UNIT 1: WHO ARE YOU?
Inglés Intermedio
                      Unit 1
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UNIT 1: WHO ARE YOU?
                                                                     INGLÉS INTERMEDIO
En esta unidad aprenderemos sobre cómo saludar y dirigirse a la gente, sobre países
y nacionalidades y sobre números
In this unit we will focus on how to greet and address to people, countries and
nationalities and numbers
PARTE 1/ PART 1: SALUDOS/ GREETINGS
Es primordial saber cómo saludar y dirigirse a la gente; por ello te invito a ver los
videos y resolver las actividades relacionadas con estos.
It is essential to know how to greet and address to people; that is why, I invite you to
watch the videos and solve the activities related to them.
ESCRITURA: Utiliza las siguientes frases e ideas para escribir tus propias
conversaciones. Inventa nombres propios y de compañías.
WRITING: Use the prompts to write your own conversations. Invent names and
companies
Excuse/ you (name)?
Yes/ you from (company)?
Yes/ I / how/ do?
I / fine
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Tired/ flight
Yes/ very
Afternoon
Afternoon/ right place/ (airline)?
No/ right place/ box 452
Thanks
You welcome
HABLA: Practica varias veces las conversaciones que acabas de escribir, graba los
diálogos y envíaselos a tu tutor para que te corrija la pronunciación y entonación.
SPEAKING: Practice several times the conversations you have just written, record
the dialogues and send them to your tutor so that your pronunciation and intonation
are checked
READING TIME: SIMPLY THE BEST
Is Messi the best football player in the world? Perhaps, but for his club Barza, he is
worth his transfer fee of 55 million Euros and his salary of 6 million a year for a
different reason. Nowadays, football is a billion dollar international business, and
over 200 companies are partners with Barza in marketing deals, including Coca Cola,
Pepsi and Holcim. Income from these deals is over 100 million Euros a year. The
Argentinean player is one of the most well-known people in the world. There are
over 70 million fans in the world.
Are these sentences true (T) or false (F)?
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Decide si estas oraciones son verdaderas (V) o falsas (F)
   1. Messi earns 6 million dollars a year
   2. Messi has got 100 million followers
   3. Messi is from Argentina
PARTE 2/ PART 2: PAISES Y NACIONALIDADES/
COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES
Es importante que si necesitas viajar o especificar la nacionalidad o país de
proveniencia de algún producto o persona, sepas el vocabulario necesario para poder
hacerlo. Por ello, ahora aprenderemos los países y nacionalidades.
It is important that if you need to travel or specify the nationality or country from
which a product or person comes from, you learn the vocabulary to do so.
Consequently, we are learning countries and nationalities
COUNTRY                                      NATIONALITY
Argentina                                    Argentinean /arʤentinian/
Brazil                                       Brazilian /brasilian/
Chile                                        Chilean /ʧilian/
Peru                                         Peruvian /peruvian/
Mexico                                       Mexican /meksikan/
United States of America (USA)               American /amerikan/
Canada                                       Canadian /kaneidian/
China                                        Chinese /ʧainis/
Japan                                        Japanese /ʤapanis/
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France                                      French /frenʧ/
Italy                                       Italian /Italian/
Switzerland                                 Swiss /suis/
Germany                                     German /ʤerman/
Spain                                       Spanish /spaniʃ/
Portugal                                    Portuguese /portuguis/
Holland                                     Dutch /daʧ/
England/ Great Britain                      English/ British /ingliʃ/ // /britiʃ/
Wales                                       Welsh /guelʃ/
Scotland                                    Scottish /skotiʃ/
Ireland                                     Irish /airiʃ/
         WHERE ARE YOU FROM?
I AM FROM ITALY
         WHAT’S YOUR NATIONALITY?
I AM ITALIAN
Lo mismo se puede preguntar y decir con todas las personas
PARTE 3/ PART 3: NÚMEROS/ NUMBERS
Los números tienen un rol importante en tu profesión porque en tus tareas se
incluyen escritura y dictado de: números telefónicos, direcciones, códigos postales,
precios, entre otros.
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Numbers have an important role in your profession because your tasks include writing
and dictating: phone numbers, addresses, zip codes, prices, among others
        El siguiente cuadro muestra los números en inglés y su correspondiente
         pronunciación. Como podrá ver, las palabras en este idioma no se pronuncian
         en la forma en que se escriben. Preste atención y pronúncielas cuantas veces
         sea necesario. Los números que van del 21 al 29 siguen la misma forma en los
         30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 y 90
        The following chart shows numbers and their correspondent pronunciation. As
         you may see, the words in this language are not pronounced in the same way
         as they are written. Pay attention and repeat them as many times as
         necessary. The numbers that go from 21 to 29 follow the same pattern in the
         30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s.
         1                 2                 3               4                  5
       ONE               TWO               THREE           FOUR                FIVE
    /guan/              /tu:/              / ɵri:/         /for/              /faif/
         6                 7                 8               9                  10
        SIX             SEVEN              EIGHT            NINE               TEN
       /siks/          /seven/             /eit/           /nain/             /ten/
        11                12                 13              14                 15
   ELEVEN              TWELVE            THIRTEEN        FOURTEEN            FIFTEEN
   /ileven/            /tuelf/           / ɵerti:n/       /forti:n/          /fifti:n/
        16                17                 18              19                 20
   SIXTEEN           SEVENTEEN           EIGHTEEN        NINETEEN            TWENTY
  /siksti:n/         /seventi:n/          /eiti:n/       /nainti:n/          /tuenti/
        21                22                 23              24                 25
/tuenti guan/        /tuenti tu:/       /tuenti ɵri:/   /tuenti for/       /tuenti faif/
        26                27                 28              29                 30
 TWENTY SIX        TWENTY SEVEN        TWENTY EIGHT     TWENTY NINE           THIRTY
 /tuenti siks/      /tuenti seven/      /tuenti eit/    /tuenti nain/         /ɵerti/
        31                40                 50              60                 70
 THIRTY ONE             FORTY              FIFTY           SIXTY             SEVENTY
 /ɵerti guan/           /forti/            /fifti/        /siksti/          /seventi/
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        80              90                 100             1000             1000000
    EIGHTY            NINETY           ONE HUNDRED          ONE          ONE MILLION
                                    /guan jandrid/      THOUSAND
       /eiti/         /nainti/                        /guan ɵausen/      /guan million/
ATENCIÓN/ ATTENTION
        Ahora aprenderemos a leer números compuestos
        Now we are going to learn how to read complex numbers
965: five hundred and sixty five // novecientos sesenta y cinco
78. 23: seventy eight with twenty three // setenta ocho con veintitrés
1,234. 98: one thousand two hundred and thirty four with ninety eight // mil
doscientos treinta y cuatro con noventa y ocho
2,324,546: two million three hundred and twenty four thousand five hundred and
forty six // dos millones trescientos veinticuatro mil quinientos cuarenta y seis
IMPORTANTE!
En castellano, los números se escriben de la siguiente manera
1.234, 98
En cambio en ingles se escriben así:
1,234.98