Explore English Vocabulary and Grammar Basics!

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Volume 1 introduces everyday vocabulary and simple sentence structures while providing the foundation for Volume 2. 

This volume is divided into two parts.

Part 1

· Alphabet 

· Pronouncing the letters of the alphabet 

· Capital and lowercase letters

· Vowels and consonants

· Long, short, and combined letter sounds

· Silent letters 

· Greetings and introductions 

· Personal information, forms, and signature

· Important cards and numbers 

· Cardinal and ordinal numbers 

· Money and making change 

· Calendar

· Weather

· US holidays 

· Teacher instructions

· The five senses

· Body parts

· House 

· Furniture

· Time

· Job titles and descriptions 

Part 2

· Nouns

· Pronouns

· Be Verbs

· Action verbs

· Routines

· Adjectives

· Prepositions 

· Frequency adverbs

Volume 1 Includes:

· Scope and Sequence

· Table of Contents

· Introduction 

· Letter to New Teachers

· How to Use Volumes 1 and 2 in the Classroom

· Activity ideas

· Unit reviews

· Answer keys

Also Included:

· Preview of Volume 2 Table of Contents

· Preview of Ailment lessons using have/has (6 pages)

· Preview of Can lesson (1 page)

· Preview of Will questions and answers (1 page)

· Future tense chart (1 page)

20 Units

158 Pages

 Volume 2 is a comprehensive, one-year plus curriculum that builds on the vocabulary and grammar concepts in volume 1.

This larger book introduces the present, present continuous (progressive), past, and future tenses with increasing levels of difficulty in sentence structures. New topics include ailments, first aid, family relationships, shopping, food, clothes, household items, appliances, and more.

Also included in Volume 2 are realistic conversations and stories that entertain, improve reading and speaking, and help students manage common everyday situations.

Students will learn:

• To write sentence structures with increasing levels of difficulty 
• Additional vocabulary using repetition to enhance comprehension and      self-confidence
• Use capitalization and punctuation in complete sentences 
• Proper, common, plural, singular, regular, irregular, compound, and      collective nouns
• Countable nouns (How much?) and non-countable nouns (How many?) and containers
• Possessive nouns
• Types of adjectives (size, shape, taste…comparative, opposites, better, worse…)
• Types of verbs (be, action, helping verbs, some verbs need more      words to complete a sentence…)
• Conjunctions and, but, or and because
• Positive and negative sentences, questions, and answers
• Present and present continuous (progressive) tenses 
• Everyday routines using the present and present continuous tenses
• Introduction to the past tense (common irregular verbs) 
• Introduction to the future tense (will/won’t and going to)
• Wh questions (what, where, when, why, how, how much, how do/does…and answers) 
• Helping verbs: have/has/had sentences
• Helping verbs: do/does/did sentences
• Helping verbs: can/cannot (ability) and may (permission) sentences
• Adverbs and expressions (always, usually, sometimes, never, how      often, a few…)
• Introduction to irregular nouns and verbs
• Types of sentences (statement, question, exclamation, command)
• Completing a form with personal information 
• Ailments (What’s the matter? She has a…He feels…) and first aid supplies
• Office supplies using demonstrative pronouns (near, far, this, that, these, those)
• Kitchen supplies using demonstrative pronouns (here, there)
• Maps, prepositions, in, on, at, right/left, giving and taking directions (on the corner of…)
• Schedules (two times, once, twice…a week)
• Pronouncing ed endings (t, id, d sounds)
• Dollar amounts and writing compound number words using hyphens
• Clothing chart and shopping for clothes
• Describing people using physical appearance, clothes, and accessories
• Family relationships and filling out a personal family tree
• Food chart, grocery list, and grocery store vocabulary 
• Job descriptions, workers’ titles
• and much more!

Volume 2 Includes:

• Scope and Sequence
• Table of Contents
• Introduction 
• Letter to New Teachers
• How to Use Volumes 1 and 2 in the Classroom
• Activity ideas
• Stories and conversations
• Unit reviews
• Answer keys

Also Included:

• 4 Complete tense charts (plus a going to tense chart)
• Spelling ied and ies rules chart
• Spelling ing and ed rules chart
• Spelling plural nouns rules chart
• Complete pronoun chart
• Complete contraction chart
• Lists of common regular and irregular verbs
• 30 Common idioms
• Miscellaneous useful lists and charts

20 Units 

337 Pages

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The English Basics Store at teacherspayteachers.com 

for digital copies of Volumes 1 and 2.