Book: Connectivity Foundations 

Units: 1 to 3 

Unit 1 People and Occupations

GRAMMAR – Verb be: Singular and plural statements / Contractions • Yes / No questions and short answers • Proper nouns and common nouns

VOCABULARY – subject pronouns • occupations • the alphabet

OBJECTIVES: 

• Can I introduce people?
• Can I identify people?
• Can I spell names?
• Can I describe people?

Unit 2 Personal information

GRAMMAR – Possessive adjectives • possessive nouns • Be: information questions with What • Be from: questions with Where

VOCABULARY – contact information • relationships • numbers 0–20 • countries • nationalities

OBJECTIVES: 

• Can I describe relationships?
• Can I ask for someone’s contact information?
• Can I find out where people are from?
• Can I get to know people?

Unit 3 Neighborhoods

GRAMMAR – Be: Questions about location with Where • Subject pronoun it • The imperative • By + a means of transportation

VOCABULARY – transportation • locations • ways to travel • destinations

OBJECTIVES: 

• Can I ask about locations?
• Can I suggest how to get places?
• Can I talk about means of transportation? 
• Can I describe a neighborhood?

Book:Connectivity Foundations 

Units: 4 to 6 

Unit 4 Families

GRAMMAR – Be: Questions with Who • With adjectives; Questions with How old; Adverbs very, really and so • Verb have / has: Affirmative statements • Describing people with be and have

VOCABULARY – Family relationships • describe people, hair and face • numbers 21–101;

OBJECTIVES: 

•  Can I comment on family photos? 
•  Can I  ask about relatives?
•  Can I describe appearance?  
•  Can I talk about someone’s family?

Unit 5 Time and events

GRAMMAR – Be questions with When / What time / What day and What month • Prepositions in, on and at

VOCABULARY – What time is it? • late, early and on time; events • days of the week • months • ordinal numbers

OBJECTIVES: 

• Can I ask about the time of events?  
• Can I plan to attend an event?  
• Can I ask about birthdays? 
• Can I describe a time span?

Unit 6 Clothes

GRAMMAR – The simple present tense like, want, need and have: Affirmative and negative statements • Yes / No questions • Information questions • Demonstratives: this, that, these and those • Adjective placement / Intensifier too

VOCABULARY – colors • clothes • verbs like, want, need and have • clothing sizes • opposite adjectives to describe clothes

OBJECTIVES: 

• Can I give and accept a compliment?
• Can I ask for sizes and colors?
• Can I describe clothes?  
• Can I shop for clothes?

Book:Connectivity Foundations 

Units: 7 to 9

Unit 7 Free time and chores

GRAMMAR – The simple present tense: Spelling of third person singular forms • Questions with Who • Questions with How often • Other time expressions • Frequency adverbs

VOCABULARY – activities at home • household chores • free-time activities

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I discuss who does household chores?  
•  Can I Talk about free time?  
•  Can I make plans to get together?
•  Can I describe activities of a typical day?

Unit 8 Houses and homes

GRAMMAR – There is and There are • Questions with How many • The simple present tense: Questions with Where • Prepositions of place

VOCABULARY – rooms, furniture and appliances • buildings • parts of a building • places in and around cities and towns

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I ask about someone’s home?  
• Can I agree and disagree about styles?  
• Can I Talk about where you live, work, or study?
• Can I  compare people’s tastes in housing?

Unit 9 Activities and plans

GRAMMAR – The present continuous: Statements • Yes / No questions • For future plans • Information questions

VOCABULARY – weather expressions • clothes for good or bad weather • time expressions • outdoor activities

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I offer to call back later?  
•  Can I ask about future plans?
•  Can I catch up with an old friend?
•  Can I talk about activities and plans?

Book:Connectivity Level 1

Units: 1 to 3

Unit 1 Getting to Know You

GRAMMAR – Information questions with be: Review • Contractions • Yes / no questions and short answers with be: Review

VOCABULARY – Occupations • Personal information • Fields of study for a career or occupation

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I introduce and greet people?  
•  Can I get acquainted with someone?  
•  Can I discuss the importance of English in your life?  
•  Can I discuss some difficulties of learning a language?

Unit 2 Events and Places

GRAMMAR – Prepositions of time and place: Review

VOCABULARY – Entertainment events • Directions and locations • Musical genres

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I invite someone to an event?
•  Can I give directions to a place?  
•  Can I talk about musical preferences?  
•  Can I make plans to see an event?

Unit 3 How We Feel

GRAMMAR – Can and can’t for ability and possibility • Can and can’t: Information questions • Should and shouldn’t for advice

VOCABULARY – Abilities • Ailments • Adjectives for feelings

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I identify people’s abilities?  
•  Can I give advice to someone who doesn’t feel well?  
•  Can I describe feelings?   
•  Can I discuss how we develop abilities?

