English Language Course B2 Upper-Intermediate Summary
UNIT 1
- Topics: Houses and dwellings
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: dwellings and appliances, household chores, home safety
- Grammar in Use: present tenses (present simple tense, present continuous tense, Present Perfect Tense, Present Perfect Continuous Tense) adverbs of frequency, state verbs, phrasal verbs with BRING, BREAK
- Writing Section:
Unit 2:
- Topics: Life events
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: dwellings & appliances, household chores, colours & rooms, home safety
- Grammar in Use: past tenses, used to/would, phrasal verbs with CARRY, COME
- Writing Section:
Unit 3
- Topics: travel, holidays, festivals
- Reading Comprehension: weather, types of holidays &, holiday equipment, holiday resorts, holiday troubles, festivals
- Vocabulary Practice:
- Grammar in Use: future tenses; conditional types O & 1; the definite article, phrasal verbs with CUT, DO
- Writing Section:
Unit 4
- Topics: environment, energy
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: Planet Earth, Environmental Issues, Energy Crisis, protecting animals and plants
- Grammar in Use: comparisons, too/enough, verb patterns, phrasal verbs with FALL, GET
- Writing Section:
Unit 5
- Topics: healthy lifestyles
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: health concerns, daily routines, stress and relaxation, feelings
- Grammar in Use: -ing/-ed participles, modal verbs, deductions, question tags, phrasal verbs with GIVE, GO
- Writing Section:
Unit 6
- Topics: science and technology
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: technology at home, electrical appliances
- Grammar in Use: passive voice, relative clauses, phrasal verbs with HOLD, KEEP
- Writing Section:
Unit 7
- Topics: Shopping and bargains
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: types of shops, clothes and products
- Grammar in Use: causative form, reported speech, phrasal verbs with LET, LOOK
- Writing Section:
Unit 8
- Topics: healthy life
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: food, healthy eating, eating habits
- Grammar in Use: quantifiers (some, any, (a) few, (a) little, countable and uncountable nouns, phrasal verbs with MAKE, PUT
- Writing Section:
Unit 9
- Topics: adrenaline in the blood
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: sports and entertainment
- Grammar in Use: conditionals types 2 and 3, wishes, would rather, phrasal verbs with RUN, SEE, SET
- Writing Section:
Unit 10
- Topics: keeping the world informed
- Reading Comprehension:
- Vocabulary Practice: news, media and disasters
- Grammar in use: Future Perfect Tense, Future Perfect Continuous, phrasal verbs with STAND, TAKE, TURN
- Writing Section: