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English To Go A Visual Reference
Vocabulary Grammar Communication
I like to have kiwis and oranges.
What do you like to have for breakfast?
Alphabet and numbers Alphabet.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Numbers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Ordinal numbers.. . . . . . 4
People Family.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Parts of the body.. . . . . . 6 Clothing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Accessories.. . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Patterns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Footwear.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Hair colours. . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Hairstyles.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Food.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Mealtimes. . . . . . . . . . . . . Main dishes.. . . . . . . . . . . Condiments.. . . . . . . . . . . Fruit.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vegetables.. . . . . . . . . . . . Meat and . alternatives. . . . . . . . . . Grain products. . . . . . . . .
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Milk and . alternatives. . . . . . . . . . 13 Desserts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Drinks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Vocabulary
Communication
Vocabulary Animals
Pets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Farm animals. . . . . . . . . Chores. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Wild animals.. . . . . . . . . . Daily actions.. . . . . . . . . . 15 Insects.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Animal actions. . . . . . . . Feelings and . sensations. . . . . . . . . . . 16 I Environment Health problems. . . . . . 17 Colours. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Celebrations.. . . . . . . . . . 18 Shapes.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . School.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Places in the city.. . . . . Classroom actions.. . . . . 19 Classroom objects.. . . . . 20 Home.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . People in school.. . . . . . . 21 Household objects. . . . School subjects. . . . . . . . 21 Countries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . School environment. . . . 22 Parts of the day. . . . . . . Sports.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Adverbs of time. . . . . . . Hobbies . Days of the week.. . . . . and pastimes. . . . . . . . 24 Months of the year.. . . Musical . instruments. . . . . . . . . 25 Seasons.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Electronic devices.. . . . 25 Parts of the year. . . . . . Occupations. . . . . . . . . . . 26 Weather.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Transportation.. . . . . . . . 27 Nature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Vocabulary
Alphabet
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ant
apple
biy
ball
bat
siy
car
carrot
diy
door
duck
iy
egg
elephant
ef
fish
flag
dgiy
gift
glass
aytch
hammer
hat
eye
ice cream
iguana
djay
jam
juice
kay
kangaroo
key
el
ladder
leaf
em
monkey
mouse
en
nail
nose
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Vocabulary
ow
octopus
orange
piy
paint
popcorn
kyou
queen
question
ar
radio
rake
es
saw
snake
ti
train
tree
you
umbrella
unicorn
viy
vacuum
violin
dabeul-you
whale
worm
eks
x-ray
xylophone
weye
yacht
yoyo
ziy
zebra
zipper
Functional language
How do you spell “turtle”?
t-u-r-t-l-e!
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Vocabulary
Parts of the body eye nose cheek tongue
hair ear
mouth neck
shoulder stomach arm
elbow
hand
thumb
leg
finger
foot (feet)
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knee
toe
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Vocabulary
Fruit
apples
bananas
blueberries
cherries
grapefruit
grapes
kiwis
lemons
oranges
peaches
pears
pineapples
raspberries
strawberries
watermelon
Vegetables
beets
broccoli
cabbage
carrots
cauliflower
corn
cucumbers
lettuce
mushrooms
onions
peppers
potatoes
radishes
spinach
tomatoes eleven
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Vocabulary
Chores
clean the closet
clean the litter box
clean your bedroom
do the dishes
do the laundry
dust
feed the dog
fold the laundry
mop the floor
mow the lawn
rake the leaves
shovel the snow
sweep the floor
take out the garbage
vacuum
walk the dog
Functional language
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What chores do you do?
I clean the litter box and I dust.
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wake up
go to the bathroom
wash my face
make my bed
go to school
get dressed
brush my teeth
eat breakfast
go to class
eat lunch
go home
set the table
go to bed
take a shower
do homework
eat dinner
Functional language
What is the first thing you do in the morning?
I wake up!
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Vocabulary
Daily actions
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Vocabulary
Feelings and sensations
angry
bored
calm
cold
excited
happy
hot
hungry
in love
sad
scared
shy
sick
sleepy
thirsty
tired
Functional language
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How are you feeling today?
Today, I feel like I’m in love!
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Vocabulary
Health problems
bee sting
cold
cough
cut
fever
hay fever
headache
rash
sore throat
stomach ache
stuffy nose
toothache seventeen
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Vocabulary
Celebrations
birthday
Canada Day
Chinese New Year
Diwali
Earth Day
Easter
Eid al-Fitr
Halloween
New Year’s Day
Ramadan
Rosh Hashanah
Saint-JeanBaptiste Day
Saint Patrick’s Day
Thanksgiving
Valentine’s Day
Functional language When is your birthday?
