General English (CRICOS Code:064509G)
Elementary to Advanced
Study period: 2 - 50 weeks
Covers a wide variety of topics and situations to assist you in your everyday life. Focussing on real and practical usage. A course for those who really want to communicate.
Professional teachers are keen to know what you want to learn and to assist you with what you need to focus on for maximum impact on your learning.
Level completion: approx. 10 weeks
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Monday
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Tuesday
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Wednesday
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Thursday
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Friday
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75 minutes
8:50am -
10:05am
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1:20pm -
2.35pm
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- General Warmer
- Homework check
- Unit 4 Wealth
- Lead-in Speaking
- Reading / Listening ‘Catch me if you can'
- Vocabulary / Speaking - Phrasal verbs
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- General Warmer
- Homework check
- Grammar: modals of obligation & prohibition
- Pronunciation / stress
- Speaking practice using grammar and pronunciation points
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- General Warmer
- Homework check
- Discussion on yesterday's
excursion.
- Stock and investments
- how to get rich quick.
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- General Warmer
- Homework check
- Create and present an advertisement
- Integrated skills activity
highlighting grammatical points from previous lesson. All skills
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- General Warmer
- Homework check
- Unit 4 Test and correction
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BREAK
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75 minutes
10:15am -
11:30am
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2:45pm -
4:00pm
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- Grammar: question tags
- Running dictation
- Communicative activity using the above with magazine pictures
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- Writing: letters and emails.
Formal / informal / Inviting
/accepting /refusing
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- Vocabulary: confusing words
- Reading, written exercises
followed by practical speaking practice
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- Students' choice
- Topic/study point decided by students earlier in the week
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BREAK
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90 minutes
11:45am -
1:15pm
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4:15pm -
5:45pm
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- Speaking ‘Getting rich quick'
- Vocabulary - qualities
- Listening ‘Getting rich quick'
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- Excursion
- Australian Stock Exchange
- Worksheet completion,
vocabulary extension, discussion stimuli, cultural experience
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- Grammar: First conditional with ‘if /when / unless /as soon as'. Introduction, exercises and
practical application
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- Communication - ‘What a waste!'
- Integrated skills activity incorporating grammatical points from previous lesson.
All skills
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- Progress Test Units 1-4
- Film Bank - ‘From Rags to Riches'
- Worksheet -Listening
- Discussion
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Homework
Tasks
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Homework Tasks: Grammar extension
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Homework Tasks: Excursion Report
Prepare for discussion |
Homework Tasks: Workbook exercises |
Homework Tasks: Review and Practice |
Homework Tasks: Watch the movie
‘Catch me if you can' |
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