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• Interchange intro units 1 to 5
• Canadian Concepts #1 units 1 – 6

New Wave I, Basic survival English, Manitoba Welcome News booklet, Side by side I – Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Verb to be (subject pronoun)
• Verb to be contraction
• Verb to be questions
• Verb to be negative
• Possesive nouns
• Verb to have
• There is /are
• My/his/their....
• A/an...
• This/that/these/those
• Adjectives
• Conjuctions and / but
• How many.....
• Present continuos intro

Greetings – Introducing yourself – Namimg objects of the classroom – Asking for and giving info about country of origen – Asking about and describing clothing – Talking about current activities – Talking about the weather – Talking about date – Telephone conversations – Telling time – Learning basic speaking survival skills in meaningful contexts.

Writing

Letter to a pen-pal, and to a friend – E.mails.

• Interchange intro units 6 to 10
• Canadian Concepts # 1 rest of units

New Wave I, Basic survival English, Manitoba Welcome News booklet, Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Subject pronouns
• Verb to be review
• -´s (Ann´s camera/my brother´s car etc.)
• At 8 o´clock on Monday in April
• Prepositions in at on (places 1 )
• Simple present intro
• Wh - questions

Asking and telling time – Asking and giving info about where you live, how you go to work, and what you do every day – Talking about homes and rooms and furniture – Asking and giving info about what people do, when they work and how they like their jobs – Talking about money and prices – Buying and selling – Talking about your family – Physical descriptions – The seasons – Listening and singing along songs – Retelling short stories – Focusing on survival English topics in meaningful contexts – Learning more about Canadian culture.

Writing

Cards, short letters and e.mails.

• Canadian Concepts # 2

New Wave I, Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Present simple: affirmative-negative-questions
• Wh- questions
• Indefinitive articles
• Can – Could
• Plurals of nouns
• Adverbs of frequency
• Imperatives & Commands (affirmative/negative)
• Present continuos intro

Introduciong yourself and others – Checking info, asking about someone – Exchanging personal information – Talking about families and family members Exchanging info about the present,describing family life – Relationships – Asking about and desccribing routines and exercise – Talking about fequency, talking about habilities – Telling time, making appointments – Food and shopping: ordening meal - Making requests – Talking about health problems – Asking and giving advice – Asking for and giving suggestions – Talking about the place we live – Renting – Dealing with problems in the apartment – Going shopping – Buying and selling things – Giving commands – Following a recipe – Describing work – Looking and applying for a job – Presenting to students practical and interesting topics that will help them to integrate into life in Canada.

Writing

Letters of request, complaint,advise, e.mails, recipes.

• Canadian Concepts # 3

• Present continuos for future
• Future going to
• Simple present review
• Simple past ( regular – irregular verbs ) negative and questions
• Verb to be going for future plans
• Time expressions for future (tomorrow,next.....)
• Pronounciation –ed
• Countable/Uncountable nouns ( a – some – any )
• ComparativesAdverbs of frequency (word order )
• Prepositions of place 1/2/3

Meeting people – Relationships – Talking about likes and dislikes – Giving opinions – Renting a place – Describing abilities and skills – Talking about preferences – Looking for a job – Interviews – Resumes – Asking about and describing locations - Asking and describing neighborhoods – Asking about and describing eating habits – Talking about free time – Preferences, habits and hobbies – Talking about plans – Describing vacation plans – Buying and selling – Going to garage sales – Bargaining – Describing past experiences – Exchanging info about past experiences and events – Talking about Canada – Describing cities – Making comparisons – Expressing opinions – Talking about health problems – Giving suggestions – Requesting – Invitations – Helping students to feel at home and integrated into the Canadian community.

Writing

Informal letters, e.mails, short compositions. Make up dialogues.

• Canadian Concepts # 4 (Units 1,2,3,5,7,8,9 & 10)

Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Future going to review
• Simple past review
• When/before/after/as soon as
• Present perfect (/ever/for/since/)
• Questions (how long have you ......)
• Must Mustn´t Needn´t
• Should - ought to
• Have to
• Countable/Uncountable
• How much/How many
• Simple future
• Conditional I
• Quantifiers:little-no-some-few-a few - all
• Adverbs
• Comparatives intro

Describing social customs – Openings and closings – Coming to Canada – Discussing about environmental problems – Giving advise – Talking about international food – Describing recent experiences – Aking and describing sports – Talking about getting in shape – Making invitations and excuses – Talking about future possibilities – Planning ahead – Describing technology – Giving instructions – Giving advice – Preparing yourself for an interview – Preparing a resume – Talking about responsabilities – Apologizing – Practising their English in real-life situations outside the classroom.

Writing

Short resumes, application letters. Notes about giving directions, Letter yto a friend, e.mails, and faxes.Make up dialogues.

