Number of weeks

Language structures  and skills covered per week

1^st week

Unit 1
Food, fuel or pleasure/an interview with an English chef/talking about eating habits.
Present simple, continuous, action and non-action verb.
Vocabulary: food and restaurants.

2^nd week

Unit 1
When you hear the final whistle. We are family.
An interview with a football referee. Psychologist talking about position in the family.
Talking about sport, telling an anecdote. Past tenses and future forms
Vocabulary: family, personality.

3^rd week

Describing a person. Revision and quick test.Unit 2
My life without money/understanding a news bulletin/money questionnaire.
Present perfect and past simple.
Vocabulary: money, phrasal verbs.

4^th week

Unit 2
It was just a holiday but it changed my life.
An interview with Karen. / How long…?
Present perfect and past simple, present perfect continuous.
Vocabulary: strong adjectives, transport and travel.

5^th week

Race to the sun.
A journey from London to the south of France/talking about road safety.
Telling a story. Revision, quick test.

6^th week

Unit 3
Culture shock. Do I really look like this?
An interview about politeness and the English. Radio interview.
Talking about manners. Matching people with their jobs.
Modals of obligation and deduction.
Vocabulary: Communication. Describing people.

7^th week

Never give up/ psychologist talk about learning new skills/talking about abilities.
Models of ability and possibility, -ed/-ing adjectives.
An informal letter.
Revision and quick test: progress test units 1-3.

8^th week

Unit 4
So school today is easy? Think again.  Houses you’ll never forget.
Radio interview about a TV programme, people’s dream houses.
Talking about abilities, describing your dream house.
First and second conditionals, future time clauses.
Vocabulary: education , houses.

9^th week

Unit 4
Do you need to edit your friends? Interview about Friends Reunited, people talking about friendship, talking about friendship and things you used to do.
Usually and used to/friendship.
Describing a house or flat. Revision and quick test.

10^th week

Unit 5
Slow food and slow cities. Talk about how to slow down in life. Planning a new city
Quantifiers, noun formation.

11^th week

A gossip with the girls, from librarian to political reporter.
Two journalists talk about a spa, an interview with Jessica, the librarian.
Men versus women, talking about work.
Articles, gerunds and infinitives.

12^th week

Formal letter, revision and quick test.
Unit 6
Making a complaint/ understanding a radio programme/ talking about complaining.
Reported speech, shopping.

13^th week

Famous films that moved us, heroes and icons of our time.
An interview about working with Steven Spielberg, a radio competition.
Cinema questionnaire, talking about a person you admire.
Passive voice and relative clauses.
Vocabulary: cinema, what people do.

14^th week

A film review, revision and quick test.
Unit 7
Can we make our own luck/ the conclusions of stories ab. bad luck/ How lucky are you?

15^th week

Jack the ripper, the case closed?/ interview with a detective, / a police interview role-play.
Third conditional, making adjectives and adverbs.

16^th week

Couple switch on after 37 years without power/ people talking ab. objects they couldn’t live without/ talking about TV habits.
Question tags, indirect questions and indirect questions, phrasal verbs.
Vocabulary: compound nouns, television, phrasal verbs.

17^th week

An article for a magazine, revision and quick test: progress test units 4-7.
End of course test.