HO CHI MINH CITY INDUSTRY AND TRADE COLLEGE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ----------------------------------- BASIC ENGLISH ELEMENTARY – 2nd edition FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY HO CHI MINH CITY, AUGUST 2019 HO CHI MINH CITY INDUSTRY AND TRADE COLLEGE FACULTY OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES ----------------------------------- BASIC ENGLISH ELEMENTARY – 2nd edition CHIEF COMPILER BA. Phuong Thi He CO-COMPILERS BA. Tran Xuan Quynh Huong BA. Tran Thi Thao ME.
Nguyen Thi Tuyet Hoa MBA. Nguyen Dinh Nhu Ha FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY HO CHI MINH CITY, AUGUST 2019 INTRODUCTION Who is this book for? This Basic English is compiled for all non-major English students at Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College. What kind of English does this book teach? This book teaches general English and aims at helping students practice 4 skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. How is the book organized? In this book, there are 7 units which cover different topics such as: introducing yourself, your work and free time, your past time, your future plans, etc.
There are 8 sections in each unit: • Grammar • Vocabulary • Listening • Speaking • Reading • Writing • Everyday English • Consolidation Beside 7 units, there is a reference part which includes tapescripts, grammar reference, irregular verbs and phonetic symbols. How was this book compiled? The compilation of this book was mainly based on New Headway Elementary – Student’s book and Workbook (The third edition) by John and Liz Soars. The lessons from this book were carefully selected and modified by teachers of Faculty of Foreign Languages so that they would be suitable for the students’ level at Ho Chi Minh City Industry and Trade College. CONTENTS LANGUAGE INPUT UNIT GRAMMAR VOCABULARY EVERYDAY ENGLISH 1.
Hello everybody! Verb to be Countries Hello and goodbye am/is/are France, England, Mexico p9 Telephone numbers p13 I’m from London. p5 Opposite adjectives How are you? She’s a journalist. old-young p10 See you later! p14 Possessive adjectives Everyday objects – plural nouns my/your/his/her p5 bags, keys, watches p11 Possessive ’s Patrick’s family p7 2. The world of Present Simple Jobs What time is it? work & your free I/you/she/it A pilot flies planes.
p24 It’s five o’clock. I work hard as a lawyer. p19 Leisure activities It’s just after five o’clock. time She works 16 hours a day.
dancing, skiing, swimming p25 p27 p20 Questions and negatives Do you play rugby? She doesn’t live in Canada. Places and food There is/are Rooms and furniture in a house Polite requests There’s a television. living room, bedroom Could you pass the salt There are some books. p32 television, sofa, lamp p31 please? Prepositions of place Food and drink Can I see the menu? p41 under the table chocolate, beer, chips, coffee, on the wall p33 carrots p34 Count and uncount nouns apple, apple juice p34 I like…… I’d like …….
Do you like tea? Would you like some tea? p35 How many/How much? How many cakes are there? How much bread is there? p36 some/any There are some bananas. Is there any sugar in this tea? P36 4. Bigger and better! Comparatives & Superlatives City and country adjectives Directions The country is cheaper than dirty, noisy, safe, quiet p44 round the corner the city. p44 City and country words over the bridge p51 His car is the most expensive.
river, farm, building p50 p45 Have / Have got I’ve got a dog. They haven’t got a flat. p47 Contents 1 SKILLS DEVELOPMENT READING SPEAKING LISTENING WRITING An email from England p12 Introducing yourself p5 An email from England p12 Introducing yourself p8 Telephoning conversations p14 My favourite season p22 My favourite season People come from different Describing your free time Which season do you like countries and their p26 best? Why? p22 favourite seasons. p22 Your free time What do you like doing in your free time? p26 Food around the world p39 Where do you live? p31 I like …… I’d like p36 Describing where you live What food and drink do Requests and responses p33 you like? p35 p41 Viva la danza! Talking about your city Comparing life in the city Describing a famous p49 Buenos Aires/ p48 and the country p44 city in your country Havana/Seville p48, 49 Contents 2 LANGUAGE INPUT UNIT GRAMMAR VOCABULARY EVERYDAY ENGLISH 5.
Your past time Past Simple 1 Words that go together What’s the date? was/were Verbs and nouns The third of April p60 Where were you yesterday? Drive a car Special occasions I was at school. p53 Compound nouns New Year’s Eve Past Simple 2 railway station p59 Birthday p61 Regular and irregular verbs He finished school when he was 14. He left Scotland in 1871. p55 Time expressions yesterday, last week p57 in 1924 on 10 October at 7 o’clock 6.
What are you Present Continuous The weather Making suggestions going to do? I’m wearing a T-shirt and sunny, cloudy What shall we do? jeans. What’s the weather like? p74 Let’s go swimming! p75 Who is laughing? p64 Going to I’m going to be a footballer. p67 Whose is it? Whose is the baby? p70 Possessive pronouns mine, yours, hers p70 7. Story time Question forms Adjectives of feelings At the chemist’s What …? Which ….? How …? bored, worried p81 I’m looking for some How many ….
p84 Adverbs of manner quick, quickly good, well p80 Tapescripts p87 Grammar Grammar Reference Reference p93 p92 Irregular verbs Irregular p. verbs p105 Contents 3 READING SPEAKING LISTENING WRITING A biography p58 Where were you ….? Compound nouns p59 Describing your last holiday - at 8 o’clock this morning The ordinals p60 p57 - last Saturday evening p54 Talk about a famous person in your country. p58 Flying without wings (song Your future plans Looking for that something Writing about your future lyrics ) p72 What are you going to do? The song: Flying without plans 69 - after the lesson wings p72 - tomorrow p73 - after college p67 A short story Telling a story about your Story time p78 Writing about your first day The Christmas Presents childhood p83 to school p83 p82 Verb patterns p105 Phonetic symbols Phonetic p106 symbols p94 References p107 Contents 4 1 T To be – Possessive adjectives – Countries - Family - Opposites Hello and Goodbye INTRODUCTIONS am / is / are, my / your Practise the following conversation. My name’s Marco.
