KET

PET
FCE
CAE
CPR

PTE

UCLES

1
2
3
4
5

TOEFL
iBT

ALTE

A1
A2
B1
B1/B1+
B2/C1
C1

TOEIC

CEF

Starter
Elementary
Pre-intermediate
Intermediate
Upper Intermediate
Advanced

0-245
246-500
500-650
650-720
720-910
911-990

9-18
19-29
30-52
53-78
79-95
96-120

1
3
4
5

IELTS

Speakout

3.0
4.0
5.0
6.0-7.0
7.0/8.5

Speakout Intermediate
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Unit 1

Q forms, Verb tenses Present/Past, Talking about yourself.

Family / relationships / collocations with take, get, do, go
I can read a review of a TV programme about genealogy.
I can read emails of introduction.
I can read a blog based on a survey about gender
differences.
I can read about a TV programme.
I can read the results of an opinion poll.
I can read tips for interviews.
I can understand a talk about family history.
I can understand people comparing their drawings.
I can make notes from a talk about relationships.
I can evaluate 3 interviews.

1-18
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B1
B1
B1

Money programme report on Second Life.

Attitudes to the concept of family.
I can collect personal information about my partner.
I can talk about family relationships.
I can discuss my feelings about the genealogy programme.
I can describe my family history using key dates, names
and places.
I can discuss gender characteristics + stereotypes.
I can follow test instructions to draw a picture.
I can talk about different partnerships.
I can prepare notes a deliver a short talk.
I can make notes and discuss an opinion poll.
I can describe a photograph and discuss interviews.
I can discuss behaviour at interviews.
I can role play a job interview.
I can write formal / informal emails.
I can write notes speculating about my classmates.
Syllable stress in words.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 1.

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Identity

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Learning and Exam skills

Scan for specific information. Voc/ context

Communicative purpose. / Structure
Evaluate / personalise
Pre-listening

B1

B1
B1

Discuss and evaluate.

WH Qs.
Listen for details. Interpret.
Purpose / interviewee behaviour. / phrases
before questions
Follow instructions, Discuss experiences.
Q forms
Vocabulary
Opinions and reasons.
Narrative in chronological sequence.
Cultural influences.
Listen for details.

B1

Discuss percentages.
Purpose of interviews.
Giving advice.
Try both roles in the interview.
Language register
Speculate and discuss.

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Tales
Pres Perf / past simp , Narrative tenses, Telling a story.

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Unit 2

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B1

Story genre, Prepositions, The News, say tell collocations,

crime collocations, narrative phrases
I can respond to a film history quiz.
20
I can read about 3 conspiracy theories.
23
I can understand and analyse a news report.
25
I can follow a radio programme about films.
20
I can follow news reports.
23
I can listen to a story and sequence events.
26
Hustle. BBC Drama
28
Would you ever tell a lie?
30
I can discuss films about people and events in history.
20
I can discuss accuracy in history films.
20
I can name film genre and give examples.
20
I can compare life experiences with my partner.
21
I can recall life events in a biography.
22
I can describe and discuss my reaction to news events.
25
I can talk about telling the truth and lies.
26
I can retell a story I have heard.
26
I can express interest in and react to a story.
27
I can tell a story about a given situation.
27
I can complete a text with missing phrases.
24
I can write a short news report containing key information.
25
I can write questions based on a headline.
25
I can write a news article about an art theft.
29
Key information in news reports. Express interest and react to a story.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 2.

Learning and Exam skills

B1
B1
WHQs, Discuss, give opinions.
B1
B1
B1

B1

Match pics, WH Qs.

Identify topic, give background.
Sequence phrases.
Retell narrative.
Recall, retell.
Express opinion.
Form Qs and respond.
Ask about partners biography.
Telling life stories.
Collocations.
Evaluate validity.
Conversation strategies.
Evaluate validity.
Narrative structure.
Time linkers.
Draft a news story.

