Weekly Program

Weeks 1 - 2

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• Who are you? Building a profile
• How does one succeed? We'll give you some pointers (video)
• Who said video games are bad for you (video)

Reading & Vocabulary: Office interruptions

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Weeks 3 - 4

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• Thanksgiving is upon us: What are you grateful for this year?
• Wisdom: What is it and who has it?

Reading & Vocabulary: Office interruptions

Grammar: Modal verbs

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Weeks 5 - 6

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• Barilla: a lesson on how to minimize absenteeism at work

Reading & Vocabulary: Don't let meetings kill your day. 

Grammar: Make vs Do

Pronunciation: Rules of verbs ending in "ed"

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Weeks 7 - 9

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• Holiday Season: what did you do, how did it go, where did you go?

Reading & Vocabulary: is France really the king of time off at work?

Grammar: Infinitive and Gerunds

Vocabulary: 

• Traits - what makes people creative, successful, leaders and entrepreneurs
• Manifestos: look at two great examples done by two clothing and design companies

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Weeks 10 - 13

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• E-Cigarettes and the danger for children - A debate

Grammar: 

• Active and Passive Voice
• Reflexive Pronouns

Reading: NPR News and Companies' profiles

Vocabulary: Manifestos: developing a manifesto for a selected company

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Weeks 14 - 16

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Noteworthy news of the day/week/weekend.  Why did it catch your attention?
• Have you ever done that? VIDEO
• Hollywood time. Are you ready Mr Critic?
• What would you do for Montpellier? Let's hear your platform Mr Candidate

Grammar: 

• Present Perfect vs Past Simple
• Still, Yet and Already
• Conditionals

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Weeks 17 - 20

Oral Expression and Oral Comprehension:

• Warm up exercise: tell me a story (picture)
• Video lessons

Grammar:  

• Suffixes: a tool to convert nouns to adjectives
• Phrasal Verbs and Idioms