Intensive course for self learning with grammar exercises and communicative activities in context

1. GRAMMAR IN CONTEXT
PRE-INTERMEDIATE
LESSONS AND EXERCISES

2. LIST OF CONTENTS
PRE-INTERMEDIATE
• INTRODUCTION: TALKING ABOUT YOU
• DAILY ROUTINES (PRESENT SIMPLE)
• FAMILY AND PEOPLE DESCRIPTION VOCABULARY (ADJECTIVES AND
COMPARATIVES)
• DEFINITIONS (RELATIVE CLAUSES)
• ACTIONS PERFORMED NOW (PRESENT CONTINUOUS)
• TALKING ABOUT LAST HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS (PAST SIMPLE)
• DESCRIBING EVENTS THAT INTERRUPT OTHERS (PAST CONTINUOUS)
• PREPOSITIONS O PLACE AND TIME
• TALKING ABOUT PLANS AND DECISIONS (FUTURE GOING TO AND
WILL)

3. TALKING ABOUT YOU
INTRODUCING YOURSELF AND OTHERS

4. Talking about
yourself
TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF – GIVING PERSONAL INFORMATION

5. COMMON QUESTIONS
TO KNOW MORE ABOUT
SOMEBODY
• What do you study at the university?
• Where do you come from?
• Do you have brothers and sisters? How many?
• Do you have pets?
• Have you studied english before?
• What do you like doing in your free time?
• Do you have a favorite movie or book?
Talking about you – Introducing yourself and others

6. What do you study at the university?
I study engineering/obstetrics/pedagogy, etc
Where do you come from?
I come from Valparaíso
Do you have brothers and sisters? How many?
Yes, I have 2 brothers
Do you have pets?
I have a dog , his name is Bobby
Have you studied english before?
Yes, I did a course for 2 months
What do you like doing in your free time?
I like watching tv series
Do you have a favorite movie or book?
My favorite movie is The Godfather
Talking about you – Introducing yourself and others

7. DAILY ROUTINES
ACTIVITIES YOU DO EVERY DAY OR WEEK

8. DAILY ROUTINES
Daily routines

9. PRESENT SIMPLE

10. Elicit more activities students might do
PRESENT SIMPLE
Facebook: I check my facebook
feed/ I update my status
Youtube: I search for videos on
Youtube/ I watch videos on
Youtube
Pets : I give my dog/cat a bath/ I
walk my cat/dog / I feed my
cat/dog
House : Tide up my room / I clean
my room
Others : I travel to my house / I take
the bus
I take photographs
I go buy groceries
I go shopping downtown
I cook for lunch
I put my make up on

11. PHYSICAL AND CHARACTER
DESCRIPTION

12. PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

15. HEIGHT tall short medium
height
Brad pitt is tall
BUILD slim/thin fat
chubby
plump
overweight
well built My mom is slim
AGE old young middle age Jack nicholson is old
HAIR blonde brown/
brunette
grey dark/
black
Scarlett johanson is
blond
EYES brown black green blue You have hazel eyes
OTHER
FEATURES
Freckles
(pecas)
Mole
(lunar)
Wrinkles
(arrugas)
Wear
glasses
(usa
anteojos)
Beard
(barba)
Moustache
(bigotes)
My father has wrinkles
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

16. Watch this slideshow
about appearance and
personality
description
VOCABULARY: APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY

17. VOCABULARY: Using an online dictionary Look for the meaning of each of these
words. Choose which are the ones that define your personality

18. VOCABULARY: APPEARANCE AND PERSONALITY

19. VOCABULARY: THE FAMILY

20. VOCABULARY:THEFAMILY

21. SPEAKING PART
VOCABULARY: THE FAMILY
“TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FAMILY”
With a partner you will talk about your family by answering the following questions
1. Who do you live with?
2. What is your mom’s or dad’s name? (describe him or her physically or psychologically)
3. What does your mom or dad do?
4. Do you have any sisters? If so, how could you describe their personality?
5. Do you have any brothers? If so, How do they look like?
6. Where does your family live?
7. What do you do as a family on the weekends, or what did you used to do together?

22. SPEAKING PART
VOCABULARY: THE FAMILY
“TELL ME ABOUT YOUR FAMILY”
With a partner you will talk about your family by answering the following questions
Aspects to be evaluated
ATTITUDE: Show a possitive mindset to the speaking session. Be and look interested in what
your partner is speaking.
PRONUNCIATION: Be careful about the right sound of vowels and consonants in order to
avoid your message is not conveyed correctly.
VOCABULARY IN USE: Use as much vocabulary seen in the unit. Make an effort, do not repeat
all features to all descriptions.
GRAMMAR: If your sentences are nos grammatically well elaborated, you will not sound
coherent, therefore, there will be a break in communication.

