INTENSIVE ENGLISH FOR GRADUATION (INTERMEDIATE)

UNIT 1: LIVE AND LEARN

• Talk about the different ways of learning and the learning process.
• Describe emotions.
• Use rhetorical questions and informal style.
• Grammar: Use the present perfect with yet, already and just. Use the present perfect continuous to talk about recent events.
• Vocabulary: verbs take, make and do.

UNIT 2: THEN AND NOW

• Talk about personal memories.
• Vocabulary: personalities.

UNIT 2: THEN AND NOW (cont.)

• Identify emotions and attitudes.
• Write a paragraph.
• Grammar: Use past perfect to talk about the past. Use the verb used to for describing past habits.

UNIT 3: BUYING POWER

• Talk about customer service.
• Insist politely.
• Talk about ads.
• Describe what is missing in a product.
• Write a paragraph with your opinion using sequence and contrast words. Make a summary. 
• Grammar: Use definite articles. Use indiscreet questions to ask for help or information.
• Vocabulary: Describe problems.

UNIT 3: BUYING POWER (cont.)

• Convince.
  • Write a paragraph with your opinion (review).
• Quiz 1 (units 1-3).

UNIT 4: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS

• Talk about business, explain business ideas and respond to these ideas.
• Describe how to start a business.
• Describe services.
• Grammar: Use verbs have and get to talk about making things happen.
• Vocabulary: adjectives with -ed/-ing.

UNIT 4: TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS (cont.)

• Language wrap-up.
• Speaking: Talk about business ideas.

UNIT 5: THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE

• Identify phrases that mark a change of course in the conversation.
• Introduce a new topic in the conversation.
• Grammar: Use indirect style and indirect questions with verbs ask, say and tell.
• Vocabulary: Use collocations/figures of speech in conversations.

UNIT 6: DECISIONS

• Discuss predicaments.
• Talk about hopes and dreams.
• Write emails.
• Grammar: Use type III conditional sentences to talk about unreal situations in the past. Use verbs hope and wish to talk about hopes and dreams.
• Vocabulary: Talk about decisions and predicaments.

UNIT 7: THINK AGAIN

• Speculate about different situations.
• Grammar: modals of deduction must, can’t, might/may/could.
• Mid-term exam (units 1-6).

UNIT 7: THINK AGAIN (cont.)

• Vocabulary: suffixes -ful, -less. Use collocations.
• Embedded questions to verify information.
• Support opinions (for and against).

UNIT 8: STORIES WE TELL

• Grammar: Use relative clauses to give information about people, places, and objects.
• Write a story.
• Vocabulary: Adjectives to describe feelings based on a story.

UNIT 8: STORIES WE TELL WELL (cont.)

• Verb patterns + gerund.
• Tell personal anecdotes.

UNIT 9: BODY TALK

• Understand and describe medical problems.
• Ask for clarification.
• Give a piece of advice.
• Write a convincing email.
• Grammar: Use infinitive clauses with it to give suggestions on medical problems. Use wish and if only to regret.
• Vocabulary: medical and health problems. Describe a medical problem.

UNIT 10: STAGE AND SCREEN

• Quiz 2 (units 7-9).
• Talk about entertainment.
• Describe live events.
• Write a descriptive paragraph.
• Grammar: Use non-defining relative clauses to give information about people, places, and objects.
• Vocabulary: movies, actors, genres.

UNIT 11: BREAKING THE RULES

• Talk about someone’s behavior in the past.
• Use language to criticize without bothering.
• Write a little story (tale).
• Grammar: Use should/shouldn’t have to reflect a past situation. Use was/were going to and was/were supposed to for talking about unfulfilled plans and intentions.
• Vocabulary: graphics and tables.

UNIT 12: JUST THE JOB!

• Grammar: So, such, too, enough to describe degree or quality.

UNIT 12: JUST THE JOB! (cont.)

• Talk about unusual and ideal jobs. Describe them.
• Agree or disagree.
• Separable and inseparable phrasal verbs.
• Vocabulary: Start a business. Assignments.
• Review.
• Final exam (units 1-12).