Inglés B1.2 Intermedio

Unit 1:

A. Food: Fuel or pleasure?

Grammar: present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs

Vocabulary: food and restaurants

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds, understanding phonetics

B. If you really want to win, cheat

Grammar: past tenses: simple, continuous, perfect

Vocabulary: sport

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

C. We are family

Grammar: future forms: going to, present continuous, will / shall

Vocabulary: family, personality: each other or reflexive pronouns?

Pronunciation:

Practical English – Introductions

Writing – Describing a person

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

Unit 2:

A. Ka-ching!

Grammar: present perfect and past simple

Vocabulary: money, phrasal verbs

Pronunciation: saying numbers

B. Changing your life

Grammar: present perfect continuous

Vocabulary: strong adjectives: exhausted, amazed, etc.

Pronunciation: stress in compound nouns

C. Race to the sun

Grammar: comparatives and superlatives

Vocabulary: transport and travel: how long + take

Pronunciation: stress in compound nouns

Practical English – In the office

Writing – Telling a story

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

Unit 3:

A. Modern manners

Grammar: must, have to, should (obligation)

Vocabulary: mobile phones

Pronunciation: sentence stress

B. Judging by appearances

Grammar: must, may, might, can’t (deduction)

Vocabulary: describing people: look or look like?

Pronunciation: -eigh, -aigh, and -igh

C. If at first you don’t succeed,…

Grammar: can, could, be able to (ability and possibility)

Vocabulary: -ed / -ing adjectives: so

Pronunciation: sentence stress

Practical English – Renting a flat

Writing – An informal letter

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

Unit 4:

A. Back to school, aged 35

Grammar: first conditional and future times clauses + when, until, etc.

Vocabulary: education

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

B. In an ideal world…

Grammar: second conditional

Vocabulary: houses

Pronunciation: sentence stress

C. Still friends?

Grammar: usually and used to

Vocabulary: friendship - get

Pronunciation: /s/ or /z/ ?

Practical English – A visit from a pop star

Writing – Describing a house or flat

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

Unit 5:

A. Slow down you move too fast

Grammar: quantifiers

Vocabulary: noun formation

Pronunciation: -ough and -augh

B. Same planet, different worlds

Grammar: articles: a / an, the, no article

Vocabulary: verbs and adjectives + prepositions - connectors

Pronunciation: sentence stress, phonetic sounds

C. Job swap

Grammar: gerunds and infinitives

Vocabulary: work

Pronunciation: word stress

Practical English – Meetings

Writing – Formal letters and a CV

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

Unit 6:

A. Love in the supermarket

Grammar: reported speech: statements, questions, and commands

Vocabulary: shopping

Pronunciation: consonant sounds

B. See the film…get on a plane

Grammar: passive: be + past participle

Vocabulary: cinema

Pronunciation: sentence stress

C. I need a hero

Grammar: relative clauses: defining and non-defining

Vocabulary: what people do

Pronunciation: word stress

Practical English – Breaking news

Writing – A film review

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

Unit 7:

A. Can we make our own luck?

Grammar: third conditional

Vocabulary: making adjectives and adverbs: what or which

Pronunciation: sentence stress

B. Murder mysteries

Grammar: question tags, indirect questions

Vocabulary: compound nouns

Pronunciation: intonation in question tags

C. Switch it off

Grammar: phrasal verbs

Vocabulary: television, phrasal verbs

Pronunciation: revision of sounds, linking

Practical English – Everything in the open

Writing – An article for a magazine

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

Communication

Listening

Grammar Bank

Vocabulary Bank

Irregular verbs

Sound Bank