A2 Pre-Intermediate SUMMARY

UNIT 1

• Topics: Jobs, daily activities, weekend activities
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: Types of jobs, Job qualities, job routines, daily routines, free-time activities, chores, telling  the time
• Grammar in Use: Present Simple Tense, Present Continuous Tense, Adverbs of Frequency, Present Continuous Tense (Future Meaning) – going to
• Writing Section:

Unit 2:

• Topics: famous people,past experiences, types of houses
• Reading Comprehension:
  
• Vocabulary Practice: Nationalities; types of houses; rooms, furniture (appliances)
• Grammar in Use: Past Simple Tense; wh-questions; used to
• Writing Section:

Unit 3

• Topics: holidays; transport; festivals
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice:holiday activities; entertainment; means of transport
• Grammar in Use: Present Perfect  Simple Tense; Present Perfect Simple Tense vs Past Simple Tense
• Writing Section:

Unit 4

• Topics: Weather; geographical features; animal kingdom
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: Weather and Seasons, geographical terms, measurements, animals, parts of the body
• Grammar in Use:Comparatives and Superlatives, the definite article, plurals
• Writing Section:

Unit 5

• Topics: disasters, accidents, precautions
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: types of disasters, types of accidents
• Grammar in Use: Past Continuous vs Past Simple Tense, Reflexive Pronouns, Past Perfect Simple Tense

Unit 6

• Topics: Health Problems, Medical Professions, Lifestyles
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: Illnesses and cures, Medical professions, workplaces, emergency services, healthy/unhealthy lifestyles
• Grammar in Use: Conditional types 0 and 1, modals
  
• Writing Section:

Unit 7

• Topics: Food and drinks, shops and products, money
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: dishes, desserts, drinks,places to eat, ways to cook, types of shops, products, clothes, shopping habits and money
• Grammar in Use: Countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers and containers, going to vs Future Simple Tense
• Writing Section:

Unit 8

• Topics: Character qualities, sports, entertainment
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: hobbies and personalities, sports and equipment, places for sports, films and reviews, types of entertainment
• Grammar in Use:Verb Patterns (-bare infinitive, to + infinitive, -ing), -ing/-ed participles
• Writing Section:

Unit 9

• Topics: gadgets, technology and inventors
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: inventions, inventors and computers
• Grammar in Use: The Passive Voice, Questions Tags
• Writing Section:

Unit 10

• Topics: Space, Unexplained mysteries, Environment
• Reading Comprehension:
• Vocabulary Practice: space, solar system,UFOs, the supernatural, environment
• Grammar in use: reported speech (statements, questions, commands), relatives
• Writing Section: