E-learning Component – Advanced Certificate in General English, 2013-14

Unit 1 / e-learning activities and tasks
Alive and Well /

Listening

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Reading

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Grammar

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Vocabulary

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6 / Speaking / City life – for and against
6 / Reading / Describing how my city makes me feel alive
6-7 / Grammar / Auxiliaries
7 / Pronunciation / Auxiliaries for emphasis
8 / Vocabulary / Predicative adjectives
8 / Listening / Family trees
9 / Grammar / Present tenses
9 / Speaking / Family
10 / Speaking / Optimists and pessimists
10 / Reading / What are you optimistic about?
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10 / Listening / Five people saying what they are optimistic about
11 / Grammar / Future forms
11 / Vocabulary and writing / Phrases relating to the future
Write a paragraph about something you're optimistic about
12 / Vocabulary / Suffix -able
12-13 / Reading / Winning the battle against disease
13 / Grammar / Future continuous and future perfect
13 / Speaking / Personal sentences:
By the end of the year… etc.
14 / Listening / People completing
'Modern life is…'
14 / Functions / Making generalisations
15 / Global English - reading / Languages alive and dead
16 / Writing / A report (1)
17 / Study skills / Exploring your dictionary
Unit 2 / e-learning activities and tasks
Right and Wrong /

Listening

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Reading

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Grammar

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Vocabulary

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18-19 / Reading / Galileo's trial for heresy
18 / Vocabulary / words expressing certainty and truth
19 / Speaking / expressing opinions
20 / Vocabulary / different meanings of right
20 / Reading and listening / general knowledge quiz (do quiz, listen to right answers)
21 / Grammar / Questions
21 / Speaking / Agreeing and disagreeing with statements about the information age
22 / Vocabulary / Prefix mis
22 / Listening / Malapropisms and spoonerisms
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23 / Grammar / Definite article
23 / Pronunciation / the
24 / Reading and speaking / Extract from
No Longer at Ease
by Chinua Achebe
concerning an attempt to bribe a Nigerian school teacher.
24 / Grammar / Narrative tenses
25 / Writing / Listen to story about a moral dilemma and finish it.
26 / Functions / Correcting and restating
27 / Global English / Different English errors by speakers of different languages
28-29 / Writing / An essay. Discursive essay on gender equality
29 / Study skills / The language learning plateau
Unit 3 / e-learning activities and tasks
Land and Sea /

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Vocabulary

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30 / Speaking / Discuss and complete a quotation from C19 Cree Indians about environmental degradation.
31 / Reading / Extract from The Sacred Balance
David Suzuki on modern society and the environment.
31 / Vocabulary / Features of the natural world
31 / Speaking / Give a short talk on the natural features of your country.
32 / Speaking and
Writing / Talk about news.
Write news story with given words
32 / Listening / News report on US Airways flight 1549.
(Bird strike, plane ditched in Hudson river)
33 / Pronunciation / didja doncha dunno
gimmie gotta kinda
33 / Vocabulary / Different meanings of land
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34 / Vocabulary and speaking / the sea
24-35 / Reading / Amazing Ocean Facts
35 / Grammar / Present perfect simple and continuous; past simple
36 / Speaking / Maps and navigating
36 / Listening / Description of the Carta Marina
37 / Grammar / Adjective order
37 / Pronunciation / vowel / diphthong sounds in: steer / cloud / white / whale / steer
38 / Functional language / Interpreting data (charts and graphs)
39 / Global English / Trade language (history of)
40 / Writing / An email to a friend
41 / Study skills / Communication strategies