 14 fourteen 24 twenty-four 70 seventy
4 four 15 fifteen 25 twenty-five 80 eighty
5 five 16 sixteen 26 twenty-six 90 ninety
6 six 17 seventeen 27 twenty-seven 100 a/one hundred
7 seven 18 eighteen 28 twenty-eight 101 a hundred and one
8 eight 19 nineteen 29 twenty-nine 110 a hundred and ten
9 nine 20 twenty 30 thirty 120 a hundred and twenty
10 ten 200 two hundred

1. Write combined numbers with a hyphen:

o 56 fifty-six 47 forty-seven

2. Numbers over 100 are generally written in figures. When speaking, you put 'and' in front
of the last two figures.

o 505 five hundred and five

3. Four-figure numbers ending in 00, can also be said like this:

o 1900 nineteen hundred

Years

We normally say a year in two parts.

o 1978 nineteen seventy-eight

o 1706 seventeen oh six
o 1900 nineteen hundred
o 2000 two thousand
o 2009 two thousand and nine (AmE: two thousand nine).

Post-2010 dates are often said as normal, in two parts.

o 2010 twenty ten

Exercises

Play numbers table-tennis. One person says a number in Spanish, the other person answers
in English and ‘serves’ another one in Spanish.

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Jobs and Occupations

Accountant Actor Actress Architect

Banker Boss Construction worker Burglar

Bus driver Businessman Businesswoman Butcher

Cashier Cleaner Clown Computer programmer

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Delivery man Cook Dentist Dancer

Diver Doctor Detective Real Estate agent

Farmer Film director Firefighter Fisherman

Game show host Gardener Hairdresser Housewife

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Journalist Judge Lawyer Maid

Manager Mechanic Mountaineer Musician

Nanny Newsreader Nun Nurse

Pilot Plumber Police officer Politician

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Reporter Retired person Robber Salesperson

Sailor Scientist Assistant Singer

Soldier Surgeon Surveyor Student

Teacher Vet Waiter Waitress

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1 Crossword
12 2 3 8
4 5

7 8

9 10

3 11
10

12

13

14

15 16
1
17
11
17

18

18
EclipseCrossword.com 14
2
16

5
6
13 7
9

1. rahcesi 10. wlonc

2. edargren 11. mefrar
3. ptahoghoprer 12. selnoaspser
4. cyetraesr 13. lorias
5. topmcure mogrmerpra 14. hacicnem 4 15
6. leicop firoecf 15. desharirres
7. nismnubases 16. suner
8. okoc 17. tiwera
9. trisat 18. fiweusohe

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Alphabet

One more time! Work with your teacher.

Listen and write the correct pronunciation under each letter.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

y u i p j h t w l k u v

c t u h z c a q n d b m

x a s o f n g p i h a e

w r d f l s e r j o c w

j g f d u j n b a e f h

a s r t p t r w g m o q

b m z q z s d l z t b c

l k h p e i o m d r p k

e d c v w o u a g b h l

y j k m q e m i c p u m

c s l t x l c t o t a x

o i g u b j s r z v g w

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Web and E-mail Addresses

Sign How to say it What it means.

The @ on keyboards and in e-mail addresses is called the "at
@ at
sign."
. dot A dot is a very small speck or a period.
period
. A period is a dot used at the end of a sentence.

/ slash It’s a dividing line.

