Starters Star ters Structure List Language (grammar and structures)
Starters Star ters Language use (communication)
Language items (examples)
Writing down spelling
T hat’s hat’s W-H-I-T W-H -I-T-E. -E.
Asking who people are and identifying people
Are y ou ou Bill? It’s Pat.
Responding to requests for information about objects Talking about ownership
They’re oranges, not lemons.
Describing and identifying objects, peopl e and animals
He ’s a small small boy boy.. Your face is very dirty.
Identifying colours
It’s It’ s a red car.
a, an, the, some
Identifying objects, animals, fruit, vegetables, etc. (with countables and uncountables)
It’ s a ban banana ana.. Who’s Who’ s eating an egg? Put the tomato tomato on the the table. He’s He’ s got some apples.
my, your, his, her, our, their
Talking about possessions and relationships
It’s It’ s my brother’ brother’s s birthday.
Making and responding to requests for for information about objects
What are these? are these? This is a camera. camera.
Identifying people Describing people
It’s Sam. It’s He’s He’ s runn running. ing. Can you see him?
Asking who people are and what they are doing Asking questions about the number of people, animals and objects
Who’s in the bath? Which Whic h is Ann? Ann? What are you you doing? doing? Whose house is this? this? How many children are there in your class?
Identifying people, animals and objects
There’s a bus in the picture. There’s There Ther e are three lorries. lorries.
(to be) am, is, are
Talking about friends, yourself and others
I am, I’m, he is, he’s, she is, she’s, it is, I am, it has, it’s, we are, we’re, they are, they’re
(Imperative) (Imper ative)
Understanding and giving simple instructions Stand Stand up and rea read d thi this. s. Clean the board, board, please.
(Present Continuous) do
Asking and answering questions about present actions
What are are the cats doing? doing? They’re sleeping.
(Present (Pr esent Simple)
Describing what you like or want
I like like fis fish. h. I don’t don’t want eggs.
Asking how to spell a word Saying where you live Talking about habits and facts
How do you spell ‘compute ‘computer’? r’? I live in Montevideo Montevideo.. I eat breakfast in the kitchen. kitchen. Frogs jump.
Describing ability and personal possessions
Can you play play football? football? Have Ha ve yo you u got got a pen? pen? No, I’ve I’ve got a pencil. pencil.
Asking someone to do something Making requests
Can you open open the window? window? Can I have an ice-cream ice-cream? ?
For communication repair
P ardon? ardon? Sorry? I don’t know.
For making a choice For linking
Is this an apple or apple or a pear pear? ? I’ve I’v e got a pen and a pencil. pencil.
The alphabet
Nouns singular and plural, including limited, specified, irregular plural forms
(Proper (Pr oper Nouns) (Common Nouns) Possessive forms:/’s/s’/
That’s That’ s Ann’s Ann’s bike.
Adjectives size siz e, age, colour
Determiners Det erminers
Pronouns Pr onouns (Demonstrative Pronouns) this, these, that, those (Personal Pronouns) (Personal I, you, y ou, he, she, it, we, they, me, you, him, her, it, us, them, our, us (Interrogative) (Interrogative) who, which, which, what, whose, where, how many, how old
(There) (Ther e) Verbs (positive,, negat (positive negative, ive, inter interroga rogative tive and contractions)
(Modals) can, have have (got)
Formulae
Conjunctions or,, and or
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Starters Star ters alphabetic vocabulary list A a det add v afternoon af ternoon n
again adv alphabet n am v
an det and conj animal n
Ann n answer answ er n + v apple n
are v arm n armchair armc hair n
ask v prep ep at pr
bath n bathroom n be v beach beac hn bean n beautiful adj bed n
bedroom n behind pr prep ep Ben n between bet ween pr prep ep big adj bike bik en Bill n
bird n birthday birthda yn black blac k adj blue adj board n boat n body n
book n bookcase n bounce v box bo xn boy bo yn bread n breakfast breakf ast n
brother n brown bro wn adj burger n bus n bye (-bye)
cat n catch catc hv chair n chicken n child/children n
class n classroom n clean adj + v clock cloc kn close v
clothes n coconut n colour n colour (in) v computer n
