Courses Offered:

Sentence Corrections Practice / Grammar

The better your writing skills are, the better the impression you'll make on the people around you. This course allows the students to test their writing skills by helping them construct from simple to complicated sentences.

Goals

1. Learn essential elements of the sentence (i.e., parts of speech).
2. Recognize and use simple tenses in affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.
3. Introduce simple and compound sentences in affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.
4. Write descriptive sentences.
5. Learn how to use a bilingual dictionary.

Objectives

1. Develop proficiency with parts of speech (e.g. nouns and pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, and prepositions).
2. Make accurate subject-verb agreement.
3. Understand how to inform imperatives.
4. Use be verb + adjective combinations.
5. Use correct spelling, end punctuation (period, question mark, comma, exclamation point and capitalization.
6. Construct simple sentences using correct sentence order (SVO).
7. Construct compound sentences using simple conjunctions (e.g. and, so, but, or).
8. Use correct question formation using Be-verbs and WH questions.
9. Write descriptive and narrative sentences.
10. Write likes and dislikes regarding food and clothing.

Learning Materials per Level

Junior
» Beginner: Side by Side 1
» Intermediate: Side by Side 2
» Advanced: Side by Side 3

Senior
» Beginner: Side by Side 4
» Intermediate: Essential Grammar in Use
» Advanced: Essential Grammar in Use

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Curriculum Offered:

Junior Beginner

Side By Side 1
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Month 1

Week
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4
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1		 Lesson 1- To Be: Introduction Lesson 3- Present Continuous Tense Lesson 5- To Be: Yes/ No Questions/ Short Answers/ Adjectives/Possessive Nouns Lesson 7- Prepositions/ There is/ There are/ Singular/ Plural: introduction
Day
2		 Lesson 1- Lesson 3 Lesson 5 Lesson 7
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3		 Lesson 2- To Be + Location/ Subject Pronouns Lesson 3 Lesson 5 Lesson 7
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4		 Lesson 2 Lesson 4 : Lesson 6- To Be: Review/Present Continuous tense: Review/Prepositions of Location Lesson 7
Day
5		 Lesson 2 Lesson 4 Lesson 6 Prepositions

Month 2

Week
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3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 8- Singular/Plural/ Adjectives/ This/ That/ These/ Those Lesson 9 Lesson 11 Lesson 13
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2		 Lesson 8 Lesson 10- Simple Present tense: Yes/No Questions/ Negatives/ Short Answers lesson 12 Contrast: Simple Present and Present Continuous Tense/ Adjectives Lesson 13
Day
3		 Lesson 8 Lesson 10 Lesson 12 Lesson 14- Future: Going to/ Time Expressions/ Want to
Day
4		 Lesson 8 : Lesson 10 Lesson 12 Lesson 14
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5		 Lesson 9- Simple Present Tense Lesson 11- Object Pronouns/ Simple Present Tense –s vs. –non-s Endings/ Have/ Has/ Adverbs of  Frequency : Lesson 13- Can/ Have to Lesson 14

Month 3

Week
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2		 Week
3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 14 Lesson 16 A or An Prepositions
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2		 Lesson 15- Pat tense: Regular Verbs/ Introduction to Irregular Verbs Lesson 16 A, An, The or Nothing Questions and answers
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3		 Lesson 15 Lesson 17 To Be: Past tense In, At or On Present Simple Negative Verbs
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4		 Lesson 15 Lesson 17 Getting Acquainted Dialog Present Simple Verbs
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5		 Lesson 16- Past tense: yes/No Questions/Short Answers/ Time Expressions/ WH-Questions/ More Irregular Verbs Lesson 17 Wh Questions Grammar Focus
Junior Intermediate

