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IMPERIAL ENGLISH UK INTERMEDIATE COURSE (CEFR B1-B2 / IELTS 4.5-5.5)

Intermediate General English Course Framework

Topic Aims Reading Skills Writing Skills Speaking Skills Listening Skills Grammar Focus Vocabulary Pronunciation

1 • Asking and answering questions Reading a short text Writing about yourself Introducing yourself (T1) Exchanging personal Present simple, present Question words (T3) Question words (T3)
about yourself and others (T6) (T4) information (T1) continuous, past simple
Introducing Asking and answering review (T2)
Yourself • Thinking about different tenses questions (T5) Listening to check
• Taking part in a speaking role-play answers (T2) Question words (T3)
(2 hr) with the class Answering questions
• Writing information about yourself from a listening text (T5) Listening for specific
and others information (T5)
Exchanging information
(T6)

2 • Identifying and categorising parts Making predictions Writing about study Discussing study habits Listening for gist and Parts of speech (T1) Selecting vocabulary in Types of learner and
of speech in English from a given topic (T3) habits and learning (T1/2) specific information a reading text to match parts of speech (T1/4)
Education and styles (T5) (T2) definitions (T3)
Study • Reading about different types of Matching headings to Discussing learning
learning and how people differ information in a styles (T4/5)
(2 hr) • Discovering what type of learner paragraph (T3)
you are
• Discussing ways of improving
learning to meet objectives

3 • Reviewing adverbs of frequency for Preparing questions for Writing about your Discussing daily life and Listening for specific Adverbs of frequency Language for daily life Adverbs of frequency
daily life a reading text (T2) daily life (T1/6) routine (T1) information from (5) (T3) (T5)
Daily Life classmates (T2)
• Reading about a day in the life of a Exchanging missing Exchanging missing Verb + noun

(2 hr) radio broadcaster information from a text information from a text collocations (T5)
• Focusing on verb - noun (T2) (T2)
collocations
• Writing an extended text about Expressing opinion and
justifying it (T3)
daily habits

4 • Focusing on vocabulary to describe Matching jobs to their Writing definitions and Describing jobs (T1) Listening for detail and Past simple (T4) Jobs (T1) Intonation in
jobs descriptions (T2) descriptions of given implication (T4) interviews (T5)
Jobs jobs (T3) Verb phrases (T4)
• Discussing jobs you would enjoy
(2 hr) doing
• Listening to a job interview

• Preparing and performing an
interview for a job

5 • Listening to a lecture for specific Reading for gist (T4) Note-making (T4) Discussing a healthy Listening to self-check Modal verbs for giving Completing a quiz - Modal verbs: should /
lifestyle with classmates (T2) advice: should / would activating schemata would / could (T3)

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