Course

TOPICS
Months and dates; birthdays, holidays, festivals and special occasions.
SPEAKING
Saying dates; asking about birthdays; asking for / giving information about future plans, holidays and celebrations.
GRAMMAR
The future with the going to and will; Wh- questions with be going to: future expressions. Modal for necessity and suggestion: must, need to, (don’t) have to, better, ought to, should (no).
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Reduction of the form going to.
• Listening to people talk about their evening plans.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing about weekend plans.
• Reading about customs in different places.

TOPICS
Parts of the body; health problems and advice; medications.
SPEAKING
Talking about illnesses and health problems; giving advice; giving instructions.
GRAMMAR
Have + nouns; feel + adjective, affirmative and negative imperatives; modal verbs should for suggestions; modal verbs can, could, and may for requests.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Using intonation in sentences.
• Listening to people talk about health problems; listening for medications.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing advice for health problems.
• Reading about ways to improve your health.

TOPICS
Stores and things you can buy there; tourist attractions.
SPEAKING
Talking about stores and other places; asking for / giving directions.
GRAMMAR
Prepositions of place: on, on the corner of, across from, next to, between; giving directions with imperatives.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• How to use compound nouns.
• Listening to people talk about shopping; listening to directions.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing directions.
• Readings about popular tourist attractions.

TOPICS
Weekends; chores and fun activities; vacations; summer activities.
SPEAKING
Asking for / giving information about activities in the recent past.
GRAMMAR
Simple past statements with regular and irregular verbs; simple past yes/no questions and short answers.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Simple past –ed ending.
• Listening to people talk about their past summer activities.
• Listening to a conversation about last weekend.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing about last weekend.
• Reading activity about people’s weekend experiences.

TOPICS

• Biographical information; years; school days.
• Locations; telephone calls; invitations; going out with friends.

SPEAKING

• Asking for / giving information about date and place of birth, schools experiences, and the recent past.
• Describing people’s locations; making phone messages; making accepting, and declining invitations; making excuses.

GRAMMAR

• Statement and questions with the past of the verb to be; Wh-questions with did, was / were.
• Prepositional phrases; subject and object pronouns; invitations with Do you want to …? And Would you like …? Verb + to.

PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Using negative contractions.
• Listening activity about places and dates of birth.
• Listening to an interview with an actress.
• Reduction of the form want to and have to.
• Listening to phone conversations; listening to answering machine messages.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing questions about a famous people’s life.
• Writing messages.
• Reading about shows and events on a Web Page.

TOPICS

Spending habits, shopping, and prices; clothing and personal items; colors and materials.
SPEAKING

Talking about prices; giving opinions; talking about preferences; making comparisons; buying / selling things.
GRAMMAR

One / ones; questions: how much / which; comparisons with adjectives.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Listening to people shopping; listening for items, prices, and opinions.
• How to link sounds.

WRITING/ READING
Writing comparisons of prices in different countries.

TOPICS

Sports, fitness activities and exercise; routines.
SPEAKING

Asking about / describing routines and exercise; talking about frequency; discussing sports and athletes; talking about abilities.
GRAMMAR

Adverbs of frequency; always, almost, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, almost never, never, questions with how, how often, how long, and how well and how good; short answers.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• How to use intonation with direct address.
• Listening to people talking about free-time activities; listening to descriptions of sports participation.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing about favorite activities.
• Readings about favorite activities.

TOPICS
Appearance and dress; clothing and clothing styles; people.
SPEAKING
Asking about / describing people’s appearance: identifying people.
GRAMMAR
Questions for describing people; What….look like, how old, how tall, how long and what color; modifiers with participles and prepositions.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Using contrastive stress in sentences.
• Listening to descriptions of people; identifying people.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing e-mails to describe people’s styles.
• Reading about clothing styles.

TOPICS
Past experiences; unusual activities.
SPEAKING
Describing past experiences; exchanging information about past experiences and events.
GRAMMAR
Present perfect yes/no and Wh-questions, statements and short answers with regular / irregular past participles; already / yet; present perfect VS simple past; for and since.
PRONUNCIATION / LISTENING

• Linked sounds in sentences.
• Listening to descriptions of events.

WRITING/ READING

• Writing letters to friends.
• Readings about sports.