Side By Side 2
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Month 1

Week
1		 Week
2		 Week
3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 1- Review of Tenses: Simple Present/ Present Continuous/ Simple Past/ Future: Going to/ Like to/ Time Expressions/ Indirect Object Pronouns Lesson 3: Partitives/Count/ Non-Count Nouns/ Imperatives Lesson 4 Lesson 6
Day
2		 : Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 5- Comparatives/ Should/ Possessive Pronouns Lesson 6
Day
3		 Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 5 Lesson 7- Imperatives/ Directions
Day
4		 Lesson 2- Count/ Non-Count Nouns Lesson 4- Future Tense: Will/ Time Expressions/ Might Lesson Lesson 7
Day
5		 Lesson 2 Lesson 4 Lesson 6- Superlatives Lesson 7

Month 2

Week
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1		 Lesson 8- Adverbs/ Comparative of Adverbs/ Agent Nouns/ If-Clauses Lesson 9 Lesson 11 Lesson 13- Some/ Any/ Pronoun Review/ Verb Tense Review
Day
2		 Lesson 8 Lesson 10- Could/ Be Able to/ Have Got to/ Too+ Adjective Lesson 11 Lesson 13
Day
3		 Lesson 8 Lesson 10 Lesson 12- Future Continuous Tense/ Time Expressions Lesson 13
Day
4		 Lesson 9- Past Continuous Tense/ Reflexive Pronouns/ While-Clauses Lesson 10 Lesson 12 Lesson  13
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5		 Lesson 9 Lesson 11- Past Tense Review/ Count/Non-Count Review/ Must/ Mustn’t vs. Don’t Have to/ Must vs. Should Lesson 12  

Month 3

Week
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2		 Week
3		 Week
4
Day
1		 34 Easy Questions Sentence Combining Use the Correct Present Tense Verb (is-are-has) Valentine’s Day Quiz
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2		 A, An, The or Nothing Tag Questions: Have you? Are you? Do you? Go, Goes, Going, Went or Gone Verb Choice
Day
3		 Famous People: A Quiz on Articles Grammar Focus How to See America: A Verb-Form exercise What is the correct form of the verb?
Day
4		 Conjunctions Tag Questions- With Assorted Verbs Olympics: Verb Form Quiz Adjective Order
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5		 Plurals Simple Past or Past Continuous- A Dialog The Olympic Games: Verb Form Quiz Adjective or Adverb
Junior Advance

Side By Side 3
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Month 1

Week
1		 Week
2		 Week
3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 1- Review: Simple Present Tense/ Present Continuous Tense/ Subject and Object Pronouns/ Possessive Adjectives/ Time Expressions Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 5- Present Perfect vs. Present Tense/ Present Perfect vs. Past tense/ Since/ For
Day
2		 Lesson 1 Lesson  3- Review: Future: Going to/Future: Will/ Future Continuous Tense/ Time Expressions/ Possessive Pronouns Lesson 4- Present Perfect Tense Lesson 5
Day
3		 Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5
Day
4		 Lesson 2: Review: Simple Past Tense (Regular and Irregular Verbs)/ Past Continuous Tense Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5
Day
5		 Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4 Lesson 5

Month 2

Week
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3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 6- Present Perfect Continuous Tense Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9
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2		 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9
Day
3		 Lesson 6 Lesson 8- Past Perfect Tense/ Past Perfect Continuous tense Lesson 8 Lesson 9
Day
4		 Lesson 7- Gerunds/ Infinitives/ Review: present Perfect and present perfect Continuous Tense Lesson 8 Lesson 9- Two-Word Verbs: Separable/ Inseparable Lesson 10- Connectors/ And… Too/ So, But , Neither
Day
5		 Lesson 7 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10

Month 3

Week
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2		 Week
3		 Week
4
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1		 Lesson 10 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 An Invitation
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2		 Lesson 10 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Subject/ Verb Agreement
Day
3		 Lesson 10 Lesson 2- Perfect Modals: Should Have/ Might Have/ Could Have/ Must Have Articles: Health Clubs Tag Questions: Has he? Hasn’t he? Had he?
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4		 Side by Side 4  Lesson 1- Review: Present Perfect tense/ Present Perfect Continuous Tense/ Past Perfect tense/ Past Perfect Continuous tense Lesson 2 Assorted Questions Adjective or Adverb
Day
5		 Lesson 1 Lesson 2 Connectives various Questions
Senior Beginner

