INTENSIVE BASIC 08

TEACHER: NELO RODRIGUEZ

Schedule: 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Frequency: Monday – Wednesday - Friday

Branch: Miraflores
GOOD EXPERIENCES

SEE A CELEBRITY: WALK AROUND THE STREET AND SEE CRISTIANO RONALDO
FIND SOME MONEY: I’M SO LUCKY I FOUND TEN DOLLARS ON THE STREET
WIN THE LOTTERY: MY BEST FRIEND WAS TRYING TO WIN THE MONEY PRIZE
GET A PROMOTION: I FEEL GREAT FOR DOING MY JOB. I GOT A RAISE IN MY SALARY

BAD EXPERIENCES

MISS A FLIGHT: WHEN YOU ARRIVE LATE TO THE AIRPORT

LOSE YOUR WALLET: LOSE MONEY NOT ON PURPOSE
HAVE AN ACCIDENT: FOR ANSWERING A CALL IN MY CAR I CRASHED
FAIL A TEST: HAD B GRADE ON A TEST FOR NOT HAVING STUDIED

VOCABULARY: GOOD AND BAD

UNIT 4 – IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE
EXPERIENCES
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT EVER-NEVER

FUNCTION: We use the present perfect to talk about experiences in the past. The exact time that the experience happened is
not known or is not important. We have visited Egypt.

FORM:

STATEMENTS: SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + NEVER + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT

• I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVE NEVER GONE TO THE BEACH

• HE/SHE/IT HAS NEVER WRITTEN A BOOK

YES/NO QUESTIONS: HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + EVER + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT

SHORT ANSWERS
• HAVE I/YOU/WE/THEY EVER SUNG IN A KARAOKE? YES, I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVE – NO, I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVEN’T
• HAS HE/SHE/IT EVER PLAYED BASEBALL? YES, HE/SHE/IT HAS – NO, HE/SHE/IT HASN’T

INFORMATION QUESTIONS: WH + HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT?

• WHERE HAVE I/YOU/WE/THEY GONE LAST SUMMER? I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVE TRAVELED TO THE BEACH
• WHAT HAS HE/SHE/IT COOKED FOR DINNER? HE/SHE/IT HAS COOKED A ROASTED CHICKEN
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT EVER-NEVER

EXTRA PRACTICE:
SCARED: WHEN YOU SEE THIEVES ON THE STREETS, YOU GET AFRAID
EMBARRASSED: WHEN A PERSON COMMITS A FELONY, WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN
AN UNCOMFORTABLE SITUATION

CONFUSED: WHEN A PERSON DOESN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS EXPLAINED

PROUD: WHEN YOU FEEL SATISFACTION FOR AN ACHIEVEMENT

UNCOMFORTABLE: WHEN A PERSON FEELS UNHAPPY OR UNRELAXED

EXHAUSTED: WHEN A PERSON FEELS REALLY TIRED

DISAPPOINTED: WHEN A PERSON FEELS DIFFERENT ABOUT ANOTHER PERSON

THRILLED: WHEN A PERSON FEELS EXTREMELY EXCITED

UNIT 4 – IT COULD HAPPEN TO ANYONE VOCABULARY: FEELINGS
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT HOW LONG AND FOR/SINCE

FUNCTION: We use how long with the present perfect to ask about the duration of an activity, or action that
began in the past and continues up to the present.

How long have you known Joe?

FORM: HOW LONG + HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT?

● HOW LONG HAVE I/YOU/WE/THEY LIVED IN EUROPE?

● HOW LONG HAS HE/SHE/IT BEEN MARRIED?

FUNCTION: We use the present perfect with for to talk about a length of time.

I’ve known Joe for two years.

FORM: SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + FOR + SPECIFIC TIME

● I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVE LIVED IN AREQUIPA FOR 12 YEARS

● HE/SHE/IT HAS WORKED IN THE COMPANY FOR 5 MONTHS
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT HOW LONG AND FOR/SINCE

FUNCTION: We use the present perfect with since to talk about a point in time when an action started.

I’ve known Joe since 2012.

FORM: SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + PAST PARTICIPLE VERB + SINCE + GENERAL TIME

● I/YOU/WE/THEY HAVE LIVED IN AREQUIPA SINCE 2008

● HE/SHE/IT HAS WORKED IN THE COMPANY SINCE FEBRUARY
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT HOW LONG AND FOR/SINCE

EXTRA PRACTICE:
CLASSICAL: Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical
(religious) and secular music.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

COUNTRY: Country music, style of American popular music that originated in rural parts of the South and West in
the early

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

HEAVY METAL: Heavy metal (or simply metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early
1970s, largely in the United Kingdom and the United States.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

HIP HOP: hip-hop is a culture and art movement that was created by African Americans, Latino Americans and
Caribbean Americans in the Bronx, New York City. The origin of the name is often disputed. It is also argued as to whether hip hop
started in the South or West Bronx

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

JAZZ: Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

LATIN: is a term used by the music industry as a catch-all term for music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas
of the world, namely Ibero-America and the Iberian Peninsula, as well as music sung in either language.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

POP: Pop is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the
United Kingdom.[4] The terms "popular music" and "pop music" are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music
that is popular and includes many disparate styles.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

R&B: Rhythm and blues, abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the
1940s.[1] The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans,
at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a heavy, insistent beat" was becoming more popular

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

REGGAE: is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica
and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the word "reggae",
effectively naming the genre and introducing it to a global audience.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

ROCK: Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and
early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and the
United Kingdom.[1][2] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style which drew heavily from the genres of blues,
rhythm and blues, and from country music.

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

FUNCTION: We use the simple past to talk about things that happened at a specific time in the past.

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

FORM:

● AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + VERB IN PAST + COMPLEMENT: I WENT TO THE BEACH

● NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + DIDN’T + BASE VERB + COMPLEMENT: I DIDN’T GO TO THE BEACH
● Y/N QUESTION: DID + SUBJECT + BASE VERB + COMPLEMENT?: DID YOU GO TO THE BEACH
● WH QUESTION: WH + DID + SUBJECT + BASE VERB + COMP?: WHY DID YOU GO TO THE BEACH
COMPLEMENTS: YESTERDAY, LAST, AGO, WHEN
 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

FUNCTION: We use the present perfect to talk about things that happened at a non-specific time in the past.

PAST PRESENT FUTURE

FORM:

● AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + HAVE/HAS + PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT: I HAVE GONE THE BEACH
● NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + HAVEN’T/HASN’T + PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT: I HAVEN’T GONE TO THE BEACH
● Y/N QUESTION: HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + PARTICIPLE VERB + COMPLEMENT?: HAVE YOU GONE TO THE BEACH?
● WH QUESTION: WH + HAVE/HAS + SUBJECT + PARTICIPLE VERB + COMP?: WHY HAVE YOU GONE TO THE BEACH?

COMPLEMENTS: ALREADY, YET, JUST, BEFORE, SINCE, FOR

 GRAMMAR: PRESENT PERFECT AND PAST SIMPLE

EXTRA PRACTICE:
INTERESTING: SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU FEEL CURIOUS OR CALLS YOUR ATTENTION

FUN: SOMETHING THAT MAKES YOU FEEL HAPPY OR AMUSED

HAPPY: WHEN I FEEL SOME KIND OF PLEASURE OR PLEASANT

BORING: WHEN YOU DON´T FEEL INTERESTED IN SOMETHING

AWFUL: SOMETHING REALLY TERRIBLE OR BEYOND DISGUSTING

VIOLENT: WHEN SOMETHING OR SOMEONE IS RUDE

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC

GOOD: WHEN WE LIKE SOMETHING

UPBEAT: WHEN WE FEEL OPTIMISTIC ABOUT SOMETHING

RELAXING: WHEN SOMETHING DOESN’T CAUSE STRESS

CATCHY: SOMETHING THAT TRAPS YOU IN THE VIBE

SILLY: SOMETHING DUMB OR RIDICULOUS

OLD-FASHIONED: SOMETHING NOT CURRENT

LOUD: STRONG SOUND, THEAFNING SOUND

REPETITIVE: THINGS REPEAT ALL THE TIME

UNIT 5 – MUSICAL NOTES VOCABULARY: TYPES OF MUSIC
 GRAMMAR: SHOULD AND OUGHT TO FOR ADVICE

FUNCTION: We use should and ought to to ask for and give advice, and make recommendations.

