English Course A1

Programa Lexical focus & Pronunciation focus Grammar Focus Reading & Listening Focus Listening & Speaking Focus (Functional language) Writing focus Cumulative Revision focus & Language Learning Tips Level Test Unit 1: Making friends/ Assessment Unit 2: All About Me/ Assessment Unit 3: My Things/ Assessment Unit 4: Where I live/ Assessment Unit 5: What I like/ Assessment Unit 6: What I do/ Assessment Unit 7: What I can do/ Assessment Unit 8: My family/ Assessment Unit 9: My holidays/ Assessment Unit 10: What I'm learning/ Assessment Unit Lexical focus & Pronunciation focus Grammar Focus Reading & Listening Focus Listening & Speaking Focus (Functional language) Writing focus Cumulative Revision focus &Language Learning Tips 1. MAKING FRIENDS Countries & Nationalities Pronunciation: word stress. ‘to be’: positive, negative, question form, short answer forms Subject pronouns Reading: English as an International Language Listening: My country Introductions: questions and answers: Hello, I’m ….. Where are you from? I’m from (+ country), I’m (+ nationality), S/ He’s from (+ country), He’s (+ nationality) Personal profiles: capital letters Using a dictionary 2. ALL ABOUT ME Capital cities Numbers Personal questions Classroom language ‘this & that’ Possessive adjectives Reading: My home town Listening: Party conversations Hotel language Spelling: the sounds of the alphabet Filling in a simple form: personal information Recording vocabulary Consonant sounds 3. MY THINGS Personal possessions Clothes Colours Vowel sounds ‘have got’ Articles Reading: Harrods Listening: Vintage clothes Shopping language Polite requests 1: lend and borrow A magazine interview; apostrophes Keeping a vocabulary notebook 4. WHERE I LIVE Public buildings Houses and homes Prepositions of place There is / are Reading: Buckingham Palace Listening: AirBnb Telephone language Describing where you live: Adding information: also & too Revision of units 1 – 4 5. WHAT I LIKE Food & drink Countability Present Simple: Likes & dislikes Reading: Rice Listening: a survey Expressing preference Writing and filling out a survey: Conjunctions: and, but, however, because Learning vocabulary strategies 6. WHAT I DO Week and weekend activities Jobs Present Simple Reading: The Paleo Diet Listening: Job applications Telling the time Suggestions 1 An email: expressing result Revising grammar strategies 7. WHAT I CAN DO Activities Adverbs of frequency Big numbers ‘can’ for ability Reading: popular activities Listening: Celebrity language learners Offers A personal posting: checking your work Revision of units 1 – 7 8. MY FAMILY Family Relationships Past Simple: ‘to be’ Reading: Helena Bonham Carter Listening: My grandparents Polite requests A biography: word order Revising vocabulary strategies 9. MY HOLIDAYS Holidays Months Dates Past Simple: regular & irregular verbs Reading: a Wiki Listening: The Grand Tour Directions Holiday postcards: first, then, next, finally Revising & redrafting Keeping a learning diary 10. WHAT I’M LEARNING Language learning ‘going to’ future plans Reading: learning holidays Listening: adult education Suggestions 2 An informal letter: revision Revision of Units 1 - 10