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CONTENTS

Learning outcome........................................................................................................................1
Unit 1: From rags to riches. 1
Lesson 1.1 2
Vocabulary: CLOTHES 2
Lesson 1.2 5
Grammar: Present perfect + ever and never, presente perfect or simple past 5
Lesson 1.3 8
Reading: The Fisherman and the Banker 8
Lesson 2.1 9
Vocabulary: Verb phrases 9
Lesson 2.2 11
Grammar: Present perfect + yet and already 11
Lesson 2.3 13
Listening: In the shower 13
Lesson 3.1 14
Vocabulary: time expressions: spend time, waste, time, etc. 14
Lesson 3.2 15
Grammar: Comparatives, as… as, less……than….. 15
Lesson 3.3 19
Reading: Problems with your teenage children? Why not throw them out? 19
Lesson 4.1 20
Vocabulary: Opposite /Adjectives 20
Lesson 4.2 21
Grammar: Superlatives ( + ever + Present simple) 21
Lesson 4.3 23
Listening: Tim Moore talking about what happened in London 23
Complementary resources 24
Bibliography 25
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At the end of this level (English Proficiency Level III) students will be able to function in social
situations. The students are able to understand phrases and expressions frequently used and areas
of experience which are the most relevant for them. Students know how to communicate when
carrying out simple and daily tasks that do not require more than simple and direct exchanges of
information about situations that are familiar or habitual. Moreover, they can describe in simple
terms aspects of their past and future related to their environment as issues related to their
immediate needs.

Unit 4: learning outcome: Comparar... To compare different situations and facts of

real context like personal experiences, and to focus on differences and strong
characteristics using the adequate structures and vocabulary in written and oral
activities.

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Objective: To use verb phrases related to common expressions used with the clothes.

CLOTHES
● Singular clothes:
Dress
Coat
Shirt
Skirt
Pant
Panty
Blouse
Sweater
● Plural clothes:
Dresses
Coats
Shirts
Pants
Panties
Blouses
Sweaters
● Verbs used with clothes:
Put on (clothe oneself with) Hang up (put something on a hoot or a hanger
Take off (remove clothing) Slip on (put on an item of clothing
easily and quickly.
Dress up (dress in smart or formal clothes) Try on (put something on to see if it fits you or
if it looks nice
Zip up (close with a zipper)

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Objective: To identify the right order to make affirmative, negative and questions
sentences, using the present perfect, or simple past.

Affirmative present perfect.

I´ve (I have)
You´ve (You have)
He´s (He has) been to Korea
She´s (She has)
It´s (It has)
We´ve (We have)
They´ve (They have)

▪ Use the present perfect to talk about past experiences when you don’t say exactly when they
happened. EXAMPLE:
I´ve been to London. NOT I´ve been to London last year.
My brother has worked abroad.

Negative present perfect.

I haven´t
You haven´t
He hasn´t Worked in a bank
She hasn´t
It´s hasn´t
We haven´t
They haven´t

▪ For regular verbs the past participle is the same as the past simple (+ed). For Irregular verbs
see page 155.

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Question present perfect?

Have you ever worked in a bank? Yes, I have. No, I haven´t.

Has he ever been to Korea? Yes, he has. No, He hasn´t.

● We often use the present perfect with ever (= in your life until now) and never.
EXAMPLE:
Have you ever been to London? No, I´ve never been there.

Compare the present perfect of go and he.

He´s gone to Paris. = He´s in Paris now.
He´s been to Paris = He went to Paris and came back.

Present perfect or simple past.

A. Have you ever been to Mexico? B. Yes, I have.

A. When did you go there? B. I went last year.

● Conversations often begin in the present perfect (with a general question) and
then change to the simple past (with questions asking for specific details, when,
where, who, with etc.)
● Use the simple past to ask / say exactly when something happened.

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Objective: To ask and answer questions about the texts and developing their ability to summarize
both the main idea and specific details from a reading passage
Read the following story:

An American banker was walking on a beautiful beach in a small Mexican village.

