Level Overview
This interactive Level Overview PDF Pack includes:
- Level Outline & Objectives
- Links to Units & Lessons
- Related Resources
Low-Intermediate 2 Overview
Low-Intermediate 2 Goals
These are the main goals of Low-Intermediate 2. You can download the Low-Intermediate 2 Paths to Fluency Tracker to help track students' progress towards these goals.
Low-Intermediate 2 Tips
1. Each unit at this level was designed for 1 week with about 3 hours of class time per week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider doing a unit every two weeks. If students are picking up the material quickly and easily, you can try picking up the pace so that you make quicker progress through the level. Just remember the goal is fluency with the content. Learning the material well is better than getting through quickly and forgetting everything.
2. Review of Beginners 4 and Low-Intermediate 1: The first unit is review from Beginners 4 and Low-Intermediate 1. If you find that students are struggling a bit with be-verbs (Beginners 4) or present simple or present continuous (Low-Intermediate 1), you can head back to the Beginners 4 and Low-Intermediate 1 materials and print off what you need to spend some more time reviewing before moving on with the Low-Intermediate 2 materials.
3. Various Grammar: Unit 2 covers object pronouns, units 3-4 cover future tense (going to), units 5-7 cover count and non-count nouns, units 9-13 cover past simple tense and units 14-15 review all four basic tenses the students will have learned at that point. There is a variety of grammar in this level. The past simple irregular verbs are probably the most difficult followed by the ins and outs of count and non-count nouns.
4. Weak Readers: If your students need to work on reading and phonics, you will want to bring in some practice sheets from Beginners 1-3. Look for the word lists and reading passages for the phonics your students need work on.
Look for These Pages in Beginners 1-3
5. Literature, Science and Social Studies: You will start seeing units on literature, science and social studies in this level. These units use the present simple and past simple tenses so they pair well with what they are learning in this level. They are also aligned to elementary common core standards. They are not required to progress through the curriculum but they are wonderfully helpful for students' general education classes, vocabulary and content knowledge.
6. If your students are older (Grades 5-12), they can handle (and probably require) a quicker pace. Just make sure you are checking in regularly that students are hitting the main goals. Better to skip some units and spend more time on the ones you teach than try to do them all and have the students forget everything.
Low-Intermediate 2 Lesson Planning
Low-Intermediate 2 Overview
- Unit 1: Vocabulary Review, Present Simple and Present Continuous Review, Be-Verbs Review
- Unit 2: Beach Vocabulary, Object Pronouns
- Unit 3: Furniture, Future Tense Intro (Going to)
- Unit 4: At the Ocean, Future Tense: Yes/No Questions
- Unit 5: Pets, Some vs. Any
- Unit 6: Barbecue, Count & Non-Count Nouns
- Unit 7: Food, Count & Non-Count Nouns (cont), How much...
- Unit 8: Places, Past Simple Tense: Be-Verbs
- Unit 9: Verbs, Past Simple: Verb + ed
- Unit 10: Cowboys & Indians, Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
- Unit 11: Detectives and Clues, Past Simple: Irregular Verbs and Negatives
- Unit 12: Beards & Sunglasses, Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
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