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join or to separate
- hyphen words. Some examples of hyphenated words are: merry-go-
round, light-blue, twenty-four, re-entry, and father-in-law.
A comma is a punctuation mark used to separate words,
, comma
independent phrases, or clauses in a sentence.
An ellipsis is three dots in a row; it is used to indicate that part of
… dot, dot, dot a sentence or sequence has been omitted. One example of the use
of an ellipsis is the mathematical series: 1,3,5,7,9,...
Specially used on internet. It’s the dash that doesn’t go in the
_ low dash
middle. For example: mary_anne
It is different form the low dash. When you underline (or
under underline
underscore) something, you draw a line under it.
A colon is a punctuation mark that is used to introduce a list in a
sentence or a quote, to separate two major parts of a sentence, to
: colon
indicate a ratio (such as 1:2) or a time (8:15). For example: These
students were on the honor roll: Lisa, Jason, and Jessica.
A semicolon is a punctuation mark; it is used to separate major
; semicolon
parts of a compound sentence.
question A question mark lets you know that a sentence is a question. In
?
mark English it is used only at the end of the question.
An exclamation mark is used to express surprise or a higher
exclamation
! volume of voice. In English it is used only at the end of the
mark
sentence.
quotation Quotation marks are used around a quote, when you want to
‘…`
marks relay exactly what was said or written.
ü umlaut Umlaut is a mark placed over a vowel in some languages.
It is used to include something extra within a sentence or
() parenthesis
conversation.
(square) They are used specially in mathematics. They are used inside a
[]
brackets quotation.

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How to read an e-mail and web address

If the address is like this, then you say:

o [email protected]

mariela low dash gajardo at gmail dot com

o www.manythings.org/repeat

(spell) w w w dot manythings dot org slash repeat

Exercises

1. Read the following addresses

[email protected]

www.google.com

www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish

[email protected]

2. Now, take turns giving your e-mail addresses. Write them down and check.

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Family Members

LOOK AT THE FAMILY TREE

WORD BANK
Aunt
Baby sister
GREAT GRANDFATHER Brother
Brother-in-law
GREAT GRANDMOTHER
Cousin
Father
Grandfather
Grandmother
Great grandfather
GRANDMOTHER
GRANDFATHER Great grandmother
Grandparents
Grandchildren
Mother
Nephew

AUNT FATHER
UNCLE MOTHER

SISTER-IN-LAW
COUSIN BABY SISTER OLDER BROTHER

NIECE NEPHEW

She ? SHE is my mother.

Who is
He ? HE is my father.

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Company Organization

Departments of a company
accounting department / accounts department
EDP team (EDP = electronic data processing)
purchasing department
export department / export team / export sales department
administrative accounting
research and development team
management
import department / import team
IT department (IT = information technology)
customer service / service team
warehousing department
logistics
marketing
materials administration
personnel department / staff department / human resources
engineering department
public relations team / public relations department
manufacturing department / production department
secretary's office
technical support team
sales department
shipping department / dispatch department

Jobs and functions

analyst warehouse manager

director of boards warehouse worker
CEO (Chief Executive Officer) senior executive
buyer sales representative
purchasing manager sales manager
treasurer, CFO (Chief Financial Officer) export sales manager
managing director wholesale distribution manager
codirector executive assistant
commercial agent economist
assistant (e.g. purchasing assistant) management board
service engineer

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Exercises
Answer the following questions.

1) Generally, the first thing you will encounter when entering an office is:

A. The Accounting Department

B. Human Resources
C. The Reception Desk
D. The Finance Department

2) Determining the best way to sell a product or service is a function of which

department?

A. Marketing
B. Finance
C. Accounting
D. Human Resources

3) Which of the following is a function of the Accounting Department?

A. Determining the best way to promote a product

B. Predicting gains or losses
C. Recruiting and hiring new employees
D. Preparing balance sheets and income statements

4) All of the following are responsibilities of Human Resources except:

A. Training new employees

B. Handling employees’ concerns and complaints
C. Approving funding for company projects
D. Making sure the business complies with workplace safety laws

5) True/False. The marketing department often develops advertisements for a

business.

A. True
B. False

6) Which department is responsible for predicting gains or losses for a company?

A. Finance
B. Marketing

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C. Accounting
D. Human Resources

7) Employee payroll ledgers are kept by this department.

( 2 words )

8) Which department is responsible for recruiting and hiring new employees?

