Inglés - Nivel 5

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Unit 1: Cultural Literacy

• Vocabulary:
  • Terms for describing manners, etiquette and culture
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use By the way to introduce or change a topic
  • Use expressions such as Do you mind if and Would it be rude to to avoid offending some
  • Use Actually to politely correct someone
  • Begin a statement with You know... to casually shift the focus of a conversation
    
• Grammar:
  • Tag questions form and social use
  • The past perfect:form and use
  • Tag questions: more practice
  • Verb tense review: simple present, present continuous, present perfect and present perfect continuous, simple past and past continuous, used to, past perfect
    
• Speaking:
  • Make small talk with a stranger
  • Ask how someone prefers to be adressed· Get to know someone
  • Describe rules of etiquette
  • Discuss cultural changes
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Rising and falling intonation for tag questions
    
• Listening:
  • Radio call-in show on etiquetteTask: identify the topics discussed
  • People introducing themselvesTask: determine how people prefer to be adressed
    
• Reading:
  • Flyer for an international language school
  • Newspaper article about recent changes in Japanese culture
  • Survey about cultural changes
    
• Writing:
  • Advise visitors about culture and etiquette in your country
  • Express your opinion on the importance of etiquette

Unit 1: Health matters

• Vocabulary:
  • Dental emergencies
  • Symptons
  • Medical procedures
  • Types of treatments and practitioners
  • Medications
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Begin answers with Well to announce willingness to act· Say That´s right to confirm
  • Use Really? to indicate interest
    
• Grammar:
  • May, might, must and be able to: possibility, conclusions, ability
  • May, might and must: degrees of certainty
    
• Speaking:
  • Make an appointment
  • Describe dental problems and medical symptoms
  • Show concern and empathy
  • Explain preferences in medical treatments
  • Talk about medications
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Intonation of lists
    
• Listening:
  • Descriptions of dental emergenciesTask: identify problems
  • Describing Symptoms Task: check the symptons described
  • Conversations between doctors and patientsTask: complete patient information forms
    
• Reading:
  • Health advice for international travelers
  • Overview of convetional and nontraditional health treatments
    
• Writing:
  • Create a checklist for an international trip· Write about the kinds of health care you use·
  • Complete patient information form

Unit 3: Getting things done

• Vocabulary:
  • Business and non-business services
  • Adjectives to describe services
  • Social events
  • Steps for planning a social event
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Repeat part of a question to clarify before answering
  • Begin a sentence with I´m sorry but to politely insist
  • Use Sure to affirm confidently
    
• Grammar:
  • The passive causative
  • Causatives get, have and make
  • The passive causative: the by phraseCausatives get, have and make: more practice
  • Let followed by an object and base form
  • Causative have and past perfect auxiliary have
    
• Speaking:
  • Request express service
  • Ask for and recommend a service provider
  • Describe quality of service
  • Plan a social event
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Emphatic stress to express enthusiasm
    
• Listening:
  • Recommendations for service providersTask: identify the service required
  • Planning a social eventTask: order the steps and note who will do each step
  • Requesting express serviceTask: describe customer needs
    
• Reading:
  • Service provider´s website
  • Tourist guide entry on buying custom-made clothing in Hong Kong
    
• Writing:
  • Create an ad for a local service provider
  • Identify hard-to-find services
  • Write a story of a man´s day, based on a complex illustration
    

Unit 4: Life choices

• Vocabulary:
  • Fields for work or study
  • Reasons for changing your mind
  • Skills and abilities
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Say Not bad to respond casually to a question about well-being
  • Use No kidding to convey pleasant surprise
  • Say Could be to imply that you don´t completely agree
    
• Grammar:
  • Future in the past: was/ were going to and would
  • Perfect modals: meaning and form
  • Review: future with will and be going to
  • Review: future meaning with present continuous, simple present and modals
  • Regrets about the past: wish+the past perfect; should have and ought to have
    
• Speaking:
  • Greet someone you haven´t seen for a while
  • Explain a change in life and work choices
  • Express regrets about life decisions
  • Discuss skills, abilities and qualifications
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Reduction of have in perfect modals
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations about changes in life plans / Task: listen for the reasons the people changed their minds
  • Interviews at a job fair / Task: match interviewees and qualifications
  • Conversations about regrets / Task: infer wheter there were regrets
    
• Reading:
  • Work preference inventory
  • Skills inventory
  • Magazine article on the lifework of Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer
    
• Writing:
  • Recount the work and life decisions you have made and explain any regrets
  • Report on the life of a great humanitarian

UNIT 5: Holidays and traditions

• Vocabulary:
  • Types of holidays
  • Ways to commemorate a holiday
  • Wedding terminology
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use the expression Same to you yo acknowledge well-wishes
  • Preface a question with Do you mind if I ask to make it less abrupt
    
• Grammar:
  • Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns
  • Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns
  • Adjective clauses: more practice
  • Reciprocal pronouns: each other and one another
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • By + reflexive pronouns
  • Adjective clauses: who and whom for formal English
    
• Speaking:
  • Ask about and describe holiday traditions
  • Ask for and give advice about customs
  • Describe holidays, celebrations, and wedding traditions
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Rhythm: “thought groups”
    
• Listening:
  • Descriptions of holidays / Task: identify the type of holiday and celebration
  • Lecture on traditional Indian wedding customs / Task: correct the false statements
  • Conversations about weddings / Task: determine each topic
    
• Reading:
  • Magazine article describing three holiday traditions from around the world
    
• Writing:
  • Describe in detail a holiday tradition in your country