Carrera Profesional:

Administración de obras de
construcción civil

Unidad Didáctica:
Inglés Técnico Aplicado

Unidad de Aprendizaje 1:
Civil construction work management
Session 2
 Personal Verb “Be” Contractions
Pronouns of “Be”
am I’m
I
are you’re
You
is he’s
Singular

He
is she’s
She is it’s
It are we’re
We are you’re
You are they’re
They
 am from Trujillo, Peru.
1. I ____

are a new student.

2. You _____

is 15 years old.
3. Joseph ____

is a computer programmer.
4. Marie ____

5. is a cat. Its name is Lorenzo.

It ____

6. are Sophia and Fiorella. Our

We ____
English class is at 9:00 A.M.

7. They ____are
Rodrigo and Cesar. Their
address is 2467 Husares de Junin Ave.
 Yes / No Shorts Answers
Questions Affirmative Negative
 No, I am not.
1. Are you Stacey?  Yes, I am.  No, I’m not.
 No, he is not.
2. Is he David?  Yes, he is.  No, he isn’t.
3. Is Antonella from  No, she is not.
Colombia?  Yes, she is.  No, she isn’t.
4. Is Peru in South  No, it is not.
America?  Yes, it is.  No, it isn’t.
5. Are you and your  No, we are not.
brother students?  Yes, we are.  No, we aren’t.
6. Are they engineers?  No, they are not.
 Yes, they are.  No, they aren’t.
TYPES OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
For many people in the construction industry, the “type” of construction
project refers to the actual facility being constructed. There are different
construction types:

 Residential building construction

 Industrial construction
 Commercial building construction
 Infrastructure construction
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION

Residential construction projects focus on buildings where

people live. Some examples of residential construction
projects are: apartments, houses, housing complex.
 COMMERCIAL CONSTRUCTION

Commercial construction refers to the construction of a building

for a commercial purpose. some of the different types of
commercial construction projects are: restaurants, office
buildings, malls, schools.
 INDUSTRIAL CONSTRUCTION

Industrial construction involves building large-scale production facilities.

Many construction companies complete industrial construction projects
for corporations. These projects include: power plants, manufacturing
plants, refineries.
 INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION

Also known as civil construction, infrastructure construction

involves structures like airports, roads, bridges, tunnels.
What is the difference?

MATERIA
LS
 What are building materials?

Building material is any

material used for construction
purpose. Some of the most
common building materials
used in construction are: wood,
cement, tiles, metals, bricks,
concrete, glass.
 CONCRETE

A hard substance used

in building made by
mixing cement, sand,
small stones, and water
 BRICK

A block used for

building walls and
other structures.
 CEMENT

A grey powder used in

building that becomes
very hard when you mix it
with sand and water
 STONE

A hard solid
material that rocks
are made of, often
used for building
 TILE

A flat square piece of

baked clay or another
substance used for
covering a wall or a
floor
 WOOD

It is a product of trees, and

sometimes other fibrous
plants, used for construction
purposes 
 GLASS

It  is generally
made from
mixtures of sand
and silicates, and it
´s very fragile.
 PLASTIC

It is material consisting of any of a wide

range of synthetic or semi-synthetic
organic compounds that are malleable
and so can be molded into solid objects
 metal
It is used as structural
framework for larger
buildings such as
skyscrapers, or as an
external surface
covering.
THERE IS

THERE
ARE
 THERE IS
(singular)

THERE IS A TUNNEL.

THERE IS A STONE..
THERE ARE
(plural) THERE ARE TWO HOUSES

THERE ARE FIVE BRICKS

 NEGATIVE

THERE AREN’T HIGHWAYS..

THERE ISN’T A BRIDGE..
 INTERROGATIVE

IS THERE A FACTORY?/ARE THERE ANY APARTMENTS?

SINGULAR PLURAL

YES, THERE IS. YES, THERE ARE.

NO, THERE ISN’T. NO, THERE AREN’T.