Inglés - Nivel 1

BOOK USED: TOP NOTCH 1A

UNIT 1: Getting Acquainted

Communication Goals:

• Meet someone new
• Identify and describe people
• Provide personal information
• Introduce someone to a group

Vocabulary:

• Usage of formal titles
• Positive adjectives to describe people
• Personal information
• Counties and nationalities

Grammar:

• Information questions with be (review and common errors)
• Modification with adjectives (review)
• Yes / No questions and short answers with be (review)

Grammar booster:

• Be: usage and form (review)
• Be: common errors
• Possessive nouns and adjectives (review)

Conversation Strategies:

• Begin responses with a question to confirm
• Use Let's to suggest a course of action
• Ask personal questions to indicate friendliness
• Intensify an informal answer with sure

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen for details
• Infer Information

Pronunciation:

• Intoniation of questions 

Reading:

Text:

• An enrollment form
• Personal profiles
• A photo story

Skills/strategies:

• Infer information
• Scan of facts

Writing:

Task:

• Write a description of a classmate
  

Writing booster

• Capitalization

UNIT 2: Going out

Communication Goals:

• Accept or decline an invitation
• Express locations and give directions
• Make plans to see an event
• Talk about music tastes

Vocabulary:

• Music genres
• Entertainment and cultural events
• Locations and directions

Grammar:

• Prepositions of time and place
• Questions with When, What time, and Where (review)

Grammar booster:

• Prepositions of time and place: usage

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Really? To express enthusiasm
• Provide reasons to decline an invitation
• Use too bad to express disappointment
• Repeat with rising intonation to confirm information
• Use thanks, anyway to acknowledge an unsuccessful attempt to help 

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Infer a speaker's intention
• Listen for main ideas
• Listen for details
• Listen for locations

Pronunciation:

• Rising intonation to confirm information

Reading:

Text:

• A music website
• An entertainment events page
• Authentic interviews
• A survey of musical testes
• A photo story

Skills/strategies:

• Interpret a maps and diagrams
• Identify supporting details
• Make personal comparisons

Writing:

Task:

• Write a short personal essay about one's musical tastes
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• The sentence
  

UNIT 3: The extended family

Communication Goals:

• Report news about relationships
  
• escribe extended families
  
• Compare people
  
• Discuss family cultural traditions

Vocabulary:

• Extended family relationships
  
• Marital status
  
• Relatives by marriage
  
• Describing similarities and differences

Grammar:

• The simple present tense (review):
  
• Affirmative and negative statements
  
• Yes / No questions
  
• Information questions
  
• Common errors

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• The simple present tense:
  
• Usage, form, common errors
  
• Questions with Who

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Actually to introduce a topic
  
• Respond to good news with Congratulations!
  
• Respond to bad news with I?m sorry to hear that
  
• Use thanks for asking to acknowledge an inquirly of concern
  
• Use Well to introduce a lengthy reply
  
• Ask follow-up questions to keep a conversation going

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Infer information
  
• Understand key details 
  
• Identify similarities and differences
  
• Listen to take notes
  
• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen for details

Pronunciation:

• Blending sounds
  

Reading:

Texts:

• Family tree diagrams
  
• A self-help website
  
• A cultural-information survey
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/strategies:

• Interpret a diagram
  
• Confirm facts
  
• Infer information

Writing:

Task:

• Make a Venn diagram
• Compare two people in family

WRITING BOOSTER

• Combining sentences with and or but

UNIT 4: Food and Restaurants

Communication Goals:

• Ask for a restaurant recommendation
• Order from a menu
• Speak to a server and pay for a meal
• Discuss food and health

Vocabulary:

• Parts of a meal
  
• Categories of food and drink
  
• Communicating with a waiter or waitress
  
• Adjectives to describe the healthfulness of food

Grammar:

• There is and There are with count and non-count nouns
  
• Anything and Nothing: common errors
  
• Definite article the: usage

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Could you?? To make a polite request
  
• Use Sure to agree to a request
  
• Clarify a request by asking for more specific information
  
• Indicate a sudden thought with Actually
  
• Use I?ll have to order from a server 
  
• Increase politeness with please

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen to take note
  
• Infer the location of a conversation
  
• Listen to predict

Pronunciation:

• The before consonant and vowel sounds

Reading:

Texts:

• Menus
  
• A nutrition website
  
• A photo story

Skills/strategies:

• Interpret a map
  
• Understand from context
  
• Infer information

Writing:

Task:

• Write a short article about food for a travel newsletter
  

WRITER BOOSTER

• Connecting words and ideas: and, in addition 

UNIT 5: Technology and you

Communication Goals:

• Suggest a brand or model
  
• Express frustration and sympathy
  
• Describe features of products
  
• Complain when things don?t work

Vocabulary:

• Electronic products
  
• Household appliances and machines
  
• Features of manufactured products
  
• Ways to state a problem
  
• Ways to sympathize
  
• Positive and negative adjectives

Grammar:

• The present continuous (review):
  
• Actions in progress and future plans
  
• Statements and questions

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• The present continuous: form and spelling rules

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Hey or How's it going for informal greeting 
  
• Use What about?? To offer a suggestion
  
• Use Really? To indicate surprise
  
• Use You know to introduce a topic
  
• Express sympathy when someone is frustrated

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen to predict
  
• Infer meaning
  
• Listen for details
  

Pronunciation:

• Intonation of questions

Reading:

Texts:

• Newspaper advertisements
  
• A magazine ad for a new product
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/strategies:

• Understand from context
• Activate language from text

Writing:

Task:

• Write a paragraph describing a product
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Placement of adjectives