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SYLLABUS
Course Description
- Course: 1
- Entry score: 30 TOEFL iBT (CEFR A2 level)
- Target score: 45 TOEFL iBT (CEFR B1 level)
Course Objectives
- This syllabus is designed for a course of 90 online hours plus 100 offline hours.
- This course aims to improve students’ language proficiency by equipping them with important knowledge of vocabulary and grammar
structures as well as language skills needed for different parts of the test at the target level of 45 TOEFL iBT score. The course reinforces
learner’s grammatical competence and their autonomy in vocabulary learning and places a great emphasis on pronunciation and note‐
taking skill.
Course Materials
- Online learning: English Discoveries: ½ Basic 3 + Intermediate 1 + Intermediate 2 + ½ Intermediate 3
- Offline learning:
English Discoveries Workbook: ½ Basic 3 + Intermediate 1 + Intermediate 2 + ½ Intermediate 3
Supplementary Book Course 1 (compiled by IIG Vietnam): Pronunciation and Note‐taking
Time Allocation
- Online learning: ~6 hours/ED unit/week in 15 weeks
- Offline learning: ~3.3 hours/session x 2 sessions/week in 15 weeks
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1 Basic 3 ‐ Unit 6: Emotions
Listening: Drama
Reading: Malcolm's Special Day
Dialogue: There's Tom
Grammar: Past progressive tense
Vocabulary: Adjectives 3
Magazine: Emoji for All of Us Course Introduction (30’)
(Intermediate) ‐ Course overview
‐ ED learning guidelines
Record yourself and send to Teacher ED Workbook ‐ Unit 7 Review (100’)
+ He wasn't looking where he was going, and ED Workbook ‐ Unit 6 Review (100’) - Word list: Health
he fell down and hit his head. (Listening – - Word list: Adjectives 3 - Family
Drama) - Drama - The Party
- Malcolm's Special Day - Lunch
Basic 3 ‐ Unit 7: Making excuses - There's Tom - Infinitives and gerunds
Listening: Family - Past progressive tense
Reading: The Party Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
Dialogue: Lunch Unit 1: Psychology – Happiness
- Vowels /i:/ ‐ /i/
Grammar: Infinitives and gerunds Take notes of lecture topic & organization
- Strong and weak vowels
Vocabulary: Health
- Independent questions
Magazine: Quiet, Please! This Is A
Party
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+ Don't worry! I'll call when I get up, and tell
you if I'll be able to come to the party.
(Listening – Family)
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2 Basic 3 ‐ Unit 8: Tickets, please!
Listening: The Audition
Reading: Tickets, Please!
Dialogue: Excuse Me
Grammar: Infinitives and gerunds,
Impersonal Statements: Empty
Subject, Adverbs ED Workbook ‐ Unit 8 Review (100’)
Vocabulary: Entertainment 2 - Word list: Entertainment 2
Magazine: Please Touch the Art! - The Audition ED Workbook ‐ Unit 9 Review (100’)
(Intermediate) - Tickets, Please! - Introduction: Saving Energy
- Excuse Me - How to save energy
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Infinitives and gerunds, Impersonal - The Electricity bill
+ They're having auditions tomorrow as well. Statements: Empty Subject, Adverbs - Looking for a washing machine
Is it ok to be the last audition of the day? - Make your own energy
(Listening ‐ The Audition) Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) - Renewable energy
- Vowels /u:/ ‐ / ʊ/
Basic 3 ‐ Unit 9: Saving Energy - Stress in two‐syllable words Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
Introduction: Saving energy - Independent questions Unit 2: Linguistics – A Time to Learn
‐ Vocabulary: Energy Take notes of rhetorical questions
‐ Grammar: Conditional If ED Review Test 1 & Correction (30’)
Reading: How to save energy
Listening: The Electricity bill
Dialogue: Looking for a washing
machine
Reading: Make your own energy
Listening: Renewable energy
Magazine: Solar Mamas
(Intermediate)
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+ Don’t keep the refrigerator door open long.