He saw a fisherman in his boat with a few fish on it.
"Great fish!” he said. "How long did it take you to catch them? "
"Not very long," answered the fisherman.
"Why didn't you stay at sea longer to catch some more?" asked the banker.
"There are just enough fish here to feed my family," answered the fisherman.
Then the banker asked, "But what do you do the rest of the time?"
"I sleep late, I fish a little, I play with my kids, I take naps. In the evening, I go to
see my friends in the village. We drink wine and play the guitar. I'm busier than you
think. Life here isn't as ..."
The Banker interrupted him. "I have an MBA from Harvard University and I can
help you. You're not fishing as much as you can. If you start fishing for longer
periods of time, you'll get enough money from selling the fish to buy a bigger boat.
Then with the money you'll get from catching and selling more fish, you could buy a
second boat and then a third one and so on. Then instead of selling your fish to stores,
you could sell them directly to a fish factory, or even open your own factory. Then
you'll be able to leave your little village for Mexico City, where you could direct the
company”"
"How long will that take?" asked the fisherman.
"About 15 to 20 years," answered the banker.
"And then?"
"Then it gets more interesting," said the banker, smiling and talking more quickly.
"When the moment comes, you can put your company on the stock market and you
will make millions. "
"Millions? But then what? "
"Then you can retire, live in a small village by the sea, go to the beach, sleep late,
play with your kids..." Paul Seligson and Clive Oxenden are the original co-authors
of American English File 2 Workbook 2.

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Objective: To practice the basic parts of verbs and verb phrases and do the exercises
to use them.
Verb phrases
Changes the channel
Does the homework
Cleaned the floor
Leaves the towels
Cleans up the room
Makes the bed
Take a walk
Does the dishes

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Objective: To understand several situations in which present perfect tense is
necessary to use. To distinguish between present perfect with “yet” and “already”.
yet
A: Have you finished your homework yet?

B: No, no yet I haven´t finished yet.

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▪ Use yet + the present perfect in and sentences to ask if something that you think is going to
happened or to say is hasn´t happened.
▪ Put yet at the end of the sentence.

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A: Do you want to see this movie?
B: No, I´ve already seen it three times.
A: Do you want a newspaper?
B: No, I´ve already bought one.

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● Use already in sentences to say that something happened before now or earlier than
expected.
● Put already before the main verb.

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Objective: To obtain the most specific information about familiar conversations.
Listening Track (05.05 ogg) AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE 2. CD1.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k9ADd3ChJ9p7LaIfeBXGdXITF-BwUF4
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Dar click en el enlace para escuchar el documento de audio.
Listening-Unit 4
Track 4.4
Choose the right option:
1) What is doing the first person in the bathroom?
a) Take a shower
b) Pee
c) poop
d) Take photos
Choose the right option:
2) Is the woman in the first dialogue in a hurry?
a) Yes
b) No
c) Maybe
d) It was
Choose the right option:
3) Where did the first woman go?
a) School
b) Work
c) College

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d) Home

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 Objective: To identify differences and similarities using comparatives adjectives and
do the exercises to practice.

Comparative Adjective
Adjective Comparative
Short Shorter One syllable + er

Big Bigger One vowel+ one consonant:

Double final consonant

Busy Busier Consonant + y: y + ier

Relaxed More relaxed Two or more syllables: more +

adjective

Good Better
Bad Worse irregular
Far Farther, further

Comparative Adverbs
Adverb Comparative Adverb Comparative
Regular Irregular
Quickly More quickly Hard Harder
Slowly Less quickly Well Better
Badly worse

▪ Use comparative adjectives to compare people and things. EXAMPLE:

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▪ Use comparative adverbs to compare actions. EXAMPLE:

He drives more slowly than my father.

▪ You can also use (not) as + (adjective / adverb) + as.

He doesn´t drive as fast my father.

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Objective: To identify the main idea of the given text and it also can summarize or
paraphrase the meaning of the written text.

Problems with your teenage children? Why not throw them

out?

A: What did the Serrano's boys do? In fact, they didn't go very far from home. The
oldest boy David went to live with his girlfriend and has just started work in her
father's construction company. The youngest son has rented a flat near the family
home (his mother paid the first month's rent only).

B: So Maria and Mariano asked their sons to leave the family home in Zaragoza in
Spain. But the two boys didn't want to go. Then Mr. and Mrs. Serrano took an
unusual decision — they went to court.

C: Do you have rude and moody teenage children living in your house? Have you
ever secretly wanted to throw them out? A Spanish couple, Mr. and Mrs. Serrano,
from Zaragoza in Spain, have done exactly that.

D: Maria and her husband Mariano lived with their two sons, David, 20 and Mariano,
18. "The situation was impossible." said Maria. "We were always arguing, our
children were treating our house like a hotel, and they weren't contributing anything.
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and insulting us. They didn't respect us. I love my children, but in the end, it was
ruining our lives."

