Inglés

Course I. The Arrival
Chapter I. The Terminal

Objective: The student can provide personal information in an official application form (study permit).

Listening: The check-in: listen to identify personal information in official identity documents
Reading: This is me: to identify personal information in official identity documents
Writing: The Terminal: to complete an official application form (study permit) with personal
Speaking: You say “Goodbye” and I say “Hello, hello, hello”: to say the greetings and farewells.
Grammar: The use of personal pronouns in the subject position before a verb in statements.
Can identify the use of linking verb ‘to be’
Vocabulary: Greetings and farewells.
Personal Information.
Airport vocabulary
Pronunciation: Spelling: the alphabet.

Chapter II. . Lost in Translation

Objective: The student can produce short sentences related to countries and nationalities

Listening: It’s a small world: listen to countries and nationalities to identify word stress
Reading: The Rolling Mick: read an article about the personal information and relationships of a
famous rockstar
Writing: Green with envy: identify the use of colors to describe things.
Speaking: Say the country: say vocabulary of countries and nationalities.
A lost tourist: give information about countries and nationalities.
Grammar: The use of verb “to be” in affirmative and negative form.
The use of possessive adjectives
Vocabulary: Countries and Nationalities.

Personal Information.
Colors.

Pronunciation: Word stress and syllable division

Chapter III. Taxi Driver

Objective: The student can interact with a speaker, asking and answering questions, using information about himself/herself (e.g., name, family, nationality).

Listening: The Royal Family: listen to identify specific information in a monologue.
Reading: The Trudeau family: read a magazine article about the family of the prime minister of
Canada
Writing: Taxi Driver: create a family tree
Speaking: Taxi driver: to exchange personal information related to family with the taxi driver.
Grammar: Verb “to be” in Present Simple
Possessive case‘s.
Possessive adjectives
Personal pronouns.
Yes/No questions     
Vocabulary: Personal information
Family members
Countries and nationalities.
Languages
Pronunciation: Intonation in questions: rising and falling intonation.

Chapter IV. You’ve got mail

Objective: The student can understand and answer questions about personal information in a written registration form.

Listening: Hello from the other side: to use different greetings and farewells in different
communicative situations.
Reading: You’ve got mail: read a short email from your new tutor at the University
Writing: You’ve got mail: to write a short email to introduce yourself
Speaking: Shakespeare in love: to express feelings and emotions.
Grammar: Personal Pronouns.

Verb ‘to be’: affirmative, negative and question form.

Possessive adjectives.

Vocabulary: Greetings and farewells.

Personal information.

Feelings and emotions.

Family

Pronunciation: Intonation in affirmative sentences

 
Course II. The Bodyguard
Chapter V. The Apartment

Objective: The student can describe his/her routine, talk about everyday activities and mention the day and time.

Listening: Are you a workaholic?: listen to a person describing his work routine.
Reading: The ad: read an advertisement and choose the best apartment for you
Writing: Weekly schedule: write a weekly schedule describing your routine.
Speaking: The Apartment: ask questions about habits
Grammar: Present Simple: affirmative and question forms.

Linking words: and / or.

Vocabulary: Basic verbs and collocations: everyday activities.

Home and buildings: basic vocabulary.

Days of the week.

Sports: Olympic sports and events.

Adverbs of frequency.

Household chores.

Pronunciation: Intonation: rising, yes/no questions & falling, statements.

Chapter VI . The Roomie

Objective: The student can express his/her everyday activities, habits and mention the frequency

Listening: The Apartment: listen to the description of your new apartment.

Who is she?: listen to your rommie’s description of her room.

Reading: Matching rommates?: answer the quiz about you and your rommie’s habits.
Writing: Check out my new room: describe your new bedroom
Speaking: Check out my new room: record and describe your new room.
Grammar: Present Simple: affirmative and negative form.

Adverbs of frequency.

Demonstrative adjectives.

Collocations and phrasal verbs: daily routine.

Vocabulary: Basic verbs: habits and daily routines.

House and apartment.

Common nouns: everyday personal objects.

Household chores.

Everyday activities.

Pronunciation: Verb endings in Present Simple

Chapter VII. Little Giants

Objective: The student can identify numbers, prices, hours and days of the week in a poster with the help of visual support.

Listening: The Inquisitor: listen to a podcast about exercising
Reading: From SUV to Germany: read a magazine article about lifestyle in Germany
Writing: Insight Germany (part 2): describe the city where you live
Work out!: complete a registration form for a gym class
Speaking: Who? What!: answering questions

The Magic Numbers: identify numbers in a phone conversation

Grammar: Present simple: question form

Adverbs of definite time

Plural endings

Vocabulary: Daily activities

Moments of the day

Days of the week

Months of the year

Seasons.