A. Finance
B. Marketing
C. Accounting
D. Human Resources

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Physical Appearances

tall (of) medium short well-built slim plump fat

height thin

brown blue green

young middle-aged elderly/old
He is about He is in his He is in his 70s
14 years old. 40s (forties). (seventies).
hazel big small

long short shoulder-length straight wavy curly

dark fair brown blonde red bald

round oval square long moustache beard freckles

beautiful handsome ugly

= pretty attractive

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Exercises

1. Fill in the chart with the words from the box. Some words can be used more than once.

round attractive long curly blue red tall fat oval short
straight bald plump freckles old of medium height small hazel
beard wavy well-built brown young blonde slim slender
moustache middle-aged pretty big shoulder-length dark green elderly
thin fair beautiful handsome in his/her 20s about 10 years old

Height Build Age Eyes Hair Face

2. Write the opposites to the following words. 3. Match the synonyms.

1. tall - ____________ 5. long hair - _____________________ 1. slender a. attractive

2. old - _____________ 6. plump lady - __________________ 2. elderly b. well-built
3. handsome c. slim
3. thin - ____________ 7. dark hair - ____________________ 4. beautiful d. overweight (fat)
4. beautiful - ______________ 8. big eyes - ____________________ 5. muscular e. old
6. plump f. pretty

4. Describe people from work. What do they look like?

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Personal Care

1. Brush – 2. Comb – 3. Conditioner – 4. Dental floss 5. Deodorant

6. Electric shaver – 7. Lipstick - 8. Makeup kit - 9. Mouthwash
10. Nail clipper – 11. Nail polish – 12. Perfume – 13. Razor – 14. Shampoo
15. Shaving cream - 16. Shower cap – 17. Toothbrush – 18. Toothpaste
19. Powder – 20. Hair dryer – 21. Tweezers

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You are going on a trip.

Make a list of personal care products you need to take with you.

_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________
_________________________

Help me shop!
Read the list and draw a line from the products I need to the shopping bag.

List
Mouthwash
Dental floss
Deodorant
Lipstick
Shower cap
Comb

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Objects in the Office

2
1

3
 Shelves
5
 Printer
 Telephone 7 8
6
 Sharpener
 Thumbtacks
 Book dividers
9
 Water dispenser
 Router
10
 File
 Desk 13
 Tape dispenser
 Desktop/Monitor 14
15
 CPU
 Mug/Tumbler 12

 Staple remover
16
 Paper shredder
 Pen drive/Flashdrive
 Pens 17
18
 Fax machine
20
 Scanner 19
 Speaker
 Projector

21 22

23

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Prepositions of Place

Look at the pictures and fill in the blanks with a suitable preposition of place.

1. There is a man waiting............................................................the toilet door.

2. There are a lot of people ..........................................the car. Where are they going?
3. There is a black cloud.......................................Paul.
4. There is a dog................................. the postman. It’s biting him fiercely.
5. Linda is ............. the living room sitting............. her armchair ............. to the fire.
6. Linda is sitting...................the table................... Susan.
7. The fridge is empty. There isn’t anything................... it.
8. Teresa is looking at the papers.................. the notice board.

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1. Read and write the letters.

A café
B zoo
C supermarket
D park
E car park
F school
G restaurant
H cinema
I church
J bus stop
K station
L library

2. Look at the map. Read the sentences and circle T (true) or F (false).

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1. The church is opposite the supermarket. T F

2. The café is between the cinema and the library. T F
3. The school is next to the car park. T F
4. The zoo is next to the restaurant. T F
5. The supermarket is opposite the bus stop. T F
6. The café is between the station and the zoo. T F

3. Complete the sentences with There is or There are.

1. ______________ an elephant in the zoo. 2. ______________ two ponds in the park.

3. ______________ two trees next to the library. 4. ______________ a man at the station.
5. ______________ a bus at the bus stop. 6. ____________ two flowers next to the school.

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Prepositions of Direction

Fill the gaps below using the prepositions. Do not repeat them.

across into past

along of straight
at on through
in out under

1 Go ___________ of the building and turn left.

2 At the end ___________ the street, turn right.
3 ___________ the traffic lights, turn right again.
4 Go ___________ ahead until you come to a petrol station.
5 Turn left ___________ Acacia Avenue.
6 Next, take the third turning ___________ your right.
7 Go ___________ the newsagent's and carry on until you come to a bridge.
8 Go ___________ the bridge and on the other side you will see a park.
9 Go ___________ the park until you come to Church St. on the other side, where you turn
left.
10 Keep going. After about 300 meters, you go ___________ a railway bridge.
11 Keep going ___________ Church St. for another 100 meters.
12 A: You'll see the tourist information office ___________ front of you. You can't miss it.
B: Yeah, right. I think I'll take a taxi instead.

Complete the dialogues by choosing the right option.

Start Point – University

Mark: Can you tell me the way to the Hospital?

Alex: Yes, of course. Go straight ahead/Turn right and turn

left/go down into Tortie Lane. Then take the first/second
turning on the right. The Hospital is on your left/right,
behind/across from the supermarket.

Mark: Thanks a lot.

Start Point – Bank

Brenda: Excuse me, how can I get to the drugstore?

Kate: Turn right/ Go along Mackarel Boulevard until Third Av.

Then turn left/ turn right, walk for one block and the
drugstore is on your left/right and opposite/next to the
doctor’s office and behind/across from the coffee shop.

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Months of the year Days of the week s a t u r d a y u

1. ________________________
January Monday
w e d n e s d a y
February Tuesday 2. ________________________

March Wednesday y m o n d a y f i
3. ________________________
April Thursday
w y ñ o i t s r m
May Friday 4. ________________________

June Saturday t u e s d a y i g 5. ________________________

July Sunday
s u n d a y l d i 6. ________________________
August
September What day is it today? It’s Monday. a a c d g l k a r 7. ________________________
October When is your birthday? It’s in April.
t h u r s d a y a
November When is Christmas? It’s in December.
December
4. Write the months of the year in the correct order.
REMEMBER TO USE CAPITAL LETTERS!

1. What day is it today? Unscramble. What are the missing days? 1. __________________________ 7. __________________________

2. __________________________ 8. __________________________

3. __________________________ 9. __________________________

4. __________________________ 10. __________________________

5. __________________________ 11. __________________________

6. __________________________ 12. __________________________

5. Answer these questions.

2. Take a look at the calendar. What day is it today?
1. When is your birthday? In ________________________________.
M T W T F S S 2. When is Christmas? ______________________________________.
3. When is The Three Wise Men day (Argentina)? __________________.
It’s 4. When is your best friend’s birthday? __________________________.
5. When do you start school? _________________________________.
6. When do you finish school? _________________________________.
7. What day is it today? _____________________________________.
8. What’s your favorite day? __________________________________.

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February
Y

September

I
1 January

October

April H

March

July
I
December

May

August

June
P

November
I

Hidden Message:

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Food!

DRINKS: beer coffee milk orange tea water wine

juice

OTHER FOOD: cookies bread cake cheese chicken chips

chocolate eggs fish fish and fries hamburger ice cream
meat pizza rice salad sandwich spaghetti

VEGETABLES: cabbage carrot cauliflower beans peas potatoes

spinach tomato

FRUIT: apple apricot banana cherries grapes lemon

orange pear pineapple strawberry

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25.

26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31.

32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37.

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38. 39 40 41. 42. 43.

Meals

Common meals
These are the most common set mealtimes in the Western World.
• Breakfast is usually eaten within an hour or two after a person wakes up in the
morning.
• Lunch is eaten around mid-day, usually between 11 am and 2 pm. In some areas, the
name will change between these two depending on the content of the meal.
• Dinner or tea is a meal eaten in the evening. In some areas, the name will change
between these two depending on the content of the meal.
• Supper is a light meal eaten in the late evening or right before bed. In some areas of
the United States, a large meal eaten in the late afternoon, usually between 5-6 pm is
referred to as supper.
• Dessert is typically eaten after dinner. It may be considered a course within a meal
or a meal itself. Cakes, pastries, fresh fruit, and ice cream are examples of common
dessert food.

