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/
    
• 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
    
• 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
    
• 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
    
• 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 / /
    
• 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