English plus: A communicative approach / by Ida Yap-Patron

preface.--introduction.--acknowledgements.--lesson 1 language function: introducing oneself to the class, listening and memorizing names and descriptions. language focus: sentence organization descriptive adjectives activity 1: name chain shaqpe me processing activity.--Lesson 2 language function: solving a puzzle story making guesses based on some given facts. language focus: sentences fragments complete sentences run on sentences.--Lesson 3 language function: inferring meanings extracting information asking for and answering information. language focus: information questions.--Lesson 4 language function : asking information or confirmation. language focus: tag questions, other question transformed short responses activity 1: processing activity how a tag question is transformed. activity 2 processing activity activity 3 processing activity the short responses activity 4 more on question transforms processing activity lesson 4: exercise 1 exercise 2 exercise3 : Zebra question by shel silbersrein.--Lesson 5 language function: giving and following directions. language focus: imperatives prepositional phrases prepositions: activity 1: let there be peace on earth processing activity prepositional phrase.--Lesson 6 language function: expressing belief and did belief sharing insights. Language focus: verb-preposition combinations activity 1: when do I die by Wayne Rice/Toby Wilson.--Lesson 7 language function emphasizing meanings and symbolisms making verb agree with their subjects. language focus subject/verb agreement : activity 1: thermometers and thermostats by Wayne Rice/Les Christie. Processing activity subject-verb agreement activity 2 processing activity agreement of pronouns and antecedents. Lesson 7: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3, exercise 4, exercise 5, exercise 6.--Lesson 8 language function: expressing ability and inability, asking permission, asking advice or stating an obligation. language focus: modals: can, can't, could, couldn't, may, might, must, have to, will, would, would rather, activity 1 born to fly by Wayne Rice/Jim Burns. Processing activity the modal auxiliaries other forms and uses of modals. activity 3: I believe I can fly by R. Kelly, processing activity: Lesson 8: exercise 1, exercise 2, exercise 3..--Lesson 9 language function: narrating present, past, and future events, illustrating the essence of humanity, giving advice. language focus: simple tenses: present, past, future.--Lesson 10 language function: giving meaning and implications, narrating indefinite past and future events. language focus: perfect tenses: present perfect, past perfect, future perfect. activity 1: the little prince by Antoine du Saint Exupery.--part two.--Lesson 11 language focus: requesting and giving information, inferring meanings. language focus: gerunds/gerund phrases activity 1 processing activity, activity 2 processing activity Gerunds/ Gerund phrase.--Lesson 12 language function: describing places and things, illustrating meanings and symbolisms. language focus: participles/participial phrase modifiers, activity 1 processing activity participles.--Lesson 13 language function creating a song or a poem, associating activities with the seasons. language focus: infinitive phrase, activity 1: I just called to say I love you by Stevie Wonder.--Lesson 14 language function: des cribbing persons and events. language focus adjectival clauses/relative clauses, complex sentences, relative conjunctions.--Lesson 15 expressing warnings with conditions, predicting and giving opinions, creating a poem or a song. language focus: conditional tense: present conditional, past conditional, future conditional, activity 1: father and son by Cat Stevens.--language function: explaining/enumerating steps in a process, describing a process. language focus: passive voice.--Lesson 17 language function : reporting other people's speeches, making conclusions, reported speeches.--Lesson 18 language function: asking for agreeing/Disagreeing, Refusing. language focus: Adverbial clauses.--Lesson 19 language function: describing and explaining motivations, inferring meanings and extracting information, asking for and stating opinions and comments. language focus: coordinating conjunctions.--Part Three Basic grammar review.