Course Title: Intermediate English B (January-June 2014) Instructor: Lucinda Borrego Medrano Course Objective: Develop students abilities

to speak, listen, read and write at a basic level. Course Textbook: New American Inside Out Intermediate (Blue) Course Content: The following chart describes the dates of class, the units and contents to cover.
Date 13 to 17 JANUARY Unit 1 Topic Friends Language Functions Friends, Lifestyle, Communication Grammar

20 to 24 27 to 31

2 3

Adrenalin Relationships

Question forms. Tense review. Questions with prepositions. Subject questions. Adverbs of frequency. Present perfect. Simple past and past Experiences, sports & progressive. Comparatives and injuries superlatives Family, dating & character
rd

Dynamic and stative meanings. Present perfect: simple and progressive.

February 3 - Holiday 4 to 7 FEBRUARY 4 Party Festivals, new year's & parties Phrasal verbs. Future forms. Pronouns: anybody, somebody, etc

10 to 14

REVIEW February 17th First Partial Exam

17 to 21 24 to 28

5 6

Edible Time

Food, Eating, Childhood Time, punctuality & work Paparazzi, new stories & crime Trips, places & vacations

Countable and uncountable nouns. Quantity expressions. Used to/ would Prepositions of time. Modals of obligation and permission. Verb patterns. Passive structures

3 to 7 MARCH

News

10 to 14

Travel

Modals of deduction. Past perfect

March 17th - Holiday 17 to 21 REVIEW March 24th Second Partial Exam 24 to 28 9 Options Stereotypes, books & movies Children, childhood & parenting Reported statements and questions Defining relative clauses. Real conditionals (first conditional). Indirect questions Unreal conditionals (second and third conditionals). Wishes and regrets.

31 to 4

10

Childhood

APRIL

7 to 11

11

Age

Regrets, age & dilemmas

14 to 18

HOLIDAYS
21 to 25

May 2 28 to2 12

nd

- Holiday Fashion, appearance & routines Adjective order. Have / get something done

Style
th

May 5 - Holiday MAY

6 to 9

Review May 15 - Holiday

th

12 to 16

Review May 19 Third Partial Exam

th

19 to 23

Final REVIEW June 2 Ordinary Exam

rd

JUNE

June 9 - Extraordinary Exam

th

Partial grading criteria: Homework . 20 % MPO ..20 % Project . 10 % Partial Exam 50% Final grading criteria: Partial Exams and Coursework Ordinary Exam Grade for the Semester

. 60% . 40% 100%

Extraordinary Exam Grade: 100% (Grade for the Semester). Class Policies: The minimum passing grade is 7. Students should be in the classroom a few minutes before class starts. No permissions are given to leave the class before it ends. Put away your cell phone before each class starts. Test dates cannot be changed. Students absent on a test date will have no other opportunity to take the test. You may not have more than 10 absences during the course. It is your responsibility to find out in a timely manner the number of absences recorded by the instructor. You must bring the required books to every class.