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Unit

Grammar

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Reading

Listening

Speaking

Writing

1^st week

(5-9 October)

Unit 1 A

Word order in questions

Common verb phrases

The alphabet

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Letters and numbers

Interviewing another student to complete a form

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Unit 1 B

Present simple

Describing people: appearance and personality

Final –s/-es

Please date my dad

A dating experiment

Describing a person

Describing yourself

Unit 1 C

Present continuous

Clothes, prepositions of place

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An art expert talking about Vermeer and The Milkmaid

Describing a picture

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Practical English

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Hotel problems /Calling reception

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2^nd week

(12-16 October)

Unit 2 A

Past simple: regular and irregular verbs

holidays

Regular verbs: -ed endings

Passports, tickets, money, phone

Showing interest

Showing interest

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Unit 2B

Past continuous

Prepositions of time and place: at, in, on

Weak forms: was, were

That’s me in the picture

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Talking about photos

Describing a photo

Unit 2 C

Time sequencers and connectors

Verb phrases

Word stress

One dark October evening

Happy ending or sad ending?

Verb phrases

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Revise&Check

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How to take better holiday photos

Can you understand these people?

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3^rd week

(19-23 October)

Unit 3 A

Be going to (plans and predictions)

Airports

The letter g

No more boring stopovers- go on a guided tour!

No more boring stopovers- go on a guided tour!

What are your plans?

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Unit 3 B

Present continuous (future arrangements)

Verbs + prepositions

Linking

How organized are you?

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How organized are you?

An informal email

Unit 3 C

Defining relative clauses

Paraphrasing

Silent e

A to z

A to z

Split crossword

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Practical English

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Restaurant problems

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4^th week

(26-30 October)

Unit 4 A

Present perfect  + yet, just, already

Housework, make or do?

The letters y and j

Who does what?

The lazy person’s guide to a clean and tidy home

Housework and the cleaning

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Unit 4 B

Present perfect or past simple

Shopping

C and ch

The story of the ice-cream sellers

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Have you ever …?

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Unit 4 C

Something, anything, nothing, etc.

Adjectives ending -ed and -ing

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A boring weekend? Don’t tell anybody?

The history of the weekend

Last weekend

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Revise&Check

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900 new words in three months

Can you understand these people?

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5^th week

(2-6  November)

(4 November- Quiz 1)

Unit 5 A

Comparative adjectives and adverbs, as … as

Types of numbers

Sentence stress

I want it now!

How has your life changed over the last three years?

How fast is your life?

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Unit 5 B

Superlatives (+ ever +present perfect)

Describing a town or city

Sentence stress

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What are the most and least honest cities in the World?

What’s the most ….. you have ever …?

Describing where you live

Unit 5 C

Quantifiers, too, not enough

Health and the body

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Are they really good and bad?

What do you drink?

Diet and lifestyle

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Practical English

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Shopping

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Taking something back to a shop

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6^th week

(9-13  November)

Unit 6 A

Will/won’t (predictions)

Opposite verbs

‘ll, won’t

Why negative thinking can be positive

A radio programme

Are you a positive or negative thinker?

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Unit 6 B

Will /won’t (decisions, offers, promises)

Verb + back

Word stress: two-syllable verbs

I’ll never forget you

A news programme about Steve and Carmen

Verb + back

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Unit 6 C

Review of verb forms: present, past and future

modifiers

The letters ea

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The meaning of dreaming

Revision questionnaire

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Revise&Check

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The woman who inspired ‘I have a dream’

Can you understand these people?

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7^th Week

(16-20  November)

Unit 7 A

Uses of the infinitive with to

Verbs + infinitive

Week form of to, linking

How to survive your first day in a new office

Simon and Claire describing their first day at work

How to …?

Writing a “How to survive …” article

Unit 7 B

Uses of the gerund (Verb + ing)

Verbs + gerund

-ing, the letter o

Happiness is …

Bank of happiness

Talking about happiness

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Unit 7 C

Have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t

Adjectives + prepositions: afraid of, etc.

