Lesso Lesson

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1.
Introduction /
Round-up
/ Initial test
2.
Could I ask you
something?

Wee
k

Grammar and
functions

No.
of
hour
s
2

3.

4.

Vocabulary

Skills and sounds

- asking
questions

-language learning
and
classroom
language
-words for giving
personal
information

Present simple
and
present
continuous

Journeys by train

Describing a
sequence
of events (1):
before
and after;
during and
for.

Words to describe
weddings

Reading: reading and

answering a
questionnaire.
Listening: listening for
main ideas.
Sounds: polite intonation
in questions.
Speaking: talking about
personal information.
Listening: listening with
background noise;
listening for main ideas.
Writing: completing a
diary, writing a personal
letter.
Reading: reacting to a
passage.
Speaking: talking about
wedding customs.
Writing: writing about
traditional weddings in
your country.

Going places USA

All dressed in red

- asking
questions

5.

Are you a couch

potato?

Talking
about likes and
dislikes; verb
patterns
(1): to or ing.

Adjectives to
describe likes
and dislikes.
Leisure activities.

6.

Face the music

Adjectives (1):
-ed and
ing endings;
questions tags.

Types of music
Adjectives to
express how
you feel about
something

7.

Progress check
lessons 1- 5

Revision

Countries,
nationalities and
people.
Techinques for

Reading: reading for

main ideas.
Listening: listening for
main ideas.
Speaking: talking about what y
in
your spare time
Writing: writing about
other peoples favourite
leisure activities; linking
words and, but and
because.
Reading: reading for
main ideas.
Sounds: intonation in a
question tags to show
agreement or to ask a
real question.
Speaking: giving opinions
about contemporary
music.
Writing: writing a short
report; linking words on
the whole, in my opinion,
the trouble is, in fact.
Sounds: stress change in
words for countries and
people.
Speaking: describing a

dealing with
difficult words.
Starting a
Wordbank.

8.

How we meet?

7
8

Past simple and Nouns and

past
adjectives to
continuous
describe personal
qualities

9.

The way things used

to
be

8
9

Used to and
would +
infinitive

New words from a

passage
called Investing in
memories.
Nouns and verbs
which go
together.

10.

Cold, lost, hungry

and
alone

9
10

Describing a
sequence
of events (2):
when,
as soon as, as,
while,

New words from a

passage
called Cold, lost,
hungry and
alone.

photo.
Writing: joining
sentences using after and
before clauses; writing a
paragraph about New
Years Eve.
Reading: jingsaw reading
for specific information
Listening: listening for
main ideas; listening for
details.
Writing: writing a paragraph ab
friend.
Reading: reading for
specific information
Sounds: stress and
intonation when
correcting someone.
Writing: writing a
paragraph about the way
things used to be; linking
words when, after a
while, eventually, now.
Listening: listening for
main ideas; listening for
specific information.
Reading: reading for
specific information.
Writing: writing

just as, until.

11.

Chocolate like
falling in
love

10

who, which,
where.

Words related to
food

12.

What did I do?

11

Verbs with two

objects;
complaining
and
apologising;
making
requests.

New words from a

passage
called What did I
do?

13.

Progress check
lessons 6- 10

12

Revision

Adjectives and
strong
equivalents
Adjective prefixes
Homophones

14.

London calling

12

Present perfect

Words connected

paragraphs about
experiences in a foreign
country; linking words
when, as soon as, while,
just as, until.
Reading: reacting to a
text; reading for main ideas.
Speaking: talking about
well-known people,
things and places.
Writing: writing about
well-known people,
things and places.
Reading: reading for
main ideas.
Listening: listening for
specific information
Sounds: intonation in
complaints and apologies
Speaking: talking about
misunderstandings.
Sounds: linking words in
connected speech; word
stress in sentences
Writing: deleting and
inserting words.
Speaking: talking about
embarassing incidents.
Listening: listening for

13

continuous (1)
for
asking and
saying how
long.

with
news items;
politics and
military

main ideas
Sounds: word stress in
sentences
Writing: reconstituting a
text
Speaking: expressing
options

Reading: reading for

main ideas
Speaking: talking about
important events in your
life
Writing: writing a short
bipgraphy.
Listening: interferring
Reading: reading for
specific information
Writing: writing a
description of a town,
using linking words the
main reason why,
another reason is that,
both... and, neither...
nor, while, whereas.

15.

Fictional heroes
never
die

13

Present perfect
simple (2) and
present
perfect
continuous (2)

New words from a

passage
called Fictional
heroes
never die

16.

Twin cities

14

Making
comparisons

Town features and

facilities

17.

Christmas carols

14

Sing
Learn poems

A Christmas
story
18.

I couldnt live
without
it

15

Adjectives (2):
order
of adjectives

19.

Progress check
lessons 11- 15

15

Revision

20.

Do it in style

16

Asking for and

giving
advice; must
and
should

21.

Rose Rose

17

Making

Possessions and
objects
around the home
Compound nouns
Nouns and
adjectives which
go together
Techniques for
dealing with
unfamiliar words
Adjectives and
participles
Adjectives which
go after
the noun

Clothes,
accessories,
appearance
Material and
colours
Techniques for
dealing with
unfamiliar words
New words from a

Reading: reading for

main ideas
Sounds: stress in
compound nouns
Speaking: talking about person
possessions.

Sounds: consonant
clusters in end position;
linking words in
connected speech;
stressed words in
sentences.
Speaking: describing
objects.
Reading: reading for
main ideas
Speaking: talking about
fashion
Writing: writing advice
for visitors to your
country.
Listening: listening for

predictions:
may and
might; going
to and will

story
called Rose Rose

22.

