Basic English for Martime Students at Intermediate Level

UNIT 1 GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION Language Focus: Greetings Vocabulary: Family members Grammar: To be: am, is, are I.. PRONUNCIATION AND FURTHER PRACTICE  Pronunciation ten head frie

Basic English

( Dùng cho hệ Trung cấp )

VOLUME 1

TABLE OF CONTENT

Unit 4 A CABIN

Unit 5 FREE TIME

Unit 6 A WORKING DAY

Unit 7 WHICH PORT IS BIGGER?

STOP AND CHECK 1

INTERNATIONAL PHONETIC ALPHABETS( IPA)

English alphabet

UNIT 1 GREETINGS AND INTRODUCTION

Language Focus: Greetings

Vocabulary: Family members

Grammar: To be: am, is, are

I CONVERSATION

Minh: Hello My name is Minh What is your name?

Nam: Hello Minh My name is Nam Nice to meet you How are you? Minh: I am fine, thank you And you?

Nam: I am very well Thanks This is my girlfriend Her name is Linh Minh: How do you do, Linh

Linh: Nice to meet you, Minh

Complete the conversations

1

John: Hello How you?

Mary: I fine, thank you And you?

John: I am very well, thank you

Mary: What your name?

John: My name John What is your name?

Mary: My name is Mary

2

Lan: Hello, Mai

Mai: Hi, Lan How you?

Lan: I’m fine, thanks

Mai: Lan, this Phong

………is my friend

Lan: I’m glad to you, Phong

Phong: Me, too

II VOCABULARY

Look at the family tree of Jack Use the family tree to answer the questions

Answer the following questions

1 Who is Jack’s grandfather?

2 Who is his grandmother?

3 Who is his mother?

4 Who is his father?

grandfather grandmother father mother parents sister brother husband wife cousin daughter son nephew niece

5 Who are his sisters?

6 Who are his cousins?

7 Who is his wife?

8 Who is his daughter?

9 Who is his son?

10 Who are his nephews?

VI PRONUNCIATION AND FURTHER PRACTICE

 Pronunciation

ten

head

friend

hen

hat cat captain dad

kiss sit ship wallet

seat sea sheep meal

 Further practice

Exercise 1 Answer the following questions about you

1 What is your surname?

2 What is your first name?

3.Where are you from?

4 Are you a driver?

5.What are you?……… ………… …

6 Is your brother a sailor? Exercise 2 Fill in the blank with my, are, he, is, am

Maria: _ you a student?

Kumio: No, I _ not I _ a sailor

Maria: Oh! _ brother is a sailor, too

Kumio: Really? Where is _ now?

Maria: He _ on board

Exercises 3 Fill in the blank with proper words

Kumio : Hi, _ name _ Kumio

Maria : Hi, Kumio My _ _ Maria I glad to meet you Kumio: I _ glad to _ you, too Where _? Maria: I _ from Mehico Where _?

Kumio: I _ Japan

Exercise 4 Complete the conversation

4 A: Excuse me _ you Ms Lee

B: _, I am What’s your name?

A: _ Sophie

Exercise 5 Read the conversation and put the sentences in correct order

Exercise 6 Fill in the blanks with proper words (your, am, are, its, is, she,)

1 Is he………brother? Yes, he is

2 What’s ……… name? ………name’s Nguyen Hieu

3 ………are they? They ……… Mr and Mrs Smith

4 It is my cat ………name David

Exercise 7.Tick the correct sentence

He’s from Germany She’s teacher

I’m Lan What’s your name?

Hello What’s your name?

My name is Nam Nice to meet you, Nam

Hello Katherine How are you?

I’m fine, thank you And you?

Good morning, Mr Smith

Very well

2 Where she from? 7 What’s she name?

Where’s she from? What’s her name?

3 I’m a student 8 I have two sisters

4.They from Japan 9 He’s name’s Marco

They’re from Japan His name’s Marco

5 What her name? 10 Her name is Lan

What’s her name? Her name it’s Lan

Exercise 8.Translate into English

1 Chào bạn! Tôi là Nam Tôi từ Việt Nam tới

- Xin chào! Tôi là Suzuki Tôi từ Nhật Bản tới Anh có khỏe không?

- Tôi khỏe Cảm ơn anh!

2 Đây là Fleming Ông ấy là thuyền trưởng

3 Đây là anh trai tôi Tên của anh ấy là Hùng

4 Cô ấy là giáo viên Cô ấy không phải là bác sỹ

5 Bạn là Nam phải không? Không, mình không là Nam Mình là Thắng

VII GRAMMAR FOCUS

Are you Nam?

