Elementary A1

Unit 6
Skills

Learning objectives

 Expressing actions happening at the moment

 Asking about actions happening at the moment
 Expressing abilities and skills
 Asking about abilities and skills
 Writing about what people are doing at the moment
 Writing a simple e-mail

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Class activities 6.1
Grammar

I. Watch Viewpoint 2: 1 (How you communicate at work) & 2 (General information

about e-mails)

Present progressive (as present)

Look at these sentences.

Steve is having lunch at the moment.

I’m driving.
He’s having a meeting right now.
She’s visiting a customer now.
Sylvia is doing home office.
I’m working on a project out of the city.

What do they all have in common? What do they express?

The present progressive expresses actions happening at the moment of speaking.

Observe how we form the interrogative and negative.

Is she working right now?

What are you doing?
She isn’t working now.

Vocabulary

Numbers

200 two hundred 300 three hundred 400 four hundred 500 five hundred
600 six hundred 700 seven hundred 800 eight hundred 900 nine hundred

II. Say these numbers.

64 105 310 89 712 214 111 564 873 36 952

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III. Answer Language at work, Unit 8: present progressive.

IV. Write what these people are doing.

1. _________________________________________________________________

2. _________________________________________________________________

3. ________________________________________________________________

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 4. ________________________________________________________________

5. ________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________

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Extra class activities 6.1
I. Complete these sentences with the correct form of the verbs in parentheses.
Then read the sentences out loud.
1. The managers ___________________ (discuss) a project in the meeting room
right now.
2. Edward ___________________ (write) a long essay for his history class at the
moment.
3. Herbert and Kent ___________________ (play) football now.
4. Sean ___________________ (teach) Anna how to drive now.
5. Dan ___________________ (investigate) the reasons why so many employees
are not satisfied here.
6. Fred ___________________ (watch) a news program at his place this evening.
7. Liz and Margaret ___________________ (have) their English exam right now.

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Class activities 6.2
Grammar

Can & can’t / Object pronouns

Look at these sentences.

Can you speak now?

Yes, I can.
Can we change the price list?
No, we can’t.
What can we do?
I can send them a new proposal.

What verb do all these sentences have? What does it mean?

Where does it appear in interrogative sentences?

How do we form the negative?

The verb can express ability to do something.

Remember: after can, the principal verb appears in simple form; no “to”. Eg. can go, can study,
can have, can be

Now look at these sentences.

We can always negotiate good terms for them and for us.
I can send them a new proposal.
Maybe they tell us that they accept.

Them and us are object pronouns, referring to objects or people in plural, not to repeat them.
In this dialogue, them refers to the clients. Us refers to Melissa, Victor and their team.

I. Complete these sentences with him, her, you, us or them. Then read the
sentences out loud.

1. Could you send __________ the presentation? We need it.

2. I love romantic films. Do you like ________too?
3. Peter Wilson is our new manager. We meet with ________ every Wednesday.
4. The Millers have two cars, but they never use _________.
5. Edna and Paul are really very nice. We love to see __________.
6. We need those books. Could you bring ___________ to ________?
7. Susan often talks about her daughter; we'd like to meet______________.

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Grammar

Adjectives states of being

Look at these adjectives. What do they express?

Stressed, sick, worried, upset, busy, tired, hungry

Others: thirsty, angry, annoyed, relaxed, bored

Collocations

Collocation means word association, that is, words that generally go together. Here are
some.

Go home
Go to school
Go to work
Go to bed
Go shopping
Go dancing
Go jogging

Have breakfast/lunch/dinner
Have a cup of coffee/a beer/a sandwich
Have a good time
Have an accident
Have a problem
Have a dream
Have a doubt
Have a day off

Take a ride
Take a walk
Take a test
Take a course
Take a while
Take care
Take a look
Take measures

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 Pronunciation

/ɪ/ - i

this live fill sit

/i:/ - ee, ea

these leave feel seat

II. Dictation.

1. We feel very good at this school.

2. These books are excellent.

3. Take your seats.

4. I leave my office at six.

5. This is a very good place to live.

6. Please, fill that glass with water.

7. Sit down and pay attention, please.

III. Answer Progress test 8: present progressive. Speaking

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Extra class activities 6.2
I. Match the verbs in column A with the elements they collocate with in column B.

Column A Column B

1. Have a. measures
2. Go to b. good time
3. Take a c. dancing
4. Go d. test
5. Have a e. bed
6. Take f. coffee

II. Read and reproduce Sample email, Unit 8.

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