What did you do for

a
living?

18

Drawing
conclusions:
must, cant,
might,
could;
describing
impressions

Jobs
Adjectives to
describe
personal and
professional
qualities.

23.

How unfair can you

get?

19

Compound
adjectives

24.

Progress check
lessons 16 - 20

20

Talking about
ability
and possibility:
can,
could, be able
to.
Revision

Multi-part verbs:
phrasal
verbs and
prepositional
verbs with objects.

main ideas; listening for

specific information.
Speaking: predicting.
Writing: writing the
ending of a story from a
different point of view.
Speaking: talking about
your job and your ideal
job.
Sounds: stressed
syllables in words;
intonation when disagreeing.
Listening: listening for
specificimformation.
Reading: understanding
textorganisation.
Speaking: talkine about
personal qualities.
Listening: predicting,
listening for main ideas.
Writing: re-telling the
story.
Sounds: different weays
of pronouncing the letter
a.
Speaking: talking about
unlikelystatesments.
Writing: writing
statesments which must

25.

Cinema classics

20
21

Adverbs (2):
formation;
giving
opinions;
emphasising.

Types of films
Adjectives to
describe
opinions

26.

Valentine

21

Reported
speech (1)
statesments

Love symbols

27.

Medium wave

22

Reported
speech (2)
questions*

Newspapers,
television and
radio

28.

A cup of tea

23

Reported
speech (3)
reporting verbs

New words from a

story called A cup
of tea

29.

Progress check

24

Revision

30.

Eat your heart out

in the USA

24
25

Giving
instructions

Multi-part verbs:
phrasal verbs
without objects
and phrasal
prepositional verbs
Food
Ways of preparing

be, might be and cant be

true.
Listening: listening for
specific information.
Writing: inserting words; writing
classic film.
Speaking: talking about
classic films.
Reading: reading for
main ideas.
Sounds: reciting a poem.
Writing: writing a poem.
Listening: listening for
specific information.
Writing: a report of an
interview.
Speaking: talking about
the media.
Speaking: predicting
Reading: predicting; reading for
Writing: rewriting the story from
point of view
Sounds: different ways of prono
letter e; silent consonants; stress
correcting someone
Speaking: talking about yourse
responding to others
Speaking: talking about typical
your country or region

and special
advice

food, ways of
cooking, kitchen
equipment

Manufactured and
natural products
Words which go
together
techniques for
dealing with
unfamiliar words
Verbs and nouns
which go together
Words which are
sometimes
confused
Parts of a car

31.

Local produce

25
26

The passive

32.

Progress check

26

Revision

33.

Politely but firmly

27

34.

The green tourist

28

Describing a
sequence of
events (3): as
soon as, when
and after for
future events
First
conditional

New words from a

passage called Are
you a green
tourist?
Words which go
together

Reading: reading for specific in

reacting to a text
Listening: listening for
specific information; understand
organisation
Reading: reading for main ideas
Speaking: talking about typical
or products of your town, region
Writing: writing about typical fo
products

Sounds: different ways of prono

letter i
Reading: understanding text or
Writing: inserting words and se

Speaking: talking about making

Reading: reading for main ideas
Listening: listening for main ide
Writing: writing a letter of comp

Reading: reading for main ideas

Sounds: stress and intonation in
conditional sentences
Listening: listening for
specific information
Speaking: talking about the effe

35.

Lost in the Pacific

29

Past perfect
simple and
continuous

New words from a

passage about
Amelia Earhart

36.

Progress check

30

Revision

37.

Whats your advice?

30
31

Second
conditional;
giving advice

English words
borrowed from
other languages
Words which go in
pairs
Antonyms
Relationships

38.

You should have

been here last
week!

31
32

Past modal
verbs (1)
should have

39.

Now you see me,

now you dont

32
33

40.

Making the grade

33

Past modal
verbs (2) may
have, might
have, could
have, must
have, cant
have
Expressing

Tourism in Hong
Kong
Techniques for
dealing with
unfamiliar words
New words from
three stories about
strange incidents

Education

tourism
Reading: reading for
main ideas; understanding text o
Writing: writing a paragraph ab
unsolved mystery
Sounds: different ways
of pronouncing the letter o; sylla
Speaking: talking about true an
information about Britain
Listening: listening for main ide

Reading: reading for

main ideas
Sounds: linking words in connec
Listening: listening for main ide
Writing: writing a letter of advic
Reading: reading for main ideas
Listening: listening for main ide
Speaking: talking about someth
wrong and which you regret

Reading: understand text organ

inserting phrases
Speaking: telling stories; specu

Listening: listening for

whishes and
regrets

Subjects that are

studied at school
or college

41.

The man who was

everywhere

34

Third
conditional*

New words from a

story called The
man who was
everywhere

42.

Progress check
lessons 36-40

35

Revision

Colloquial
language
Idiomatic
expressions
Techniques for
dealing with words

43.

Final Revision

36

Revision

Revision

specific information
Sounds: /d/; intonation in sente
only
Speaking: talking about importa
your educational career
Writing: writing a description of
education system in your countr
words like and unlike
Reading: understand text organ
understanding a writers style
Listening: listening for main ide
Speaking: predicting; discussing
would have done
Writing: rewriting the story from
point of view
Sounds: different ways
of pronouncing the letter u; silen
linking words in connected speec
Reading: understand text organ
Speaking: reacting to a story

Revision