Listening |
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Community IssuesContinuing 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 HouseListen to a podcast describing an experience of living in a ‘tiny house’ in the country. |
Grammar |
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Using the Past ContinuousReview and practise the different uses of the past continuous. Past PerfectReview and practise forming and using the past perfect simple and past perfect continuous. Past Habits, States, Intentions, and PlansReview and practise different structures used to express past habits, states, intentions, and plans. |
Reading |
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Protecting Your CommunityRead an informal email conveying dissatisfaction with a new condominium development. MegacitiesRead an online article about megacities. |
Use of English |
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Getting AroundGive directions to places in a city, with a special focus on directional language (imperatives and phrasal verbs) and clarification expressions. Presenting a MegacityGive a presentation on a megacity, with a special focus on presentation format and post-presentation questions. |
Writing |
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Reviewing the Four Types of SentencesReview and practise the four sentence types in English: simple, compound, complex and compound-complex. Accommodation ReviewWrite a positive review of a ‘tiny house’ hotel. Sentence VariationReview and practise sentence variation. Writing a SummaryWrite a summary of a video about Tokyo. Includes a review of summary writing skills. |