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Conversation
UNIT Vocabulary* Grammar
Strategies

1 • Titles • Use As a matter of fact • The verb be : • Further explanation

• Occupations to introduce surprising Yes / no questions of usage and form: be
• Nationalities information Contractions • Further explanation of
Getting • Begin responses with a Information questions form: possessive
Acquainted question to clarify • Possessive nouns and adjectives
• Provide information adjectives
beyond Yes or No when
answering a question

2 • Entertainment events • Use Really? to show • The verb be: • Further explanation
• Kinds of music enthusiasm Questions with When, of usage: prepositions
• Locations and • Use I’d love to to What time, and Where of time and place
Going Out directions accept an invitation Contractions
• Use I’d love to, but... or • Prepositions of time
Top Notch Song: Thanks, but... to decline and place: On, in, at
“Going Out” • Use Excuse me to
approach a stranger

3 • Family relationships • Start answers with Well • The simple present • Further explanation
• Ways to describe to give oneself time to tense: Statements of usage and form: the
similarities and think Yes / no questions simple present tense
Talking about differences • Use That’s great! to Information questions
Families • Marital status and show enthusiasm
relationships • Ask follow-up
questions to keep a
conversation going
• Initiate polite
conversation with So

• Descriptive adjectives • Use How’s it going? • The present • Spelling rules for the
4
• Electronics and Hey to greet continuous: for actions present participle
• Ways to sympathize someone informally in progress and the • Further explanation
Coping with • Machines at home • Use word stress to future of form: the present
Technology and at work clarify meaning continuous
• Machine features • Use What about...? to
• Ways to state a make a suggestion
complaint • Use Really? to ask for
confirmation
• Use Hello? to answer
the telephone

5 • Menu items • Use I think I’ll have to • Count and non-count • Categories of non-
• Categories of food soften food orders nouns / there is and count nouns
• What to say to a waiter • Use Good idea! to there are • Verb agreement: non-
Eating in, or waitress accept a suggestion • A, an, the count nouns
Eating out • Food and health enthusiastically • Expressing quantities:
non-count nouns
Top Notch Song: • How much /
“The World Café” How many
• Spelling rules: plural
nouns
• Some / any

*In Top Notch, the term vocabulary refers to individual words, phrases, and expressions.
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Speaking Pronunciation Listening Reading Writing

• Exchange personal • Rising and • Conversations about people • Short introductions • Introduce a
information falling Task: listen for names, to people who travel classmate
• Clarify and confirm intonation for occupations, and for their jobs • Introduce
information questions nationalities • Student descriptions yourself
• Offer to introduce
someone
• Introduce someone
• Shift to informality

• Offer, accept, and • Repetition • Invitations to events • Newspaper • Describe your

decline invitations to confirm Task: identify the events and entertainment own musical
• Ask and answer information times listings tastes
questions about events • Phone calls to a box office • Arts festival website
• Ask for and give Task: identify events, times, • People’s descriptions
directions and ticket prices of their musical
• Talk about music likes tastes
and dislikes • Music survey

• Identify family • Blending • Descriptions of family • Article about • Compare two

relationships sounds: members different family people in
• Ask about and Does + he / Task: listen for people’s sizes your own
describe family Does + she marital status or relationship • Article comparing family
members • An interview about a brother a brother and • Compare two
• Compare people Task: determine similarities sister siblings in
• Discuss family size and differences another family
• Descriptions of families
Task: determine size of
family and number of
children

• Ask for and make • Rising and • Complaints about • Ads from • Describe one
suggestions falling machines electronics of your own
• Offer reasons for intonation for Task: identify the machines catalogs machines
purchasing a product questions: • Radio advertisements • Describe all
• Express frustration and review Task: listen for adjectives the problems
offer sympathy that describe machines in a picture
• Describe features of • Complaints to a hotel
machines front desk
• Complain when things Task: identify the problem
don’t work and room number
• Problems with machines
Task: write the problem

• Discuss what to eat • Pronunciation • Conversations about food • Menus • Describe a

• Order, get the check, of the before Task: listen for and classify • Nutrition website traditional
and pay for a meal consonant and food items food in your
• Describe your own vowel sounds • Conversations in a own country
diet restaurant • Write a story
• Discuss food and Task: predict a diner’s next based on a
health choices statement picture
• Conversations while eating
Task: determine the
location of the conversation

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Conversation
UNIT Vocabulary Strategies Grammar

