UNIT 1 (Tomorrow Tuesday 16th – share additional links with students)

Introduction.

Share = Compartir.

Talking about People – General Information and Physical Appearance.

What is your name? My name is Carlos / What is your full name? Carlos Garrido.

First name : Carlos

Middle name: Alberto

Last name (family name) : Garrido

Hometown (Ciudad natal) / City /Country

WH = Information.

Are you from Dominican Republic? Yes, I am. No, I am not.

1 - Where are you from? I’m from Dominican Republic.

***Follow up questions:
Where exactly (in Dominican Republic)? I am from Santiago. Where in Dominican Republic?
Which city (in Dominican Republic)? Santiago.

2 – What is your e-mail address?

[email protected]
@ = at e-mail ( . ) = dot (dat) /
quantity 1.5 (.) = point
Writing = (.) “period” Example. I am Robert.

3 – What’s your name /first name / last name= family name ?.

 It’s Carlos (Is Carlos) -My name is….
4 – Do you have many/a lot of friends? Close friends / best friends
5 – What is your hometown? My hometown is….

6 – What is your job? What is your occupation? I work in…

7 - How many languages (langulles) do you speak? I speak…

8 – What is your phone number? What’s your number?

My phone number is 8/4/9 -2/0/7-6/8/2/7.
1905 (zero or O) 234-505-7777

9 – What do you like to do? What are you interested in?

What are your hobbies? What do you do in your free time?

Be careful with these questions: Polite= decent- educated - cultured

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Not nice: Political – Marital status questions – Medical conditions - Family

Additional links:

American Stories for English Learners.

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Short Stories.
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1 - Introducing yourself:
2 - Follow up (continue) question…
Occupation. Job. Hobbies. Sports.

A: My name is Mariana.
B: Hi, I’m Danny.
(It’s) Nice to meet you.
(It’s) Nice to meet you, too. ……You too. (Informal).

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A - Pay attention to your body language
B - Prepare what you’re going to say
C - Show interest in the person you’re talking to

Start simple, for example:

Informal – Normal : “Hi, my name is __, and I’m a [job title] at [company]”
Formal : “Let me introduce myself, I’m…” - “Nice to meet you, my name is…”
Casual: “I don’t think we have met before — I’m…”

Formal vs Informal. Introduce yourself.

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Grammar. Simple Present Review.

Routines – Habits (Future)
I + run + everyday at the park.

The simple present is a verb tense with two main uses. We use the simple present tense
when an action is happening right now, or when it happens regularly. Depending on the person,
the simple present tense is formed by using the root form or by adding ‑s or ‑es to the end.
Habits and Routines.

He /She/ It – works – eats - reads

Does she work at the Dominico? Yes, she does. Yes, she works at the Dominico.

I ..You..have (base form) English class at 8 on weekdays.

She..He…It has English class at 8 on weekdays.
I drink coffee after breakfast.
She drinks coffee after breakfast.

Are you a student? Yes, I am - No I am not.

Is he a student?
Do you eat pizza?
Does she eat pizza? Yes, she does. No, she doesn’t.

What + is +your + name?

Where are you from?
Where + do + you live? Where + does +she + live?
When – Why – How -Which

Do – I ..You..They..We
Does – He..She..It
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Lesson B.

What do you look like? What does she/he look like?

What does he/she look like (appearance)?

Be ** Age / Height / Weight
He is 25 years old. He is tall. He is heavy. They are 25 years old
How old is Lucy?
I am not sure I think she is in her/his twenties (21-29) /
He / She is in his/her teens (11-18).

Have ** Parts of the body

He has green eyes. He has long curly hair. He has blond hair.
They have short hair. You have curly hair.

*Heavy – obese(medical) – fat (offensive) - chubby.

*Thin – slim / slender – skinny (offensive) – fit.
They are average weight. They have long hair.