A full refrigerator (or freezer) uses less energy
than an empty refrigerator. To help fill it up,
you can put bottles of water inside. (Reading:
How to save energy at home)
3 Basic 3 ‐ Unit 10: Knowing a second language
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 10 Review (100’)
Introduction: Knowing a Second - Introduction: Knowing a Second
Language Language
‐ Vocabulary: Studying a Language - The benefits of Learning a Language
‐ Grammar: Review of Present and - Being Bilingual ED Workbook ‐ Unit 1 Review (100’)
Past tenses - Tips for Learning English - Word list: Education 2
Reading: The benefits of Learning a - The Bilingual Circle - Sports
Language - Language Channel Podcast - College for kids
Listening: Being Bilingual - Math test
Dialogue: Tips for Learning English Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) - Present perfect: Statements Q & A
Reading: The Bilingual Circle - Vowels / ɑː/ ‐ / ʌ /
Listening: Language Channel Podcast - Stress in longer words Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
Magazine: Virtual Mentors - Independent questions Unit 3: Public Health – Sleep
(Intermediate) Take notes of signal phrases
ED Review Test 2 & Correction (30’)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ Well, I don’t know a lot of words, so it’s
hard for me to understand what I’m reading
(Listening – Tips for learning English)
BASIC 3 – END‐OF‐COURSE TEST
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Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 1: Education
Listening: Sports
Reading: College for kids
Dialogue: Math test
Grammar: Present perfect:
Statements Q & A
Vocabulary: Education 2
Magazine: Girl Scouts Fight
Cybercrime (Intermediate)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ Today's guest is Joe Norse, a secondary
school student who has helped his football
team win the city championship for the last
three years. (Listening – Sports)
4 Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 2: Away from home ED Workbook ‐ Unit 2 Review (100’)
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 3 Review (100’)
Listening: How do you like it here? - Word list: Study Abroad
- Word list: Celebrations
Reading: Study exchange - How do you like it here?
- Call‐in
Dialogue: Enjoying your stay - Study exchange
- The first Thanksgiving
Grammar: Present perfect: - Enjoying your stay
- Sorry I’m late
progressive - Present perfect: progressive
- Passive voice: With or without Agent
Vocabulary: Study Abroad
Magazine: Let's Go Glamping! Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
(Intermediate) - Vowels / ɒ / ‐ / ɔː /
Unit 4: Business – Negotiating for Success
- Stress in compound words
Take notes of lists
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions
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+ “I haven’t been homesick even once,” Kim ED Review Test 3 & Correction (30’)
says. “I have made several new friends and I
have a great roommate, Chantal, who I will
keep in touch with when I leave.” (Reading ‐
Study Exchange)
+ Where I come from things are much more
formal. (Listening ‐ How do you like it here?)
Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 3: Celebrations
Listening: Call‐in
Reading: The first Thanksgiving
Dialogue: Sorry I’m late
Grammar: Passive voice: With or
without Agent
Vocabulary: Celebrations
Magazine: Night of the Radishes
(Intermediate)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ They were helped by the American Indians,
who taught them how to grow all kinds of
new vegetables, such as corn and yams, or
sweet potatoes. (Reading ‐ The First
Thanksgiving)
+ By harvest time, there was lots of food to
eat and the future looked full of opportunity.
(Reading ‐ The First Thanksgiving)
5 Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 4: Bad weather ED Workbook ‐ Unit 4 Review (100’) ED Workbook ‐ Unit 5 Review (100’)
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Listening: Weather - Word list: Weather - Word list: Entertainment 3
Reading: Weather Warning - Weather - Music
Dialogue: Big Storm - Weather Warning - The garbage man
Grammar: Relative clauses: Object - Big Storm - Picasso Exhibit
clauses, Subject clauses, With or - Relative clauses: Object clauses, Subject - Passive voice: Indirect Form
without relative pronouns clauses, With or without relative
Vocabulary: Weather pronouns Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
Magazine: Bosai Girls to the Rescue! Unit 5: Art History – Modern Art
(Intermediate) Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) Take note of definitions
- Vowels / e/ ‐ / æ /
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Chunking text and reading aloud
+ According to national weather reports,/ the - Independent questions
storm /which was expected/ later today/ is
traveling /at fifty miles an hour, /and should ED Review Test 4 & Correction (30’)
reach this area /around midnight tonight.
