OUTCOMES - Upper Intermediate level A

As an Upper Intermediate level student beginnings to handle the main structures of the language with some confidence. By the end of this level he
will be able to demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of vocabulary and use appropriate communicative strategies in a variety of social situations.

At this lessons he will be encouraged to try to improve both his fluency and his accuracy in English.

The Style of the Lessons
In some traditional language classes, the teacher does most of the explaining and talking, classes are very serious and grammar gets the most
attention.

Our programme is for people who want to not only learn about important things like grammar and vocabulary, but also how to communicate,
hopefully in a relaxed and informal way. Lots of studying and knowledge about the language is no good if you can't use it! So we expect students
to work together a lot in pairs or groups - not just with the teacher. The most successful and enjoyable classes are ones where everyone works
together out of mutual respect and interest.

At the lesson will be done different activities. Sometimes students will:
work in pairs or groups with other students
work alone
talk/listen to the teacher
debate
watch and discuss a video

The structure of the course
In classes we follow a course book and workbook to give the students a basic structure to the course but we will use a lot of other materials and
give a lot of worksheets.

At lessons we will practise the 4 skills of:
speaking
writing,
reading,
listening

You will learn a lot of new vocabulary and expressions that you need to write down and to practise regularly. Sometimes in class you will be
learning new things about English. But often you will be practising language that you have studied before but do not yet use well.
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE A Course Objectives

Summary
At the end of this level students will be able to handle the main structures of the language with some confidence, demonstrate knowledge of a wide
range of vocabulary and use appropriate communicative strategies in a variety of social situations. The student will be able to use a certain degree
of independence in a variety of contexts, show flexibility to deal with the unexpected and rely less on fixed patterns of language or short utterances.

Speaking

By the end of this level students will be able to deal with most situations that may arise in cinemas, restaurants and hotels, concerts and could
express pleasure or displeasure at the service given. In social conversation they will be able to talk about a range of topics and express opinions to a
limited extent.

Students will be able to give detailed information and state detailed requirements within a familiar topic area. They will be able to take and pass on
messages and add comments, discuss social issues, explain whats wrong in different situations.

Writing

At the end of this level students will be able to produce a range of written formal and informal documents although accuracy may be limited and
register sometimes inappropriate. They will be able to produce texts which describe and give detailed information as long as it is within a familiar
area of work and to write requests, also within a predictable range.

Reading

At the end of this level, students will be able to read longer texts. They will be able to go beyond routine letters and the most basic newspaper and
magazine articles, and have developed reading skills related to factual topics in which they have a special interest or to their own tastes in fiction.
In everyday, practical situations, such as going out, festivals, talking about political, economical and social problems, hobbies and sports, nature and
law, they can read competently enough to deal with anything which does not involve some kind of specialised language.

At this level students are likely to have enough language ability to cope with some non-academic training courses conducted in English.

Listening

Students will be able to cope with conversation on a fairly wide range of familiar, predictable topics, such as personal experiences. They will be
able to understand most of a TV programme because of the visual support and grasp the main points of a radio programme.


Typical topic and vocabulary areas

Entertainment
Sightseeing
Useful things
Society, economics and government
Sports and interests
Accommodations and how to deal with problems
Weather and nature disasters
Law and crime

Typical Grammar

Review of verb patterns, often in contrast:
Present Perfect Simple and Continuous
The future
Subject and object questions Who works here? vs Who do you work with?
Indirect questions Can you tell me what time ?
Adjectives and adverbs
Non-definite relative clauses
Using modal verbs to express certainty about past actions
Narrative tenses














Units

Objectives Speaking Vocabulary Grammar Hours
1. Entertainment The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
pictures and to describe films,
music and books.

They have practice in
disagreeing
politely and talking about
their impressions of
paintings.
They will describe films,
music and books, talk
about pictures.
The main grammatical focus
is talking about habits and
ways of using adjectives
and adverbs to express
their opinions.
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2. Sightseeing The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
showing people around your
town / city and to describe
places, festivals and carnivals in
more detail.
They have practice in
agreeing using synonyms
and to hear and recognize
short forms more easily.
They will describe
buildings and area,
festivals and carnivals.
The main grammatical focus
is using non-defining
relative clauses and ways
of using future forms.
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3. Things you need The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
wide range of objects and to
describe what things are for.

They have practice in
explaining what went
wrong, expressing useful
things, problems with
things and word families.
They will describe useful
things, study the use of
word families.
The main grammatical focus
is so,//and to for
describing purpose and
indirect questions.
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4. Society The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about the
government and their policies
and how the economy is doing
and to discuss social issues.

They have practice in
responding to complaints.
They will study phrases
and expressions
connected to political,
economical and social
problems.
The main grammatical focus
is so and such and the...,
the... +comparatives and
ways of using expressions
to describe economics,
society and the
government.
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Review 1 3
5. Sports and
interests
The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
what they do in their free time
and how fit they are and to talk
about lucky escapes.

They have practice in
checking they heard things
correctly.
They will be able to use
phrases to talk about
health, fitness and sport.
The main grammatical focus
is should(n't) have,
could(n't) have and
would(n't) have and the
present perfect simple and
continuous and ways of
expressing
health and fitness, football
and life, and lucky escapes.
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6. Accommodation The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
They have practice in
discussing and dealing with
They will describe the
places and understand
The main grammatical focus
is modifiers and have/get
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places they have stayed in and
settling in somewhere.
problems. the idioms. something done and ways
of expressing where you
stayed and understanding
idioms.
7. Nature The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
weather and natural disasters
and plants and animals as well
as issues connected to animals.

They have practice in
exaggerating.
They will describe the
weather, nature and
disasters.
The main grammatical focus
is narrative tenses and
participle clauses and ways
of expressing weather,
natural disasters, plants
and trees.
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8. Law and order The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
crimes and what they involve
and the powers the police have.
They have practice in
describing different kinds of
punishment and giving
opinions about prisons life.
They will use the
vocabulary connected to
crimes, and phrases and
expressions to agree or
disagree with other
opinions.
The main grammatical focus
is modals + present and
past infinitives and nouns
and prepositions and ways
of expressing crimes,
agreeing and disagreeing
and adding comments and
questions.
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Review 2 3
FINAL TEST- GRAMMAR 3
COMMUNICATION TEST 3
TOTAL HOURS - 60














OUTCOMES - Upper Intermediate level B
As an Upper Intermediate level student beginnings to handle the main structures of the language with some confidence. By the end of this level he
will be able to demonstrate knowledge of a wide range of vocabulary and use appropriate communicative strategies in a variety of social situations.

At this lessons he will be encouraged to try to improve both his fluency and his accuracy in English.

The Style of the Lessons
In some traditional language classes, the teacher does most of the explaining and talking, classes are very serious and grammar gets the most
attention.

Our programme is for people who want to not only learn about important things like grammar and vocabulary, but also how to communicate,
hopefully in a relaxed and informal way. Lots of studying and knowledge about the language is no good if you can't use it! So we expect students
to work together a lot in pairs or groups - not just with the teacher. The most successful and enjoyable classes are ones where everyone works
together out of mutual respect and interest.

At the lesson will be done different activities. Sometimes students will:
work in pairs or groups with other students
work alone
talk/listen to the teacher
debate
watch and discuss a video

The structure of the course
In classes we follow a course book and workbook to give the students a basic structure to the course but we will use a lot of other materials and
give a lot of worksheets.

At lessons we will practise the 4 skills of:
speaking
writing,
reading,
listening

You will learn a lot of new vocabulary and expressions that you need to write down and to practise regularly. Sometimes in class you will be
learning new things about English. But often you will be practising language that you have studied before but do not yet use well.
UPPER-INTERMEDIATE B Course Objectives

Summary
At the end of this level students will be able to handle the main structures of the language with some confidence, demonstrate knowledge of a wide
range of vocabulary and use appropriate communicative strategies in a variety of social situations. The student will be able to use a certain degree
of independence in a variety of contexts, show flexibility to deal with the unexpected and rely less on fixed patterns of language or short utterances.

Speaking

By the end of this level students will be able to deal with most situations that may arise in shops, restaurants and hotels, at work, at hospitals, and in
transport while travelling and could express pleasure or displeasure at the service given. In social conversation they will be able to talk about a
range of topics and express opinions to a limited extent.

Students will be able to give detailed information and state detailed requirements within a familiar topic area. They will be able to take and pass on
messages and carry out simple negotiations, make a presentation, discuss issues connected to health system, complain about annoying habits,
express regrets, link ideas more clearly.

