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Inglés - Nivel 3
Book used: top notch 2A
Unit 1: Greetings and small talk
- Vocabulary:
- Customs around the world
- Tourist activities
- Conversation Strategies:
- Ask What have you been up to? Or How have you been? to start a conversation
- Add information beyond Yes or No to continue a conversation
- Use That´s great to shift to a new topic
- Grammar:
- The present perfect: yet, already, ever and before
- Past participles
- Further explanation of form and usage: the present perfect
- Speaking:
- Offer to introduce someone
- Get reacquainted with someone
- Greet a visitor
- Talk about tourist activities
- Explain local customs
- Ask about life experiences
- Pronunciation:
- Negative contractions
- Listening:
- People ask visitors abouth what they´ve done / Task: identify activities
- A game show / Task: describe the guests´s life experiences
- Conversation with a visitor / Task: identify tourist sights visited
- Reading:
- Magazine article about gestures around the world
- Customs around the world
- Experiences survey
- Writing:
- Write about an experience
- Create a guide for visitors to your country on how to behave
- Introduce yourself
Unit 2: Movies and entertainment
- Vocabulary:
- Explanations for being late
- Ways to express likes and dislikes
- Movie genres
- Adjectives to describe movies
- Conversation Strategies:
- Use They say to support a suggestion
- Use Actually to indicate that what you are about to say may be surprising
- Use For real? to convey surprise
- Grammar:
- The present perfect additional uses--for and since
- Would rather
- Contrasting the present perfect and the present perfect continuous
- Spelling rules for the present participle
- Speaking:
- Apologize for and explain lateness
- Offer to pay or return the favor
- Compare tastes in movies
- Describe movies you´ve seen lately
- Discuss the effects of violence in the media
- Pronunciation:
- Reduction of /h/
- Reduction of /h/
- Listening:
- Movie reviews / Task: identify genres and recommendations
- Two people choose a movie to see / Task: write movie descriptions
- Conversations about movies / Task: use adjectives to describe the movies
- Reading:
- Magazine article about violence in movies
- Movies catalog ads
- Movie reviews
- Writing:
- Write a movie review page
- Express opinions about violence in media
Unit 3: Staying at hotels
- Vocabulary:
- Telephone messages
- Hotel room features
- Hotel facilities
- Hotel room amenities and services
- Conversation Strategies:
- Use I´d like to to politely state your purpose on the phone
- Use That´s right to confirm
- Use By the way to introduce a new topic or a question
- Grammar:
- The future with will
- Had better
- Further explanation of usage: future with will and be going to· Degrees of obligation: have to,
- must, had better, be supposed to, should, ought to and could
- Speaking:
- Leave and take a phone message
- Check into and out of a hotel
- Discuss hotel room features and facilities
- Request housekeeping services
- Choose a hotel
- Pronunciation:
- Contractions with will
- Contractions with will
- Listening:
- Phone calls to a hotel / Task: take phone messages
- Conversations about hotel reservations / Task: write the room features guests want
- Requests for hotel room amenities and services / Task: identify the services and items requested
- Reading:
- Tourist guide recommending New York hotels
- Hotel Bill
- Hotel preference survey
- Writing:
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of a hotel
- Describe a hotel you´ve stayed at
Unit 4: Cars and driving
- Vocabulary:
- Ways to show concern· Car parts
- Types of cars
- Bad driving behaviors
- Polite adress
- Phrasal verbs
- Conversation Strategies:
- Use expressions such as I´m so sorry and How awful to convery concern
- Begin response with Well to introduce an explanation
- Grammar:
- The past continuous
- Direct object placement with phrasal verbsFurther explanation of usage: the past continuous
- Direct object placement: separable and inseparable phrasal verbs
- Speaking:
- Describe a car accident and damage
- Express concern
- Ask for service and repairs
- Describe car problems
- Rent a car
- Discuss driving rules
- Pronunciation:
- Stress of particles in phrasal verbs
- Stress of particles in phrasal verbs
- Listening:
- People describe car accidents / Task: identify car damage
- Phone calls to a car rental agency / Task: infer if the caller rented the car
- Conversations with a car rental agent / Task: listen for car types
- Reading:
- Magazine article about driving abroad
- Online response to car rental request
- International road signs
- Driving safety survey
- Writing:
- Compare good and bad drivers
Unit 5: Personal care and appearence
- Vocabulary:
- Personal care products
- Salon services
- Ways to schedule and pay for personal care
- Ways to improve appearence
- Conversation Strategies:
- Repeat part of a question before answering to clarify· Use Can I get to make a request more polite
- Repeat part of a question before answering to clarify· Use Can I get to make a request more polite
- Grammar:
- Count and non-count nouns: indefinite quantities and amounts- some, any, a lot of, many and much
- Someone and anyone· Review of non-count nouns: containers, quantifiers, and other modifiers
- Too many, too much, and enough
- Indefinite pronouns: something, anything and nothing
- Speaking:
- Shop por personal care products
- Ask for something you can´t find
- Request salon services
- Schedule and pay for personal care
- Discuss ways people improve their appearence
- Pronunciation:
- Vowel reduction to / /
- Vowel reduction to / /
- Listening:
- Radio advertisements / Task: identify personal care products
- Conversations about salon appointments / Task: identify salon services
- Customers ask about personal care services / Task: listen for the services requested and explain what happened
- Reading:
- Advice column about cosmetic surgery
- Personal appearance survey
- Writing:
- Write a letter to a magazine´s editor
- Describe a personal care product you like
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