COURSE GENERAL SUBTOPICS
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A1-1 Exploring, ✓ Greetings and farewells (formal-informal) Good morning, how
talking and are you? What’s up? See you, so long…
sharing ✓ Revise and consolidate the alphabet + pronunciation hints and
information spelling (how do you spell?).
about me and ✓ Useful classroom vocabulary, questions and instructions (Please,
others stand up, sit down, write in your notebook, etc…)
✓ Numbers 1-10, Mobile phone numbers and e-mail addresses
✓ Talking about your age: Numbers 11-101, stress in numbers,
ordinal numbers (1st -31st)th /θ/ pronunciation.
✓ days of the week- months of the year-seasons
✓ Singular and plural form of Nouns
✓ Regular plural form (-s, -es, -ies)
✓ Special cases (knives, tomatoes…)
✓ Irregular plural form (men, women, fish…)
✓ Articles a, an, the and no article
Checking and consolidating the present simple affirmative form of '
to be' verb. Completing short conversations using the affirmative,
negative and interrogative forms of the verb 'to be'.
✓ Titles (Mr. Mrs. Ms. Miss) + Parts of the name
✓ Consolidating personal information exchange (What´s your name?
How do you spell you last name? What´s your phone number,
etc…)
✓ Likes and dislikes.
✓ Feelings
● Checking and consolidation of possessive adjectives (my, your,
his, her, etc). Recycling the affirmative and interrogative forms of
the verb 'to be'. Possessive adjectives: form.
● Demonstratives: this is, that is, these are, those are, they are, it
is
Practicing and consolidating the use of nationality nouns and
adjectives.
✓ Where are you from?
✓ Countries and nationalities
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A1-2 Spatial Prepositions of place 'at', 'on', 'in' and 'under'. Work on common
locations, the expressions using 'at', 'in' and 'on'.
funny way to ✓ Practicing prepositions of place.
describe my ✓ Say where things are in space.
world. ✓ Make simple descriptions of house and bedroom.
✓ Understand simple descriptions of places (colors, stories, points of
reference; 'behind', 'between', 'in front of', 'near', 'next to' and
'opposite') common places in the city( buildings, shop, etc.
✓ 'There is/isn't' and 'there are/aren't'.
✓ Practicing the use of 'there is' and 'there are';
✓ Practice: Is there a bank on this street? (introducing some, any,
many )
Countables and ✓ Types of food - Healthy food.
uncountables, ✓ countable and uncountable nouns
eating ✓ Food idioms (going bananas, going nuts, piece of cake, big cheese,
responsibly not my cup of tea, spill the beans)
✓ Classifying food
✓ Focus on the prices of things (How much is it?). Practicing
numbers and prices. (1-1000)
✓ Practicing questions starting with 'How much' and 'How many'
✓ Consolidation: visit to a mall
✓ Reinforcement of simple present tense: Likes and dislikes + noun
✓ Daily life situations
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A1-3 Describing Present Simple Tense
some daily life ✓ Present Simple affirmative
activities in ✓ Present simple negative
detail. ✓ Present simple interrogative
✓ Present simple endings: s – es – ies
✓ Routines and daily activities.
✓ Jobs and your activities at work
✓ Telling the time (Prepositions, time expressions, frequency
adverbs, frequency expressions, seasons and weather)
✓ Can for ability
✓ Sports and exercise (collocations with do, play, go)
✓ Adverbs of manner: word order
✓ Talking about hobbies
✓ Can for permission and requests
✓ Invitations
✓ Entertainment
✓ Reinforcement of simple present tense: Likes and dislikes + noun
✓ Daily life situations.
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A1-4 What are you Imperatives
doing? ✓ Affirmative
✓ Negative
Present continuous
✓ Affirmative, negative and interrogative.
Let’s learn WH questions
about our ✓ Object questions
environment. ✓ Subject questions
✓ Questions with “how” followed by adjectives.
Superlatives and Comparatives
✓ Er – more – est – the most
Giving directions
✓ Turn left – make it right – go down – take the second left…
Talking about Verb phrases with go, get and have
some plans. Plans for future
✓ Using present continuous to express and understand future
events.
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A2-5 Talking and ✓ Verb to be in past (was-were-There was-there were)
understanding ✓ Who was the…(world culture and history)
habits and ✓ Introduction to regular and irregular verbs in simple past.
experiences in ✓ pronunciation of –ed endings
past ✓ common expressions in past (last, ago, yesterday)
✓ Affirmative, negative and interrogative sentences in past
✓ History ,ancient cultures and biographies
✓ Connectors in a narrative text
✓ Anecdotes and interviews
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A2-6 Describe plans, ✓ Contrast future and present
intentions and ✓ Talking about future using will and going to
effects in the ✓ Describe plans and intentions
✓ Difference between will and going to
future. ✓ Use of gonna and informal contractions
✓ Zero and first conditional
✓ Cause and effect (Talking about healthy and unhealthy routines
and their consequences, how to create a life plan, how the world
and the environment will be in the future)
✓ General pronouns review: personal, possessive, object, adjectives
✓ Reflexive pronouns and use (Common actions made by myself and
others)
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A2-7 Description of ✓ Grammar review to consolidate grammar tenses: present, past,
experiences future
and events ✓ Describe experiences: present perfect
which are ✓ Uses of present perfect
relevant for ✓ Verbs in past participle: regular and irregular verbs
the present ✓ Common expressions with present perfect: ever and never;
time. already, yet, just, for, and since
✓ How to make questions about experiences and events?
✓ Have you ever…?
✓ Difference between present perfect and simple past
✓ How to write about an experience or a story: narrative text
✓ Different kinds of short stories and narrative text structure
✓ Articles review: a, an, the, 0
✓ Indefinite pronouns: 'some + thing/one' and 'any +
thing/one'
✓ Countable and uncountable nouns review: at the supermarket
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A2-8 Giving advice, ✓ Modal verbs of ability, opinion, advice, recommendation, offerings
suggestions and suggestions
and ✓ Grammar rules and differences among modal verbs
recommendati ✓ Social contexts and situations where modal verbs are used
ons in variety ✓ Questions, affirmative and negative statements with modal verbs
of social ✓ How to give tips and recommendations in known topics?
contexts ✓ Giving advice in a formal and informal way
✓ Asking for opinion to different people about diverse social topics
✓ Structure of a persuasive text
✓ Examples of persuasive texts to identify opinions and points of
view
✓ How to express a request or suggestion in a formal way?
✓ Ask and answer about abilities and skills: sports, hobbies, special
abilities, talents and experiences
✓ Strategies and common expressions to differ between:
✓ Present simple Vs. Present continuous
✓ Simple past vs. past continuous
✓ Simple past vs. Present perfect
COURSE GENERAL SUBTOPICS
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B1-9 Telling some Past tenses review (simple past, present perfect, past progressive)
stories about Past Habits
life. Talking and describing past customs, mine and others
✓ Used to – would
Storytelling
✓ past perfect
✓ How to develop a good story (steps to write or talk about a
complete interesting story)
Common prefixes and suffixes
✓ Un – re – in – dis – en – pre – mis – a
✓ S – es – ly – er – or – tion – sion – able – ible – al - ial
COURSE GENERAL SUBTOPICS
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B1-10 Reporting for Simple Grammar tenses review
fun. ✓ Present simple
✓ Past
✓ Future
✓ Present perfect
✓ Reported Speech (Present simple, past, future, present perfect)
✓ Say vs tell
✓ Other reporting verbs: ask, accused, admitted, advised, alleged,
agreed, apologized, begged, boasted, complained, denied,
explained, implied, invited, offered, ordered, promised, replied,
suggested and thought.
✓ It’s time to debate: Participating in debates and expressing points
of view using 'both ... and', 'either ... or', 'neither ... nor' ' no',
'none/none of', 'neither of 'each' and 'every'
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B1-11 Inventions that Simple Grammar tenses review
have changed ✓ Future Perfect simple and continuous
and will
✓ Active and passive voice (simple present, simple past, simple
change the
future)
world.
Word patterns:
✓ Nouns, verbs, and adjectives followed by prepositions. (Think
about / of. Angry with / about. Study of.)
Verb Patterns:
✓ Gerunds and infinitives.
✓ Debates and roundtables giving opinions based on relevant
references.
COURSE GENERAL SUBTOPICS
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B1-12 If I were you… Present perfect and past perfect review
Conditionals
✓ Zero and First conditional review
✓ Second Conditional
✓ Third Conditional
Phrasal verbs
✓ Separable and non-separable, literal and non-literal.
✓ Giving opinions
PET PRACTICE ✓ Listening, speaking, reading and writing practice based on
Cambridge PET test.
