Starting Out
* To make introductions
* To use social language
* To fill out a form with personal information
Unit 1 When Is Your Birthday? * To use ordinal numbers
* To identify the months of the year
* To identify holidays in the United States
* To talk about holidays
Unit 2 The Carrots Look Delicious! * To identify foods
* To name quantities of food
* To discuss what's on a shopping list
Unit 3 What Do You Have to Do Today? * To identify times of day
* To identify daily routines
* To express sequence
* To express obligation
* To talk about daily routines
REVIEW (UNITS 1-3)
Unit 4 What Do You Want to Buy? * To identify items one can buy
* To identify places in a neighborhood
* To express wants or needs
* To talk about shopping
Unit 5 It's an Emergency! * To identify types of emergencies
* To use two-word verbs
* To talk about what happened
* To understand an emergency phone call
Unit 6 Did You Study for the Test? * To identify school activities
* To talk about school activities
REVIEW (UNITS 4-6)
Unit 7 What Do You Look Like ?
* To understand personal characteristics
* To understand descriptions of people
* To talk about physical appearances
* To describe oneself
Unit 8 How Was Your Vacation? * To understand vacation activities
* To identify locations in North America
* To name different forms of transportation
* To understand a travel schedule
* To talk about vacations
Unit 9 What's the Weather Like? * To use weather terms
* To understand temperatures
* To identify the seasons of the year
* To understand weather forecasts
* To talk about what one is going to do
REVIEW (UNITS 7-9)
Unit 10 What's on TV? * To identify kinds of TV shows
* To identify people on TV
* To understand a TV guide
* To understand commercials
* To talk about favorite TV shows
Unit 11 Who Won the Game? * To understand sports scores
* To express opinions about activities
* To understand preferences for activities
* To talk about one's favorite sport
Unit 12 What's New? * To identify the parts of a newspaper
* To identify people who work on a newspaper
* To identify special newspaper columns: movie review and advice column
* To understand news reports
* To talk about newspaper articles
REVIEW (UNITS 10-12)
International Phonetic Alphabet
Unit Vocabulary