Holidays.

Food.

Numbers 1-100

Pronunciation: Questions: intonation

Chapter VIII. Cinema Paradiso

Objective: The student can provide information about his/her daily activities, likes and dislikes

Listening: TGIF: Thank God it’s Friday, what to do after work?: listen to a podcast about
different activities.
Reading: Sunday Funday: read about activities during the weekend
Writing: I hate to like love (part 2)
A day in the life of a stormtrooper: describe a routine
Speaking: Everyday actions: to describe your daily routine
Grammar: Cinema Paradiso: express likes and dislikes.

Course III. Everyday Life
Chapter IX. Splitting the Fugitive

Objective: Vancity is a nice city and...Thief! Thief! You have to give a physical description about the thief who stole your cellphone. Complete the steps to catch the person responsible for this atrocious action!

Listening: Hanna’s friends: listen a monologue about someone giving a description about other (s).
Reading: Which Gollum are you?: read a quiz about personality
Writing: Guess who: write an email to describe physical appearance.

Describing people: write a description of family members’ personality

Speaking: The Fugitive: give a physical description about somebody.
Use of English:
Vocabulary: Describing physical appearance.

Describing personality and interests.

Pronunciation: Question Form: Intonation.

Chapter X. Home Alone

Objective: Hanna is out! You woke up and she’s gone! You are alone in the apartment, you’re the king in the north! Discover more about your apartment while you get ready to go out and have fun in the jungle, I mean, in Vancity

Listening: There, there: listen to Johnny Vancity interviewing people about how is their house.
Reading: Home is where the heart is: read an article about strange houses.
Writing: Is it different?: write a short text comparing two places of a house.
Dream House: describe you dream house.
Speaking: Home Alone: describe your favorite room of your house
Use of English: There + to be: affirmative, negative and question.

Demonstrative: this + singular nouns

Prepositions of place

Vocabulary: Describing a house: rooms and furniture.

Quantifiers: a lot of / some / a couple of / no / a / the

Pronunciation: Short and long vowel sounds

Chapter XI. Vancity

Objective: You just checked the calendar and Hanna’s birthday is soon! You want to buy her a present, so get ready to explore your new home town Vancity. Look around and check out the must see places in the city, but don’t forget to find the city mall!

Listening: In the city: listen to instructions: following instructions to get to a place

Let’s: listen to a conversation and identify polite forms.

Reading: Let’s: To read “The guide of the good pedestrian” to follow advice.

Let’s go!: To identify the places in a city.

Writing: Metropolis: describe a city.

My hometown: describe his/her city/neighborhood.

Land of the Lost: describe places and their location in a map.

Speaking: Here, there and everywhere: ask and give information about how to get to different
places in a city.
Use of English: Prepositional phrases

Imperatives with ‘er’ ending

Adverbs ‘very’ and ‘soon’

Adverbs of place ‘here’ and ‘there’

Vocabulary: Places in the city, shops and shopping

Giving and following directions

Dimensions

Pronunciation: The different /o/ u / e sounds

Chapter XII. The Devil Wears Prada

Objective It’s Hanna’s birthday! Go to the city mall (in Black Friday) to find the perfect present. Hanna loves fashion, a fine piece of clothing is the perfect gift for her!

Listening: The Mall: listen to the speakers in a store announcing deals.
The Gift: listen to a conversation in a shop
Hanna’s experience: listen to someone describing preferences about clothing and
shopping
Reading: The Mall or Amazon?: read a blog post about advantages and disadvantages of buying
things online.

Confessions of a shopaholic: read an article about Black Friday

Writing: CU, Hanna: write write short online messages: leaving out information

The Devil Wears Prada (part 1): write a review of his / her favorite shop using basic linking
words

Speaking: Let’s go shopping: describe preferences about clothes and shopping.

The Devil Wears Prada (part 1): ask for prices.

Use of English: ‘How much’ to ask for prices and costs.
Vocabulary: Shops and Shopping
Clothes, patterns and materials
Colors
Idioms related to clothes and shopping
Writing short messages
Pronunciation: /ou/ /or/ sounds.

Course IV. Welcome to the Jungle
Chapter XIII. Like water for chocolate

Objective: In this chapter you’ll learn the main things about something everyone loves: food. Hanna sent you a message about going to grab some food after shopping. Choose the best restaurant among the many restaurants in the food court

Listening: May I take your order (part 1): listen to what people orders in a coffee shop. He reacts to
the statements and recommends a restaurant.

