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 II

Books

Book Spectrum 3

Units 8 to 14

Lessons  53  to 99

CEC Network Booklet

Intermediate 1I

Topics

Apologies                         Plans

Invitations                         Identification

Vacations                          Locations

Directions                         Offers

Apartments                       Transportation

Preferences                        Plans

Trips                                   Clarification

Comparison                        Excuses

Reservations                       Conclusions

Restaurants                         Food

Requests                             Permission                          Possibilities                        Quantity                              Greetings                            Socializing                          Suggestions

Grammar

The past continuous

Hope and think

Tag questions

Infinitives after object pronouns

Present participles and past participles used as adjectives

Ought to

Relative clauses

Embedded questions

Prepositions

I’d rather and I’d rather not

Conditional Sentences

The comparative of adverbs

Couldn’t

Must

Another, some/any more and something/ anything else with countable and mass nouns

Sense verbs

Must

May and might

Countable and mass nouns

Review: The present perfect

Short negative responses

The present perfect continuous

Functions

Apologize for calling at a bad time
Ask if someone has plans
Invite someone
Check plans with someone
Talk about plans
Refresh your memory
Identify someone

Talk about a vacation
Talk about places
Talk about location
Compass directions
Offer, accept, and decline food and drink
Identify someone

Talk about the size of an apartment
Ask about apartments
Talk about transportation
Talk about location
State a preference

Talk about plans
Make an offer
Talk about a trip
Ask for clarification
Make a comparison
Give an excuse
Make a reservation

State a conclusion
Decide what to order in a restaurant
Ask for something
Talk about how food tastes
Talk about how things smell, taste, sound, feel, look, seem
Identify a song or a person
Ask for permission

State a conclusion
Figure out where you left something
Talk about possibilities
Talk about quantity
Make a request
Ask where something is
Talk about location
Apologize for being late

Greet someone after a long time
Talk about people you knew
Catch up on what someone has done
Ask about duration
Make a suggestion
Accept or reject a suggestion

Intermediate II

SKILLS

Writing

Write a letter (workbook)

Write a travel advertisement (workbook)

Write a classified ad (workbook)

Write about plans (workbook)

Write a thank-you note (workbook)

Write a short letter to an old friend (workbook)

Write a business memo (workbook)

Listening

Listen for what people were doing
Listen for information about people's plans

Listen for opinions
Listen to people accept and decline food
Listen for descriptions of people
Listen to the pronunciation of adjectives ending -ing   

Listen for information about the size of an apartment
Listen for information about a bus schedule
Listen for preferences

Listen to offers
Listen to an airline reservation
Listen to the pronunciation of conditional sentences
Listen for opinions
Listen to vowel and consonant reduction and blending in could you, would you, and why don't you 

Listen for location
Listen to weekend plans
Listen to the pronunciation of compound nouns

Listen to people greet each other after a long time
Listen for information about people's past activities
Listen to consonant reduction and blending in gotten, written, and eaten

Reading

Read  several magazine articles

Read a newspaper article

Read an advice column

Read encyclopedia entries

Read a restaurant guide

Read an advice column