E: Normally, under Spanish law parents do not have the right to make their children
leave home. But in this case the judge decided that the situation in the Serrano family
was "intolerable". He gave Mr. and Mrs. Serrano the right to tell their children to go.
Elizabeth Nash, The independent, October 18,1999

1) Read the article and order the paragraphs correctly.

a) C, B, D, E, A
b) C, B, A, D, E

2) Read the article and choose the best option:

What happened to Mr. and Mrs. Serrano?
a) They had cheerful and moody children living in their house.
b) They had rude and bad-tempered children living in their house.
c) They had happy and cheerful children living in their house.
d) They had cheerful and wonderful children living in their house.

Objective: To understand the meaning of adjectives with an emphasis on using the opposite
adjective to examples given.
Adjective Opposite
Talkative Quiet
Generous Stingyn
Lazy Hardworking
Funny Serious
Friendly Unfriendly
Shy outgoing

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Objective: To learn about superlative adjectives and do the exercises to practice
using them.

Adjective Comparative Superlative

Cold Colder The coldest
Hot Hotter The hottest
Pretty Prettier The prettiest

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Beautiful More beautiful The most beautiful
Good Better The best
Bad worse The worst
Far further The furthest

● Use the + superlative adjectives to say which is the biggest, etc. in a group.
EXAMPLE:
It´s the highest mountain in Asia.
She´s the best in the class.
● We often use a superlative witch the present perfect. EXAMPLE:
Russia is the coldest place we´ve ever been to.
That´s the most beautiful painting. I´ve ever seen.

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Dar click en el enlace para escuchar el documento de audio.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1k9ADd3ChJ9p7LaIfeBXGdXITF-BwUF4T?usp
=share_link.

UNIT 4. SECCIÓN D

ACTIVITY: LISTENING ( 4.9 ) TRACK 10 . AMERICAN ENGLISH FILE 2 CD 2.

You have 2 minutes to answer the following items. You can use the verbal tense in
the past.

1) Who did ask for?

a) Tim
b) A woman
c) A man
d) Nobody

2) What did the man say?

a) Excuse Me, could you take a photo
b) Can you take me a photo?
c) Can you take a picture?

3) What did he buy?

a) a pair of shoes
b) a pair of socks
c) a handback
d) a bag

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The following complementary resources are suggestions so that you can expand the information on
the topics studied, as part of your self-learning process:

● Lesson 1.1: VOCABULARY: Learn English: Clothes

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/rJXUpEkWhjc

● Lesson 1.2: GRAMMAR: Present Perfect with Ever and Never

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/hlzLeX2ijAU

● Lesson 2.1: VOCABULARY: Vocabulary: Verb phrases

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/m1j0aq8TbeY

● Lesson 2.2: GRAMMAR: Grammar: PRESENT PERFECT + YET AND ALREADY

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/mqUxDCZWhtw

● Lesson 3.1: VOCABULARY: Vocabulary: TIME EXPRESSIONS: SPEND TIME,

WASTE, TIME, etc.

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/3cT6RjtbFSM

● Lesson 3.2: GRAMMAR: Grammar: Comparatives, as…. as, less….

Than…..

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/GsxuX7PHq2Q

● Lesson 4.1: VOCABULARY: Vocabulary: Opposite Adjective.

o Extra video: https://youtu.be/mW8dFPV9EKw

● Lesson 4.2: GRAMMAR: Grammar: Superlatives ( + ever + Present simple)

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 o Extra video: https://youtu.be/K1Rs793CjqE

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● Latham-Koenig, Christina, Oxeden, Clive (2008). América English File 2B. Editorial.
Oxford.

● Annette Capel, Nicki Joseph (2015). Cambridge University Press and UCLES. Editorial
Cambridge University Press and UCLES.

● Castro Quiroz, Martha Elizabeth, Mera Moya, Daniel Gustavo, Loor Domo, Mónica
Lissette, Vera Vélez Francisco Ricardo, Cedeño Macías, Leticia Mercedes (2018). Better
Together Level. Editorial Universidad Técnica de Manabí.

● Grupo Editorial Océano (2000). Diccionario Smart Español-inglés. Océano.

● Phillips, Deborah Longman (2013). Editorial Pearson Education.

● Richey (2012). Oxford Business. Editorial English University Press.

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