This document outlines an English language course for intermediate learners at level 3 with 30 hours of instruction over 8 units. Each unit covers specific topics in speaking, grammar, reading/writing, and listening/pronunciation. The units progress from describing personalities and relationships to discussing education choices and strategies for learning.

1. English: Level 3
Intermediate
3A - 30 hours
8 Units
Topics Speaking Grammar Reading / Writing / Vocabulary Listening / Pronunciation
Unit 1
Describing personalities; expressing Relative pronouns as subjects and Reading about keeping and making Linked sounds; Listening for opinions;
Personality types and qualities;
likes and dislikes; agreeing and objects; clauses with it + adverbial clauses friends; Writing a description of a best listening for description of people and
relationships; turn ons and turn offs
disagreeing; complaining with when friend likes and dislikes of people
Unit 2
Talking about unusual careers; Gerund phrases as subjects and objects; Reading about behavior in the workplace;
Jobs; unusual careers; job skills; Stress with compound nouns; Listening to
describing jobs; discussing the pros and comparisons with adjectives, verbs, Writing about careers and advantages
summer jobs likes and dislikes of jobs
cons of jobs nouns, and past participles and disadvantages
Unit 3
Making unusual requests; making Writing and informal e-mail request;
Favors; formal and informal Requests with modals, if clauses, and Unreleased consonants; Listening to
indirect requests; accepting and Reading about the way people make
requests; messages gerunds; indirect requests people making
declining requests requests and respond to them
Unit 4
Intonation in complex sentences;
The media; news stories; Narrating a story; describing events in Past continuous vs. simple past; past Reading articles about events; Writing a
Listening to news broadcasts; Listening to
exceptional events the past perfect newspaper article
a narrative about a past event
Review. Stop and check.
Unit 5
Word stress in sentences; Listening to
Comparing different cultures; Talking about moving abroad; Noun phrases containing relative clauses;
Reading about moving to another info about living abroad; Listening to
moving abroad; emotions; expressing emotion; describing cultural expectations - (not) supposed to,
country; Writing a tourist pamphlet different customs from people around the
customs; tourism and travel abroad expectations expected to, (not) acceptable to
world
Unit 6
Describing problems with past participles
Describing problems; making complaints; Contrastive stress; Listening to people
Consumer complaints; everyday as adjectives and with nouns; describing Reading about everyday problems;
explaining something that needs to be exchange and return things in a store;
problems; electronics; repairs problems with keep+gerund, Writing a letter of complaint (formal)
done listening to different complaints
need+gerund, need+passive infinitive
Unit 7
Passive in the present continuous and Reading about a place with a current
The environment; world problems; Identifying and describing problems; Reduction of auxiliary verbs; Listening to
present perfect; prepositions of cause; problem or issue; Writing a letter to the
current issues coming up with solutions environmental problems and solutions
infinitive clauses and phrases editor of a newspaper or other media
Unit 8
Discussing pros and cons of different
Education; learner choices; Reading about different types of learning
study choices; talking about learning Would rather and would prefer; by+gerund Intonation in questions of choice;
strategies for learning; personal and best strategies to learn; Writing about
methods; asking about preferences; to describe how to do things Listening to description of college courses
qualities qualities in education
talking about personal qualities
Final Review