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0. beginner

* Verb TO BE
* Articles
* Pronouns
* Possessive pronouns and adjectives
* Simple Questions
* Demostratives

* Singular and Plural
* Numbers and Colours
* Social English
* Jobs
* Family
* Personal information

1. Everyday Life

* The Present Simple & Continuous tenses
* Comparatives and Superlatives
* Social Language:introductions
making conversation

* Frequency Adverbs
* Verbs: Everyday Actions
* Countable and Uncountable nouns
* Opposites of Adjectives

2. Going shopping

* The Past Simple Tense:
- irregular verbs
- time expressions
* The Past Continuous Tense
* Some and Any

* Expressions of Quantity:
how much, how many
a lot, a little, a few, etc.
* Numbers, Prices and Measurements
* Clothes
* Shops and Shopping

3. Making a plan

* The Future:
- The Present Tenses with future meaning
- Will and Going to
* Verb patterns:
- verbs, adjectives and expressions followed by the infinitive
- verbs and expressions followed by the gerund
* Telephoning (making plans)

* Computers and the Internet
* Train and Air Travel
* Food
* Dates and Telling the Time

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4. Describing past experiences and recent activities

* The Present Perfect Simple Tense:
* Ability
* Questions Forms:

• what kind…?
• how often…? etc.

* Homonyms and Homophones
* Business Language:
- talking about jobs
* Multiword Verbs
* Education

5.  Going out

* The Zero and First Conditional Obligation
* Obligation
* The Past Perfect Simple Tense
* Using Articles

* Describing Places:
- Town and Country
* Prepositions of Movement
* Adverbs of Manner, Place and Time
* Entertainment

6. Telling Stories

* The Second Conditional
* Say and Tell
* Who, whose, that, which and where

* Books and Reading
* Sports and Hobbies
* On holiday
* At home

7. What are you doing?

* Present and Past Ability
* Asking Questions
Revision: Present simple & continuous tenses
Comparative & superlative Social language: introductions, making conversation

* Word Association: Ages
* Verbs & Nouns that go together
* Work and Jobs
* Listening
Revision: Frequency adverbs
Everyday actions
Count & mass nouns
Opposites of adjectives

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8. A domestic accident

* The Present Passive
* Basic Relative Clauses
* Language: Offers and Requests
Revision: Past simple tense, Past continuous tense, Some/any

* Products and Producing
* Sequencing Language
* Words that are often confused
* Listening
Revision: Expressions of quantity
Numbers: prices, measurements
Clothes, Shops & shopping

9. Getting to know the neighbours

* The Past Passive
* Indirect Questions
* Language: Agreeing and Disagreeing
Revision: The Future:
present tenses with   
future meaning
       will and going to
Verb patterns:
verbs, adjectives &   
expressions
verbs + infinitive
verbs + gerund
Telephoning : making plans

* Link Words
* Cars and Driving
* Prefixes and Suffixes
* Listening
Revision: Computers & internet
Train & air travel
Prepositions of time
Dates & telling the time
Food

10. Rules and regulations

* Obligation
* The Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
Revision: Present perfect simple tense
Ability
Question forms: what kind of…? how often..? etc.

* Compound Words
* British and American English
* Travel and Holidays
* Listening
Revision: Homonyms and homophones
Business language: talking about your job
Multiword verbs
Education

11. Relationships

* Future Time
* Conditionals
* Word order
Revision: Zero and First Conditional
Past perfect simple tense
Obligation, Using articles.