6 • Physical and everyday • Use Sorry, I can’t to • Can and have to • Further explanation
activities decline regretfully • The simple present of form: can / have to
• Places for sports and • Provide an explanation tense and the present • Non-action verbs
Staying in games for declining an continuous • Further explanation
Shape • Talking about health invitation • Frequency adverbs of usage and form:
habits • Use Actually to • Time expressions frequency adverbs /
Top Notch Song: introduce contrast time expressions
“A Typical Day”

7 • Categories of clothing • Use Excuse me to • Comparative • Further explanation

• Clothing described indicate that you need adjectives of spelling and usage:
as “pairs” assistance in a store • Object pronouns: as comparative adjectives
Finding • Types of clothing • Use Excuse me? when direct objects and in • Further explanation of
Something and shoes you don’t understand prepositional phrases usage: direct and
to Wear • Interior locations or didn’t hear indirect objects
and directions
• Describing clothes

8 • Types of vacations • Use actually to • The past tense of be • Further explanation

• Adjectives for travel acknowledge another’s • The simple past tense: of usage and form: the
conditions interest regular and irregular past tense of be
Getting • Adjectives to describe • Say I’m fine to decline verbs • Further explanation of
Away vacations assistance usage and form: the
• Travel problems • After answering a simple past tense
Top Notch Song: question, ask What • Spelling rules: regular
“My Dream about you? to show verbs in the simple
Vacation” reciprocal interest past tense

9 • Tickets and trips • Say Oh no to indicate • Could and should • Further explanation
• Travel services dismay • Be going to for the of meaning: can,
• Airline passenger • Say Let me check to future should, could
Taking information buy time to find the • Explanation of form:
Transportation • Means of answer to a question modals
transportation • Comparison of ways
• Transportation to express the future
problems

10 • Money and travel • Use can to indicate • Superlative adjectives • Contrasting the
• Electronic products willingness to bargain • Too and enough comparative and the
• Handicrafts • Use demonstratives to superlative
Shopping • Talking about prices clarify intention • Spelling rules for
Smart superlatives
• Intensifiers too, really,
Top Notch Song: and very
“Shopping for
Souvenirs”

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Speaking Pronunciation Listening Reading Writing

• Suggest and plan an • Can / can’t • Conversations about immediate • Graph showing • Report about
activity • Third-person plans calories burned a classmate’s
• Provide an excuse singular Task: identify destinations by activity typical day
• Ask about and describe endings • Descriptions of exercise and diet • Health survey • Recount
daily routines routines • Article about your own
• Discuss exercise and diet Task: identify each person’s health Brooke Ellison’s typical day
habits daily schedule
• Conversations about diet and
exercise
Task: complete the statement

• Discuss where you shop • Contrastive • Conversations about clothing • Clothing store • Give advice
• Ask a clerk for help stress for needs website about
• Shop and pay for clothes clarification Task: choose the clothing item • Article about clothing for
• Ask for and give • Directions in a store clothing tips for visitors to
directions within a Task: mark the store departments travelers your country
building • Conversations about clothes • Personal dress • Plan clothing
• Discuss culturally Task: determine the location of the code survey for a trip and
appropriate dress conversation explain
reasons

• Greet someone arriving • Simple past- • Descriptions of vacations • Vacation ads • Describe a
from a trip tense endings Task: identify the vacation • Travel agency past
• Describe travel conditions problems brochure vacation
• Talk about leisure • Descriptions of travel experiences • Vacation survey • Describe
activities Task: choose the correct adjective • Student articles another
• Discuss vacation about vacations person’s
preferences vacation
• Complain about travel
problems

• Discuss schedules and • Intonation of • Requests for travel services • Airport • Recount
buy tickets alternatives Task: identify the service requested departure transportation
• Ask for and give advice • Airport announcements schedule problems on
• Book travel services Task: listen for delays and • Travel survey a past trip
• Discuss travel plans cancellations • News clippings • Imagine your
• Describe transportation • Conversations about transportation about next trip
problems problems transportation
Task: complete the statement problems
• Conversations about transportation
Task: match the conversation with
the picture

• Ask for and give a • Rising • Recommendations for electronic • Travel guide • Narrate a
recommendation intonation products about money true story
• Discuss price range to clarify Task: identify the product and shopping about a
• Bargain for a lower price information • Shopping stories • Article about shopping
• Discuss tipping customs Task: listen for products and prices tipping experience
• Describe a shopping • Conversations about electronics customs • Create a
experience purchases • Tipping survey shopping
Task: check satisfactory or not • Story about a guide for
satisfactory to the customer shopping your city
experience

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