Summer 2015

ADULTS
INTERMEDIATE

Students name:
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Lesson 1
Present Continuous
When we want to talk about an action that is happening now or at this time (and is
unfinished), we use the present continuous tense. We also use this tense when we
want to make it clear that the action is temporary.
Examples:
Positive

Negative

Question

I am looking at the teacher.

I am not looking at the

teacher.

Am I looking at the teacher?

He / She is looking at the

teacher.

He / She is not looking at

the teacher.

Is he / she looking at the

teacher?

You / We / They are looking at

the teacher.

You / We / They are not

looking at the teacher.

Are you / we / they looking at

the teacher?

The grammatical structure for the present continuous looks like this:

Subject + Verb to be + Verb + ing + complement

The boy is running.
They are

The phone is ringing.

practicing for a
contest.

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They are talking.

Exercise
Write down five things happening in the classroom right now. Remember
to use the present continuous.
1. _________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________
4. __________________________________________________________________
5. __________________________________________________________________

Exercise
Answer the following questions. Use the Present Progressive
tense.

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Who are they? Where are they? What are they doing?
Now the children are at school. Amy is sewing. She is practicing. She is sitting on a bench.
She is sitting near Timmy. Timmy is at school too. Timmy is studying. He is sitting behind
his desk. He wishes he could play with the other children. John and Susan are also at
school. They are playing outside. They are picking flowers for their teacher. John is
carrying his hat. Susan is wearing a bonnet. At this moment, Sarah is walking by the door.
She is helping the teacher. She is carrying textbooks to the shelf.

1. Where is Amy sitting now? What is she doing?

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2. Where are John and Susan playing? What is Susan wearing?
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3. At this moment, where is Sarah? Why is she carrying textbooks?
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The present continuous is also used to talk about future arrangements.

Example:
Tom: What are you doing next week?
Nick: Im going on holiday. I'm travelling to Italy.
Tomorrow he is returning home.
She is meeting her friends tonight.
He is starting a new job in the morning.

EXERCISE
Answer the questions below using the present continuous tense.
Refer to the diary below.
This is Jerrys diary:
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESD
AY
THURSDA
Y
FRIDAY

Play Tennis
Meet Tasmina
Theatre with Bob
Job interview
Airport for plane to Zimbabwe

Example:
What is Jerry doing on Wednesday?
Jerry is going to the theatre with Bob on Wednesday.
What

is

Jerry

doing

on

Monday?

.
What

is

Jerry

doing

on

Friday?

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What

is

Jerry

doing

on

Thursday?

.
What

is

Jerry

doing

on

Tuesday?

..

TASK. Now write down in your notebook what you are doing for the rest of the
week. (You can make it up if you like)
eg. On Friday I am going to the supermarket.
On Saturday. (etc,etc,)

Lesson 2
Comparative adjectives, as as

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4 Complete each sentence with the correct comparative form of the adjective
in parentheses. Add than when necessary.

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Comparisons with (Not) As... As and Less

1 READ the excerpt from a discussion between the professor of a business class and a
guest
speaker. Notice the words in bold.

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Lesson 3
Too and enough

A question of taste

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How do you like to eat different foods? Complete the chart. What would
you like to eat tonight? Tell the class.
Fried

Grilled

eggs

Fish

Steamed

Boiled

potatoes

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Baked

Roasted

Barbecue
d

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Lesson 4
Verbs followed by gerunds, infinitives

Its a long story!

Read Dans story and answer the questions.
1.
2.
3.
4.

Where did Dan live before he moved to Seoul?

Why did he want to go to South Korea?
How did he get his job there?
What did his new company offer him?

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Can you sort the verbs in bold above into the correct categories? Which
verbs are followed by verb + ing? Which are followed by to + verb?

Verbs followed by
verb + ing

Verbs followed by
to + verb

End up (living)
Spend (3 years
working)

Happen (to be)

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Group work. Has anyone in your group done these things?

Find out the

whole story.
Who
Has taken an interesting class?

Then ask
What made you decide to do that?

Used to have an unusual job?

How did you end up working there?

Has met a celebrity?

Were you expecting to meet him or her?

Has taken an exotic trip?

Are you planning on going again?

Used to have a bad habit?

What made you stop doing that?

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Verb Patterns
V + to +
infinitive
afford
agree
allow (passive)

V + object + to
+inf.
advise
allow

V+ preposition
+ v (ing)
accuse of
agree with
apologize for

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Adj. + inf with

to
amazed *
delighted
lucky

appear
arrange
ask
attempt
choose
dare
decide
expect
fail
forget
help
hope
learn
manage
offer
plan
pretend
promise
refuse
seem
tend
threaten
want
would like to

ask
beg
encourage
expect
force
invite
order
permit
persuade
recommend
remind
teach
tell
want
warn
would like

believe in
blame for
complain about
concentrate on
congratulate sb.
on
cope with
decide against
depend on
dream about/of
feel like
get used to
insist on
look forward to
prevent sb. from
sth.
rely on sth.
succeed in
specialize in
stop sb. from
talk about/of
think of
warn sb. against

eg.
I cant afford to
go on holiday.
Shes decided to
give up her job.
It seems to be a
nice day.

eg.
They invited us to
stay in their
house.
She told me to
come on time.

eg.
They were
accused of
breaking into a
shop.
I agree with
playing darts.

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relieved
afraid
disappointed *
likely
sad *
anxious
determined
motivated
shocked *
ashamed
eager
pleased
stunned *
astonished *
fortunate
prepared
surprised *
careful
glad
proud
sorry *
certain
happy
ready
upset *
content
hesitant
reluctant
willing
eg.
Im eager to go
on vacation.
Sam was glad to
see us.
Tim was willing to
marry Kim.

Lesson 5
Used to and would

FAMILY MEMORIES
Vocabulary
Read the article. What memories do these people have?

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Grammar Focus

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Lesson 6
Quantifiers

Food choices
Before you begin

Can you find these foods in the picture? What other food can you find in
the picture? Have you bought any of these things recently?
A bag of potato chips
A bottle of ketchup
A package of frozen peas
Some cartons of juice
A box of cereal
A jar of mustard
A can of soup

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Grammar. Quantifiers

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Is it good for you?

Group work. Look at these beliefs about food. Discuss each
one. Do you agree?
Its good to eat a few NUTS
every day. Theyre very
healthy.

A Little CHOCOLATE can

be good for you. It can
improve your mood.

Eating LESS
FOOD can
help you
LIVE
LONGER.
A cup of
GREEN TEA

If you eat fewer

CARBOHYDRATES
and a little more
FAT and PROTEIN,
you will lose
weight more
quickly.

every day is
You should try to eat nine
portions of FRESH FRUIT and
VEGETABLES every day.

good for your

general
health.

Reading
Brainstorm! How many different snacks can you think of? Which ones are
popular in your country. Make a class list.
Read the article. Then complete the chart for each snack. Which snacks
do you eat? Which would you like to try?
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Name of
snack
Duk bok gi

Popular in
South Korea

Ingredients
Rice
vegetables

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and

Good with
Spicy sauce

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Lesson 7
Conditionals

PEOPLE AND SOCIETY

Vocabulary

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Glossary

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Lesson 8
Modals for permission, obligation and prohibition

SO THATS WHAT IT MEANS!

Read and practice.

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Grammar focus

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Reading

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Pair work. Talk about these questions.

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Lesson 9
Present Perfect

Have you ever ridden a camel?

Grammar focus

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READING

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Lesson 10
Present perfect continuous vs. present perfect

CATCHING UP

Read. Who has some news to tell? Who doesnt?

Complete these sentences. Are any of them true for you?

Tell a partner.

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Reading

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 Find the words on the left in the reviews. Use the context
to match each word with a definition on the right.

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 Read the reviews again, and answer the questions. Underline words
and phrases n the reviews to suport your answers. Then discuss
your answers with a partner.

Think of a show, a movie, a book, or a CD you have enjoyed. Write a

review about it.

Read your cassmates reviews. Can you find:

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Lesson 11
Past perfect

Strange
events

Getting Started
What coincidences did these people experience?

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Grammar Focus

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Lesson 12
Future with be going to and will

GOING PLACES

Read the conversation and answer:

Have you ever taken a vacation at the beach? What kinds of things
can you do there?
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Grammar focus

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Lesson 13

Adjectives ending in ed and -ing

UPS AND DOWNS

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Grammar focus
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Adjectives ending in ed and ing

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Lesson 14

MODALS FOR SPECULATION

SPECULATING
Emma and Lloyd are speculating about the young girl at the graduation
ceremony. What guesses do they make?

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Lesson 15
Reported speech

POSSESSIONS
Read what British artist Michael Landy says about one of his artistic projects.
What is the project? Could you do the same thing with all your possessions?

Read what Ginny said about the article? Did she get the fact right?

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Complete these sentences to report what Michael Landy said:

Grammar. Reported speech

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Speaking. Whos materialistic?

Discuss the questions with your classmates. How materialistic are you?
Take notes.

Lesson 16
Passive Constructions

ITS REALLY WORTH SEEING!

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Lesson 17
Relative pronouns

THATS WHAT FRIENDS ARE FOR!

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Lesson 18
Tag Questions

IN THE PUBLIC EYE

Read. How did
conversation.

Lana

become

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famous?

Practice

the

Complete the chart using expressions in the conversation. Then tell a

partner about someone famous. How did that person become famous?

Grammar. Tag Questions

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Whos hot? Whos not?

Group work. Discuss the questions. Who knows the most
about people in the news?
Whos in the headlines these days? Why? Is anyone getting bad press?
Who are the up-and-coming pop singers right now?
What about movie stars? Whose careers have taken off recently?
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 Can you think of any stars who have dropped out of sight? Why did their
careers
go downhill, do you think?

Question tag memo game

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Lesson 19
Simple future, future continuous, future perfect

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Grammar focus

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Class activity. Discuss these questions.

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Lesson 20
EXPRESSIONS OF PURPOSE

The right stuff

Grammar Focus

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Reading

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Lesson 21
Inseparable phrasal verbs

AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD
Topic Preview. Read what these people say about
globalization. Who seems enthusiastic about it? Who seems to
be critical? Who seems neutral?

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Express Your Ideas. Which of the quotations come closest to your own
views?

Describe the cultural impact of foreign imports

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Grammar Snapshot. Read the peoples opinions and notice the phrasal
verbs.

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React to news about global issues

Conversation. Read.
Notice the conversation strategies.
To react positively
A: Can you believe how much money was donated for hunger relief?
B: It really makes you feel good, doesnt it?
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A: I guess it just goes to show you what people can do when they put
their minds to it.

To react negatively
A: Can you believe that no ones doing anything about global warming?
B: Its really mind-boggling, isnt it?
A: Yeah. Youd think in this day and age they could come up with a way
to slow it down.

Vocabulary. Phrasal Verbs to Discuss Global Issues.

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Lesson 22
So, too, either, neither

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Grammar focus

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Lesson 23
Conjunctions

ITS A VERY EXCITING PLACE!

Vocabulary

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CONVERSATION. Its a fairly big city!

Read and practice.

Grammar focus

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Lesson 24
NARRATIVE TENSES
Narrative tenses are the grammatical structures that you use when telling a story, or talking about
situations and activities which happened at a defined past time. When narrating past events, DO NOT
mix past and present tenses (avoid using the present perfect and present simple), as these will confuse
the reader/listener about when things really happened.
Here are the most common narrative tenses and how they are used:
1. The Past Simple
The Past Simple is used to narrate past events in chronological order.
Alice left her family home in the morning and moved to the big city. What a busy day it was! She sat and
looked at the cozy living room around her. At last the house was hers. She gazed out at the London
skyline with awe.
2. The Past Perfect
The Past Perfect is used to express an action that happened before a definite time in the past.
A writer can use it to re-order the events of a narrative for dramatic effect.
Alice sat and looked at the cozy living room around her. At last the house was hers. What a busy day it
had been! She had left her family home in the morning and had moved to the big city. She gazed at the
London skyline with awe.
Notice that had need not be repeated if the subject of both verbs is the same.
She had said goodbye to her mother and (had) caught the train to London.
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 It is not always essential to use the Past Perfect. If it is clear that the events described in the time
clause took place before the one in the main clause, the Past Simple can be used.
After she said goodbye to her mother, she caught the train to London.
If it is important to show that the first action was completed before the second one began, the
Past Perfect must be used.
When she had raised sufficient capital, she put in an offer on the house.
For reasons of style, it is unwise (and unnecessary) to have too many verbs in the Past Perfect
one after another. Once the time aspect of 'past in the past' has been established, the Past
Simple can be used as long as there is no ambiguity.
The furniture suited the room perfectly. She had been to auction rooms looking for just the right period
pieces, and had found some excellent examples of Regency workmanship. She bought them at good
prices, and didn't pay more than five hundred pounds for anything.

3. The Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous.

The Past Continuous and the Past Perfect Continuous (as with all continuous tenses) express
ideas of activity in progress or repeated activity.
She was wearing a green velvet dress.
She was hoping the phone would ring.
She had been arranging and rearranging the rooms for weeks.
5. Past Simple, used to, and would for past habits
Used to can be used to express past habits and states.
We used to go out a lot. (habit)
He used to be very short tempered. (state)
Would, can express typical behavior. Whereas used to is quite factual, would looks at past habits
rather nostalgically.
We had some lovely holidays by the sea when I was young. We'd spend the day collecting seashells, or
we'd go for long walks on the cliffs.
Would can not be used to express past states. (We cannot say *He'd live in a lovely cottage.)
If the past action happened only once (and is therefore not a habit), the Simple Past must be
used.
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Exercises
Put the verb in brackets into the correct form in the gap AFTER the verb. Where
no verb is given, put the following linking words into the gaps:
While / finally / and / although / however / as soon as / then / before / when
The Unlucky Burglar
One evening Paul (watch) ____________ the television ____________
(eat)____________ his supper ____________ the door suddenly (open)
____________ and a burglar (come) ____________ in. He (wear)
____________ a mask and (carry) ____________ a sack. ____________ doing
anything else he (tie) ____________ Paul to the chair. ____________ he went
upstairs to look for money. ____________ he (not find) ____________ any
money he (find) ____________ a lot of jewelry, which he (put) ____________
into his sack. In his rush to get downstairs he (not see) ____________ the dog
(lie) ____________ at the bottom of the stairs, and he (fall) ____________ over
it, losing his glasses. ____________ the burglar (look for) ____________ them,
Paul (try) ____________ to free himself. ____________ Paul (manage)
____________ to escape and he (phone) ____________ the police.
____________ the burglar (find) ____________ his glasses he (run)
____________ out of the house. ____________ unfortunately for him, the police
(wait) ____________ for him at the end of the garden.

Put the verb in brackets into the correct form. Where possible, use 'used to'
and 'would'.
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens ____________ (born) in 1812 in Portsmouth. The family
____________ (move) to London in 1823. When he was twelve he
____________ (work) in a blacking factory. He worked by a window facing the
street and passersby ____________ (pause) and watch him at work. Every day
he ____________ (trudge) through the London streets from Camden Town to
Southwark. His family ____________ (be) very poor. His mother ____________
(hope) to open a small school. While she ____________ (try) to do this, her
husband ____________ (send) to prison for being 40 in debt. When Charles
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____________ (be) twenty-four, his first work, sketches by Boz, ____________

(publish). This ____________ (follow) by Pickwick Papers with which he
____________ (achieve) financial security and popularity. For the rest of his life,
work simply ____________ (pour) from his pen. He ____________ (die) of a
stroke in 1870.

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