Other meals
• Second Breakfast is a traditional midmorning meal served in parts of central Europe.
• Elevenses, also called "Morning Tea," is a drink and light snack taken late morning
after breakfast and before lunch by some British people.
• Brunch is a late-morning meal, usually larger than a breakfast and usually replacing
both breakfast and lunch; it is most common on Sundays.
• Afternoon tea is a midafternoon meal, typically taken at 4 pm, consisting of light fare
such as small sandwiches, individual cakes and scones with tea.
• High Tea is a British meal usually eaten in the early evening.
• Last meal, a condemned prisoner's last meal before execution, in nation states and
some American states that practice capital punishment.

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Types of entertainment

A. Match the words with the pictures.

classical music ..... drama ..... sitcom ..... reggae .....

war movie ..... popular music..... comedy ..... talk show .....
bluegrass ..... country music..... musical comedy ..... game show .....
rock music ..... drama ..... news program ..... adventure movie .....
folk music ..... comedy ..... sports program ..... heavy metal .....
rap music ..... western ..... jazz ..... foreign film .....
gospel music ..... cartoon ..... blues..... cartoons .....
drama ..... science fiction ..... children’s program.....

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B. Put the words into the correct category.

Music Plays Movies TV programs

C. (See Structures and Notions 16)

Ask another person about each type of movie, music, etc. Look at the examples.

o Do you like bluegrass music?

o Not very much.
o Really? I like it a lot.
o I prefer pop music.

o Do you like cartoons?

o Yes, a lot. My favorite is Futurama. And you?
o I don’t like them very much

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Free Time Activities

COLLECT – GO - GO TO - HAVE – PLAY - PLAY THE - READ - RIDE - WATCH

Match and write.

1. __________ flute
2. __________ dance class
3. __________ computer games
4. __________ running
5. __________ violin
6. __________ badges
7. __________ with my kids
8. __________ golf
9. __________ a karate lesson
10. __________ swimming
11. __________ TV
12. __________ skate boarding
13. __________ basketball
14. __________ the sports center
15. __________ a bike
16. __________ football
17. __________ stamps
18. __________ volleyball
19. __________ comics
20. __________ guitar

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Listening 1 (It’s nice to meet you)

Complete the listening. Practice pronunciation. Role play the dialogue.

A: Hi. My name ………….. Michael Ota.

B: ………………. Jennifer Miller.

A: It ………… nice to meet you Jennifer.

B: Nice to meet you, too.

A: I ……… sorry. What’s …………. last name again?

B: …………. Miller

Listening 2 (Saying hello)

Read the following short dialogues. Which greetings are formal and which are informal?

Listen and practice. After repeating the dialogues, greet the people in your class.

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Listening 3 (Saying good-bye)

Read the following short dialogues. Which good-byes are formal and which are informal?

Listen and practice. After repeating the dialogues, choose a dialogue and practice with
someone in your class.

Listening 4 (Numbers 1-10)

Listen and practice.

Listening 5 (Numbers 11-999)

Listen and practice. Play numbers table-tennis. In pairs or a circle, say a number in English
or Spanish, and the person you choose has to answer in the opposite language.

Listening 6 (The difference between 13 and 30)

Listen and practice. Tell each other these numbers to see if you can recognize them.

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Listening 7 (Alphabet)

Write the pronunciation under each letter. Then check with your teacher.

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N

O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Listening 8 (Spell your name)

Listen and Practice. Then practice with your own names. Make a list of your classmate’s
names.

A: What’s your name?

B: I’m Sarah Conner.

A: Is that S-A-R-A-H?

B: Yes, that’s right.

A: How do you spell your last name? C-O-N-N-O-R?

B: No, it’s C-O-N-N-E-R.

Listening 9 (Spelling names)

How do you spell the names? Listen and check the correct answers.

1. Jon John
2. Sara Sarah
3. Steven Stephen
4. Katherine Kathryn
5. Kris Chris

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Listening 10 (Describing people)

Listen and practice. Describe the people in your class.

Listening 11 (Describing family members)

Listen and complete. Then if you have pictures of your family with you show them to your
class and describe the people in them and their age.

A: Who’s that?

B: He’s my ………………………………

A: Wow! ……………….. cute. What’s …………….. name?

