English Language Course B1-Intermediate Summary
UNIT 1
- Topics: people, characters and appliances
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: character adjectives, appearance, personal qualities, antonyms
- Grammar in Use: Present Simple Tense/ Present Continuous Tense, Stative Verbs, adverbs of frequency, question words, Phrasal Verbs with GET
- Writing Section:
Unit 2:
- Topics: jobs and places, lifestyles, city and country
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: city life, country life, jobs and professions job qualities, giving directions
- Grammar in Use: Comparative and superlatives, Verb patterns, phrasal verbs with PUT
- Writing Section:
Unit 3
- Topics: the environment, endangered species
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: environmental problems and solutions, endangered animals
- Grammar in Use: Present Perfect Simple Tense/ Present Perfect Continuous Tense, clauses of purposes, Phrasal verbs with RUN
- Writing Section:
Unit 4
- Topics: holidays, climate and weather conditions, transport
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: types of holidays, holiday equipment, means of transport, prepositional phrases
- Grammar in Use: present/past participles Past Simple Tense/ Past Continuous Tense, linkers, definite article, used to/would, phrasal verbs with COME
- Writing Section:
Unit 5
- Topics: Offers and sales (shopping time)
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: types of shops and shopping, products, clothes and gifts
- Grammar in Use: modal verbs, making assumptions /requests, too/enough, phrasal verbs with LOOK
- Writing Section:
Unit 6
- Topics: Happy days
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: traditional celebrations and customs, feelings, verbs with prepositions
- Grammar in Use: future forms, Future Simple Tense/Future Continuous Tense, question tags phrasal verbs with BREAK
- Writing Section:
Unit 7
- Topics: places to eat, food and drinks
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: restaurant-related vocabulary, cooking cutlery, crockery and appliances quantities, menus verbs with prepositions
- Grammar in Use: countable and uncountable nouns, quantifiers, Past perfect Simple tense/Past perfect Continuous Tense Phrasal Verbs with GIVE
- Writing Section:
Unit 8
- Topics: sport accidents and injuries
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: types of sports sport injuries, places and equipment, personal qualities, adjectives with prepositions
- Grammar in Use: passive voice(with/by), conditionals type 0 1, if/unless, phrasal verbs with BRING
- Writing Section:
Unit 9
- Topics: entertainment, art and culture
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: types of entertainment, cinema, film reviews and books, prepositional phrases
- Grammar in Use: conditional types 2 3, wishes relative clauses, phrasal verbs with TURN
- Writing Section:
Unit 10
- Topics: technology and education
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: teenagers and technology, gadgets, education and technology
- Grammar in use: reported speech, causative form, phrasal verbs with TAKE
- Writing Section: