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IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK SYLLABUS (LEVEL 1, 2 & 3)

Intermediate Course Syllabus
Level 2 / CEFR Level A2-B1 / IELTS 4.5-5.5

General English

Linguistic Aims:
Using the Present Simple to talk and write about habits and daily routines.
Using the Present Continuous to talk or write about what someone is doing now.
Using the Past Simple to talk or write about what happened in the past, using time expressions.
Using the Past Continuous and Past Simple to talk or write about interrupted actions.
Using Simple Future forms (will, going to and present continuous).
Distinguishing between Present Perfect and Past Simple.
Distinguishing between Present Perfect Continuous and Present Perfect Simple.
Using the first conditional and second conditional.
Expressing quantity – ‘much/many, some/any, a few/a little/a lot/lots of’.
Using articles.
Using simple verb patterns.
Using adverbs of frequency with the main verb form Present Simple to express daily routines
and habits.
Using ‘have got’.
Using adjectives to express attitude and emotions including: interesting / interested / boring /
bored etc.
Using comparative adjectives.
Using superlative adjectives.
Using passive structures in the present and past.
Using ‘have to/don’t have to’ for obligation.
Using adjectives and adverbs.
Using articles, ‘some/any’ with countable and uncountable nouns.
Focusing on collocation and dependent prepositions.
Using prepositions of place.

Skill-based Aims:
Reading/Listening to extract general gist.
Reading/Listening to predict content.
Reading to develop the student’s ability to elicit information from ‘real’ English such as maps,
plans, menus and timetables.
Reading graded passages to provide practice in a wider context, as well as developing students’
comprehension abilities.
Reconstructing narratives.
Giving descriptions and using appropriate adjectives and adverbs.
Reading information and providing a verbal or written summary.
Writing/discussing a book, film or other authentic materials.
Focusing on weak and strong form, intonation, word stress, sentence stress and connected
speech.
Writing emails, postcards, filling in forms, stories and messages.
Writing articles and using journalistic style.

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