Inglés - Nivel 2

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Unit 6: Staying in shape

• Vocabulary:
  • Physical and everyday activities
  • Places for sports and games
  • Talking about health habits
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Sorry, I can´t to decline regretfully
  • Provide an explanation for declining an invitation
  • Use Actually to introduce contrast
    
• Grammar:
  • Can and Have to
  • The simple present tense and the present continuous
  • Frequency adverbs
  • Time expressions
  • Further explanation of form: can/have to
  • Non-action verbs
  • Further explanation of usage and form: frequency adverbs/time expressions
    
• Speaking:
  • Suggest and plan an activity
  • Provide an excuse
  • Ask about and describe daily routines
  • Discuss exercise and diet
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Can/ Can´t
  • Third-person singular endings
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations about immediate plans / Task:identify destinations
  • Descriptions of exercise and diet routines / Task: identify each person´s health habits
  • Conversations about diet and exercise / Task: complete the statement
    
• Reading:
  • Graph showing calories burned by activity
  • Health survey
  • Article about Brooke Ellison´s daily schedule
    
• Writing:
  • Report about a classmate´s typical day
  • Recount your own typical day
    

Unit 7: Finding something to wear

• Vocabulary:
  • Categories of clothing
  • Clothing described as “pairs”
  • Types of clothing and shoes
  • Interior locations and directions
  • Describing clothes
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Excuse me to indicate that you need assistance in a store
  • Use Excuse me? when you don´t understand or didn´t hear
    
• Grammar:
  • Comparative adjectives
  • Object pronouns:as direct objects and in prepositional phrases
  • Further explanation of spelling and usage: comparative adjectives
  • Further explanation of usage: direct and indirect objects
    
• Speaking:
  • Discuss where you shop
  • Ask a clerk for help
  • Shop and pay for clothes
  • Ask for and give directions within a building
  • Discuss culturally appropriate dress
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Contrastive stress for clarification
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations abouth clothing needs / Task: choose the clothing item
  • Directions in a store / Task: mark the store departments
  • Conversations abouth clothes / Task: determine the location of the conversation
    
• Reading:
  • Clothing store website
  • Article about clothing tips for travelers
  • Personal dress code survey
    
• Writing:
  • Give advice about clothing for visitors to your country
  • Plan clothing for a trip and explain reasons
    

Unit 8: Getting away

• Vocabulary:
  • Types of vacations
  • Adjectives for travel conditions
  • Adjectives to describe vacations
  • Travel problems
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use actually to acknowledge another´s interest
  • Say I´m fine to decline assistance
  • After answering a question, ask What about you? to show reciprocal interest
    
• Grammar:
  • The past tense of be
  • The simple past tense: regular and irregular verbs
  • Further explanation of usage and form: the past tense of be
  • Further explanation of usage and form: the simple past tense
  • Spelling rules: regular verbs in the simple past tense.
    
• Speaking:
  • Greet someone arriving from a trip
  • Describe travel conditions
  • Talk about leisure activities
  • Discuss vacation preferences
  • Complain about travel problems
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Simple past- tense endings
    
• Listening:
  • Descriptions of vacations / Task: identify the vacaction problems
  • Descriptions of travel experiences / Task: choose the correct adjective
    
• Reading:
  • Vacation ads
  • Travel agency brochure
  • Vacation survey
  • Student articles about vacations
    
• Writing:
  • Describe a past vacation
  • Describe another person´s vacaction
    

Unit 9: Taking transportation

• Vocabulary:
  • Tickets and trips
  • Travel services
  • Airline passenger information
  • Means of transportation
  • Transportation problems
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Say Oh no to indicate dismay
  • Say Let me check to buy time to find the answer to a question
    
• Grammar:
  • Could and should
  • Be going to for the future
  • Further explanation of meaning: can, should, could
  • Explanation of form: modals
  • Comparison of ways to express future
    
• Speaking:
  • Discuss schedules and buy tickets
  • Ask for and give advice
  • Book travel services
  • Discuss travel plans
  • Describe transportation problems
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Intonation of alternatives
    
• Listening:
  • Requests for travel services / Task: identify the service requested
  • Airport announcements / Task: listen for delays and cancellations
  • Conversations about transportation problems / Task: complete the statement
  • Conversations about transportation / Task: match the conversation with the picture
    
• Reading:
  • Airport departure schedule
  • Travel survey
  • News clippings about transportation problems
    
• Writing:
  • Recount transportation problems on a past trip
  • Imagine your next trip
    

Unit 10 : Shopping smart

• Vocabulary:
  • Money and travel
  • Electronic products
  • Handicrafts
  • Talking about prices
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use can to indicate willingness to bargain
  • Use demonstratives to clarify intention
• Grammar:
  • Superlative adjectives· Too and enough
  • Contrasting the comparative and the superlative
  • Spelling rules for superlatives
  • Intesifiers too, really and very
    
• Speaking:
  • Ask for and give a recommendation
  • Discuss price range
  • Bargain for a lower price
  • Discuss tipping customs
  • Describe a shopping experience
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Rising intonation to clarify information
    
• Listening:
  • Recommendations for electronic products / Task: identify the product
  • Shopping stories / Task: lisen for products and prices
  • Conversations about electronics purchases / Task: check satisfactory or not satisfactory to the customer.
    
• Reading:
  • Travel guide about money and shopping
  • Article about tipping customs
  • Tipping survey
  • Story about a shopping experience
    
• Writing:
  • Narrate a true story about a shopping experience
  • Create a shopping guide for your city