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Online Course Book Living English - Upper-Intermediate english-to-go.com Upper-Intermediate Full Course Outline Unit One Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) Language - present simple and present continuous Unit Two Inventions And Machines Language - present perfect Unit Three Sport and Leisure Language - past simple, past continuous and past perfect Unit Four Life Changes Language - expressing quantity Unit Five The Future Language - future forms Unit Six Rights and Responsibilities Language - relative clauses Unit Seven Our Natural World Language - verb patterns Unit Eight How Healthy is your lifestyle? Language - modals Unit Nine It could Kill you! (Threats) Language - reported speech Unit Ten Education - How good is your memory? Language - habits and routines Unit Eleven Consumer Issues Language - conditionals Unit Twelve Travel Language - definite, indefinite and zero articles.


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Online Course Book Living English - Upper-Intermediate english-to-go.com Unit One Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) Classroom and Online Resources And the winner is… - Instant Lesson

Ordering Festivals - Weekly Warmer

Happy Birthday Athina! - Instant Lesson

Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing - Instant Lesson

Me, Too! - Weekly Warmer

Draw Your Name - Weekly Warmer

Toys - Instant Lesson Skills covered in Unit One: Grammar and Vocabulary - identifying grammatical mistakes, brainstorming vocabulary, celebrations and festivals vocabulary, sales, merchandise and toys vocabulary, present simple, present continuous. Reading and Writing - understanding text organization, writing questions, collating and reporting information, scanning, practice text organization and sequencing skills, writing appropriate questions, reading to complete a summary, predicting, making comparisons, developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, designing a poster. Listening and Speaking - asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire, listening for gist, listening for specific information, agreeing and disagreeing, retelling information, asking questions to find out information about someone, making comparisons to show similarity, ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decision.

Classroom and Online Extra Resources Turkeys Galore - Instant Lesson and - Instant Workbook Tomatina Festival - Instant Workbook


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Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) - Resources Listed With Skills Classroom Resources And the winner is… - Instant Lesson Reading - understanding text organization, Speaking - asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire, Writing - writing questions, collating and reporting information, Vocabulary - festivals, racing and gambling vocabulary, Grammar - identifying grammatical mistakes Ordering Festivals - Weekly Warmer Reading - practice text organization and sequencing skills Vocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals and special events vocabulary Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing - Instant Lesson Reading - developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, completing a table of information Speaking - retelling information, discussion Vocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals vocabulary Grammar - present simple tense, spelling of third person singular present simple verb forms Me, Too! - Weekly Warmer Speaking - asking questions to find out information about someone, making comparisons to show similarity Draw Your Name - Weekly Warmer Speaking - Asking questions Vocabulary - Revising vocabulary items to work something out Toys - Instant Lesson Reading - predicting, skimming, completing a table, Speaking - ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decisions Writing - designing a poster Vocabulary - sales and merchandise, toys and birthday vocabulary Grammar - Present simple and present continuous tenses Happy Birthday - Instant Lesson Reading - scanning, reading to complete a summary, predicting, Speaking - agreeing and disagreeing Listening - listening for gist, listening for specific information, Writing - writing appropriate questions, making comparisons Vocabulary - festivals vocabulary, collocations Extra Resources Include: Turkeys Galore - Instant Lesson Reading - finding the main idea, scanning, Speaking - describing symbols, festivals and special days, making a phone call, describing a problem and asking for help Listening - listening for gist Writing - writing sentences using conjunctions although and even though Vocabulary - holiday vocabulary, synonyms, Grammar - punctuation: apostrophes to show possession, although and even though Tomatina Festival – Food Fight! - Instant Workbook Reading - Reading Comprehension Vocabulary - festivals vocabulary Turkeys Galore - Instant Workbook Reading - Reading Cloze Vocabulary - celebrations vocabulary Extra Help for Teachers Verb Forms – Perfect and Continuous - Anna Grammar Grammar - perfect and continuous verb forms © 2005 WWW.ENGLISH-TO-GO.COM

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