Thursday (8.30pm – 10.30pm)
Commencement Date : 7 September 2023
Unit 1 |
My Life And Home |
| Reading | – Part 5: ‘Emilia’s home’ – living on a boat.
– Reading for understanding of vocabulary. |
| Writing | – Part 1: An email.
– Planning a reply. |
| Listening | – Part 2: Listening for specific information.
– Two candidates doing Speaking Part 1. |
| Speaking | – Part 1: Saying your name, where you live, what you do, and if you like studying English. |
| Pronunciation | – s ending /s/./z/ and /iz/. |
| Vocabulary | – House and home.
– Countable and uncountable nouns. |
| Grammar | – Preposition of time
– Frequency adverbs – Present simple and present continuous. – State verbs. – A few, a little, many, much , a lot of, lots of – Preposition of place. |
Unit 2 |
Making Choices |
| Reading | – Part 6: ‘Would you choose to study at a college or university like this?’.
– Reading for detailed understanding of words and sentences. |
| Writing | – A post about what you used to do ten years ago.
– Part 2: An article on what makes a great place to work. – Using a mind map to plan an answer. |
| Listening | – Emily talking about her work experience in Mexico.
– Part 1: Seven shorts texts about daily life. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 3. |
| Speaking | – Part 3: Discussing a new club for students to practice English.
– Agreeing and disagreeing. – Making a decision. |
| Pronunciation | -ed endings /d/, /t/ and /Id/. |
| Vocabulary | – Life choices.
– Fail, pass, take, loss, miss, study, and teach do, earn, make, spend, take and win. |
| Grammar | – Past simple.
– Past simple and past continuous. – used to – So do I and Nor/ Neither do I |
Unit 3 |
Having Fun |
| Reading | – Part 3: ‘Sand sculptures’.
– Reading for detailed understanding. |
| Writing | – Part 2: A story about a day out.
– Planning paragraphs. |
| Listening | – Part 4: Marc Pasqual – an Instagram photographer.
– Talking about a skiing holiday. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 2. |
| Speaking | – Part 2: Describing a picture.
– Explaining what you can see and where things are. |
| Pronunciation | -ing endings /n/ |
| Vocabulary | – Leisure activities.
– Prepositions of place. – Phrasal Verbs – People’s hobbies. |
| Grammar | – Verbs followed by to or -ing |
Unit 4 |
On Holiday |
| Reading | Part 1: Identifying text purpose. |
| Writing | – Part 1: An email.
– Suggesting where to go in a city and what to do. |
| Listening | – Discussing a quiz.
– Part 3: ‘A bushcraft skills course’ – Some friends discussing their next holiday. |
| Speaking | – Part 3: Discussing where to go in a city.
– Making suggestions and giving reasons. |
| Pronunciation | – Weak forms in comparative stsructures. |
| Vocabulary | – Holiday activities.
– Travel, journey and trip. – Buildings and places. |
| Grammar | – Comparative and superlative adjectives.
– A bit, a little, much, far, a lot. – (Not) as… as… – Big and enormous (gradable and non-gradable adjectives). |
Unit 5 |
Different Feelings |
| Reading | – Part 4: ‘How I dealt with stress’.
– Identifying the topic of a paragraph. – Identifying linking words (this, then, do, also, however, etc.) |
| Writing | – Part 2: A story.
– Using adjectives to describe feeling. |
| Listening | – Part 2: Listening for facts, opinions or feelings.
– Two candidates doing Speaking Part 4. |
| Speaking | – Part 4: Describing personal experiences.
– Asking other people what they think. |
| Pronunciation | – Modal verbs: weak and strong forms. |
| Vocabulary | – Feelings.
– Adjectives and prepositions. – Adjectives with -ed and -ing. – Adjectives and their opposites. |
| Grammar | – Can, could, might, may (ability and possibility).
– Should, shouldn’t, ought to, must, mustn’t, have to, don’t have to (advice, obligation and prohibition). |
Unit 6 |
That’s Entertainment! |
| Reading | – Part 2: ‘Turn off the TV and go out!’.
– Selecting events from an entertainment guide. |
| Writing | – Part 2: An article about a celebration in your country.
– Using the correct style for an article. |
| Listening | – Eliza and Bella planning a night out.
– Part 1: Seven short texts about daily life. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 3. |
| Speaking | – Part 3: Discussing plans for a festival.
