Unit 9 :"Infinite Space"

VOCABULARY

Planets

Earth	Jupiter	Mars	Mercury
Neptune	Saturn	Uranus	Venus

Space and other words

alien	asteroid	astronaut	comet	constellation
orbit	outer space	rocket	spaceship	space shuttle
anagram	character	Control room	ending	future
message	noise	past	present	rock
solid	specialist	summary	team	trap
galaxy	meteorite	Space station	star	Help
joke	Science fiction	signal	war	Signs of zodiac

Measurements

day	diameter	distance	Hour
length	Light year	temperature	year

Verbs

look like	attack	break down	check	decode
defend	explore	orbit	receive	spin

NUMBERS

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Questions( Examples):

• What is the diameter of Earth?
• How long is a day on Mercury?
• Which is the coldest planet?
• Who was the first man on the moon?

GRAMMAR

• Comparative and superlative adjectives

Mercury is hotter than Neptune.
Jupiter is the biggest planet.

• Irregular Verbs

• Present simple, Past simple,  Future (going to)...

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Unit 8: "Inventions"

Vocabulary

aeroplane	automobile	battery
electric motor	electric train	flying machine
gadget	glider	hot-air balloon
lightbulb	liquid paper	microwave oven
mobile phone	paper clip	Photo
sledge	stapler	vending machine
Zeppelin	zip	basket
electricity	expedition	Experiment
flight	invention	Inventor
model	mythology	Science fiction
silk	smoke	stove
dry	Warm	hygienic

More verbs

design	connect	Examine
float	wave	wipe

Materials

glass	paper	Plastic
metal	wood	Rubber

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Grammar

Questions

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Zero Conditional: certainty

We use the so-called zero conditional when the result of the condition is always true, like a scientific fact.

IF	condition	result
	present simple	present simple
If	you heat ice	it melts.

Notice that we are thinking about a result that is always true for this condition. The result of the condition is an absolute certainty.  The important thing about the zero conditional is that the condition always has the same result.

We can also use when instead of if, for example:

When I get up late I miss my bus.

Look at some more examples in the tables below:

IF	condition	result
	present simple	present simple
If	I miss the 8 o'clock bus	I am late for work.
If	I am late for work	my boss gets angry.
If	people don't eat	they get hungry.
If	you heat ice	does it melt?

result	IF	condition
present simple		present simple
I am late for work	if	I miss the 8 o'clock bus.
My boss gets angry	if	I am late for work.
People get hungry	if	they don't eat.
Does ice melt	if	you heat it?

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Past Simple v Past Continuous

1.- Past simple
El "past simple" describe una acción pasada ya finalizada.

When I was young I lived in Madrid (ahora vivo en Barcelona)

2.- Past continuous
Indica que una acción se estaba desarrollando en cierto momento del pasado al cual se hace referencia. No dice si la acción ya finalizó o todavía continuaba.

When the mother came home her husband was playing with the kids (no sabemos si terminó de jugar en ese momento o continuó jugando)

A veces se describen dos acciones simultáneas que tuvieron lugar en el pasado. En dicho caso, se utiliza el "past simple" para describir aquella que finalizó y el "past continuous" para aquella otra que estaba ocurriendo cuando la primera tuvo lugar.

Yesterday evening when you called me I was having a shower.
When the parents arrived home the children were watching TV.

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Unit 7: "Going to town!"

VOCABULARY

Places

aquarium	Bus stop	Bus station	Church
cathedral	cinema	Fire station	Flat
Flower shop	gym	hospital	Pet shop
Petrol station	Pólice station	Post office	Postbox
restaurant	Shopping centre	street	Supermarket
Swimming pool	Toy shop	Traffic light	Train station
underground	Shoe shop	roundabout	Zebra crossing

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Physical descriptions

bald	beard	curly	Double chin
eyebrows	Fat	long	moustache
Old	short	freckles	athletic
plump	tall	thin	slim
wavy	young	pretty	dimples

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Crime words

address	alibi	arrest	Crime
date	detectivefootprint	Gold necklace	Jewelry
location	police	robber	Robbery
Statement	steal	suspect	footprint
time	vandal	victim	valuable

Prepositions and other words

around	behind	between	down
In front of	Next to	on	opposite
On the corner of	up	fiction	graffiti
headteacher	Turn left	Turn right	Mobile phone
pipe	popular	wall	corridor

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GRAMMAR

Past Continuous

Why do we use the past continuous?

The past continuous (also known as the past progressive) is used to describe what we were doing a specific point in the past.

compare these two sentences:

'I played golf yesterday.' = (past simple) the action of playing golf is more important than the time it was happening.

'I was playing golf at 2pm.' = (past continuous) what was happening at that specific time is important. We do not know when the action started , or when it finished.

How to make the past continuous

Was/were + ing verb is the past continuous. Take a look at some past continuous example sentences:

'I was taking a bath at midnight.'
'Tom was walking his dog at 6am.'
'They were watching the news when I called.'

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Present Perfect

Learning

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