English For Success 2
Deskripsi
Course ini membantu persiapan pelajar usia 11 – 17 tahun untuk menggunakan Bahasa Inggris di lingkungan sekolah dan mata pelajaran seperti matematika, sains, geografi, dan sejarah.
Course 3-in-1: Course Bahasa Inggris untuk umum, course Bahasa Inggris untuk komunikasi di lingkungan sosial, dan course persiapan untuk sekolah.
Cakupan dan rangkaian hierarkis mendorong pelajar untuk memahami, melatih, dan mempersonalisasi Bahasa Inggris yang diperlukan untuk meraih kefasihan dan kesuksesan jangka panjang. Dalam program kursus ini siswa akan belajar :
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Percakapan (Conversation)
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Kemampuan mendengar (Listening)
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Kosakata (Vocabulary)
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Menulis (Writing)
Devices
Siswa bisa mengakses semua pelajaran melalui handphone, laptop, tablet dan komputer setiap hari.
Assignment
Para siswa bukan hanya dilatih berbicara tetapi siswa akan diajarkan latihan menulis yang akan dikirim melalui aplikasi kami.
Goals
Setelah menyelesaikan kursus ini siswa akan mampu :
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Berbicara dengan penuh percaya diri layaknya native speaker.
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Memiliki listening skill yang bagus.
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Mampu membaca dengan intonation dan pronunciation yang benar.
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Memiliki kemampuan menulis atau dikte.
Courseware
Courseware ini terdiri dari 20 unit.
Tipe pelajaran di setiap unit
- Warm Up (Permulaan) Menyajikan dan memperluas pengetahuan tata bahasa dan kosa kata dalam kehidupan sehari-hari. Topik termasuk musim, cuaca, kendaraan, mendeskripsikan orang dan benda, serta pekerjaan.
- School Life (Kehidupan Sekolah) Fokus pada Bahasa Inggris yang digunakan untuk percakapan sehari-hari dan di lingkungan sekolah. Karakter utama adalah pelajar yang belajar di sebuah sekolah internasional dari berbagai macam latar belakang. Topik yang berkisar seputar sekolah termasuk menu makan siang, letak ruangan, dan jadwal kelas.
- School Subject (Mata Pelajaran) Menyajikan ilustrasi pendek yang membahas berbagai macam subjek, termasuk matematika, sains, geografi, sejarah dunia, dan Bahasa Inggris. Tata bahasa dan kosa kata kunci untuk setiap mata pelajaran dipersembahkan dengan apik, termasuk penjelasan mengenai penggunaan bahasa, pengelompokan, perbandingan, angka, dan bentuk pertanyaan.
- Main Learning Points (Topik Utama Pembelajaran) Bagian The Grammar Focus memberikan latihan tata bahasa dengan pertanyaan pemahaman yang disertai dengan struktur kunci untuk pelajar.
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Unit 5
Key concepts in this unit are means, comparisons, quantities and prices, and giving locations.
1. Warm-Up: Transportation
Students learn to express how people travel, and the use of by to express means. For example, people go to work by train.
2. School Life: Food
A lunch menu is presented along with prices. Goal: students learn to ask about prices. In Dialog 1, a student makes a suggestion and they arrange where to meet for lunch. In Dialog 2, Tina and her friend, Jane, are having lunch together and Tina asks for help on a math problem. Jane suggests that she ask someone else for help.
3. School Subjects: Math 2
This very important lesson has 3 Sections plus a Quiz. The three sections are: Number Types, Comparing Numbers, and Prices. The unit focuses on comparisons, superlatives, and quantitative comparisons that are extremely important, especially for word problems. In the Quiz, students practice answering questions that reinforce the language from all three sections.
4. Main Learning Points
A. Future: be going to
They are going to meet… they are going to have lunch together…Where are they going to meet?
B. Present progressive be + V(ing)
This plane is arriving… they are getting on a bus… It’s carrying many passengers… she’s sitting alone… she’s working on a math problem…
C. Comparative/Superlative
less than, more than, smaller than, the smallest, the biggest, the second smallest, more expensive, costs more than, costs the most, the orange doesn’t cost as much as the pizza, but it costs more than the apple, etc
D. Locations and places of business
There’s a coffee shop on the corner. There is a movie theater across the street from the library. The police station is on the west side of 2nd Street, one block south of the library. The subway entrance is across the street…
E. Making a suggestion/Asking for help
“Let’s have lunch together, okay?” “Can you help me?” “Why don’t you ask her?”
