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Intermediate English Course 1

Practice Lab

Practice Lab is organized by unit so each game, reading, listening, workshop, and speaking activity stays connected to the course topic it supports.

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Open each folder to find the practice activities connected to that unit.

Unit 1

The Way We Are

Personality, behavior, stereotypes, descriptions, labels, and cautious language.

10 activities
Grammar Workshop Adjectives vs Manner Adverbs
01

Grammar Workshop: Adjectives vs. Manner Adverbs

Practice describing what people are like and how they behave in different situations.

Open activity
The Stereotype Guessing Game
02

The Stereotype Guessing Game

Use personality adjectives, behavior descriptions, and classroom interaction to guess characters respectfully.

Open activity
Students discussing stereotypes and behavior descriptions respectfully
03

Describing Stereotypes and Behavior

Explain what people are believed to be like, how they usually behave, and why generalizations can be incomplete.

Open activity
Create a superhero or supervillain activity
04

Personality Battle: Create a Superhero or Supervillain

Create an original character, describe personality traits and habits, and compare powers.

Open activity
The Mirror Guardian listening activity
05

Listening: The Mirror Guardian

Listen to a superhero story about stereotypes, first impressions, and looking beyond labels.

Open activity
The Wall of Names reading activity
06

Reading: The Wall of Names

Continue the story with a reading about names, rumors, and the real stories behind quick labels.

Open activity
Eyewitness case briefing classroom game
07

Eyewitness Case Briefing

Investigate a burglary scene, interview an eyewitness, describe suspects, and summarize the case cautiously.

Open activity
Adult English learners discussing personality beyond first impressions
08

Pronunciation: Beyond First Impressions

Practice personality descriptions in four guided sections, receive immediate feedback, and complete the full-paragraph challenge.

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Unit 2

Wishes, Hopes, Dreams and Unusual Experiences

Personal goals, support, timelines, recent life events, and detailed conversations.

5 activities
Timeline writing activity
01

Timeline Catch-Up Writing

Prepare a written timeline of recent life events before a partner conversation.

Open activity
Catching up listening activity
02

Listening: Catching Up After Years

Listen to a two-voice American English conversation about reconnecting and ordering life events.

Open activity
Reflective reading about a changed dream
03

Reading: The Letter I Never Sent

Read a reflective story about a dream that changes direction and answer a follow-up reading check.

Open activity
Goal Support Interview speaking activity
04

Goal Support Interview

Interview a classmate about a goal, ask follow-up questions, and submit a practical support plan.

Open activity
Adult English learner beginning an independent study-abroad experience
05

Pronunciation: A Dream of Studying Abroad

Practice hopes and a life-changing experience in four guided sections, then complete the full-paragraph challenge.

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Unit 3

Human and Natural Wonders / World Records

Superlatives, famous places, measurement language, opinions, and justifications.

8 activities
The Superlative Wall classroom activity
01

The Superlative Wall

Choose from five image walls, answer superlative questions, compare famous places, and justify opinions.

Open activity
The Most Amazing Wonder Presentation activity
02

The Most Amazing Wonder Presentation

Choose a human or natural wonder, prepare a 2–4 minute oral presentation with superlatives, facts, and a recommendation, then vote as a class.

Open activity
Superlative Grammar Challenge fill-in-the-blank activity
03

Superlative Grammar Challenge

Complete 20 fill-in-the-blank grammar sentences with three serious options, detailed feedback, and no answer-pattern shortcuts.

Open activity
How adjective measurement grammar practice
04

How + Adjective Measurements

Practice questions and answers for height, length, depth, age, area, population, and distance.

Open activity
Three Travelers One Wonder listening workshop
05

Listening: Three Travelers, One Wonder

Listen to three travelers compare wonders with superlatives, measurements, facts, and recommendations.

Open activity
The Record That Changed a Town reading workshop
06

Reading: The Record That Changed a Town

Read about a community record project and identify facts, reasons, results, and local identity.

