Inglés A2-A

Unit 7 – Getting along

Grammar

• Use phrasal verbs
• Use infinitives and –ing forms after adjectives, nouns and pronouns
• Objects with separable phrasal verbs
• Phrasal verbs followed by the –ing form of the verb
• More patterns with infinitives and it clauses

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Phrasal verbs on the topic of house rules (have friends over)
• Idiomatic expressions (drive your friends away, tag along with someone)
• Use what clauses to give the most important information
• Avoid errors with subjects
• Use modal verbs with adverbs

Unit 8 – Food Science

Grammar

• Use the passive to focus on information in the present, past and future
• Use complements of verbs that describe causes and effects
• Question forms in the passive
• Verb + object + infinitive
• Other verb patterns

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Talk about farming, food and nutrition
• Share ideas for eating a healthy diet
• React to statistics
• Use Rhetorical questions to make a point

Human body parts and processes (heart, metabolism)

Unit 9 – Success and happiness

Grammar

• Use the determiners all, both, each, every, either, none of, no
• Use –ing forms as reduced relative clauses, to describe simultaneous events and as subjects and objects
• Singular or plural verbs with determiners
• Determiners with and without of
• Verbs followed by an –ing form or and infinitive

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Expressions with get (get off the ground, get under way, get off to a good start)
• Synonyms (study = analyse)
• Use expressions like As far as (success) is concerned to focus in on a topic
• Use expressions like As far as I am concerned / can tell to give and soften opinions
• Use expressions to add ideas
• Avoid errors with in addition to, etc.

Unit 10 – Going places

Grammar

• Use reported speech to report statements
• Use reported speech to report questions and instructions
• Reported speech: verbs and pronouns
• Reported speech: time and place expressions
• Other reporting verbs and forms

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Describe travel and vacation experiences
• Report conversations
• Share views on what to take on trips
• Discuss the effects of tourism
• Synonyms (industries, businesses)
• Making word forks with words belonging to the same word family

Unit 11 – Culture

Grammar

• Use relative clauses with when, where and whose
• Use verbs with direct and indirect objects
• Prepositions in relative clauses
• Passive sentences
• Verb + direct object + prepositional phrase

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Expressions to describe wedding customs (bride, walk down the aisle)
• Opposites (loss <> preservation)
• Write new vocabulary on word verbs
• Wedding bells!

Unit 12 – Ability

Grammar

• Use adverbs before adjectives and verbs
• Use as … as and comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
• Well + adjective
• Adverb and adjective collocations
• Patterns with comparatives

Vocabulary and communications skills

• Expressions to describe types of intelligence and abilities (articulate, linguistic)
• Collocations (raise awareness)

Find out how to express the opposite meaning when you learn a new adjective or descriptive expression