1. English: Level 2
Pre-intermediate
2B - 30 hours
8 Units
Topics Speaking Grammar Reading / Writing / Vocabulary Listening / Pronunciation
Unit 1
Time contrasts: A few years ago,........Past
Life in the past, present and future; Talking about change; Comparing time tenses. Today,..... Present tenses. In Writing a description of a person than and Intonation in statements beginning with a
changes and contrasts; periods; Describing possibilities; twenty years,...... Future tenses; 2nd now; Reading topic/grammar related time phrase; Listening to topic/grammar
consequences Discussing technology Conditionals with If clauses. conversation; Topic related vocabulary related conversation
Unit 2
Affirmative statements with
gerunds/infinitives e.g. I like traveling, I
hate ... Short responses to agree e.g. So
do I. and to disagree e.g. Oh, I don`t. Writing a cover letter for a job application: Unreleased and released t and d e.g. not
Negative statements with Adjectives to describe personalities good, not a good... Listening to people
Describing abilities and skills; Talking gerunds/infinitives e.g. I don`t like to (positive and negative connotations): talk about job preferences; Listening for
Abilities and skills; job preferences. about job preferences; Describing dance. Neither do I./ Well, I do. Clauses Reading about how to find the perfect job; and practicing pronunciation of vocab
personality traits; careers personality traits with because. Finding suitable jobs in the Classifieds items.
Unit 3
Talking about landmarks and Different pronunciations of the letter O
monuments; Describing countries and Passive with by (simple past passive Reading topic/grammar related e.g. not, no, do, one; Listening to
Landmarks and monuments; world their world famous products; Discussing voice); Passive without by (simple present conversation: Writing a guidebook intro descriptions of monuments; Listening for
knowledge facts about famous masterpieces passive voice) for your capital/town. info about a country
Unit 4
Contrastive stress in correcting responses
e.g. Have you been teaching French? No,
Reading topic related conversation; I`ve been STUDYING French: Listening to
Past continuous vs. past simple; Present Adverbs for storytelling e.g. suddenly, people talk about events in their careers:
Information about someone`s past; Asking about someone`s past; perfect continuous, use of lately and luckily, unfortunately, etc.: Writing a short Rhythm, stress and intonation of target
recent past events Describing recent experiences recently story about recent events in your life language
Review. Stop and check.
Unit 5
Topic related adjectives Emphatic stress, high pitch to express
(regular+participles); Writing a movie strong opinions e.g. That`s fascinating!;
Describing movies and books; Talking Participles as adjectives. When to use -ed review: Reading topic/grammar related Listening to a movie review; Listening to
Entertainment; movies and books; about actors and actresses; Asking for and -ing endings; Relative clauses: who, conversation: Reading about an author`s people talk about a book; Practicing
reactions and opinions and giving reactions and opinions which and that career pronunciation of vocab items
Unit 6
Reading topic/grammar related
Interpreting body language; Explaining Modals and adverbs: might, may, could, conversation; Practicing pronunciation of
gestures and meanings; Describing must, maybe, perhaps, possibly, probably, target language; Common phrases and Pitch to express certainty or doubt;
Nonverbal communication, emotions; Asking about signs and definitely; Permission i.e. can, be allowed gestures that go together e.g. He`s Listening to people (cops) talk about
gestures and meanings, signs; meanings; Talking about rules and to, obligation i.e. have to, `ve got to, and scratching his head. Adjectives to street signs: Rhythm, stress and
drawing conclusions regulations prohibition i.e. can`t, not be allowed to describe gestures e.g. He`s confused intonation of the target language
Unit 7
Speculating about past and future Reduction of HAVE e.g. would`ve,
events; Describing a predicament; Giving Unreal conditional sentences with If could`ve: Listening to topic/grammar
Money; hopes; predicaments; advice and suggestions about situations clauses with would, would not, could, Reading an advice column: Writing to an related convo/radio talk show about
speculations in the past might; Past modals advice columnist difficult situations
Unit 8
Writing down a voice mail message in
reported speech; Topic and grammar
Reported speech; requests e.g. He asked related reading; Verb and noun Reduction of HAD and WOULD; Rhythm,
Reporting what people say; Making me not to... She told me to...Reported collocations e.g. offer an apology, make a stress and intonation of target language;
Requests; excuses; invitations requests; invitations and excuses speech; statements complaint, etc. Listening to people make excuses
Final Review