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Bald
Clean shaven (sheiven) (to shave)
***Word Order
Notice the word order to describe appearance:
long (1 -size), blond (2- color) hair
She has short, black hair.

Be – Have.

Be (Age – Weight – Height)

young / old
in your teens
in your twenties, in your thirties, in your forties..
thin /average weight/ heavy
average height / short - tall

Have (Parts of the body)

brown / blue /green eyes
long short ,straight, curly, hair
black / brown
blond / red hair
look like = to be similar in appearance to
Reading:

To spot = to find / to detect something..

Fake (is not real) = false
Dwarf (very small person)
I want to spot him at the moment.

I am …I have
You are …You have
She is tall….She has black eyes.
He is …..He has
It is …..It has
We are ….We have
They are ….They have

Twins – Brothers or sisters look identical

Identical twins – look exactly the same
Fraternal twins – look similar but not the same.

Select two people from the picture and write two sentences. Describe the person.
What do the people in the picture look like?
What does Maria look like?
She is her twenties, she has long red hair, she is thin and average height.
She is her twenties, has long red hair, is thin and is average height.

Speaking activity: Describe yourself.

Thin – Slender – Skinny

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Where is Abel from? Where are they from/
What languages do you speak? What languages does she / he speak?

Unit 2.
They are taking pictures. They are smiling. Present Continuous/Progressive: NOW
Looking: They are looking at the camera.
Wear my glasses not Use my glasses.
(e)Start - (e)Smile - (e)Student

To shout / To Yell
I am using a black shirt. I am wearing a black shirt.

Speaking.

What’sup? How’sit going? Informal.

Negative answer: Not good. Not a good day. Pretty bad. Not my day today.

Grammar. Present continuous = Now

Are you cooking? No, I am not. No. I’m not.
Is she working? No, she is not. No she isn’t.
***** Are you working? Yes. I’m. Yes, I am.
Are you studying? (estoriing)
Be + ing. I am sleeping. You are sleeping . He/she/it is sleeping.
I am not sleeping. You are sleeping.
You’re (contraction)sleeping.
She’s sleeping. He’s sleeping. We’re/They’re sleeping.
*Negative.
I am not sleeping. She is not (isn’t) sleeping.
He is not (isn’t) sleeping. It is not (isn’t) sleeping.
You/They/We are not (aren’t) sleeping.
What = Things/objects / Where = Places / Who = people-person
Why = Reason / When = Time
1) What are you doing? I am working at the Dominico.
2) What are you doing? I am working at the Dominico these days.
Simple present : What do you do? I work at the Dominico.
P.Continuous: What do are you drinking? What is she drinking?
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1. Are you studying (you / study) English for your job?

2. Is our classmate wearing a sweater? Yes,he is. Where is he going?
3. Are you exercising more these days? When are you exercising?
4. Are you improving your English? Why are you improving your English?
5. Are people traveling more nowadays (now)? Why/ Where/ When are people traveling more?
6. Is our teacher smiling? Why is our teacher smiling?

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Lesson B
Afraid

Angry

Bored

Excited

Nervous

Relaxed

Sad

Tired
Worried

Surprised: Astonished, Awed, Bewildered, Amazed, Startled,

Dumbfounded, Taken aback, Nonplussed.

How do you feel ? I am surprised.

How were you yesterday? I was surprised.
I surprised her yesterday with the news.
How do you feel? I am burned out. Completely tired.

I feel tired / I am tired

Something gets in your nerves = You are very angry.
When my friend comes to my house at night, that gets on my nerves.

Why+ is + she + nervous? Is she nervous?

Wh + be + pronoun+ adjective (object)?
Where are you going? Why are you sad?

I am afraid of spiders.
Cockroaches make me feel afraid.
Bats scare me.

**How do you feel? **I feel very happy. ***I am very happy.
Spiders – cockroach – rats – snakes – centipede-bats-frogs

Grammar:

I like pasta. Who Subject (does the action) Verb What Object (receives the action).
Pedro (he) likes pasta. Pedro likes it.
This pasta is great. I love it.
I talk to him.