Open activity
Country Feature Chart comparison workshop
07

Country Feature Chart

Use country data cards to compare mountains, rivers, human wonders, and surprising facts for the oral task.

Open activity
Adult learner observing the Grand Canyon from a safe overlook
08

Pronunciation: An Unforgettable Natural Wonder

Practice superlatives, comparisons and a recommendation in four guided sections, then complete the full-paragraph challenge.

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Unit 4

Family Problems and Memories

Obligations, permission limits, respectful disagreement, mediation, and past habits with used to.

8 activities
Family demands grammar practice
01

Family Demands Practice

Practice have to, won't let, want someone to, and used to before the speaking task.

Open activity
Sunday Dinner Negotiation listening workshop
02

Listening: Sunday Dinner Negotiation

Listen to a fictional family negotiate dinner responsibilities, phone limits, homework, and a fair agreement.

Open activity
The Memory Box reading workshop
03

Reading: The Memory Box

Read a family memory story and notice how used to connects past habits with present routines.

Open activity
Family Stories pronunciation practice
04

Pronunciation: Family Stories

Practice reductions and rhythm for used to, have to, wants someone to, and polite disagreement.

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Family Conflict Mediation role-play workshop
05

Family Conflict Mediation

Use role cards to negotiate responsibilities and write a fair fictional family agreement.

Open activity
Family Memory Blog writing workshop
06

Family Memory Blog Workshop

Write a short blog comparing what a fictional family used to do with what they agree to do now.

Open activity
Teacher guiding a live sentence wall activity in a modern English classroom
07

Expression Sentence Wall

Teacher opens one idiom or phrasal verb, students submit original sentences, and the class reads the live wall.

Open live wall
Intermediate English Unit 4 hidden role speaking game
08

The Family Dinner Impostor

Play a live hidden-role game with Unit 4 phrasal verbs and idioms, visual support cards, secret roles, and a class vote.

Open game
Unit 5

Food, Quantities and Culture

Countable and uncountable food, quantities, teams, shopping missions, and teacher follow-up.

13 activities
Market Basket Challenge grammar game
01Practice: visual grammar

Market Basket Challenge

Sort a market basket, choose natural quantity phrases, build a dinner shopping mission, and send it to the teacher.

Open activity
Quantifiers gap-fill grammar practice with food cards
02Practice: grammar

Quantifiers Gap Fill

Complete 20 mixed food sentences with some, any, much, many, a few, and a little, with immediate grammar feedback.

Open activity
Students plan food quantities for a food fair
03Practice: grammar mission

Food Fair Quantity Mission

Make ten context-based quantity decisions, then write a preparation note for a real food-fair team and send it to the teacher.

Open activity
Adult English learners playing a food vocabulary memory game with matching cards
04Practice: vocabulary and pronunciation

Food Vocabulary Memory Game

Play in two teams, find matching food cards, listen to the model audio, and pronounce each food word clearly.

Open game
Market Dinner Plan listening activity
05Practice: listening comprehension

Listening: Market Dinner Plan

Listen to three classmates plan a healthy food-fair dinner, identify quantities and reasons, then send a listening note to the teacher.

Open activity
A Dish with a History reading activity
06Practice: reading comprehension

Reading: A Dish with a History

Read a family food story, identify quantity language and cultural meaning, then send a reading response to the teacher.

Open activity
Healthy Dinner Planner writing workshop
07Practice: writing and planning

Healthy Dinner Planner

Design a realistic balanced dinner with quantities, health reasons, cultural connection, and a final plan sent to the teacher.

Open activity
Food Quantities Pronunciation Lab
08Practice: pronunciation

Pronunciation: Food Quantities

Practice connected quantity phrases, food vocabulary rhythm, and a final dinner recommendation recording sent to the teacher.

Open activity
Global Snack Review writing workshop
09Practice: critical writing

Global Snack Review

Write a class-ready snack review with ingredients, quantity evidence, sensory adjectives, rating, and respectful cultural comparison.

