PROGRAMA DE INGLÉS ADULTOS

LEVEL 4C AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE 3 (1996): UNITS 5, 6 and 7

UNITS LESSONS FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR POINTS VOCABULARY

Music
Talking about musical taste
Instruments and musicians
A. The psychology of music Gerunds and infinitives Adjectives and phrases to describe
Discussing the presence of music
music
in your life
Idioms
Talking about past habits

Talking about repeated actions or Used to

B. Counting sheep situations/ states that have Be used to Sleep
5 changed Get used to

Talking about sleeping habits

The media
Journalists and people in the media
Reporting on what people say, ask Sections of a newspaper or news
C. Breaking news Reporting verbs
or order website
Adjective to describe the media
The language of headlines
Talking about music festivals
Used to
Be used to
Discussing the components of a
Colloquial English: Music Festivals Get used to Professions
formal letter
Reporting verbs
Writing a formal letter

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A. Speaking to the world
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B. Bright lights, big city
FIRST ACHIEVEMENT
Talking about successful and
unsuccessful presentations
Describing your city, its buildings
landmarks, how to get around it,
etc.
Taking about services you pay for
TEST
Articles
a/ an / the/ no article
Uncountable, plural and
collective nouns;
Have something done
Collocation: word pairs
Cities and towns
Buildings, landmarks, and getting
around
Where people live/ work
City problems
Adjectives to describe a city/ town

UNITS LESSONS FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR POINTS VOCABULARY

Talking about science
Quantifiers: all, every, etc. Science
C. Eureka!
6 Describing and performing
experiments for curious minds
Talking about favorite cities
Reporting verbs
Cities and towns
Reporting on restaurants/places
Colloquial English: Great cities Articles
in the city/ famous landmarks
you know in your city
ed/ing adjectives and related
Expressing annoyance Wish + simple past verbs;
A. I wish you wouldn’t… Wish + would/ wouldn’t
Expressing regrets Wish + past perfect Expressions with go

7 Expressing two contrasting ideas

about a topic
Business and advertising
Clauses of contrast and purpose;
Expressing why you are doing Verbs and expressions
B. A test of honesty
something Organizations and people
Whatever, whenever
Advertising
Being imprecise about people
and things
Defining word terms from
different languages
C. Tingo Relative clauses Prefixes
Discovering the origin of words in
English

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Discussing the presence of
ed/ing adjectives and related
Colloquial English: Words English words in languages Clauses of contrast and purpose
different from English
Structures after wish
SECOND ACHIEVEMENT TEST