Is he Smith?

Is she Sophie?

Yes, I am

No, I am not Yes, he is

No, she isn’t

I  My : My name is Nam

You  Your : What’s your name?

He  His : His name is Alan Smith

She  Her: Her name is Catherine

UNIT 2 ASKING ABOUT PERSONAL INFORMATION

Language Focus Personal information

Vocabulary Country and Nationality – Jobs – Numbers

Grammar Questions :Where – What – How

Verb To be: am– is - are

I CONVERSATION

Suzuki Hi My name is Suzuki

What’s your name?

Peter Hi My name is Peter

Nice to meet you

Suzuki Nice to meet you, Peter

Where are you from?

Peter I’m from England And you?

Suzuki I’m from Japan

Peter: What’s your job?

Suzuki I am a Captain What do you do?

Peter I’m a student

Suzuki How old are you?

Peter: I’m 20 years old And you?

Suzuki I’m forty years old

Complete the conversations

1 A: ……Britney Spear from France? B: No, she…… She’s ……England

2 A: Is Fernando from Argentina? B: Yes, he

3 A: Is he Spanish? B: No, he

4 A: Are you from Korea? B: No,…… I’m from………

5 A: Are you Chinese? B: Yes, …………

II VOCABULARY

Study the words in the box

1 Write the nationalities 2 Write the name of

of the country under its flag

3 Match the jobs in the box with the correct pictures

Vietnamese Mexican Australian Chinese Thai Laotian American

British Indonesian French Korean Spanish Canadian Japanese English

fork lift driver doctor farmer crane driver

babysitter truck driver sailor fireman

He is………… He is

1 He is ………… 2 He is………… 3 He is………… 4 He is………

5 She is……… 6 It is ……… 7 He is………… 8 He is………

4 Match the numbers with words:

Write the telephone numbers in words:

a 07-883-8640 -

1 Read the passage and then answer the questions about Alan Smith

Hello! My name is Alan Smith I am 35 years old I am from Melbourne, Australia I can speak English and French I am an engineer on board the M/V Spirit of Tasmania I am married with 2 children My hobbies are playing football and listening to music

1 How old is Alan Smith?

3 Read about Hung and then speak about him

“I’m HUNG I’m from Haiphong I’m a student of Maritime College I’m eighteen years old My hobbies are learning English and playing football I’m not married, now I have a nice girl friend.”

IV LISTENING

V SPEAKING

Work in pairs Take turns to ask and answer questions about David

Beckham and then speak about him

put good rude cook

two food noodle who

 Further practice

Exercise 1 Complete the following sentences

1 A: Where ………….you from?

B: I……… from Vietnam I am VietNamese

2 A: Where do you come from?

B: I come from Japan I’m ………

3 A: Where are you from ?

B: I’m from America I am………

4 A: Where are you ……… ?

5 A: Where are you from ?

B: I’m from England I speak………

6 A: Where do you come from?

B: I come from ……… I am Australian

7 A: Where ……….you from?

B: I ………… from Beijing, China I am ………

8 A: ……….?

Exercise 2 Complete the chart

Indian Russia

Japan Philippines

Chinese Korea

English Canada

Exercise 3 Look at the flags and complete the sentences

1 The Chief Engineer is from India

He is ………

2 The Bosun is from………

3 The Captain is from………

4 The pilot is from England He

Exercise 4 Circle the correct form of the verb to be

1 Sara [ am / is / are ] a teacher

1 Jan and Sue [ am / is / are ] here

2 I [ am / is / are ] at home

3 A cat [ am / is / are ] soft

4 My cat [ am / is / are ] grey

1 His cat [ am / is / are ] black

2 The students [ am / is / are ] sleepy

3 It [ am / is / are ] warm today

4 I [ am / is / are ] very busy

5 Watermelons [ am / is / are ] tasty

Exercise 5 Fill in the space with is, am or are

10 The students _ intelligent

Exercise 6 Fill in the gaps with suitable words

My name is Mario and ……… ……… a doctor My address

……….NewYork, Avenue 23 and my ……… ………

896 75097 7854 I ……45 years ………… and I……… married My son, Peter …… ten years old My wife, Jane is American She ……… a house wife

