Carol raised her soda can. “To File 1 ,” she said. “The most important file.”
For a moment, nobody moved.
Jake opened File 10C (“Murder in a Country House”). “Let’s do the speaking activity. ‘Look at the picture. Where is the woman? What is she holding?’” american english file 1 third edition
It was a Tuesday evening in October. The kind of gray evening where the vocabulary in File 7C (“The weather”) comes to life: *cloudy, rainy, windy, humid—*all at once. Carol raised her soda can
Jake put the sodas on the table. “So we have no internet. No streaming. No social media. No Duolingo. What do people do ?” Jake opened File 10C (“Murder in a Country House”)
Jake walked in from his shift at the sports store, holding a six-pack of soda. “What’s the panic?”
| File | Language point | Example from story | |------|----------------|---------------------| | 1A | Greetings & introductions | “Hello, what’s your name?” | | 2B | Present simple (he/she/it) | “She lives downstairs.” | | 5C | Can/can’t for ability | “I can’t do my grammar exercises.” | | 7C | Weather vocabulary | “Rainy, cloudy, windy, humid.” | | 8A | I’d like to… / Can I…? | “I’d like to speak to the manager.” | | 9A | Prepositions of time (at/in/on) | “At 10:47 PM, the Wi-Fi came back.” | | 10C | Past simple (regular/irregular) | “A truck hit a pole.” / “They sat in a circle.” |