                   Little Chef: listen to Johnny Vancity asking people about their eating preferences.

Reading: You’re what you eat: read about different breakfasts and eating habits around the world.
Writing: Like Water for Chocolate: tell about his/her eating habits.
Speaking: What’s in your fridge?: describe what food and drinks are in your fridge.

                   Like Water for Chocolate: write about food preferences.

Use of English: Use of countable and uncountable nouns

Use of quantifiers: ‘a few’ / ‘a little’ / ‘much’ / ‘many’ / ‘some’ / ‘any’.

Vocabulary: Vocabulary of food: food, drinks, fruits, vegetables, meat and fish, containers
Pronunciation: Stress and Intonation in Questions

Chapter XIV. Employee of the Month

Objective: You just noticed you need to find a part-time job. Hanna will help you get ready for your job hunting experience

Listening: Job hunting: Listen to a podcast about a specific.

She’s not just a pretty face: Listen to a song about different jobs.

Reading: Office space: Read an article of people talking about their jobs.

Job search: Read advertisements to look for a job.

Writing: Modern Times: Write the obligations that a job requires.

A CV: Fill out a job application form.

What can you do?: Answer Hanna’s questions to express abilities using ‘can’/‘can’t’

Speaking: Employee of the month: Answer questions of specific personal information in a job interview.
Use of English: Modal verbs: ‘can’ / ‘have to’
Vocabulary: Jobs
Pronunciation: Sounds with θ and ð

Chapter XV. The Spectacular Now

Objective: Johnny Vancity is visiting your home country. He wants some recommendations about what indoor and outdoor activities he can do there. Do a presentation about it with the information required.

Listening: The Weather: listen to people discussing about the weather and ask their reaction to it as
a follow-up.

Never say never: listen to people to talk about indoor/outdoor activities they do.

Reading: The Blind Side: read an article about a paralympic athlete.

What to do when you do nothing?: read an article about sports for different lifestyles

Writing: What’s happening?: write riddles of actions that people are doing.
Speaking: My favorite weather to never say never: discuss about indoor/outdoor activities and the
Use of English: Use of Present Continuous

Use of Present Simple vs Present Continuous

Imperatives to give advice

Vocabulary: Seasons & Weather

Sports and exercise (Olympic sports and Sporting events)

Collocations connected with sports

Verbs of movement

Pronunciation: Sounds with /sh/ and /ch/ sounds

Chapter XVI. Into the Wild

Objective: This is the final chapter of the book II. Hanna is in some place in Mexico and Johnny Vancity is in Ajijic, Jalisco, it’s a crazy chapter!. They want to know more about Mexico.

Listening: The Art of Travel: Listen to an interview about the best cities in Mexico to travel: what to
do, where to go, where to stay.
Reading: Looking for Australia: read an infographic about Australia.

Planes, trains and automobiles: read a train ticket.

Writing: My last trip: write a postcard from a recent trip (the course provides pictures and
information from a destination)

Days of the Future Past: write a short biography about famous people.

Speaking: We were soldiers: write a short biography about famous painters.

Into the Wild: give information about his/her hometown.

Use of English: To be: past and present tense
Vocabulary: Geographical features (Nature): prepositions

Vocabulary to express time

Sightseeing activities
Travel and Services

Ways of travelling
Idioms in travel and transport
Adjectives to describe places

Pronunciation: Recognize the use of /ss/ and /rr/ words: lesson / horror

Course V. Life in the Big Apple
Chapter I. Brooklyn

Objective: To practice the present simple to describe aspects of his everyday life

Use of English: Adverbs (time)
Adverbs: frequency
Present Simple
Adjectives: be + but
Pronouns: reflexive

Passives: simple present (affirmative)

Lexical Range: Work and Education
Pronunciation: Vowel Sounds

/a/ and /A/ sounds

/o/ and /o:/ sounds

/3:/ sound

/eu/ and /au/ sounds

Learning Outcomes.: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...
Discuss about their interests.
Use ‘actually’ to give new information.
Use strategies to make statements stronger.
write online forum posts using linking words

Chapter II. Welcome the stranger

Objective: To give a simple description of people, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes etc. as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list.

Use of English: Adverbs: linking & stance

Determiners: demonstratives and possessives

Interrogative Clauses

Modality: can

Pronouns: indefinite

Present Continuous

Lexical Range: Communication

Technology

Pronunciation: Vowel Sounds

/i:/ and /i/ sounds

/u:/ and /u/ sound

/e/ and /ae/ sound

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...