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Christmas
My birthday is on March 15th.
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Articles and determiners.. . . . . . . . . . . . Pronouns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Words that describe location.. . . . . . . . Words that describe movement.. . . . . Adjectives.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using adjectives.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The verb to be. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The verb to do. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The verb to have.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking in the present. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
The simple present.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The present continuous.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The imperative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Talking about the past. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking about the future.. . . . . . . . . . . . . Asking questions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Question words.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describing scenery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using modals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using plural nouns.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Capitalization and punctuation.. . . . . . Useful verbs in the present . and in the past.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Grammar
Communication
Grammar
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Articles and determiners Articles Specific people or thingS
for thingS in general
Use the for singular and plural nouns. • I like the colour yellow.
Use a or an in the singular. • Use a before a consonant. It’s a car.
• Use an before a vowel. It’s an a pple.
Grammar
Do not use an article in the plural. They are oranges.
Demonstrative determiners
This sock smells.
These socks smell.
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Those socks smell.
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Personal pronouns 1st person
2nd person You are my best friend.
I am eleven years old.
3rd person He is my father. She is my sister. It is my ferret.
Grammar
Pronouns
Singular
They are my cousins.
We are a happy family.
Plural You are funny!
Possessive pronouns His name is Karl. Her name is Laura. Its name is Albert.
I’m doing my homework.
Your sister is an artist.
Their family name is Morin.
Our bus driver is the best.
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Grammar
Words that describe location
in
on
under
over
in front of
behind
next to
between
top middle bottom
left
centre
right
Words that describe movement into up
down
towards
out of
through
around
away from 42
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Grammar
Adjectives easy
big clean
small
hard
fast empty
slow
full
funny
boring
light
heavy
high
low
short
far
long
light
old
dark new
near
tall strong
weak
short
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Grammar
Using adjectives Adjective position Adjectives go before a noun or after a verb. It’s a brown bear. The bear is brown.
Adjective order 1. Quantity
2. Characteristic
3. Colour
Noun
new
red
sweatshirts
beautiful
blue
shoes
three
a pair of
He has three new red sweatshirts. I’m buying a pair of beautiful blue shoes.
Comparing adjectives short adjectives
The train is fast.
The airplane is faster than the train.
The train is not as fast as the airplane. long adjectives
The bicycle is expensive. The motorcycle is more expensive than the bicycle.
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The bicycle is less expensive than the motorcycle.
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Present
✓ Affirmative I am
(I’m)
You are
(You’re)
He is
(He’s)
She is
(She’s)
It is
(It’s)
We are
(We’re)
You are
(You’re)
I’m hungry. She is very funny! We’re friends.
They are (They’re)
Grammar
The verb to be ✗ Negative am is
+ not
are I’m not hungry. She is not very funny! We are not friends
I was You were I was at school.
Past
He was She was It was
He was sad. You were at home.
We were You were
was were
+ not
I was not at school. He wasn’t sad. You were not at home.
Future
They were
will + be
will not + be
I will be a doctor.
I will not be a doctor.
It will be snowy.
It will not be snowy.
We will be there.
We won’t be there.
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Grammar
Using plural nouns Regular plurals
1. Add s
snake > snakes ball > balls orange > oranges
2. Add es to: o ch s sh x
tomato > tomatoes watch > watches glass > glasses radish > radishes fox > foxes
3. Change y to ies (when y is preceded by a consonant )
strawberry > strawberries butterfly > butterflies
4. Change f and fe to ves
wolf > wolves life > lives
Irregular plurals
tooth > teeth person > people
foot > feet child > children
man > men mouse > mice
Capitalization and punctuation Use a capital letter
Punctuation marks include:
• at the beginning of a sentence
the period (.)
• with proper nouns, days, months, languages and the pronoun “I”
the comma (,) the apostrophe (’) the question mark (?) the exclamation mark (!)
Example:
The English exam is on Monday, June 5th. It will be difficult and I’m nervous! Are you?