B: James. We call him Jim.

A: Oh, how ……………………..is he?

B: He’s ……………………………….. years old.

A: What’s he like? I bet he’s ……………………………..

B: Yes, he ……….. – and he’s very ………………………., too.

A: And who’s that?

A: My ………………………….. Tammy. She’s only ………………………. She’s the baby of the family.

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Listening 12 (I can’t sing)

Listen and complete. Pay attention to the pronunciation can and can’t.

A: Oh, look. There’s a talent contest on Saturday. Let’s enter.

B: I ………………. enter a talent contest. What ………………. I do?

A: You ………………… sing really well.

B: Oh, thanks … Well, you …………………, too.

A: Oh, no. I ………………………. sing at all, but I ………………. play the piano.

B: So, maybe we can enter the contest.

A: Sure. Why not?

B: Ok. Let’s practice tomorrow!

Listening 13 (pronunciation can/can’t)

Notice the pronunciation. What’s the difference?

I can act, but I can’t sing very well.

The person in front of you reads a sentence from the list. Check the sentence you hear.

1. I can sing I can’t sing

2. I can act I can’t act
3. I can dance I can’t dance
4. I can swim I can’t swim

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Listening 14 (I can do that!)

Check the things they can do well.

Listening 15 (Small talk)

Before you look at the script:

Go back to the greetings vocabulary.
Review it and try to recognize the phrases used in this small talk.
Then change the information and practice with a classmate or your teacher.

A: Hi, how are you doing?

B: I'm fine. How about yourself?
A: I'm pretty good. Thanks for asking.
B: No problem. So how have you been?
A: I've been great. What about you?
B: I've been good. I'm in school right now.
A: What school do you go to?
B: I go to PCC.
A: Do you like it there?
B: It's okay. It's a really big campus.
A: Good luck with school.
B: Thank you very much.

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Listening 16 (House/Apartment vocabulary)

Listen and practice. Follow the description. Draw a simple diagram of your house or
apartment while describing it to someone in your class.

Listening 17 (What is it like?)

The woman is describing her new apartment. Follow the example and describe your
apartment or house.

A: Guess what! I have a new apartment.

B: That’s great! What is it like?

A: It’s really beautiful.

B: Is it very big?

A: Well, it has a big living room, a small bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen.

A: Where is it?

B: On Lakeview Drive.

A: Oh, Nice! Does it have a view?

B: Yes, it does. It has a great view of another apartment building.

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Listening 18 (Time)

It’s 9 A.M. in Los Angeles. Victoria is calling friends around the world. Listen to the
conversations and complete the chart.

Listening 19 (Nice car!)

After listening answer the question.

Whose car is it? ____________________________________________________

Listen and complete.

A: Nice car, Jason! Is it yours?

B: No, it’s my sister’s. She has a new ……………………, and she drives to ……………………

A: ……………….. her job here in the suburbs?

B: No, it’s downtown.

A: My ………………. work downtown, but they don’t drive to work. They use …………………………

B: The bus or the ……………………..?

A: The train doesn’t ………………. near ……………… house, so they take the bus. It’s really slow.

B: That’s too ……………………..

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Listening 20 (The S is important)

Listen to the different pronunciations of the final s when you change the verb. Repeat as
much as possible.

/s/ /z/ /IZ/ -

takes goes dances does

walks studies watches has

Listening 21 (Present)

Write down the sentences. Listen, repeat and practice.

Notes:

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Listening 22 (Present questions)

Listen and practice. Write down the questions and answers.

Notes:

Listening 22b

Which of the time expressions are mentioned on the listening, write a check mark next to
them.

in the afternoon after that

daily at 9 o’clock
at home at noon
early at midnight
on weekdays at night
on weekends first
morning in the morning
then after work
late then
finally on Sundays
everyday

After listening speak about another person’s daily routine. How many of the above
expressions do you need to use?

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Listening 23 (Marsha’s weekly routine)

Listen to Marsha. Check the days she does each thing.

Listening 24 (What’s your schedule like?)

