Level 4 (B1)
Intermediate
Area
Objectives (adapted from descriptors from Common European Framework and European Language Portfolio level B1)
Speaking interaction and production objectives
You will be able to:
- Speak regularly with native speakers.
- Discuss familiar topics in detail.
- Give your opinions and explain advantages and disadvantages.
Listening objectives
You will be able to:
- Understand long speech and lectures and follow complex arguments if the topic is reasonably familiar.
- Understand most TV news and current affairs programmes.
- Understand the majority of films in common accents.
Reading objectives
You will be able to:
- Read articles and reports about common topics
- Understand modern novels.
Writing objectives
You will be able to:
- Write clearly and in detail about a wide range of subjects.
- Write an essay or report.
- Write letters about events and personal experiences.
Course Content
- Phrasal Verbs in everyday activities
- Comparing Places
- Changing Meanings
- Activities in progress
- Talents and Skills
- Everyday Problems
- Myself/Yourself
- What Things Are For
- Obligations
- Polite Requests
- Asking for Agreement
- Things That Are Always True
- Describing a Process
- Solving Problems
- What was happening when?
- The past perfect and further education
- Telling a Story
- What other people said
- What Other People Asked
- Review
Grammar Content
1) Past Simple vs Present Perfect
2) Phrasal Verbs
3) Separable Phrasal Verbs
4) 3 word phrasal verbs
5) Modifiers
6) Prefixes and Suffixes
7) Present Perfect Continuous
8) Present Perfect Continuous Questions
9) Negative Prefixes
10) Reflexive Pronouns
11) Gerund + Infinitives
12) Must + Have to
13) Can, could, may
14) Question Tags
15) Zero Conditional
16) Present Simple Passive
17) 1st conditional+ imperative
18) Past Continuous
19) Past Simple Passive
20) Narrative tenses + Idioms
21) Reported Speech
22) Reported Questions
