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First Foreign Language (English) – Secondary Grade 2

Six units – Egypt–Africa cooperation, startups, the SDGs, natural disasters, media manipulation, soft vs hard skills – with present continuous and past perfect (active and passive), adjectives and adverbs, comparison, tag questions and relative clauses, four-skill tasks, and the novel Around the World in Eighty Days (chapters 1–6).

Provisional content until the official book is published

  • All levelsSuits beginners and experienced learners
  • 54 lessonsOrdered from basics to practice
  • In EnglishAll content in English

About this course

Each unit: reading + vocabulary, listening + speaking role-play, grammar, and a writing genre (persuasive essay, business email, blog post, formal report, opinion essay, descriptive essay).

Academy-authored content and assessments – not an official exam.

Course highlights

  • Read and listen for main ideas and details about Egypt–Africa cooperation, role-play forum delegates, write a persuasive essay, and use the present continuous active and passive
  • Read and listen about young entrepreneurs and startup pitches, role-play an investor meeting, write a business email, and use the past perfect active and passive
  • Read about Egypt Vision 2030 and listen about better healthcare, discuss comprehensive development, write a blog post, and use adjectives and adverbs correctly
  • Read and listen about natural disasters and preparedness, role-play a city planning team, write a formal report, and use comparative and superlative forms of all types
  • Analyse fake news and evaluate the reliability of sources, write an opinion essay, and form tag questions
  • Compare soft and hard skills, discuss future careers, write a descriptive essay, and use defining and non-defining relative clauses
  • Follow the plot, characters and themes of Around the World in Eighty Days chapters 1–6, and support answers with evidence from the adapted text
  • Read and listen about health and well-being, discuss healthy choices, write a problem–solution essay, and use zero, first, second and third conditionals
  • Read and listen about space exploration, present a mission plan, write an article, and use the future continuous and future perfect
  • Read and listen about heritage tourism, interview a tour guide, write a travel review, and use reported speech (statements, questions, commands)
  • Read and discuss digital citizenship and AI, debate its benefits and risks, write a for-and-against essay, and express regrets and wishes with wish / if only
  • Read and listen about volunteering, role-play a volunteer interview, write a formal letter of application, and use past modals (must have, can't have, should have)
  • Read and listen about the arts, describe a creative project, write a review, and use the causative (have / get something done)
  • Follow the plot, characters and themes of Around the World in Eighty Days chapters 7–12 (Hong Kong to London and the final twist), supporting answers with evidence

The practical result

What you’ll build in this course

Read and listen about the arts, describe a creative project, write a review, and use the causative (have / get something done)

Final lesson: L14.3 Novel chapters 11–12: arrested in Liverpool and the lost day

Is this course for you?

