Intensive English - Book 7 Lesson 1

Book Seven, Lesson One

Grammar Skills: Pronoun antecedents
  Indefinite adjectives (other/both)
  Descriptive adjectives
  Antonyms

Approximate time: 16 periods

American Language Course

Pages 3 – 14

Pronoun antecedents

Suggestion:  Pages 4 – 9 include vocabulary for geometry.  Students may need more practice with these terms.
Suggestion:  Add more practice with pronoun antecedents from another English grammar text.
15 – 26* 
Indefinite adjectives other/both
Descriptive adjectives
27 – 30* 
Sentence Combining
*Pages 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, & 27
Define and use antonyms.

Basic English Grammar
Pages 325 – 333

Descriptive adjectives

Suggestion:  Add activity from Sentence Mastery A for more practice with sentence combining of descriptive adjectives.
Pages 31 – 33
Box outlines
Suggestion:  After completing this activity from the book, have students select one of the outlines to re-write the paragraph.  For example, the students would work back from the box outline taking the details and writing a paragraph.  Then, they would check the paragraph in the book to see how well they did.  As always, the teacher would first model this activity.
Pages 34 – 36 
Speaking/reading practice
Pages 37  
Paragraph composition
Suggestion:  Have students work in small groups to compose several different paragraphs using the information in the graph.

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