Names & Places:
Hello, Max & Kathy!
Where is France?
Who Speaks English?

Basic personal information: name, where from, languages spoken, countries and cities of the world, relative location, and nationality. Simple introductions, be, do, negation,
pronouns, Yes/No and Wh-questions. Introduces the most basic structures in English.

Using speech recognition, students practice asking Who, Where, and Yes/No questions related to the lesson.

Jobs & Family:
Richard Chin
Sara Scott
Henry Thornton
Word Practice
Questions

The jobs, families and living arrangements of three characters are presented and contrasted. Extends basic personal information and necessary language structures. Present simple tense, adjectives, and object pronouns.

Numbers & Time:
One to One Hundred
Time

Intensive listening and question practice with numbers and time.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

Natural conversations with native English speakers reinforce key language, including useful telephone expressions. Select "Interactive" to participate in the conversation using Speech Recognition. This section includes: Introductions, At a Party, At an Office, Telephone, Interview, and Hot seats.

Family Schedule:
The Harris Family
Bob and Sandra's Schedules
Colette and John's Schedules

Family relationships and daily schedules of four members of the Harris family. The focus is on specific times, frequency, and duration of habitual activities that make up daily life.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Practice

The focus is on useful vocabulary and constructions in five subject areas: the seasons, weather, times of day, times of life, and types of people.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Matrix Game

An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.

Likes & Dislikes:
A Survey:
Food and Sports
What Can You Do?

An interview about favorite foods, sports, hobbies and other interests. Expressing personal preferences and abilities.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

Daily Activities:
Kathy's Schedule
Diane's Schedule

Reinforces and extends the language of daily life to include both past and future activities. Topics include talking about occupation, family and daily routines.

Daily Activities:
Focus Exercises

Sentence-making exercises reinforce key grammar and vocabulary. Click and drag words to construct sentences from the lesson.

Our World:
Our Planet, Earth
Air, Water, and Pollution

Introduces vocabulary for talking about the world we live in. Topics include the planets, the sun as a source of energy, life on earth, pollution, and basic needs, such as water and clean air. Previews more difficult language such as cause & effect, simple conditionals, and relative pronouns.

Locations:
City Locations
City Quiz
Spatial Relations

Spatial directions, basic shapes, street locations and basic places of business such as a bank, hotel, and a hospital. This lesson is further developed in Module 3.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

Planning Ahead:
Departure
Choices
Meeting a Friend

Within the context of a business trip to London, the focus is on making future plans and choices, including reasons and alternatives. Degrees of certainty, modals, and simple conditionals are further developed.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Practice

The focus is on useful vocabulary and constructions in five subject areas: things to eat, things to drink, things to read, things to listen to, and colors.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Matrix Game

An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.

Biography - Einstein:
The Early Years
The Later Years

Major changes, dates and events in the life of Albert Einstein. This important and informative lesson extends and consolidates material from previous lessons. Prepares students to talk about their own life history.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

On a Trip:
A Paris Vacation
Today's Activities
Florence and Beyond

Extends the language necessary to talk about one's life, expectations and intentions. Relates singular events to durative events and experience. Contrasts past tense with the present perfect. Vocabulary of travel is reviewed and extended.

Intensive question practice focusing on singular and durative events (e.g., when, how long ago, how long did, etc.) and state (e.g. has she, how long since, still, yet, etc.). This lesson reinforces the vocabulary and structures from the previous lesson.

Energy Sources:
Our Energy Needs
What About the Future?

Extends the ability to talk about the world around us, including simple environmental issues. Cause and effect, simple processes, and important passives (e.g. are produced, is reduced...)

Directions:
City Directions
City Quiz
Spatial Relations

The focus is on giving directions, relative locations, and spatial relations. Students practicing following directions by navigating through the streets of a city. This lesson extends the Location lesson from New Dynamic English Module 2 Disc 1.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

Life Experience:
Making a New Life
A Path to Success
A Troubled Past

Extends the ability to talk about one's life in more detail: past experiences, current situations, plans and hopes for the future. This lesson completes and reinforces the presentation of pre-intermediate verb structures.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Practice

The focus is on useful vocabulary and constructions in five subject areas: jobs, transportation, places to go, basic feelings, and things to wear.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Matrix Game

An interactive game in which students answer comprehension questions and try to improve their score. Questions are randomly arranged so that each game is different.

Comparisons:
Price and Quality
Three Sisters
Country Data
Four Cities

This lesson reviews and extends the language of comparison and reference: quality, price, age, size, physical description, distance, area, population, and temperature.

Comparisons:
Focus Exercises

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

Life Choices:
Harry's Accident
Joan's Challenge
Joe's Cafe
Sandra's Dilemma

Introduces conditional constructions to talk about past and future events and their consequences. Presents different types of cause-and-effect relationships using connecting phrases such as "as a result," "even though," "because of," and "unless."

Epidemic:
Our Changing Lives
Fighting Infections
The Adaptability of Life
Preparing for our Future

In this lesson students learn to focus their listening on either the main idea or the supporting facts and examples in a presentation. Develops vocabulary related to health and other global issues.

This innovative lesson focuses on the language of spatial relationships, explanation, specification, exception, conditional action, and time sequencing. Features two games which use click and drag activities to test comprehension.

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

The Secret Code:
Setting a Trap
The Suspect
The Investigation
Guilty or Not Guilty

Students examine evidence in a mystery and draw conclusions from the evidence as they try to solve it. The focus is on degrees of certainty, making inferences, conditionals and suppositions. This lesson follows up Module 4, Disc 1, which also focuses on conditionals.

Matrix Vocabulary:
Vocabulary Practice

UFOs: For & Against:
Arguments:-For & Against
For or Against?
Drakes Equation:
-Intelligent Life
Relativity:-Rulers & Clocks

Review Exercises:
Dictations

Listening-based review of important vocabulary, grammar, and word recognition in context. An oral cloze type format.

Students use speech recognition to complete gap-filling exercises. Focuses on detailed comprehension and inferring from context. Reviews grammar and meaning distinctions from previous lessons.

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