Who it’s for

  • S2 general-system students studying the 2026/27 English book

Requirements

  • S1 English

Course content

  • 16units
  • 54sessions
  • 15quizzes
Unit 1 · Egypt–Africa Cooperation4 sessions
  1. L1.1 Reading & vocabulary: Egypt, gateway to Africa
  2. L1.2 Listening & speaking: partnerships; forum role-play
  3. L1.3 Grammar: present continuous, active and passive
  4. L1.4 Writing: a persuasive essay
Unit 2 · Startups & Young Entrepreneurs4 sessions
  1. L2.1 Reading & vocabulary: inspiring entrepreneurs
  2. L2.2 Listening & speaking: a pitch competition; investor role-play
  3. L2.3 Grammar: past perfect, active and passive
  4. L2.4 Writing: a business email
Unit 3 · Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)4 sessions
  1. L3.1 Reading & vocabulary: Egypt Vision 2030
  2. L3.2 Listening & speaking: better healthcare; development discussion
  3. L3.3 Grammar: adjectives and adverbs
  4. L3.4 Writing: a blog post / vlog script
Unit 4 · Natural Disasters4 sessions
  1. L4.1 Reading & vocabulary: natural disasters
  2. L4.2 Listening & speaking: emergency preparedness; planning-team role-play
  3. L4.3 Grammar: comparatives and superlatives (all types)
  4. L4.4 Writing: a formal report
Unit 5 · Media Manipulation4 sessions
  1. L5.1 Reading & vocabulary: the anatomy of fake news
  2. L5.2 Listening & speaking: social-media regulation; evaluating sources
  3. L5.3 Grammar: tag questions
  4. L5.4 Writing: an opinion essay
Unit 6 · Soft Skills vs Hard Skills4 sessions
  1. L6.1 Reading & vocabulary: hard skills and soft skills
  2. L6.2 Listening & speaking: a radio debate; future careers
  3. L6.3 Grammar: defining and non-defining relative clauses
  4. L6.4 Writing: a descriptive essay
Unit 7 · Set novel – Around the World in Eighty Days (chapters 1–6, the book's adaptation)3 sessions
  1. L7.1 Novel chapters 1–2: Fogg, Passepartout and the wager
  2. L7.2 Novel chapters 3–4: the Mediterranean, Suez and Cairo; Detective Fix
  3. L7.3 Novel chapters 5–6: to Bombay and across India; Aouda
Unit 8 · Health and Well-being (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L8.1 Reading & vocabulary: habits for a healthy life
  2. L8.2 Listening & speaking: a nutritionist's advice; healthy-choices discussion
  3. L8.3 Grammar: conditionals (zero, first, second, third)
  4. L8.4 Writing: a problem–solution essay
Unit 9 · Space Exploration (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L9.1 Reading & vocabulary: space missions and Egypt's satellites
  2. L9.2 Listening & speaking: a mission briefing; presenting a plan
  3. L9.3 Grammar: future continuous and future perfect
  4. L9.4 Writing: an article
Unit 10 · Heritage and Tourism (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L10.1 Reading & vocabulary: heritage tourism
  2. L10.2 Listening & speaking: interviewing a tour guide
  3. L10.3 Grammar: reported speech
  4. L10.4 Writing: a travel review
Unit 11 · Digital Citizenship and AI (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L11.1 Reading & vocabulary: digital citizenship
  2. L11.2 Listening & speaking: an AI debate
  3. L11.3 Grammar: wish / if only
  4. L11.4 Writing: a for-and-against essay
Unit 12 · Volunteering and Civic Responsibility (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L12.1 Reading & vocabulary: volunteering and civic duty
  2. L12.2 Listening & speaking: a volunteer interview
  3. L12.3 Grammar: past modals
  4. L12.4 Writing: a formal letter of application
Unit 13 · The Arts and Creativity (term 2)4 sessions
  1. L13.1 Reading & vocabulary: the arts in our lives
  2. L13.2 Listening & speaking: describing a creative project
  3. L13.3 Grammar: causative have / get
  4. L13.4 Writing: a review
Unit 14 · Set novel – Around the World in Eighty Days, chapters 7–12 (Verne's original) (term 2)3 sessions
  1. L14.1 Novel chapters 7–8: Hong Kong and Yokohama
  2. L14.2 Novel chapters 9–10: across America and the Atlantic race
  3. L14.3 Novel chapters 11–12: arrested in Liverpool and the lost day
Quizzes0 sessions · 15 quizzes
  1. Unit 1 – Egypt–Africa Cooperation
  2. Unit 2 – Startups & Young Entrepreneurs
  3. Unit 3 – Sustainable Development Goals
  4. Unit 4 – Natural Disasters
  5. Unit 5 – Media Manipulation
  6. Unit 6 – Soft Skills vs Hard Skills
  7. Set novel – Around the World in Eighty Days, chapters 1–6
  8. Unit 8 – Health and Well-being
  9. Unit 9 – Space Exploration
  10. Unit 10 – Heritage and Tourism
  11. Unit 11 – Digital Citizenship and AI
  12. Unit 12 – Volunteering and Civic Responsibility
  13. Unit 13 – The Arts and Creativity
  14. Novel – Around the World in Eighty Days, chapters 7–12
  15. اختبار شامل
Projects and assignments0 sessions
  1. A1 – Persuasive essay
  2. A2 – Formal report
  3. Speaking task
  4. A3 – Problem–solution essay
  5. A4 – Formal letter of application

The lecturer

Lecturer

Eng. Abdelmaksoud

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