General English Weekly Course Plan

Here is an example of a weekly course plan (scheme of work) for a group of intermediate students:

Aims for the week

Introduce and practise the passives - past and present tenses

Develop fluency through speaking/communicative activities, with special attention to asking questions

Revise 'do, be, have' and question forms

Future forms 'going to, will' and present continuous reviewed

Vocabulary topics - personalities, families, places, prepositions of movement, physical world, weather

Reading skill sessions for skimming and scanning

Listening skills using video

Practise giving and receiving directions, agreeing and disagreeing

Writing - informal letter

Correction of pronunciation and mini-practices as appropriate

Monday

Speaking - asking questions about our weekends

Passives - presentation, grammar auction, transitions, speaking activities

Speaking - asking opinions

Tuesday (AM)

Recycle present and past simple passive

'Do, be, have' - present and past simple versus continuous

Speaking/vocabulary - character questionnaire, adjectives

Listening/speaking - brothers and sisters

Fluency - crosswords

Tuesday (PM)

Agreeing and disagreeing - 'So do I, Neither do I, I don't, I haven't, etc., I'm sorry, I'm afraid, I see your point... but etc.,'

Fluency/vocabulary - food, entertaining, at home

Wednesday

Future forms - 'going to, will/present continuous

Reading and speaking - 'The Man who Planted Trees'

Writing - sentence combination

Vocabulary - adjectives describing places and people

Writing - informal letter about a language school study visit

Thursday

Passive - group quiz

Passive - reading for process

Speaking - giving instructions

Directions - functional English, listening

Vocabulary - prepositions of movement

Speaking - game activity

Friday

Life in Britain - the weather, Stonehenge (video), listening and speaking

Question tags

Practise intonation with above

Physical world - vocabulary

Fluency activity - nationalities (and vocabulary)

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