Grand Slam 2 - Scope and Sequence
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TITLE |
READING STRATEGY |
GRAMMAR |
VOCABULARY |
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Itīs Your Future |
Using prediction, personal knowledge and skimming to get meaning from a
text |
Simple Present and Present Continuous (review)
Can and canīt
Simple Past and Past Continuous (review)
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Suffixes (-er, -or, -ist) |
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I Have a Feeling |
Identifying pronoun referents |
Present Perfect |
Suffixes (-ment, -ness, -ity) |
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Never Say Canīt |
Understanding biographical articles |
Using the Present Perfect with how long, since and for |
Word maps |
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In the News |
Summarizing news stories |
Past Perfect |
Word groups |
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Review and Consolidation 1 |
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Test Yourself! 1 |
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5 |
Itīs Our Planet |
Distinguishing facts from opinions |
Should, ought to, and had better |
Prefixes (un-, in-, dis- and re-) |
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Digging Up the Past |
Predicting interview questions |
Expressing degrees of certainty with will, should, ought
to, may, might and could |
Prefixes (pre-, eco- and im-) |
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Time 100 |
Using grammar to guess word meanings |
Gerunds and infinitives |
Synonyms and antonyms |
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Money from Music |
Using graphs to understand information in a text |
Expressing cause and effect with so...that and such...that |
Synonyms |
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Review and Consolidation 2 |
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Test Yourself! 2 |
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3š
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9 |
The Soccer King |
Using an outline to understand and summarize a text |
The Passive |
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Multiple Intelligences |
Using graphic elements to scan a text quickly |
Relative Clauses with who, that, which and whose |
Words describing professions |
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A Dream Vacation |
Skimming and scanning review |
Relative Clauses with when and where |
Synonyms |
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Digital Dilemma |
Identifying pros and cons |
First Conditional |
Abbreviations and acronyms |
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Review and Consolidation 3 |
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Test Yourself! 3 |
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13 |
What Would You Do? |
Using inference to understand a text |
Second Conditional |
Common adjective and preposition combinations |
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What Are You Telling Me? |
Inferences (continued) |
Reported Speech |
Using a dictionary to find the correct meaning of a word |
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Now Showing |
Drawing conclusions from texts |
Review of Verb Tenses |
Selecting the correct definition |
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Changes, Changes |
Drawing conclusions from graphs |
Future with will and going to |
Words commonly used to discuss information in graphs and tables |
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Review and Consolidation 4 |
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Test Yourself! 4 |
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Bonus Units |
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Appendix A - Grammar Reference
Appendix B - Sample Questions from Vestibular Exams
Appendix C - Expanded Glossary |
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