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ENGLISH FILE Elementary Student’s Book Christina Latham-Koenig Clive Oxenden Paul Seligson OXFORD Christina Latham-Koenig Clive Oxenden Paul Seligson ENGLISH FILE Elementary Student’s Book OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents 10 2 “ 16 18 a 2 4 Ey a a 2 34 6 8 40 2 44 4 48 so A. Myname’s Hannah, not Anna B Allover the world © open your books, please Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation verb bell subject pronouns: days ofthe week runberso-20, vowel sounds, word iGowete ectngs west verb be end the wo numbers 2-100 possessive aectives clesroomlanguage a a the tere tiphabet PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 1 Arriving in London A. Awriter’s room B Stars and Stripes: C After 300 metres, turn right REVISE AND CHECK 182 2/ an plurals; things final -sand-es; th this/that/these/ those ‘adjectives Colours, adjectives, modifiers: long and short vowel auite/ very/really sounds imperatives, let's feelings understanding ‘connected speech A. Things Nove about Britain B. Workand play © Love ontine present simple Bland] verb phrases thicd person -s| present simple jobs ‘= word order in questions ‘question words sentence stress PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 2 Coffee to take away A. Isshehis wife or his sister? B whatalifel © Short life, long lire? REVISE AND CHECK 384 Whose”, possessive 's family inate letter o prepositions of time (at, in, on) and everyday activities linking and sentence place (at; i, to) stress position of adverbs and ‘adverbs and expressions of theletterh ‘expressions of Frequency Frequency ‘A. Doyou have the x Factor? B Love your neighbours © Sunand the city can/eantt verb phrases: buy anewspaperete. sentence stress present continuous verb phrases 5 present simple or present the weather and seasons places in London Continuous? PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 3 In aclothes shop A. Reading in English B Times welove C Musici changing the REVISE AND CHECK 586 abject pronouns: me, you, him, ete. phone language fw and like (verb + -ing) ‘the date; ordinal numbers consonant clusters saying the date ‘evision be or da? music ui Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation 52 A AttheNationalPortraitGallery past simple of be: was/were _ wordformation: paint> painter sentence stress 54 B Chelsea girs past simple: regular verbs past time expressions edendings 56 C Anight toremombor past simple:iregular verbs go, have, get sentence stress 58 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 4 Getting lost 60 A Amurderstory past simple: regular andirregular irregular verbs past simple verbs 62 B Ahouse with ahistory thereis/ there are, some/any+ — thehouse lea/ and is, sentence plural nouns stress 64 C Anightinahauntedhotel there was/ there were prepositions: place and movement silent letters 65 | REVISE AND CHECK 788 68 A Whatlate yesterday countable/ uncountable nouns; food theletters ea 2/an,some/any 70 B. White gold (quantifiers: how much/ food containers Wand. how many, alot of etc 72 © Quianight comparativeadjectives high numbers ts, sentence stress 74 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 5 At a restaurant 76 A Themostdangerous.oad...__superlative adjectives places and buildings consonent groups 78 B CouchSurfroundtheworld! be going to(plans), futuretime holidays sentence stress ‘expressions. 80 C What's going to happen? be going to (predictions) verb phrases the letters oo 182 | REVISE AND CHECK 9810 84 A Firstimpressions adverbs (manner and modifiers) _ common adverbs word stress 85 B Whatdoyouwant todo? verbs to infinitive verbs that take theinfinitive sentence stress 88 C Men, women, and the internet articles the internet word stress 90 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 6 Going home 92 A. Books and films present perfect irregular past participles sentence stress 94 B venever been theret present perfect or past simple? more rregular past participles __ irregular past participles 96 C TheEngiishFilequestionnaire revision: question formation revision: word groups revision: sounds 98 | REVISE AND CHECK 11812 100 Communication 124 Grammar Bank 165 regular verbs 11 Writing 148 Vocabul -y Bank 166 Sound Bank 116 Listening WY My name’s Hannah, not Anna 1 LISTENING & SPEAKING a @2}) Look atthe pictures, Listenand number them 1-4 verb bel, subject pronouns: | you, etc. ae V days of the week, numbers 0-20, greetings Eh ata P vowel sounds, word stress ean Hannah. Nice to meet you. bb Listen again and complete the gaps. € Complete the gaps witha word from the lis. 1A Histmbike, What's your? Fine Hi Tm. Thanks Bye B Hamsh. ai? Hello= B tament My name’s...= Very well = 2 A What's your phone > z B its 7094132 456 ‘A 4____. See you on Saturday. Bye. i a 4. @3)) Listen and repeat some phrases from the dialogue. Copy the rhythm. aas 4 Mum. This is Hannah, Be Nice te cet you © @4)) In groups of three, practise the dialogues with the Fear you, anna sound effects. Change ro ee £ Introduce yourself to other students. © Sony, Hannah, y Hello, m Antonio. 4 A Hi? Youre early! What's yourname? / Ceara Nice to meet you. B Hel Mrs Archer How are? ~ C Imvery well, 4 you, Anna. And you? Be ., thanks. A ttsHannah, Mum GRAMMAR verb be! Complete the sentences with are, is, or am. subject pronouns 'm Mike. 1 Mike. ‘Myname’sHannah. = Myname Hannah, You're early You carly. Is 7894132456, = It 7894 132.456, > p.124 Grammar Bank 1A. Learn more about verb be(#land subject pronouns, and practise them, 961) Listen and repeat the pronouns and contractions @7)) Listen. Say the contraction. 3) lam Ctm In pairs, try to remember the names in your class. Say He's {She's Stand up and speak to other students. HiCarla. How are you? Fine thanks. And you? PRONUNCIATION vowel sounds, word stress. @p)) Listen and repeat the words and sounds. iQe fae fish __|tree [train bike it ne lam |very [they 1 this we thanks |weil |name Hi meet Bye > p.166 Sound Bank. Look at the example words and spellings for the sounds ina Word stress Multi-syllable words have one stressed syllable, SO\rry goodbye Salturlday @s)) Listen and underline the stressed syllable in these words. airport compulter elmail_ kajraite hojtel_mulselum sallad_ te\nnis pasita inlterlnet bas\ket[ball_sand|wich Write the words from cin the chart. food technology | sports places In pairs, write more words that you know in each column, How do you pronounce them? 4 e 5 o VOCABULARY days of the week, numbers 0-20 Lookatthe picture. Can you remember what \ Hannah say? >> p.148 Vocabulary Bank Days and numbers. Do parts | and 2. @12)) Listen and say the next day or number. 2) Monday, Tuesday CWednesday What's your phone number? What day is it today? And tomorrow? LISTENING & SPEAKING @13)) Listen. Where are they? Write 1-6 in the boxes. (| airport Gate number (_| sandwich bar euros cents, (_|hotel Room (| museum Closed on (taxi Manchester Road (_|school Classeson and Listen again, Write a number ora day in each space. 914) Listen and respond. 1) Helo nice tomes ou, ce tomeet you iT G verb beMand= V the world, numbers 21-100 P aj (Sh si; sentence stress Where are youfrom? tm from Ireland. All over the world 1 VOCABULARY the world ‘a Can you name three countries in English? 1b > p.149 Vocabulary Bank The world. © @17)) Listen, Say thenational )) Scotland ( Scottish 3) Scotland scott @_ Inpairs, do the quiz, Useful phrases I think its in tay. I think it’ Russian, but 'm not sure, + 2 PRONUNCIATION «, (/, 1, os ‘The in! sound The oY sounds the most common vowel sound in English. The fv sound has many different spellings, e.g. Hello, Saturday, Britain a @20)) Listen and repeat the words and sounds b @a21)) Listenand repeat the sound pictures and sentences, Practise with a partner 1 hom 2 BP shower a +B © > p.166 Sound Bank. Look at the example words and spellings for the sounds in a and b. American Scotland Argentinian Switzerland Charles is Czech, not French, She's Polish or Russian, Tmanot sure We're German and they're Japanese. E W@RLD Where are these capital cities? a Canberra b Prague cc Warsaw d Ankara Edinburgh What country is the money from? a the dollar b the yuan c therouble d the pound e theyen What country is the food from? a tapas goulash © pasta d tacos What nationality are the flags? Wisi wrecoacenatenthem is it? Write the nationality. > é (119) What Language Write a-din the boxes. Turkish Chinese PD aneunees Russian Irish (Gaelic) “The word for a language is usually the same as the nationality adjective, eg in Italy the language is Italian.

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