Exercise 7 Put a, an or the in the space

1 I am… teacher 2 You are…….student

3 This is… pen ………pen is on the desk 4 My Captain is …….good man

Exercise 8 Fill each blank with my, his, her, their, your

Exercise 9 Complete the sentences with Who, What, Why, How, How old, Where

1 ……….is he happy? – Because he gets a good mark

2 ……… is she from? – She is from Japan

3 .is your full name? – My full name is Nguyen Van An

4……… are you? – I’m 25 years old

5 ………is your girl friend like? – She is tall, beautiful and kind

6 ………are their jobs? – They are sailors

7 ………are you? – We are Lan and Mai

Exercise 10 Match the questions with the answers

1 Are you and your family from

Canada?

a No, he isn’t He is from Singapore

2 Is your first language English? b.Yes, she is

3 Are you Chinese? c No, It is not It is

Japanese

4 Is Mr Ho from Hongkong? d No,we are not.We are Australian

5 Is yours mother a teacher? e Yes, We are We are from Shang

Hai

Exercise 11 Pair work Practice exercise 10 with your partner

VII GRAMMAR FOCUS

1 W/H- Questions

• What’s your name? My name is Minh

• Where are you from? I’m from Vietnam

• What do you do? I’m a teacher

• How old are you? I’m twenty

• What is your nationality? I’m French

2 Article a, an and the

She has a son

This is Binh He is a doctor

That is Nam He’s an engineer

This is my pen The pen is on the desk

The M/V Pander is new

UNIT 3 THINGS AROUND US

Language Focus: Talking about objects

Vocabulary: Objects on board

Grammar: This is/ That is – these are/ Those are – Singular/ Plural Nouns

I CONVERSATION

Captain: Good afternoon, Nam

Nam: Good afternoon, Captain.The bridge of this ship is very large Captain: Yes, it is

Nam: What is this?

Captain: It’s the steering wheel

Nam: Are these compasses?

Captain: Right.They are navigation

equipment

Nam: And what are those?

Captain: They are telephones

Nam: Thank you

Captain: You are welcome

II VOCABULARY

chart life- jacket spanner steering wheel life buoy telephone liferaft compass hammer fire extinguisher

A hat a dictionary a telephone a television a pullover a kettle

1 Find the name and put it under the right picture

8

2

3

Telephone Life raft Compass Hammer Fire extinguisher

9

3 Complete the conversation with one of the words in the box

A: Can you help me?

B: Yes, please

A Is it a………?

B : No, it isn’t It is a…………

A : Thank you

4 Look at the plural forms of the nouns Put these words in correct

columns

books

shops

cars schools

classes offices

II READING

This is the M/V Spirit of Tasmania She is a big ro-ro ferry This is the Captain His name is Fleming He is 45 years old He is from Australia He is a good captain Now he is on the bridge and the ship is at sea

These are deck officers and sailors.Those are engineer officers and oilers They are from different countries They are good seafarers

 Complete the conversations

door horse saw war

about teacher dancer sailor

bird earn pearl thirty

 Further practice

Exercise 1 Fill in the space with a or an

1 This is Bob He’s _ Bosun

2 Peter is engineer

3 It’s raining Take _ umbrella!

4 Leonardo Di Caprio is actor

5 Fred is _ good man

7 Gloria wants to buy _ apple

8 That is John He’s _ officer

9 I’m student

10 Her father’s oiler

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences using the plural forms of the nouns in box