Side By Side 4
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Month 1

Week
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2		 Week
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4
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1		 Lesson 1- Review: Present Perfect tense/ Present Perfect Continuous Tense/ Past Perfect tense/ Past Perfect Continuous tense Lesson 2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4- Embedded Questions
Day
2		 Lesson 1 Lesson  2 Lesson 3 Lesson 4
Day
3		 Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 3 Lesson 4
Day
4		 Lesson 1 Lesson 3 Lesson 3 Lesson 4
Day
5		 Lesson 2- Perfect Modals: Should Have/ Might Have/ Could Have/ Must Have Lesson 3- Passive Voice/ Relative Pronouns Lesson 3 Lesson 4

Month 2

Week
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1		 Lesson 5- Conditional: Present Real (if ____ will)/ Present Unreal (if ___ would)/ Hope Clauses Lesson 5 Lesson 7- Past Unreal Conditional (if ___ would have)/ Wish-Clauses (continued) Lesson 7
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2		 Lesson 5 : Lesson 6- Present Unreal Conditional (continued)/ Wish-Clauses Lesson 7 Lesson 8- Reported Speech/ Sequence of Tenses
Day
3		 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8
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4		 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8
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5		 Lesson 5 Lesson 6 Lesson 7 Lesson 8

Month 3

Week
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2		 Week
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4
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1		 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Various Questions
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2		 Lesson 8 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Fall, Feel or Fill
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3		 Lesson 9-Tag Questions/ Emphatic Sentences Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Adverbs or Adjectives
Day
4		 Lesson 9 Lesson 10- Review: Verb Tenses/ Conditionals/ Gerunds A Bunch of Questions Was or Were
Day
5		 Lesson 9 Lesson 10 Assorted Grammar Quiz Active or Passive Voice
Senior Intermediate

Essential Grammar in Use
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Month 1

Week
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4
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1		 Unit 1- am/is/are Unit 6- I don’t… (present simple negative) Unit 11- worked/ got/went etc. (past simple) Unit 16- I’ve just … I’ve already… I haven’t … yet (present perfect 2)
Day
2		 Unit 2- am/is/are (questions) Unit 7- Do you … ? (present simple questions) Unit 12- I didn’t … Did you … ? (past simple negative and questions) Unit 17 - Have you ever… ? (present perfect 3)
Day
3		 Unit 3- I am doing (present continuous) Unit 8- I am doing and I do (present continuous and present simple) Unit 13- I was doing (past continuous) Unit 18- How long have you… ? (present perfect 4)
Day
4		 Unit 4- Are you doing? (present continuous questions) Unit 9- I have …/ I’ve got… Unit 14- I was doing (past continuous) and I did ( past simple) Unit 19- for/since/ago
Day
5		 Unit 5- I do/work/live etc. (present simple) Unit 10- was/were Unit 15- I have done ( present perfect 1) Unit 20- I have done (present perfect) and I did (past simple)

Month 2

Week
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4
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1		 Lesson 21- is done/ was done (passive1) Unit 26- What are you doing tomorrow? Unit 31-can and could Unit 36- there is/ there are
Day
2		 Lesson 22- is being done/ has been done (passive 2) Unit 27- I’m going to… Unit 32- must/mustn’t/needn’t Unit 37- there was/ were, there has/have been, there will be
Day
3		 Lesson 23- be/have/do in present and past tenses Unit 28- will/shall (1) Unit 33- should Unit 38- It…
Day
4		 Unit 24- Regular and Irregular  Verbs Unit 29- will/shall (2) Unit 34- I have to… Unit 39- I am/ I don’t etc
Day
5		 Unit 25- I used to… Unit 30- might Unit 35- Would you like… ?/ I’d like… Unit 40- Have you? / Are you?/ Don’t You, etc.

