Upper-Intermediate 4 Overview

Upper-Intermediate 4 Goals

These are the main goals of this level:

Grammar: Suffixes & Prefixes of Words
Speaking: Expanding on sentence complexity
Writing: Writing Biographical Essays
Reading: Reading for Story Structure, Making Inferences, Analyzing and Comparing Texts
Vocabulary & Spelling

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Upper-Intermediate 4 Tips

1. Units are themed. Each Unit includes both a literary passage and an informational passage related to the theme of the unit.

2. Writing Biographical Essays: one focus in Upper-Intermediate 4 is on writing solid biographical essays. Once students have finished this level, they should have a clear grasp on how to structure and write a 5-part biographical essay.

3. Each unit was designed for 4 weeks with about 3 hours of class time a week. If you have your students for less than 3 hours a week, you may want to consider taking more time for a unit. 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.

Tenses Anchor Chart

4. Students In Need of More Basic Grammar Help: For tenses, you can grab the Tenses Anchor Chart to help students remember what's needed for the 6 basic tenses. Also helpful: Irregular Verbs Chart, grammar lessons from Beginners 4 ~ Intermediate 2.

Phonics Anchor Chart

5. Weak Readers: If your students need to work on reading to decode and phonics at this level, you can grab the Phonics Anchor Chart to review the major phonics combinations. Students can start identifying those combinations in the texts they read by underlining or highlighting words that follow the rules you want them to practice. Also helpful: Fluency Readers

Upper-Intermediate 4 Lesson Planning