中級 3

In Unit 1, you will:

• talk about permanent and temporary situations using present simple and continuous
• use present continuous
• talk about future arrangements
• use new vocabulary to talk about government policies
• review past simple and continuous
• learn to describe people and things using ing/ed adjectives
• learn to use articles a, an, and the
• review this, that, these, those
• learn about negative comparatives using isn’t as …as
• talk about big and small differences using just a bit, slightly, much, and a lot
• ask for, give, and receive directions politely
• talk about your life using used to, still and not anymore
• talk about quantity using a few, a lot of, much, many, a little, a bit of
• pronounce difficult vowel and consonant sounds
• stress words correctly
• use intonation to sound polite

In Unit 3, you will:

• use passives in questions, positive and negative statements
• talk about winter sports and competitions
• make predictions using will, going to and might
• talk about certainty how sure you are using will and the adverbs definitely, probably and almost certainly
• talk about customs and culture using must, have to, mustn’t and don’t have to
• use didn’t have to and had to to talk about obligation in the past
• speak about your obligations in the present and past
  learn water vocabulary about bodies of water and kinds of water
• give your teacher advice with should, shouldn’t, ought to, I think, I don’t think
• learn TV and film vocabulary
• review question form
• learn about subject questions
• pronounce common vowel sounds and ‘ed’ endings
• stress words correctly
• use correct intonation for questions

In Unit 5, you will:

• use new adjectives to describe food
• give formal and informal opinions
• express agreement and disagreement
  practice agreeing or disagreeing
• use new vocabulary to describe stages of life
• use the future continuous
• use future perfect to describe actions that will already be completed by a specific time in the future
• describe people with the suffixes –er, –or and –ist
• use question tags to confirm information or ask questions
• recognize verbs and nouns that go together
• use words for music
• make suggestions
• use new vocabulary to rent a house or apartment
• use verb patterns with the prepositions for and about
• learn new words to talk about services and tradespeople
• use have something done to arrange for someone else to do something for us
• talk about customer service
• make polite requests
• stress words correctly
• use intonation to correctly
• pronounce difficult sounds

In Unit 2, you will:

• talk about your experiences using past simple and present perfect
• use some new education vocabulary
• talk about work using the present perfect continuous
• talk about education and work using for, since and ago
• describe experiences using when, as soon as, while, just as and until
• describe the background to a scene or story using past continuous
• talk about sequential events using past simple
• use was / were going to to talk about something you intended to do, but didn’t
• talk about instant decisions using will
• talk about future plans using going to
• learn about negative prefixes
• describe people and places using some new adjectives
• learn about word families
• pronounce difficult consonant and vowel sounds

In Unit 4, you will:

• use the prefix -im
• use public transport vocabulary
• learn to be polite when using public transport
• learn to speak with a bus driver
• use banking and money vocabulary
• use 1st and 2nd conditionals
• ask questions using 1st and 2nd conditionals
• report what people say using reported speech
• use say and tell
• make and ask reported questions
• talk about types of movies and describe them
• use the past perfect to describe movies and tell stories
• use narrative tenses with the past simple, past continuous and past perfect
• tell stories using when, while and during
• ask your teacher questions using verbs with to and –ing
• use verbs that take both to and –ing with a change in meaning
• use new phrases with the word drive
• pronounce difficult consonant sounds

In Unit 6, you will:

• use new vocabulary to talk about crime and criminals
• use modals of speculation - may, might, could, must - to make guesses about present and past situations
• express regret with should have
  talk about childhood with common phrasal verbs
• use the suffixes –hood, –ish, and –less to make nouns and adjectives
• describe mishaps using common verbs and nouns that go together
• use the 3rd conditional to talk about imaginary past situations
• describe people’s personalities using some new adjectives
• talk about past wishes using I wish + past perfect
• review relative pronouns - that, which, who, when, where, those
• make sentences with defining relative clauses using that, which, who, when, where, whose
• talk about inventions
• add extra information to sentences
• use non-defining relative clauses
• use cleft sentences to make what you say stronger to emphasize what you say
• describe geographical features
• contract speech to sound natural
• stress words in sentences
• use intonation correctly