To SWIMMERS
Pre-Intermediate
Intermediate
Upper-Intermediate
Advanced
How to write letters
How to describe
How to narrate
Free writing
The press
Vocabulary practice
Cloze tests & multiple choice practice
What is SWIM?
Author & Acknowledgements
Guided Tour
Upper-Intermediate
1. Christmas time
Objectives:
Finding out the key idea of a reading text. Recycling vocabulary. Comparing good and bad summaries.
2. Immigration
Objectives:
Feature articles: understanding the main idea and their organisation.
3. Immigration and human rights
Objectives:
Raising questions about human rights and immigration. Focussing on the main ideas of a text.
4. The time of your life
Objectives:
Working on synonyms and seeing the word operate in a context.
5. Legend of King Arthur
Objectives:
Reading legends. Learning facts about them. Learning connectors for your writings. Practise your narration abilities.
6. About aboriginal myths
Objectives:
Practising your tenses for narration. Reading stories of the creation myths of Aboriginal Australians. Word families.
7. The sad story of the Parthenon
Objectives:
Learning about the history of the Parthenon in Athens. Writing a persuasive article trying to convince someone of something.
8. Letters to the editor
Objectives:
Letters of opinion: good ones vs. bad ones. Reading for pleasure about all-women schools. Doing cloze tests.