You should go to the doctor // He ought to exercise more.

FORM:

● AFFIRMATIVE: SUBJECT + SHOULD/OUGHT TO + BASE VERB + COMPLEMENT

WE SHOULD/OUGHT TO GO TO BED EARLIER

● NEGATIVE: SUBJECT + SHOULDN’T + BASE VERB + COMPLEMENT

YOU SHOULDN’T EAT TOO MUCH JUNK FOOD

● Y/N QUESTION: SHOULD + SUBJECT + BASE VERB + COMPLEMENT?

SHOULD I GET A PART TIME JOB FOR VACATIONS?

● WH QUESTION: WH + SHOULD + SUBJECT + BASE VERB + COMP?

WHAT SHOULD I DO WITH THIS PROBLEM?
 GRAMMAR: SHOULD AND OUGHT TO FOR ADVICE

EXTRA PRACTICE:
 GRAMMAR: SHOULD AND OUGHT TO FOR ADVICE

EXTRA PRACTICE:
SINK:
STOVE:
LAMP:
CABINETS:
SOFA:
RUG:
SHOWER:
BATHTUB:
CLOSET:
BED:

UNIT 6 - LIVING SPACES

VOCABULARY: OBJECTS IN A
HOUSE
GRAMMAR: HAVE TO FOR OBLIGATION AND NEED TO FOR
NECESSITY

HE/SHE/IT NEEDS TO FINISH...

HE/SHE/IT HAS TO SHOW HIS/HER/ITS.

HE/SHE/IT DOESN´T HAVE TO

DOESN’T NEED TO
 GRAMMAR: HAVE TO FOR OBLIGATION AND NEED FOR
NECESSITY

EXTRA PRACTICE:
 GRAMMAR: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADVERBS

FUNCTION: We use comparative and superlative adverbs to compare actions.

I talk more slowly in English than in my own language.

FORM: An adverb is formed from an adjective + ly = Beatiful + ly = BEATIFULY

● We form comparative adverbs by adding more/less + adverb + than

Anna attends the class more regularly than Sophia

Sophia works less effortly in class than Anna

● We form superlative adverbs by adding the most/the least + adverb

Rania writes the most often REMEMBER:

● ADJECTIVES DESCRIBE NOUNS
Julio drives the least consciously ● ADVERBS DESCRIBE ACTIONS
GRAMMAR: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADVERBS

EXAMPLES:

● Alan runs faster than Mario - Alan runs the fastest

● My sister visits me more often than my brother - My sister visits me the most often
● Rihanna sings better than Britney Spears - Rihanna sings the best
● Cats usually behave worse than dogs - Cats behave the worst
● She works harder in the office than everybody - She works the hardest
● Bombs sound louder than fireworks - Bombs sound the loudest
 GRAMMAR: COMPARATIVE AND SUPERLATIVE ADVERVS

EXTRA PRACTICE:
PICK UP: LIFT SOMETHING FROM THE FLOOR

HANG UP: PUT SOMETHING ON A HANGER

PUT AWAY: KEEP SOMETHING

TAKE OUT: TAKE OR GET SOMETHING TO THE STREET

CLEAN UP: DO THE CLEANING

THROW AWAY: PUT SOMETHING INTO THE DUMPSTER, RECYCLE

GIVE AWAY: GIVE SOMETHING AS A PRESENT

UNIT 6 - LIVING SPACES VOCABULARY: PHRASAL VERBS