In the first term, we will be looking at cultural literacy and introducing people who may have something in common. We will learn to make small talk and develop cultural awareness whilst also discussing gender and culture. We will touch on manners and etiquette with emphasis place on modal verbs must/may/might as well as tag questions. We will also look at expressing possibility with maybe, drawing conclusions with probably and most likely, and using can or be able to with different tenses.We will then be moving on to asking for help and offering to do favors, arranging to get something done and recommending service providers, and persuading someone to use your services. The grammar behind this includes the causatives of have and get as well as passive causatives, the causative make to indicate obligation and let to indicate permission.

In the second half of the first term we will look at recommending a good book, talking about a newspaper or magazine article, describing tastes in leisure reading, and discussing formats of educational materials. We'll look at noun clauses that function as direct objects and embedded questions in noun clauses. We will then look at the language needed to cope with disasters and emergencies with emphasis on imperatives in indirect speech as well as say and tell. Health will be the next topic we will tackle: explaining why you can't come to class, expressing wishes and regrets, recommending treatments and medications as well as comparing approaches to health care. We will learn how to use the past perfect and Wish to express regret.

At the start of the second term we will look at the language needed to cope with disasters and emergencies with emphasis on imperatives in indirect speech as well as say and tell. After this, we will talk about plans and choices: expressing resolutions for creating a better life, examining past actions, discussing factors that promote success, and preparing for interviews. This will be underscored by seeing how the future is seen from the past: was/were going to and would. Perfect modals will also be included.

In the second half of this long term we will focus on exchanging holiday greetings asking about local traditions, comparing holidays and describing wedding customs. We will look at adjective clauses with relative pronouns who and that as well as adjective clauses: subject and object relative pronouns. Moving on, we will look at innovations, describing new kinds of products, imagining a different past outcome, describing inventions and inventors, all the while considering the impact of historical inventions. The grammar underlying these will be unreal conditional and the past unreal conditional.

In this short third term, we will discuss local and global issues, learn how to agree and disagree politely, ask about political views, debate different sides or an issue and discuss solutions to local and global issues.This includes analyzing verbs followed by an object and an infinitive, and looking at non-count nouns that represent abstract ideas. If we have time, we will try to look at the natural world including asking about a location on a map. warning about possible dangers in the outdoors, recommending a destination of natural beauty and describing a country's geography. This will include warnings with had better, and the vocabulary of geographical features.

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定期試験

Students will be given homework. Failure to complete the homework and hand it in by the date set, will mean they will not be awarded any points for that piece. Deadlines must be met. If a student is absent, they are responsible for finding out what homework they missed and handing in the work as soon as is possible.

Tests will be conducted five times a year. Each test period will consist of a speaking and written test. The speaking test will include questions, answers, picture description, topic discussion and memorized dialogue.It is important to note that the speaking half of the text will be conducted throughout the term and not at the end during regular test times. Speaking tests are not summative, but formative in nature.

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Connectivity

Pearson

13-978-0-13-683467-0

Level 3