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Week 1
08/27 - 09/02

Lesson 8 – Daily Stints

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Ngày giỗ cha

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms in the lesson.

Week 2
09/03 - 09/09

Lesson 8 (cont’d)

- Vocabulary and word usage

- Grammar notes:

- Practices 94 - 101

ØPractice telling directions using different prepositions, such as lên, xuống, sang, ...

ØCopy the reading and practice changing the term cha into others like mẹ, chú, bác, cô, dì, ...

Ø Test Yourself #8

Week 3
09/10 - 09/16

Lesson 9 – Poor Health, Good Health

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Tập thể dục

- Vocabulary and word usage

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms in the lesson.

Week 4
09/17 - 09/23

Lesson 9 (cont’d)

- Grammar notes

- Practices 102 – 110

- Quiz # 1

ØReady to take quiz #1

ØPractice using adverbs of frequency: luôn luôn, thường thường, đôi khi, ...

Ø Test Yourself #9

Week 5
09/24 - 09/30

Lesson 10 – Are You Getting along?

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Một ngày xui xẻo

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms in the lesson, espeically the classifiers bộ, máy, trời, vải, viên, ....

Week 6
10/01 - 10/07

Lesson 10 (cont’d)

- Vocabulary and word usage

- Grammar notes

- Practices 111 – 120

ØPractice using all interjections: à, á, ái chà, ối chao, ...

Ø Work on Test Yourself #10

Week 7
10/08 - 10/14

Lesson 11 – Jobs and Career

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Đi thuê nhà

- Vocabulary and word usage

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms about jobs, classifiers, and rewrite the reading, using your own information. 

Week 8
10/15 - 10/21

Lesson 11 (cont’d)

- Grammar notes

- Practice 121 – 132

- Quiz #2

ØPractice making questions with có phải ... không?  and sentences using comparative with hôn and superlative form with nhất

ØTest Yourself #11

Week 9
10/22 - 10/28

Lesson 12 – Going to School

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Chọn trường học

- Vocabulary and word usage

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms on branches of learning or majors, classifiers for jobs and career

Week 10
10/29 - 11/04

Lesson 12 (cont’d)

- Grammar notes

- Practices 133 – 143

- Midterm

ØPractice all sentences using conditional clauses, make your sentences using the given patterns

Ø Work on Test Yourself #12

Ø Review for midterm. See Midterm Review

MIDTERM EXAM ONLINE

Week 11
11/05 - 11/11

Lesson 13 – Entertainment

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Giải trí

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms forms of enterntainment and sports

Week 12
11/12 - 11/18

 Lesson 13 (cont’d)

- Vocabulary and word usage

- Grammar notes

- Practices 144 – 154

ØPractice using more interjections like hoan hô, hú vía, ...

Ø Work on Test Yourself #13

Week 13
11/19 - 11/25

Lesson 14 - Holidays

- Dialog one, two and three

- Reading Ngày Tết

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms for holidays

Week 14
11/26 - 12/02

 Lesson 14 (cont’d)

- Vocabulary and word usage

- Grammar notes

- Practices 155 – 164

- Quiz #3

ØPractice writing sentences with như, đã, đã được, đã từng, đã và đang  in compound and complex structures; parallelism.

Ø Test Yourself #14

Week 15
12/03 - 12/09

Lesson 15 – A Visit to Vietnam

- Dialog one, two and three

- Vocabulary and word usage

- Grammar notes

ØWatch the video parts, listen and repeat after the speakers.

ØComplete your vocabulary notebook with the key terms for fishes and other seafood, for fruits. Modals of degree of certainty.

Week 16
12/10 - 12/16

 Final Exam

- Practices 165 – 175

- Review for final

 The final exam will be comprehensive covering the eight lessons from 8 to 15.

ØPractice making sentences describing degree of certainty.

ØTest Yourself #15

Midterm and Final exam: See the Reviews and Exams page for details