23. EXERCISES
ASKING QUESTIONS (speaking)

24. EXERCISES
ASKING QUESTIONS

25. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

26. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

27. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

28. EXERCISES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Exercises for practicing grammar rules

29. FURTHER PRACTICE EXERCISES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
Look at the pictures and write what is happening (and what is not) in each of them

30. PRESENT CONTINUOUS

31. EXERCISES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS

32. EXERCISES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS

33. ___A model
___A school teacher
___A doctor
___A newspaper writer
___A journalist in a gossip magazine
___A chef
EXERCISES
Think what is each professional doing at the moment
PRESENT CONTINUOUS
1. He is buying vegetables and
meat
2. He is writing a medical
prescription for an old lady
3. He is waiting for an interview
with an actress
4. she is trying clothes for the new
magazine cover
5. He is checking the tests he made
last week
6. He is reading an article

34. EXERCISES
PRESENT CONTINUOUS

35. PAST SIMPLE

36. HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
PAST SIMPLE
HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
TALKING ABOUT HOLIDAYS
1.Where did you go?
2. When did you go?
3. Who did you go with?
4. How did you get there?
5. Where did you stayed at?
6. How long were you there?
7. What was the weather like?
8. What did you do during the day?
9. What did you do in the evening?
10. Did you buy any souvenirs?

37. HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
PAST SIMPLE
1.Where did you go? I went to pucon (city, town, a volcano, a beach, lake, etc)
2. When did you go? I went on… (month or season)
3. Who did you go with? I went with …(person)
4. How did you get there? I got there by …(car, bus, airplane, etc)
5. Where did you stayed at? I stayed at …(hostel, lodge, house, hotel)
6. How long were you there? I was there for …(a week, one month, etc)
7. What was the weather like? The weather was …(sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy,
etc)
8. What did you do during the day? I went…(activity: walking, hiking, swimming,
read, eat, sunbathe,etc)
9. What did you do in the evening? In the evenings i…(go to parties, relax, eat
with frieds, take a walk, etc)
10. Did you buy any souvenirs? I bought…(a shirt, a pen, ornament, handcraft art,
liquor, etc)

38. HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
Vocabulary about vacations

39. HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
Vocabulary about vacations

40. HOLIDAYS AND VACATIONS
Vocabulary about souvenirs

41. PAST SIMPLE

42. PAST SIMPLE

43. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST SIMPLE

44. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST SIMPLE

45. GRAMMAR: RELATIVE CLAUSES

46. If it is RELEVANT (we need the clause to fully understand the
context), it is considered a defining clause
Example: the coat my best friend gave me is my favorite
RELATIVE CLAUSES

47. If it is IRRELEVANT (we don’t need it to fully undestand the
context), it is considered a non defining clause
Example: santiago, which is the capital of chile, is my least
favorite place.
RELATIVE CLAUSES

48. COMPLETE THE MEANING USING: WHO, WHERE OR WHICH
AND VERBS : KEEP EAT BUY PUT(2) BUILD LIGHT BORROW LIVE WRITE(2)
ANSWER CUT
1. A builder is a person __________ ____________ houses.
2. A library is a place __________ you ____________ books.
3. A bookshop is a place __________ you ____________ books.
4. A bank is a place __________ you ____________ your money.
5. Matches are things __________ you use to ___________fire
6. A cap is somthing __________ you ____________ on your head.
7. A recepcionist is a person __________ ____________ the phone.
8. A composer is somebody __________ ____________ music.
9. A journalist is a person __________ ____________ for a newspaper or
magazine.
10.Scissors are things __________ you use to ____________ paper with.
11.A lipstick is something __________ you ____________ on your lips.
12.A restaurant is a place __________ you ____________ well.
EXERCISES
RELATIVE CLAUSES

49. Key
Relative pronouns
1. A builder is a person ____who______ ____________ houses.
2. A library is a place ____where______ you ____________ books.
3. A bookshop is a place ___where_______ you ____________ books.
4. A bank is a place ___where_______ you ____________ your money.
5. Matches are things _____which/that_____ you use to ___________fire
6. A cap is something _____which/that_____ you ____________ on your head.
7. A recepcionist is a person ____who______ ____________ the phone.
8. A composer is somebody ____who______ ____________ music.
9. A journalist is a person ____who______ ____________ for a newspaper or magazine.
10. Scissors are things _____which/that_____ you use to ____________ paper with.
11. A lipstick is something _____which/that_____ you ____________ on your lips.
12. A restaurant is a place ___where_______ you ____________ well.
Verbs
Builds
Borrow
Buy
Keep
Light
Put
Answers
Writes
Writes
Cut
Put
Eat
EXERCISES
RELATIVE CLAUSES

50. Second Test

51. PAST CONTINUOUS

52. PAST CONTINUOUS
We were driving home after going to
the cinema when I saw my dog walking
down the street

53. EXERCISES-PAIR PRACTICE
PAST CONTINUOUS

54. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Complete the story with the verbs given in past simple or past continuous.

55. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Answer key
1. Was driving (past continuous)
2. Had (past simple)
3. Was talking (past continuous)
4. Was sleeping (past continuous)
5. Rang (past simple)
6. Broke (past simple)
7. Were studying (past continuous)
8. Were (past simple)
9. Was watching (past continuous)
10. Went out (past simple)
11. Scored (past simple)
12. Was playing (past continuous)
13. Was walking (past continuous)
14. Made (past simple)
15. Heard (past simple)
16. Was reading (past continuous)

56. EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Use the verbs given and write full sentences from a to k.

57. EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Answer key
a) She was eating pizza
b) They were going to the cinema
c) We were walking the dog
d) I was shopping
e) You were doing your homework
f) Steven and Amanda were drinking tea
g) The teachers were talking in the staffroom
h) My sister was cleaning the kitchen
i) We were listening to music
j) It was snowing all day yesterday
k) I was playing a computer game

58. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Write full sentences with the verbs given.

59. EXTRA PRACTICE
EXERCISES
PAST CONTINUOUS
Answer key
a) They weren’t studying for the test
a) She wasn’t going home for the weekend
b) I wasn’t drinking coffee
c) It wasn’t raining yesterday
d) You weren’t listening to me!
e) Michelle wasn’t buying more shoes
f) We weren’t playing computer games
g) His brothers weren’t cleaning their bedrom
h) Pierre wasn’t driving the car
i) The computer wasn’t working because it was
broken

60. GRAMMAR:PREPOSITIONS OF
PLACE (IN-ON-AT)

61. PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE

62. 1COMMON PLACES
At home - En casa
At school - En la escuela
At work - En el trabajo
At university - En la universidad
At the dentist's - En el dentista
At the movies - En el cine
At the theater - En el teatro
At the airport - En el aeropuerto
At the library - En la biblioteca
At the doctor's - En el doctor
At the bank - En el banco
At a concert - En el concierto
At a meeting - En la reunión
At a party - En la fiesta
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
2ESPECIFIC PLACES
At Madison Square Garden
At Kennedy Airport
At Buckingham Palace
At the University of Florida
3ADDRESS
At 2354 Rivadavia Avenue
At 3456 Belgrano Street

63. 1SURFACE
On the floor - En el piso
On the ceiling - En el techo
On the table - En la mesa
On the chair - En la silla
On the list - En la lista
On the map - En el mapa
On the beach - En la playa
On the shelf - En el estante
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
2MEANS OF TRANSPORT
On + medios de transporte
On a ship - En un barco
On a train - En un tren
On a plane - En un avión
On a bus - En un autobús
On a bicycle - En una bicicleta
On a motorcycle - En una
motocicleta
On a horse - A caballo
On a ferry - En un transbordador

64. 1COUNTRIES AND CITIES
PAÍSES
In Argentina
In Spain
In Mexico
CIUDADES
In New York
In Madrid
In Mexico City
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
2HABITACIONES
In the bathroom - En el baño
In the kitchen - En la cocina
In the bedroom - En el dormitorio
3AGUA
In the sea - En el mar
In the water - En el agua
In a river - En un río
In the ocean - En el océano

65. EXTRA: PREPOSITIONS OF TIME

66. EXERCISES
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
Complete with the missing preposition in, on or at
a) I’ve got a computer_____my bedroom.
b) There were a lot of people _____the train yesterday.
c) The Nile is the longest river in the world.
d) What do you usually do _____the weekends?
e) This calculator has your name______it
f) We usually visit my grandparent ______Christmas
g) Where were you_______ Christmas day?
h) His photo was ______the newspaper yesteday.
i) We often go skiing ______the winter.
j) The head`s office is ______the end of the passage.
k) Hamburg is______the north of Germany.
l) I go up the street and turn left _____the traffic lights.
m)Why is my name______the bottom list?

67. EXERCISES CHECK
PREPOSITIONS OF PLACE
Key

68. GRAMMAR: FUTURE (GOING TO-
WILL)

69. EXERCISES
FUTURE PLANS AND ARRANGEMENTS (GOING TO-WILL)

70. EXERCISES
FUTURE (GOING TO-WILL)

71. EXERCISES
FUTURE (GOING TO-WILL)
Answer key
a) Are going to see
b) Are you doing
c) ‘ll be, will lose
d) ‘m going to leave
e) ‘m going to have, ´m going to start
f) ´ll have
g) ´ll take, is going to take
h) ´m going to watch
i) ´m going to do, ´ll get

72. GOOD LUCK IN YOUR TEST!!