F. Adjectives
expensive, inexpensive, cheap, long, fast, big, important, difficult, large, safe, negative, positive, equal, unequal, even, odd, same, etc.
G. Frequency
always, often, usually, sometimes, on some days she has a slice of pizza… on other days she has noodles…
H. can & can’t
They can give you directions. Many people can travel on a bus. Large airplanes can carry hundreds of passengers.
I. Means: take, by, way+ infinitive
Many people take a bus to school. Some people like to travel by train. Taxis are an expensive way to travel.
J. there (existential)
there are many types of trains… there is a coffee shop on the corner
K. Countable/Uncountable quantities
How much does it cost? How many are there? These numbers are even. There are many types of trains. She has a slice of pizza. How much does she spend?
L. Wh-questions
Are any of these numbers negative numbers? What is across the street from the library? What is east of the park? Where can you catch a bus? What kind of math problem is she working on? Which is the larger number? How much more is seven than five? How many of these numbers are negative numbers?
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Unit 6
Key concepts in this unit are the future with going to, the modal will, and simple conditionals.
1. Warm-Up: Activities
This lesson focuses on common activities in and around school, along with the reason or purpose for doing each action, such as studying for a history test.
2. School Life: Schedule
Tina’s weekly schedule is presented, with the times, frequency and days of activities. The dialogs focus on arranging a time to work together, and a telephone call where Tina helps Jane with a math problem. Goals: to be able to present and answer questions about one’s own weekly schedule, and to be able to handle a simple telephone call.
3. School Subjects: Science 2
This lesson has three Sections plus a Quiz. The three sections are: Force & Motion, Gravity, and Atoms. The focus is on simple dependency, causal relations, prediction, and conditionals such as: If you drop them they will fall. The lesson also introduces basic vocabulary that is essential for general science classes. In the Quiz, students practice answering questions that reinforce the language from all three sections.
4. Main Learning Points
A. Future
They are going to read it to the class… She is going shopping tomorrow…They are going to work together tonight. They’re going to meet on Thursday. Maybe we can work together tonight. She’ll be right here.
B. Present progressive be+V(ing)
They are reading… they are studying… they are sitting… they are writing… one boy is using a pencil… the other boy is watching him… they are doing an experiment… they are being very careful…they are practicing. I’m doing my math problems right now.
C. Certainty: will
Without a force, an object’s speed will stay the same. It will never slow down. They will fall at the same speed. She’ll be right here.
D. Conditional
If you move them closer, the force gets stronger. If you drop them, they will fall at the same speed. If something has a very large mass, it can become a black hole.
E. Manner & Ability
She can dance very well…is a good dancer. Most people know how to play volleyball. This person can play the violin very well. Science can be dangerous. They are being very careful. He can cook almost any type of food. She’s good at drawing.
F. enjoy + gerund
They enjoy watching movies. He enjoys reading books. She enjoys working as an artist. Some people enjoy playing music.
G. Cause/Effect: depend on
the force depends on distance… it depends on mass…
H. Telephone Expressions
“May I speak to Tina please?” “May I ask who is calling?” “Just a minute. She’ll be right here.”
I. Making a Suggestion
“Let’s do our homework together.” “How about tomorrow?” “Maybe on Thursday, okay?”
J. Schedule: Days of the Week
On Tuesday afternoons they have a music lesson. On Saturdays she has a judo class. She has a music lesson once a week. Twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays, she goes swimming.
K. Yes/No and Wh-questions
Who can dance well? Who knows how to play the violin? What is the opposite of fast? What happens if you drop them? Why does the Moon move in a circle? Why do objects fall to Earth? What changes the speed of an object? Without a force, what will happen to an object? What is one type of force?
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Unit 7
Key points introduced in this unit include the past tense, present perfect and passive forms of the verb.
1. Warm-Up: Seasons
This uses the seasons to develop the language of change, the superlative, the use of get+adjective, and other general vocabulary.
2. School Life
The dialogs introduce and contrast the past tense and present perfect. Tina’s friend, Melanie, has left her lunch and money at home, so Tina offers to loan her some money. Similarly, Alex’s friend, Nick, needs more money for lunch. Alex loans him a dollar and Nick promises to pay him back. The Grammar Focus section provides additional language related to the past tense and present perfect.
