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Functions A1
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Grammar A1
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Discourse Markers A1
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Vocabulary A1
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- Describing habits and routines
- Giving personal information
- Greetings
- Telling the time
- Understanding and using number
- Understanding and using prices
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- Adjectives: common and demonstrative
- Adverbs of frequency
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Going to
- How much/how many and very common uncountable nouns
- I’d like
- Imperatives (+/-)
- Intensifiers – very basic
- Modals: can/can’t/could/couldn’t
- Past simple of “to be”
- Past Simple
- Possessive adjectives
- Possessive s
- Prepositions, common
- Prepositions of place
- Prepositions of time, including in/on/at
- Present continuous
- Present simple
- Pronouns: simple, personal
- Questions
- There is/are
- To be, including question+negatives
- Verb + ing: like/hate/love
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- Connecting words, and, but, because
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- Food and drink
- Nationalities and countries
- Personal information
- Things in the town, shops and shopping
- Verbs – basic
Topics:
- Family life
- Hobbies and pastimes
- Holidays
- Leisure activities
- Shopping
- Work and jobs
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Functions A2
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Grammar A2
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GrammarA2 (continued)
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Vocabulary A2
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- Describing habits and routines
- Describing past experiences
- Describing people
- Describing places
- Describing things
- Obligation and necessity
- Requests
- Suggestions
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- Adjectives – comparative, – use of than and definite article
- Adjectives – superlative – use of definite article
- Adverbial phrases of time, place…and frequency – including word order
- Adverbs of frequency
- Articles – with countable and uncountable nouns
- Countables and Uncountables:much/many
- Future Time (will and going to)
- Gerunds
- Going to
- Imperatives
- Modals – can/could
- Modals – have to
- Modals – should
- Past continuous
- Past simple
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- Phrasal verbs – common
- Possessives – use of ‘s, s’
- Prepositional phrases (place, time and movement)
- Prepositions of time: on/in/at
- Present continuous…Present continuous for future
- Present perfect
- Questions…Verb + ing/infinitive: like/ want-would like
- Wh-questions in past
- Zero and 1st conditional
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- Adjectives: personality, description, feelings
- Food and drink
- Things in the town, shops and shopping
- Travel and services
Topics:
- Education
- Hobbies and pastimes
- Holidays
- Leisure activities
- Shopping
- Work and jobs
Discourse Markers:
- Linkers: sequential – past time
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Functions B1
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Grammar B1
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Discourse Markers B1
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Vocabulary B1
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- Checking understanding
- Describing experiences and events
- Describing feelings and emotion
- Describing places
- Expressing opinions; language of agreeing and disagreeing
- Initiating and closing conversation
- Managing interaction (interrupting,
- changing topic, resuming or continuing)
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- Adverbs
- Broader range of intensifiers such as too, enough
- Comparatives and superlatives
- Complex question tags
- Conditionals, 2nd and 3rd
- Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
- Future continuous
- Modals – must/can’t deduction
- Modals – might, may, will, probably
- Modals – should have/might have/etc
- Modals: must/have to
- Past continuous
- Past perfect
- Past simple
- Past tense responses
- Phrasal verbs, extended
- Present perfect continuous
- Present perfect/past simple
- Reported speech (range of tenses)
- Simple passive
- Wh– questions in the past
- Will and going to, for prediction
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- Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc
- Linkers: sequential past time
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- Collocation
- Colloquial language
- Things in the town, shops and shopping
- Travel and services
Topics:
- Books and literature
- Education
- Film
- Leisure activities
- Media
- News, lifestyles and current affairs
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Functions B2
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Grammar B2
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Discourse Markers B2
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Vocabulary B2
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- Critiquing and reviewing
- Describing experiences
- Describing feelings and emotions
- Describing hopes and plans
- Developing an argument
- Encouraging and inviting another speaker to continue, come in
- Expressing abstract ideas
- Expressing agreement and disagreement…Expressing opinions…Expressing reaction, e.g. indifference
- Interacting informally, reacting, expressing interest, sympathy, surprise etc.
- Opinion, justification
- Speculating
- Taking the initiative in interaction
- Synthesizing, evaluating, glossing info
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- Adjectives and adverbs
- Future continuous
- Future perfect
- Future perfect continuous
- Mixed conditionals
- Modals – can’t have, needn’t have
- Modals of deduction and speculation
- Narrative tenses
- Passives
- Past perfect
- Past perfect continuous
- Phrasal verbs, extended
- Relative clauses
- Reported speech
- Will and going to, for prediction
- Wish
- Would expressing habits, in the past
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- Connecting words expressing cause and effect, contrast etc.
- Discourse markers to structure formal speech
- Linkers: although, in spite of, despite Linkers: sequential – past time – subsequently
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- Collocation
- Colloquial language
Topics:
- Arts
- Books and literature
- Education
- Film
- Media
- News, lifestyles and current affairs
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