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Grammar
Useful verbs in the present and in the past
break (broke)
buy (bought)
call (called)
catch (caught)
choose (chose)
cook (cooked)
count (counted)
cry (cried)
dance (danced)
draw (drew)
drink (drank)
eat (ate)
find (found)
fly (flew)
give (gave)
hit (hit)
jump (jumped)
laugh (laughed)
like (liked)
listen (listened) fifty-three
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look (looked)
lose (lost)
make (made)
play (played)
pull (pulled)
push (pushed)
read (read)
ride (rode)
run (ran)
sing (sang)
sleep (slept)
study (studied)
swim (swam)
take (took)
talk (talked)
think (thought)
walk (walked)
watch (watched)
win (won)
write (wrote)
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Communication
Communication
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Working together.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharing opinions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giving warnings.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Locating places . and giving directions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Making requests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giving advice.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giving instructions.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asking for a favour. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Going shopping.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . At the restaurant.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking on the telephone. . . . . . . . . . . . . Strategies for learning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Communication
Using expressions of courtesy. . . . . . . Meeting people.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking about family. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Describing people.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking about feelings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Giving reasons.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking about times and dates. . . . . . . Talking about events.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Talking about preferences.. . . . . . . . . . . Identifying and describing objects.. . . Asking for help or clarification.. . . . . . Offering help. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Asking for permission. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Using expressions of courtesy Saying hello Hello! How are you today?
Saying goodbye
I’m fine, thanks, and you?
Goodbye! See you soon!
Bye! See you later.
Greetings
Communication
Good morning!
Good afternoon!
Thanking someone Thanks a lot! Thanks!
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Thank you! Thank you very much!
Good evening!
Good night!
Apologizing You’re welcome!
Oops, sorry! No problem!
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Introducing yourself My name is Joey! Nice to meet you!
Hi! My name is Lucy. What’s your name?
Communication
Meeting people Introducing someone else Dad, this is my friend Chloe.
Hello, Chloe.
Pleased to meet you!
Asking personal questions How old are you? How do you spell your name?
I am ten years old.
S-O-P-H-I-A.
Where do you live?
Where are you from?
I’m from Canada. I live in Chicoutimi. And you?
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Communication
Talking about family How many sisters and brothers do you have?
I have one sister and two brothers. What about you?
Who are your parents?
David is my father and Sarah is my mother.
What do they do?
My father is a teacher and my mother is an architect.
Can you describe your family?
There are five people in my family. Celine and Patrick are my mother and father. I have one brother called Frederick and one stepsister called Nancy. I also have a stepfather. His name is Jean-François.
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Communication
Describing people General descriptions What does she look like?
He is tall and strong.
She is short and thin.
Describing hair and eyes My hair is long, curly and brown.
Do you have green eyes?
No, I don’t. I have blue eyes.
Talking about clothing and accessories What are you wearing?
I’m wearing a plain white T-shirt and striped black and purple shorts.
Are you wearing a headband?
No, I’m not, but I am wearing a belt.
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Communication
Talking about events Past events What did you do yesterday?
I went snowboarding with my family.
How was your weekend?
It was great! I did arts and crafts and I played volleyball.
Present events What are you doing?
We’re going to the restaurant.
Where are we going?
I’m doing a puzzle. And you?
I’m watching television.
Future events I will be in Math class.
Let’s have lunch together. Where will you be at 11:30?
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What are you going to do tonight?
I’m going to do my homework and play my guitar.
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Communication
Talking about preferences Likes and dislikes Do you like strawberries?
Do you like cheese?
Yes, I like strawberries.
No, I don’t.
Favourites What’s your favourite drink?
What desserts do you like best?
I like sorbet best, and you?
I like cake best.
My favourite drink is lemonade.
Preferences How do you like your tacos?
I like my tacos with sour cream, tomatoes, lettuce and cheese.
With lettuce, salsa and cheese. And you?
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Communication
Going shopping Hi, can I help you?
No thanks, I’m just looking.
How much are these black boots?
They are $169.
They’re too expensive. I can’t buy them.
Sure, what size do you wear?
Can I try on that black coat?
How do you like it?
It’s too large. Can I have a smaller size, please?
Medium.
Your total is $145.69. How would you like to pay?
Thanks and have a nice day!
You too, bye!
I’ll pay by credit card.
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Communication
At the restaurant Passing something to someone May I have a glass of water?
Can you pass the salt, please?
Here you are.
Here it is.
Offering something Do you want something to drink?
What would you like to eat?
I would like some lasagna, please. I’ll have a glass of orange juice, thank you.
Asking for specific information What’s on your Special Pizza?
It’s all-dressed with bacon and onions.
Do you have cake?
Yes, we do!
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English To Go A Visual Reference
English To Go is a theme-based, visual reference book for
classroom use in Elementary Cycles Two and Three. Fun and easy to use, this material provides essential support for both oral interaction and written production.
As a visual reference, English To Go offers students a fun way to explore the English language on their own, while giving them the tools they need to begin interacting together autonomously.
English To Go includes: • vocabulary that covers a variety of useful themes • grammar charts that are relevant to oral interaction and writing needs • communication tools, or functional language, for everyday situations • colourful photos and illustrations, as well as humorous characters to motivate learning And, English To Go is easy to use in conjunction with any other ESL material used in class.