Online Practice Unit
1
Greetings and Small Talk
2
Movies and Entertainment
3
Staying in Hotels
4
Cars and Driving
5
Personal Care and Appearance
Top Notch 2 learning objectives are designed for pre-intermediate learners. They offer a rigorous review and an expansion of the key points in Top Notch 1 as well as a wealth of new and challenging material.
Learning Goals
Activities
• Tourist activities • The present perfect • Already, yet, ever and before • Present perfect with for and since
• Listening task about getting to know people • Present perfect • For and since • Already and yet
• Explanations for being late • Present perfect continuous • Would rather + base form
• Listening task about ways to say sorry • Present perfect continuous • Would rather, would prefer
• Hotel room types and features • Hotel services • Had better • Future with will • Suggestions and advice • be supposed to
• Hotels vocabulary • Checking in at a hotel • Would rather vs had better • Simple will task • Should, ought to, had better
• Car types and parts • Ways to show concern • The past continuous
• Land vehicles • Inside a car • Past continuous • Past progressive
• Salon services • Indefinite quantities and amounts • Indefinite pronouns: someone, anyone, no one
• Beauty salon • Quantifiers and amounts • Containers • Indefinite pronouns
Link to Top Notch 1e
Unit
Learning Goals
Activities
6
• Nutrition terminology • Food descriptions • Use to / Used to / Be used to
• Table manners quiz • Food classification • Used to, be used to, get used to • Use, used to, be used to
• Positive and negative adjectives • Terms to discuss psychology and personality • Gerunds and infinitives as objects
• Adjectives to describe personality • IH adjective quiz • Expressions with gerunds and infinitives • Gerunds after prepositions
• Kinds of art • The passive voice in all tenses • Transitive and intransitive verbs
• Terms related to art • Passive voice tutorial and task • Transitive and intransitive (explanation only)
• Computer terms and parts • Infinitive of purpose • Comparison with as… as
• Computer acronyms (for specialists!) • Listening lesson about computers • Comparison of adjectives with as… as
• Ways to acknowledge thanks • Personal values • Real and unreal conditional • Possessive pronouns / Whose
• Expressing gratitude listening task • Conditionals • Character traits • Relative pronouns whose
Eating Well
7
About Personality
8
The Arts
9
Living with Computers
10
Ethics and Values
Link to Top Notch 1e