Scope and Sequence - Unit 2 (3 units are included)

 

 

Unit 4: The Simple Present Tense is Used:

• To express habits, general truths, repeated actions or unchanging situations, emotions and wishes:
  I smoke (habit); I work in London (unchanging situation); London is a large city (general truth)
• To give instructions or directions:
  You walk for two hundred meters, then you turn left.
• To express fixed arrangements, present or future:
  Your exam starts at 09.00
• To express future time, after some conjunctions: after, when, before, as soon as, until:
  He'll give it to you when you come next Saturday.

UNIT 5 : Suggestions

   

Unit 6: LETTERS AND NUMBERS

If we make a suggestion, it means that we mention a possible course of action to someone. There are a number of expressions which we can use to make suggestions.

How about/what about + -ing?

How about starting a book club?

What about opening your present now?

How about + present simple?

A:How about I pick you up at eight o’clock on my way to the airport?

B:Great. I’ll see you then.

We often use how about and what about + noun phrase when we make suggestions about food or drink. These suggestions are invitations:

A:Are you hungry?

B:Yeah, how about some lunch?

Why not …? and why don’t …?

We can use why not to make a general suggestion. We often find it in advertising:

Why not take a break in the south-west?

Why not treat yourself to a meal at the Icon Restaurant?

We can use why don’t …? to make a specific suggestion:

You look really tired. Why don’t you take some time out and rest?

It’s getting late in the evening now. Why don’t we stop now and work on this tomorrow morning?

Let’s … and let’s not …

We use let’s (let us) to make suggestions about doing something with someone:

Let’s call Michael and see if he knows how to fix it.

Let’s make a curry tonight.

We use let’s not to make negative suggestions:

Let’s not argue about this.

Let’s not spend all night talking about my problems.