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Saving Grace


Saving Grace
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SHORT DESCRIPTION
Based on the film Saving Grace, this pack includes two e-books at Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate level.
Topics
Types of English
TOPICS
PRE-INTERMEDIATE & INTERMEDIATE 

 Cornwall
 Unlikely criminals
 Burials 

 
 
Linguistic Contents
Types of English
LINGUISTIC CONTENTS
PRE-INTERMEDIATE 

 Broadening the range of grammatical forms to convey intended meanings.

 Raising awareness of the importance of linking words and cohesive elements in the development of discourse.

 Providing linguistic resources for a more appropriate use of the language.

 Providing visual and verbal stimuli to bring about communicative interaction.

 Familiarising learners with a variety of accents and with cultural aspects of British society.
 Helping learners select relevant information from the video in order to perform a task.
 Raising learners’ overall listening skills.
 Working towards a more adequate use of vocabulary to convey intended meanings.

 Paving the way for the development of narrative skills.

 Use of cohesive elements for paragraph development. 

 Developing reading comprehension skills.
 Developing paraphrasing skills.
 Developing summarising skills.

 

 


INTERMEDIATE 

Broadening the range of grammatical forms to convey intended meanings. 

 Raising awareness of the importance of linking words and cohesive elements in the development of discourse.
 Providing linguistic resources for a more appropriate use of the language.

 Providing visual and verbal stimuli to bring about communicative interaction.
 Familiarising learners with a variety of accents and with cultural aspects of British society.
 Helping learners select relevant information from the video in order to perform a task.
 Raising learners’ overall listening skills.

 Working towards a more adequate use of vocabulary to convey intended meanings.
 Paving the way for the development of narrative skills.
 Use of cohesive elements for paragraph development. 
 Developing reading comprehension skills.

 Developing summarising skills.

 

  
Lexical Items
Types of English
LEXICAL ITEMS
PRE-INTERMEDIATE 

 Vocabulary on burials (coffin, wake, cremate, body, funeral, ashes, the dead)
 Vocabulary on accidents (jump out of a plane, bang one’s head against sth, have a heart attack)
 Vocabulary on banking and business (bank account, mortgage, loan, investment, bankrupt, overdraft)
 Different words used to refer to Britain (UK, British Isles, Great Britain, Wales, Scotland, England)
 Phrasal verbs (find out, calm down, slow down)
 Adjectives followed by prepositions (worried about, mad at, interested in, good at, crazy about, afraid of, angry with)

 Geographical terms (peninsula, county, cliff, bay, windy, mild, cold, hot, average temperature, mining, cardinal points)

 Expression (to turn a blind eye)

 


INTERMEDIATE
 

 Vocabulary on burials (coffin, wake, cremate, body, funeral, ashes, the dead)
 Vocabulary on accidents (jump out of a plane, bang one’s head against sth, have a heart attack)
 Vocabulary on banking and business (open a bank account, take a mortgage on, ask for a loan, make an investment, go bankrupt, have an overdraft agreement, make a mortgage payment, write a cheque)
 Vocabulary associated with work (fire, sack, lay off, employee, worker, clerk, to take on, to hire, company, firm, compensation, redundancy money)
 Prefixes (uncomfortable, irresponsible, irresistible, irregular, impossible, impatient, immature, illegal)
 Different words used to refer to Britain (UK, British Isles, Great Britain, Wales, Scotland, England)
 Phrasal verbs (find out, run into, look for, call in, deal with, end up, keep out, look after)
 Geographical terms (peninsula, county, cliff, bay, windy, mild, cold, hot, average temperature, mining, cardinal points)
 Expression (to turn a blind eye)

 

 

 
Grammar
Types of English
GRAMMAR
PRE-INTERMEDIATE

 Simple Present (affirmative & negative)
 Simple Past (affirmative, interrogative and negative)
 Linking words “as” (reason)

 Going to Future (affirmative & negative)

 Present Perfect (indefinite past)

 Compound words with ‘some’, ‘any’ and ‘no’
 Would you like + to infinitive
 The use of ‘already’ with the Present Perfect
 Introduction to conditional sentences type II
 The superlative + the present perfect  

 

INTERMEDIATE 

 Linking words “as” (reason)
 Present Perfect (indefinite past)
 Conditional sentences type II

 Present Perfect Progressive
 to be worth
 Look cf. look like, feel cf. feel like, taste cf. taste like
 Conditional sentences type III - variation (would + infinitive)
 Passive Voice in the Present Perfect 
 Advice (If I were you...)

 

Types of English
TYPES OF ENGLISH
 

 Standard British English

• scottish English




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