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уровень выше среднего - HEADWAY UPPER-INTERMEDIATE
Курс "Upper-Intermediate" рассчитан на
слушателей, имеющих некоторый опыт практики
английского языка в объеме уровня "Intermediate".
Курс включает разговорную практику по тематике
повседневной жизни с объемом новой лексики 25-30
слов за урок в классе, интенсивное аудирование в
классе и дома, и письменные упражнения в рамках
домашних заданий.
Учебная программа:
There's no place like home.
Grammar: The tense system: simple, continuous,
perfect, active and passive. Auxiliary verbs do,
be, have.
Vocabulary: Compound nouns lifestyle,
house-warming, home town. Word formation 'organize
organi'zation.
Postscript: Dates. Numbers. Spelling.
Reading: Topic. "Home is where you make it" - a
gap fill exercise about a man with an unusual
home. "People who emigrate" - two families who
move to another country (jigsaw).
Speaking: Exchanging information about families
who have emigrated. Discussion - the pros and
cons of living in another country.
Listening: A song - Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh.
Writing: Correcting language mistakes in two
informal letters. Identifying mistakes in common.
Unit 2
Been there, done that!
Grammar: Present Perfect - simple and continuous.
Continuous verb forms. You're very kind. You're
being very kind.
Vocabulary: Guessing meaning. Synonyms. Hot
Verbs (1) take and put, take my advice, put sb
down.
Postscript: Exclamations. Wow! How amazing! Oh!
What a surprise!
Reading: Topic. "Death by tourism" - how
tourists are ruining the places they visit on
holiday.
Speaking: Information gap and roleplay - the
Virgo Group. Discussion. Tourism. Discussion -
your earliest memories.
Listening: Topic. "World traveler and lavender
farmer" - an interview with Natalie Hodgson.
Writing: Note-taking. Position of adverbials.
Writing a biography.
Unit 3
What happened was this…
Grammar: Narrative tenses. Past Simple. Past
Continuous. Past Perfect: active and passive.
Vocabulary: Adjectives that describe character
reckless, unreliable. Suffixes responsible,
responsibility. Prefixes irresponsible,
self-conscious.
Postscript: Expressing interest and surprise -
reply questions "James lives in a castle". "Does
he?".
Reading: Topic. "Girl barred from top store" -
an exercise on tenses about a girl who was
barred from Harrods. An extract from The Mayor
of Casterbridge, by Thomas Hardy.
Speaking: Talking about books. Questions about
books.
Listening: Topic. "The news". A dramatized
version of the extract from The Mayor of
Casterbridge. Three people talking about a book
they've liked.
Writing: A review of a book or film.
Unit 4
It's a deal!
Grammar: Expressing quantity - a little money,
lots of ideas, few friends, not much experience,
hardly any food, fewer people. Countable and
uncountable nouns - money, dollars, time/times.
Vocabulary: Exports and imports - gold, sugar,
spices. Words with variable stress 'export,
ex'port, re'fuse, 'refuse, row.
Postscript: Social expressions. Hang on a sec.
There's no point.
Reading: Topic. "The businesswoman who went to
Australia and made a fortune" (jigsaw). "Three
thousand years of world trade" - an extract from
an encyclopaedia.
Speaking: A class survey of shopping habits. A
maze - You've decided to open a restaurant, but
how will you go about it? A group
decision-making exercise.
Listening: Topic. "An English couple who opened
an English restaurant in France talk about their
experiences".
Writing: Note-talking. Research and report
writing. Trade in your country.
Unit 5
Whatever will be, will be.
Grammar: Future forms - will do, shall do, going
to do. Present Continuous. Present Simple - will
be doing/will have done. Tense usage in clauses.
When I've read the book, I'll give it back to
you.
Vocabulary: Word pairs neat and tidy, give and
take, pros and cons. Hot Verbs (2) to be +
adverb or preposition. What's up with you? She's
into yoga.
Postscript: Telephone conversations - beginning
a call, ending a call.
Reading: Topic. "This is your captain speaking"
- an exercise on tenses. "I'll marry you, but
only if…" - an American couple's prenuptial
agreement leaves nothing to chance.
Speaking: Discussion - who make the best couples?
Exchanging information about three people's
arrangements to meet.
Listening: Topic. "Vox pops - eight people talk
about the future. The reunion - three old
friends arrange to meet (jigsaw).
Writing: Formal and informal letters -
recognizing formal style, writing an informal
letter.
Unit 6
People, places, and things.
Grammar: Relative clauses. Politicians, who tell
lies, … Participles - a girl wearing a red suit.
Infinitives. I didn't know where to go.
Vocabulary: edl-ing adjectives, depressed,
depressing. Synonyms in context -writer, author,
risky, dangerous.
Postscript: English signs. Do not exceed the
stated dose. Diversion ahead.
Reading: Topic. "The man who could buy anything"
- a gap fill exercise about Bill Gates. "I've
never seen anything like it!" - a strange person,
place, and a thing (jigsaw).
Speaking: Describing a picture. Exchanging
information about the strange person, place, and
thing. Group work - devising an advert.