What’s your name? B. Where are you from, Emma? B. How old are you, Emma? B. GRAMMAR SPOT To be Possessive adjectives Notes I’m = I am my What’s = What is You’re = You are your + name name’s = name is She’s = She is her à Grammar Reference 1.1 Listen and tick (P) the sentence you hear.
1) She’s from Spain. 4) Where’s she from? He’s from Spain. Where’s he from? 2) What’s her name? 5) He’s a teacher in Italy. What’s his name? His teacher’s in Italy.
3) They’re from Japan. They’re in Japan. Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 5 2. Complete the sentences with am, is, are, his, her, or your.
1) My name is Emma. 2) Where you from? 3) I from Italy. 4) ‘What’s name?’ à ‘My name’s Danielle.’ 5) Lisa and Mike from Boston. 6) This my teacher.
7) Where he from? 8) This is my sister. Read the information about Lisa Jefferson. Surname Jefferson First name Lisa Country The USA Job Journalist Address 89, Franklin Street, Cambridge, Boston Phone number (616) 326 1204 Age 26 Married No Complete and answer the questions. 1) What’s her surname? 2) her first name? 3) she from? 4) job? 5) What’s ? 6) phone number ? 7) How old ? 8) Is she ? Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 6 4.
Make true sentences with the verb to be. 1) I’m not at home. 2) We in class. 3) It Monday today.
4) My teacher John. 5) My mother and father at work. 7) My grandmother seventy – five years old. 8) Marco and Polo my brothers.
9) We in the café. We in the classroom. PATRICK’S FAMILY Possessive ’s 1. Read about Patrick Binchey.
Then write the people’s names in the correct place. This is a photo of Patrick, his wife and his children. His wife’s name is Brenda. His daughter’s name is Lara.
She’s twenty – one and she’s a nurse. His son’s name is Ricky. He’s nineteen and he’s a student. Lara’s boyfriend is a nurse, too.
His name is Mick. Ask and answer the questions about Patrick’s family. Who is Brenda? She is Patrick’s wife. Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 7 GRAMMAR SPOT 1/ Look at ’s.
She’s a teacher: She’s = She is His wife’s name: His wife’s name = Her name ‘s = possession. 2/ Find other examples in the text of ’s = possession and ’s = is. Write the names of people in your family. Ask and answer questions with a partner.
Peter Jason Marie Alice Selena Ricky Ask a partner questions about his / her family. Who’s Peter? He’s my brother. Who’s Marie? She’s my aunt. She’s my mother’s sister.
Tick (P) the correct sentence. 2) I have twenty – nine years old. 6) I’m an university student. I’m twenty – nine years old.
7) I have two brother. I am not married. I have two brothers. 4) My sister’s name is Selena.
8) Peter’s the son of my sister. My sisters name is Selena. Peter’s my sister’s son. WRITING Introducing yourself Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 8 VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING Countries 1.2 Listen and repeat.
the USA England Brazil Italy Australia France Poland Japan Hungary Spain Russia Mexico Germany 2. Where are they from? Write the countries from exercise 1. G’day! Czes’c’! iBuenos dias! 1. Danka is from _______ 2.
Jason is from _______ 3. Rosa is from _______ Konnichiwa! Bonjour! Bom Dia! 4. Ronaldo is from _______ 5. Jessica is from _______ 6.
Dominique is from _______ Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 9 Opposites 1. Match the adjectives with their opposites. big horrible old old new small lovely difficult easy cheap hot cold expensive slow fast young 2. Write about the pictures, using the adjectives.
It’s_________ Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 10 GRAMMAR SPOT EVERYDAY OBJECTS Singular / plural nouns – Articles: a/an I have a book and an eraser. They have books and notebooks. What’s this in English? à Grammar Reference 1.93 Write a, an, or the plural noun. a board an ice - cream keys matches 1.
Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 11 READING AND LISTENING An email from England 1.3 Danka is a student at an English language school in Brighton, England. Read and listen to her email to Jacek, her brother in Poland. Correct the false sentences. 1) Danka is from Poland.
P 2) She’s on holiday. X No, she isn’t. She’s at school. 3) She’s in London.
4) The students in her class are all from Germany. 5) It’s a very big class. 6) Becky and James are both students. 7) The student bars are cheap.
8) Danka’s happy in Brighton. Write the questions about Danka’s email. 1) Where’s Danka from? Poland. 2) _________________________? Japan, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
4) _________________________? They’re brother and sister. They live with Danka. 5) _________________________? James is 25 and Beck’s 19. 6) ______ Brighton ___________? No, it isn’t.
Unit 1 – Hello everybody! 12 EVERYDAY ENGLISH Hello and Goodbye 1. Say the numbers 1 – 20 round the class. one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty 2. Read aloud the telephone numbers.
682 947: six eight two – nine four seven 07700 955 318: oh double seven double oh – nine double five – three one eight 0932 786 156: oh nine three two – seven eight six – one five six 3. Ask and answer the questions with other students. What’s your phone number? My phone number is / It’s 0902 365 655.f Thank you very much.