Listen to these on the street interviews. Then number from 1-5 according to the order they
mention.

Brittany Davis Joshua Burns Maya Black

She goes to class He has breakfast She has dinner
She takes the bus He starts work She finishes work
She works He eats lunch She goes to bed
She gets up He gets up She goes to work
She studies He goes for a run She goes home

Listening 25 (New house)

Listen and answer the following questions. After that, you can look at the script to check
your answers.

What parts of the house do they mention?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why do they like the house?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Why doesn’t he want to buy the house?

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Script (New house)

A: I really like this house.

B: Can we afford it?
A: They want 20 percent down.
B: That’s a lot of money.
A: But the house is so nice.
B: It’s in a great neighborhood.
A: It’s close to the beach.
B: It’s close to the freeways.
A: It’s got a big yard.
B: The kids love the house, too.
A: If we don’t buy it, someone else will.
B: You’re right. Let’s buy it now. We can worry later.

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Openings and Closings

To start an e-mail: To finish an e-mail:

Formal Formal

Dear Mr. Felipe Arias, Best regards,

Dear Mr. Arias, Sincerely,
Dear Mr. Arias and Ms. Cordero, Kindest regards,
Mr. Arias, Cordially,
Ms. Cordero, At your service,

Informal Informal

Dear Felipe, Best,

Dear Loreto, Cheers,
Felipe, Take care,
Loreto,
Regards,
Best wishes,
Thanks again,

You can’t mix formal with informal. You shouldn’t maintain a formal style with a colleague
for a long time. The salutation and sign-off set the mood for the entire e-mail, so be careful
to choose correctly.

Remember!
Mr. a married man or a single man
Careful!
Ms. a married woman or a single woman Ms. Loreto Cordero
(women usually prefer this title)
Ms. Cordero
Mrs. a married woman (only when the person
indicated its use)
NEVER
Miss a single woman
Ms. Loreto

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E-mail Exercises

3) Making inquiries. See Functions and Notions 1-6. Write an e-mail asking a colleague’s
personal information, details about his company or department. Ask this person to write
back soon (use could you…?)

4) Replying to inquiries. Exchange the e-mails from the previous exercise with your
classmates or answer your own e-mail. Give all the information requested.

5) Sales letters/sending out advertising. See Functions and Notions 7-8. Create a different
company. Describe your company. Offer the things your company can do.

6) Introducing oneself to a foreign colleague. You are going to visit your company’s
headquarters and the Human Resources Head asked you to send all the information you
can about yourself.

7) Introducing a new colleague. Use previous e-mail. You are the Human Resources Head
and you need to describe a visitor that is coming to the company. You are writing to the
person who will receive this person, so give all the personal information you can about this
person.

8) Describing you own city to a foreign contact, colleague, friend. See Functions and
Notions 8-11. Write 3 e-mails:
- one for a contact abroad who needs a description of the city and neighborhood where
your office is, restaurants and entertaining things around.
- one for a colleague from a branch office in Brazil who is planning to move here.
- one for a friend who wants to know where you live.

9) Giving written directions of how to get to different places.

10) Making a request. See Functions and Notions 14-15. You have a new contact that you
need to meet. Ask this person for lunch, ask about time, possible date and place. Ask for a
call.

11) Writing a profile of your own company. You are going to briefly present your
company at a conference. Your boss wants to read your speech first. Send your boss an
e-mail with the words you are going to say about your company. Keep it simple and
short.

12) Writing a profile of your own products/services. Briefly describe the services or
products your company offers to a prospective client.

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wants to know what the department is like before he goes to work there.

14) Writing about your own responsibilities. See Functions and Notions 19-20. Human
Resources asked you to send an e-mail describing your responsibilities in your position.
They need to know exactly what you do. They are going to restructure your position so
that you work less hours.

15) Placing orders. See Functions and Notions 2 and 15.

- You need office supplies. Send an e-mail with the things you want. Ask about different
colors, materials and delivery time. Ask about warranty and after sales service.

- You are going on vacation. Leave a list of things that your replacement must do in your
absence.