correct adj correct wn cow co crocodile n cross n + v cupboard n
dining room n dirty dirt y adj do/don’t do/don ’t v
dog n doll n door n
double adj draw dra wv drawing dra wing n
dress n drink n + v duck duc kn
egg n eight num
elephant n end n
English n + adj enjoy enjo yv
eraser n example n
find v fish (s + pl) n fishing n five fiv e num
floor n flower flo wer n fly v food n
foot/feet n football n for pr prep ep four num
French fries n friend n frog n
girl n give giv ev glasses n
go v goat n good adj
good-bye good-bye got (see: have) grandfather n
grandmother n green adj grey gre y (or gray) adj
guitar guit ar n
(Happy birthday) (Happy hat n have ha ve (got) v have ha ve (a bath, a drink, food) v
pron on he pr head n helicopter n hello her pr pron on
pron on hers pr here adv him pr pron on hippo n his pr pron on
hit v hobby hobb yn hockey hoc key n horse n house n
how ho w int (Ho (How w do you spell it?) how many int how ho w old int
in pr prep ep of place in front of pr prep ep
is v it pr pron on
its pr pron on
jeans n
juice n
jump v
kitchen n kitchen kite n
know (don’t know know) v
lemonade n lesson n letter let ter (as in alphabet) n
like v + prep like prep lime n line n listen (to) v
look v (Look, (L ook, there’s Tom. He looks happy.) look at v
lorry n lorry love lo ve v lunch lunc hn
B baby n baby badminton n bag n ball n banana n baseball n basketball bask etball n
C cake n cake camera n can/cannot/can’t can/cannot/can ’t v car n carrot car rot n
D dad(dy) n day da yn desk n
E ear n eat v
eye n
F face n family n father n favourite adj
G game n garden n giraffe giraf fe n
H hair n hall n hand n handbag n happy happ y adj
I I pr pron on ice-cream n
J jacket jac ket n
K v Kim n kick
L lamp n learn v leg n lemon n
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live v live living room n lizard n long adj
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M man/men n mango n mat n May Ma y (girl’s name) n
pron on me pr meat n milk n mirror mir ror n
Miss (title) monkey n monster n mother n
motorbike n motorbike mouse/mice n mouth n Mr
Mrs mum(my) n my det
next to pr next prep ep Nick Nic kn
night n nine num
no det nose n
not adv now no w adv + dis
number n
OK int inter er + dis old adj
on pr prep ep one num
onion n open v
or conj orange n + adj
our adj
Pat n pea n pear n pen n pencil n
phone n + v photo n piano n pick pic k up v picture pict ure n
pineapple n pink adj plane n play pla y (with) v please int inter er
point v point to v potato pot ato n purple adj put v
red adj rice n
ride n + v
right (correct) (correct) adj + dis
robot n room n
ruler n run v
sentence n seven se ven num she pr pron on sheep (s + pl) n shirt n shoe n short adj
show v show sing v sister n sit (down) (down) v six num skirt n sleep v
small adj snake snak en so dis soccer n sock soc kn sofa sof an some det
song n inter er + adj sorry sor ry int spell v spider n sport n stand st and (up) v start st art v
stop v story stor yn street n Sue n sun n supper n swim v
ten num tennis n test n + v thank you you thanks pron that det + pron the det
their det them pr pron on then dis there dumm dummy y subject there adv these det + pron pron
pron on they pr they this det + pron pron those det + pron pron three num throw thro wv tick tic kn+v tiger n
prep ep to pr today toda y n + adv Tom n tomato n toy to yn train n tree n
trousers n try tr yv t wo num
under pr prep ep
understand underst and v
us pr pron on
water n watermelon n we pr pron on wear v
well dis what int where int which whic h int
white adj who int whose int window windo wn
with pr prep ep woman/women n word n write v
yes
you pr pron on
young adj
your pr pron on + adj
N name n new ne w adj
O of pr prep ep inter er + dis oh int
P page n paint n + v painting n inter er pardon? int part n
Q question n
R radio n read v
S sad adj Sam n sausage n say sa yv school sc hool n sea n see v
T T-shirt n table n table tennis n talk v teacher teac her n television/TV tele vision/TV n tell v
U ugly adj
V very adv
W walk v wall n want v watch n + v
X (No words words at this level)
Y yellow adj
Z (No words words at this level)