What is a subject in a sentence?

I (doing the action) eat pizza. They watch TV every day.

I talk to him every day. (He)

They talk to him every day.

We are going to the beach. Yes, let’s go I like it.

I want to watch a movie with my girlfriend. I want to go out with her.
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He always stand in front of me.

***In questions the object pronoun follows the same format as in a normal sentence.
****Do you talk to him? Are you coming with them?

Exercises:
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Exercises:
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Unit 3 .

Stingy : extremely careful with the money.

Go shopping – Go grocery/clothing/ perfume shopping. Go to the shopping. Go to shopping.

I love to go shopping. I love to go to the shopping.

Do you like to go shopping?

Yes, I love to go shopping. I want to go shopping tomorrow.
They are planning to go shopping to New York.
I am going shopping in one hour.
Do you like shopping?
Who does the grocery shopping in your house?
I am shopping for groceries.

Groceries = Food/ Small things . Grocery store.

Shopping list / Groceries shopping list.

Fridge.
Cabinets (Kitchen cabinets) Shelf ( Kitchen shelf)
Instant Noodles / Plantains (green) / Ripe plantains
Lettuce = (Lerus)
Canned soup.
Fridge.
A bunch (group) of….carrots. Two bunches of carrots.

A (One) carton of Ice cream. I want two cartons of ice cream.

I want 1 ice cream.

A head of lettuce. Give me two heads of lettuce.

A loaf of bread. Give me two loaves of bread.

Sugar. Give me one sugar. Give me some sugar/ one pound/ a lot of / a little.
Salt. Water.

I need a lot of bread. I want one bottle of water.

Grammar A.
Count nouns (countable nouns) – You can divide them in units, 1 -2 -3 etc….
Non-count (Non countable nouns) - You can not divide them in units, 1 -2 -3 etc
Apple – I want 1 apple . I want an apple. I want three apples.
I want (some) (a lot of) lettuce. I want sugars/water/salt…
I want a head of … I want 3 bottles of water..
Count nouns – 1 you can use a number.
2 they can be singular or plural.
3 you can use A/An

(some) (A bag) (2 bags of) Sugar = Correct / Sugars = incorrect

I need sugar. I need some sugar. I need a bag of sugar. I need a lot of sugar.
I need a sugar. Incorrect I need 1 sugar. Incorrect.
Non-Count nouns – 1 You can’t use a number or A/An.
2 Are always singular.
I need one loaf of bread. I want two loaves of bread.

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Lesson B.
I want to buy some jeans tomorrow. I am going to pay with my credit card.

alcoholic
 Online buyer.. Online shopping. Online store.

To Buy = Pay / plan to use your money for something.

I want to buy new shoes.
To Return= is to take back the object .
To Try on ( something) = when you put something in the store for a moment
to see if it fits you.
I like to try on everything before I buy it.
How much are they? = How much do they cost?
I need to spend (give more) time with my kids. I need to spend(use/give) more money on education.
You are spending too much money. You have to control yourself.
***Exchange.

Grammar. Lesson B
Quantifiers for Count nouns.
I am planning a party (apples).
I want 12 apples. I want some (5-6) apples. I want a lot of ( more than 10-12) apples.
I want to buy a lot of apples.
I want to buy many apples.
I want to buy some apples.
I want a few apples.
Do you have any apples in your house? No, I don’t have any.
Any= only questions and negative.

Quantifiers for Non-count nouns.

Do you need any sugar?
I need some sugar. I need a lot of sugar. I don’t need any sugar.
I want to buy a lot of sugar.
I want to buy many apples.
I want to buy some sugar.
I want only a little sugar.
Do you have any sugar in your house? No , I don’t have any.
Any= only questions and negative.
Do you have any sugar in your house? Yes, but I don’t have much. Not much.
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