In this review of the present simple and present continuous tenses.

• Listening:  A dialogues between speakers asking about each other’s background, work, hobbies, travel experience, etc. 

• Speaking: Getting to know one another using the language from the lesson. revision of terms for describing people you know, e.g. an acquaintance, a mutual friend, a flatmate, a colleague, etc

• 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).

How to describe a person’s character.

• Speaking: Describing other people’s physical appearance

• Grammar: Adjectives. Describing what someone looks like as well as questions for asking about another person’s looks.

• Reading: An article about `nomophobia' (the fear of losing one's mobile device).

• Grammar: Exercise on prepositional phrases. 

Useful words and phrases for talking about mobile devices. 

• Speaking: Talking about Facebook photos.

• Grammar: The past continuous tense.

• Reading: An article about a new "Gangnam style" tourist police force in South Korea.

• Speaking: Tourism

• Grammar: Exercise on defining relative clauses.

Speaking: Describing family members and relationships

What's this item about? What makes it interesting? Write a catchy description to grab your audience's attention...

• 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.

• Writing: How to write informal emails.

• Typical words and expressions used when greeting someone in an email, writing pleasantries, attaching files, etc.

Speaking: Useful words and phrases for talking about shops/stores and shopping.

• Speaking: Useful words and structures for describing and buying clothes.

• Listening: Exercise and a role play activity at the end.

Speaking: Describing the different stages of a person's life from childhood to old age.

• Speaking: Talking about the internet. Words and expressions for describing features of websites and actions that people perform on the web.