English Language

Speaking and Listening, Reading and Writing

Sample Page: Semester Study Guide           ELICOS. Intermediate Level. 15 Week Term

July 2007 October 2007

Your English Success

Week

Date

Function or Skill

Activities

Notes

1

 

Core:

All About You.

- Asking and answering  questions.
Pronunciation: Auxiliary verbs.
- Present simple and continuous.

 

Exam Focus:
Reading.
Introducing reading skills.

Reading academic texts.

 

Speaking.
Discussing a topic.
Expressing a personal opinion.

 

Grammar.
Present simple.

Vocabulary.
Word families.
Prepositions. Pronunciation. Syllables

 

 

 

  Intro:

This is day 1, class 1. So don’t expect to get anything like what you need to do, done.

:-  A need for vocabulary notebooks. *5

:- The value of newspaper articles. *8

 

NCE.  All about you.

Task: Find things in common
           Preparation: listening
           Task: speaking
           Follow up: writing.

Period

     1. Pages 6 & 7.                2h

     3. Pages 8 & 9.                2h

     6. Pages 10 & 11             2h

     9. Pages 12 & 13             2h

     11. Pages 14 & 15           2h

 

IELTS. Read all about it.

Period

     2. Pages 6 & 7.                1.5h

     4. Pages 8 & 9.                1.5h

     5.  *                                  1.5h

     7. Pages 10 & 11             1.5h

     8.  *                                  1.5h

     10. Pages 12 & 13           1.5h

     12. Pages 14 & 15           1.5h

 

Reading and Speaking: How we really spend our time.

 

 

Reading and Speaking: How we really spend our time.

 

Vocabulary
people around you.

Words: have, have got.

 

Key Language Bank.

IELTS. Page 140.

 

Formal and colloquial language. Eg; to get someone to do something.

Pronunciation and phonetics chart. Check.
* 5. English vocabulary in use. P6 & 7
* 8. English grammar in use. P2 & 3

 

Irregular verbs: p155. NCE

 

2

 

 

Core:

Memory.

- Pronunciation - Past simple
–ed  endings.
- used to.

- sounding polite.

Exam Focus:
Listening.
Letters and sounds.

Introducing listening skills.

 

Speaking.
Discussing likes and dislikes.
Writing.
Reading and describing data.
Linking expressions.

Grammar.
Frequency adverbs and expressions.

 

NCE.  Memory.

Period

     1. Pages 16 & 17.                2h

     3. Pages 18 & 19.                2h

     6. Pages 20 & 21                 2h

     9. Pages 22 & 23                 2h

     11. Pages 24 & 25               2h

 

IELTS. Take note.

Period

     2. Pages 16 & 17.                1.5h

     4. Pages 18 & 19.                1.5h

     5.  *                                     1.5h

     7. Pages 20 & 21                 1.5h

     8.  *                                      1.5h

     10. Pages 22 & 23               1.5h

     12. Pages 24 & 25               1.5h

Extension: Pp 26, 27.  Review

 

Vocabulary: Remembering and forgetting.

 

Listening and Speaking: First meetings. A childhood memory.

Songs.

Reading.

 

Vocabulary:

TV Programmes.
Word partners: Do, give and make.

 

* 5. English vocabulary in use. P8 & 9
* 8. English grammar in use. P4 & 5