Stress on prepositions

A language learning experiment

Max talking about tests

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A formal email

Practical English

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Feeling ill

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Going to a pharmacy

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8^th week

(23-27 November)

MIDTERM 1 (24^th of NOVEMBER)

9^th week

(30 Nov.-4 Dec.)

Unit 8 A

Should

get

Sentence stress

Should I stay or should I go?

Should I stay or should I go?

Asking and answering questions with get

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Unit 8 B

First conditional

Confusing verbs

Homophones

Murphy’s law

Murphy’s law

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Unit 8 C

Possessive prouns

Adverbs of manner

Reading aloud

Who’s Vivienne?

Who’s Vivienne?

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Writing a short final scene of the story

Revise&Check

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How to be a queue winner?

Can you understand these people?

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10^th week

(7-11 December)

Unit 9 A

Second conditional

Animals and insects

Word stress

Would you know what to do?

Facts about the animals or insects

What would you do …?

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Unit 9 B

Present perfect + for and since

Phobias and words related to fear

Sentence stress

Phobias

Listening to people with phobias

Talking about phobias

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Unit 9 C

Present perfect or past simple?

Biographies

Word stress

Like mother like daughter

A famous father and his son

Talking about an older person

A biography

Practical English

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Directions

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Asking how to get there

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11^th week

(14-18 December)

(16 December- Quiz 2)

Unit 10 A

Expressing movement

Sports, expressing movement

Word stress

Women’s sport

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Women’s sport

Writing about an enjoyable activity

Unit 10 B

Word order of phrasal verbs

Phrasal verbs

linking

Early birds

A radio programme about getting up early

Early birds

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Unit 10 C

The passive

People from different countries

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Invented by women

Passives quiz

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Revise&Check

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Bad losers?

Can you understand these people?

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12^th week

(21 -25 December)

Unit 11 A

Used to

School subjects

Used to/didn’t use to

Fame academy

Did you like school?

Did you like school?

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Unit 11 B

Might

Word building: noun formation

diphthongs

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Jeans: style and fit

Jeans: style and fit

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13^th week

(28-31 December)

Unit 11 C

So, neither + auxiliaries

Similarities and differences

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Twin strangers

Twin strangers

Talking about similarities

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Practical English

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On the phone

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In central park again

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14^th week

(4-8 January)

(6 January - Quiz 3)

Unit 12 A

Past perfect

Time expressions

The letter i

Three news stories

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Two more  newspaper stories

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Unit 12 B

Reported speech

Say or tell?

Double consonants

Blowing in the wind

Gossiping

Reported speech

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15^th week

(11-15 January)

Unit 12 C

Questions without auxiliaries

Revision of question words

Question words

The English File quiz

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General knowledge quiz

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Revise&Check

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Two stories

Can you understand these people?

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16^th week (18-22 January)

MIDTERM 2 (19^th-20^th of JANUARY)

Unit

Grammar

Vocabulary

Pronunciation

Reading

Listening

Speaking

Writing

1st week

(1-5 March)

Unit 1 A

Present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs

Food and cooking

Short and  long vowel sounds

Mood food

Food and eating

Restaurants

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Unit 1 B

Future forms: present continouos, going to, will/won’t

Family, adjectives of personality

Sentence stress, Word stress, adjective endings

Younger brother or only child?

Linda Blair

Birth order

A description of a person

Practical English

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British and American English

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Meeting the parents

How awful! How fantastic!

2nd week

(8-12 March)

Unit 2 A

Present perfect and past simple

Money

The letter o

The millioaire with a secret

Are you a spender or a saver?

Spender or  saver?

Unit 2B

Present perfect+for/since, present perfect continous

Strong adjectives

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3rd week (15-19  March)

Unit 2B

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Sentence stress, stress on strong adjectives

TV pressenter’s Amazon challenge

Changing lives

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Revise&Check

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Life-changing, or is it …?

Can you understand these people?

