Week One: Personal Information
Objectives
- Grammar: tense review
- Speaking: enunciation & confidence
- Listening: predicting content
- Reading: previewing
- Writing: brainstorming
- Unit Task: introduce a neighbor
Week Two: Invitations & Refusals
Objectives
- Grammar: phrasal verbs
- Speaking: question intonation
- Listening: predicting content
- Reading: contextualizing
- Writing: outlining
- Unit Task: "How to..."
Week Three: Requests
Objectives
- Grammar: gerunds & infinitives
- Speaking: managing discussions
- Listening: listening for details
- Reading: visualizing
- Writing: paragraph structure
- Unit Task: business meeting
Week Four: Compliments / Responses
Objectives
- Grammar: real conditionals
- Speaking: word stress
- Listening: listening for the gist
- Reading: asking & answering questions
- Writing: paragraph structure
- Unit Task: Can you help me?
Week Five: Sharing Opinions
Objectives
- Grammar: modal verbs
- Speaking: "th" sounds
- Listening: listening for the gist
- Reading: summarizing
- Writing: essay structure
- Unit Task: news reports
Week Six: Complaints
Objectives
- Grammar: unreal conditionals
- Speaking: storytelling
- Listening: inferring meaning
- Reading: skimming & scanning
- Writing: essay structure
- Unit Task: story time