(Listening – Weather)
+ Tomorrow evening temperatures /will
continue to go up/, and bright sunshine /and
above average temperatures /are expected
/for the weekend (Listening –Weather)
Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 5: Arts &
Entertainment
Listening: Music
Reading: The garbage man
Dialogue: Picasso Exhibit
Grammar: Passive voice: Indirect
Form
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Vocabulary: Entertainment 3
Magazine: The Sweetest Art
(Intermediate)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ Their first concert /was held last week /at
the University’s science auditorium, /where
they were /a great hit /with the students.
(Listening – Music)
+ Well, /I was given a guitar /by my wife
/when I was accepted /as a professor here /at
State University. (Listening – Music)
INTER 1 – MID‐COURSE TEST
6 Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 6: At work ED Workbook ‐ Unit 6 Review (100’)
Listening: The job interview - Word list: Work 3
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 7 Review (100’)
Reading: Overtime - The job interview
- Word list: Postal Services
Dialogue: French tie - Overtime
- Family
Grammar: Present perfect: Contrast - French tie
- Sending a package
with other tenses - Present perfect: Contrast with other
- Airmail to Tokyo
Vocabulary: Work 3 tenses
- Passive voice: Modals
Magazine: Open Offices: Helping or
Hurting? (Intermediate) Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
- Vowels / ɜː /
Unit 6: Engineering – Robots
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Consonant‐to‐vowel linking
Take notes of numbers
+ So Karen, I've read over your application, - Independent questions
and I see that you have some experience in
ED Review Test 5 & Correction (30’)
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advertising. (Listening ‐ The Job Interview)
+ I now work directly with the art director on
different campaigns and I take part in
planning meetings and reviews. (Listening ‐
The Job Interview)
Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 7: Sending a package
Listening: Family
Reading: Sending a package
Dialogue: Airmail to Tokyo
Grammar: Passive voice: Modals
Vocabulary: Postal Services
Magazine: Commercial Drones are
Taking Flight (Intermediate)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ Next, decide which kind of delivery is best,
according to how urgently the package is
needed. Surface mail, which sends parcels by
land and sea, is the cheapest, but also the
slowest. (Reading ‐ Sending a Package)
7 Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 8: Emergency ED Workbook ‐ Unit 8 Review (100’) ED Workbook ‐ Unit 9 Review (100’)
Listening: Emergency - Word list: Road Accidents - Word list: Banking
Reading: Marge has a baby - Emergency - Seaview National Bank
Dialogue: I have to go - Marge has a baby - Banking trends
Grammar: Noun clauses + Adverbial - I have to go - Opening a bank account
- Noun clauses - Emails of enquiry and response
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clauses - Adverbial clauses - Banking trends
Vocabulary: Road Accidents
Magazine: The Lighter Side of the Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) Listening: Revision (100’)
News (Intermediate) - Vowels /eɪ/ /ɑɪ/ /ɔɪ/ - Note‐taking (60’)
- Linking /j/ ‐ / w/ - Pronunciation (40’)
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions
+ We were crossing that bridge on Route 6,
when this big truck came speeding towards ED Review Test 6 & Correction (30’)
us. (Listening – Emergency)
+ An ambulance was called, and we were
rushed to the emergency room at Parker
General Hospital. (Listening – Emergency)
Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 9: Banking
Introduction: Banking
Vocabulary: Banking
Grammar: Modal Verbs
Reading: Seaview National Bank
Listening: Banking trends
Dialogue: Opening a bank account
Reading: Emails of enquiry and
response
Listening: Banking trends
Magazine: A Boy and a Bank
(Intermediate)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ All you have to do is sign into your account,
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take a picture of the check with the camera
on your device, and submit the image for
deposit. (Listening‐Banking trends)
+ Another trend we’re seeing is more secure
payment systems. (Listening‐Banking trends)
Mid‐course Test
8 Intermediate 1 ‐ Unit 10: Gadgets
Introduction: Gadgets and
Technology ED Workbook ‐ Unit 10 Review (100’)
Vocabulary: Electronic gadgets - Word list: Electronic gadgets
Grammar: Future tenses - All about Apps ED Workbook ‐ Unit 1 Review (100’)
