TIEMPO PRESENTE PRESENT TENSEDedicado a mis hijas Isabella y Emily. Hijas, quiero que sepan que ustedes también han hecho parte de esta creacién ya que hemos dejado de compartir un poco juntos para contribuir con el mundo. A mi esposa Reina Faria. Agradecido infinitamente por tu apoyo incondicional.CONTENTS Page UNIT 1 ~ MEETING PEOPLE Formal and informal greetings and farewells 9 Personal information questions 10 Countries and Nationalities 2 The Alphabet 3 ‘The Numbers 4a Professions and Occupations 15 ‘and AN 16 Singular and Plural nouns wy UNIT 2 - PLACES Classroom Objects 24 Parts of the house 2 Prepositions IN - ON 22 ‘The Perez family ~ Reading (Audio) 23 Personal Pronouns 23 UNIT 3 - PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE Everyday activities 27 Wh-Questions ~ What / Where 28 The Torres family = Reading (Audio) 29 UNIT 4 — TO BE: SHORT ANSWERS Possessive Adjectives 32 Questions and answers —To be, short form 33UNIT 5 - TO BE: YES / NO QUESTIONS Page Descriptive Adjectives ~ Opposites 38 Cesar and his family ~ Reading (Audio) 40, Neither and Nor a1 Possessive Nouns 42 Possessive Adjectives 43 Colors and clothes 44 ‘Amanda's closet Reading (Audio) 47 Demonstrative adjectives ~ This, that, these, those 4g UNIT 6 — FAMILY MEMBERS. ‘The Weather 52 ‘On vacation in Cartagena = Reading (Audio) 54 Family members 55, Wh-Questions ~ Who / What / Where 56 A busy family ~ Reading (Audio) 7 The family tree 58 UNIT 7 — PREPOSITIONS OF LOCATION Places around town 61 Next to, between, across from, around the corner from 61 ‘There is / There are ~ How many 63 Downtown — Reading (Audio) 64 ‘Tourism plans — Reading (Audio) 66UNIT 8 - SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE Page Everyday activities 70 Auviliaries DO and DOES 70 ‘Simple Present — Affirmative / Negative / Interrogative m1 Christmas Eve — Reading (Audio) 76 Days of the week a My activities during the week = Dictation 7 Visiting Colombia — Reading (Audio) 79 UNIT 9 ~ PEOPLE'S INTERESTS Wh-Questions in Simple Present Tense 5, Javier's daily routine ~ Reading (Audio) 86 ‘The Bakery = Reading (Audio) 90 UNIT 10 - FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS Feelings and emotions 93 Astrange day — Reading 95 Situations ~ Readings (Audios) 7 Questions with — How many / When / Why / What kind of / What / How often 98 UNIT 11 ~ THE TIME Telling the time vocabulary 101 What time is it? 104 Mr. Busy ~ Reading (Audio) 105Page UNIT 12 - OBJECT PRONOUNS Parts of the da 109 How often with auxiliaries DO and DOES. 109 Object pronouns 110 My Parents — Reading 113 Likes and Dislikes ~ Reading (Audio) 114 UNIT 13 — EXPRESSING ABILITY AND OBLIGATION ‘Actions — Vocabulary 117 Can and Can't 117 Have to, Has to, Doesn't have to, Don’t have to. 122 Visiting Medellin — Reading (Audio) 123 ‘The Circus - Reading (Audio} 124= SI Ee = — =