* Strong Adjectives and Intensifiers
* Everyday Expressions
* Time Expressions
* Listening
Revision: Describing places: town & country
Propositions of movement
Adverbs of manner, place & time
Entertainment

12. We’re very different people

* Probability
* Gerunds and Infinitives
* Past perfect and the third conditional
Revision: Second Conditional
Say and Tell
Who, whose, that, which and where

* The Weather
* The Environment
* Phrasal verbs
* Listening
Revision: Books and reading
Sports and hobbies
On holiday
At home

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13. Keeping fit

* Reported Speech
* Expressions with “Used to”
* Question Tags
Revision: Present and past ability
Asking questions

* The Body and its Actions
* Health
* Sports and Hobbies
* Listening
Revision: Word association: ages
Verbs & nouns that go together
Work and jobs

14. Description

* The Present Simple and continuous tenses
* Defining and non-defining relative clauses
* Expressions with or without articles
* Clauses of comparison
Revision: Present passive
Basic relative clauses
Offers and requests

* Jobs people do
* Appearance
* Personality and character
* Describing objects
Revision: Products and producing
Sequencing language
Words that are often confused

15.  Habit

* Habitual actions in the present and past
Revision: Past passive
Indirect questions
Agreeing and disagreeing

* Words with similar meaning
* Ways of walking
* Prefixes and Suffixes
Revision: Link words
Cars and driving
Prefixes and suffixes

16.  Sport /Health / Illness

* Direct and Indirect Speech
* Advice, permission and ability
Revision: Obligation
Present perfect simple and continuous

* Parts of the body
* Ways of speaking and sounds
Revision: Compound words
British and American English
Travel and holidays

17.  The Narrative Tenses

* The Narrative Tenses
* Hypothesis:
Revision: Future time
Conditionals
Word order

* Transport and driving
* Prepositions of time
* The Pub
* Listening
Revision: Strong adjectives and intensifiers
Everyday expressions
Time expressions

18.  Question Forms

* Questions forms
* Fixed expressions with prepositions
Revision: Probability
Gerunds and infinitives
Past perfect and third conditional

* Prepositions of place
* Vocabulary of Literature
* Eat and Drinking I & II
* Abbreviations
* Reading
Revision: The weather
The environment
Phrasal verbs

19. The blood and the bow-tie

* Gerunds and Infinitives
* Degrees of possibility
Revision: Reported speech
Expressions with used to
Question tags

* Ways of looking
* Vocabulary of injury
* Making Friends
* Telephoning english
Revision: The body and its actions
Health
Sports and hobbies

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20. The lion’s den

* Future Forms
Revision: Present simple and continuous
Defining and non-defining relative clauses
Expressions with or without articles
Clauses of comparison

* Prepositions of movement
* Homonyms
* Homophones
Revision: Jobs people do
Appearance
Personality and character
Describing objects

21. I smell a rat

* Deduction
* Obligation
Revision: Habitual actions in the present and past

* Money
* Statistics
Revision: Words with similar meaning
Ways of walking
Prefixes and suffixes

22. Over the moon

* Conditionals
* Reported Speech
* Progressive aspect
Revision: Direct and indirect speech
Advice, permission, ability.

* Synonyms 
* Words to do with light
* Prepositions following adjectives
* Listening
Revision: Parts of the body
Ways of speaking and sounds

23. An appealing story with interesting characters

* Narrative tenses
* Reflexives
* Perfect aspect
Revision: The narrative tenses
Hypothosis

* Moods, attitudes, beliefs and types
* Nouns from multiword verbs
* Entertainment and the Arts
* Listening I
* Listening II
Revision: Transport & driving
Prepositions of time
The Pub

24. I wish we hadn’t even started….

* Defining and non-defining relative clauses
* Functions of participles
* Uses of have
Revision: Question forms
Fixed expressions with prepositions

* Describing things
* Collective nouns and Noun collocations
* Listening
Revision: Prepositions of place
Vocabulary of literature
Eating and drinking
Abbreviations

25. A surprise in the post

* Cleft sentences
* Modifying adjectives
* Uses of GET
Revision: Gerunds and infinitives
Degrees of possibility

* Items of clothing
* British and American Slang
* Give and Take
Revision: Ways of looking
Vocabulary of injury
Making friends
Telephoning