Reading: All about Apps - Student Hackathon - Wordlist: Cars
Listening: Student Hackathon - Choosing a device - Ad
Dialogue: Choosing a device - Tech‐trend gadget expo - Buying a used car
Reading: Tech‐trend gadget expo - Technology Podcast - The car
Listening: Technology Podcast ‐ Read conditionals
Magazine: Feel the Music Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
(Intermediate) - Vowels /ɪə/ /eə/ Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
- Rhythm Unit 7: Media Studies – Interactive Games
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions Take notes of points of view
+ Some wearables send health information
straight to your doctor. (Reading: Tech‐Trend ED Review Test 7 & Correction (30’)
Gadget Expo)
+ They will have special electronics and
software inside, plus a continuous connection
to the Internet. (Listening‐Technology
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Podcast)
INTERMEDIATE 1 – END‐OF‐COURSE TEST
Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 1: Buying a car
Listening: Ad
Reading: Buying a used car
Dialogue: The car
Grammar: Conditionals (Real)
Vocabulary: Cars
Magazine: Groupon (Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ When I told my sister about it, she said that
she had just bought a car here, too, and had
gotten a really great deal. (Listening – Ad)
+ Also, if you decide to buy a car through a
used‐car dealer, try to have someone
recommend a good dealer. (Reading –
Buying a Used Car)
9 Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 2: Accidents ED Workbook ‐ Unit 2 Review (100’) ED Workbook ‐ Unit 3 Review (100’)
Listening: Be careful - Wordlist: Accidents - Wordlist: Attending a Party
Reading: Cliff Terror - Be careful - Family
Dialogue: Look out! - Cliff Terror - A Foreign Affair
Grammar: Past perfect: Progressive - Look out! - Fried fish
Vocabulary: Accidents - Past perfect: Progressive - Past perfect: simple
Magazine: Technology and the Bully
Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
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(Advanced) - Vowels /əʊ/ /aʊ/ Unit 8: Biology – Genetically Modified Food
- Strong and weak forms in phrases and Take notes of key terms
sentences: pronouns
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions
+ You know you're not supposed to carry
things like that on your own. (Listening ‐ Be ED Review Test 8 & Correction (30’)
Careful!)
+ Are you allowed to ride your bike on the
sidewalk? (Listening ‐ Look Out!)
Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 3: Problems
Listening: Family
Reading: A Foreign Affair
Dialogue: Fried fish
Grammar: Past perfect: simple
Vocabulary: Attending a Party
Magazine: Are Your Shoes Driver
Friendly? (Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ I've had new tires put on, they've repaired
an oil leak, and the brakes needed to be
replaced. (Listening – Family)
+ How embarrassing! But Danny put on his
best smile, and walked over.
10 Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 4: Helping out ED Workbook ‐ Unit 4 Review (100’) ED Workbook ‐ Unit 5 Review (100’)
Listening: Welcome to the - Wordlist: Home Repairs - Wordlist: Adjectives 4
Neighborhood - Welcome to the Neighborhood - The promotion
- She owes you a favor - The singer
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Reading: She owes you a favor - Let’s go - Assignments
Dialogue: Let’s go - Past perfect: review - Conditionals (Unreal)
Grammar: Past perfect: review + - Reported Speech: Statements +
Reported Speech: Statements + Questions Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
Questions Unit 9: Business – Design Thinking
Vocabulary: Home Repairs Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) Take notes of degree of certainty
Magazine: DeafSpace (Advanced) - Consonants /p/ /b/
- Strong and weak forms in phrases and
Record yourself and send to Teacher sentences: possessives, conjunctions,
+ I've always wanted to go there. (Listening ‐ prepositions
Welcome to the Neighborhood!) - Independent questions
+ It was supposed to be the number nine, not
the number six. (Listening ‐ Welcome to the ED Review Test 9 & Correction (30’)
Neighborhood!)
Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 5: Dreams and
Ambitions
Listening: The promotion
Reading: The singer
Dialogue: Assignments
Grammar: Conditionals (Unreal)
Vocabulary: Adjectives 4
Magazine: Working the Dream ‐ at
Hubud (Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ I haven't seen you since that meeting with
the marketing team we had...what's it been?
