Table of Contents

1.

Hows it going?

1.

2.

Weekend Fun

Travel plans

Grammar Points

Speaking Skills

Irregular verbs
Present Perfect vs Simple Past
for and since
Present Perfect short answers:
Yes I have/ No, I havent

More irregular verbs

Present Perfect with Adverbs:
ever, yet, never, already

More Irregular verbs

Be going to vs will

Responding to good news

and bad news
Changing the topic

Inviting someone: Wanna,

Dyou want to, Lets, how
about, why dont
Refusing an invitation
Asking for the meaning of
words
Asking for and Telling the

Reading

Theme

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Lesso
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Vocabulary

Listening

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Date, Day, and Time

The Natural
world

Reflexive pronouns
Quantifiers: much, many, a lot
of, a little, a few, none, none
of, no,

Making a request
Agreeing to, and refusing
a request

4.

Review Lesson

REVIEW OF GRAMMAR POINTSLessons 1-4

REVIEW OF SPEAKING
SKILLS-Lessons 1-4

5.

High school
highs and lows

Present and past participles

Past Continuous vs Simple past

Narrative techniques:
introductory phrases,
continuing phrases

6.

The job
interview

Past perfect vs simple past

Contractions for past perfect
Preposition combinations: with,
for

Describing someone:
physical attributes,
personality
characteristics, hobbies &
interests

7.

The weather

Matching opposites
Expressing low possibility, high
possibility, impossibility

Giving and receiving

compliments

8.

On the phone

Wh- questions and noun

clauses
Say/said vs tell/told

Beginning and ending an

informal phone call
Leaving a message

3.

9.

Review Lesson

REVIEW OF GRAMMAR POINTS

Lessons 6-9

REVIEW OF SPEAKING
SKILLS-Lessons 6-9

10.

What a rush!

Gerund and infinitive

Reported speech

Apologizing
Giving forgiveness and
reassurance

11.

Getting to a
dinner party

Phrasal verbs: separable and

non-separable

Asking for directions

Asking for repetition
Receiving confirmation

12.

Buying gifts

Active vs passive voice

Asking to share the cost

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Learning to
drive

Adjective word order in a noun

phrase.

Expressing necessity: have got

to, have to, must
Prohibition: must not
Advice: had better

with positive and neg.

responses
Infinitives of purpose: in
order, to, for

14.

Review Lesson

REVIEW OF GRAMMAR POINTS

Lessons 11-14

REVIEW OF SPEAKING
SKILLS-Lessons 11-14

15.

Face your fears

Relative clauses: whom, who,

that, which

Expressing thanks
Responding to thanks

16.

Learning
languages

Word parts: prefixes & suffixes,

verb, noun, adverb, adjective
Connecting ideas: even
though, although, because

Interrupting a
conversation
Continuing after an
interruption

Real conditionals: present &

future
Tag questions: will/ wont

Promising: affirmative,
negative

Unreal conditionals: present &

future
Pronouns: possessive, object,
subject, possessive adjectives
Possessives with of

Future & imaginary

situations: hope, wish

REVIEW OF GRAMMAR POINTS

Lessons 16-19

18.

Money, Money,
Money!

19.

Going green

20.

Review Lesson

REVIEW OF SPEAKING
SKILLS-Lessons 16-19

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