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Syllabus: Intermediate
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Intermediate Course – A=activity, L=listening, R=reading

Grammar Vocabulary Drama
Unit 1 – Pop-ups
L Present tenses L Hyphenation L Jamaica Inn – Part 1
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Mixed tenses: present simple,
present continuous, present
R Present tense review A Numbers and hyphens perfect

R The present simple, present A Two-word adjectives with

continuous and present perfect tenses hyphens
Grammar reference
R The pop-up phenomenon
Vocabulary relating to pop-up
businesses

L How to haggle
Fucntional language
Unit 2 – Hidden talents
L Present perfect continuous L In, at, on with time expressions L Jamaica Inn – Part 2
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Present perfect continuous

A Making the present perfect A Which preposition?

continuous Time expressions

L Song Stars UK R Talent shows: from human

Present perfect continuous in context judges to computers
Vocabulary relating to fame
R Present perfect continuous
Grammar reference
Unit 3 – Can’t buy me love
L Quantifiers L Uncountable nouns L Jamaica Inn – Part 3
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Quantifiers: all, each, every,
either, neither
A All, each, every, both, either and A How uncountable nouns work
neither
Quantifiers R More money might not mean
more happiness
R Quantifiers Vocabulary relating to wealth and
Grammar reference lifestyle

L Are we ‘stuffocating’?
Materialism and minimalism
Unit 4 – Travellers’ tales
L Phrasal verbs and prepositional L Spoken short forms: gonna, L Jamaica Inn – Part 4
verbs wanna, dunno, whatcha Phrasal verbs
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R Multi-word verbs with break L Spot the short forms

Whatcha, gonna, gimme, lemme
R Multi-word verbs
Grammar reference L Pronunciation practice of short
forms

R The man who got dumped just

before his honeymoon
Phrasal verbs relating to travel and
relationships

L Making complaints
Functional language
Unit 5 – The colleague from hell
L Zero conditional and first L Ordinal numbers L Jamaica Inn – Part 5
conditional 6 Minute Vocabulary Zero conditional, first
6 Minute Grammar conditional, second conditional
R Writing ordinal numbers
A Zero conditional and first
conditional R Dates and ordinal numbers

R Zero conditional and first L English at Work

conditional Asking someone to do something
Grammar reference
R Dealing with difficult people
Vocabulary relating to working
together

Unit 6 – Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past

L Modals of deduction and L Prefixes de-, dys- and dis- L Jamaica Inn – Part 6
speculation 6 Minute Vocabulary Modals of speculation and
6 Minute Grammar deduction in the present
R The little prefixes
R Modal verbs Dys-, dis- and de-
Might, may, could, might not, may not,
couldn’t, must, can’t A Prefixes
Re-, pre-, pro-, in-, un-, mis-
R Might, may, could, must and can’t
Grammar reference R Three million-year-old
technology
Vocabulary relating to an
archaeological discovery

L Double contractions
Unit 7 – Career changes
L Past perfect L Suffixes: -less and –free L Jamaica Inn – Part 7
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Past perfect

R Two events in the past R More suffixes

Past perfect -ee, -able, -ible, -ness and job suffixes

R Past perfect L The ‘Awesome Apple’

Grammar reference Functional language to prepare
someone for disappointment

R Finding a career that’s right for

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Vocabulary relating to work and
careers
Unit 8 – Art
L Adjectives and adverbs L Easily confused words L Jamaica Inn – Part 8
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Adjectives and adverbs

R Adjectives and adverbs review L Easily confused words

R Adjectives and adverbs R Who decides what 'art' is?

Grammar reference
L An interview with an artist
Adjectives to describe style, colour,
atmosphere and characters in a story
Unit 9 – Project management
L Third conditional L Words with 'ough' L Jamaica Inn – Part 9
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Third conditional

R Imagined past events L A bad day at the office

Third conditional Vocabulary relating to project
management
R Third conditional
Grammar reference R The principles of project
management
Vocabulary relating to project
management
Unit 10 – The dog ate my homework!
L Linking devices: cause and effect L False friends L Jamaica Inn – Part 10
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Linking devices of cause and
effect: due to, owing to,
R Cause and effect: how to link them R Loanwords, cognates and false because, because of,
friends consequently, as a result, result
R Linking devices of cause and effect in, as a result of, thus,
Grammar reference L English at Work therefore
Giving the background to a situation

R Terrible excuses
Vocabulary relating to making
excuses
Unit 11 – The diary of a double agent
L Reported speech L Reporting verbs L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 1
Reported speech
R The grammar of reporting verbs A Reporting verbs
Say, tell, deny, admit, apologise,
R Direct speech and reported speech insist, suggest, advise, demand and
offer.
A Reported questions
R Can you spot a big lie?
L How to stop Dr XYZ Reading about people telling lies
Reported speech in context

R Reported speech
Grammar reference
Unit 12 – Fashion forward
L Active voice and passive voice L Irregular verbs L The Importance of Being

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Passive voice
R Using and making the passive A Do you know the correct form?
Irregular verbs
R Active voice and passive voice
Grammar reference R How high is too high?
Reading about fashion

L Where do your old clothes go?

Unit 13 – Flat pack skyscrapers
L Comparatives and superlatives L Someone, nothing, anywhere L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 3
Comparatives and superlatives
A These boots are made for R Pronouns with some and any
comparing
Comparative adjective forms R Mini Sky City
Reading about a record-breaking
R Comparative and superlative tower
adjectives
Grammar reference L How to chat someone up
Functional language for flirting
Unit 14 – Extreme sports
L Past perfect continuous L Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 4
Past perfect continuous
R Past perfect continuous and past A Do you know your suffixes?
simple -ence, -ance, -ment

R Past perfect simple or past perfect R Root words and suffixes

continuous
L English at Work
R Past perfect continuous Functional language to tell people it’s
Grammar reference the end of the working day

R Love the fear

Vocabulary relating to extreme sports
and thrill-seeking
Unit 15 – Food fads
L Adverb position 1 L Discourse markers: showing your L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar attitude towards something Earnest – Part 5
6 Minute Vocabulary Adverbs
R Adverbs and verbs
Adverb position R Discourse markers: like and you
know
R Adverbs and auxiliary verbs
R Hungry for the new
R Ands and buts Vocabulary relating to food fads
Conjunctions
L Rob’s full English breakfast
R Adverb position 1 Onomatopoeia
Grammar reference
Unit 16 – Me, my selfie and I
L Definite article and abstract L Suffixes: -ness and –ity L The Importance of Being
uncountable nouns 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 6
6 Minute Grammar The definite article with
R Same word, different meanings abstract uncountable nouns

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R Abstract uncountable nouns R The suffix –ish

A suffix with many meanings and
R The definite article with abstract uses
uncountable nouns
Grammar reference R Are you selfie obsessed?
Reading about photography, social
media, celebrity and privacy

L Sounds great!
Functional language for responding
using link verbs
Unit 17 – Endangered animals
L Talking about the future L Antonyms L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 7
Talking about the future: about
R The future is now A The long and short of it to, going to, will, intend to,
Six ways to talk about the future Identifying antonyms

A Helga hits the road A Who is who in the animal world?

Making sentences to talk about the A quiz
future
R Five of the world's most
R Ways of talking about the future endangered animals
Grammar reference Vocabulary relating to animals,
natural habitats and conservation

L How can a zoologist save the

future?
Vocabulary relating to conservation
and the impact of humans on the
natural world
Unit 18 – A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
L Defining and non-defining relative L Acronyms L The Importance of Being
clauses 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 8
6 Minute Grammar Defining and non-defining
A Is that a word? relative clauses
R Identifying relative clauses How to say acronyms: as a word or as
letters
R Relative pronouns
Who, that, which, whose, where, when R Getting a new face
Vocabulary relating to cosmetic
R Relative clauses surgery
Grammar reference
L At what price?
Discussing cosmetic surgery
Unit 19 – I'm really sorry…
L Adverb position 2 L Words with more than one L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar spelling Earnest – Part 9
6 Minute Vocabulary Adverbs 2
R Adverbs with adjectives
A British or American
R Adverb position 2 Check your spelling
Grammar reference
R The migrant who wasn't
Reading about a fictional account of

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L How to say sorry

Functional language
Unit 20 – Telling stories
L Narrative tenses L Linking words L The Importance of Being
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 10
Narrative tenses: past simple,
R It’s all in the past R Linking words to talk about the past continuous, past perfect,
Past verb forms for narratives order that something happens present simple

