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Congratulations and Welcome to American English’s English
as a Second Language (ESL) self-study course.
This course is designed to teach English to adult
learners who wish to study independently or with an
English-speaking friend. The course has been designed to meet the
needs of learners at the low beginning to high intermediate
level. The series consists of eight levels. The first level is
intended for beginners or "false beginners". The second level as
well as the third level are designed for high beginners while the
fourth and fifth levels are intended for students at low
intermediate level. The last three levels of the series are
written for high intermediate students.The course has been
created by experienced teachers and is based upon proven
classroom strategies and techniques. The language orientation of
the program is toward International English and is designed to
prepare students to use the language in a variety of situations
and circumstances. Some units feature English speakers with
different accents, both regional and global.
Unit
Description: Greetings. Common Questions.
Numbers.
Unit Description: The verb to be: Affirmative,
negative, contractions, interrogatives, and short
answers.
Unit Description: Demonstrative pronouns: This, that,
these, those.
Unit Description: Possessive adjectives.
Unit Description: Telling time. Days of the week.
Calendar. Countries and nationalities.
Unit Description: Seasons and months of the year. Ordinal
numbers.
Unit Description: The modal verb can: Affirmative,
negative, contractions, interrogatives, and short
answers.
Unit Description: Prepositions of place: on, at, in, under,
over, behind, next to, in front of, beside, near, between.
Unit Description: Articles a and an,
singular and plural nouns.
Unit Description: General review of units 1-10.
Unit Description: There is and there are,
any and some.
Unit Description: The Present Continuous with "to
be" + ing.
Unit Description: Imperatives.
Unit Description: Count and non-count nouns, how
much and how many.
Unit Description: Describe regular and habitual actions.
Simple Present tense. Adverbs of frequency.
Unit Description: Future Tense using going
to.
Unit Description: Possessive nouns with whose, mine,
yours, his, and hers. Object pronouns with belongs
to.
Unit Description: “Relaxed” pronunciation in everyday
speech.
Unit Description: Contrast between Present Simple and the
Present Continuous.
Unit Description: General Review: Book 1 and 2 Units
1-10.
Unit Description: Make a suggestion. Reading classified
ads. Review of Simple Present tense and Present Continuous. Let’s
and let me.
Unit Description: Asking for and giving directions about
external obligations. Use of "May"
Unit Description: Make a doctor’s appointment. Use of
"May"
Unit Description: Visit to the doctor’s office. Two
word verbs.
Unit Description: Asking question for which the answer is
anticipated/tag questions.
Unit Description: Discussing obligations. Have
to
Unit Description: Describing health problems. Showing
concern. Requesting something.
Unit Description: Considering, planning, and thinking
things over. Gerunds.
Unit Description: Calling for help after a car
accident.
Unit Description: Overview of units 1-9.
Unit Description: Listening to a football game, following
events, making conclusions, and asking for a raise.
Adverbs
Unit Description: Ask about locations, and identify where
an object was. There was and there were.
Unit Description: Describing past actions, giving
compliments. Simple Past tense (irregular
verbs).
Unit Description: Describing an accident. Past
Continuous tense.
Unit Description: Describing what one was doing when some
thing else happened. Contrast Simple Past and the Past
Continuous.
Unit Description: Describing an intention from the past.
Was going to
Unit Description: Dinner party small talk. Past
Continuous and Reflexive Pronouns.
Unit Description: Asking for and giving advice.
Should.
Unit Description: Discussing past obligations. Have
to, and had to.
Unit Description: Discussing past ability. Can and
was able to.
Unit Description: Considering one’s options. Could,
should,might, and may.
Unit Description: Discussing future plans. Making an
appointment. Simple Future tense.
Unit Description: Describing satisfaction. Talking about
up coming events. Giving information. Future
tense with going to.
Unit description: Talking about advantages and
disadvantages. Comparative adjectives.
Unit Description: Giving information. Describing how an
action takes place.Comparison of adverbs.
Unit description: Past tense of regular and irregular
verbs. Comparison of adverbs.<//em>
Unit Description: Use of the simple present tense and the
present continuous tense to describe future actions
Unit Description: How to enroll in a course. Talking
about future plans. Verb + infinitive.
Unit Description: Exchanging gifts. Planning sight
seeing. Can and will be able to.
Unit Description: Preparing food, having guests over, and
obligations. Must, have to, had to, didn’t have to, and must
not.
Unit description: Giving and receiving information.
Discussing past actions with present results. Present perfect
with already and yet.
Unit description: Meeting old friends and talking about
the old times. Present Perfect with since and
for.
Unit Description: Present perfect and simple past
tense.
Unit Description: The Present Perfect Continuous
tense.
Unit Description: Inviting a friend/shopping/giving and
receiving advise. Superlatives.
Unit Description: Going to the mechanic’s. Four parts
of a verb.
Unit Description: Describing health problems, showing
concerns, giving advice. Had better.
Unit Description: Describing places, talking about
activities, talking about family relationships. Past
Perfect.
Unit Description: Explaining medical conditions,
following doctor’s orders, describing your feelings. Past
Perfect Continuous.
Overview of Books 5 and 6
Unit Description: Apologizing for being late. Saying
goodbye. Perfect Modals.
Unit Description: Invitations and discussing future
planning. Future Progressive.
Unit Description: Discussing a grammar point. The
Future Perfect.
Unit Description: Talking about desires. Verb forms
following WISH.
Unit Description: Expressing conditions using if
clauses. The first type of conditional
sentence.
Unit Description: Expressing conditions with if
clauses using simple past tense. The second type of
conditional sentence.
Unit Description: Expressing conditions with if
using past perfect tense. The third type of conditional
sentence.
Unit Description: Discussing what has been done by
someone else. Passive voice.
Unit Description: Discussing things that were done by
other people or events. A news report. Passive
voice.
Unit Description: Reporting what someone else said.
Reported speech.
Unit Description: Reported Speech.
Unit Description: Have something done by someone else.
Causative use of "have".
Unit Description: Express a past situation or habit that
no longer exists in the present. Used to.
Unit Description: Express a past situation or habit that
no longer exists in the present. Used to.
Unit Description: Invitation to dinner. Buying an elegant
dress. Comparative and superlative forms of adjectives and
adverbs.
Unit Description: Buying an engagement ring. Booking a
dinner reservation. Tag questions
reviewed.
Unit description: Ordering from a menu. Making a
proposal. Review of the Present
Tenses.
Unit description: Relating information. Review of the
Past tenses.
Unit Description: Congratulating someone on his or her
success. Review of the Perfect Tenses.
Unit description: Review of Book 7 and 8. The last twenty
units.
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We
are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each
blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands
of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He
must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old
age.