Book:Connectivity Level 1

Units: 4 to 6 

Unit 4 Talking about People

GRAMMAR – The simple present tense: Review • Comparative adjectives

VOCABULARY – More family relationships • Marital status and relationships • Adjectives to describe people • Similarities

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I respond to good or bad news?  
•  Can I describe and compare people?  
•  Can I describe similarities and differences?  
•  Can I discuss trends in family households?

Unit 5 Eating in Restaurants

GRAMMAR – Count and non-count nouns: Review • Definite article the for specific reference • Some and any • Anything and nothing

VOCABULARY – Parts of a meal • Adjectives for food preparation • Categories of food

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I order from the menu?  
•  Can I discuss ways to prepare food?  
•  Can I talk about healthy and unhealthy foods?  
•  Can I describe food habits and tastes? 

Unit 6 Living with Technology

GRAMMAR – The present continuous: Review • The present continuous and the simple present tense: Review

VOCABULARY – Devices • Household appliances and devices • Positive and negative descriptions • Collocations for using technology • Some smartphone activities • Powering electronic devices

OBJECTIVES: 

•  Can I describe advantages and disadvantages of a brand?
•  Can I talk about things that aren’t working?  
•  Can I describe smartphone habits?
•  Can I discuss the challenges of traveling with technology?

Book:Connectivity Level 1

Units: 7 to 9

Unit 7 Vacations and Travel

GRAMMAR – The past tense of be • The simple past tense: Statements • The simple past tense: Questions

VOCABULARY – Activities • Adjectives to describe trips • Intensifiers • Kinds of tickets and seats • Past time expressions • Years, decades, and centuries • Airport information

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I greet someone arriving from a trip?  
•  Can I report a change in travel plans?
•  Can I describe good and bad vacations?  
•  Can I discuss some hassles of travel?

Unit 8 Shopping for Clothes

GRAMMAR – Object pronouns: Usage • Superlative adjectives

VOCABULARY – Clothing items • Types of clothing and accessories • Interior locations and directions • Adjectives for describing clothing customs

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I shop and pay for clothes? 
•  Can I ask for a recommendation for a place to shop?  
•  Can I give directions within buildings?
•  Can I describe local clothing customs?

Unit 9 Fitness and Health

GRAMMAR – Have to / has to • Modals should and could

VOCABULARY – Exercise activities • Places for sports, games, and other exercise • Land and water recreation activities • Collocations with go • Recreation equipment • Parts of the body • Accidents and injuries

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I make a date to get together?
•  Can I  suggest how to get in shape?  
•  Can I discuss recreation equipment?  
•  Can I describe accidents and injuries?

Book:Connectivity Level 2

Units: 1 to 3

Unit 1 Making New Friends

GRAMMAR – Gerunds and infinitives • Gerunds after prepositions

VOCABULARY – Personality • Some hobbies • Adjective + preposition collocations • Kinds of friends

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I get to know someone?  
•  Can I cheer up a friend?  
•  Can I discuss differences among siblings?  
•  Can I discuss friendship?

Unit 2 Sharing Life Experiences

GRAMMAR – The simple past tense and the present perfect • The present perfect: indefinite time in the past (ever, before, yet, never, already)

VOCABULARY – Greeting customs • Tourist activities • Participial adjectives

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I catch up with an old friend?  
•  Can I suggest tourist activities?  
•  Can I describe greeting customs?  
•  Can I talk about a memorable experience?

Unit 3 Talking About Movies

GRAMMAR – The present perfect: for and since • The present perfect: other uses • Would rather to express preferences

VOCABULARY – Movie genres • Explanations for being late • Adjectives to describe movies

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I apologize for being late?  
•  Can I choose a movie to watch?  
•  Can I express an opinion about a movie?  
•  Can I discuss what makes a movie great?

Book:Connectivity Level 2

Units: 4 to 6

Unit 4 Away from Home

GRAMMAR – The future with will • The real conditional

VOCABULARY – Kinds of accommodations • Facilities and amenities • Telephone messages • Kinds of hotel rooms and beds • Ways to request services in a hotel

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I leave and take telephone messages?  
•  Can I check in to and out of a hotel?
•  Can I request services in a hotel?  
•  Can I choose vacation accommodations?

Unit 5 Looking Good

GRAMMAR – Quantifiers for indefinite quantities and amounts: some and any • Quantifiers for indefinite quantities and amounts: a lot of / lots of, many and much • Indefinite pronouns: someone / no one / anyone

VOCABULARY – Personal care tools and products • Kinds of personal care • Cosmetic procedures

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I ask for something in a store?  
•  Can I make an appointment for personal care?
•  Can I discuss cosmetic procedures?  
•  Can I define inner and outer beauty?

Unit 6 Eating Well

GRAMMAR – Negative yes / no questions • Use to / used to

VOCABULARY – Classes of foods • Reasons for declining food • Reasons for adopting a diet • Describing foods

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I  make an excuse for declining food?
•  Can I describe changes in eating habits and tastes?  
•  Can I discuss diet choices?
•  Can I describe favorite dishes in detail?

Book:Connectivity Level 2

Units: 7 to 9

Unit 7 Driving Around

GRAMMAR – Unfinished or continuing actions: the present perfect continuous • The past continuous

VOCABULARY – Kinds of cars and small trucks • Dangerous driving habits • Major car systems and parts • Traffic accidents • Separable phrasal verbs • Driving behavior

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I discuss reasons for getting a new car?  
•  Can I describe an accident?  
•  Can I rent a car?
•  Can I discuss good and bad driving?

Unit 8 Doing the Right Thing

GRAMMAR – Whose and which / Possessive pronouns • The unreal conditional 

VOCABULARY – Talking about property • Adjectives for describing good and bad character

OBJECTIVES :

• Can I return someone’s property?
• Can I discuss ethical choices?  
• Can I describe good and bad character traits?  
• Can I talk about honesty?

Unit 9 Enjoying the Arts

GRAMMAR – The passive voice: present and past • The passive voice: questions

VOCABULARY – Forms of visual arts • Styles of art • Materials and handcrafted objects • Passive participial phrases

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I  comment on a piece of art? 
•  Can I ask about and describe objects?  
•  Can I describe what makes an artist appealing?  
•  Can I recommend a place to enjoy the arts?

Book:Connectivity Level 3

Units: 1 to 3

Unit 1 Becoming Culturally Literate

GRAMMAR – Modals must, may and might • Tag questions: Use and form 

VOCABULARY – Manners and etiquette

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I  introduce people who may have something in common?  
•  Can I make small talk?
•  Can I develop cultural awareness?  
•  Can I discuss gender and culture?

Unit 2 Getting Help

GRAMMAR – The causatives have and get • Passive causatives 

VOCABULARY – Services • Service businesses

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I ask for and offer to do favors?  
•  Can I arrange to get something done?
•  Can I recommend service providers?  
•  Can I persuade someone to use your services?

Unit 3 What We Read

GRAMMAR – Noun clauses that function as direct objects • Noun clauses: Embedded questions VOCABULARY – Genres of books • Ways to describe a book • Some formats for reading

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I recommend a good book?
•  Can I talk about a newspaper or magazine article?  
•  Can I describe tastes in leisure reading?
•  Can I discuss formats of educational materials?

Book:Connectivity Level 3

Units: 4 to 6

Unit 4 Taking Care of Yourself

GRAMMAR – The past perfect • Wish to express regrets and desires

VOCABULARY – Medical procedures • Symptoms and conditions • Types of medications

OBJECTIVES :

•  Can I explain why you can’t come to work or class?
•  Can I express wishes and regrets?  
•  Can I recommend treatments and medications?  
•  Can I compare approaches to health care?

Unit 5 Coping with Disasters and Emergencies

GRAMMAR – Indirect speech: Imperatives • Indirect speech: Say and tell – tense changes

 VOCABULARY – Emergency supplies • Disasters • Natural disasters • Emergency readiness and

supplies

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I warn of a dangerous situation?  
•  Can I start a conversation about a disaster in the news?  
•  Can I discuss epidemics?  
•  Can I prepare for an emergency?

Unit 6 Plans and Choices

GRAMMAR – The future as seen from the past: Was / Were going to and would

 VOCABULARY – Perfect modals

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I express resolutions for creating a better life?
•  Can I examine past actions?
•  Can I discuss factors that promote success?  
•  Can I prepare for a job interview?

Book:Connectivity Level 3

Units: 7 to 9

Unit 7 Holidays and Traditions

GRAMMAR – Adjective clauses with relative pronouns who and that • Adjective clauses: Subject and object relative pronouns

VOCABULARY – Types of holidays • Ways to celebrate or commemorate a holiday • Describing the purpose of an event

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I exchange holiday greetings?  
•  Can I ask about local traditions?  
•  Can I compare holidays?  
•  Can I describe wedding customs?

Unit 8 Innovations

GRAMMAR – The unreal conditional: Review and expansion • The past unreal conditional 

VOCABULARY – Adjectives for describing products, processes, or ideas • Archaeology

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I describe new kinds of products?  
•  Can I imagine a different past outcome?  
•  Can I describe inventors and their inventions?  
•  Can I consider the impact of historical inventions?

Unit 9 Discussing Global and Local Issues

GRAMMAR – Verbs followed by an object + an infinitive • Non-count nouns that represent abstract ideas

VOCABULARY – Controversial issues • Stating a position on an issue • Political points of view • Political and governmental systems

OBJECTIVES:

•  Can I agree and disagree politely?  
•  Can I ask about political views?  
•  Can I debate different sides of an issue?  
•  Can I discuss solutions to global and local problems?

Book:Connectivity Level 4

Units: 1 to 3

Unit 1: Describing Ourselves and others 

GRAMMAR – Gerunds and infinitives: review and expansion • Verbs that require a noun or pronoun before an infinitive • Infinitives: review, expansion, and common errors • Parallelism with gerunds and infinitives 

VOCABULARY – Adjectives to describe personality and character traits • Attitudes towards others’ conduct

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I talk about your personality and character?
• Can I describe how people behave?
• Can I discuss how we respond to others’ conduct? 
• Can I talk about nonverbal communication and culture?

Unit 2: Creativity in Our Lives 

GRAMMAR – The present perfect continuous and the present perfect: review and expansion • Cleft sentences with What • Finished and unfinished actions: summary • Noun clauses: review and expansion • Noun clauses as adjective and noun complements 

VOCABULARY – Talk about how you’ve been enjoying the arts • Disagree politely about artistic preferences • Describe the personalities of creative people • Discuss ways to increase creative thinking

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I Talk about how you’ve been enjoying the arts?
• Can I Disagree politely about artistic preferences?
• Can I Describe the personalities of creative people?
• Can I Discuss ways to increase creative thinking?

Unit 3: Financial Matters 

GRAMMAR – Expressing regrets about the past • Completed future actions and plans: the future perfect and perfect infinitives • The past unreal conditional: inverted form • The future continuous • The future perfect continuous 

VOCABULARY – Express buyer’s remorse • Talk about financial goals and plans • Describe good and bad money management • Consider reasons for charitable giving

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I express buyer’s remorse?
• Can I talk about financial goals and plans?
• Can I describe good and bad money management?
• Can I consider reasons for charitable giving

Book:Connectivity Level 4

Units: 4  to 6

Unit 4 Clothing and Appearance

GRAMMAR – Quantifiers: review and expansion • Quantifiers: a few and few; a little and little

• Quantifiers: using of for specific reference • Subject-verb agreement of quantifiers followed by of

VOCABULARY – Describe clothing details and formality • Talk about the kind of clothes you buy

• Examine questionable cosmetic procedures • Discuss appearance and self-esteem

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I describe clothing details and formality?
• Can I talk about the kind of clothes you buy
• Can I examine questionable cosmetic procedures?
• Can I discuss appearance and self-esteem?

Unit 5 Community

GRAMMAR – Possessive gerunds • Paired conjunctions • Conjunctions with so, too, neither, or not either

• So, too, neither, or not either: short responses

VOCABULARY – Politely ask someone not to do something • Describe annoying public Conduct • Talk

about ways to address community problems • Discuss the impact of infrastructure on people’s lives

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I politely ask someone not to do something?
• Can I describe annoying public conduct?
• Can I talk about ways to address community problems?
• Can I discuss the impact of infrastructure on people’s lives?

Unit 6 The World’s Creatures

GRAMMAR – Passive modals and modal-like expressions • Passive modals: questions • Modals and

modal-like expressions: summary

VOCABULARY – Describe the traits of different pets • Express opinions about the treatment of animals

• Compare animal and human behavior • Discuss how to protect animals from extinction

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I  describe the traits of different pets?
• Can I express opinions about the treatment of animals?
• Can I  compare animal and human behavior?
• Can I  discuss how to protect animals from extinction?

Book:Connectivity Level 4

Units: 7  to 9

Unit 7 Shopping and Advertising

GRAMMAR –  Passive forms of gerunds and infinitives • The passive voice: review and expansion

VOCABULARY – Compare different ways to shop • Describe reactions to advertisements • Talk about

problem shopping behavior • Persuade someone to buy a product

OBJECTIVES:

• Can I compare different ways to shop?
• Can I describe reactions to advertisements?
• Can I talk about problem shopping behavior?
• Can I persuade someone to buy a product?

Unit 8 Family Trends

GRAMMAR – Repeated comparatives and double comparatives • Making comparisons: review and

expansion • Other uses of comparatives, superlatives, and comparisons with as … as

VOCABULARY – Describe family trends • Talk about parent and teen relationships • Compare the

generations within a family • Discuss multi-generational households

• Can I describe family trends?
• Can I talk about parent and teen relationships?
• Can I  compare the generations within a family?
• Can I discuss multi-generational households?

Unit 9 Getting at the Truth

GRAMMAR – Perfect modals: active and passive voice • Perfect modals: short responses (active and

passive voice)

VOCABULARY – Speculate about what happened • Suggest a plausible explanation • Discuss why

people fall for pranks • Evaluate the trustworthiness of information sources

• Can I speculate about what happened?
• Can I suggest a plausible explanation?
• Can I  discuss why people fall for pranks?
• Can I  evaluate the trustworthiness of information sources?