- Introduction to greetings and basic vocabulary. - Practice greetings and introductions in pairs or small groups. - **Homework**: - Review vocabulary from class. - Write a short dialogue introducing themselves and a partner.
### Week 2: Daily Activities
- **Class Time**: - Review daily routines and time expressions. - Practice present continuous tense for describing current actions. - **Homework**: - Keep a daily journal for the week, describing activities using present continuous tense.
### Week 3: Family and Relationships
- **Class Time**: - Introduce family vocabulary and possessive 's'. - Practice past simple tense for talking about past events. - **Homework**: - Write a paragraph describing a memorable family event using past simple tense.
### Week 4: Hobbies and Interests
- **Class Time**: - Introduce hobbies vocabulary and modal verb 'can'. - Practice making requests and offers using 'would like'. - **Homework**: - Prepare a short presentation about a hobby or interest, including what they can do and would like to do related to it.
### Week 5: Food and Drink
- **Class Time**: - Review food vocabulary and countable/uncountable nouns. - Practice imperatives for giving instructions. - **Homework**: - Create a menu for a dinner party, including descriptions of dishes and instructions for cooking.
### Week 6: Travel and Transportation
- **Class Time**: - Introduce travel vocabulary and prepositions of place. - Practice using 'going to' for future plans. - **Homework**: - Plan a weekend trip itinerary, including transportation, accommodations, and activities, and present it in class next week.
### Week 7: Shopping
- **Class Time**: - Review shopping vocabulary and comparatives/superlatives. - Practice bargaining and discussing prices. - **Homework**: - Create a budget for a shopping trip, including items they would like to buy and their estimated prices.
### Week 8: Health and Well-being
- **Class Time**: - Introduce health vocabulary and giving advice. - Practice making appointments and discussing health issues. - **Homework**: - Write a dialogue between a patient and a doctor discussing symptoms and receiving advice.
### Week 9: Work and Employment
- **Class Time**: - Review work vocabulary and present simple vs. continuous. - Practice talking about work experience and job interviews. - **Homework**: - Prepare answers to common interview questions and practice them with a partner.
### Week 10: Socializing and Entertainment
- **Class Time**: - Introduce socializing vocabulary and present perfect tense. - Practice discussing films, music, and books. - **Homework**: - Write a review of a recent film, book, or music album, including what they liked and didn't like about it.
An Intensive Course in Tamil - Dialogues, Drills, Exercises, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Word Index-Central Institute of Indian Languages (1979) - (CIIL Intensive Course Series, 2) S Rajaram