1 My like toys very much

2 We use to keep our clean

3 These are good _

4 Australia is famous for _

Exercise 3 Give the plural form of the nouns

Exercise 4 Circle the correct words

1 Are (these/ those) pens yours?

2 Bring (this/that) chair here

3 Is (this/these) your life jacket?

4 Your hammer is on (this/that) table over there

5 Do you like (these/ those) bags?

6 What is (there/ these) on the table?

child toothbrush wife

tooth woman sheep

7 Please give me (that/ those) envelopes

8 (That/ These) man is my teacher

Exercise 5 Cricle the best answer

1 Who is in charge of the ship? is

A The chief officer B The captain C The cook D The docker

2 My brother and I students

3 She’s ……… Her name is Kyoto

4 She is hungry but ……… children aren’t

5 .is he? He’s twenty-five

6 .is that? That’s a lamp

7 47 is written as ………

A fourty-seven B four-seven C four-seventy D forty-seven

8 You can find the Captain on the ………

9 Mai’s husband is ……… electrican

12 The Cook is in the………

13 This is his sister .name is Hanh

A her B my C its D he

14 What is her nationality? – She is………

15 These students are China

16 They are from England They are

A English B Laotian C Japanese D Spain

17 My father is years old and I'm years old

A fifty/fifteen B fifteen/fifty C fivety/five D fiveteen/five

18 Is it an English book? Yes,

19 He is my son name is Phong

20 Are you married? Yes,………

Exercise 6 Translate into English

1 Kia là vô lăng Nó thì nhỏ

2 Đây là tàu của chúng tôi Nó thì mới

3 Tàu của các anh đâu? Nó kia

4 Các thợ máy ở trong buồng máy

5 Ai là máy trưởng của tàu anh?

6 Thuyền trưởng của các ông đâu?

7 Ông ấy ở trên buồng lái

8 Đây là những sinh viên Họ từ Nghệ An tới

9 Những cái hộp này to

10 Những lớp học kia rộng

VII GRAMMAR FOCUS

1 Those are This is/ That is – These are/ Those are

This is a compass

These are compasses

That wheel is round

Those life jackets are new

1 Singular/ Plural Nouns

a Hầu hết các danh từ số nhiều được thành lập bằng cách thêm “s” sau danh từ số ít:

tank – tanks key - keys book - books

b Nếu danh từ tận cùng bằng –s, -ss, -sh, -ch,o, thêm “es” sau danh từ số ít:

Bus - buses class - classes wish - wishes match - matches

c Danh từ tận cùng bằng “y” đứng sau một phụ âm, đổi “y” thành “i” rồi thêm “es”

ferry – ferries coutry - countries family - families

wire brush – wire brushes

d Nếu danh từ tận cùng bằng “f” hoặc “fe” ta bỏ “f” hoặc “fe” đi và thay bằng “ves”

a wife – wives knife- knives

e Một số danh từ không theo qui tắc trên:

A wife - Wives woman - Women man - men child- children

tooth - teeth

UNIT 4

A CABIN

Language Focus: Talking about a cabin

Vocabulary: Cabins and furniture in a cabin

Grammar: How many – There is/ There are

Prepositions of place: in/ at/ on Verbs : to have, to have got

I CONVERSATION

The Chief Officer is taking Nam to his cabin

C/O: Here is your cabin

Nam: Oh, it’s large

C /O: Right There is a bed, a table, a chair, a wardrobe and a television

Nam: Wow! There is a picture of a ship on the wall It’s very nice

Whose cabin is next to my cabin?

C /O: The Second officer’s cabin is The Second Engineer’s and the Third

engineer’s cabins are also on this floor

Nam Is there a telephone here?

C /O: Yes And there is a radio on the table, too

Complete the sentences

1 In Nam’s cabin, there is……….………

2 The picture is………

3 The Chief Engineer’s cabin is ……… …………

4 There are not any ……… in Nam’s cabin

5 Nam’s cabin is……… ….………

6 The Second Engineer’s cabin is……… ……….…………

7 The Third engineer’s cabin is ………

8 There is a……… on the table

Welcome on board the M/V Spirit of Tasmania As you know, the M/V Spirit of Tasmania is a large Ro-Ro ferry Her route is between Melbourne, Australia and the Island of Tasmania also in Australia This ship has 10 decks The Medical center is on J deck There are cabins on B, D, E, F, G, H decks On bed chair table television wardrobe washing machine

telephone clothes pool gym a TV set radio floor

H deck, you can find a casino room and a conference center Next to the conference center is the Tiger lounge You can have some drinks there

1 Base on the text and look at the diagram of the M/V Spirit of Tasmania,

answer the following questions

1.What type of ship is the M/V Spirit of Tasmania?

1 Ask your partner how many of the following items he has in his house

and where they are

Student A: Where are they?

Student B: They are in the living room

2 Write about the positions of the things around you using there is/ there are

VI PRONUNCIATION AND FURTHER PRACTICE

 Pronunciation

day break race sailor baby

five nice tie high

my

boy oil coin voyage toy

beer near year fear cheer

 Further practice

Exercise 1 Use There is or There are to complete the sentences

1 _ a life jacket under the bed

2 _compasses on the bridge

3 _2 washing machines in the laundry

4 _some restaurants on G deck

5 _ a souvenir shop on F deck

6 _two sailors on the deck

Exercise 2 Fill in the blanks with in, at, on, next to, below

1 There is a mirror ……… the table

2 There are a chair and a table ……….the cabin

3 There is a clock ……….a picture

4 The Souvenir shop is ……… the Huon room

5 The car decks are………C and D decks

6 There is around table ………the window

7 Exercise 3 Match the item with its place

2 fire extinguishers b in the cabin

5 hammers and spanners e in the tool box

Put a preposition for each position (in, on, under, between, in front of, behind, next to )

Exercise 4 Fill in the blanks with is or are

1 There only one captain on board a ship

2 There _ two bulbs under the ceiling

3 _ there a lamp on the table?

