WEEK

UNIT

GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS

NOTES

Sept.

1^st week

Unit 1

Cities

Perfect Tenses

City life/Changes

Reading: Perpetuating the myths.

2^nd week

Unit 1

Cities

Describing finished actions

Binomials

Listening: Two different cities/ Recovering from disaster.

Oct.

3^rd week

Unit 2

Culture and identity

Emphatic structures

Culture and identity

Reading: National and individual identity

4^th week

Unit 2

Culture and identity

Expressing feelings and options more emphatically

Society and culture/

Expressions with thing

Listening: Feelings about English culture

5^th week

Unit 3

Relationships

Would – making your ideas more tentative

Describing people

Reading: The bitter end

6^th week

Unit 3

Relationships

Would – talking about things that people refused to do in the past

Divorce / Phrasal verbs

Listening: What’re they like?

Relationships

Speaking: Giving your impression

Nov.

7^th week

Unit 4

Politics

Conditionals – general truth/ possible future

Consequences/ Politicians

Reading: The electoral system Swiss style

8^th week

Unit 4

Politics

Conditionals – real past/unreal past

Elections and politics

Listening: Government proposals/Political jokes/Voting

9^th week

Review 1

Writing 01

Writing 02

Revision units 1 – 4

Describing visual data

Expressing your opinion

10^th week

Unit 5

Night in/ night out

Noun phrases

Subject + verb + object

Nouns + of

Reading: A What’s on guide

11^th week

Unit 5

Night in/ night out

I bet/ I imagine

Feelings/Describing books

Listening: A night out/Book clubs

Dec.

12^th week

Unit 6

Conflict

I wish

Adverbs/ War and peace

Reading: Hope springs eternal/The truth and reconciliation commission

13^th week

Unit 6

Conflict

Talk about how you’d do things to be different

Social conflict

Listening: Two conflicts/Disputes in the news

14^th week

Unit 7

Science and research

Passives

Talking about science

Reading: Truth and statistics

Jan.

15^th week

Unit 7

Science and research

Expressing surprise and disbelief

Statistics/Forming words

Listening: Discussing news stories about science

16^th week

Unit 8

Nature

Emphatic tags

Describing scenery

Reading: Why I love...natural history programmes/ Endangered animals

17^th week

Unit 8

Nature

Auxiliaries

Communicating

Listening: Two different landscapes/ A lecture by a linguistic professor

Feb.

18^th week

Review 2

Writing 03

Writing 04

Revision -  units 5-8

A review

Describing processes

19^th week

Unit 9

Work

Continuous forms

Company jobs and tasks/ The world of work

Reading: The living dead

20^th week

Unit 9

Work

Deductions

Adverb adjective collocations

Listening: The first day at work/Five new stories about work

21^st week

Unit 10

Health and illness

Modal verbs

Operations/Body actions

Reading: East meets west/ Two different medical conditions

Mar.

22^nd week

Unit 10

Health and illness

Making comments about past and present situations

Medical conditions

Listening: Two surgical procedures/ A mindfulness

23^rd week

Unit 11

Play

Linking words

Sports and games metaphors

Reading: Not just child’s play

24^th week

Unit 11

Play

Talk about sports you watch or do

Doing and watching sport/ Games

Listening: Sports success and failure/ A short lecture on playing cards.

25^th week

Unit 12

History

Dramatic inversion

Personal histories/Resent history

Reading:

Ancient history

26^th week

Unit 12

History

Asking for clarification

Presenting arguments and theories

Listening: An amazing life/Recent historical milestones