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Contact
Future forms for plans, Modals expressing certainty and
possibility.
Describe utterances. Communication technology. Future
time markers for speculation. Idioms.
I can follow an article about a generation gap.
I can read about a TV series.
I can read a story and speculate about the ending.
I can follow speakers discussing future technology.
I can follow conversations dealing with misunderstandings.
The Virtual Revolution: The internet changed the world.
How technology has affected communication.
I can discuss communication between age groups.
I can maintain a conversation by asking questions.
I can compare my teenage experience with my partner.
I can talk about developments in communication
technology.
I can describe my plans for the short, medium and longterm future.
I can speculate and discuss future changes in lifestyle.
I can retell a story with an amusing ending.
I can reformulate to repair a misunderstanding.
I can roleplay a situation in which speakers reformulate
their words to repair communication.
I can write about plans and arrangements.
I can write short communicative messages using
abbreviations.
I can complete a summary of a TV programme.
I can answer Qs containing idioms.
I can complete two line dialogues dealing with
misunderstandings.
I can write a collective staff memo.
Writing concise messages. How to record and use idioms.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 3.

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Learning and Exam skills

B1

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Functions.

B1

Find topics, Complete summary, T/F

Pre-reading.

B1

Correct factual mistakes in notes.

Coping and repair strategies.
Using statistics. Media preferences.

B1
B1

Discuss past changes, speculate about

future developments.
Time phrases.

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Comment on technology.
Conversation strategies.

Use prepared notes.

Use given vocabulary.
Coping and repair strategies.
Coping and repair strategies.
B1
Concise communication.

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Expressing certainty / possibility.

Coping and repair strategies.
Outlining plans.

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Jobs
Modals: obligation, past habits/states, reaching agreement.
Personal qualities, Confusing words, Strong adjectives,
Business vocabulary
I can read about the personal qualities required for jobs.
I can understand an article about millionaires.
I can complete a survey about the habits of millionaires.
I can read two blogs describing childhood dreams.
I can read a job description and advertisement.
I can read a description of a reality TV show.
I can lead and manage a discussion leading to a business
plan.
I can understand descriptions of jobs.
I can follow a team meeting and note decisions.
I can follow a worker talking about her daily routine.
Comedy drama about work.
Describe your job and your dream job.
I can describe and discuss my personal qualities.
I can summarise key points in the text.
I can list the qualities required for a job.
I can comment on my potential to be an entrepreneur.
I can describe and discuss my childhood dreams.
I can discuss the TV show and talk about my business
experience.
I can describe my daily routine.
I can complete texts about childhood dreams.
I can read and analyse a covering letter for a job.
I can write a covering letter answering a job advertisement.
I can write about my daily routine.
Personalise confusing words in sentences.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 4.

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B1

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B1

Match words + definitions

T/F, Match words + definitions.
Check and discuss your score.
Used to / would
Make notes.
Find and use business vocabulary.
Roleplay from notes.

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B1

Match pictures, WHqs

Complete table. Language details.
Interpret. Make notes.

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Learning and Exam skills

B1
B1
Pairwork
Group work.
Agree / Disagree give reasons.
Express opinions + give reasons.
B1

Public speaking.
Listen and check.
Register cues, Match words + meanings
Structure / Key phrases / Model letter.
Use models and key phrases.

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Comparative + Superlatives, question tags, polite requests
Technology, Q words, Word building Adjectives, Problems
+ Solutions, Describe a machine.
I can read an article about TV presenter James May.
I can read and analyse a text stating advantages and disadvantages of technology.
I can read a review of a book about childrens questions.
I can examine the use of suffixes in adjectives.
I can read and complete a text adding suffixes to
adjectives.
I can understand childrens questions.
I can understand answers to childrens questions.
I can check intonation in polite requests.
I can listen to polite requests and identify topic.
Top Gear. Reviewing new cars and driving topics.
How do you solve problems?
I can discuss technology and group words by generic topic.
I can rank technologies by importance.
I can talk about future developments in transport.
I can ask and answer questions about science.
I can use question tags to confirm information.
I can ask and answer questions about traffic lights.
I can report and describe technology problems.
I can make and respond to polite requests for help or
action.
I can respond positively and negatively to polite requests.
I can prepare and present a presentation of a new product.
I can comment on presentations by classmates.
I can draft and write a contrastive essay.
I can write flow charts for dialogues about problems.
I can read and write an advertisement for a new product.
Relating English suffixes to suffixes used in L1.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 5.

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Unit 5

Learning and Exam skills

B1
B1
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58

B1

WHQs. Discussion opinions

Contrasting paragraph structure.
Discourse markers.
WHQ.
Word building. Vocabulary development.