Open activity
Adult learners compare materials, transformed products, and recipe ingredients
10Practice: grammar

Made Of, Made From, Made With

Make ten precise grammar decisions about visible materials, transformed sources, and recipe ingredients, then receive a diagnostic score.

Open activity
Maya Brooks leading a professional global food conversation with an adult English learner
11Practice: conversation

Maya's Global Food Table

Answer a balanced set of food questions, interview Maya, and receive a private formative /50 conversation report with unlimited attempts.

Open Conversation Coach
Ethan Cole serving an adult customer at Cedar and Stone restaurant
12Practice: restaurant conversation

Dinner at Cedar & Stone

Be the customer in a six-stage restaurant exchange with a visual menu, adaptive waiter responses, a service problem, and a private /50 report.

Enter the restaurant
Two Colombian university students presenting traditional dishes as one coordinated team
13Practice: pair speaking

Colombian Food Cultural Showcase

Prepare one connected 3-4 minute presentation in pairs with professional listening models, purposeful visuals, shared interaction, and a joint conclusion.

Prepare the showcase
Unit 6

Future Plans, Advice and Organizing Life

Intentions, confirmed arrangements, scheduling conflicts, advice, decisions, and useful planning expressions.

10 activities
Olivia and Marcus reviewing a busy Thursday schedule in a professional music studio
01 Practice: grammar storybook

Olivia's Schedule Storybook

Complete a four-page story with dropdown grammar decisions, revise marked blanks, write a final note, and send it to the teacher.

Open activity
Adult English learners choosing future forms while reviewing a calendar and schedule cards
02 Practice: grammar decisions

Future Forms Decision Lab

Complete 12 A-D future-form decisions with be going to, present continuous, simple present, and will, then send the checked result to the teacher.

Open activity
Adult English learners organizing a weekly schedule with a calendar and time cards
03 Practice: time grammar

Time Prepositions Schedule Lab

Choose on, at, in, or from...to in ten realistic schedule blanks, check the feedback, and send the reference grade to the teacher.

Open activity
Olivia reviewing a crowded schedule during a professional video call with Marcus
04 Practice: listening comprehension

Listening: The Schedule Change Call

Listen to Olivia and Marcus reorganize a crowded Thursday, answer ten comprehension questions, check the quiz, and send the follow-up to the teacher.

Open activity
Olivia reviewing an overloaded weekly calendar in a professional music studio
05 Practice: reading comprehension

Reading: Olivia's Overloaded Week

Read a magazine-style article about organizing a crowded week, answer ten comprehension questions, check the quiz, and send the follow-up to the teacher.

Open activity
English learner practicing future plans pronunciation with a microphone and calendar notes in a studio
06 Practice: pronunciation

Pronunciation: Future Plans and Advice

Practice rhythm for plans, confirmed arrangements, advice, phrasal verbs, idioms, and a final schedule decision sent to the teacher.

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Marcus Reed helping adult English learners organize a busy weekly schedule in a professional studio
07 Practice: conversation coach

Schedule Rescue Conversation Coach

Advise Marcus through eight connected stages with future plans, confirmed arrangements, advice, scheduling expressions, and a teacher follow-up report.

Start meeting
Olivia and Marcus organizing a busy week for a professional short video listening activity
08 Practice: video listening

Video Listening: Olivia's Week in 90 Seconds

Watch a short YouTube video conversation, identify future forms and scheduling expressions, check ten questions, and send the follow-up to the teacher.

Open activity
Little Red Riding Hood and her mother planning a forest visit with a basket and map
09 Practice: read-along audiobook

Little Red Riding Hood: Future Plans Audiobook

Listen to a professional read-along story, follow the visible transcript by scene, and notice Unit 6 future forms and advice language in context.

Open audiobook
Adult Intermediate English learners voting on schedule decisions in a live classroom game
10 Practice: live decision game

The Decision Room

Create a live room, write practical Unit 6 decisions, nominate finalists, vote, and discuss why the winning advice works.

Open game