'Global Intermediate' CMCB00170001

This course accompanies 'Global Intermediate'. It corresponds to CEFR level B1. There are 10 units, each matching a student's book unit.
Resources are grouped into five categories: grammar, language, vocabulary, listening and reading and web projects.

UNIT 1 Description ID number Title

0 Language & Culture This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about languages and
different cultures. It also provides practice of
greetings, stative verbs and present tenses.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Listening and reading Watching a friendly conversation between three GRU00011A Stative verbs
people, focusing on the ways they speak informally,
spotting extra words and putting jumbled sentences
into the correct order. Listening to two English
teachers talking about learning English in the future
and deciding if they agree or disagree with
statements.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of stative verbs. MLG000370 Life in the big city
Vocabulary Watching a video in which a woman talks about her MLG006298 Which side of the Atlantic?
reading habits, deciding whether statements are
true or false and choosing the correct words to
complete sentences. Practising word formation.
Web project Doing a web project about culture and recreation in MLG001203 English: a global language
Australia.
Language Practising the present simple and present MVA006699 Reading for pleasure
continuous. Practising identifying the differences
between British and American English. Practising
the present simple, the present continuous and 'will'.
MVA004438 Native Americans
MLA006749 Informal greetings
MLA003583 Learning English
MWP005567 Culture and recreation in
Australia

UNIT 2 Description ID number Title

1 Lives & Legends This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to describe and talk about
relationships. It also provides practice of
modifiers and past tenses.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Language Practising the past simple and the past perfect. GRU00124A Modifiers: amplifiers
Practising the past simple, past continuous and past
perfect.
Web project Doing a web project about two well-known series of GRU00124B Modifiers: downtoners
children's books.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of the uses of amplifiers. GRU00124C Modifiers: emphasizers
Checking your knowledge of the uses of
downtoners. Checking your knowledge of the uses
of emphasizers. Checking your knowledge of the
use of 'used to' and 'would' to talk about past habits
and states.
Listening and reading GRU00037A Would v used to: past habits v
past states
Vocabulary Watching a video in which a man talks about his MLG001368 A lost wallet
grandparents, selecting the adjectives you hear and
then matching descriptions with adjectives.
Watching a video in which a man talks about his
family, choosing the people he mentions and then
matching sentence halves to make sentences about
family relationships.
MLG002118 Past tenses
MLG001069 A burglary
MVA006698 Ideal partners
MVA006704 Families today
MWP004128 Children's literature

UNIT 3 Description ID number Title

2 Hot & Cold This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to make offers and requests,
predictions and plans. It also provides practice
of future forms, 'would' and 'shall', and
modifiers.
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 Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Grammar Checking your knowledge of the uses of 'so', 'such', GRU00124D Modifiers: use of so, such, too,
'too', 'enough' and 'quite'. Checking your knowledge enough, quite
of how to make requests using 'would'. Checking
your knowledge of using 'shall' and 'would' to make
offers and invitations.
Listening and reading Watching conversations at a hotel reception desk GRU00032G Would: requests
and focusing on the way the guests make their
requests to the hotel manager. Watching two people
talking, checking your general understanding of
their conversation and focusing on the polite offers
they make, accept and refuse.
Web project GRU00055A Offers/invitations: shall, would
Language Practising 'will' and 'going to'. Practising embedded MLG000475 Will v going to
questions. Practising making offers and requests.
Vocabulary Practising ways of making requests. MLG002417 Will v going to
MLG005561 Hotel requests
MLG003663 Offers and requests
MVA004364 Requests
MLA006744 At a hotel reception
MLA006748 At the taxi rank

UNIT 4 Description ID number Title

3 Friends & Strangers This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about friends and make
deductions. It also provides practice of modal
verbs, indefinite pronouns and the present
perfect.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Web project GRU00052A Certainty/deduction: must, can't
Vocabulary Watching a man talking about his friendship with a GRU00136A Indefinite pronouns: some, any,
workmate, deciding whether statements are true or every, no + compounds
false and then choosing the correct words to
complete the sentences.
Language Practising the past simple and the present perfect. GRU00136B Indefinite pronouns: use
Practising word order with adverbs of time.
Practising modals of deduction, 'must' and 'can't',
and of possibility, 'might' and 'could'.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of using 'must' and 'can't' MLG006581 The worst job I have ever had
to talk about things you are certain of and to make
deductions. Checking your knowledge of the uses of
indefinite pronouns. Checking your knowledge of
the use of indefinite pronouns.
Listening and reading Listening to a woman talking about friendship and MLG002935 Present perfect with adverbs of
choosing the correct phrase to complete what she time
says. Listening to six people talking about what they
do online and keying the correct words or phrases
in each gap.
MLG002130 Certainty and possibility
MVA006693 Good friends
MLA001200 Friendship
MLA001484 What do you do online?

UNIT 5 Description ID number Title

4 Law & