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LIFE – Pre-Intermediate B1
WEEK | UNIT | GRAMMAR | VOCABULARY | LANGUAGE SKILLS | NOTES |
Sept. 1st week | Unit 1 Health | The Present Simple Tense | Leisure activities-do, go,play | Listening: someone talking about two elderly dancers Reading: a quiz about how well you sleep Real life: talking about illnesses Critical thinking: the main argument |
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2nd week | Unit 1 Health | Adverbs and expressions of frequency | Word building -verb+noun collocations | Listening: a health expert analyses sleep Reading: an article about centenatians Writing: online advice/conjunctions-and, so, but, or, because |
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Oct. 3rd week | Unit 1 Health | Present Simple and Present Continuous | Word focus: feel; medical problems | Listening: a radio interview about long life Reading: an article about measuring health and happiness Speaking: your current life/ a quiz/ maesuring hapiness |
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4th week | Unit 2 Comeptitions | Gerunds: verb+ing forms | Word forms-sport venues and equipment | Listening: someone describing an Ironman competition Reading: quotes by famous sports people Critical thinking: reading beteen the lines |
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5th week | Unit 2 Competitions | like+-ing/ 'd like to + inf. | Competition words | Listening: three people talking about sport Reading:an article about crazy competitions Writing: an advert or notice/ checking your writing |
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6th week | Unit 2 Competitions | Modals for rules | Word focus: like silent letters | Listening: a reporter describing the rules of a competition Reading: an article about female wrestlers in Bolivia Speaking: guess the ambition/ explaining the rules of a competition/ opinions about sport |
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Nov. 7th week | Unit 3 Transport | Comparatives and superlatives - short adjective/than | Models of transport/ sentence stress and intonation | Listening: someone describing a photo of a girl travelling by train in India Reading: an article about transport of the future Speaking: transport you use attitudes to using animals for transporting/ arguing for and against keepig richshaws |
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8th week | Unit 3 Transport | Comparatives and superlatives – long adjective/ irregular adjectives | Transport: nouns/ compaund nouns | Listening: two people discussing the pros and cons of electric cars Reading: an article about dog sledging Writing: a report about travelling around the world/ notes and messages/ |
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9th week | Unit 3 Transport | as...as / not as...as | Transport: verbs/ going on a journey | Listening: two documentaries about using animals for transport Reading: an article about the fate of the ricksha in Kolkata Critical thinking: reading between the lines |
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10th week | Unit 4 Adventure | The Past Simple Tense | Personal qualities/ was/-ed | Listening: a caver describing Rumbling Falls Cave Reading: an article about adventurers Critical thinking; identifying opinion |
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11th week | Unit 4 Adventure | The Past Continuous Tense | Negative prefixes/ geographical features | Listening: an interview with a survival expert Reading: an article about a climbing accident Speaking: asking about your past/ telling a story/qualities needed for an expedition... |
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Dec. 12th week | Unit 4 Adventure | Past simple vs. Past continuous | In, on, at for time expressions | Watching: Alaskan ice-climbing Writing: A true story/ using -ly adverbs in stories |
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13th week | Unit 5 The environment | Countable and uncountable nouns | Materials/ household items | Listening:Extract from a documentary about an artist Reading: An article obout e-ribbish Speaking:Opinion on recycling/ an interview with an environmentalist |
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14th week | Unit 5 The environment | Quantifiers | Hyphenated words | Listening: Radio phone-in show about recycling Reading:An article about the Greendex Real life functions:phoning about an order |
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Jan. 15th week | Unit 5 The environment | Definite article/ a,an/ no article | Results and figures/ verb take | Listening: An on-line order Reading: An article about a boat made of plastic bottles Writing: a report of a servey/ an e-mail/ formal language |
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16th week | Unit 6 Stages in life | Verb patterns with to+infinitive | Life events/ stages in life/ celebrations | Listening: an explanation to a riddle Reading:an article about how a couple changed their life Real life functions: inviting/ accepting and declining |
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17th week | Unit 6 Stages in life | Future forms: be going to/will/ Present Continuous | Verb get/ synonyms | Listening: three people talking about their plans and intetions Reading:an article about how Mardis Gas is celebrated around the world Speaking: life-changing decisions/ favourite festivals/ annual events |
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Feb. 18th week | Unit 6 Stages in life | Future forms: be going to/ will/ Present Continuous | Contrcted forms/ emphasising words | Listening: a news item about Mardis Gras Reading: an article about a Masai rite of passage Writing: A description/ descriptive adjectives |
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19th week | Unit 7 Work | Prepositions of place | Jobs/ suffixes/ office equipment | Listening: someone talking about triplet police officers Reading: workplace messages with instructions Real life functions: a job interview |
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20th week | Unit 7 Work | Prepositions ov movement | For, since/ Job satisfaction/ irregular past participles | Listening: a documentary about working as a photographer Reading: an article about the cost of new jobs to a area Speaking: Giving directiond/ describing past experiences/ opinion of a job |
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21st week | Unit 7 Work | The Present Perfect Simple | Job adverts/ make, do | Listening: an interview with an engineer Reading: an article about modern-day cowboys Writing: a CV/ action verbs for CVs |
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Mar. 22nd week | Unit 8 Technology | Defining relative clauses | The internet/ verb prefixes | Listening: a documentary about the importance of technology Reading: an explorer's blog Speaking: problems that inventions solved inventing a new robot |
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23rd week | Unit 8 Life B1 |