Planning Inglés II

Inglés II

PRIMER TRIMESTRE

UNIT 1: PACO TRAVELS TO SOUTH AFRICA

TOPIC 1: Paco arrives in South Africa.

Presentation of the Present Simple and the Present Continuous tenses.
Presentation of the Present Simple and the Past Simple.
Presentation of the Past Simple and the Past Continuous.
Presentation of the adjective: order in attributive position.
Presentation of the degree of adjectives and adverbs.
Recognition of comparative sentences.
Presentation of vowels and diphthongs.

TOPIC 2: Paco meets new people.

Present Simple vs Present Continuous: Forms and uses.
Introducing/talking about oneself.
Vocabulary: Feelings.
Pronunciation: Diphthongs vs. triphthongs.

TOPIC 3: Paco used to wear a mac in England.

Present Simple vs Past Simple: Forms and uses.
Word formation: the adjective.
The adjective: attributive vs predicative
Pronunciation: /i/ vs /i:/.

TOPIC 4: When Sophia phoned Paco was visiting the city.

Past Simple vs Past Continuous: Forms and uses.
Degrees of adjectives.
Vocabulary: Clothes.

TOPIC 5: New York is bigger than Johannesburg

The adverb: degrees.
Comparative and superlative sentences.
Pronunciation: /ɔ/ vs /ɔ:/

UNIT 2: PACO HAS DECIDED TO VISIT SIERRA LEONE IN KENYA

TOPIC 1: Still in Africa.

Presentation of the Present Perfect Simple.
Presentation of the Present Perfect Continuous.
Presentation of the Past Perfect Simple.
Presentation of modal verbs: must, need, have to.
Presentation of the Passive voice.
Presentation of collocations.

TOPIC 2: I've just arrived in Sierra Leone.

The Present Perfect Simple (form and uses).
The Present Perfect Simple vs. the Past Simple.
Modal verbs: need and dare.
Vowel sounds: /æ/ and /ʌ/.

TOPIC 3: Paco had never thought of his heritage before.

The Past Perfect (form and uses).
The Past Simple vs the Past Perfect.
The passive voice.
Causative have.
Need + gerund.
Vowel sound: /a:/.

TOPIC 4: Kenya: a new adventure.

The Present Perfect Continuous (form and uses).
The Present Perfect vs the Present Perfect Continuous.
Modal verbs: must, have to, needn't.
To be + adjective + preposition.
be/get used to.
Vocabulary: wild animals.

TOPIC 5: Let's go on safari.

The passive voice: revision.
The passive voice: modal verbs in the passive.
Vocabulary: collocations (do vs make).
Diphthongs: /aɪ/, /ɛɪ/ and /ɔɪ/

SEGUNDO TRIMESTRE

UNIT 3: FROM AFRICA TO ASIA

TOPIC 1: New destiny: India.

Presentation of the Past Perfect Continuous.
Presentation of the modal verbs.
Presentation of the reported speech.
Presentation of vocabulary related to asking and giving directions.
Presentation of so / such a (an).
Presentation of verbs followed by infinitive or gerund.
Presentation of reporting verbs.

TOPIC 2: Paco had been taking so many pictures.

The Past Perfect Continuous tense: affirmative, negative, interrogative.
Modal verbs: can, could, may, might, shall, should, must, have to, will, would.
Vowel sounds: /e/, /ə/ and /ɜ:/

TOPIC 3: Paco was told to visit the Himalayas.

The reported speech: statements and commands.
Verbs followed by gerund or infinitive.
Reporting verbs.
Verbs followed by infinitive or gerund.

TOPIC 4: Paco asked the train ticket inspector how long the journey to Mumbai took.

The reported speech: questions.
(Yes / No questions and Wh- questions)

TOPIC 5: Is Paco getting ready to leave India?

Prepositional verbs.
So / such a (an)

UNIT 4: PACO TRAVELS TO SOUTHEAST ASIA

TOPIC 1: Planning next few days in Southeast Asia.

Simple Future tense with will.
Future with going to.
Present Continuous tense for the future.
Introduction to Conditional sentences.
Conditional conjunctions.

TOPIC 2: Independence, freedom and happiness.

Modal verbs shall and will.
Future with will and going to (uses).
Present Continuous for the future (uses).
Future perfect and Future perfect continuous.
Diphthongs /eə/ and /ɪə/.

TOPIC 3: The Quiet American.

The modal verb would.
Zero conditional.
First conditional.
Second Conditional .

TOPIC 4: Where the Dragon descends into the sea.

would have and should have (uses).
can have, could have, may have and might have (uses).
Third conditional.
Mixed types of conditionals.

TOPIC 5: Hong-kong: The Fragant Harbour.

Inversions.
Conditional conjunctions.
Unless conjunction.
How to write an opinion essay.

TERCER TRIMESTRE

UNIT 5: AUSTRALIA: THE NEW CONTINENT

TOPIC 1: Australia: the new continent.

Presentation of Defining and Non-defining Relative clauses.
Presentation of "inversion" in English.
Multi-word Verbs.
"I wish/If only".

TOPIC 2: A place which Paco wished to visit.

Defining vs Non-defining relative clauses.
Defining relative clauses.
Relative pronouns: Omission.
Vowel sounds: /u/ vs /u:/.

TOPIC 3: Melbourne, where Paco is travelling to, is a new city.

Non-defining relative clauses.
Relative pronouns and adverbs.
Reduced relative clauses.
Sentential relative clauses.
Vocabulary: Computing science: The Internet.

TOPIC 4: Canberra, the capital!

Inversion: Form and use.
So do I / Neither do I.
Multi-word verbs: Definition and types.
Multi-word verbs: Phrasal verbs.

TOPIC 5: The island of Tasmania.

Expressing regret and wish: I wish / If only.
Diphthongs: /au/ vs /ǝu/.

UNIT 6: PACO TRAVELS TO NEW ZEALAND

TOPIC 1: Last stop: New Zealand.

Subordinating clauses
Idioms
Clauses of purpose.
Place prepositions.
Time clauses.
Consecutive clauses

TOPIC 2: Te Reo Maori, the Maori language.

Contrast clauses.
Reason clauses.
Subordinating clauses (mixed types).
Triphthongs [aʊə] and [aɪə].

TOPIC 3: It's time to visit the South Island.

Time clauses.
Time connectors.
Sequencing
Final clauses.

TOPIC 4: It has been such a good time that they have decided to spend some more time together.

the triphthongs /eɪə/and /ɔɪə/
Prepositional phrases.
Prepositions of place.
Consecutive clauses.

TOPIC 5: The journey back home.

Idioms.
Multi word verbs.
Conjunctions and connectors.

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