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Faculty of Humanities and Education

BASIC ENGLISH III
UNIT COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR WRITING TASK/PRODUCT
A time to remember Introducing yourself; talking about yourself; Past tense; used to for habitual actions Writing a paragraph about your childhood “Class profile”: Finding
People; childhood; exchanging personal information; “Drew Barrymore: Actor, roducer, out about a classmate’s
memories remembering your childhood; asking about Director”: Reading about the life and work childhood
someone’s childhood of this Hollywood star
Caught in the rush Talking about transportation and Expressions of quantity with count Writing a paragraph about your Childhood “Tourism campaign”:
Transportation; transportation problems; evaluating city and non-count nouns: too many, too “Drew Barrymore: Actor, Producer, Suggesting ways
transportation services; asking for and giving information much, fewer, less, more, not enough; Director”: Reading about the life and to attract tourists to a city
problems; city services indirect questions from Wh-questions work of this Hollywood star
Time for a change! Describing positive and negative features; Evaluations and comparisons with Writing an e-mail comparing two living “Wishful thinking”:
Houses and apartments; making comparisons; talking about lifestyle adjectives: not…enough, too, (not) spaces “Break those bad habits”: Reading Finding out about a
lifestyle changes; wishes changes; expressing wishes as…as; evaluations and comparisons about ways to end bad habits classmate’s wishes
with nouns: not enough…, too much/
many. . . , (not) as much /many…as;
wish
I’ve never heard of that! Talking about food; expressing likes and Simple past vs. present perfect; Writing a recipe “Food and Mood”: “Is that so?”: Surveying
Food; recipes; cooking dislikes; describing a favorite snack; giving sequence adverbs: first, then, next, Reading about how food affects the way classmates about their
instructions; cooking step-by-step instructions after that, finally we feel experiences
methods
Going places Describing vacation plans; giving travel Future with be going to and will; Writing a letter with travel suggestions “Fun vacations”: Deciding
Travel; vacations; plans advice; planning a vacation modals for necessity and suggestion: “Volunteer Travel – A vacation with a on a trip
must, need to, (don’t) have to, ought difference”: Reading about how
to,-‘d better, should (not) volunteer vacations work
OK. No problem! Making requests; agreeing to and refusing Two-part verbs; will for responding to Writing a set of guidelines “How to Ask “That’s no excuse!”
Complaints; household requests; complaining; apologizing; giving requests; requests with modals and for a Favor”: Reading about ways to Apologizing and
chores; requests; excuses; excuses Would you mind . . .? ensure a positive response to requests for a making amends
apologies favor
What’s this for? Describing technology; giving instructions; Infi nitives and gerunds for uses and Writing an email asking for specific favors “Talk radio”: Giving advice
Technology; instructions giving suggestions purposes; imperatives and infi nitives “Modern-Day Treasure Hunters”: Reading to classmates
for giving suggestions about the new hobby of geocaching
Let’s celebrate! Describing holidays, festivals, customs, and Relative clauses of time; adverbial Writing an entry on a travel website “Special occasions”:
Holidays; festivals; special events clauses of time: when, after, before about a cultural custom “Customs Around Finding out how
customs; celebrations the World”: Reading about interesting classmates celebrate
customs and cultural events special events

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