El curso sigue los contenidos de vocabulario, de funciones comunicativas y de discurso que aparecen distribuidos en cada uno de los ocho capítulos del libro. Así los contenidos gramaticales, los contenidos léxicos y vocabulario están relacionados con las siguientes unidades temáticas desarrolladas en el manual:
Unit 1: Education
Unit 2: Mathematics
Unit 3: Psychology
Unit 4: History
Unit 5: Languages
Unit 6: Mass Media
Unit 7: Law
Unit 8: Tourism
EDUCATION
Common nouns and proper names
Pronouns
Personal pronouns
Object pronouns
Possessive adjectives
Possessive pronouns
MATHEMATICS
Age and numbers
Existential “there”
Countable nouns
Uncountable nouns
Psychology
Word order in questions
Yes/No Questions (in the present tense)
Wh Questions (in the present tense)
4. History (Past tenses)
Asking questions in the past: Use of auxiliaries: "Did" , "Was/Were"
Irregular Past (Irregular verbs)
Regular Past in affirmatives (V+ed)
Auxiliaries and negation
5. Languages
English Basic Word Order
Passive Sentences (O-V- (by S) - structure)
Active Sentences : Varbs and auxiliaries. (S-V-O structure)
Verb Forms: Verbs with one object and (Be+ past particple) with passives
Double object verbs verbs with two objects (direct and indirect objects)
Impersonal Passives
6. Mass Media
Possession and Possessive structures
Saxon Genitive (definite and Indefinite Genitives)
Irregularities with the suffix 's
7. Law
Prepositions and Verb-Preposition Combinations
4 kinds of prepositions :
Position,
Location,
Time,
Direction
Verb + Prepositions
Other types of verb preposition combinations
8. Tourism
Auxiliaries: Will/Would
Modal Verbs
Ability: can
Possibility: can/may
Obligation: must /have to
Prohibition: mustn’t
Lack of obligation: don’t have to
Suggestion or advice: should
Además el manual incluye unos apéndices con otros contenidos gramaticales que también deberán estudiarse:
• Relative clauses
• The adjective: Comparative and superlative forms
• Irregular verbs
