Sunday, 12 September 2010

Course Outline - Semester 1 2010

Week

Topic

Phonology

Grammar

1

Getting to know you + course outline + class rules



2

Building Foundations 1: Needs analysis; individual goal setting



3

Building Foundations 2: Exploring resources



4

Comparing different regions; discussing their climate and their food

Linking sounds

Simple present vs. present continuous & simple past

5

Making small talk

Have or has vs. contractions

Present perfect + signal words

6

Discussing good and bad elements in a neighborhood + predictions

Emphatic stress

Future + time clauses

7

Talking about foods that are good for you

Linking with superlatives and comparatives

Comparatives, superlatives and equatives

8

Discussing and talking about ability

‘-ed’

Simple past vs. past continuous + enough/not enough

9

Mid-term Exams



10

Talking about milestones in life

How + adj./adv.

Simple past vs. present perfect

11

Discussing luxuries vs. necessities & improving your life

Sentence stress: content vs. function words

Present passive + passive with by

12

Promoting environmental action

Phrases within a sentence

Real conditionals in the future + quantifiers

13

Discussing daily life in the past

Reduction of used to

Used to/would + past passive

14

Planning a dream vacation and negotiating an airport

Reduction of have/has to, got to

Modals of necessity + modals of prohibition

15

Job interviews

Intonation in questions

Modals for giving advice + indefinite pronouns

16

Comparing different international celebrations

Question intonation with lists

As…as + would & rather

17

Exam preparation



18

Final Exams


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