B1

Sequence.
Make notes.
Intonation changing meaning.

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B1
B1

B1

Vocabulary development
Using adjectives.
Pair / Group work. Decision making.
Word forms in questions.
Intonation in Q tags.
Group work. Use text.
Vocabulary. Discuss.
Dialogue completion.
Role play using flow-chart.
Structure, use discourse markers.
Comment politely.
Model, Discourse markers.
Use model.
Describing products and processes.

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Learning and Exam skills

, 1st and 2nd conditionals, giving good / bad news

B1
-ing / -ed adjectives, multiword verbs with on, off, up, down.
B1
Verb/noun collocations, life events, describing good/bad
experiences.
I can read descriptions of 6 basic emotions.
68
B1 Match to photos.
I can read an article about observing human behaviour.
71
WHQs. Make headings. Summarise.
I can read a positive review of a TV programme.
72
2nd conditional examples.
I can read models of positive and negative advice.
73
Analysis. Models for writing.
I can read an article about giving news.
74
Complete missing phrases.
I can follow a radio programme about therapies.
69
B1 Find topic and details.
I can hear weak forms of ll contractions.
69
Perception and pronunciation.
I can listen to 3 dialogues about problems.
72
d contractions.
I can follow 7 conversations giving news.
74
Comprehend gist and context.
I can listen and summarise.
77
T/F, WHQs.
BBC Comedy, My Worst Week.
B1
Are you an optimist or a pessimist?
I can identify emotions and speculate about the cause.
68
B1 Speculate about emotions. Personalise.
I can use ed +-ing adjs. to describe emotions.
68
Vocabulary development.
I can discuss therapies, express opinions and choices.
68
Validity and belief.
I can use and 1st conditionals to describe constant truths
69
Pairwork.
and future actions.
I can explain what I usually do in given situations.
70
Give advice.
I can use multi-word verbs.
70
Match verbs to definitions.
I can discuss what Id do in hypothetical situations.
72
Pair work.
I can use adverbs to qualify my advice.
73
I can discuss giving good and bad news.
74
Use given situations.
I can respond to good and bad news.
75
Complete dialogue.
I can role play a dialogue giving news.
75
Use flow chart. Personalise.
I can write a letter giving advice.
74
B1 Use model. Peer analysis.
I can write a blog posting describing a key experience.
77
Use model and given situations.
How to group multi-word verbs in notebooks. | Use exaggerated intonation in responding to good/bad news.
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Present Perfect Simple/Continuous, Present+Past modals
of ability, clarifying opinions.
Success: verb phrases, ability, qualifications, describe an
achievement
I can read an article about men with special skills.
I can read a job advertisement and note required
qualifications.
I can read about learning Welsh.
I can follow a radio programme and summarise.
I can a discussion about intelligence.
I can refer to what I said earlier.
I can follow a description of a challenge / achievement.
Water ski Challenge
What is your greatest achievement?
I can discuss the origins + achievement of success.
I can discuss my interests, talents + successes.
I can talk about skill, aptitude, talent and inability.
I can talk about my present and past abilities.
I can discuss the qualifications required for jobs.
I can compare and evaluate candidates for a job.
I can talk about a difficult achievement.
I can write notes for a summary from 2 different sources.
I can write a summary from 2 different sources.
I can write about an achievement.
Record multiword verbs with prepositions.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 7.

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B1
B1
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B1

B1

Summarise to partner.
Writing model
T/F, Complete text.
Clarifying opinions
Key phrases
Key phrases

B1
B1

BI+
B2

WHQs.
Group work.
Group work.
Group work.
Vocab. Training and Qualification
Group discussion
Pair work.
Use abbreviations and symbols
Combining information

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Learning and Exam skills

Articles, Quantifiers, Relative Clauses, Being a good guest.

