AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE 1 SYLLABUS
GRAMMAR VOCABULARY
A Welcome to the class verb be [±1 subject
pronouns: I, you, etc.
B One world verb be[:] and (1]
C What's your email? possessive adjectives:
mv. vour. etc.
A Are you neat or messy? singular and plural nouns
B Made in America adjectives
C Slow down! imperatives, let's
A America: the good simple present[±] and G
and the bad
B 9 to 5 simple present CT]
C Love me, love my dog word order in questions
A Family photos possessive 's, Whose ...?
B From morning to night prepositions of time (at, in,
on) and place (at, in, to)
C Blue Zones position of adverbs,
expressions of frequency
A Vote for me! can I can't
B A quiet life? present continuous:
be + verb + -ing
C A city for all seasons simple present or
present continuous?
A A North African story object pronouns: me, you,
him, etc.
B The second Friday in like + (verb + -ing)
July
C Making music review: be or do?
days of the week, numbers
0-20
countries, numbers 21-100
classroom language
things, in, on, under
colors, adjectives,
modifiers: very I really
feelings
verb phrases: cook dinner,
etc.
jobs
question words
family
daily routine
months, adverbs and
expressions of frequency
verb phrases: buy a
newspaper, etc.
noise: verbs and verb
phrases
the weather and seasons
words in a story
the date, ordinal numbers
music
 A Selfies simple past of be: was I were word formation:
write > writer
B Wrong name, simple past: regular verbs past time expressions
wrong place
C Happy New Year? simple past: irregular verbs go, have, get

A A murder mystery simple past: regular and irregular verbs

irregular
B A house with a history there is I there are, some I the house
any G plural nouns
C Haunted rooms there was I there were prepositions: place and
movement

A #mydinnerlastnight countable/ uncountable food and drink

nouns; a/ an, some I any
B White gold quantifiers: how much I food containers
how many, a lot of, etc.
C Facts and figures comparative adjectives high numbers

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A The most dangerous superlative adjectives places and buildings
place ...
B Five continents in a day be going to (plans); future city vactions
time expressions
C The fortune-teller be going to (predictions) verb phrases

A Culture shock adverbs (manner and common adverbs

modifiers)
B Experiences or things? verb + infinitive verbs that take the infinitive
C How smart is your definite article: the or no the phones and the internet
phone?

A I've seen it ten times! present perfect irregular past participles

B He's been everywhere! present perfect or learning irregular verbs

simple past?
C The American English review: question formation
File interview
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A Are you? Can you?
Do you? Did you?
B The perfect date?
C The Remake Project
A OMG! Where's my
passport?
B That's me in the picture!
C One dark October
evening
A TripAside
B Put it on your calendar!
C Word games
A Who does what?
B In your cart
C #greatweekend
A I want it NOW!
B Twelve lost wallets
C How much is enough?
A Think positive - or
negative?
B I'll always love you
C The meaning of
dreaming
GRAMMAR VOCABULARY
word order in questions common verb phrases
simple present describing people:
appearance and personality
present continuous clothes, prepositions
of place
simple past: regular and vacations
irregular verbs
past continuous prepositions of time and
place: at, in, on
time sequencers and verb phrases
connectors
be going to (plans and airports
predictions)
present continuous (future verbs + prepositions,
arrangements) e.g., arrive m
defining relative clauses paraphrasing
present perfect + yet and housework, make or do?
already
present perfect or simple shopping
past? (1)
something, anything, adjectives ending -ed
nothing, etc. and -ing
comparatives adjectives types of numbers
and adverbs, as ... as
superlatives (+ ever+ describing a town or city
present perfect)
quantifiers, too, (not) health and the body
enough
will I won't (predictions) opposite verbs
will I won't (other uses) verb+ back
review of verb forms: modifiers
present, past, and future
A First day nerves uses of the infinitive verbs + infinitive: try to,
forget to, etc.
B Happiness is ... uses of the gerund verbs + gerund
(verb + -ing)
C Could you pass the test? have to, don't have to, adjectives+ prepositions:
must, must not, can't afraid of, etc.

A Should I stay or should should get

I go?
B Murphy's Law if+ present, will+ base confusing verbs
form (first conditional)
C Who is Vivienne? possessive pronouns adverbs of manner

A Beware of the dog if+ past, would+ base form
(second conditional)
B Fearof.net present perfect + for and
since
C Scream queens present perfect or
simple past? (2)
animals and insects
words related to fear,
phrases with for and since
biographies

A Into the net expressing movement sports, expressing

movement
B Early birds word order of phrasal verbs phrasal verbs

C International inventions the passive people from different

countries

A Ask the teacher used to school subjects

B Help! I can't decide! might word building: noun

formation
C Twinstrangers.net so, neither+ auxiliaries similarities and differences

A Unbelievable! past perfect time expressions

B Think before you speak reported speech say or tell?

