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Cultural Inglesa de Cipolletti

Contents ............................................................................................................................................................ 5
Classroom Language .......................................................................................................................................... 6
Greetings and Other useful phrases .................................................................................................................. 7
Grammar Practice.............................................................................................................................................. 9
Verb to be .................................................................................................................................................... 10
There is, there are ....................................................................................................................................... 12
Object Pronouns .......................................................................................................................................... 12
Adjectives .................................................................................................................................................... 14
Possessive Adjectives .................................................................................................................................. 15
Present Simple: Positive .............................................................................................................................. 16
Present Simple: Questions .......................................................................................................................... 19
Present Simple: Negatives ........................................................................................................................... 21
Demonstratives ........................................................................................................................................... 22
Present Continuous: Positive....................................................................................................................... 23
Present Continuous: Questions ................................................................................................................... 24
Present Continuous: Negative ..................................................................................................................... 25
Present Simple vs. Present Continuous ....................................................................................................... 26
Was, were: Past Simple of Verb to be ......................................................................................................... 29
Past Simple: Positive .................................................................................................................................... 31
Past Simple: questions and negative ........................................................................................................... 32
Countables and uncountables ..................................................................................................................... 33
Much and Many with C & UC ...................................................................................................................... 37
Present Perfect ............................................................................................................................................ 39
Present Perfect with time expressions ........................................................................................................ 44
Modals ......................................................................................................................................................... 48
Comparatives and Superlatives ................................................................................................................... 55
Future with going to .................................................................................................................................... 57
Present Tenses with Future meaning .......................................................................................................... 59
Vocabulary ....................................................................................................................................................... 61
Readings .......................................................................................................................................................... 72
Booklist ............................................................................................................................................................ 74

Subject pronouns
The use of verb to be: Wh- questions and statements. Yes/no questions and short answers.
Contractions.
Possessive adjectives.
Simple Present: Wh- questions and statements. Yes/no questions.
Time expressions with at, in, on, around, until, before, after, early, late.
Demonstratives: this, that these, those.
One and ones.
Questions: how much, which, how long/often/much time/well/good.
Comparisons with adjectives.
Questions: what kind...?
Object pronouns.
Modal verb would.
Present continuous yes/no and Wh- questions, statements and short answers.
Determiners: all, nearly all, most, many, a lot of, some, not many, a few, few.
Adverbs of frequency: always, most, usually, often, sometimes, seldom, hardly ever, almost
never, never.
Past Simple yes/no questions and Wh- questions, statements, short answers with regular
and irregular verbs.
There is, there are with prepositions of place.
Countable and uncountable nouns with how much, how many and one, any, some.
Questions for describing people. What... look like? How old? What colour...?
Present perfect yes/no and Wh- questions, statements and short answers. Contrast with
Past Simple.
Adjectives and adverbs.
Conjunctions: and, but, however, though.
Modal verbs can, should, could, may, would, will (some for requests).
Comparative and superlative of adjectives.
Future with present continuous and going to.
Describing changes with the present tense, the comparative, the past tense and the
present perfect.
Everyday English
Sports
Leisure at home
Hobbies
Words you may confuse
Parts of the body
Describing people
American English
Everyday things
Clothes
Task: Read the text. Who is who? Complete each statement with a name.

Who is who at Springfield Cars

0. He is a racing driver. …… John Strange …………


1. She lives in London with four cats. …………………………………….
2. His wife is an air hostess. …………………………………….
3. He has got three children. …………………………………….
4. She is one of the few female mechanics in motor racing. …………………………………….
5. She lives in Hatfield. …………………………………….
6. She is quite plump. …………………………………….
7. He has a beard. …………………………………….
Read the text and then answer T for true or F for false.

Heathrow Airport

a. People get nervous at Heathrow Airport.


b. Heathrow airport is a quiet place.
c. People can fly to 215 different places from Heathrow airport.
d. Passengers are not a problem at the airport.
e. Passengers eat and drink a lot.
f. 45.000 people work at Heathrow Airport.
g. People consume one hundred sixty five cups of tea every day.

Read the text and answer T for true or F for false.

Schooldays

a. Tessa gets up at half past seven


b. She usually makes her bed before breakfast.
c. Tessa and her sister go to school by metro.
d. Tessa doesn’t like Geography.
e. Tessa and her sister go skating once a week.
f. In the evening they watch TV.
Cambridge. English Grammar in Use, by Raymond Murphy.

Cambridge. English Phrasal Verbs in Use, by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell.

Cambridge. English Vocabulary in Use: Elementary, by Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell.

Cambridge. Interchange 1, Third Edition: Student’s Book, by Jack C. Richards.

Longman. Grammar Practice: New Edition, by Elaine Walker and Steve Elsworth.

Longman. Progress in English Grammar 2, by Chris Barker and Gülay Kiratli.

Longman. English Grammar Book: Round Up 2, by Virginia Evans.

Macmillan-Heinemann. Elementary Language Practice, by Michael Vince.

Macmillan. Macmillan English Grammar in Context: Essential, by Simon Clarke.

Oxford. Grammar Spectrum 1: Elementary, by Ken Patterson.

Oxford. Grammar Spectrum 2: Pre Intermediate, by Ken Patterson.

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