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GATEWAY TO ENGLISH 2 COURSE OUTLINE
SKILL OR LANGUAGE FOCUS
UNIT
TOPIC Listening and Reading Reference Writing Grammatical Vocabulary sets
speaking texts and skills skills genres and skills structures Word formation
SECTION A Fantasy
1 Listening for specific points Narrative (Greek legend) ΗInternet ΗParagraph writing would/wouldn’t like to +
in a monologue Prediction based on headings and research (daydreams/charity work) for wishes
INFINITIVE
Dreams Evaluating the identified pictures (predictions for will/won’t + INFINITIVE for
Short play (The Three Wishes)
and information the future) predictions
Following the sequence of events Setting out dialogue
wishes
Eliciting and expressing Interpreting explicit information Characters
personal opinions and Evaluating Division into scenes
supporting details
2 Giving and evaluating Factual reports (mysteries) *Internet Email reservation Sentence modifiers Fantasy characters/
explanations Web page (ghost tour) research Invitation card perhaps/maybe creatures
Believe it (mysteries)
Identifying and evaluating Multi-path story (mysteries) ΗNarrative (visit to a haunted Determiners all of, most
or not! specific information in a of, a few of, none of
Classifying, evaluating house)
dialogue Imperatives for
Information transfer to a table Mystery story
instructions
Interpreting explicit information Selecting suitable information
Simple past tense:
Invitation format
irregular verbs (revision)
Story features (characters,
setting, etc)
Planning content, peer editing
3 Eliciting and providing Email *Internet ΗNarrative (story extension) Present simple and Natural features:
information with WH- Science fiction (War of the Worlds) research (solar Email reply present continuous space
Alien questions system) tenses (revision)
Joke Planning (generating content; Science fiction
calling! Listening for specific may for possibility
Predicting from title/illustrations sequencing of main ideas) Computers
information Comparatives, modified
Identifying and collating explicit Drafting from a plan
information with much/a little
Editing
Inferring from explicit
information
Inferring vocabulary from context
Interpreting and evaluating
SKILL OR LANGUAGE FOCUS
UNIT
TOPIC Listening and Reading Reference Writing Grammatical Vocabulary sets
speaking texts and skills skills genres and skills structures Word formation
SECTION B Lifestyles
4 Carrying out a survey (food Interview (healthy eating) Dictionary use Recipe Determiners: a little, a Food: categories,
preferences) Advertisements (restaurants) (headwords and Describing a process (baking a lot of, plenty of, too specific items,
Fabulous derived words) much, (not) enough, adjectives, cooking
Making notes from a Dialogue (working as a chef) cake)
food telephone conversation more, less Suffixes: –y, -ness,
Personal narrative (famine) ΗConversation (story
Making a reservation by extension) Adverbs of degree: very, -less, -er, -tion
Identifying and interpreting
telephone Paragraphing really, quite, too
explicit information
Ordering food/recording Use of sequencing adverbs
Understanding narrative
orders in a restaurant
sequence
Applying information to a given
situation
Evaluating/expressing opinions
5 Asking about and describing Biography (Terry Fox) Guided summary (Terry Fox) Frequency expressions: Health: diseases,
symptoms Predicting from illustrations Identifying relevant once/twice/three times body parts,
Staying a (week); every (week) treatment, personnel
Identifying and interpreting Identifying and inferring from information
healthy information in a dialogue used to + INFINITIVE Prefix: -un
explicit information Narrative based on picture
(health check/family Relating text to a map sequence (road accident) to + INFINITIVE to
discussion) Expanding basic ideas with express purpose
Pair discussion (list of first details
aid items)
6 Discussion (teenage Personal diary School report Time conjunctions: Teenage slang
activities) School report Letter to an agony aunt before, when, after Text message jargon
Growing
Role play: parent/child Dialogue (Parents’ Day) Choosing and developing if in Type 1 conditional
pains (holiday timetable) sentences
Magazine headlines relevant information.
