Touchstone 2nd Edition Language summary Level 1

Unit 1 Lesson B: Names

Vocabulary
Personal information
married
single
first name
last name
middle name
nickname

(adj)
(adj)
(n)
(n)
(n)
(n)

Titles
Miss
Mrs.
Ms.
Mr.

(n)
(n)
(n)
(n)

School
class
room
student
teacher

(n)
(n)
(n)
(n)

Languages
English
French

(n)
(n)

Determiners
a
an
the

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Other words
(adj)
(adj)
(adj)
(adj)
(adv)
(adv)
(conj)
(pron)

different
same
my
your
here
not
and
we
No.
Yes.

Grammar
The verb be: I, you, and we
I, you, and we are pronouns:

Use I for yourself.

Use you for another person / other people.

Use we for yourself and another person / other people.

The verb be has contractions and full forms:

Contractions

Full forms

I'm

I am

you're

you are

we're

we are

Affirmative statements
Use pronoun + contraction of be:
I'm Jenny.
You're in Room G.
We're in different classes.
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Negative statements
Use pronoun + contraction of be + not:
I'm not Carmen.
You're not in Room B.
We're not in the same class.

Yes-No questions and short answers

Yes-No questions are questions that you can answer with Yes or No.
You can use be + pronoun to ask Yes-No questions:
Are you Jenny?
Am I in Room B?
Are we in the same class?

Affirmative short answers

Use Yes + pronoun + full form of be:
A Are you Jenny?
B Yes, I am.

Negative short answers

Use No + pronoun + contraction of be + not:
A Are we in the same class?
B No, we're not.

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