Discuss about their interests.

Use ‘actually’ to give new information.

Use strategies to make statements stronger.

Write online forum posts using linking words

Chapter III. Fed Up

Objective: To produce brief everyday expressions in order to satisfy simple needs of a concrete type: personal details, daily routines, wants and needs, requests for information

Use of English: Clauses: subordinated

Imperatives

Modality: should / have got to

Phrasal Verbs: common

Tag Questions

Lexical Range: Body and health
Pronunciation: Stress: two syllable, longer and compound words
Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...

Provide information about an ailment using simple words or formulaic
expressions.

Follow instructions in a medical prescription.

Follow instructions from a doctor.

Suggest a treatment for a specific ailment.

Use imperatives to give instructions.

Chapter IV. Night at the Museum

Objective: To provide a simple description or presentation of people, living or working conditions, daily routines, likes/dislikes etc. as a short series of simple phrases and sentences linked into a list.

Use of English: Countable / Uncountable nouns

Degree with verbs

Indefinite pronouns

Determiners: quantity

Passives: “by”

Subordinate clauses: if / when

Lexical Range: Food and drink

Holidays and celebrations

Pronunciation: /schwa/

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...
Talk about plans using the present continuous.
Read an article about celebrations around the world.
Describe a celebration of his/her home country.
Write a recipe.

 
Course VI. Exploring and Discovering
Chapter V. On the Hudson River

Objective: To tell a simple story (e.g. about events on a holiday or about life in the past)

Use of English: Adverbs: time

Clauses: coordinated

Passives: past simple (affirmative)

Past Simple

Prepositions of time: on/in/at

Wh- questions in past

Lexical Range: Travel

Describing things

Services

Pronunciation: Pronouncing past tenses: /ed/ verb ending
Learning Outcomes.: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...
Talk about familiar topics using the simple past.
Talk about travel experiences in the past using quantifiers (I didn’t like my
English class very much).
Correct information using strategies for communication.
Describe a travel experience

Chapter VI. Beautiful Boston

Objective: To make him/herself understood in short contributions, even though pauses, false starts and
reformulation are very evident.

To construct phrases on familiar topics with sufficient ease to handle short exchanges, despite
very noticeable hesitation and false starts.

To describe a place

 

Use of English: Conjunctions: subordinating (conjunctions: if, when, so, while…)

Discourse markers: writing

Past Continuous

Past Simple & Past Continuous

Verbs: that - clauses (My mother said that she could help us)

Lexical Range: Home and Buildings
Pronunciation: Consonant sounds

/p/ and /b/ sounds

/t/ and /d/ sounds

/m/ /n/ /n (nasal)/ sounds

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...

Ask about places with: there + to be.

Use strategies to ask for repetition.

Talk about actions in the past and actions in the past at the moment of
speaking.

Write a review about a place of his/her hometown.

Chapter VII. First Day in Class

Objective: To give a short, rehearsed presentation on a topic pertinent to his/her everyday life, briefly give
reasons and explanations for opinions, plans and actions.
To pick out the main information in short newspaper reports or simple articles in which figures,
names, illustrations and titles play a prominent role and support the meaning of the text.

Use of English: Adverbs: sequencing

Comparatives: be + like + noun/pronoun

Modality: could / should / must

Superlatives: adjective + prepositional phrase

Lexical Range: Adjectives: personality

Adjectives: appearance

Background: country of origin, childhood

Relationships

Pronunciation: Consonant sounds

/k/ and /g/ sounds

/f/ and /v/ sounds

/0/ and /d/ sounds

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...

Find information in a magazine or a newspaper advertisement

Compare things and people

Describe people’s appearance using adjectives

Describe people’s personality

Describe and talk about relationships using the past

Chapter VIII. I did it my way

Objective: To tell a simple story (e.g. about events on a holiday or about life in the past)

Use of English: Past Simple

Past Continuous

Modality: can / could / should

Adverbs: comparatives and superlatives

Lexical Range: Home and Buildings

Things in the town and travel
Adjectives: appearance & personality

Pronunciation: Consonant sounds

/s/ and z/ sounds

/s/ and /3/ sounds

/ts/ and /d3/ sounds

Learning Outcomes: At the end of the chapter, the student will be able to...

Give his/her opinion on a familiar topic.

Provide information about past activities.

Describe an experience in the past.

Describe past experiences.

Describe physical appearance and personality.

Express comparisons with people and objects