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Reference Rules & Charts can be found in student book pages 141-140
grammar charts pages 141-150
useful lists pages 147-149
map of North America pages 150
Self-study AUDIO SCRIPTS pages 151-154
Ventures 1 Supplements
Ventures 1 Supplements
Student Workbook
Ventures 1 Workbook
Life Skills: Understanding dates
Vocab Focus: The alphabet with capital and lowercase letters, numbers, months and days
Functions (what will students be doing):
Identifying the letters of the alphabet
Identifying numbers
Identifying days and months
Identifying abbreviations
Topic: Introductions
Life Skills: Reading a registration form, understanding cultural differences in names, using personal titles, using a directory, reading an ID card
Vocab Focus: Personal information, countries and nationalities, personal titles
Grammar Focus: Possessive adjectives, subject pronouns, simple present of be, contractions
Functions (what will students be doing):
Identifying names
Identifying numbers
Using greetings
Identifying countries of origin
Exchanging personal information
Topic: The classroom
Life Skills: Reading an inventory list, counting objects
Vocab Focus: Classroom furniture, classroom objects
Grammar Focus: Prepositions of location (in, on, under), where is...?, singular and plural nouns, yes/no questions, this/that and these/those, contractions
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing location
Finding out location
Topic: Family
Life Skills: Reading an insurance application form, using family trees, using formal and informal family titles
Vocab Focus: Family relationships, daily activities, descriptive adjectives
Grammar Focus: Present continuous, Wh- questions, yes/no questions, object pronouns (him, her, it, them)
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing actions
Talking about family members
Topic: Health problems
Life Skills: Using an appointment card, matching remedies to ailments, showing concern for someone's health
Vocab Focus: Body parts, health problems, descriptive adjectives
Grammar Focus: Simple present of have, questions with have, have and need, contractions
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing health problems and suggesting remedies
Expressing sympathy
Topic: Places and directions
Life Skills: Reading and drawing maps, giving and getting directions, understanding what a DMV is
Vocab Focus: Building and place names, imperatives for directions
Grammar Focus: Prepositions of location (on, next to, across from, between, on the corner of), where questions, affirmative and negative imperatives
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing location
Giving directions
Asking for directions
Confirming by repetition
Topic: Daily activities and time
Life Skills: Using class and other schedules, understanding parent-teacher associations, understanding volunteerism, using calendars, reading clocks
Vocab Focus: Times of the day, habitual activities
Grammar Focus: Simple present tense, wh- questions, prepositions of time (at, in, on), start/end and open/close
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing habitual activities
Asking for dates and times
Giving information about dates and times
Topic: Food and money
Life Skills: Reading supermarket ads (TIP: use local!), reading receipts and using basic consumer math, using US currency (TIP: ALP has realia for this), using multiple payment methods
Vocab Focus: Grocery store items, US currency
Grammar Focus: Count and non-count nouns, how many?/how much?, there is/there are, quantifiers with non-count nouns, some and any
Functions (what will students be doing):
Asking about quantity
Reading prices
Asking the location of items
Topic: Jobs and skills
Life Skills: Completing job applications, identifying skills, understanding job certification, reading e-mail
Vocab Focus: Occupations, work locations
Grammar Focus: Simple past of be (statements and questions), can, contractions, be with and and but
Functions (what will students be doing):
Identifying past and present jobs
Describing skills
Topic: Home responsibilities
Life Skills: Using a job-duties chart, understanding household chores and tools used for them
Vocab Focus: Chores, household items, time words
Grammar Focus: Simple past tense of regular and irregular verbs, or questions
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing past actions
Discussing chores
Expressing appreciation
Topic: Free-time activities
Life Skills: Reading a TV schedule, using schedules, understanding the cultural features of sports
Vocab Focus: Free-time activities, sports
Grammar Focus: Simple past of irregular verbs, future with be going to, contrasting past, present and future
Functions (what will students be doing):
Describing past actions
Describing future actions
Discussing plans
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