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English-To-Go.com's Online Course Book Living English english-to-go.

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english-to-go.com's Online Course Book, Living English uses the natural and authentic English of today, plus the power of the Internet, to deliver a 'living text book' that changes and adapts to changing student, teacher and institutional needs and requirements, as well as to the changing world in which Living English needs to be used. The Living English Revolution With all the power of english-to-go.com's ever-growing and extensive database of resources, and the focus of the Living English courses, Living English will revolutionize the use of course books and text books in universities and schools around the world. For Teachers We recommend new teachers go through the resources as listed, and teach the course like a regular textbook. However, Living English enables you to adapt to the needs of your students by reviewing each resource and choosing the ones you wish to print. You can: - look at the alternative resources already listed. - check to see if any resources have been updated since you last taught the course. - search the database for other resources on grammar points or topics best suited to your class. Using Living English in this way utilizes the power and flexibility of english-to-go.com's online course book. With inbuilt choices, changes, updates and new resources added, Living English grows and evolves with the changing world. Institutions can also tailor Living English to their needs; using alternative lessons from the english-to-go.com database. Living English is a flexible, 'living textbook'. Instant Workbooks: An integrated part of Living English are Instant Workbooks: interactive online exercises, reinforcing work done in class. These can be done as a class, or individually at school, or at home as homework. SefAccess.com: The complete library of interactive online resources are available on english-to-go.com's sister site, http://www.SelfAccess.com, and can be added to Living English either at an individual student level, or through an institution's computer room.

How To Use Resources and activities have been sequenced and structured into a 12 Unit text book, stored online, with printable resources and online Instant Workbooks. Simply print resources for your students, and give them passwords for different Instant Workbooks. Teachers' Notes and Answers are integrated within the resources. The teacher controls which parts of the Course get distributed at whish stage. Each Unit should be taught over a teaching week. Leave out specific recommended resources or activities, or replace or supplement them with other English-To-Go.com resourcesby searching the library for alternative resources.
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Online Course Book Living English - Upper-Intermediate


english-to-go.com Upper-Intermediate Full Course Outline
Unit One Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) Language - present simple and present continuous Unit Two Inventions And Machines Language - present perfect
Unit Three Sport and Leisure Language - past simple, past continuous and past perfect Unit Four Life Changes Language - expressing quantity Unit Five The Future Language - future forms Unit Six Rights and Responsibilities Language - relative clauses Unit Seven Our Natural World Language - verb patterns Unit Eight How Healthy is your lifestyle? Language - modals Unit Nine It could Kill you! (Threats) Language - reported speech Unit Ten Education - How good is your memory? Language - habits and routines Unit Eleven Consumer Issues Language - conditionals Unit Twelve Travel Language - definite, indefinite and zero articles.

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Online Course Book Living English - Upper-Intermediate


english-to-go.com Unit One Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays)
Classroom and Online Resources And the winner is - Instant Lesson Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing - Instant Lesson Toys - Instant Lesson Skills covered in Unit One: Grammar and Vocabulary - identifying grammatical mistakes, brainstorming vocabulary, celebrations and festivals vocabulary, sales, merchandise and toys vocabulary, present simple, present continuous. Reading and Writing - understanding text organization, writing questions, collating and reporting information, scanning, practice text organization and sequencing skills, writing appropriate questions, reading to complete a summary, predicting, making comparisons, developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, designing a poster. Listening and Speaking - asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire, listening for gist, listening for specific information, agreeing and disagreeing, retelling information, asking questions to find out information about someone, making comparisons to show similarity, ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decision. Ordering Festivals - Weekly Warmer Me, Too! - Weekly Warmer Happy Birthday Athina! - Instant Lesson Draw Your Name - Weekly Warmer

Classroom and Online Extra Resources Turkeys Galore - Instant Lesson and - Instant Workbook Tomatina Festival - Instant Workbook

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Let's Have A Party! (Festivals and Holidays) - Resources Listed With Skills
Classroom Resources And the winner is - Instant Lesson Reading - understanding text organization, Speaking - asking and answering questions, answering a questionnaire, Writing - writing questions, collating and reporting information, Vocabulary - festivals, racing and gambling vocabulary, Grammar - identifying grammatical mistakes Ordering Festivals - Weekly Warmer Reading - practice text organization and sequencing skills Vocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals and special events vocabulary Fish Soup And Buffalo Racing - Instant Lesson Reading - developing strategies to guess the meanings of unknown words, comprehension, completing a table of information Speaking - retelling information, discussion Vocabulary - brainstorming vocabulary, festivals vocabulary Grammar - present simple tense, spelling of third person singular present simple verb forms Me, Too! - Weekly Warmer Speaking - asking questions to find out information about someone, making comparisons to show similarity Draw Your Name - Weekly Warmer Speaking - Asking questions Vocabulary - Revising vocabulary items to work something out Toys - Instant Lesson Reading - predicting, skimming, completing a table, Speaking - ranking, discussion, debating a topic, planning and making decisions Writing - designing a poster Vocabulary - sales and merchandise, toys and birthday vocabulary Grammar - Present simple and present continuous tenses Happy Birthday - Instant Lesson Reading - scanning, reading to complete a summary, predicting, Speaking - agreeing and disagreeing Listening - listening for gist, listening for specific information, Writing - writing appropriate questions, making comparisons Vocabulary - festivals vocabulary, collocations Extra Resources Include: Turkeys Galore - Instant Lesson Reading - finding the main idea, scanning, Speaking - describing symbols, festivals and special days, making a phone call, describing a problem and asking for help Listening - listening for gist Writing - writing sentences using conjunctions although and even though Vocabulary - holiday vocabulary, synonyms, Grammar - punctuation: apostrophes to show possession, although and even though Tomatina Festival Food Fight! - Instant Workbook Reading - Reading Comprehension Vocabulary - festivals vocabulary Turkeys Galore - Instant Workbook Reading - Reading Cloze Vocabulary - celebrations vocabulary Extra Help for Teachers Verb Forms Perfect and Continuous - Anna Grammar Grammar - perfect and continuous verb forms
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