Módulo 1

PER SON AL IN FOR MATION & JOB S

Introducción

1. IN TR ODUCTION S AN D PER SON AL IN FOR MATION

1.1 Greetings

1.2 Personal pronouns

1.3 The verb To Be

2. JOB S AN D PR OFESSION S

2.1 Present Simple

2.2 Time expressions

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Introducción

VIDEO - MÓDULO 1
EaD Kennedy

07:09

Module 1 is about personal information and jobs. By the end of the module, you will be able to exchange
basic personal information, such as name, nationality, age and occupation, and speak about professions,
jobs and workplaces.

Are personal introductions and job descriptions important?

Objetivos del modulo
 Exchange and corroborate personal information.

UNIT 1 1.1 Greetings.

Introductions and personal 1.2 Personal pronouns.
information 1.3 The verb To Be.
 UNIT 2 2.1 Present simple.
Jobs and professions 2.2 Time expressions.

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1.1 Greetings
English Conversation: Casual Introductions
With this resource, you can read and listen to basic dialogues that show Greetings and
Introductions.

01:53

Hello English (2014). English Conversation: Casual Introductions. [Video]. YouTube.

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1.2 Personal pronouns

Pronouns are words that replace nouns

Mary is my classmate. (María es mi compañera de curso).

“Mary” is a noun (sustantivo) and we can replace it with “she”.

She is my classmate. (Ella es mi compañera de curso).

 (*) The pronoun “I” is always capitalized. (Siempre en MAYÚSCULA)

(**) For a complete definition and examples of the pronoun “it”, check:

'it' and 'there' as dummy subjects

Learn about the 'dummy' subjects it and there and do the exercises to practise using
them.
MÁS INFORMACIÓN LEARNENGLISH 

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1.3 The verb To Be

The verb To Be (verbo Ser o Estar) is the most important verb in

English. It indicates a State (un estado= ser o estar)

Where are you from? – I am from Salta.

(–¿De dónde es/eres/sos? –Yo soy de Salta.)

“AM” is the present form for the verb To Be in the first (1st) person
singular, “IS” is the present form for the verb To Be in the third (3rd) person
singular and “ARE” is the present form for the verb To Be in the second
(2nd) person singular* (as shown in the example).

* It is also the present form for the Verb To Be in the first and third person
PLURAL.

Where are you now? –I am in Buenos Aires now.

(–¿Dónde está/estás ahora? –Estoy en Buenos Aires ahora.)

“WHERE” is a question word to ask about a place.

Affirmative sentences
Negative sentences
Interrogative sentences
Interrogative pronouns
(*) Note that in English, we ARE our age; we do not possess - “have”-
years:

Correct: The building IS twenty years old. ✓

Wrong: It has twenty years. X

Correct: They ARE very old. ✓

Wrong: They have very old. X

To use interrogative form, we use Question Words; they are interrogative

pronouns: What, Where, Why, When, Which, How, and Who.

They always appear at the beginning of a question and indicate that the
person who is speaking is expecting information for an answer.

E.g.: What is your name?

My name is Amanda. (the answer contains data, or information).
 Other questions do not start with an interrogative pronoun, but with an
auxiliary verb, the verb To Be.

E.g.: Is Buenos Aires in Argentina?

Yes, it is. (the only two possible answers are: Yes, or No)

For practice, go to: (para más práctica, ir a:)

BE - Simple Present Tense.

eflnet.com

ACCEDER

Personal Pronouns - Referring to people

grammar-quizzes.com

ACCEDER

Verb To Be – Questions
agendaweb.org

ACCEDER
Bibliografía de referencia

Murphy, Raymond. (2019). English grammar in use – A self study reference and practice book for
intermediate learners of English. Cambridge, Reino Unido: Cambridge University Press.
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2.1 Present Simple

Present Simple (in Spanish)

This is a very simple explanation of the Present Simple, in Spanish.

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Lopera, Alejo (2015). Presente Simple en Inglés / Alejo Lopera. [Video]. YouTube.

The Present Simple speaks about habits, routines and facts

I work at my home-office. (Trabajo desde mi oficina en casa.)

“I work” indicates that this is a habit = I always do this.

She has coffee in the mornings on weekdays. (Ella bebe café por las
mañanas los días de semana).

“She has” indicates that it is her routine.

Water boils at 100 °C. (El agua hierve a los 100 °C.)

“Water boils” indicates that this is always true.

ON weekdays, I wake up early IN the morning, BEFORE the rest of the family. (Los días de
semana, me levanto por la mañana, antes que el resto de la familia).

“ON”, “IN”, and “BEFORE” are time expressions to speak about habits, routines, and facts.

Present Simple – A typical day in your life

Watch this video where different people tell us about their daily routines.

01:58

Juan Gómez (2016). What is a typical day for you? [Video]. YouTube.

Affirmative sentences

Let’s take a look at these examples

Every morning, many Argentineans have “mate”.

Cada mañana, muchos argentinos toman mate.
(Drinking mate is a routine)
 In Chile, people drink “Cola de Mono” in the Holidays Season.
En Chile, la gente bebe “Cola de Mono” durante las Fiestas.
(Periodically, Chileans have this alcoholic beverage)

Americans love coffee.

Los norteamericanos adoran el café.
(This is characteristic of them)

Let’s pay attention to the verbs in the previous sentences: Have, drink, love.

They are in the Present Simple tense. We use this tense to speak about activities or states that
are always (or periodically) true. So, you need to use this tense for things you do with a certain
frequency, to speak about scientific data or facts, or to describe states.

For example, if you go to the gym one day a week, you say:

“I go to the gym every Tuesday”. (Voy al gimnasio cada martes.)

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“Englishmen talk in English”, or “Lions eat meat” (Los ingleses hablan

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inglés / Los leones comen carne) are examples of data that is always true.

3 “I know how to drive”, and “I understand how you feel” (Sé manejar /
Entiendo cómo te sientes) are states.

For the third person singular, we add an “S” to the verb

“She goes to the gym every Tuesday”. (Ella va al gimnasio cada martes.)

“He talks in English”, or “The lion eats meat” (Él habla inglés / El león come
carne)
 “Peter knows how to drive” (Pedro sabe manejar)

Negative sentences

Read the following passage

Minnesota is very cold in winter, so people don’t walk in the streets very
often, they stay home. Usually, Minnesotans wake up early and have a
coffee; they don’t drink mate at all.

My cousin lives there; she doesn’t stay up late because the sun sets
around 4.00 PM.
The passage is about habits and routines, so it is in the Present Simple tense. But look at the
verbs (don’t walk, don’t drink, doesn’t stay): they speak about what people do not do as a habit.

Let’s take a look at the negative form

It is made up with the auxiliary verbs “do”, or “does”, the word “not”, and the base form of the
main verb.

DO + NOT + WALK or DOES + NOT + WALK

(*) Remember? The third person (singular) ends with an “S”.

Interrogative sentences
What about questions in the Present Simple tense? How do we ask about habits and routines?

There are two (2) types of questions, and two (2) types of answers

WH questions

1) What do you do? I am a translator. →The answer offers

information
Yes/No questions
Do you study Tourism? No, I do not. / Yes, I do. → The answer is Yes or No

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2.2 Time expressions

Let’s take a look at these examples

(*) Note that days of the week are always capitalized.

(Los días de la semana siempre se escriben en mayúsculas)
Bibliografía de referencia

Murphy, Raymond. (2019). English grammar in use – A self study reference and practice book for
intermediate learners of English. Cambridge, Reino Unido: Cambridge University Press.
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