(Listening ‐ The Promotion)
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+ They've just offered me a new job: a
promotion. (Listening ‐ The Promotion)
INTERMEDIATE 2 – MID‐COURSE TEST
11 Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 6: Money matters
Listening: Quiz
Reading: Get your mother’s worth
Dialogue: The raise
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 6 Review (100’)
Grammar: Reported speech: Time
- Wordlist: Finance
aspects
- Quiz
Vocabulary: Finance
- Get your mother’s worth
Magazine: Kakeibo: The Japanese Art ED Workbook ‐ Unit 7 Review (100’)
- The raise
of Saving Money (Advanced) - Wordlist: Politics
- Reported speech: Time aspects
- News
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Brown’s campaign problems
Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
+ Welcome to "Know Your Composers," our - New manager
- Consonants /θ/ /ð/
weekly quiz show where you - Reported Speech: Review
- Strong and weak forms in phrases and
get to show off what you know about famous
sentences: articles, comparatives and
composers.( Listening – Quiz) Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
“there”
+ The composer was Beethoven and I believe Unit 10: History – Shackleton
- Independent questions
his first music teacher was his father. Take notes of chronological order (time)
(Listening – Quiz)
ED Review Test 10 & Correction (30’)
Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 7: Politics
Listening: News
Reading: Brown’s campaign
problems
Dialogue: New manager
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Grammar: Reported Speech: Review
Vocabulary: Politics
Magazine: Who's the Better
Politician? (Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ In her live report earlier today, our
reporter, Nancy King, pointed out that
Schmidt had been involved in the defeat of
the new crime law proposed last year and
stated that this had probably hurt his
chances in the election today. (Listening –
News)
+ Before the election, Morales had promised
voters that she would propose a new crime
law if she were elected. (Listening – News)
12 Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 8: Instructions ED Workbook ‐ Unit 9 Review (100’)
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 8 Review (100’)
Listening: Forecast - Wordlist: Recycling
- Wordlist: Crime 2
Reading: Flight information - City of Lakeview Recycling tips
- Forecast
Dialogue: Would you mind - Trash for treasure
- Flight information
Grammar: Causatives/Permissives: - Home recycling survey
- Would you mind
Active + Passive - An upcycling workshop
- Causatives/Permissives: Active + Passive
Vocabulary: Crime 2 - Helping the environment
Magazine: Making Black‐and‐White
Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
Photos Come Alive (Advanced) Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
- Consonants /s/ /z/
Record yourself and send to Teacher Unit 11: Philosophy – Ethics
- Strong and weak forms in phrases and
+ If rain or snow were to leak in through the Take notes of examples
sentences: auxiliary verbs
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roof, it would damage your ceiling, your - Independent questions
walls, and even your furniture. (Listening –
Forecast)
+ About two years ago, although I'd been ED Review Test 11 & Correction (30’)
planning to have my roof checked for leaks, I
forgot. (Listening – Forecast)
Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 9: Recycling
Introduction: Recycling
Vocabulary: Recycling
Grammar: Prefixes and Suffixes
Reading: City of Lakeview Recycling
tips
Listening: Trash for treasure
Dialogue: Home recycling survey
Reading: An upcycling workshop
Listening: Helping the environment
Magazine: It Pays to Recycle
(Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ Recycling is always beneficial to the
environment, but in order to break down
materials and use them to create new
products, the recycling process uses valuable
resources like energy and water. (Listening –
Helping the environment)
+ What can I use as confirmation of my
participation on the workshop? (Reading ‐ An
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Up‐cycling workshop)
13 Intermediate 2 ‐ Unit 10: Movie making
Introduction: Movie Making
Vocabulary: Movie making industry
Grammar: Past
Progressive and Past Simple
Reading: Real motion film festival ED Workbook ‐ Unit 10 Review (100’)
Listening: On the film set - Wordlist: Movie Making
Dialogue: Working in the movie - Real motion film festival
ED Workbook ‐ Unit 1 Review (100’)
industry - On the film set
- Wordlist: Relationships 2
Reading: The international film - Working in the movie industry
- Nick and Emily
school - The international film school
- A new acquaintance
Listening: Digital technology and the - Digital technology and the movie industry
- Divorced