Agony aunt advice Paragraph topics
Predicting from headings Letter format
Identifying topics from details Editing
Interpreting scores and grades
Inferring and deducing from
explicit information
Application to own experience
SKILL OR LANGUAGE FOCUS
UNIT
TOPIC Listening and speaking Reading Reference Writing Grammatical Vocabulary sets
texts and skills skills genres and skills structures Word formation
SECTION C Travel and Exploration
7 Completing a checklist and Advertisements (used cars) A ‘small ad’ for a car Superlatives: long and Travel: means of
making a decision based on Driving licence application form *Instructions (car maintenance) short adjectives transport, locations,
Wheels information in a dialogue occupations, verbs,
Road signs Inserting relevant and accurate Expressing time using
and Game: Race to Brunei the 24-hour clock car parts
Highway code extracts information on a form
wings Choosing relevant information Present continuous tense
Personal narrative (flight
attendant) Being concise for future arrangements
Identifying and collating Using imperatives with
information conditional clauses
Inferring and evaluating
Application of information to a
given situation
8 Identifying specific Tabulated information (nomads) Guided summary (nomads) Past continuous tense Categories of
information from a dialogue Story (animal instinct) Identifying and excluding Clauses with although travellers
Moving
Preparing and conducting an Matching information to table examples Adjectives for
on interview with an expatriate feelings
headings *Description based on an
Identifying and inferring from interview Movement verbs
explicit information Narrative based on a picture
Collating information sequence (refugees)
Transferring information to a Layout and punctuation of
map direct speech (single sentences)
Incorporating direct speech
into a narrative
9 Sharing information about a Maps (Amazon) Using an Journal entries based on a Sentence connectors: in Space travel
topic (exploration) Personal narrative/diary (Benedict encyclopaedia: picture series (The Lost World) addition, besides,
Into the locating moreover, also, too
Identifying and interpreting Allen) Planning content
unknown information in a dialogue information Combination of past
Identifying, collating, interpreting Journal format
(moon landing) and evaluating explicit *Guided note simple and past
Editing and publishing
information making continuous tenses
Interpreting graphic information Use of the with
geographical names
SKILL OR LANGUAGE FOCUS
UNIT
TOPIC Listening and Reading Reference Writing Grammatical Vocabulary sets
speaking texts and skills skills genres and skills structures Word formation
SECTION D The World of Books
10 Evaluating factual Poem (Tigress) *Description of a scene Present perfect tense Adjectives, nouns
statements Short story (Fatima and the tiger) Report (tiger conservation) (positive forms) and verbs relating to
The tiger the different senses
Identifying main events Using the different senses
Predicting from previous text Planning: paragraph topics
Identifying attitudes and opinions Using connectors for similar
Interpreting similes and other points and examples
images
11 Identifying the sequence of Play (Marif) *Play scene (alternative ending) Present perfect tense Plays/drama
events and the speakers in a Description (character in a play) Description (character from (negative) performance
Sons and story (Nakhoda Manis) Identifying and inferring from play) Relative pronoun who Character adjectives
mothers Oral reading: using sentence and relative clauses
explicit information Expanding main ideas with
stress and body language examples and details introduced by who
Understanding and evaluating
Reading/acting a scene from characters and actions
a play Identifying main ideas and
details/examples
12 *Describing a favourite Description (a favourite Using an index Guided summary Relative pronouns More adjectives for
possession possession) (revision) Choosing relevant information which/that; relative feelings
Telling clauses introduced by
Exchanging information (an Extract from an autobiography Removing details
our own unpleasant memory) (Roald Dahl) which/that
*Description (a favourite
stories Describing an unpleasant Biodata (Pele) possession) Present perfect tense
experience (questions, including use
Identifying explicit and implied Mini-autobiography of ever)
Identifying explicit information Using multiple formats
information in an interview *Contrast of past simple
Identifying points of view and present perfect
Story setting and structure
Identifying logical sequence
SKILL OR LANGUAGE FOCUS
UNIT
Listening and Reading Reference Writing Grammatical Vocabulary sets
TOPIC
speaking texts and skills skills genres and skills structures Word formation
SECTION E When Things Go Wrong
13 Making suggestions about a Modern fable (Warm Fuzzies and *Dialogue (getting into trouble Reflexive pronouns Animal similes
picture Cold Pricklies) at home) Present passive tense
Terrible
Describing a bad day Instructions (making a fuzzy, Narrative (a day when things
Tuesday doing a magic trick) went wrong)
Evaluating behaviour in a
dialogue Story (bad day at school) Punctuation of direct speech
Role play: making polite Identifying explicit information (utterances with two sentences)
complaints about a service Evaluating and predicting Story structure
or product Application to own experience
Game
Following instructions (text and
diagrams)
14 Identifying specific facts Multi-format information: poster, Internet News report (Titanic survivor) Past passive tense Travelling by sea
and figures in an interview brochure, tickets, news report, research (the Developing a draft from notes with/without an agent Parts of a ship
Practically map (background to the Titanic) Titanic)
Identifying specific Presentation in newspaper Connector however Crew of a ship
unsink- information in a dialogue Narrative (voyage of the Titanic) format Morse code
able Collating information and Identifying explicit and implied
negotiating a decision information
Making deductions
Collating, sequencing and
interpreting information
15 Group discussion: thinking Quiz (response to fear) Library/internet Guided summary (Muhammad Tense revision: Symptoms of fear
of examples, making Multi-format information: birth research Ali) - present perfect Boxing
Courage suggestions (feeling (African-
certificate, newspaper reports, Identifying relevant points - past simple
frightened) captions, medical notes, Americans)
Excluding direct speech - past continuous
Reading/acting a short play quotations, narrative (Muhammad *Short play (response to fear) - past passive
Ali)
Identifying explicit and implied Comparatives with
information quantity expressions
Transferring information to a
timeline
Predicting, classifying and
evaluating
