General English Course at Intermediate Level B1+ Language skills and systems covered

• Talk about things that are changing
• Talk about friendships
• Talk about spending
• Talk about states, thoughts and feelings
• Listen for key words
• Noun suffixes
• Ask for and give opinions
• Write for social media

Speaking asking for and giving opinions

Writing social media

• Talk about past experiences
• Use narrative forms
• Sequence events
• Talk about communication
• Understand references in a text
• Use comment adverbs
• Engage a listener and show interest
• Write a narrative

Speaking showing interest

Writing a narrative

•  Talk about challenges and success
• Talk about ability
• Talk about work skills
• Talk about obligation, permission and possibility
• Recognize complex noun phrases (1)
• Use compound adjectives
• Give practical instructions
• Write a paragraph supporting an opinion

3.1 Challenges

3.2 Faking it?

3.3 Vocabulary and skills development

3.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking practical instructions

Writing writing an opinion paragraph

·         Talk about living on water

·         Talk about predictions and decisions

·         Talk about the natural world

·         Talk about probability

·         Understand consonant /vowel linking

·         Understand idiomatic phrases about places

·         Avoid repetition

·         Make enquiries

Writing avoiding reception

Speaking enquiries

• Talk about different genres of films
• -ing form and infinitive with to
• Describe a video game
• Use present perfect simple and past simple
• Understand linkers
• Use extreme adjectives
• Write a film review
• Compare and recommend

Writing a film review

Speaking comparing and recommending

• Talk about machines in our lives
• Use defining and non-defining relative clauses
• Talk about the climate and extreme weather
• Talk about recent events and changes
• Recognize linkers in conversation
• Understand and use adjective suffixes
• Write a professional email
• Change arrangements

Writing a professional email

Speaking changing arrangement

• Talk about working conditions
• Talk about finished habits and situations
• Talk about experts and high achieves
• Use question forms
• Understanding paraphrasing
• Use collocations
• Write an application letter or email
• Ask for and give clarification

7.2 Ask an expert

Writing talking notes

Speaking clarification

• Talk about happiness factors
• Use real conditionals
• Talk about personality and behaviour
• Talk about unreal situations in the present and future
• Recognize changing sounds in linked words
• Use prefixes
• Take notes while listening
• Prepare and give a short talk from notes

8.1 World happiness report

Intonation

Sentences

Writing takings notes

Speaking giving a talk

• Describe appearances
• Make comparisons
• Describe paintings
• Speculate and make deductions
• Question a text
• Use phrasal verbs
• Take part in online discussions
• Make effective complaints

Writing taking part in online discussions

Speaking making complaints

• Talk about business
• Talk about how things are done
• Talk about competition
• Use articles
• Hear unstressed works
• Phrases with take and have
• Write about changes and differences
• Make recommendation

10.1 Crowd-funding

Writing changes and differences

Speaking making recommendations

• Talk about crime
• Talk about unreal situations in the past
• Talk about people’s behaviour on social media
• Criticize past actions
• Hear modal verbs
• Understand words with multiple meanings
• Come to a decision
• Apologize

Speaking decisions

Writing apologizing

• Talk about advertising
• Understand and use reported speech
• Talk about persuading people
• Understand and use reported questions
• Recognize complex noun phrases
• Use dependent prepositions
• Agree and disagree
• Write an advantages and disadvantages essay

Speaking agreeing and disagreeing

Writing advantages and disadvantages essay