movie industry
- Past form of modals: Should/Could have
Magazine: How Do They Do It! Speaking: Pronunciation (70’)
(Advanced) - Consonants /ʃ/ /ʒ/
Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
- Contractions
Unit 12: Information Technology – Big Data
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions
Take notes of causes and effects
+ Well, first of all, digital technology is
cheaper since you don't need to pay for ED Review Test 12 & Correction (30’)
expensive rolls of film. It's also much simpler
to use. Filmmakers, or 'moviemakers', can
shoot with a digital camera directly onto an
SD card ‐ a type of storage card for digital
files. This is much more efficient. (Listening:
Digital technology and the movie industry)
INTERMEDIATE 2 – END‐OF‐COURSE TEST
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Intermediate 3 ‐ Unit 1: Couples
Listening: Nick and Emily
Reading: A new acquaintance
Dialogue: Divorced
Grammar: Past form of modals:
Should/Could have
Vocabulary: Relationships 2
Magazine: Love Sweet Love
(Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
‐ “Well, as long as you both feel the same
way...though, if you ever feel like talking, I'm
here for you.” (Speaking – Divorced)
‐ “She's pretty, she has a great sense of
humor, and I really love spending time with
her.” (Listening ‐ Nick and Emily)
14 Intermediate 3 ‐ Unit 2: Sport and fitness ED Workbook ‐ Unit 2 Review (100’) ED Workbook – Unit 3 Review (100’)
Listening: College sports - Wordlist: Sports 2 - Wordlist: Attending a Party
Reading: Health and fitness today - College sports - Family
Dialogue: Ten miles - Health and fitness today - A Foreign Affair
Grammar: More conditionals: Past - Ten miles - Fried fish
conditionals - More conditionals: Past conditionals - Past perfect: simple
Vocabulary: Sports 2
Magazine: Underwater Cycling Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) Listening: Note‐taking (100’)
(Advanced) - Consonants /tʃ/ /dʒ/ Unit 13: Business – Managing International
- Pronouncing ‐s endings in noun plurals Business Meetings
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and present simple Take note of summaries and symbols
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Independent questions
+ “Tina recently you’ve made a name for
yourself as the coach of the Smithtown ED Review Test 13 & Correction (30’)
University women’s volleyball team.”
(Listening – College Sports)
+ Heart specialist Marvin Kane, who is in
charge of the Health and Fitness Research
Program at Cedars General Hospital, advises
checking with a doctor before beginning any
fitness program. (Reading ‐ Health & Fitness
Today)
Intermediate 3 ‐ Unit 3: Problems
Listening: News
Reading: Fifty days and counting
Dialogue: Quitting
Grammar: More relative clauses:
Non‐restrictive
Vocabulary: Labor Relations
Magazine: Who Needs Managers?
(Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
+ I was supposed to get it this afternoon, but
my car is still at the garage. (Listening –
Family)
+ I've had new tires put on, they've repaired
an oil leak, and the brakes needed to be
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replaced. (Listening – Family)
15 Intermediate 3 ‐ Unit 4: A helping hand
Listening: Call‐in
Reading: Does homeless mean
helpless?
Dialogue: Do you need help?
Grammar: More relative clauses: ED Workbook ‐ Unit 4 Review (100’)
Whose & where + Review - Wordlist: Social Problems
Vocabulary: Social Problems - Call‐in ED Workbook ‐ Unit 5 Review (100’)
Magazine: Sneakers for the Streets - Does homeless mean helpless? - Wordlist: Health 2
(Advanced) - Do you need help? - A healthy diet
- More relative clauses: Whose & where - After a heart attack
Record yourself and send to Teacher - Can I help?
‐ Keeping a job usually depends on whether Speaking: Pronunciation (70’) - Past forms of modals: Might/May/Must
or not you’re willing to work. (Listening ‐ Call‐ - Consonants /w/ /j/ have
In) - Pronouncing regular past tense endings
‐ At present, thousands of youngsters and - Independent questions Listening: Revision (100’)
elderly people live their lives on the streets - Note‐taking (60’)
and the situation is not improving. (Reading ‐ - Pronunciation (40’)
Does Homeless Mean Helpless?) ED Review Test 14 & Correction (30’)
Intermediate 3 ‐ Unit 5: Health and
happiness
Listening: A healthy diet
Reading: After a heart attack
Dialogue: Can I help?
Grammar: Past forms of modals:
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Might/May/Must have
Vocabulary: Health 2
Magazine: Technology and Fitness
(Advanced)
Record yourself and send to Teacher
‐ What do you mean by “processed” food?
(Listening ‐ A Healthy Diet)
‐ “Do you want me to put the other weights
on the bar for you?” (Speaking ‐ Can I Help?)
INTERMEDIATE 3 – MID‐COURSE TEST
Final Test
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