XAKO2 Course Requirements 

1. Attendance

2. Progress test 

3. Final test 

4. Oral exam 

Course textbook:  OXENDEN, Clive, LATHAM-KOENIG, Christina. New English file - Intermediate - Student's Book. Oxford University Press, 2011.

Speaking: Getting to know each other

Grammar: Review of the First Conditional Sentences 

First Conditional Revision

First Conditional Speaking Questions

1.      What will you do if your neighbours annoy you?

2.      What will you do if someone phones you during the English lesson?

3.      What will you do if your friend invites you to the cinema tonight?

4.      What will you do if you have a headache?

5.      What will you do if you it rains at the weekend?

6.      What will you do if you win the lottery?

7.      What will you do if you break up with your friend?

8.      If you have some free time on Saturday, what will you do?

Unit 4B: In an ideal world 

Grammar: 2nd conditional; 

Vocabulary: Houses;

Describing your dream house. 

HW for the next seminar:

1) Vocabulary "Houses"

2) Grammar in the workbook ex.1a,b,c (see below)

Warm-up "Second Conditional" 

HW for today: 

Still friends? Friendship 

Grammar: Usually and used to; 

Reading: "Do you need to 'edit your friends'?" 

Talking about friendship

Vocabulary: Noun formation; 

Grammar: Quantifiers; 

Reading: "Slow food and Slow city"

HW for today: Unit 5A Reading, pp.70-71 "Slow Food"  and "Slow City". We are going to discuss the texts at the seminar today. 

p. 71 Noun formation 

• Unit 5B. Same planets, different worlds 

Grammar: a/an, the, no article - Student's book pp. 138-139 (Unit 5B)

Reading: "A man thing or a woman thing?"

Listening p. 74

Speaking p. 75 

HW: p.73 Reading 

Job swap 

Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives; 

The right job for you;

Communication: test your memory.

Love in the supermarket 

Vocabulary: Shopping 

Grammar: Reported speech: statements, questions, and commands; 

Reading: "Making a complaint: is it worth it?"

See the film? get on a plane!

 Cinema: Passive (be + past participle); 

Famous films that moved us (literally!); 

The cinema questionnaire). 

I need a hero 

Grammar: Relative clauses: defining and non-defining clauses; 

Reading: "Heroes and icons of our time"

Can we make our own luck? 

Grammar: Third conditional; Making adjectives and adverbs; 

Reading: "Bad luck? Good luck?"

Speaking: How lucky are you? 

Murder mysteries 

Grammar: Question tags, indirect questions; Compound nouns;

Reading: Jack the Ripper - case closed? 

Listening: Interview with the detective

Murder mysteries 

Grammar: Question tags, indirect questions; Compound nouns;

Reading: Jack the Ripper - case closed? 

Listening: Interview with the detective

Revision - vocabulary, grammar, social English, reading and comprehension check.