Abdullah Mohammed Alkhamis

1 Topics to be Covered

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Contact hours

Topic:  Chapter 1- New Challenges

• Review of basic sentence structure
• Word order of modifiers
• The principal parts of verbs and verb tense formation

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3

Topic: Looking at Learning

• Auxiliary verbs
• The simple present and present continuous tenses
• The present perfect continuous and present perfect tenses

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3

Topic: Relationships

• Past verb forms: the simple past tense; the past continuous tense
• The present perfect tense with unspecified past time
• The Simple Future Tense
• Past verb forms

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6

Topic: Health and Leisure

• Modal Auxiliaries and Related Structures
• Modal Auxiliaries of Request, Permission, and Preference

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3

Topic: High Tech, Low Tech

• The Passive Voice with all Tenses (Simple, Perfect etc)

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3

Topic: Money Matters

• Count vs. Mass Nouns
• Indefinite adjectives and Pronouns
• The Definite article
• Units of Measurement

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6

Topic: Remarkable Individuals

• Introduction to Gerunds and Infinitives
• Verbs Followed by Gerunds or infinitives
• More verbs Followed by Gerunds or Infinitives

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3

Topic: Creativity

• Compound Sentences
• All Types of Adverb Clauses

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3

Topic: Human Behavior

• Modifiers and Adjective Clauses
• Clauses with That, when, and where
• Restrictive and non-restrictive clauses

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3

Topic: Crime and Punishment

• Hope and Wish
• Conditional Sentences
• Perfect Modal Auxiliaries

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3

Topic: The Physical World

• Clauses and Related Structures of Clause, Purpose, and Effect or Result
• Clauses and Related Structures of Contrast-Concession and Opposition
• Comparative and Superlative adjectives and Adverbs

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3

Topic: Together on a small planet

• Clause with "That"
• Clauses with "IT"

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