Course unit content
<br /><br />Grammar<br /> <br />· articles<br />· demonstratives<br />· possessives and possessive ‘s<br />· personal pronouns<br />· some and any<br />· countable and uncountable nouns<br />· quantifiers<br />· comparatives and superlatives<br />· relative pronouns<br />· main prepositions of place and time<br />· indirect questions<br />· main conjunctions<br />· main phrasal/prepositional verbs<br />· Present Simple and Present Continuous<br />· Past Simple <br />· Past Continuous<br />· Present Perfect Simple<br />· The future (going to, will, Present Simple, Present Continuous)<br />· First conditional<br />· Time clauses and the Present Simple)<br />· The Passive voice (Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect)<br />· Modal verbs (can, could, must, will, would, should)<br /> <br />Vocabulary <br /> <br /> * spelling<br />· numbers (prices, quantities, dates, etc.)<br />· family<br />· free time activities<br />· house and furniture<br />· public places and shops<br />· jobs<br />· food and drinks<br />· animals<br />· weather <br />· clothes<br />· parts of the body and health problems<br />· means of transport<br />· everyday objects<br /> <br />Functions<br /> <br />· describing people (character and appearance)<br />· telling the time and dates<br />· describing everyday habits and routines<br />· ordering in a restaurant or in a hotel<br />· understanding notices, labels, adverts<br />· road directions<br />· describing holidays, trips, etc.<br />· describing objects (size, colour, shape, etc.)<br />· warnings and prohibitions<br />· obligation and absence of obligations<br />· agreement/disagreement<br />· criticisms and complaints<br />· talking about preferences<br />· describing feelings and emotions
Bibliography
<br />For grammar, functions and vocabulary:<br /><br />M. Vince, G. Cerulli, Inside Grammar, Macmillan (+ keys)<br />M. Swan, C. Walter, The Good Grammar Book with answers, Oxford UP<br /> <br />Textbook <br />G. Cunningham, S. Mohamed, Language to Go Pre-Intermediate, Longman
