Curso de English B1.1

PROGRAMA

Programa:

UNIT 1. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
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Grammar focus
Present simple review
Adverbs of frequency
Present continuous
Theme/Lexical focus – Daily life/Activities
Functional focus – Starting conversation/Meeting people
Writing task – An informal letter to a pen pal describing your typical working day
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UNIT 2. WHAT’S YOUR FAMILY LIKE?
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Grammar focus
Personal descriptions
Have got/like/enjoy doing
Saxon genitive
Theme/Lexical focus – People/Parts of the body
Adjectives of physical description
Functional focus – Introducing people to each other
Writing task – A short email describing your new girl/boyfriend to another friend
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UNIT 3. MOVING AROUND!
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Grammar focus – Past simple
Theme/Lexical focus
Transport
Airport/holidays
Functional focus – Enquiring about and buying a train ticket
Writing task – A chronological narrative: writing about a disastrous holiday
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UNIT 4. A WINDOW TO ANOTHER WORLD
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Grammar focus – Past simple and past continuous
Theme/Lexical focus – Books & Stories/Types of books
Functional focus – Telling an anecdote
Writing task – A story: students will be given a choice of titles
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UNIT 5. THE ANIMAL WORLD
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Grammar focus – Comparative and superlative adjectives
Theme/Lexical focus – Zoo animals: Gorilla
Functional focus – Joining a gym/sportsclub
Writing task – Filling out a membership form
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UNIT 6. WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?
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Grammar focus – Countable and uncountable nouns
Theme/Lexical focus
Shopping and clothes
Food
Clothes
Functional focus
Buying food
How many/much…?
Writing task – Writing a note: instructions for a shopping trip (what to buy and where, etc.
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UNIT 7. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
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Grammar focus – Present perfect: just, yet, already
Theme/Lexical focus – Entertainment/Types of entertainment
Functional focus – Giving and responding to invitations
Writing task – An email to a friend: have you seen … yet? Would you like to go?
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UNIT 8. RUN FASTER, JUMP HIGHER, FEEL BETTER
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Grammar focus – Present perfect: for and since
Theme/Lexical focus – Health & Sport/Adjectives describing sports
Functional focus – Joining a gym/sportsclub
Writing task – Filling out a membership form
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UNIT 9. TURN OFF YOUR PHONES, PLEASE
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Grammar focus – Passive (present)
Theme/Lexical focus – Science and technology gadgets
Functional focus – Asking for information in a shop
Writing task – An essay: A gadget I couldn’t live without
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UNIT 10. WATCH OUT!
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Grammar focus
Modals: advice, prohibition/obligation
Need to/needn’t
Theme/Lexical focus
Safety/Safety equipments
Dangerous jobs
Functional focus – Giving advice (to someone who wants to do a dangerous job)
Writing task – An email to a friend telling them what they need to bring on a camping trip.
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