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Starters Star ters thematic vocabulary list For ease of reference vocabulary is also arranged here in semantic groups or themes. Some words appear under more than one heading; however, however, some words, usually syntactic, are not amenable to presentation in this way. ‘School and the classroom’ and ‘language and tests’ have been listed together together.. In addition to the topics, notions and concepts listed for the syllabus, the following categories appear: • mis miscell cellane aneous ous obj object ects/n s/noun ouns s • ad adje ject ctiv ives es • functions • verbs • co conj njun unct ctio ions ns • pronouns
Animals animal bird cat chicken
cow crocodile dog duck
elephant fish (s + pl) frog giraffe
goat hippo horse lizard
monkey mouse/mice sheep (s + pl) snake
spider tiger
ear eye
face foot/feet
hair hand
head leg
mouth nose
handbag hat jacket
jeans shirt shoe
skirt sock T-shirt
trousers wear
him his I Kim live man/men May me Miss
mother Mr Mrs mum(my) my name Nick old Pat
Sam she sister Sue their them they Tom us
we woman/women you young your
carrot chicken coconut drink (n & v) eat egg fish
food French fries ice-cream juice lemon lemonade lime
lunch mango meat milk onion orange pea
pear pineapple potato rice sausage supper tomato
water watermelon
box camera chair clock cupboard dining room
doll door floor flower garden hall
house kitchen lamp living room mat mirror
phone radio room sleep sofa street
table television/TV toy tree watch window
The body body and the face arm body
Clothes clothes dress glasses
F amily, amily, friends and ourselves Ann baby Ben Bill birthday boy brother child/children dad(dy)
family father friend girl grandfather grandmother happy (birthday) he her
F ood ood and drink apple banana bean bread breakfast burger cake
The home armchair armchair bath bathroom bed bedroom bookcase
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School and the classr oom, oom, and language and tests alphabet answer ask board book bookcase class classroom close
colour colour (in) correct cross desk draw English eraser example
find floor know (don’t know) learn lesson letter line listen (to) look
no number open page part pen pencil picture question
read right ruler school sentence teacher tell test tick
understand wall word write yes
swim table tennis television/TV tennis toy watch
Sports and leisur e-time e-time activities badminton ball baseball basketball beach book bounce
camera doll draw(ing) enjoy favourite fish(ing) football
game guitar hit hobby hockey kick kite
listen (to) paint(ing) photo piano picture play (with) radio
read run sing soccer song sport story
car fly go
helicopter lorry motorbike
plane ride run
swim train walk
brown green
grey (or gray) orange
pink purple
red white
in in front of
next to on
there under
day end
monster night
robot sea
hello I don’t know no oh
OK pardon? please right
so so do I (agreement) sorry thank you
thanks then well yes
English favourite good happy
long new old our
right (correct) sad short small
sorry ugly young
some that
the their
these this
those
not now
there today
very
for in in front of
like next to of
on to under
T ransport ransport bike bike boat bus
Colour s black black blue
yellow
Location and position at behind
between here
Miscellaneous objects/nouns afternoon afternoon bag
box computer
street sun
Number s Cardinals 1-10 1-10
F ormulaic ormulaic expressions bye (-bye) good-bye Happy birthday here you are
Adjectiv es es beautiful big clean dirty
Determiner s a/an no
Adv erbs erbs again here
Prepositions at behind between
with
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Pronouns he her hers him
his I it its
me she that them
these they this those
us we you your
have a bath have a drink have (food) hit know learn
put read ride run say see
sing sit (down) sleep spell stand (up) swim
throw understand wear write
like listen (to) live look look at love
open paint phone pick up play (with) point
point to show start stop talk test
tick try walk want watch
Conjunctions and
or
V erbs erbs – irregular be can/cannot/can’t catch do/don’t draw drink
eat find fly give go have (got)
V erbs erbs – regular add answer ask bounce clean close
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colour cross enjoy jump kick learn
