Online Practice
Top Notch Fundamentals is designed for true beginning students or for students needing for the support of a very low-level beginning course. No prior knowledge of English is assumed or necessary.
Unit
Learning Goals
Activities
1
• Occupations • The alphabet • Verb be • Subject pronouns • Articles a / an
• British Pronunciation Alphabet • Am, are, is • Lesson on pronouns • A / an – Tutorial and quiz
2
• Relationships • Possessive nouns and adjectives
• Family drag and drop • Possessives gap-fill
3
• Places in the neighborhood • Means of transportation • Imperative
• Places in the community • Means of transportation • Imperatives for directions
• Family relationships • Adjectives to describe people • Questions with verb be • Verb have / has
• Family tree - Listening • Describing people • Verb have / has • Questions with be (some with do)
• Time • Days of the week • Months of the year • Prepositions of time
• Time listening task • Complete the days of the week • Identify the month • Prepositions (some of place)
• Clothes • Demonstratives this, that, these, those • Simple present tense • Adjective placement
• Clothing vocabulary • Clothing listening task • Demonstratives • Present Simple Match • Adjectives
• Daily activities at home • Leisure activities • Questions in the simple present tense • Frequency adverbs
• Everyday actions • Everyday activities • Questions in simple present tense • Frequency adverbs
Names and Occupations
About People
Places and How to Get There
4
Family
5
Events and Times
6
Clothes
7
Activities
Link to Top Notch 1e
Unit
Learning Goals
Activities
• Rooms and furniture • There is and there are • Questions with how many
• Furniture listening task • There is/are • Much and many
• Weather expressions • Present and future expressions • Present continuous
• Match the weather • Present continuous or progressive
• Foods and drinks • Containers and quantities • Cooking verbs • Count nouns and noncount nouns
• Food listening task • Vegetables listening task • Cooking verbs • Count and non-count
11
• Past expressions • Outdoor activities • Past tense of be • Simple past tense
• Paste tense of be • Questions with be in past tense • Simple past tense • Irregular past tense
12
• Adjectives to describe hair • Parts of the body • Accidents and injuries • Ailments, remedies
• Adjectives to describe hair • Body memory game • Health problems
8
Home and Neighborhood
9
Activities and Plans
10
Food
Past Events
Appearance and Health
13
Abilities and Requests
14
Life Events and Plans
• A full lesson on can and • Abilities can’t • Can and can’t for ability • Too tutorial (lower • Too + adjective intermediate)
• Life events • Be going to + base form • Would like + infinitive
• Future with going to • Would: At a restaurant
Link to Top Notch 1e