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Conversation Strategies
Use Really? to introduce contradictory information • Respond positively
to a description with Sounds nice! • Use Actually to introduce an opinion
that might su rprise • Say I don't know. I'm not sure to avoid making a
direct negative • Use!::!i and !::!.ey to greet people informally • Say No
kidding! to show surprise • Answer the phone with Hello? • Identify you
rself with This is _ on the phone • Use Well actually to begin an excuse •
Say Oh, I'm sorry after interrupting • Say Talk to you later to indicate
the end of a phone conversation • Say I'll check to indicate you' ll get
information for someone • Decl ine an offer politely with No, thanks •
Use Please pass the ... to ask for something at the table • Say Here you
go as you offer someth ing • Say Nice to see you to greet someone you
already know • Use You too to repeat a greeting politely • Ask why? to
ask for a clearer explanation • Use What about ? to ask for more
information • Use il&t to minimize the importance of an action • Use a
double question to clarify • Say Let me think to gain time to answer •
Say Oh yeah to indicate you just remembered something • Use Oh to
indicate you 've understood • Say I'm sorry to hear that, Oh no, and
That's too bad to express sympathy • Use What's wrong? to ask about
an illness • Use rea lly to intensify advice with should • Respond to good
advice with Good idea • Say I hope you feel better when someone feels
sick • Use I wish I could ... to express a wish • Use But to introduce
contrasting information • Suggest a shared cou rse of action with Let's •
Pol itely decline a suggestion with I'm rea lly sorry but and a reason •
Accept a refusa l with Maybe some other ttime • Use Su re and No
problem to agree to someone's request for a favor
• Use Not really to soften a negative response • Ask What do you mean? to request
clarification • Use Well to explain or clarify • Use emphatic stress on and to indicate
two answers
Listening / Pronunciation
Determine the best house or apartment for clients of a rea l estate company • Complete statements
about locations of furniture and appliances
Pronunciation: •
Linking Linking sounds
Listening task: •
Determine weather and temperatures in cities in a weather report • Complete statements about
people's activities, using the present continuous
Pronunciation: •
Rising and falling intonation of ~ I no and information questions Listening task: •
Identify the foods discussed in conversations Pronunciation: •
Vowel sounds: lil, Ir/, ler/, /El, Listening task: • Circle the year you hear •
Infer the correct day or month • Choose activities mentioned in conversations
Pronunciation: •
Simple past tense regular verb endings
listening task: •
Identify the people described in conversations •
Complete statements about injuries •
Identify the ailments and remedies suggested in conversations Pronunciation •
More vowel sounds Listening task: • Complete requests for favors Pronunciation
• Assimilation of sounds: Could you Listening task:
• Choose correct statements
• Circle correct words or phrases
• Complete statements about activities, using the present continuous
• Infer people's wishes for the future and complete statements, using would like Pronunciation
• Diphthongs
Reading / Writing
Reading Texts: •
House and apartment rental listings
• Descriptions of people and their homes Writing Task:
• Compare and contrast your home with homes in a complex illustration
Reading Texts:
• A daily planner
• A newspaper column about activities in a town Writing Task:
• Write about plans for the week, using the present continuous Reading Texts:
• Recipe cards • A weekly schedule Writing Task:
• Write about what you eat in a typical day Reading Text:
• A blog in which people descri be what they did the previous weekend Writing
Tasks:
• Write about the activities of two people, based on a complex picture
• Write about your weekend and what you did Reading Text:
• A magazine article about two celebrities Writing Task:
• Write a description of someone you know Reading Text:
• A journal article about infant-toddler development Writing Task:
• Describe things people ca n and can't do when they get old
