Inglés - Nivel 2

BOOK USED: TOP NOTCH 1B

UNIT 6: Staying in shape

Communication Goals:

• Plan an activity with someone
  
• Talk about habitual activities
  
• Discuss fitness and eating habits
  
• Describe someone's routines

Vocabulary:

• Physical activities
  
• Places for Physical activities
  
• Frequency adverbs: expansion

Grammar:

• Can and Have to: meaning, form, and usage.
  
• The present continuous and the simple present tense (review)
  
• The present continuous: common errors

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Non-action verbs
  
• Frequency adverbs: common errors
  
• Time expressions
  
• More on can and have to

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Why don't we?? To suggest an activity
  
• Say Sorry, I can´t to apologize for turning down an invitation
  
• Provide a reason with have to to decline an invitation
  
• Use Well, how about?? To suggest an alternative
  
• Use How come? To ask for reason
  
• Use a negative question to confirm information

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Infer meaning
  
• Infer information
  
• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen for details
  
• Apply and personalize information

Pronunciation:

• Can/ Can't
  
• The third-person singular -s

Reading:

Texts:

• A bar graph
  
• A fitness survey
  
• A magazine article
  
• A photo story

Skills/strategies:

• Interpret a bar graph
  
• Infer information
  
• Summarize

Writing:

Task:

• Write an interview about health and exercise habits
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Punctuation of statements and questions

UNIT 7: On Vacation

Communication Goals:

• Greet someone arriving from a trip
  
• Ask about someone?s vacation
  
• Discuss vacation preferences
  
• Describe good and bad travel experiences

Vocabulary:

• Adjectives to describe trips and vacations
  
• Intensifiers
  
• Ways to describe good and bad experiences

Grammar:

• The past tense of be (review): statements and questions
  
• The simple past tense (review): statements and questions
  
• Regular and irregular verb form

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• The past tense of be: explanation of form
  
• The simple past tense: more on spelling, usage, and form

Conversation Strategies:

• Say Welcome back! To indicate enthusiasm about someone's return from a trip
  
• Acknowledge someone?s interest with Actually
  
• Decline an offer of assistance with That?s OK. I'm fine. 
  
• Confirm that an offer is declined with Are you sure? 
  
• Use Absolutely to confirm a response
  
• Show enthusiasm with No kidding! and Tell me more

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen for details
  
• Infer meaning

Pronunciation:

• The simple past tense ending: regular verbs

Reading:

Text:

• Travel brochures
  
• Personal travel stories
  
• A vacation survey
  
• A photo story

Skills/straegies:

• Paraphrase
  
• Identify supporting details
  
• Apply information

Writing:

• Write a guided essay about vacation
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Time order

UNIT 8: Shopping for Clothes

Communication Goals:

• Shop and pay for clothes
  
• Ask for a different size or color
  
• Navigate a mall or apartment store
  
• Discuss clothing do?s and don?ts

Vocabulary:

• Clothing departments
  
• Types of clothing and shoes
  
• Clothing that comes in "pairs"
  
• Interior store locations and directions
  
• Formality and appropriateness in clothing

Grammar:

• Uses of objects pronouns
  
• Object pronouns: common errors
  
• Comparative adjectives

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Direct and indirect objects: usage rules
  
• Spelling rules for comparative adjectives

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Excuse me to indicate you didn't understand or couldn?t hear
  
• Use Excuse me to begin a conversation with a clerk
  
• Follow a question with more information for clarification
  
• Acknowledge someone?s assistance with Thanks for your help
  
• Respond to gratitude with My pleasure

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Infer the appropriate location
  
• Infer the locations of conversations
  
• Understand locations and directions

Pronunciation:

• Contrastive stress for clarification

Reading:

Texts:

• A clothing dialogue
  
• Simple and complex diagrams and plans
  
• A travel blog
  
• A personal opinion survey
  
• A photo story

Skills/strategies

• Paraphrase
  
• Identify supporting details
  
• Apply information

Writing:

Task:

• Write an e-mail or letter explaining what clothes to pack 
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Connecting ideas with because and since

UNIT 9 : Taking transportation

Communication Goals:

• Discuss schedules and buy tickets
  
• Book travel services
  
• Understand airport announcements
  
• Describe transportation problems

Vocabulary:

• Kinds of tickets and trips
  
• Travel services
  
• Airlines passenger information
  
• Flight problems
  
• Transportation problems
  
• Mean of public transportation

Grammar:

• Modals should and could: statements and questions
  
• Be going to to express the future: review and expansion
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Modals: form, meaning, common errors
  
• Expansion: future actions

Conversation Strategies:

• Use I?m sorry to respond with disappointing information
  
• Use Well to introduce an alternative
  
• Use I hope so to politely respond to an offer of help
  
• Use Let me check to buy time to get information

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Infer the type of travel service
  
• Understand public announcements
  
• Listen for details
  
• Use reasoning to evaluate statements of fact

Pronunciation:

• Intonation for stating alternatives

Reading:

Texts:

• Transportation schedules
  
• Public transportation tickets
  
• Arrival and departure boards
  
• Newspaper articles
  
• A photo story

Skills/strategies:

• Make decisions based on schedules and needs
  
• Critical thinking

Writing:

Task:

• Write two paragraphs about trips
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• The paragraph

UNIT 10 : Shopping smart

Communication Goals:

• Ask for a recommendation
  
• Bargain for a lower price
  
• Discuss showing appreciation for service
  
• Describe where to get the best deals

Vocabulary:

• Financial terms
  
• How to bargain
  
• How to describe good and bad deals

Grammar:

• Superlative adjectives
  
• Too and enough: usage and common errors
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Superlative adjectives: usage and form
  
• Comparatives (review)
  
• Usage. Very, really, and too

Conversation Strategies:

• Use Well to connect an answer to an earlier question
  
• Use How about...? to make a financial offer
  
• Use OK to indicate that an agreement has been reached

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen for details
  
• Listen for main ideas
  

Pronunciation:

• Rising intonation for clarification

Reading:

Texts:

• A travel guide 
  
• A magazine article
  
• Personal travel stories
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/strategies:

• Draw conclusions
  
• Apply information

Writing:

• Write a guide to your city, including information on where to stay, visit, and shop
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Connecting contradictory ideas: even though, however, on the other hand