In Context 1. English Book 1 (Incluye CD)

Chapter 1:
Hello and good bye
Function: introducing yourself

Subjects:
1. Instruction: Open your book, Close your book…
2. Greetings: Informal (Hello, Hi, How are you). Formal (Good morning, Good afternoon, Good Evening)
3. Pronouns: I, you, he…
4. Verb “TO BE”: I am = I’m. You are = You’re…
5. Possessives: My, Your…
6. Asking for and giving personal information: Questions: What’s your name?, What’s your last name? What’s your full name?, What’s your family name?
Answers: My name is…, my last name is…, My full name is…, My family name is…
7. Numbers: From 1 to 10.
8. Telephone numbers: What’s your phone number? My phone number is 1735…
9. He alphabet
10. Spelling: How do you spell your spell your first / last name?
11. Writing: What’s a word? Crossword puzzle. Complete the missing letters

Chapter 2:
First day working

Function: Gaining Vocabulary

Subject:
1. Articles and demonstratives: Singular (a, an, this, that). Plural (these)
2. WH- questions: What is = What’s
3. Classroom objects: What’s this called in English? What’s that?, What are these?
4. Pronouns, Review (I, you, he, she…)
5. Possessives: Her, His, review, My, Your…
6. Introducing other people: She is…, He is…, Her name is.., his name is…
7. Objects and people’s location: Where is the…? Where are the…?
8. Prepositions of place: in, on, under, in front of, behind, between
9. Writing: what’s a sentence? Unscramble the words to form sentences.

Chapter 3:
Culture Shock

Function: Asking and giving information about countries

Subjects:
1. Countries: Where are you from?
2. Nationalities and native or first languages: what’s my / your / her/ his nationalities / native or first language.
3. Continents: Where is Colombia located?
4. Adjectives: big, small, beautiful, ugly; rich, poor…
5. Describe countries: What is Colombia like? It is big and beautiful
6. Pronouns “it” and “they”: It (an object or an animal).
They. (Two or more persons, objects or animals).
7. Confirmation questions with “be” (Are you French?, Yes I am)
8. Countries, nationalities and languages must begin with capital letters.

Chapter 4:
What are you wearing?

Function: Describing appearance, personality and clothing

Subjects:
1. Describe appearance: What’s she like? She is tall, thin and Pretty
2. Describe personality: What’s she like? She is smart and serious.
3. Possessives pronouns: mine / yours / his / hers
4. Colors: What color is it? It is yellow
5. Weather: What’s the weather like? It is sunny.
6. Describe clothing: Present continuous. I am wearing a blue t-shirt
7. Writing: What’s a sentence? The use of “and”, and “but”
8. Negative sentences: It’s raining, but I’m not carrying an umbrella
9. Questions: Why…/ Because… Why are you laughing? Because I’m happy
10. days of the week, months, years.

Chapter 5
Work interactions

Function: Asking about and describing current activities

Subjects:
1. Telling me (no minutes): What time is it? It is four o’clock
2. Telling me (with minutes): What time is it? It is ten after seven
3. Present continuous: What are you doing? I am playing
4. Writing: what’s a sentence?
5. The use of “so” to associate time and activities: it’ soon, so we’re eating.
6. Negative sentences: They’re not sleeping = They aren’t sleeping

Chapter 6
Activities at work

Function: Describing a daily routine

Subjects:

1. Simple present tense statements: Affirmative and negative statements, “do” / “don’t”. Regular and irregular verbs.
2. Describing parts of the city, workplaces: I live un the suburbs, but I work downtown
3. Third person conjugation “-s” ,“-es”, “-ies”
4. Time expression: at, in, on early late
5. Writing: How to describes routines. Daily activities.
6. What a paragraph?
7. Sequence adverbs: first – next – then – finally…
8. Family relations: parents = mother + father, children = daughter + son…
9. Form of transportation
10. Days of the week
11. Confirmation questions with auxiliary

Chapter 7:
My family

Function: Describing the parts of a city and houses or apartments

Subjects:
1. Describing the place where you live.
2. The complement of a sentence: Practicing different complements.
3. Simple present questions: confirmation, short answers information Questions with “How many”
4. Vocabulary: Parts of the city,. And parts of the house
5. There is / There are articles. Affirmative: some. Negative: any
Singular: there is a lamps; Plural there are some lamps
6. Household furniture: Objects in each room
7. Ways of transportation: Drive a car, ride a bike, take a bus or a taxi.
8. Writing: Description of a home

Chapter 8

Occupations

Function: Asking about and describing occupations

Subjects:
1. Workplaces: Where do you work? I work in a bank
2. Jobs: what do you do? I am a bank teller
3. Describe the occupations: What do you do exactly? I handle money
4. Give opinions about jobs: Adjectives. (Difficult / easy; dangerous / safe…)
5. Information questions: What, Where, When, Who.
6. Writing: What’s a paragraph? Sequence adverbs. (First, next, then, finally) GMG