BI+
Compound nouns, Internet, Welcoming, Discuss ideas.
BI+
I can read an article about interacting with neighbours.
92
BI+ Find details. Find general ideas.
I can read an article about origins of YouTube.
96
Find relative clauses.
I can read a review of megaportal.com.
97
WHQs. Writing model.
I can read tips for being a good guest.
98
Evaluate and add ideas.
I can follow 4 people discussing internet activity.
95
BI+ WHQs. Summarise each speaker. Discuss
I can understand relative clauses in speech.
96
Detailed listening.
I can understand 6 social situations.
98
WHQs.
I can understand a discussion about a community.
101
Documentary about an island tribe.
100
BI+
Talking about your community.
102
I can discuss interacting with neighbours.
92
BI+ Finding antonyms
I can evaluate neighbour behaviour.
93
Express and justify opinions.
I can describe good / bad aspects of my environment.
94
Compare ideas in groups.
I can describe how I use the internet.
95
Functions of websites.
I can discuss different internet activities.
97
Express preferences + give reasons.
I can talk about being a host and a guest.
98
I can offer and respond to apologies.
99
Role play with flow chart.
I can describe aspects of a community.
101
WHQs.
I can write a review of a website.
97
BI+ Compare with class mates.
I can write a recruitment advertisement.
101
Plan structure. Follow model.
I can notice compound nouns created from two words. | Using complex sentences.
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3rd conditional, Active/Passive, Expressing uncertainty.
History, Time periods, Collocations, Describing people,
Outstanding work and Role Models.
I can read two texts about historical advances.
I can analyse discourse structure in an essay.
I can read an article about teenagers.
I can read a text about Time Travel.
I can answer quiz questions about famous people.
I can understand 3 speakers talking about decades.
I can follow a recorded quiz.
I can understand a talk about an influential person.
Documentary about Michelangelo
Comparing life in the past.
I can discuss historical advances.
I can discuss Great leaps for Mankind.
I can describe impossible past conditionals.
I can pronounce contracted forms of modals.
I can describe a big moment in history.
I can talk about historical dates and time spans.
I can describe a decade from my past.
I can prepare and deliver a short talk on a familiar topic.
I can discuss favoured topics of quiz shows.
I can react to new information.
I can identify parts of a paragraph.
I can write a What if essay.
I can write a wiki entry about an influential person.
How to edit a draft text. | Read task before listening.
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Learning and Exam skills

BI+
BI+
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BI+

BI+

Make notes and compare.

Pre-writing activity.
Topics, language structure.
Find and interpret collocations.
Express certainty, uncertainty.
Topics, contexts.
Note how responses are given.

BI+
BI+

Vocabulary development.
Pre-reading activity.
Pronunciation and perception
Pair work
WHQs,
Share ideas in groups, report to class.
Extended connected speech
Explain why.
Pair work.

BI+
Peer editing
Examine model text.

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Reported speech, verb patterns, giving advice and
warnings.
Environment, Prefixes, Reporting verbs, airports, phrases
to describe places.
I can understand an article about attempts to be more
green.
I can read texts about plastic bags and carbon footprint.
I can read a text about food in Osaka.
I can read and compare 3 restaurant reviews.
I can follow two speakers talking about preferred food.
I can spot the topic in short conversations.
Wildlife documentary: The Great Melt.
Whats the biggest problem facing the world?
I can discuss my attempts to be more green.
I can report speech accurately.
I can use prefixes to change meaning.
I can tell a group about my favourite food city.
I can report speech using different reporting verbs.
I can share my feelings about food.
I can talk about my experience of using airports.
I can speculate about requirements and prohibitions in
airports.
I can give generalised warnings and advice.
I can role play giving information, advice and warnings.
I can give a short talk on an endangered place.
I can plan a talk about my favourite food city.
I can plan and write a restaurant review.
I can use linkers to contrast ideas, refer to consequences,
and suggest conditions.
I can write an email describing a situation and calling for
action.
Use prefixes to help you to guess meaning.
Soften generalisations to avoid giving offence.
Review grammar, vocabulary from Unit 10.

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Learning and Exam skills

BI+
BI+
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BI+

BI+

WHQs. Discuss. Match words /meanings.

WHQs. Discuss. Report discussions.
WHQs.
WHQs.
Who said? Complete sentences.
Warnings and advice

BI+
BI+

B2
BI+
B2

Vocabulary
Grammar
Word building
Public speaking from notes, small groups.
Grammar, Vocabulary.
Pair work then report.
Report. Give opinion.
Discuss. Compare with text. Share
experience.
softened generalisations.
Pair work.
Use audio model. Peer comment.
Expand from model.
Use notes, given structure and linkers.
Vocabulary, syntax.
Refer to model and notes.