UNIT 1: Wonder
Parts of speech: (see Language Booklet page 27)
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Noun: a thing, a place or a person. Example: The cat is sleeping.
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Verb: an action. Example: The girl plays with dolls. (see Language
Booklet page 28)
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Adjective: it describes a noun. Example: The big car is parked in front
of the hospital. (see Language Booklet page 30 and 31)
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Adverb: it describes a verb or another adverb. Example: The tortoise
walks slowly. (see Language Booklet page 32)
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Article: a, an and the are articles and they appear before nouns or
adjectives. Example: A tiny apple is on my desk. (see Language
Booklet page 30)
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Pronoun: it replaces nouns. Example: Susan is my friend. She lives in
Don Torcuato. (see Language Booklet page 35, 36, 37 and 38)
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Preposition: it expresses time, place or position. Example: The book is
next to the bottle. (see Language Booklet page 33)
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Conjunctions and connectors: They help us join and connect ideas.
Example: Sally is a good student but she failed the exam. (List of
connectors: Language Booklet page 1, see Language Booklet page
39 and 40)
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Noun phrase: it includes a noun and its modifiers. Example: My
friend’s dog is in my garden. (modifiers: My friend’s/ noun: dog) (see
Language Booklet page 29)
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Verb phrase: it includes the main verb and its auxiliaries. Example: I
can play tennis very well. (auxiliary: can/ main verb: play) (see
Language Booklet page 28)
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Prepositional phrase: it begins with a preposition, the noun or
pronoun in it is the object of the preposition. Example: I was listening
to music for a long time. (object: time/ preposition: for) (see
Language Booklet page 33 and 34)
Sentences: (see Language Booklet page 12 to 17 and 23 to 26)
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Clause: it is made of a subject and a predicate. Example: The girl
started crying. (subject: the girl/ predicate: started crying)
Simple sentence: it is a sentence made of a clause.
Compound sentence: it is a sentence made of two main clauses
connected by a conjunction. Example: The girl started crying and
the boy was surprised. (main clause: The girl started crying /
conjunction: and / main clause: the boy was surprised)
Complex sentence: it is a sentence made of a dependent/ main
clause and an independent
Tenses
Simple present: we use this tense to talk about routines, things that
happen all the time.
 Present continuous: we use it to talk about action happening now.
 Simple past: we use it to talk about events that happened in the
past.
 Past Continuous: we use it to talk about events that were
happening in the past, they were in progress. (see Language
Booklet page 53 and 54)
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