Conversation 2 (Intermediate)

Course details

Outline:

Community and consumer life:

• Lesson 1: Around Town
  • Asked for and give directions to places in the community; identify places on a map; share experiences in a new place.
    
• Lesson 2: Community Services
  • Identify and discuss local community services and volunteer opportunities across culture
    
• Lesson 3: Utility Services
  • Identify and discuss local utility needs and services; explain problems and request help for repairs.
    
• Lesson 4: Mailing Services
  • Identify and discuss available mailing options ; compare and contrast different methods of communication ; discuss mailing services across cultures
    
• Lesson 5: Telephone Services
  • Identify and discuss available shopping options; compare telephone experiences.
    
• Lesson 6: Shopping in Today’s World
  • Identify and discuss available shopping options ; share shopping experiences and preferences
    
• Lesson 7: Shopping for Clothes
  • Compare and contrast clothing style preferences and store selections.
    
• Lesson 8: Returns and Exchanges
  • Identify and discuss reasons and procedures for returning and / or exchanging purchases or gifts.
    
• Lesson 9: School and community
  • Identify and discuss parental involvement in schools, school discipline , rules and regulations , dress code__s and extra-curricular activities across cultures
    
• Lesson 10: Lifelong Learning
  • identify and discuss possibilities for adult higher education and training compare and contrast educational goals across cultures
    
• Lesson 11: Recreation
  • Identify and discuss varieties of local recreation opportunities and personal recreation preferences.
    

Styling Healthay :

• Lesson 1: Taking Care of yourself
  • compare and contrast good and bad health practices ; reevaluate personal health-care habits
    
• Lesson 2: Staying Healthy Outdoors
  • identify and discuss outdoor health hazards , precautions, and remedies ; ask and tell about outdoor emergency experiences across cultures
    
• Lesson 3: Home Remedies
  • Compare and contrast home remedies across cultures ; ask and tell about personal home remedies
    
• Lesson 4: Medical Care
  • identify and discuss health  problem s and health care across cultures ; tell about an experience with a health problem
    
• Lesson 5: Emergency Care
  • discuss procedures and experience with health care for emergencies ; express opinions about treating patients
    
• Lesson 6: Pharmacy
  • identify and discuss procedures and questions for filling and refilling prescriptions and buying nutritional supplements and over-the – counter drugs at a pharmacy ; compare and contrast pharmacies and prescription drugs across cultures ; compare and contrast various items sold at a pharmacy
    
• Lesson 7: Poisons
  • Identify and discuss common household poisons and procedures for dealing with a poison emergency
    
• Lesson 8: Counseling
  • identify and discuss problems which counseling can help solve ; discuss social problem and resources available to help solve these problems across cultures.
    

Housing:

• Lesson 1: Places to live
  • Compare and discuss contrast advantages and disadvantages of living in different locations , Kind of housing , and renting or buying a house
    
• Lesson 2: Inside your Home
  • Discuss special individual housing needs ; explain decorating preferences
    
• Lesson 3: Finding the Right Home
  • Read and discuss ads for housing discuss what to look for when  renting an apartment or buying a house 
    
• Lesosn 4: Utility Problems

Discuss mistakes people make with utility and how to avoid these problems; discuss different kinds of heating and air conditioning across cultures

• Lesson 5: Tenants and Landlords
  • Compare and contrast right and responsibilities of tenants and landlords ; discuss problems between tenants and landlords and recommend solutions
    
• Lesson 6: Insuring Your Property
  • Identify and discuss common problem resulting in property damage or loss ; discuss insurance coverage across cultures
    
• Lesson 7: Moving
  • Identify and discuss reasons why people come to your door and what to say when they do
    
• Lesson 8: Neighborhood Problems
  • Identify and discuss neighborhood problems and solutions in general and in your neighborhood in particular ; find out what your community is doing to solve the problems
    
• Lesson 9: Neighborhood Improvements
  • identify and discuss neighborhood improvement ; discuss ways to be neighborly ; compare and contrast neighborhood and neighbors across cultures