Curso De Ingles Para Adultos

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART ONE: ELEMENTARY LEVEL
UNIT 1
• TO BE (Present, Past and Future) • THE ENGLISH ALPHABET • THE PHONETIC ALPHABET • What?, Who?, How?, When?, Why?, How old? How long? What time? • This, That, These, Those; A(N); The ; At, On, In ; Until, For • Now, today; yesterday, the day before yesterday; last week / last year / last Monday, tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, next week,two days ago

UNIT 2

• THERE TO BE (Present, Past and Future) • SOME - NOT ANY - NO - ANY • CARDINAL NUMBERS • VOCABULARY: - People

• How much? How many? • Much, many, little, few, a lot, lots of, very little, very few

UNIT 3

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HAVE GOT / HAS GOT ADJECTIVES ARTICLES I - Definite and Indefinite TELLING THE TIME VOCABULARY: - Adjectives

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Uncountable nouns:money, sugar, milk, water, work, etc. Countable nouns: people, men, students, books,etc. O´clock, quarter past / to, half past, minutes past / to In the morning / afternoon / evening; at night Noon / midday, midnight

UNIT 4

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PRESENT CONTINUOUS TENSE • Now, at present, at the moment, at this time, temporarily, for the time INFINITIVES AND GERUNDS being. TIME AND DATES • How old?, Howtall?, How far?, How long?, How high?, How fast?, ORDINAL NUMBERS How deep?, How thick?, How wide?, How big?, What color?, What size?, QUESTION WORDS 1 What shape?, What is / are ......... like? For describing people and things. • VOCABULARY: - Numerals, Time and Dates

UNIT 5

• SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE • ADVERBS OF FREQUENCY • QUESTION WORDS II For requesting information. • ARTICLES II - Generaland specific • RELATIVE PRONOUNS: Who and Which • VOCABULARY: - Time expressions (I) - Clothes

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Every day, every week, every month, etc. Always, generally, usually, often, sometimes, never, etc. Once a day, twice a week, three times a year, etc. What?, Who?, Which?, Why?, Where?, How? Whom?, Whose?, How much?, How many?, How often?, How long?, What time?, What kind of?, What sort of?,etc.

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UNIT 7

• PAST CONTINUOUS TENSE • IMPERATIVE FORM • ARTICLES III - Nationalities, professions, titles and ranks; streets, cities, countries and geographical names. • EXCLAMATORY FORM • VOCABULARY: - The house

• At that time, at 10:30 last night, etc., When Peter arrived this morning, when they got married, etc. • Open the door,please. Please, don´t do that. • An American, a Chilean, an Englishman, etc. • A doctor, an engineer, a secretary, etc. • Mr. Scott, Cpt. Jones, Dr. White, etc. • On Fifth Avenue, In Salt Lake City, In Canada, in the USA, in North Carolina, in the West Indies. • What a tall woman!, What beautiful flowers! What nice weather! How tall she is! How quickly time passes!

UNIT 8

• SIMPLE FUTURE TENSEI: Will • RELATIVE PRONOUNS: Who, Whom, Whose • SOMEBODY / SOMEONE, SOMETHING, SOMEWHERE AND DERIVED WORDS • VOCABULARY: - The City

• John will come here tomorrow / the day after tomorrow / next week / next month / at this time tomorrow / at this time next year, etc. • He said that he was tired. He told me that he was tired. • Who is he? Whom did you see? Whose is that car? Whose care is it? :The man with whom Mary is working now, The man whose car is parked outside. • Somebody / someone, something, somewhere, not anybody / not anyone, not anything, not anywhere, nobody / no one, nothing, nowhere

UNIT 9

• SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE II : AM / IS / ARE+GOING TO....... • IT TAKES........ / IT TOOK....... / IT WILL TAKE...... = DEMORAR • COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES • VOCABULARY: - Food

•John is going to come here tomorrow / the day after tomorrow / next week, etc. • It takes me 20 minutes to..... • How long does it take to....? • Short - shorter than- the shortest • Intelligent, more intelligent than, the most intelligent • As fast as....... • Good - better - best, etc.

UNIT 10

• SIMPLE FUTURE TENSE III : AM / IS / ARE+ING • MODAL VERBS: CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD, OUGHT TO •...