C The American English questions without auxiliaries review of question words

File quiz
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Grammar Vocabulary

A Moodfood simple present and continuous, food and cooking

action and no,,action verbs

B Family life future forms. present continuous, family, adjectives of personality

goi(¥: to, will I won't
fl) each other

A Spend or save? present perfect and simple past money

B Changing lives present perfect+ for I since, strong adjectives: exhausted,

present perfect continuous amazed, etc.

A Race across Miami comparatives and superlatives transportation

B Stereotypes - or are they? articles: al an. the, no article collocation: verbs/ adjectives+
prepositions

A Failure and success can, could, be able to -ed I -ing adjectives

fl) reflexive pronouns

B Modern manners? modals of obligation: must, have to, phone laf'€uage

shoud
fl) should have

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A Sports superstitions past tenses: simple, continuous, sports

perfect

B Love at Exit 19 usually and used to relationships

A Shot on location passives (all tenses) movies

B Judging by appearances modals of deduction: might, cant, must the body

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A Extraordinary school for boys first conditional and future t ime education
clauses+ when, until, etc.
jJJ make and let
B ldealhome second conditional houses

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A Sell and tell reported speech: sentences and shopping, making nouns from verbs
questions

B What's the right job for you? gerunds and infinit ives work

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A Lu ck y encounters third conditional making adjectives and adverbs

B Too much information! quantifiers electronic devices, phrasal verbs

jlJ separable phrasal verbs

A Modern icons relative clauses: defining and compound nouns

nondefining

B Two crime stories tag questions crime

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Gramma r Vocabulary
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A Questions and answers question formation figuring out meaning from context

B Do you believe in it? auxaiary verbs: the... t he... compound adJectives, mod1t1ers
+ comparatives

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A Call t he doctor? present perfect simple and continuous illnesses and injuries

B Older and wiser? using adjectives as nouns, clothes and fashion

adjective order

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A The truth about air t ravel narrative tenses, past perfect air travel
cont inuous: so / such. .. that

B Incredibly short stories the position of adverbs and adverbs and adverbial phrases
adverbial ohrases

A Eco-guilt future perfect and future continuous the environment, the weather

B Are you a risk taker? zero and first conditionals, future expressions with take
time clauses

A The survivors' club unreal conditionals feelings

B It driv es me crazy ! st ruct ures after w ish expressing feelings wit h verbs or
-ed I -ing adjectives
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A Music and emotion gerunds and infinit ives music

B Sleeping Beauty used to. be used to. get used to sleep

A Don't arguel past modals: must, might/may should, verbs often confused
can't, couldn't+ have. etc.; would rather

B Actors acting verbs of the senses the body

A Beat the robbers... the passive (all forms); it is said that ... , crime and punishment
and the burglars he is thought to. .. , etc.; have something
done

B Breaking news reporting verbs the media

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, A Truth and lies clauses of cont rast and purpose; advertising, l:usiness
whotever, whenever, etc.

1 B Megecities uncountable a nd plura l nouns word buiding: prefo<es and suffixes

A The dark side of the moon quantifiers: all, every, both, et c. science

1 B The power of words articles collocation: word pairs

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Grammar
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A What motivates you? discourse markers (1): connectors work

B Whoam l? have personality; family

A Whose language is it? pronouns language terminology

B Once upon a time the past: narrative tenses, used to, word building: abstract nouns
and would

A Don't get mad, get even( get phrases with get

B History goes to the movies discourse markers (2): adverbs and history and warfare
adverbial exoressions

A Breaking the silence speculation and deduction sounds and the hLl'Tian voice

B Lost in translation adding emphasis (1): inversion describing books

A Are there 31 hours in a day? distancing time

B Do you have Affluenza? unreal uses of past tenses money

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A Help yourself verb + object + infinitive or gerund compound adjectives

B Can't live without it conditional sentences phone language; adj ectives+

prepositions

A Who's in control? permission, obligation, and necessity word formation: prefixes

B Justanyoldbed? verbs of the sen ses place and m ovem ent

A Trick or tr,eatment? gerunds and infinit ives h ealth and m edicine; similes

B A moving experience expressing future plans and travel and tourism

arrangements

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A Pets and pests elLipsis and substitution the natural world

B A recipe for disaster nouns: com pound and preparing food

possessive f orms

A The promised land? adding emphasis (2): clef t words that are o ften conf used
sentences

B Sports on trial comparison word building: adjectives. nouns,

and verbs