Intensivo Inglés Pre-Intermedio B1.1

Unit 1:

A. Who’s who

Grammar: word order in questions

Vocabulary: common verb phrases, classroom language

Pronunciation: vowel sounds, the alphabet

B. Who knows you better?

Grammar: present simple

Vocabulary: family, personality adjectives

Pronunciation: third person and plural -s

C. At the Moulin Rouge

Grammar: present continuous

Vocabulary: the body, prepositions of place

Pronunciation: vowel sounds

D. The Devil’s Dictionary

Grammar: defining relative clauses (a person who…, a thing which)

Vocabulary: expressions for paraphrasing: like, for example, etc.

Pronunciation: pronunciation in a dictionary

Practical English – At the airport.

Writing – Describing yourself

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

Unit 2:

A. Right place, wrong time

Grammar: past simple regular and irregular verbs

Vocabulary: holidays

Pronunciation: -ed endings, irregular verbs

B. A moment in time

Grammar: past continuous

Vocabulary: prepositions of time and place: at, in, on

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

C. Fifty years of pop

Grammar: questions with and without auxiliaries

Vocabulary: questions words, pop music

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

D. One October evening

Grammar: so, because, but, although

Vocabulary: verb phrases

Pronunciation: the letter a

Practical English – At the conference hotel

Writing – The story behind a photo

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

Unit 3:

A. Where are you going?

Grammar: going to, present continuous (future arrangements)

Vocabulary: look (after, for, etc.)

Pronunciation: sentence stress

B. The pessimist’s phrase book

Grammar: will / won’t (predictions)

Vocabulary: opposite verbs

Pronunciation: contradictions (will / won’t), phonetic sounds

C. I’ll always love you

Grammar: will /won’t (promises, offers, decisions)

Vocabulary: verb + back

Pronunciation: word stress: two-syllable words

D. I was only dreaming

Grammar: reviews of tenses: present, past, and future

Vocabulary: verb + prepositions

Pronunciation: sentence stress

Practical English – Restaurant problems

Writing – An informal letter

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

Unit 4:

A. From rags to riches

Grammar: present perfect (experience) + ever, never; present perfect or past simple?

Vocabulary: clothes

Pronunciation: vowel sounds

B. Family conflicts

Grammar: present perfect simple + yet, just, already

Vocabulary: verb phrases

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

C. Faster, faster!

Grammar: comparatives, as…as / less…than…

Vocabulary: time expressions: spend time, waste time, etc

Pronunciation: sentence stress

D. The world’s friendliest city

Grammar: superlatives (+ever + present perfect)

Vocabulary: opposite adjectives

Pronunciation: word stress

Practical English – Lost in San Francisco

Writing – Describing where you live

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

Unit 5:

A. Are you a party animal?

Grammar: uses of the infinitive (with to)

Vocabulary: verbs + infinitive

Pronunciation: word stress

B. What makes you feel good?

Grammar: verb + -ing

Vocabulary: verbs describing emotions

Pronunciation: -ing

C. How much can you learn in a month?

Grammar: have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t

Vocabulary: modifiers: a bit, really, etc.

Pronunciation: sentence stress

D. The name of the game

Grammar: expressing movement

Vocabulary: prepositions of movement, sport

Pronunciation: prepositions

Practical English – At a department store

Writing – A formal e-mail

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

Unit 6:

A. If something bad can happen, it will

Grammar: if + present; will + infinitive (first conditional)

Vocabulary: confusing verbs

Pronunciation: long and short vowels

B. Never smile at a crocodile

Grammar: if + past; would + infinitive (second conditional)

Vocabulary: animals

Pronunciation: stress and rhythm

C. Decisions, decisions

Grammar: may / might (possibility)

Vocabulary: Word building: noun formation

Pronunciation: sentence stress, -ion endings

D. What should I do?

Grammar: should / shouldn’t

Vocabulary: get

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds, sentence stress

Practical English – At the pharmacy

Writing – Writing to a friend

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

Unit 7:

A. Famous fears and phobias

Grammar: present perfect + for and since

Vocabulary: guessing meaning from context

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds, sentence stress

B. Born to direct

Grammar: present perfect or past simple?

Vocabulary: biographies

Pronunciation: word stress

C. I sued to be a rebel

Grammar: used to

Vocabulary: school subjects: history, geography, etc.

Pronunciation: sentence stress; used to / didn’t used to

D. The mothers of invention

Grammar: passive

Vocabulary: verbs: invent, discover, etc.

Pronunciation: -ed, sentence stress

Practical English – A boat trip

Writing – Describing a building

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

Unit 8:

A. I hate week-ends!

Grammar: something, anything, nothing, etc.

Vocabulary: adjectives ending in –ed and -ing

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

B. How old is your body?

Grammar: quantifiers, too, not enough…

Vocabulary: health, lifestyle: wear sunscreen, etc.

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds; linking

C. Waking up is hard to do

Grammar: word order of phrasal verbs

Vocabulary: phrasal verbs

Pronunciation: phonetic sounds

D. ‘I’m Jim.’ ‘So am I.’

Grammar: so / neither + auxiliaries

Vocabulary: similarities

Pronunciation: vowel and consonant sounds, sentence stress

Practical English – On the phone

Writing – Giving your opinion

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Unit 9:

A. What a week!

Grammar: past perfect

Vocabulary: adverbs: suddenly, immediately, etc.

Pronunciation: revision of vowel sounds, sentence stress

B. Then he kissed me

Grammar: reported speech

Vocabulary: say, tell, or ask?

Pronunciation: rhyming verbs

Grammar: Quick grammar check for each File

Vocabulary, Pronunciation: Quick check of vocabulary, sounds, and word stress

Communication

Listening

Grammar Bank

Vocabulary Bank

Irregular verbs

Sound Bank