Skills One

3. • Improve your public speaking skills
• Improve abilities to communicate ideas and arguments orally
• Respond critically to a topic
• Use higher vocabulary and appropriate grammar structures
• Use strategies to overcome difficulties in conversations

8.  Read Summarize etiquette guidelines for an international business meeting
 Listen Summarize a conversation between two people at the meeting
 Speak Discuss and reflect on right or wrong behaviors
Discuss cultural-based behavior in Colombia
• Don’t Stop! Continue interaction to recycle strategies & language

10.  Listen Summarize ideas from two people meeting & making small talk
 Gram. Identify form, meaning and pronunciation of Tag Questions
 Speak Simulate greeting a classmate to make small talk to activate content
• Don’t Stop! Continue interaction to recycle strategies & language
• E-portfolio Start outlining your introduction for your e-portfolio

11. • Opening A short greeting and your name
• Brief background Experience using technology for learning
Brief opinion on the concept of digital literacy
Brief expectations of the course
• Conclusion Final reflection and farewell
• Grammar Activate past perfect and tag questions

13.  Gram. Identify form, use and meaning of the PAST PERFECT
 Listen Identify the Past Perfect in the dialogue
Summarize someone describing a busy schedule
 Speak Use the conversation model to describe a busy day
• Don’t Stop! Continue interaction to recycle strategies & language
• E-portfolio Add information to your introduction {past perfect and intensifiers}

15. • Voc. Become familiar with voc. Related to Manners & Etiquette
• Listen Identify main ideas about etiquette & manners from callers in radio show
• Speak Discuss your opinion about etiquette & manners in Colombia
• E-portfolio Relate the concept of netiquette with digital literacy
Finish your outline final draft

17. LESSON 4
 Read Identify main idea & some details about old-fashioned table manners
Discuss answers to questions about the reading
 Speak Discuss & compare how culture changes over time
Provide support for your answers
• Don’t Stop! Continue interaction to recycle strategies & language
• E-portfolio Share your opinion on how digital literacy has changed overtime