CEC Buenos Aires

English Levels

Summary

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This Syllabus is prepared to provide our courses with both structure

Introduction

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and dynamism.

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Our courses are continuously improved, and this present Syllabus

Elementary

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is periodically revised with input from both teachers and students.

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CEC Argentina ensures Canadian content is added to each level in

order to promote Canadian Culture and its idiosyncrasies

Pre-Intermediate

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Intermediate

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III

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Post-Intermediate

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Advanced

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Intermediate I

Books

Book Spectrum 3 A

Units   1 to 7

Lessons  1  to 52

CEC Network Booklet

intermediate 1

Topics

Introductions                      Greetings

Travel                                 Jobs

Fantasies                             Family

Opinions                              Plans

Done and undone things      Suggestions

Languages                           Advice

Directions                            Messages

Requests                              Favors

Help                                     Exercise

Likes and dislikes                Weight and height

Invitations                        

Grammar

The present perfect: yes-no question sand short answers

Formulaic use of used to

Past participles of some irregular verbs

Offers with let

Just for the recent past

The Present Perfect: information questions and statements with for and since

The present perfect vs the Simple Past tense

The present Perfect:

Partitives : the other one, and the others

The present Perfect: negative statements

The present Perfect with already, never, and not .... yet

Might and might not

What vs which

Adverbs

Still and not … anymore

Time clauses in the past: when, before, after ,as soon as and since

The Past Continuous

Indefinite compounds with adjectives

The superlative of adjectives

Comparatives vs superlatives

Future time clauses with the simple present tense: when just before, just after as soon as, and until

Have to and be supposed to

Had better

Two word verbs

Could

Would

Indirect objects with to and for

Direct and indirect objects

Question words with infinitives

Infinitives vs gerunds

Possessive pronouns and possessives of names

The Past with used to

Functions

Ask for advice
Say how you know someone
Say hello informally

Talk about places you’ve been
Talk about things you’ve done
Make a request
Strike up a conversation

End a conversation
Offer help

Accept or decline help
Talk about jobs and places you’ve lived

Talk about fantasies

Talk about your family

Ask what someone is doing

Talk about a problem

Make a suggestion

Make a telephone call

Get a wrong number

Remind someone

Talk about foreign languages

Talk about events in the past

Tell how you met someone

Talk about exercise
Talk about likes and dislikes
Talk about weight and height
Ask how to get somewhere

Ask for and give directions
Ask for and give directions

Talk about plans
Express an obligation

Leave a message with someone

Make a request

Ask a favor of someone

Offer to do someone a favor

Ask for help

Call an office

Invite someone

Ask where to get something

Intermediate 1

SKILLS

Writing

Write a letter to a friend (workbook )

Write a letter and apply for a job(workbook)

Fill out a questionnaire (workbook)

Write an article (workbook)

Write a response for a letter (workbook)

Listening

Listen to people talk about how  they know each other

Listen  to a radio ad
Listen to people begin and end conversations
Listen to the intonation of past participles

Listen to a job interview

Listen for information about someone’s life
Listen to people talk about their fantasies

Listen to the different pronunciations of the past tense ending -ed
Listen to a description of a movie

Listen to people talk about plans

Listen to suggestions

Listen to the pronunciation of contractions with have and do

Listen for information about someone’s language abilities

Listen to people talk about how they met

Listen to vowel and consonant reduction and blending in phrases with them
Listen to advice

Listen for recommendation

Listen for directions

Listen to the intonation of statements and questions

Listen to instructions

Listen to a request

Listen to a phone message

Listen to vowel and consonant reduction and blending with the pronouns him and her

Listen for preferences

Listen to a description of someone
Listen to the different pronunciations of the possessive ‘s  

Reading

Read  several magazine articles

Read a newspaper article

Read a biographical profile

Read a historical article