Short films: Oxfam

An informal letter

4th week

(22-26 March)

24 March Quiz 4

Unit 3 A

Comparatives and superlatives

Transport

linking

TopGear Challenge

Which of these are the most (the least) dangerous when you’re driving?

Agreeing and disagreeing

An article for a magazine

Unit 3 B

Articles: a/an, the, no article

Collocation: verb/ adjectives+prepositions

Sentence stress

Men talk just as much as women

Commando Dad

A gossip with the girls?

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Practical English

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British and American English

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A difficult celebrity

Social English phrases

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5th week (29 March-2 April)

Unit 4 A

Can, could, be able to

-ed /-ing adjectives

Sentence stress

He’s English but he can speak eleven languages

Tips for students

I’ve never been able to …

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Unit 4 B

Modals of obligation: must, have to, should

Phone language

Silent consonants, linking

Mother-in-law from hell … or daughter-in-law from hell?

Miranda İngram

Good manners?

Bad manners?

Not important?

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Revise&Check

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Turn it off!

Can you understand these people?

Short films: Boris Bikes

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6th week

(05-09 April)

Unit 5 A

Past tenses: simple, continouos, perfect

Sport

linking

If I bounce the ball five times …

Refrees

Tell your partner about …

Telling a story

Unit 5 B

Usually and used to

Relationships

Linking, the letter s

Love at Exit 9

A radio programme

Giving examples

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Practical English

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British and American English

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Old friends

Permission and requsets

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7th week

(12-16 April)

MIDTERM 3 (13^th of APRIL)

8 th week

(19-22 April)

Unit 6 A

Passives (all tenses)

Cinema

Sentence stress

You are standing in the place where

Famous films

The cinema interview

A film review

Unit 6 B

Modals of deduction: might, can’t, must

The body

diphthongs

What does your profile say about you?

Making deductions

Judging by appearances

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9th week

(26-30 April)

Revise&Check

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Theatrical supersititions

Can you understand these people?

Short films: Iconic film locations

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Unit 7 A

First conditional and future time clauses+when, until, etc.

Education

The letter u

Do you want to practise for five hours or six?

Gareth Malone

Agreeing and disagreeing

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10th week

(03-07 May)

05 May Quiz 5

Unit 7 B

Second conditional

Houses

Sentence stress

Tchaikovsky’s house

Dream house

Dream house

Describing a house or flat

Practical English

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British and American English

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Boys’ night out

Social English phrases

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11th week

(10-14 May)

Unit 8 A

Reported speech: sentences and questions

Shopping, makingnouns from verbs

The letters ai

The king of complainers

A radio cunsumer programme

I want to speak to the manager

A letter of complaint

Unit 8 B

Gerunds and infinitives

work

Word stress

In the Dragons’ Den

Dragons’ Den products

Talking about a product

A covering email with your CV

12 th week

(17-21 May)

Revise&Check

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The importance of doing what you love

Can you understand these people?

Short films: Trinity College, Dublin

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Unit 9 A

Third conditional

Making adjectives and advers

Sentence stress

The ticket inspector

A question of luck

Talking about luck

The sentence game

13th week

(24-28 May )

26 May Quiz 6

Unit 9 B

Quantifiers

Electronic devices, phrasal verbs

Ough and augh, linking

Information overload

Digital detox

Digital detox

A magazine article- advantages and disadvantages

Practical English

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British and American English

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Unexpected events

Social English phrases

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14th week

(31 May- 04 June)

Unit 10 A

Relative clauses: difining and non-defining

Compund nouns

Word stress

Steve Jobs

Great British design icons

Talking about icons

A biography

Unit 10 B

Question tags

Crime

Intonation in question tags

May and June

A retired police inspector

Just checking

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15th week

(07-11 June)

Revise&Check

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The icon and the gypsy

Can you understand these people?

Short films: The hound of the Baskervilles

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General Revisiion

16th week

(14-18 June)

MIDTERM 4 (15^th-16^th of JUNE)

FINAL (22^nd of JUNE)

MAKE-UP EXAM (29^th of JUNE)