Writing

At the end of this level students will be able to produce a range of written formal and informal documents although accuracy may be limited and
register sometimes inappropriate. They will be able to produce texts which describe and give detailed information as long as it is within a familiar
area of work and to write requests, also within a predictable range.

Reading

At the end of this level, students will be able to read longer texts. They will be able to go beyond routine letters and the most basic newspaper and
magazine articles, and have developed reading skills related to factual topics in which they have a special interest or to their own tastes in fiction.
In everyday, practical situations, such as eating out, how to avoid conflicts, travelling, health and sickness, building up a business and using services
such as banks, they can read competently enough to deal with anything which does not involve some kind of specialised language.

At this level students are likely to have enough language ability to cope with some non-academic training courses conducted in English.

Listening

Students will be able to cope with conversation on a fairly wide range of familiar, predictable topics, such as personal experiences. They will be
able to understand most of a TV programme because of the visual support and grasp the main points of a radio programme.

Typical topic and vocabulary areas

Jobs and work
Socialising
Transport and travel
Health and medicine
Major life events
Deal with banks and money
Food and cooking
Building up a business

Typical Grammar

Conditionals and Wish
Question tags
Past Perfect Simple and Continuous
Future Perfect Simple and Continuous
Passive Voice
Expressing necessity and ability
Determiners
















Units Objectives Speaking

Vocabulary Grammar Hours
9. Careers and
studying
The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
good and bad aspects of
working life and explain feelings
about the future.
They have practice in giving
better presentations.
They be able to use
words connected to
working life and making
presentations.
The main grammatical focus
is conditionals with
present and past tenses
and ways of expressing
working life and starting
presentations.
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10. Socializing The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to describe how
people celebrate events, suggest
different times / places to meet
and start and end different
kinds of conversations.
They have practice in dealing
with awkward social
situations.
They will practice
expressions when
making mistakes and
guessing meaning from
the context
The main grammatical focus
is t he future perfect and
question tags and ways of
making mistakes and
talking about parties.
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11. Transport and
travel
The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
problem with vehicles and good
and bad drivers and renting a
car.
They have practice in
describing the features of
different kinds of vehicles.
Will be introduced
expressions related to
problems with vehicles
and driving.
The main grammatical focus
is uncountable nouns and
emphatic structures and
ways of expressing
problems with vehicles
and driving.
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12. Health and
medicine
The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
health problems in more detail
and issues connected to health
systems and pass on sympathetic
messages.

They have practice in telling
jokes and conducting
survey.
They will practice
expressions connected to
health problems, body
and illness.
The main grammatical focus
is supposed to be, should,
shouldn't and determiners
and ways of expressing
health problems and parts
of the body and illnesses.
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Review 1 3
13. Life events The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to describe
major life events in more detail,
discuss gossip and news about
people and complain about
annoying habits.

They have practice in
reporting facts they are not
100% sure
of.
They will practice
expressions related to
birth, marriage and
death.
The main grammatical focus
is the past perfect simple /
continuous and be always -
ing, wish and would and
ways of expressing life
events like birth, marriage
and death.
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14. Banks and
money
The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
They have practice in using
descriptive literary
They will study and
practice the use of
The main grammatical focus
is passives and wish and
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dealing with banks and express
regrets and apologies and
explain problems in formal
settings.
language. metaphor and phrases
connected to banks and
money.
ways of talking about banks
and money.
15. Food The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to explain how to
cook things, name different
kinds of food, link ideas more
clearly and give approximate
meanings.
They have practice in
naming different kinds of
food.
They will practice
expressions and words
connected to food and
cooking.
The main grammatical focus
is reporting verbs and
revision of linking words
and ways of expressing
food and cooking, prefixes
and food in news.
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16. Business The main aim of this unit is to
enable students to talk about
markets,
companies and products more
fluently, be more polite in
business contexts
and explain why you are
phoning.

They have practice in
pronouncing
email addresses and
websites.
They will study
expressions related to
reasons for phoning and
building up a business.
They will be able to use
business collocations.
The main grammatical focus
is the future
continuous and expressing
necessity and ability and
ways of building up a
business and business
collocations.
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Review 2 3
FINAL TEST GRAMMAR 3
COMMUNICATION TEST 3
TOTAL HOURS - 60