Corso B1.A
ID CORSO 279543 – Edizione n. 1242-ATT-845-E-2
Il corso si terrà in presenza ogni giovedì dal 19/09 al 09/01
Orario 16.15 -18.15
Sede: scuola Borgese
Course content
1 Eating in…and out
Topic: Food and cooking.
Grammar and vocabulary: Present simple and continuous, action and non-action verbs, vocabulary to talk about food and cooking.
Skills focus: Pronunciation – short and long vowel sounds. Listening – matching, listening for information, predicting, note-taking. Speaking – asking and answering questions, asking for more information, agreeing and disagreeing, justifying opinions. Reading – reading for gist, reading for information.
2 Modern families
Topic: Family, personality.
Grammar and vocabulary: Future forms (present continuous, be going to, will/won’t), family, adjectives of personality.
Skills focus: Reading – gap fill, gapped text. Speaking – asking and answering questions in groups, politely refusing to talk about something, making predictions, retelling stories from another person’s point of view. Pronunciation – sentence stress, word stress. Listening – predicting, listening for information. Writing – a short poem, an email describing a friend.
3 Spending money
Topic: Money.
Grammar and vocabulary: Present perfect and past simple, vocabulary related to ‘money’, compound nouns.
Skills focus: Pronunciation – ‘o’ and ‘or’. Speaking – asking and answering questions, interviewing a partner. Reading – predicting, matching, true/false questions, error correction. Listening – gap fill.
4 Changing lives
Topic: Experiences.
Grammar and vocabulary: Present perfect + for/since, present perfect continuous, strong adjectives.
Skills focus: Listening – listening for information, ordering information, correcting information, note-taking. Pronunciation – sentence stress. Speaking – talking about how long you’ve had/been doing something, recalling experiences, responding with strong adjectives. Writing – an informal email. Reading – ordering, matching.
5 Survive the drive
Topic: Transport.
Grammar and vocabulary: Comparatives and superlatives, transport vocabulary.
Skills focus: Speaking – role-playing being a tourist, expressing opinions, agreeing and disagreeing. Pronunciation – consonant sounds, linking. Reading and listening – predicting, matching, ordering, sentence gap fill. Writing – an article for a website.
6 Men, women, and children
Topic: Stereotypes.
Grammar and vocabulary: Articles (a/the/no article), dependent prepositions.
Skills focus: Speaking – giving opinions, generalizing, asking and answering questions. Reading – selecting paragraph headings, matching. Pronunciation – weak vowel sounds, two pronunciations of ‘the’. Listening – listening for gist, multiple choice questions.
7 Bad manners?
Topic: Manners.
Grammar and vocabulary: Modal verbs of obligation and prohibition, phone language.
Skills focus: Speaking – asking and answering questions, discussing annoyances, giving opinions. Listening – listening for gist, note-taking, sentence completion. Reading – matching, reading for information. Pronunciation – silent consonants.
8 Yes, I can!
Topic: Skills and abilities.
Grammar and vocabulary: Modal verbs of ability and possibility, be able to, -ed/-ing adjectives, reflexive pronouns.
Skills focus: Speaking – discussing skills, discussing tips for learning English. Reading – gap fill, matching. Pronunciation – sentence stress. Listening – listening for gist, matching, multiple choice, note-taking.
9 Sporting superstitions
Topic: Sport and superstitions.
Grammar and vocabulary: Past tenses (simple/continuous/perfect), sports vocabulary.
Skills focus: Pronunciation – vowel sounds. Speaking – interview a partner, discussing superstitions, telling anecdotes. Reading – matching, reading for information. Listening – multiple choice, predicting, sentence completion. Writing – a story.
10 #thewaywemet
Topic: Relationships.
Grammar and vocabulary: Past and present habits and states, vocabulary to talk about relationships.
Skills focus: Reading – predicting and checking, matching. Listening – true/false sentences, gap fill, note-taking. Pronunciation – the letter ‘s’, the pronunciation of ‘used to’. Speaking – discussing past and present habits, asking and answering questions, giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing.
