WEEK

UNIT

GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS

NOTES

Sept.

1^st week

Unit 1

People

The Present Simple of  to be(am, is, are)

Personal information/ family

Reading: an article about a family of explorers

Listening: a photographer talking about a climber

Speaking: asking questions/ friends and families

2^nd week

Unit 1

People

Possessive 's

Word building: word roots/everyday verbs

word focus: in

Reading: an article about world population

Listening: an interview with an explorer

Speaking: facts about countries

Oct.

3^rd week

Unit 1

People

Possessive adjectives

Contracted forms/ the same or different sounds/ spelling

Listening:people at a conference

Speaking: meeting people for the first time

Writing: a personal description/ and, but/ the writer purpose

4^th week

Unit 2

Possessions

Plural nouns

Colours/ everyday objects/ furniture

Reading:an article about four apartments in Seoul

Listening: someone talking about a family”s plastic possessions

Speaking: your object and possessions

5^th week

Unit 2

Possessions

This /that

these/ those

there is / there are

Countries and nationalities/ word stress/ contrastive stress

Reading: an article about a global product

Listening: an interview with Andy Torbet

Speaking: a room in your home

6^th week

Unit 2

Possessions

Prepositions of place

Word building: suffixes

word focus:one/ones

adjectives

Real life functions: shopping/ close reading

Speaking: where things are from/

Writing: a description of a room in your home/ adverbs/ describing objects with adjectives

Nov.

7^th week

Unit 3

Places

Present Simple Tense

Telling the time/ adjectives about cities, places of work

Reading:an article about no-car zones

Listening: someone talking about a 24-hour restaurant in Norway

Speaking: your life exchanging

8^th week

Unit 3

Places

Present Simple Tense

Word focus: work collocations/ cardinals and ordinals/ places in a city

Reading: an article about languages spoken around the world

Listening: an interview with a student living in London

Speaking: information about a photographer/ giving directions

9^th week

Unit 3

Places

Present Simple Tense

-s endings

saying numbers

Listening:an interview with Beverley Goodman

Speaking: favourite numbers and their relevance

Writing: a description of a place/ capital letters

10^th week

Unit 4

Places

Like/love + ing

Free time adjectives/

sports

Reading:an article about identical twins/ an article about a nature photographer

Listening: three people talking about their free-time activities

Speaking: likes and dislikes/ daily life

11^th week

Unit 4

Places

Adverbs and expressions of frequency

Word building: verb+ noun collocations

Reading: an article about extreme sports/ an advert for volunteer work

Listening: an interview with Norbert Rosing

Speaking: talking about abilities and interests

Dec.

12^th week

Unit 4

Places

Can/ can't

Linking

sentence stress

Real life functions: fact or opinion

Speaking: your abilities

Writing: short email/ reference words

13^th week

Unit 5

Food

Countable and uncountable nouns- a/an/some/any

Food/ food verbs/ a menu

Reading:an article about food markets around the world

Listening: someone talking about a noodle chef in China town

Speaking: famous dishes from different counties

14^th week

Unit 5

 Food

A lot of/ not much/ not many

Quantities and containers/ contracted forms

word focus: of

Reading: an article about the Svalbard Global Seed Vault

Listening: people describing famous dishes from their countries/ a conversation at a market

Speaking: planning a special meal

Jan.

15^th week

Unit 5

 Food

How much/ how many

Wordbuilding: British and American English

Real life functions: ordering a meal/ summarising

Speaking: buying food at a market/ summarising an article

Writing: instructions/ punctuation

16^th week

Unit 6

Money

The Past Simple: Was, were

Verb+ money collocations

Reading:an article about currency/ an article about treasure

Listening: someone talking about street musician

Speaking: someone's past life/ important years in your life

17^th week

Unit 6

Money

The Past Simple:

 affirmatives

Currency/ age

-ed/ -ing adjectives

Reading: an article about the history of money

Listening: an interview with two people in a museum

Speaking: requesting

Feb.

18^th week

Unit 6

Money

The Past Simple:

regular and irregular verbs

Compound nouns/ stress in questions/ intonation

Listening: people asking for money in different situations

Speaking: a survey about money

Writing: a description of someone's life/ thank you messages/ formal and informal expressions

19^th week

Unit 7

Journeys

Past Simple: negatives & questions

Travel verbs/ journey adjectives

 intonation in questions

Reading:an article about a flight from the past

Listening: someone talking about Mayflower

Speaking: a journey you made/ your opinion

20^th week

Unit 7

Journeys

Comparative adjectives

Word focus: than, journey, travel, trip/ stressed and weak syllables

Reading: an article about space travel

Listening: a programme about journeys in history

Speaking: a general knowledge quiz

21^st week

Unit 7

Journeys

Superlative adjectives

Really/very+ adjective

online writing

Listening: a programme about animal migration

Speaking: asking about a trip

Writing: a general knowledge quiz/ a travel blog/ so, because

Mar.

22^nd week

Unit 8

Appearance

Have got/ has got

Adjective about festiva