Intensivo Inglés Upper-Intermediate B1.2

Unit 1:

A. Q and A

Grammar: revision: question formation

Vocabulary: working our meaning from context

Pronunciation: intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions

B. Do you believe it?

Grammar: auxiliary verbs; the…the… + comparatives

Vocabulary: personality

Pronunciation: using a dictionary to check word stress; intonation and sentence rhythm

C. You’re the doctor!

Grammar: present perfect (simple and continuous)

Vocabulary: illness and treatment

Pronunciation: consonant sounds

Practical English – What does the future hold?

Writing – An informal email / letter

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 2:

A. National stereotypes: truth or myth?

Grammar: using adjectives as nouns, adjective order

Vocabulary: clothes and fashion

Pronunciation: vowel sounds

B. Air travel: the inside story

Grammar: narrative tenses, past perfect continuous; so / such… that

Vocabulary: air travel

Pronunciation: irregular past forms

C. Incredibly short stories

Grammar: adverbs and adverbial phrases

Vocabulary: confusing adverbs and adverbial phrases

Pronunciation: word and sentence stress

Practical English – Flying high

Writing – A short story

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 3:

A. The one place a burglar won’t look

Grammar: passive (all forms), it is said that…, he is thought to…, etc.

Vocabulary: crime and punishment

Pronunciation: the letter u

B. Stormy weather

Grammar: future perfect and future continuous

Vocabulary: weather

Pronunciation: vowel sounds

C. Taking a risk

Grammar: conditionals and future time clauses; likely and probably

Vocabulary: expressions with take

Pronunciation: sentence stress and rhythm

Practical English – High risk?

Writing – Expressing your opinion

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 4:

A. Would you get out alive?

Grammar: unreal conditionals

Vocabulary: feelings

Pronunciation: sentence rhythm

B. How I trained my husband

Grammar: past modals; would rather, had better

Vocabulary: verbs often confused

Pronunciation: weak form of have

C. Let your body do the talking

Grammar: verbs of the senses

Vocabulary: the body

Pronunciation: silent letters

Practical English – Stage and screen

Writing – An article

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 5:

A. The psychology of music

Grammar: gerunds and infinitives

Vocabulary: music

Pronunciation: ch and y

B. Counting sheep

Grammar: used to, be used to, get used to

Vocabulary: sleep

Pronunciation: linking words

C. Breaking news

Grammar: reporting verbs; as

Vocabulary: the media

Pronunciation: word stress

Practical English – Music festivals

Writing – A formal letter

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 6:

A. Speaking to the world

Grammar: articles

Vocabulary: collocation: word pairs

Pronunciation: sentence stress

B. Bright lights, big city

Grammar: uncountable and plural nouns; have something done

Vocabulary: towns and cities

Pronunciation: word stress in multi-syllable words

C. Eureka!

Grammar: quantifiers: all / every, etc.

Vocabulary: science

Pronunciation: changing stress in word families

Practical English – Great cities

Writing – A report

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Unit 7:

A. I wish I wouldn’t…!

Grammar: structures after wish

Vocabulary: -ed / -ing adjectives and related verbs; expressions with go

Pronunciation: sentence rhythm

B. A test of honesty

Grammar: clauses of contrast and purpose; whatever, whenever, etc.

Vocabulary: business and advertising

Pronunciation: changing stress in nouns and verbs

C. Tingo

Grammar: relative clauses

Vocabulary: prefixes

Pronunciation: word stress

Practical English – Words

Writing – ‘For and against’

Revise & Check – What do you remember? What can you do?

Communication

Listening

Grammar Bank

Vocabulary Bank

Irregular verbs

Sound Bank