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Copyright 2008 - Drayah Language Center
Copyright 2008 - Drayah Language Center
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Function
- Describing personalities; expressing like and dislikes; expressing agreement and disagreement; complaining.
- Giving opinions about jobs; describing and comparing jobs.
- Making requests; accepting and declining requests; leaving messages.
- Describing past event; narrating story.
- Expressing emotions; describing
- Expectations; talking about customs; giving advice.
- Describing problems; making complaints; explaining something that needs to be done.
- Identifying and describing problems; offering solutions.
- Asking about preferences; talking about learning methods; talking about personal qualities.
- Talking about things you need to have done; asking for and giving advice or suggestions.
- Talking about historical events; giving opinions about the future.
- Describing yourself in the past; describing regret about the past; describing hypothetical situations.
- Offering explanations; drawing conclusions; describing hypothetical events.
- Describing how something is done, used, or made; describing careers in the media and entertainment industries.
- Making a recommendations; giving and acknowledging opinions; asking for giving reasons; agreeing and disagreeing.
- Describing challengers, frustrations, and reward; talking about the past and the future.
Grammar
- Relative pronouns as subject and object; clauses containing it with adverbial clauses.
- Gerund phrases as subject and object; comparisons with er/more/less than and as…as.
- Requests with modals and if clauses; indirect requests.
- Past continuous and past simple and past perfect.
- Nouns phrases containing relative clauses; expectations; (not) supposed to, expected to, the custom to, (not) acceptable to.
- Describing problems with past participles as adjective, verbs, and nouns; need with passive infinitives and gerunds.
- Passive in the present continues and present perfect; preposition of causes; infinitive clauses and phrases.
- Would rather and would prefer; by + gerund for manner.
- Have or get something done (active and passive); suggestions with gerunds, infinitive, base-form verbs, and negative questions.
- Referring to time in the past with adverbs and prepositions: during, in, ago, from…to, for, since; describing future time with will, be going to, future continuous, and future perfect.
- Time clauses: after, as soon as, before, by the time, once, the moment, until; describing regrets about the past with should have + past participle and if clauses + past perfect.
- Infinitive clauses and phrases of purpose: in order to, in order for; describing features with nouns phrases; giving reasons with nouns phrases; giving reason with because, because of, the reason.
- Past models for degrees of certainly: must have, may have, could have, and might have; past models for opinions and advice: should have, could have, and would have.
- The passive to describe process with be and models; defining and non defining relative clauses
- Recommendations with passive models: ought to be, should be, and has got to be, and must be; tag questions.
- Complex nouns phrases with gerunds; tense review: present perfect, past simple, future perfect and would like to have + past participle.
Listening/pronunciations
- Listening for opinions; listening to descriptions of people; making inference emphatic stress.
- Listening to descriptions of job; listening for likes and dislikes sentence stress.
- Listening to requests; listening to something talk about plans blended consonants.
- Listening to news broadcasts; listening to narrative about past event; making up stories intonation in complex sentences.
- Listening for information about living abroad; listening to descriptions of and opinions about customs stress with key words.
- Listening to people exchanging things in a store; listening to complaints; listening to repair people describing their jobs contrastive stress.
- Listening to people talk about problems, solutions, and accomplishments reduction of auxiliary verbs.
- Listening to description of school courses; listening to advice; listening for comparing ways of learning intonation in question of choice.
- Listening to predictions about the future; making inferences; listening for reasons; choosing the best suggestions sentence stress in active and passive wh-question.
- Listening to historical facts; listening for opinions about public figures; listening to predictions syllable stress.
- Listening to descriptions of important events; listening to regrets and explanations reduced forms of have and been.
- Listening to description of business; listening for reasons; listening to radio commercial reduced forms of small words.
- Listening to explanations; choosing the best suggestion reduced from in past models.
- Listen to someone describe working in the movie; listening to an interview stress in compound nouns.
- Listening for solution to everyday annoyances; listening for issues and opinions intonation in tag questions.
- Listening to description of challenges and reward; listening to future plans consonant blends.
Writing/reading
Writing about a best friend "friend again-forever": reading a narrative about friendship.
- Writing about career advantage and disadvantage "strategies for keeping your job": reading advice about behavior in the workplace.
- Writing a note asking for favor "yes or no?": reading about cultural misunderstanding.
- Writing a newspaper story "strange but true": reading tabloid news stories.
- Writing advice for visitors to your country "cultural check": reading and completing a questionnaire.
- Writing a letter complaint "consumer affairs ": reading about how to complain to a business.
- Writing about local issues and offering solutions "the threat to Kiribati ": reading about an island that is sinking into the sea.
- Writing a how-to paper "learning style": reading about different modes of learning.
- Writing a letter of advice "how to improve your memory ": reading about techniques to improve your memory.
- Writing a biography "if you could do it all again": reading about three people life choice.
- Writing about how to successfully sell something "the wrong stuff": reading about advertising failures.
- Writing about an awkward situation "the blue lights of silver cliff": reading a ghost story.
- Writing about how something is done "coming soon to a theater near you!": reading about special effects in the movie.
- Writing an opinion paper "habitat for humanity": reading about socially responsible organization.
- Writing about accomplishments and goals "Adam Ezra Cohen: Westinghouse winner": reading about young prize winning scientist.
- Describing personalities; expressing like and dislikes; expressing agreement and disagreement; complaining.
- Giving opinions about jobs; describing and comparing jobs.
- Making requests; accepting and declining requests; leaving messages.
- Describing past event; narrating story.
- Expressing emotions; describing
- Expectations; talking about customs; giving advice.
- Describing problems; making complaints; explaining something that needs to be done.
- Identifying and describing problems; offering solutions.
- Asking about preferences; talking about learning methods; talking about personal qualities.
- Talking about things you need to have done; asking for and giving advice or suggestions.
- Talking about historical events; giving opinions about the future.
- Describing yourself in the past; describing regret about the past; describing hypothetical situations.
- Offering explanations; drawing conclusions; describing hypothetical events.
- Describing how something is done, used, or made; describing careers in the media and entertainment industries.
- Making a recommendations; giving and acknowledging opinions; asking for giving reasons; agreeing and disagreeing.
- Describing challengers, frustrations, and reward; talking about the past and the future.
Grammar
- Relative pronouns as subject and object; clauses containing it with adverbial clauses.
- Gerund phrases as subject and object; comparisons with er/more/less than and as…as.
- Requests with modals and if clauses; indirect requests.
- Past continuous and past simple and past perfect.
- Nouns phrases containing relative clauses; expectations; (not) supposed to, expected to, the custom to, (not) acceptable to.
- Describing problems with past participles as adjective, verbs, and nouns; need with passive infinitives and gerunds.
- Passive in the present continues and present perfect; preposition of causes; infinitive clauses and phrases.
- Would rather and would prefer; by + gerund for manner.
- Have or get something done (active and passive); suggestions with gerunds, infinitive, base-form verbs, and negative questions.
- Referring to time in the past with adverbs and prepositions: during, in, ago, from…to, for, since; describing future time with will, be going to, future continuous, and future perfect.
- Time clauses: after, as soon as, before, by the time, once, the moment, until; describing regrets about the past with should have + past participle and if clauses + past perfect.
- Infinitive clauses and phrases of purpose: in order to, in order for; describing features with nouns phrases; giving reasons with nouns phrases; giving reason with because, because of, the reason.
- Past models for degrees of certainly: must have, may have, could have, and might have; past models for opinions and advice: should have, could have, and would have.
- The passive to describe process with be and models; defining and non defining relative clauses
- Recommendations with passive models: ought to be, should be, and has got to be, and must be; tag questions.
- Complex nouns phrases with gerunds; tense review: present perfect, past simple, future perfect and would like to have + past participle.
Listening/pronunciations
- Listening for opinions; listening to descriptions of people; making inference emphatic stress.
- Listening to descriptions of job; listening for likes and dislikes sentence stress.
- Listening to requests; listening to something talk about plans blended consonants.
- Listening to news broadcasts; listening to narrative about past event; making up stories intonation in complex sentences.
- Listening for information about living abroad; listening to descriptions of and opinions about customs stress with key words.
- Listening to people exchanging things in a store; listening to complaints; listening to repair people describing their jobs contrastive stress.
- Listening to people talk about problems, solutions, and accomplishments reduction of auxiliary verbs.
- Listening to description of school courses; listening to advice; listening for comparing ways of learning intonation in question of choice.
- Listening to predictions about the future; making inferences; listening for reasons; choosing the best suggestions sentence stress in active and passive wh-question.
- Listening to historical facts; listening for opinions about public figures; listening to predictions syllable stress.
- Listening to descriptions of important events; listening to regrets and explanations reduced forms of have and been.
- Listening to description of business; listening for reasons; listening to radio commercial reduced forms of small words.
- Listening to explanations; choosing the best suggestion reduced from in past models.
- Listen to someone describe working in the movie; listening to an interview stress in compound nouns.
- Listening for solution to everyday annoyances; listening for issues and opinions intonation in tag questions.
- Listening to description of challenges and reward; listening to future plans consonant blends.
Writing/reading
Writing about a best friend "friend again-forever": reading a narrative about friendship.
- Writing about career advantage and disadvantage "strategies for keeping your job": reading advice about behavior in the workplace.
- Writing a note asking for favor "yes or no?": reading about cultural misunderstanding.
- Writing a newspaper story "strange but true": reading tabloid news stories.
- Writing advice for visitors to your country "cultural check": reading and completing a questionnaire.
- Writing a letter complaint "consumer affairs ": reading about how to complain to a business.
- Writing about local issues and offering solutions "the threat to Kiribati ": reading about an island that is sinking into the sea.
- Writing a how-to paper "learning style": reading about different modes of learning.
- Writing a letter of advice "how to improve your memory ": reading about techniques to improve your memory.
- Writing a biography "if you could do it all again": reading about three people life choice.
- Writing about how to successfully sell something "the wrong stuff": reading about advertising failures.
- Writing about an awkward situation "the blue lights of silver cliff": reading a ghost story.
- Writing about how something is done "coming soon to a theater near you!": reading about special effects in the movie.
- Writing an opinion paper "habitat for humanity": reading about socially responsible organization.
- Writing about accomplishments and goals "Adam Ezra Cohen: Westinghouse winner": reading about young prize winning scientist.