16) Dealing with orders. See Functions and Notions 18. Use previous e-mails. You
received a list of things you must do as another person’s replacement. Answer the e-
mail in an affirmative way and ask some questions about things you don’t
understand.

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TELEPHONE PARTS

1. Name the parts of the telephone using the words below.

cord display(screen) earpiece receiver mouthpiece keypad

buttons

2. Name the parts of the cell phone and decide which of the words you could use to
describe them.

noisy
easy to understand
color coded
spongy
square
lettered
numbered
illuminated
digital
smooth
possibilities
flip top

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Telephone Conversations

A Hello? A Good morning. Apple A Hello?

B Hello. Is this Maggie? artwork. Emma’s speaking. B Hello. Can I talk to Ruth,
A………………………… Can I help you? Please?
B Good morning.
C Hello, this is Maggie. A …………………………
..................................
B Hi, Maggie. It’s Rick. A I’m sorry he’s in a B Oh! Hi Ruth. This is Liza.
Listen! meeting right now. Is Saturday still ok for
………………………… ................................? shopping?
C Oh, I’m sorry, But I can’t. B No. that’s A Yes, that’s fine.
I’m going on vacation fine.………………………… B …………………………
tomorrow. A All right. Have a good A See you. Bye now!
day.
B ………………………
B you too. Bye!
C Thanks. Bye!

Complete each conversation from a line below. Practice the conversations with a
partner.

1. Can I take a message?

2. No, it isn’t. Hold on… I’ll get her.
3. Great! See you on Saturday.
4. Can I speak to the administrator, please?
5. There’s a barbeque party at my house on Sunday. Can you come?
6. This is Ruth.
7. That’s OK. Maybe some other time. Have a safe trip.
8. I’ll call later.

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At the airport

Match the words to their definitions

1. check-in A. the plane moves down onto the

ground at the end of a journey
B. the place where you show your
2. excess baggage ticket, give them your bags and
get a boarding card
3. passport control C. where you and your bags are
scanned for weapons, bombs and
4. go through security other dangerous things
D. get on a plane
5. the flight is delayed E. bags that weigh more than the
limit that you can take on a plane
F. the plane goes up into the air
6. gate G. the place where you sit and wait
before you get on your plane Match the words to the signs
7. take off H. the place where your passport is
checked when you enter or leave a
country 1. currency exchange A
8. land
I. the place where you leave the 2. departures
9. departure lounge airport building to get on a plane
3. information desk B
J. the flight will leave later than
expected 4. lost & found
10. board
C
5. check-in
6. baggage trolleys
7. customs D
8. baggage reclaim
E
9. arrivals
10. to gates
In the pictures you can see some steps of travelling by F
plane. Put them in order and speak about them.
G I

H J

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Presentations

Here you have a list of useful expressions you can use in a presentation.

WELCOMING/GREETING

Good morning/afternoon ladies and gentlemen/everyone/to all of you.

INTRODUCING THE TOPIC

I am going to talk about...

The purpose of my presentation is to…

The subject/topic of my talk is ...

My topic today is…

As a general rule in communication, repetition is valuable. In presentations, there is a golden

rule about repetition:

1. Say what you are going to say,

2. say it,
3. then say what you have just said.

OVERVIEW/STRUCTURE

I would like to begin/start by….

First/First of all, I'll describe….

Then/Next I'll mention …..
After that, I'll consider the possibilities for further…..
Finally, I'll summarize my presentation (before concluding with some recommendations)….

The presentation will probably take…

STARTING A NEW SECTION

Let's continue with...

Now we'll move on to...

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Next I would like to...

Let's look now at...

EXAMPLES

For example,...
A good example of this is...

PARAPHRASING AND CLARIFYING

Simply put...
In other words.......
So what I’m saying is....
What I mean is…

GIVING OPINION

I think/believe
In my opinion…
In my point of view…

VISUALS

This graph shows you…

Take a look at this…
As you can see...

FINISHING

That brings me to the end of my presentation/that’s the end of this presentation. Thank you
for your time.

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