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Hours
Listening:
- Understand a wide range of spoken language, including extended speech and complex conversations on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
- Extract detailed information, identify main ideas, and grasp implicit meanings.
Speaking:
- Engage in spontaneous and interactive conversations with native speakers, expressing thoughts and opinions clearly and coherently.
- Use a wide range of vocabulary and grammatical structures accurately.
- Present arguments, participate in debates, and deliver presentations.
Reading:
- Comprehend a variety of longer and more complex texts, such as articles, reports, and literary works.
- Extract detailed information, infer meaning from context, and identify the writer's attitude, opinions, and intentions.
Writing:
- Produce well-structured and coherent texts, including essays, reports, and reviews, with a clear argument or point of view.
- Demonstrate a good command of grammar, vocabulary, and organization.
- Adapt writing style to different purposes and audiences.
Grammar and Vocabulary:
- Consolidate and expand knowledge of grammar, including advanced tenses, complex sentence structures, and a wide range of grammatical forms.
- Acquire and effectively use a broad range of vocabulary, idiomatic expressions, and collocations.
Pronunciation and Intonation:
- Develop accurate pronunciation, intonation, and stress patterns to enhance overall communicative effectiveness.
- Focus on connected speech, rhythm, and intonation features to sound more natural and fluent.
Sociolinguistic and Pragmatic Competence:
- Understand and appropriately use language in different social and cultural contexts.
- Recognize and apply appropriate conventions of politeness, register, and discourse markers.
Cultural Awareness:
- Gain insights into the culture, customs, and traditions of English-speaking countries.
- Develop an understanding of intercultural communication and enhance cultural sensitivity and adaptability.
Independent Learning:
- Develop strategies for autonomous learning, including setting goals, selecting appropriate resources, and monitoring progress.
- Take responsibility for one's own language learning and seek opportunities for further development.
- Unit One NEW THINGS
Lesson 1.1 Time for a chat
Grammar : Direct and indirect questionsVocabulary : Personality
Pronunciation : Sentence stress
Lesson 1.2 Try something new
Grammar : Present perfectVocabulary : Feelings; word building: nouns
Pronunciation : Word stress; connected speech
Lesson 1.3 I’d like to enquire
Function : Polite enquiriesVocabulary : Adverts
Pronunciation : Polite intonation
Lesson 1.4 Great experiences
- Unit Two ISSUES
Lesson 2.1 Making a difference
Grammar : Present perfect simple and continuousVocabulary : Issues; verbs/nouns with the same form
Pronunciation : Word stress; weak forms: auxiliaries
Lesson 2.2 You’re being watched
Grammar : The passiveVocabulary : Surveillance
Pronunciation : Sentence stress: passives
Lesson 2.3 Good point!
Function : OpinionsVocabulary : Opinion adjectives
Pronunciation : Intonation for partially agreeing
Lesson 2.4 A quiet revolution
- Unit Three STORIES
Lesson 3.1 And the moral is…
Grammar : Narrative tensesVocabulary : Sayings
Pronunciation : Weak forms: auxiliaries
Lesson 3.2 A life in six words
Grammar : I wish/if onlyVocabulary : Adjectives for stories; multi-word verbs
Pronunciation : Sentence stress
Lesson 3.3 It’s a great read
Function : Expressing likes and dislikesVocabulary : Reading genres
Pronunciation : Sentence stress
Lesson 3.4 Tess
- Unit Four DOWNTIME
Lesson 4.1 Out of time
Grammar : Present and past habitsVocabulary : Free time
Pronunciation : Connected speech: contractions
Lesson 4.2 Great getaways
Grammar : Future formsVocabulary : Positive adjectives; uncountable and plural nouns
Pronunciation : Word stress; connected speech
Lesson 4.3 How does it work?
Function : Describing proceduresVocabulary : Abilities
Pronunciation : Stress and intonation: mirror questions
Lesson 4.4 The happiness formula
- Unit Five IDEAS
Lesson 5.1 Bright ideas?
Grammar : ArticlesVocabulary : Change; compound nouns
Pronunciation : Weak forms and linking: the
Lesson 5.2 Consumer crazy
Grammar : Real and hypothetical conditionalsVocabulary : Advertising collocations
Pronunciation : Sentence stress: conditionals
Lesson 5.3 What do you think?
Function : Suggesting ideasVocabulary : Collocations with idea
Pronunciation : Intonation: showing reservations
Lesson 5.4 Genius
- Unit Six AGE
Lesson 6.1 The time of my life
Grammar : Modal verbs and related phrasesVocabulary : Age; word building: prefixes
Pronunciation : Connected speech: elision
Lesson 6.2 Future me
Grammar : Future perfect and continuousVocabulary : Optimism/pessimism
Pronunciation : Weak forms: auxiliaries
Lesson 6.3 So what you’re saying is…
Function : PersuadingVocabulary : Collocations
Pronunciation : Intonation: persuading
Lesson 6.4 How to live to 101
- Unit Seven MEDIA
Lesson 7.1 TV Globetrotters
Grammar : QuantifiersVocabulary : Television; multi-word verbs
Pronunciation : Connected speech: linking
Lesson 7.2 The camera never lies
Grammar : Reported speechVocabulary : Reporting verbs
Pronunciation : Word stress
Lesson 7.3 What’s in the news
Function : Adding emphasisVocabulary : The press
Pronunciation : Sentence stress
Lesson 7.4 News blunders
- Unit Eight BEHAVIOUR
Lesson 8.1 It’s a tough call
Grammar : Past and mixed conditionalsVocabulary : Collocations: decisions; compound adjectives
Pronunciation : Connected speech: weak forms
Lesson 8.2 Fair share
Grammar : -ing form and infinitiveVocabulary : Values
Pronunciation : Connected speech: intrusive /w/
Lesson 8.3 Have you got a minute
Function : Handling an awkward situationVocabulary : Behaviour
Pronunciation : Sentence stress and intonation
Lesson 8.4 The human animal
- Unit Nine TROUBLE
Lesson 9.1 Witness
Grammar : -ing form and infinitiveVocabulary : Crime; dependent prepositions
Pronunciation : Connected speech: elision
Lesson 9.2 Scam
Grammar : Past modals of deductionVocabulary : Synonyms
Pronunciation Connected speech: past modals
Lesson 9.3 It’s an emergency!
Function : Reporting an incidentVocabulary : Incidents
Pronunciation : Sentence stress
Lesson 9.4 Survival
- Unit Ten CULTURE
Lesson 10.1 Moving experiences
Grammar : Relative clausesVocabulary : Adjectives to describe films
Pronunciation : Intonation: relative clauses
Lesson 10.2 Popular culture
Grammar : Participle clausesVocabulary : The arts; two-part phrases
Pronunciation Word stress; connected speech
Lesson 10.3 On your left…
Function : Giving a tourVocabulary : Dimensions
Pronunciation : Intonation in comments