YAKO1 English Conversation 1

Requirements: 

• attendance 50% 
• final test 
• oral exam 

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

Week 1 

1. Food and restaurants (Present simple and continuous; Action and non-action verbs; Talking about eating habits). 

2. Sports (Past tenses: simple/continuous/perfect; When you hear the final whistle (paragraph gap - fill); Talking about sports). 

3. Family and personality (Future forms: going to/will/shall; We are family (predictions); Useful language for describing people).

4. Money (Unit 2A)

Present perfect and past simple;

My life without money;

Predictions;

WH questions;

Phrasal verbs; 

5. Money questionnaire (Unit 2B)

Holidays Strong adjectives; 

Present perfect continuous;

6. Transport  (Unit 2C)

Comparatives and superlatives; 

Race to the sun; 

7. Modern manners - mobile phones 

Must, have to, should (obligations); 

Culture shock;

8. Judging by appearances - describing people 

Must, may, might, can't (deduction); 

Describing people: look or look like?

9. Success and failure 

Can, could, be able to (ability and possibility); 

Never give up (pair work, chart completion). 

10. Back to school, education 

1st conditional and future time clauses + when, until; 

Talking about education;

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