Listening: Topic. "Seven radio advertisements".
Writing: Describing your favorite part of town.
Unit 7
Doing without.
Grammar: Verb patterns - enjoy playing, good at
cooking, plan to do, stop, try, remember.
Reduced infinitives. I'd love to. You aren't
allowed to.
Vocabulary: Consumer durables - camcorder,
mobile phone, microwave. Hot Verbs (3) - get.
You've got to go. I got back late. Stop getting
at me!
Postscript: Soundbites. Eat here or take away?
Will passengers in rows A to K - please board
now?
Reading: Topic. "Letters between Sean and his
grandmother" - an exercise on verb patterns. "The
family who turned back the clock" - a family who
give up all domestic appliances for three days.
Speaking: Discussion - domestic life fifty years
ago, things you couldn't life without.
Discussion - the pros and cons of television.
Listening: A song - Fast car, by Tracy Chapman.
Writing: Contrasting ideas - whereas. However -
although. Writing about an invention you
couldn't life without.
Unit 8
Famous for fifteen minutes.
Grammar: Modal auxiliary verbs - probability.
She might be at home. He could have left early;
other uses - May I go now? Can you ski? You
don't have to come.
Vocabulary: Making sentences stronger - Adverbs
and adjectives very clever, absolutely brilliant.
Adverbs and verbs strongly agree, totally forget.
Postscript: Exaggeration and understatement. I'm
starving. I'm a little puckish.
Reading: Topic. "Jane Austen, the hottest writer
in Hollywood" - the famous English novelist who
is enjoying a revival.
Speaking: Talking about the lives of famous
people. Discussion - the lives of women past and
present.
Listening: One side of a phone conversation. An
interview with Tim Rice, who wrote the lyrics to
Jesus Christ Superstar, and Paul Nicholas, who
played Jesus.
Writing: Writing a fan letter.
Unit 9
Nothing but the truth.
Grammar: Questions. Who wants to speak to me? I
wonder what he wants. Don't you like tea?
Negatives. I don't think you're right. I told
her not to go.
Vocabulary: Groups - workaholics, agoraphobics.
Making connections in texts - Antonyms happiness,
misery, rich/plain food, rich/poor person.
Postscript: Being polite. I'm sorry to bother
you, but… A present for me? How kind! You
shouldn't have.
Reading: Topic. "Mysteries of the universe" -
puzzles that have plagued human beings for
thousands of years.
Speaking: General knowledge quiz. Discussion -
retelling a story from another point of view.
Listening: Topic. "Saying I won't" - a radio
programme about people who change their mind at
the altar. A song - Waiting at the church.
Writing: Joining sentences. Conjunctions
whenever, unless. Adverbs anyway, actually.
Unit 10
Things ain't what they used to be!
Grammar: Expressing habit - present habit. I'm
always losing my keys; - past habit. We'd play
on the sand. Belget used to. I'm used to working
hard.
Vocabulary: Money, money, money! tight-fisted,
extravagant, fall on hard times. Hot Verbs (4)
come and go. I'll go to any lengths. The kinds
come first.
Postscript: Time expressions - all day long, the
other day, in time, on time.
Reading: Topic. "Living history" - the
100-year-old lady who lives in the past. "People
and their money" - who's rich and who's poor
these days? (jigsaw).
Speaking: Giving a short talk about your first
friend or teacher. Attitudes to money.
Homelessness.
Listening: Homelessness - interviews with people
who live on the streets, and those who try to
help them.
Writing: Writing about a period in history.
Unit 11
If only things were different!
Grammar: Hypothesizing - about the present. If
only I had a new car!; about the past. I wish I
hadn't said that. You shouldn't have done that.
Vocabulary: Idioms. I had time to kill. I was at
a loose end. Bury your head in the sand.
Postscript: Moans and groans. How many times do
I have to tell you? I could kick myself.
Reading: Topic. "Those life's perfect anyway? -
two people's lives. "Things we never said" - a
short story about a failed relationship, by
Fiona Goble.
Speaking: Roleplay - two lovers tell each other
the truth. Acting out a dramatic scene.
Listening: Topic. A radio play, based on the
text. "Things we never said". "Family secrets" -
two people talk about a secret in their lives.
Writing: Writing a play with stage directions.
Unit 12
Icons.
Grammar: Noun phrases a boy licking an ice-cream.
Articles and determiners. It's a city in the
north, each/every/either, both/all. Adding
emphasis - word order, the passive. What annoys
me…
Vocabulary: Homophones war or wore? Homonyms a
dusty plain, plain food.
Postscript: Linking and commenting personally,
obviously, ideally, basically.
Reading: Topic. "Michelangelo" -one of the
world's greatest artists. "It blows your mind!"
- eye-witness accounts of the first atomic
explosion.
Speaking: Discussion - famous photos of the
twentieth century. Discussion - how the atomic
bomb changed history.
Listening: Topic. Children's jokes. Various
people describe great events of the twentieth
century.
Writing: Describing a career. Word order and
focus of attention.
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