4 _ there 6 chairs next to the table?

5 How many sailors _ there on board your ship?

6 _ there any trees in the garden?

7 There _ books on the shelf

8 How many computers _ there on the bridge?

Exercise 5 Complete the sentences with correct forms of the verb to have

1 They ………a car

2 Sorry, I………a pen with me

3 My family is large I……….2 brothers and 2 sisters

4 ………….your company got any ships?

5 We ……….a ship Her name is the M/V An Hai

Exercise 6 Use the provided words to write questions and then answer them

1 apples/ table? three  How many apples are there on the table?

There are three apples on the table

2 windows/ house? ten  _

_

Exercise 7 Look at this painting-Vincent’s Bedroom at Arles by Van

Gogh Describe it by filling each blank with either is or are

1 There _ a bed

2 There _ pictures on the wall

3 There _ a table

4 There _ two chairs

5 _ there many windows?

No, there _ only one window

6 _ there a TV?

No, there _

8 How many pillows _ there?

There _ two pillows on the bed

Exercise 8 Complete the sentences with some or any.

a In our class, there are books on the desks

b There aren’t plants in the living room

c Are there _ foreign seamen on board your ship?

d There are _ sailors on the upper deck

e There aren’t _ Chinese students in our class

f We have _interesting novels

Exercise 9 Translate into English

1 Không có chiếc điện thoại nào ở trên bàn

2 Có chiếc tivi nào trong phòng ngủ không?

3 Có một chiếc ti vi trong phòng khách

4 Có bao nhiêu phòng trong nhà bạn?

5 Có vài chiếc ly trong tủ chén

GRAMMAR FOCUS

1 Question with Howmany?

How many chairs are there in a cabin? There is one chair in a cabin

The ship has 10 decks

2 Adverb of place: A preposition + a noun : at the window, in the street, on the wall, on the first deck, on the bridge ,

Where is the TV? It’s on the wall

There is a fridge in the kitchen

There are some hospitals in the city

3 The Master’s cabin= the cabin belongs to the Master

4 Some/ any

Are there any girl students in your class?

No, there aren’t But there are some in the next class

5 The verb: To have

I have a large family She hasn’t any daughters

Do you have any sisters?

UNIT 5 FREE TIME

Language Focus:Talking about free time activities

Vocabulary: Likes and dislikes

Grammar: Present simple (1)

Nam: Hi Suzuki,are you free this evening?

Suzuki: Hi Nam Yes, I am free

Nam: Would you like to watch movies with me?

Suzuki: Yes, I’d love to What do you like to watch?

Nam: There are some American movies

and many Japanese movies, too

Suzuki But I prefer Japanese ones

Nam: So let’s watch“The last Samurai” with Tom

Cruise

Suzuki: Great! I like all the films he acts

Nam: Good!See you at 8 o’clock

Suzuki: See you

Write a sentence to answer this question: What do you do in your free time?

In my free time I play football,………

Task 2 Complete the sentences about Nam and Suzuki

1 Suzuki is………… this evening

2 Nam ………Suzuki to watch movies with him

3 Suzuki prefers ……… movies to ……… ones

4 ……… likes all the films that Tom Cruise ……… ……

5 They watch movies together at……… ………

Task 3 What types of film do you like?

Comedy - Horror – Action - Science fiction – Romance - War

Task 4 Complete the sentences:

1 There’s a ……… film at Thang Tam cinema house It’s about our battle against the USA

2 I can’t sleep because I see a……….movie

3 I don’t like ……… films because those rambos in the films are very bad

4 That ………… movie is fun It makes us laugh all the time

5 In that ……… film, the young man fall in love with the girl at the first sight

6 Many of……….films are about travels or fantastic journeys into outer space, or into the future time

III READING

Read the following post card

M/V Milamar GenoaItaly

I share my cabin with another cadet He’s Korean He likes listening to music

We sometimes listen to music together

That’s all for now Please write soon

Best regards,

Bob

Task 1 Read the letter of Bob to Brian and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F)

1 Bob is a cadet

2 He likes his new job

3 The Chief Officer gives him a list of jobs to do

4 He often plays football after work

5 Before going to bed, Bob always read books

6 Bob and Brian work on board the same ship

7 Bob shares the same cabin with an oiler

8 Sometimes Bob and the cadet listen to music together

Task 2 Write questions for the answers about Bob’s letter