ALC Book 12: Scope and Sequence, Lessons 1 – 5
Lesson Vocabulary Functions Grammatical Structures Skills
1 See the USA! ➤ Ask about and
express the
If + present/future/modal
➤ If she asks me, I’ll go.
➤ Listen & select phoneme
➤ Read 3 sentences to
➤ Travel plans effect of specified ➤ Should I go if she asks? determine word meaning
➤ Trips to the conditions on Present Perfect to connect ➤ Read text & write
beach and the future actions or
mountains past with present summary
situations ➤ I’ve studied English for ➤ Read paragraph, answer
five years. oral questions, take notes,
➤ I’ve studied English present oral summary
since I was a child. ➤ Underline answers to oral
questions about text
2 Education ➤ Ask and talk
about decisions
Time expressions: already,
no longer, yet, anymore,
➤ Listen to 3 words & select
the different one
➤ Decisions about any longer, still ➤ Role play with peers,
education and
jobs Present Perfect for listen to others’ role play &
indefinite past answer questions
➤ I’ve been to Italy. ➤ Predict meaning from
➤ Have you ever cooked? context & select definition
➤ Read paragraph & give
Coordinating conjunctions
so and or oral summary
➤ It rained, so we left. ➤ Underline answers to oral
➤ Did he go, or did questions about text
he stay? ➤ Combine 2 independent
clauses
3 We’ve added on
to the house.
➤ Ask for and give
statements of
Could for possibility and
conjecture
Listen & select phoneme
➤
➤ Predict meaning from
possibility Emotive adjectives from context & select definition
➤ Remodeling
➤ Getting together verbs with -ed and -ing: ➤ Read text & write
➤ Using a stereo excite, interest, bore, summary
confuse, tire, frighten ➤ Underline answers to oral
Reported speech with say: questions about text
➤ What did you say? ➤ Underline important words
➤ I said (that) Jane was and phrases in text
here.
4 Hunting and
fishing
➤ Ask and talk
about past
Used to for past routines
and conditions
➤ Listen to 3 words & select
the different one
routines and Would for past routines ➤ Predict meaning from
➤ The great conditions context & select definition
outdoors Comparative adverbs
➤ Read paragraph & give
➤ 30 years ago with -er (than): earlier,
oral summary
farther, faster, harder,
➤ Underline important words
higher, later, lower,
nearer, slower, sooner, and phrases in text
straighter ➤ Combine 2 independent
clauses
5 Review
Lesson 5 reviews all vocabulary and structures introduced in Lessons 1 - 4.
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