Pre-Intermediate CEFR Level B1 Language skills and systems covered

• Talk about your daily life
• Ask questions
• Talk about how often you do things
• Talk about your free time
• Predict before you read a text
• Understand and use nouns and verbs with the same form
• Talk about the weather
• Talk about your like and dislikes
• Write a web post

1.1     Do you live in the past, present or future?

1.2 Free time

1.3 Vocabulary and skills development

1.4 Speaking and writing

Speaking talking about likes and dislikes

Writing a web post about the best time to visit your country

• Talk about where you live
• Talk about the present
• Identifying things and people
• Talk about things in your home
• Use phrases with on
• Understand sentences with missing words
• Ask for and give directions
• Write text messages

Speaking asking for and giving directions

Writing text messages

• Describe movement
• Talk about the past
• Talk about feelings
• Understand and use adverbs of manner
• Understand -t and -d before a consonant
• Tell and respond to a story
• Write an informal email describing an event

Speaking telling and responding to a story

Writing email: describing an event

• Talk about life stages and events
• Use verbs with -ing and to
• Talk about using the internet
• Talk about plans and arrangements
• Understand connected speech
• Understand and use get
• Invite and make arrangements
• Write an email to make arrangements

Speaking inviting and making arrangements

Writing email: making arrangements

• Describe objects
• Use articles
• Talk about money
• Talk about quantity
• Understand linkers for reason and result
• Understand and use suffixes
• Explain words you don’t know
• Write an email to return an online product

Speaking explaining words you don’t know

Writing email returning an online product

• Describe objects
• Talk about similarities and differences
• Talk about family
• Talk about experience
• Recognize linkers in fast speech
• Understand and use adjectives prefixes
• Use the present perfect simple with just, already, and yet
• Give and respond to news

Writing responding to news on social media

Speaking giving and responding to news

·         Talk about transport

·         Make predictions

·         Talk about holidays

·         Use something, anyone, everybody, nowhere, etc

·         Recognize paraphrasing

·         Understand and use -ed and -ing adjectives

·         Check into hotel

·         Write short notes and messages

·         Talk about ability

·         Talk about skills and abilities

·         Talk about obligation, necessity, and permission Talk about education

·         Understand connected speech

·         Understand use, make and do

·         Ask for clarification

·         Complete a form

·          Talk about greetings

·          Talk about possible situations and the results

·         Use present tenses in future time clauses

·         Talk about health and fitness

·         Use verbs and prepositions

·         Use sequencing words to understand

·         Ask for help and give advice

·         Write a formal covering letter

Speaking asking for help and giving advice

Writing a formal covering letter

·          Describe food

·         Use the –ing form

·         Talk about food

·         Use the passive

·         Understand reference words with more than one meaning

·         Explain and deal with problems in a restaurant

·         Write a review of a restaurant

Speaking problems in a restaurant

Writing a restaurant review

·         Talk about unlikely situations in the future

·         Talk about global issues

·         Talk about past habits and situations

·         Talk about the news

·         Understand connected speech

·         Express and respond to opinions

·         Give a presentation

Listening understanding

connected speech

Speaking expressing and responding to opinions

Writing a presentation

·         Talk about jobs and professions

·         Use the present perfect with for and since

·         Talk about what a job involves

·         Use the infinitive with to

·         Understand linkers for surprising information

·         Use phrases with in

·         Take part in a job interview

·          Write a CV

Writing a curriculum vitae

Speaking answering questions in a job interview