Listening
Community Issues

Continuing from Reading "Protecting Your Community", listen to people expressing their opinions about the new condominium development and other community issues.

Back to the Country in a Tiny House

Listen to a podcast describing an experience of living in a ‘tiny house’ in the country.

Grammar
Using the Past Continuous

Review and practise the different uses of the past continuous.

Past Perfect

Review and practise forming and using the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous.

Past Habits, States, Intentions, and Plans

Review and practise different structures used to express past habits, states, intentions, and plans.

Reading
Protecting Your Community

Read an informal email conveying dissatisfaction with a new condominium development.

Megacities

Read an online article about megacities.

Use of English
Getting Around

Give directions to places in a city, with a special focus on directional language (imperatives and phrasal verbs) and clarification expressions.

Presenting a Megacity

Give a presentation on a megacity, with a special focus on presentation format and post-presentation questions.

Writing
Reviewing the Four Types of Sentences

Review and practise the four sentence types in English: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex.

Accommodation Review

Write a positive review of a ‘tiny house’ hotel.

Sentence Variation

Review and practise sentence variation.

Writing a Summary

Write a summary of a video about Tokyo. Includes a review of summary writing skills.

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