R A horse walks into a bar… R Stating the obvious

Using present verb forms to narrate past Linking words and phrases for saying
events something we think is easily
understood
L Who do you believe?
Three narratives told by BBC Learning L Brian’s incredible life
English Words and phrases for expressing
disbelief
R Narrative tenses
Grammar reference
Unit 21 – Fakes and phrasals
L The grammar of multi-word verbs L Commonly misspelled words L Gulliver's Travels – Part 1
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Phrasal verbs

R What is a multi-word verb? R Some simple spelling rules

R Multi-word verbs / Phrasal verbs R Same sound, different spelling

type 1, 2, 3 and 4 Homophones
Grammar reference
R Getting forgery down to a fine
art
Vocabulary relating to art forgery and
crime

L Marcus the centurion goes on

holiday
Using phrasal verbs to sound natural
Unit 22 – Looking to the future
L Future continuous and be + L Discourse markers: interjections L Gulliver's Travels – Part 2
infinitive 6 Minute Vocabulary Future continuous
6 Minute Grammar
R Yuck!
R This time next week Discourse markers for expressing
The future continuous likes and dislikes

L Excuses, excuses R Running against the Olympic

The future continuous in context clock
Reading about preparations for the
R Future continuous and be + 2016 Olympic Games
infinitive with future sense
Grammar reference
Unit 23 – Becoming familiar with things
L Used to, be used and get used to L Synonyms L Gulliver's Travels – Part 3
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Used to

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Talking about the past
R Are you an early bird or a night
R Our guide to life away from home owl?
Be used to and get used to in context Be used to something and get used to
something
R Used to and be/get used to
Grammar reference L English at Work
Functional language for when you
can’t understand something
Unit 24 – From rags to riches
L Review of conditionals L Suffixes: -tian, -sion, -tion L Gulliver's Travels – Part 4
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Conditionals

R What is a conditional sentence? L The disappearing spy

Words with suffixes that end in 'shun'
R Conditionals review or 'jhun'
Grammar reference
R The music icon that never was
A second chance at fame

L How to make polite requests

Functional language for being polite
Unit 25 – Against the odds
L Linking devices of contrast L Large numbers L Gulliver's Travels – Part 5
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Linking devices of contrast

R Brave or foolish? R Thousands and millions

Linking devices of contrast: even
though, although, despite, in spite of, R The appeal of the underdog
however, but Vocabulary for talking about
succeeding against the odds
R Linking devices of contrast
Grammar reference L How to disagree
Functional language
Unit 26 – Our future on Mars?
L The future perfect L Adjectives from names L Gulliver's Travels – Part 6
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Future perfect
R Artistic eponymous adjectives
R What will the future bring and -esque adjectives
when?
The future perfect form

R One-way ticket to Mars

The future perfect in context

L By this time next week…

The future perfect in context

R The future perfect

Grammar reference
Unit 27 – Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
L -ing and -ed clauses (participle L Eponyms as nouns and verbs L Gulliver's Travels – Part 7
clauses) 6 Minute Vocabulary Participle clauses
6 Minute Grammar

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Present participle clauses
L Did you know: Crazy laws?
R Public notices: Are you talking to Listening to some descriptions of
me? some unusual laws
Participle clauses in context

R Participle (-ing and –ed) clauses

Grammar reference
Unit 28 – Dodgy dating
L So, such, enough, too L Irregular verbs L Gulliver's Travels – Part 8
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary So, such, enough, too

R Intensifiers R Do you want to get a date?

So, such, too, enough Vocabulary relating to online dating,
apps and relationships
R Intensifiers: so, such, enough, too
Grammar reference L The Dodgy Dating Agency
Intensifiers in action
Unit 29 – Annoying advice
L Verb patterns L Talk like Shakespeare L Gulliver's Travels – Part 9
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Verb patterns
R Annoying advice for new parents
R What comes after a verb? Vocabulary relating to advice about
Verb patterns, verb + infinitive, verb + parenting
gerund

L Babysitting advice
Verb + infinitive, verb + gerund, verb +
(that) clause in context

R Verb patterns
Grammar reference
Unit 30 – I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
L Future perfect continuous L Academic English L Gulliver's Travels – Part
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Future perfect continuous
R Looking back from the future R General v Academic English
The future perfect continuous Differences between general and
academic English
L 24-hour BBC Learning English-
athon R Giving a presentation
Future perfect continuous in context Top tips for presentations

R Future perfect continuous R Going ape for charity!

Grammar reference Vocabulary relating to fund-raising
and charity