1 | Introduction, course description, class expectations, setting goals, topics and students' interests; Interchange: Unit 1; Discussion: What's in a Name? |
2 | Past tense (Game), Famous people (Group Activity), Memories ( Pair Activity), Song: Memory; Vocabulary: People; Conversation Strategies: Rejoiners & Follow-Ups. |
3 | Interchange: Unit 2; Transportation & Twenty Questions (Group Activity), Vocabulary: Public transportation; Adverbs of Quantity (Game); Discussion: Transportation Systems; Conversation Strategies: Confirmation Questions. |
4 | Interchange: Unit 3; Home & Wishes (Group Activity), Song: 'This Ole House'; Discussion: Where do you live?; Conversation Strategies: Clarifications with Question Words. |
5 | Movie Review: 'Dead Poet's Society' Introduction, previewing activities, and watching the movie. |
6 | Movie Review: 'Dead Poet's Society' Introduction, previewing activities, and watching the movie. |
7 | Interchange: Unit 4; Information exchange (Pair Activity), Food (Group Activity); Vocabulary: Food and Restaurants; Conversation Strategies: Keeping or Killing the Conversation. |
8 | Interchange: Unit 5; Travel (Group Activity); Vocabulary: Air Travel; Discussion: Holidays from Hell; Conversation Strategies: Probability Expressions. |
9 | Interchange: Unit 6; Game: Explain Yourself!; Conversation Strategies: Polite Requests, Responses, and Excuses. |
10 | Interchange: Unit 7; Vocabulary: Electrical Appliances, Telephone, Computers; Grammar Game: Gerunds as subjects/IT + Infinitive; Conversation Strategies: Response Questions. |
11 | Interchange: Unit 8; Grammar: Finish This (adverbial subordinators); Conversation Strategies: Solicitors. |
12 | Interchange: Review; Activity: Complete the Sentences (Adverbial Clauses of Time); Discussion: Special Days and Dates; Conversation Strategies: Interruptions. |
13 | Individual Presentations End of semester examination. |
14 | Game: Culture; Discussion: Keeping our Culture; Research: Ramadan; Conversation Strategies: Comparison Words. |
15 | Interchange: Unit 9; Song: 'Money, Money, Money'; Pair work: “What would you do if?”; Conversation Strategies: Word Finders. |
16 | Topic: Halloween; Pair work: Superstitions; Song: “Little Green Men", Conversation Strategies: Word Explorers. |
17 | Movie Review: “Waking Ned” Introduction, previewing activities, and watching the movie. Group and class discussion regarding the movie. |
18 | Interchange: Unit 10; Vocabulary: Occupations; Pair work: The Salary Man & Work; Song: “I Want it that Way”; Conversation Strategies: Correctors. |
19 | Interchange: Unit 11; Grammar Games: Busy Pictures; Pair work: Europe; Conversation Strategies: Elicitations. |
20 | Interchange: Unit 12; Grammar: Adverb; Conversation Strategies: Starting & Stopping a Conversation. |
21 | Interchange: Unit 13; Song: “A Spaceman Came Travelling”; Bingo: Synomyns; Game: Participal Adjectives; Conversation Strategies: Beginning & Ending a Phone Call; Presentation Skills: Story message. |
22 | Interchange: Unit 14; Song: “Santa, Baby”; Group Activity: Feelings; Conversation Strategies: Expressing Opinions. |
23 | Interchange: Unit 15; Grammar Games: Antonyms & Past Modals; Conversation Strategies: Making a Group Decision & Connectors. |
24 | Interchange: Unit 16; Grammar: Reported Speech; Conversation Strategies: Summarizers & Conducting a Formal Meeting. |
25 | Review of grammar structures and vocabulary in context of the examination |
26 | Individual Presentations End of semester examination |