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A2 for COLLEGE
Exam prep material
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NEW PEOPLE
- • Diagnostic Activity
• Speaking: Useful expressions for meeting and getting to know new people.
• Grammar: The present simple and present continuous.
- SPEAKING PART 1 - PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION
LEARNING ENGLISH
- • Speaking: Review on how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet, how to ask about the meaning and spelling of unfamiliar words.
• Grammar: Describing different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, prepositions, pronouns adverbs).
- LISTENING PART 1 - SERVICES & PLACES
PRESENT REVIEW
- • Grammar: A review of the present simple and present continuous tenses.
• Vocabulary: Daily life; Places and buildings; Services
• Functions: Daily routine questions; Asking for and giving information; Understanding signs and notices.
- READING AND WRITING Part 1 - Daily life
DESCRIBING PEOPLE
- • Speaking: describing a person’s physical appearance and character.
• Grammar: Adjectives.
• Functions: describing people as well as questions for asking about people
- READING AND WRITING PART 6 - People
PHOTO STORY
- • Speaking: Talking about Facebook photos.
• Grammar: The past continuous tense.
• Vocabulary: sports and games, go, play and do
- READING AND WRITING - PART 4 - Sports and games
TOURIST POLICE
- • Reading: An article about a new "Gangnam style" tourist police force in South Korea.
• Speaking: Tourism
• Grammar: Exercise on defining relative clauses.
- LISTENING PART 5 - Countries and sports
SHOPS AND SHOPPING
- • Speaking: Useful words and phrases for talking about shops/stores and shopping.
• Functions: Costs and amounts
- READING AND WRITING PART 2 - Shopping
BUYING CLOTHES
- • Speaking: Useful words and structures for describing and buying clothes.
• Listening: Exercise and a role play activity at the end.
- READING AND WRITING - PART 6 - Clothes
PAST REVIEW
- Grammar: A review of the past simple and past continuous tenses.
- KEY LISTENING PART 4 PEOPLE - Dates and services
Coffee personality
- Reading: A short article on how people's coffee drinking preferences determine personality traits.
Speaking: A number of adjectives for describing character are introduced.
Grammar: Comparatives and superlative forms are studied in the grammar part of the lesson.
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In the family and life stages
- Speaking: Giving information about yourself; Describing family members and relationships; Describing the different stages of a person's life from childhood to old age.
Vocabulary: Personal identification; Giving personal information; Family.
- Speaking Part 1 - Personal identification
Travel and holidays
- Speaking: Travel and making plans and predictions.
Grammar: A review of the structure 'going to' + infinitive; Past simple: irregular verbs
- Reading and Writing Part 5 - Travel and holidays
Travel and transport
- Speaking: A number of words and expressions for talking about private and public transport.
Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives; Making predictions
- Reading and Writing Part 4 - Transport
In the future
- Reading & Speaking: Text about future predictions that science fiction writer Isaac Asimov made in 1964 about the world of 2014.
Grammar: The structure 'will + infinitive' for making predictions is studied and practised.
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The Internet
- Speaking: Talking about the internet. Words and expressions for describing features of websites and actions that people perform on the web.
Grammar: Present and past simple Passive
Vocabulary: social media and Technology
- Exam Practice: Listening Part 3 - Social media and technology
Informal emails - Health and exercise
- Writing: How to write informal emails.
Vocabulary: Health and exercise; Typical words and expressions used when greeting someone in an email, writing pleasantries, attaching files, etc.
Grammar: Mixed tenses
- Exam Practice: Reading and Writing Part 6 - Health and exercise
Future review
- Grammar: A review of the structures going to, will and the present continuous for talking about the future.
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Saving the earth
- Speaking: Environmental issues - social interaction
Grammar: 'should/shouldn't + infinitive' for giving advice and recommendations; Modals: possibility, ability and permission; Present continuous and time expressions
- Reading and Writing Part 5 - Social interaction
Health, medicine and exercise
- Speaking: Describing illnesses, symptoms, remedies and healthy/unhealthy lifestyles.
Vocabulary: Medicine; Exercise; Parts of the body
Grammar: Modals of Advice
- Listening Part 4 - Health, medicine and exercise
Stereotypes
- Reading: A short article on the perception of British culture according to expats living in Britain.
Grammar: The passive voice is studied in the grammar part of the lesson.
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Describing food
- Speaking: Describing different types of food, including terms for different flavours and dishes.
Grammar: this, that, these and those; Countable and uncountable
- Listening Part 5 - Food and drink
Expensive taste
- Reading: A short article on how the price of food influences its taste according to a scientific study.
Grammar: Verbs and expressions for giving and reporting opinions.
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The senses
- Speaking: Nouns and verbs used for talking about senses: sight/see, hearing/hear, touch, smell, taste.
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Changes
- Grammar: A review of the present perfect tense through
Listening & Speaking: language practice and role play.
Functions: Feelings, opinions and experiences
- READING AND WRITING Part 3 - Feelings, opinions and experiences
Weather and climate
- Speaking: Describe the weather and talk about climate change.
Functions: Letters and pronunciation
- Spelling Practice
Present perfect practice
- Grammar: Past simple and past participle forms of common irregular verb and practise the present perfect with 'since', 'for', 'ever' and 'never'.
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Education
- Speaking: Describe the education system in their countries using British and American English.
Vocabulary: School subjects vocabulary
Grammar: Past simple and past events
- Reading and Writing Part 3 - Education and study
The Good Generation
- Reading: An article about how teenagers in the UK are smoking and drinking less than in the past.
Grammar: The worksheet focuses on vocabulary and grammar for describing trends.
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At home
- Speaking: How to describe household chores and different rooms in their homes.
Functions: Word order in questions
- Listening Part 2 - House and home
Asking questions
- Grammar: Revision and practice of question structures.
Speaking: Asking each other questions about Barack Obama.
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Hobbies and leisure
- Speaking: Giving information about routines.
Vocabulary: Seasons and months
- Speaking Part 2 - Hobbies and leisure
Sports and games
- Speaking: Talking about sports and games.
Functions: Completing a form with personal details
- READING AND WRITING Part 8 - Sport and activities
Rise of the mammone
- Reading: Text about why many Italian adults are still living at home with their parents.
Grammar: A review of the present, present perfect and past tenses.
- Reading: Text about why many Italian adults are still living at home with their parents.
Grammar: A review of the present, present perfect and past tenses.
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Controversy
- Reading: Text about a Norwegian proposal to ban begging.
Grammar: Introduction to the first conditional structure.
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Password advice
- Reading and Speaking: An article about how to choose a password according to advice from the UK's spying agency GCHQ.
Grammar: verb patterns with the infinitive and gerund.
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First conditional review
- Grammar: A review the first conditional structure.
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