3. School Subjects: Geography 2
This lesson has 3 Sections plus a Quiz. The three sections are: Planet Earth, Land & Water, and Latitude & Longitude. Students are exposed to that clauses and the passive. Goal: to help develop receptive listening comprehension of more complex sentences. The lesson also extends and reinforces vocabulary from previous units, such as equator, radius, diameter, gases and continents, etc. In the Quiz, students practice answering questions that reinforce the language from all three sections.
4. Main Learning Points
A. Past tense
I left my lunch…She left her lunch at home. She offered to loan her some money… She borrowed two dollars.
B. Present perfect, have+V(n)
She has offered to loan some money to… She hasn’t bought anything because she left her money at home.
C. Future
She’s going to buy some pizza. He’s going to pay him back… “I’ll pay you back tomorrow, okay?”
D. Infinitives
not enough to buy lunch, a good time to walk, go outside to look at the Moon… offer to loan money…best time to go skiing…best time to go to the beach
E. get + adjective
It gets cooler in autumn …rivers slowly get bigger…
F. Expressing Change and Degree
In spring the weather changes from cold to warm. It gets warmer. In autumn, the trees begin to lose their leaves. It isn’t too hot. It’s the coldest time of the year. He doesn’t have enough to buy lunch.
G. Passives
Mountains are formed by forces…Most of the Earth’s surface is covered by water. The atmosphere is made up of…
H. that clauses
the only continent that contains just one country… the air that we breathe… water that flows
I. could, would
Without an atmosphere, we could not live… the sky would always be black
J. Direct/Indirect Object
Alex loaned him a dollar. He’ll pay him back. She offered to loan her some money.
K. Requesting & Offering Help
“Can I borrow a dollar? I don’t have enough to buy lunch.” “Sure. Is a dollar enough?” “How about some pizza?”
L. Wh-questions (past, present& future)
What did she leave at home? Why does Nick need to borrow a dollar? When is Nick going to pay him back? What is the world’s highest mountain? Which continent contains just one country?
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Unit 8
Key points in this unit are common time clauses, degrees of certainty, and preferences.
1. Warm-Up: Times of Day
The four pictures focus on what people do at different times of the day. Time clauses are used to indicate when something is going to happen.
2. School Life
Nick and Alex are at lunch and they are talking about what they are going to do tonight. Nick is tired of doing homework, so he may watch a movie. When Nick decides to get another hamburger, Alex asks him to get one for him too. In the second dialog, Tiara asks Tina to help plan the winter dance. Tina agrees to come to a meeting to find out more. There is also a Grammar Focus section.
3. School Subjects: English 2
This lesson has 3 Sections plus a Quiz. The sections are: Adjectives & Adverbs, Prepositions, and Conjunctions. It follows up English 1 from Unit 4.The focus is on how to talk about and classify words within a sentence. In the Quiz, students practice answering questions and identifying the part of speech of specific words.
4. Main Learning Points
A. Time clauses
After she turns off her alarm clock… because the Sun comes up… when most people come home from work… before the word it describes…before they order… after they get home…when they are ready to order
B. Future
After she turns off her alarm clock, she’s going to get up. He may watch a movie…maybe he’ll watch a movie… There’s going to be a test…I’ll go get one. in about four minutes…after school tomorrow…You can find out about it then…I’ll see you there.
C. Modals: will (Certainty), may (Possibility)
He may watch a movie…I’ll do okay. Maybe I’ll watch a movie…
D. Likes & Preferences
The man prefers pasta to salad. The woman loves fresh vegetables. She would rather have fish than beef or chicken. She prefers seafood to meat. Her favorite drink is milk. This is their favorite time of day.
E. Requests: can, could
“Could you get one for me too? Can you help us plan the winter dance?”
F. Direct/Indirect Object
He’s going to get him another hamburger. “Could you get one for me?”They give their order to the waiter.
G. Information & Wh-questions
What are they going to do when they get home? Which does the woman prefer? What do they do before they order? Are there any prepositions in this sentence? How many adverbs are in this sentence? Why are these words adjectives and not adverbs? Which two of these words are adjectives? What type of word describes a noun or pronoun