Rob was on the couch, holding his phone above his head like he was trying to catch a butterfly. “No. No Wi-Fi, no 5G, nothing. It’s like the whole building forgot to pay the internet bill.”
Rob laughed. “You’re not going to fail. You know more English than most people born here.”
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. american english file 1 third edition
“What?” Rob asked.
Jake put the sodas on the table. “So we have no internet. No streaming. No social media. No Duolingo. What do people do ?” Rob was on the couch, holding his phone
Jenny looked at her phone. Then she looked at her friends.
“No,” Rob said. “I mean we go back to the old way . Page 4. ‘Getting to know you.’ We talk. Face to face. No screens.” It’s like the whole building forgot to pay
Jenny frowned. “ File 1 ? ‘Hello, what’s your name?’ I don’t need that.”
| 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.” |