Inglés - Nivel 1

BOOK USED: TOP NOTCH 1A

Unit 1: Getting Acquainted

• Vocabulary:
  • Titles
  • Occupations
  • Nationalities
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use As a matter of fact to introduce surprising information.
  • Begin responses with a question to clarify
  • Provide information beyond Yes or No when answering a question
    
• Grammar:
  • The verb be: Yes/no questions Contractions Information questions
  • Possessive nouns and adjectives
  • Further explanation of usage and form: be
  • Further explanation of form: possessive adjectives.
    
• Speaking:
  • Exchange personal information
  • Clarify and confirm information
  • Offer to introduce someone
  • Introduce someone
  • Shift to informality
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Rising and falling Intoniation for questions
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations about people
  • Task: listen for names, occupations, and nationalities
    
• Reading:
  • Short introductions to people who travel for for their jobs
  • Student descriptions.
    
• Writing:
  • Introduce a classmate
  • Introduce yourself
    

Unit 2: Going out

• Vocabulary:
  • Entertainment events
  • Kinds of music
  • Locations and directions
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Really? To show enthusiasm
  • Use I´d love to to accept an invitation
  • Use I´d love to, but... or Thanks, but....to decline
  • Use Excuse me to approach a stranger
    
• Grammar:
  • The verb be: Questions with When, What time, and Where Contractions
  • Prepositions of time and place: On, in, at
  • Further explanation of usage: prepositions of tima and place
    
• Speaking:
  • Offer, accept, and decline invitations
  • Ask and answer questions about events
  • Ask for and give directions
  • Talk about music likes and dislikes
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Repetition to confirm information
    
• Listening:
  • Invitations to events
  • Task: identify the events and times
  • Phone calls to a box office
  • Task: identify events, times and ticket prices
    
• Reading:
  • Newspaper entertainment listings
  • Arts festival websites
  • People´s descriptions of their musical tastes
  • Music survey
    
• Writing:
  • Describe your own musical tastes
    
    

Unit 3: Talking about families

• Vocabulary:
  • Family relationships
  • Ways to describe similarities and differences
  • Marital status and relationships
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Start answers with Well to give oneself time to think
  • Use That´s great! to show enthusiasm
  • Ask follow-up questions to keep a conversation going
  • Initiate polite conversation with So
    
• Grammar:
  • The simple present tense: Statements
  • Yes/No questions Information questions
  • Further explanation of usage and form: the simple present tense
    
• Speaking:
  • Identify family relationships
  • Ask about and describe family members
  • Compare people
  • Discuss family size
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Blending sounds: Does + he/Does + she
    
• Listening:
  • Descriptions of family members / Task: listen for people´s marital status of relationship
  • An interview about a brother / Task: determine similarities and differences
  • Descriptions of families / Task: determine size of family and number of chidren
    
• Reading:
  • Article about different family sizes
  • Article comparing a brother and a sister
    
• Writing:
  • Compare two people in your own family
  • Compare two siblings in another family
    

Unit 4: Coping with tecnologhy

• Vocabulary:
  • Descriptives adjectives
  • Electronics
  • Ways to sympathise
  • Machines at home and at work
  • Machine features
  • Ways to state a complaint
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use How´s it going? And Hey to greet someone informally
  • Use word stress to clarify meaning
  • Use What about...? to make a suggestion
  • Use Really? to ask for confirmation
  • Use Hello? to answer the telephone
    
• Grammar:
  • The present continuos: for actions in progress and the future
  • Spelling rules for the present participle
  • Further explanation of form: the present continuous
    
• Speaking:
  • Ask for and make suggestions
  • Offer reasons for purchasing a product
  • Express frustration and offer sympathy
  • Describe features of machines
  • Complain when things don´t work
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Rising and falling intonation for questions: review
    
• Listening:
  • Complaints about machines / Task: identify the machines
  • Radio advertisements / Task: listen for adjectives that describe machines
  • Complaints to a hotel front desk / Task: Identify the problem and room number· Problems with machines
  • Task: Write the problem
    
• Reading:
  • Ads from electronics catalogs
• Writing:
  • Describe one of your own machines
  • Describe all the problems in a picture
    

Unit 5: Eating in, eating out

• Vocabulary:
  • Menu items
  • Categories of food
  • What to say to a waiter or waitress
  • Food and health
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use I think I´ll have to soften food orders
  • Use Good Idea! to accept a suggestion enthusiastically.
    
• Grammar:
  • Count and non-count nouns/ there is and there are
  • A, an, the
  • Categories of non-count nouns
  • Verb agreement: non-count nouns
  • Expressing quantities: non-count nouns
  • How much/How many
  • Spellling rules: plural nouns
  • Some/any
    
• Speaking:
  • Discuss what to eat
  • Order, get the check, and pay for a meal
  • Describe your own diet
  • Discuss food and health choices
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Pronunciation of the before consonant and vowel sounds
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations abouth food / Task: listen for and clasiffy food items
  • Conversations in a restaurant / Task: predict a diner´s next statement
  • Conversations while eating / Task: determine the location of the conversation
    
• Reading:
  • Menus
  • Nutrition Website
    
• Writing:
  • Describe a traditional food in your own country
  • Writte a story based on a picture