CONTENIDOS - CONTENTS

2014

LEVEL 7TH
PERIOD	UNIT	GRAMMAR	FUNCTIONS	VOCABULARY	READING STRATEGIES
1	1: WELCOME TO MY CITY	Imperatives to give directions  Wh questions with present simple tense   Present continuous tense  Yes / No questions  Wh questions with present continuous  Articles a / an	Following directions and locating places in a city  Asking and giving information about present activities  Describing what people are doing (Suite) (Suite)	Tourist places (in Colombia)  Prepositions: left, right, on, in, in front of, next to  Cardinal points  Verbs of movement  (Suite)  Adjectives	Looking at the pictures  Reading titles and headings  Relating headings to pictures
2	2: MODERN LIFE	Simple past tense for daily actions  Questions about frequency  Frequency words  Prefer / rather than  Questions about preferences  Would to offer food  There is / There are  How much / How many  Countable / Uncountable nouns  Some / a / an / any  A few / a little	Talking about daily routines and leisure time activities  Using frequency adverbs to talk about routines  Expressing preferences	Leisure time activities  Professions and occupations  Food  Daily routines  Frequency adverbs  Free time activities  Food measures	Taking a quick look at the paragraphs and underlining words or expressions you don’t know  Reading again sentence by sentence trying to guess the meaning of the words using the context
3	3: ANCIENT TIMES	Simple past tense with verb to be in affirmative, negative and interrogative forms  Regular verbs past tenses   Wh questions with simple past tense  Irregular verbs past tenses  Did / didn’t	Telling about the past  Describing people  Describing animals and objects  Asking about physical and psychological features	Prehistoric animals  Opposites  Characteristics  Expressions related to the past  Inventions	Understanding the main idea of a story  Finding information about characters , places and sequence of events
4	4: CELEBRATING SPECIAL OCCASIONS	Past continuous tense in affirmative and negative sentences  Connector words: and, but, so, because, then, first, second, finally  Wh questions	Narrating past events  Expressing what was happening around a particular time in the past  Asking and answering about past events  Using information questions to ask specific information  Talking about special occasions	Special occasions  Feelings  Expressions related to celebration	Identifying characters, setting and plot of a story  Scanning and skimming to understand ideas and details

LEVEL 10TH
PERIOD	UNIT	GRAMMAR	FUNCTIONS	VOCABULARY	READING STRATEGIES
1	1: TRAVELING ABROAD	Either, neither, or, too, both   Present perfect   For – since   Prefixes: un, in, dis, im	Talking about unfinished actions.  Talking about the length of actions. Expressing ideas about events. Describing places.  Using prefixes.	Prefixes Words related to traveling Time expressions Adjectives (Adjectives suite 1) (Adjectives suite 2) Conjunctions	Writing down the key words in the text, the ones that are the most important and necessary to understand it.        Guessing the meaning of a word.        Reading quickly to get the main idea.
2	2: YOUR BODY IN ACTION	Had to        Was able to        Must/would/should        Relative clauses with who/which	Discussing obligations.        Discussing necessities.        Giving advice.        Expressing obligation.        Describing people and things using relative clauses.	Cities and places in the world       Adjectives to compare       Adjectives to describe       Teenage favorite activities       Outdoor survival       Health care	Trying to figure out the meanings of unfamiliar words using the context.        Looking at the semantic context (topic) for clues.
3	3: NATURAL RESOURCES	Past perfect vs. simple past        First conditional        Present perfect (yet, already, just)	Expressing unfinished actions in a negative way.        Speculating about people and events.	Natural resources       Renewable and non renewable resources       Use and waste       Caring for the environment	Reading for getting the main idea and details.        Summarizing after each paragraph.
4	4: T.V. AND RADIO NEWS	Present perfect (yet, already, just)        Direct and indirect speech        Past perfect vs. simple past	Relating past events.        Reporting what someone said and asked.        Reading news and interviews.        Listening to T.V. and radio news.	Connectors       News reports       Broadcasting       Radio and television       Reading strategies	Looking additional information about the topic to have a better understanding.        Guessing a discourse relationship.        Inferring implied meaning.

LEVEL 11TH
PERIOD	UNIT	GRAMMAR	FUNCTIONS	VOCABULARY	READING STRATEGIES
1	1: TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY	Permission: could / may  Possibility: may / might / could  Active voice vs. Passive voice	Requesting information  Reporting what other people said  Complaining about defective goods  Expressing possibility  Describing using adverbs and adjectives	Advertising  Consumer goods  Money matters	Extracting information from newspaper and magazine articles  Finding words and phrases of similar meanings
2	2: PEOPLE AND PLACES	Necessity or obligation: have to / must / will / had to	Expressing necessity  Asking for and giving advice  Asking for and giving directions	Places  Inventions and discoveries	Finding specific information  Requesting for gist
3	3: MAN-MADE DISASTERS	Connectors of contrast  Second conditional  Tenses review	Giving opinions  Emphasizing actions	Environment  Pollution, contamination  Energy  Disasters	Reading for gist  Getting main ideas  Understanding compound words
4	4: THE FORCE OF NATURE	Gerunds and infinitives  Third conditional  Wish  Neither / so  Certainly	Indicating agreement or disagreement  Expressing certainly  Understanding idiomatic expressions	Mass media  Internet  Hurricanes, volcanic activity, earthquakes  Preparedness and prevention  Reading strategies	Grouping ideas to understand the text  Inferring meanings of words through the context