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This document provides an overview of the units covered in an ESL course. It includes information on writing, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary topics for each unit. The 5 units cover the following themes: happiness and success, community and home life, sports and health, environmental impact, and entertainment. Key areas addressed include describing people, expressing opinions and emotions, grammar structures like tenses and word forms, compound words, and vocabulary related to the unit topics. Resources like vocabulary lists and exercises are also referenced for additional practice.

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Esl Notes

This document provides an overview of the units covered in an ESL course. It includes information on writing, speaking, grammar, and vocabulary topics for each unit. The 5 units cover the following themes: happiness and success, community and home life, sports and health, environmental impact, and entertainment. Key areas addressed include describing people, expressing opinions and emotions, grammar structures like tenses and word forms, compound words, and vocabulary related to the unit topics. Resources like vocabulary lists and exercises are also referenced for additional practice.

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ESL NOTES

Unit 1: Happiness and success


- Writing: Describing people character and appearance
https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/238935
https://www.esolcourses.com/content/exercises/grammar/adjectives/appearance/voca
b1.html
- Speaking: Expressing fear and giving someone confidence
- Grammar: Figurative meanings:
Apostrophes: to shorten be, not; to say about owning
Present simple: facts that are always true
Present continuous: things that are happening at the moment
- Vocab and Spelling: Spelling Patterns: qu(/kw/) and ph(/f/)
Why are words misspelt? (silent letters, ending, plural, double letters)
Homophones (same sounds, different spelling)
Adjectives to describe people (p15)
Color images
Unit 2: You and your community
- Writing: Giving information about yourself, your family and your area
Welcoming an overseas guest
Tone and register
Adj + N + With/made of/ which
- Speaking: Interview: neighborhood and home life
https://www.vocabulary.com/lists/328810
Showing enthusiasm
Amazing, great, lovely, atmosphere, fun, superb, fascinating, love, must, interesting
Persuading (really, theory, practice, point, but, this way)
- Grammar: Order of adjectives
Quantity or number
Quality or opinion
Size
Age
Shape
Color
Proper adjective (often nationality, other place of origin, or material)
https://www.ef.com/wwen/english-resources/english-grammar/nationalities/
Purpose or qualifier (qualifier is a word or phrase (such as very) that precedes an
adjective or adverb, increasing or decreasing the quality signified by the word it
modifies.
Borrowed words
https://www.fluentu.com/blog/english/english-words-from-other-languages/
Gerund(-ing) or infinitive (i: allow, ask, want, would like, promise, warn, remind, expect,
decide, make, agree, refuse, offer, help, encourage, manage, tend; g: finish, hate, avoid,
like, dislike, love, risk, imagine, deny, postpone, recall, enjoy, imagine, mind, miss,
suggest, can’t stand, spend/waste time)
Both (remember, forget, need, try, stop, go on
- Vocab: Describing a place and its atmosphere
Doubling consonants
Suffixes: Multi-syllable words (-ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ish, -y, -able)
Double the final consonant: end in 1 vowel + 1 consonant (exceptions: one-syllable
words end in w, x, y) ex. Cutting, sunny; last syllable is stressed + end in 1 vowel + 1
consonant
Not double the consonant: one-syllable word ends with 2 vowels + 1 consonants /1
vowel + two consonants (needing, adapting), stress is on the first syllable, the last
syllable contains 2 vowels before the consonant, or one vowel and two consonants
Unit 3: Sports, fitness and health
- Writing: Summarizing (question set, own word, eliminate unnecessary, own opinions,
connect grammatically, word limit) and note-making (underline relevance, make notes,
check for content, language and presentation)
- Speaking: Stressing key words
Expressing warnings
Warnings (take care to/be careful to/ make sure you/ watch out for/ look out for; thank,
I will remember that/I’ll do that/etc)
- Grammar: Headlines (compound noun, collision, compensation)
Redundant words
Passives
Verbs with two objects
- Vocab: Compound nouns
Suffixes: words with a final –e
Drop when adding a suffix beginning with a vowel
Kept the e when begin consonant, able, two vowels before the suffix

Unit 4: Our impact on the planet


- Writing: ‘For and against’ arguments (advantages and disadvantages)
Relating to the target audience
- Speaking: The letter g (/g/, /d3/)
Asking for a favor (Would you mind giving me a lift?)
(Checking, expressing thanks)
- Grammar: Connectors (despite, nevertheless, in spite of, however, yet, on the other
hand, although, even though, but)
Words often confused
The future with will and going to
- Vocab: The letter g
Euphemisms
Ways of walking
Unit 5: Entertainment
- Writing: Film and book reviews
- Speaking: Asking for information
Describing films
The letters c and ch
/k/ before vowels (a, o, u), most consonants
/s/ before vowels (e, i, y)
/ʃ/ before letters ea, ia, ie, ien, ious
Double c before e/i (/ks/)
Strategies for interrupting
- Grammar: So…that (can be used with an adi without a n) and such…that (can be used
with an adi with a n)
Will for prediction (predict responses)
The superlative + present perfect (recommendations, review)
- Vocab: Adjectives to describe film
P112

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