– Moving on to a new subject. |
| Pronunciation | – Word stress. |
| Vocabulary | – Television programme.
– Going out. – Been/gone, meet, get to know, find out |
| Grammar | – Present perfect
– Just, already and yet. – Since and for – Present perfect or past simple? |
Unit 7 |
Getting Around |
| Reading | – Reading part 1: Identifying text purpose. |
| Writing | – Part 1: An email.
– Useful email expressions. |
| Listening | – Part 2: Olivia talks about extremely heavy snow while travelling in Italy.
– Identifying distracting information. – Mia and Owen discuss getting to the station on time. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 2. |
| Speaking | – Part 2: Describing what people are doing in photos.
– Adding new points, and correcting yourself. – Describing things you don’t know the name of. |
| Pronunciation | – Word stress in compound nouns. |
| Vocabulary | – Weather.
– Compound words. |
| Grammar | –Extremely, fairly, quite, rather, really and very too and enough.
– The future. – Prepositions of movement. |
Unit 8 |
Influencers |
| Reading | – Famous families.
– Part 6: An article about Emma Watson, a famous influencer. |
| Writing | – Part 2: An article about a person you admire.
– Using correct spelling and punctuation. |
| Listening | – Part 3: ‘How to become famous on YouTube’.
– Completing notes. – Carter and Will discuss presenters for a YouTube channel. – Three candidates doing Speaking Part 1. |
| Speaking | – Part 1: Answering general questions.
– Talking about your daily routine and what you like. |
| Pronunciation | – Conditional sentences.
– Contracted words. |
| Vocabulary | – Phrasal verbs.
– Describing people. – Adjective prefixes and suffixes. -Adjective order. |
| Grammar | – Zero, first and second conditionals.
– When, if, unless + present, future |
Unit 9 |
Stay Fit And Healthy |
| Reading | – Part 3: Evie Scott tallks about exercise at work.
– Identifying opinion and attitude. |
| Writing | – Part 2: A story about feeling nervous.
– Using a range of past tenses to explain what happened. |
| Listening | – Part 2: People talking in six different situations.
– Identifying the situation and what you need to listen for. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 4. |
| Speaking | – Part 4: Discussing sport, fitness and health.
– Showing agreement and polite disagreement. |
| Pronunciation | – Word stress: agreeing and disagreeing. |
| Vocabulary | – Illnesses and accidents.
– Sports. – Do, go and play. |
| Grammar | – Relatives clauses (defining and non-defining)
– Past perfect. |
Unit 10 |
Looks Amazing! |
| Reading | – Part 2: ‘Our top picks at the street food market’.
– Selecting places to eat. |
| Writing | – Part 2: An article. |
| Listening | – Part 1: Seven short texts about daily life.
– Listening carefully for information. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 4. |
| Speaking | – Part 2: Describing everyday objects in photos.
– Explaining what things are made of or used for. |
| Pronunciation | – Connected speech: Linking sound. |
| Vocabulary | – Course, dish, food, meal and plate.
– Shops and services. |
| Grammar | – Commands and instructions.
– Have something done. |
Unit 11 |
The Natural World |
| Reading | – ‘Scientists use robot chick to study penguins’.
– Part 5: ‘Working on the Galapagos Islands’. |
| Writing | – Part 1: An email.
– Checking your work for mistakes. |
| Listening | – Part 4: Looking for the Iberian lynx.
– Identifying expressions with similar or different meanings. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 4. |
| Speaking | – Part 4: Discussing ways to help the environment.
– Giving examples. |
| Pronunciation | – Word stress in passive forms. |
| Vocabulary | – The environment.
– Noun suffixes. |
| Grammar | – The passive: present simple and past simple.
– Comparative and superlative adverbs. |
Unit 12 |
Express Yourself! |
| Reading | – Part 4: ‘Can you live without your smartphone for a week?’
– Matching sentences to paragraphs. |
| Writing | – Part 2: A story.
– Using a range of tenses and reported speech. |
| Listening | -Raising money for charity.
– Part 3: A competition to design a new app. – Two candidates doing Speaking Part 1. |
| Speaking | – Part 1: General questions.
– Talking about habits and routines. |
| Pronunciation | – Intonation in direct and indirect questions. |
| Vocabulary | – Collocations: using your phone.
– Ask, ask for, speak, talk, say and tell. – Negative prefixes. |
| Grammar | – Reported speech and reported commands.
– Reported questions. – Indirect questions. |
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