My Oxford English. Module 3B Contents and Objectives OBJECTIVES. Generalitat de Catalunya Departament d Ensenyament Institut Obert de Catalunya

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1 My Oxford English Module 3B Contents and Objectives OBJECTIVES In Module 3B of My Oxford English students will learn to give specific information during an interview or medical examination, explain the cause of a problem, summarize and give their opinion on a text, talk, debate, interview, or documentary, and to answer questions which require specific detail. They will learn, among other things, to use the passive voice ( The criminal was arrested ) and the past perfect ( I d finished when they got here ), reported speech ( She told me she d passed ), and to express permission, obligation, and prohibition with modals verbs ( You may use my phone ). They will also learn vocabulary related to food, lifestyle, phrasal verbs, work history and many other topics. 1/5

2 CONTENTS No UNIT OBJECTIVES FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR VOCABULARY To be able to use question tags to check information Expressions to 1 Outside and ask for confirm information, Meat Question tags Catering information; to learn express certainty, Fish and seafood vocabulary related to and calm someone meat, fish, and seafood. 2 3 Footballers' Wives 4 Dodgy Workmen To be able to describe a house using appropriate vocabulary; to consolidate comparatives and superlatives; to learn to make comparisons using the structure: (not) as + adjective / adverb + as. To be able to write a formal letter of complaint. To be able to have a conversation about services; to revise the present and past Expressions to describe a house (yours or someone else s) Formal written communication about services and to make a complaint Consolidation of comparatives and superlatives (not) as + adjective / adverb + as A formal letter of complaint Passive voice to have something done Lifestyle Rooms in a house Opening and closing of a letter Jobs (services) Separable phrasal verbs 2/5

3 5 A Country Walk 6 simple passive voice and learn some other passive forms; to use the structure to have something done; to learn some phrasal verbs. To consolidate modal verbs and passive verbs talking about rules; to acquire vocabulary related to the countryside and insects. To be able to talk about dangers; to use in addition, furthermore, too, also, and as well to add extra information. 7 Connections To be able to talk about the media; to learn vocabulary related to famous people and newspapers; to consolidate defining about rules dangers about forms of communication Permission and obligation (modal and passive verbs) Adding information Defining relative clauses The countryside Insects Safety in the home Famous people Newspapers 3/5

4 8 Forgery 9 10 The Go-Between relatives clauses with who, which, and that and to learn relative clauses with whose, where, when, and why. To learn how to use the past perfect; to learn compound adjectives with numbers and some colloquial expressions. To be able to write a news article in a formal and serious way. To learn lexis used when having arguments and apologizing; to learn vocabulary for health and beauty products; to use suffixes to make new words; to learn the use of modal verbs in reported speech. about what you did yesterday criminal situations Expressions to argue and express anger Expressions to apologize Past perfect Styles of writing in newspapers Consolidation of reported speech Reported speech (modal verbs) Compound adjectives with numbers Colloquial English Police Health and beauty products Nouns with suffixes 4/5

5 11 Job Interview 12 To be able to have a job interview using appropriate vocabulary; to consolidate reported commands and requests; to learn reported questions. To be able to contrast ideas using linking words nevertheless, whereas, despite, and in spite of. Customary questions and answers in work interviews differences Reported questions Reported commands and requests Contrasting ideas with linking words CV vocabulary Nouns with suffixes to describe people Comparatives 5/5