WEEK 1 - Jan 13-15
Chapter 1: Building our "Babel Tower"
Task: Talking about learning experiences, competences and learning habits. Choosing the best advice for success. Describing past activities and habits
Grammar: Past continuos. Common adverbs.
WEEK 2 - Jan 20 - 22
WEEK 3 - Jan 27 - 29
Chapetr 3: Movies
Tasks: Asking for and giving views. Summarize the plot of the movie. Expressing completed actions in the past. Explaining amazing stories.
Grammar: Present perfect, past simple, past continuos. Tense markers
Test 1 - Jan 29
WEEK 4 - Feb 3 - 5
WEEK 5 - Feb 10 - 12
Chapter 2: Working to live
Task: Expressing likes, dislikes and wishes
Grammar: verbal periphrasis (seguir / dejar de). Gerund. Present subjunctive.
WEEK 6 - Feb 17 - 19
Chapter 4: Cities for the future
Tasks: Exchanging information and opinion. Talking about the future. Future possibilities in your life
Grammar: Futur forms.
Oral presentation Feb 19
WEEK 7 - Feb 24 - 26
Midterm Review
Midterm Exam Feb 26
WEEK 8 - Mar 3 - 5
Chapter 5: Holidays
Tasks: Planning a trip. Expressing possibility and conditions.
Gramática: Conditional form. First and second conditional. Aunque/ a pesar de (although, in spite of)
WEEK 9 - Mar 10 - 12
Chapter 6: If I were you
Tasks: Giving and sharing advices.
Grammar: Direct and indirect pronouns. Imperative. Verb aconsejar (advice) + subjuntive. Future time clauses: cuando (when) + subjuntive
Mar 17 - 21 - Spring break
WEEK 10 - Mar 24 - 26
WEEK 11 - Mar 31 - Apr 2 - 4 (make-up day for Monday, April 21)
Chapter 8: I think....
Tasks: Discussing diferent views on diferents subjects: expressing opinions, agreement and disagreement. Judging facts and opinions.
Grammar: Subjunctive with verbs creer, pensar, imaginar (think, imagine) and structures as es+adjetivo+que (it is+adjective+that)
Test 2 - Apr 4
WEEK 12 - Apr 7 - 9
Chapter 7: ¿ Can you do me a favour?
Tasks: Making a request, accept and refuse. Reporting what someone said (commands and questions)
Grammar: Indirect speech. Reporting clauses. Periphrasis: empezar a, estar a punto de, volver a, llegar a
WEEK 13 - Apr 14 - 16
WEEK 14 - Apr 23
Oral Presentation- Apr 14
Final Review
Listening test - Apr 23
Final Exam Apr 26- May 2