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General English Weekly
Course Plan

 

 

Here is an example of a weekly course plan
(scheme of work) for another group of intermediate students: 

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Aims for week:

  • Introduce and practise the passives - past and present tenses
  • Develop fluency through speaking/communicative activities, with special attention to asking questions
  • Revise 'do, be, have' and question forms
  • Future forms 'going to, will' and present continuous reviewed
  • Vocabulary topics - personalities, families, places, prepositions of movement, physical world, weather
  • Reading skill sessions for skimming and scanning
  • Listening skills using video
  • Practise giving and receiving directions, agreeing and disagreeing
  • Writing - informal letter
  • Correction of pronunciation and mini-practices as appropriate  

Monday

  • Speaking - asking questions about our weekends
  • Passives - presentation, grammar auction, transitions, speaking activities
  • Speaking - asking opinions  

Tuesday (am)

  • Recycle present and past simple passive
  • 'Do, be, have' - present and past simple versus continuous
  • Speaking/vocabulary - character questionnaire, adjectives
  • Listening/speaking - brothers and sisters
  • Fluency - crosswords

Tuesday (PM)

  • Agreeing and disagreeing - 'So do I, Neither do I, I don't, I haven't, etc., I'm sorry, I'm afraid, I see your point... but etc.,'
  • Fluency/vocabulary - food, entertaining, at home  

Wednesday

  • Future forms - 'going to, will/present continuous
  • Reading and speaking - 'The Man who Planted Trees'
  • Writing - sentence combination
  • Vocabulary - adjectives describing places and people
  • Writing - informal letter about a language school study visit  

Thursday

  • Passive - group quiz
  • Passive - reading for process
  • Speaking - giving instructions
  • Directions - functional English, listening
  • Vocabulary - prepositions of movement
  • Speaking - game activity  

Friday

  • Life in Britain - the weather, Stonehenge (video), listening and speaking
  • Question tags
  • Practise intonation with above
  • Physical world - vocabulary
  • Fluency activity - nationalities (and vocabulary)  

 


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