Unit 1: PERSONALITY PARADE

VOCABULARY:

• Appearance ADJECTIVES:

• Personality ADJECTIVES:

Shy/friendly, bossy/kind, lazy/hard-working, funny/serious, ..

• Alegre: cheerful

• triste: sad

• tímido: shy

• inteligente: clever

• hablador: talkative

• malvado: evil

• travieso: naughty

• bien educado: well-behaved

• amistoso: friendly

• gruñón:grumpy

• pesimista: pesimistic

• optimista: optimistic 

• cotilla: nosey

• con orden: tidy

• sin orden: untidy

• desordenado: messy

•  metódico: organized

• desorganizado: desorganized 

• valiente: brave

• cobarde: coward

• trabajador: hard-worker

• vago:lazy

• gracioso: funny

• serio: serious

• amable: kind

• maleducado: bad-mannered

• grosero: rude

• agradable: nice

COMPARATIVES: 

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Unit 4: DESERTS

Vocabulary:

• Adjetives: Hot/cold, big/small/, high/width, wet/dry..
• Wild animals: Ravens, coyotes, lizard, camel, Volture, scorpions, snakes, elephants, lions..
• Desert Landscape: oasis, palm tree, rocks, sand, sand dune, cactus, 
• Desert: Sahara, Sonora, Atacama, Gobi..
• Data: Size, temperature-average summer day, temperature-average winter night, rainfall, 40ºC, -15ºC, 15 mm/year, km2,  ...
• Adverbs of frequency: always, usually, sometimes, hardlyever, never
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STRUCTURES:  

• How big/(hot/wet..) is ...?
• What is the temperature- average summer day in Shara Desert?

Do camels live in the desert?

Do lion sleep on rock?

Do lizard sit ..?

GRAMMAR:  

• Comprarative an superlatives
• Use of frequency adverds
• There is /there are ..
• Prepositions

comparatives:

Adjective with one and two syllable :   bigger than  

Polysyllabic adjective :   more  importantthan

Superlatives:

Adjective with one and two syllable : The biggest  

Polysyllabic adjective :   The most important

LITTLE/BIG - LONG/SHORT - TALL/SHORT - YOUNG /OLD - PRETTY/UGLY - STRONG/WEAK - DIRTY/CLEAN - SLOW/FAST - 

  BIG--> BIGGER THAN 

 Agreeable (agradable) - grateful (agradecido) - friendly (amable) - elderly (anciano) - authentic (auténtico) - expensive (caro) - confortable (cómodo) - careful (cuidadoso) - important (importante) - interesting (interesante) - beautiful (bella) - difficult (difícil) - polite (educado) - selfish (egoísta)

 MORE important THAN

ADJECTIVES

• BIG - LITTLE -
• LARGE - SMALL
• SHORT – TALL
• SLOW – FAST
• HOT – COLD
• GOOD – BAD
• OLD – NEW
• PRETTY – UGLY
• FAT – THIN
• HAPPY -SAD
• FULL - EMPTY
• DARK – LIGHT
• FUNNY – SERIOUS
• CHEAP – EXPENSIVE
• HIGH – LOW
• DEEP – SHALLOW
• HEALTHY – SICK
• RICH – PÒOR
• SOFT – HARD
• EASY – DIFFICULT
• CLEAN – DIRTY
• SAFE – DANGEROUS
• SAME – DIFFERENT
• STRONG – WEEK
• TOP – BOTTOM

adjectives

New - old --> (nuevo-viejo)

Clean - dirty---> (límpio-sucio)

Big - small ---> (grande-pequeño)

Tall - Short ---> (alto-bajo)

Young - old ---> (joven-viejo)

Happy - Sad ---> (feliz-triste)

Hot - cold ----> (caliente-frío)

Fast - slow ---> (rápido-lento)

Wet - dry ---> (mojado-seco)

Pretty - handsome ----> (hermosa - hermoso)

Beautiful - ugly ----> (bonito - feo)

Full- empty ---> (lleno - vacío)

soft - hard ---> (blando - duro)

heavy -light -----> (pesado- ligero)

round - square ----> (redondo - cuadrado)

Thin - fat ----> (delgado - gordo)

Rich - poor ---> (rico - pobre)

Good - bad ---> (bueno - malo)