Month 3

Week
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1		 Unit 41- too/either, so am I/ neither do I etc. Lesson 46- What…?/ Which…?/ How…? Lesson 51- to… (I want to do) and –ing (I enjoy doing) Lesson 56- do and make
Day
2		 Unit 42- isn’t/ haven’t/ don’t etc (negatives) Lesson 47- How long does it take…? Lesson 52- I want you to…/ I told you to… Lesson 57- have
Day
3		 Unit 43- is it… ? / Have you… ? / do they…? Etc (questions 1) Lesson 48- Do you know where…?/ I don’t know what… etc. Lesson 53- I went to the shop to… Lesson 58- I/me, he/him, they/them etc
Day
4		 Unit 44- Who saw you?/ Who did you see? Lesson 49- She said that…/ He told me that… Lesson 54- go to…/ go on…/ go for…/ go –ing Lesson 59- my/ his/ their etc
Day
5		 Unit 45- Who is she talking to?/ What is it like? Lesson 50- work/ working, go/going, do/doing Lesson 55- get Lesson 60- Whose is this?/ It’s mine/yours/hers etc
Senior Advance

Essential Grammar in Use
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Month 1

Week
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1		 Lesson 61- I/me/my/mine Lesson 66-a car/ some money (countable/ uncountable 1) Lesson 71- I like music/ I hate exams Lesson 76- not + any/ no/ none
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2		 Lesson 62- myself/yourself/themselves etc Lesson 67- a car/ some money (countable/ uncountable 2) Lesson 72- the… (names of places) Lesson 77- not+ anybody/ anyone/ anything/ nobody/ no one/ nothing
Day
3		 Lesson 63- -‘s (Ann’s camera/ my brother’s car etc) Lesson 68- a/an and the Lesson 73- this/ that/ these/those Lesson 78- somebody/ anything/ nowhere, etc
Day
4		 Lesson 64- a/an Lesson 69- the… Lesson 74- one/ones Lesson 79- every and all
Day
5		 Lesson 65 flower(s), Bus(es) (singular and plural) Lesson 70- go to work/ go home/ go to the cinema Lesson 75- some and any Lesson 80- all/ most/ some/ any/ no/none

Month 2

Week
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2		 Week
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4
Day
1		 Lesson 81- both/ either/ neither Lesson 86- old/ older, expensive/ more expensive Lesson 91- too Lesson 96- at 8 o’clock/ on Monday/ in April
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2		 Lesson 82- a lot/ much/ many Lesson 87- older than…/ more ex pensive than… Lesson 92- He speaks English very well (word order 1) Lesson 97- from…to/ until/ since/for
Day
3		 Lesson 83- (a) little/ (a) few Lesson 88- not as… as Lesson 93- always/ usually/ often etc (word order 2) Lesson 98- before/after/during/while
Day
4		 Lesson 84- old/ nice/ interesting etc (adjectives) Lesson 89- the oldest/ the most expensive Lesson 94- still/ yet/ already Lesson 99- in/ at/ on (places 1)
Day
5		 Lesson 85- quickly/ badly/ suddenly etc (adverbs) Lesson 90- enough Lesson 95- Give me that book!/ Give it to me! Lesson 100- in/ at/ on (paces 2)

Month 3

Week
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2		 Week
3		 Week
4
Day
1		 Lesson 101- to/ in/ at (places 3) Lesson 106- listen to…/ look at… etc (verb+ preposition) Lesson 111- If we go…/ If you see… etc Comparisons of Adjectives
Day
2		 Lesson 102- under/ behind/ opposite etc Lesson 107- go in/ fall off/run away etc (phrasal verbs 1) Lesson 112- If I had…/ If we went… etc Conditional Sentences
Day
3		 Lesson 103- up/ over/ through etc ( prepositions) Lesson 108- put on your shoes/ put your shoes on (phrasal verbs 2) Lesson 113- a person who…/ a thing that/ which Reported Commands, Affirmative Sentences
Day
4		 Lesson 104- on/ at/ by/ with/ about (prepositions) Lesson 109- and/ but/ or/ so / because Lesson  114- the people we met/ the hotel you stayed at (relative clauses 2) Gerund or Infinitive
Day
5		 Lesson 105- afraid of…/ good at…  etc/ preposition + -ing (good at –ing etc) Lesson 110- When… Adjective or Adverb? Passive Sentences

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