• New Interchange 2 – Part B

Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

Talking about changes – Comparing time periods – Describing possibilities and skills – Talking about job preferences – Describing personality traits – Talking about landmarks and monuments – Describing countries – Discussing facts – Asking about someone’s past – Describing recent experiences – Describing movies and books – Talking about famous people – Asking for opinions – Express reactions – Interpreting body language – Explaining gestures and meanings – Describing emotions – Explaining proverbs – Asking about signs and meanings – Speculating about the past and future events – Describing a predicament – Giving advice and suggestions – Reporting what people say – Making requests – Making invitations and excuses – Understanding and evaluating opinions – Making an invitation – Accepting and refusing – Dealing with problems students might encounter in a new country.

Writing

Requesting information letters. Complaint letters . Compositions. Movie reviews. Make up dialogues.

• Canadian Concepts # 4 (Units 4,6)
• Canadian Concepts # 5 (Units 3,4,8)

Focus on Grammar High Intermediate, Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Prefer / would rather
• Purpose: to / for
• Relative clause wiith who / that / which / whose / whom / where
• Adjectives ending in –ING and –ED review
• Enough and too
• Comparisons / superlatives
• First and second conditional
• Modals: could have/ should have/ migth have/ must have ( speculations, advisability and obligations in the past)
• Embedded questions
• Be / get used to
• Review of used to… Would to express habits in the past (intro)
• Would you mind.....
• Passive voice (all tenses)
• Review of Present Perfect Continuous

Talking about accidents and injuries – Describing how something is done, made, used, or made – Agrreeing and disagreeing – Interviews – Asking about preferences – Talking about learning methods – Talking about personal qualities – Expressing advisability and obligation in the past – Speculating about past and future events – Describing a predicament – Giving advice and suggestions – Talking about things done in the past – Remembering your youth – Asking about someone’s youth – Making comparisons – Talking - Talking about lifestyle changes – Seeking confirmation or agreement – Asking for information – Dealing with problems students might encounter in a new country.

Writing

Essays. Compositions. Requesting information letters. Describing processes.

• Canadian Concepts # 5 (Units 1,2,5,6,7,9,10)

Focus on Grammar High Intermadiate, Advanced, Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Reflexive pronouns
• Present perfect / present perfect continuos review
• Used to..... Would (to express habit in the past)
• Comparatives with as --- as / than
• Tag questions
• Embedded questions review
• Review of Conditional II
• Conditional III
• I wish ---- If only
• Relative clauses with or without who / that / which
• Say and tell
• Reported speech. Reporting verbs, conversations.
• Direct and inderect speech
• Must (deduction)
• Conjuctions
• Gerunds and infinitives
• Some / any / none / every
• Phrasal verbs
• Make and Do
• Past Perfect intro
• Passive with modals
• Future Continuos / perfect intro

Talking about Canadian culture – TAlking about things done by oneself – Narrating events, actions that took place in unspecifc time – Talking about posibilities and contrary to fact situations – Reporting what people say and have said – Describing problems – Explaining how something needs to be done – Identifying and describing problems – Offering solutions – Describing yourself in the past and up to now – Expressing wishes – Giving opinions about the future – Drawing conclusions and deductions – Reporting what people say – Talking about habitual actions in the past – Stating a fact, refuting it and asking for information – Supporting and opposing an idea or suggestion - Asking and giving examples – Persuading and convincing – Counterarguing – Conceding – Giving opinions, describing and comparing - Building up writing skills: paragraph development sentence, subject / verb agreement – Incorporating idiomatic expressions and 2/3 word verb in their speeches – Working on challenging materials that focus on social and cultural issues and dealing with problems they migth encounter in a new country.

Writing

Essays. Reports. Describing graphs, tables, processes. Summarizing.

• Canadian # 6

Focus on Grammar Advanced, Grammar Assistant, CEC Activity Booklet

• Past perfect
• So / such
• Neither... nor / either.... or / both... and
• Future: will be doing / will have done
• Quite and rather
• Had better
• Articles ( school / the school )
• Conjuctions ( although / though / In spite of / despite / even though / in case / unless / as long and provided/providing)
• Modals ( could/should/must´ve... for speculations and conclusions in the past)
• Conditional III
• Mixed conditionals
• Order of adjectives
• Word formation
• Phrasal verbs

Describing past events – Narrating a story – Expressing likes and dislikes – Agreeing and disagreeing – Speculating about the future – Expressing regrets about your past – Describing hyphotetical situations and events – Offering explanations – Drawing conclusions – Differentiating the need and use of articles – Using connectors/conjunctions/linkers properly – Expanding their writing skills: parallelism, sentence and fragment. Punctuation – Listening to radio news – Understanding videos – Reading and summarizing news articles – Challenging students to deal with stimulating input and to discuss more abstract, thought-provoking themes on Canada issues – Exploring some of the idiosyncrasies of English.