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1 What's Homestay? Want to improve your English? Info Go
 

Objective: Learn how to elicit information from an advertisement and text.

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2 What's Homestay? Homestay application Info Go
 

Objective: Learn how to fill in an application form.

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3 Setting off Destination 'Downunder' Info Go
 

Objective: Expand vocabulary, read and understand a travel brochure.

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4 Setting off A letter to the Carters Full lesson available Info Go
 

Objective: Read and understand an informal letter of introduction.

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5 Here we are! Who are the Carters? Info Go
 

Objective: Elicit information from a letter about people's physical appearance.

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6 Here we are! My new family Info Go
 

Objective: Learn how to elicit information about personality traits from the text.

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7 A new home This is our house. Info Go
 

Objective: Read a description of a house using prepositions of location.

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8 A new home Our room! Info Go
 

Objective: Read a text using prepositions of location.

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9 Let's hit the beach! Meet Tim. He's a lifesaver. Info Go
 

Objective: Elicit information to answer questions from the text. Identify strong versus mild obligation.

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10 Let's hit the beach! Be safe at the beach this summer! Info Go
 

Objective: Read and understand a safety pamphlet for Australian beaches. Identify imperatives in the reading.

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11 Amazing Aussie animals Marsupials Info Go
 

Objective: Identify factual information within a text, answer questions and recognise a topic sentence.

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12 Amazing Aussie animals When we were watching ... Info Go
 

Objective: Read postcards about Australian animals. Identify past and present continuous.

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13 What do you like to do? Would you like to join? Info Go
 

Objective: Select factual information from a text to answer questions. Identify the different ways to use like, like to and would like to.

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14 What do you like to do? How often do you ...? Info Go
 

Objective: Use adverbs of frequency and calculate how often activities occur.

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15 BBQ Party! A famous Aussie dessert Info Go
 

Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify expressions of quantity.

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16 BBQ Party! A new 'barbie'! Info Go
 

Objective: Read a set of instructions and complete activities based on comprehension and sequencing details.

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17 Big day out! The big three Full lesson available Info Go
 

Objective: Answer comprehension questions and identify first and second conditionals.

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18 Big day out! The big plan Info Go
 

Objective: Identify the different uses of 'going to'. Use different ways of expressing time.

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19 Thanks and goodbye My Australian experience Info Go
 

Objective: Read a text and answer comprehension questions. Identify expressions about 'feelings'.

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20 Thanks and goodbye Thank you letter Info Go
 

Objective: Recognise time clauses and identify 'feeling' adjectives.

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21 Sentences The Sentence Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use complete sentences.

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22 Punctuation Sentence Endings Info Go
 

Objective: To use full-stops, question marks, exclamation marks and capital letters correctly.

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23 Capitalisation Capital Letters 2 Info Go
 

Objective: To use capital letters correctly: in titles and letters.

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24 Pronouns Pronouns 2 Info Go
 

Objective: To recognise and use personal, possessive and relative pronouns.

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25 Parts of Speech Part a Prepositions Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use prepositions correctly.

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26 Punctuation Skills Part b Quotation Marks Info Go
 

Objective: To use quotation marks for direct speech.

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27 Contractions Contractions Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use contractions.

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28 Common Errors Common Errors in writing Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors.

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29 Commas 2 Commas 2 Info Go
 

Objective: To use commas: to separate places, to separate clauses within sentences, and when using direct speech.

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30 Conjunctions - Sentences Conjunctions - Sentences Info Go
 

Objective: To use conjunctions to increase the variety of sentence structure in written expression.

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31 Phrases Phrases Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use phrases including adjectival and adverbial phrases.

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32 Clauses Clauses Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use clauses including adjectival, adverbial and noun clauses.

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33 Subject-Verb Agreement Subject-Verb Agreement Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use correct tense, number and person in forming verbs.

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34 Verb tense - Compound Verb tense - Compound Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use 'to be' and 'to have' with the appropriate participle of the main verb.

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35 Verbs - Active and Passive voice Verbs - Active and Passive voice Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use active and passive voice.

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36 Apostrophe - Possession Apostrophe - Possession Info Go
 

Objective: To use the apostrophe of possession correctly.

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37 Similes and Metaphors Similes and Metaphors Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use similes and metaphors.

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38 Figurative Language Onomatopoeia, Assonance and Alliteration Info Go
 

Objective: To identify, and make use of, onomatopoeia, assonance, and alliteration.

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39 Common Errors Common Errors in verb usage, spelling and punctuation Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and eliminate common errors.

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40 Colons and Semi-Colons Colons and Semi-Colons Info Go
 

Objective: To use colons and semi-colons correctly.

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41 Sentence Structure Part a Subject and Predicate Info Go
 

Objective: To identify the subject and predicate within a sentence and to understand they are the two main parts of a sentence.

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42 Regular and Irregular Verbs Regular and Irregular Verbs Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use regular and irregular verbs in the present and past tense.

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43 Verbs - Infinitives Verbs - Infinitives Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use the infinitive form of the verb.

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44 Modal Verbs Modal Verbs Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use modal verbs with the appropriate form of the main verb.

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45 Participles - as Verbs and Adjectives Participles - as Verbs and Adjectives Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use participles as verbs or adjectives as indicators of continuing action.

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46 Gerunds Gerunds Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use gerunds.

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47 Interjections Interjections Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use interjections correctly.

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48 Plurals Plurals 4 - Unusual Info Go
 

Objective: To use nouns whose singular and plural forms are the same. To use compound noun plurals.

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49 Sentence Improvement Sentence Improvement Info Go
 

Objective: To construct expressive sentences by using adjectives, adverbs, phrases and clauses.

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50 Punctuation Punctuation - Various Info Go
 

Objective: To use hyphens, dashes, apostrophes, quotation marks, parentheses and brackets correctly.

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51 Mass and Count Nouns Determiners Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use determiners correctly with mass and count nouns.

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52 Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Info Go
 

Objective: To identify and use transitive and intransitive verbs.

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53 Case - Nouns and Pronouns Case - Nouns, Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives Info Go
 

Objective: To identify the case of nouns and pronouns.

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54 Plurals of Foreign Nouns Plurals 5 - Foreign Info Go
 

Objective: To form plurals of foreign nouns.

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55 Variety of Expression Sentence Construction Info Go
 

Objective: To construct expressive and precise sentences to improve meaning.

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56 Figurative Language Symbolism and Personification Info Go
 

Objective: To identify, and make use of, symbolism and personification.

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57 Review of Figures of Speech Review of Figures of Speech Info Go
 

Objective: To identify multiple uses of figures of speech within writing.

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58 Spelling Skills Word Usage Info Go
 

Objective: To correctly choose words with similar spelling, sound and meaning.

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59 Essay Writing 1 Essay Writing 1 Info Go
 

Objective: To develop and write essays (expositions).

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60 Essay Writing 2 Essay Writing 2 Info Go
 

Objective: To develop and write essays.

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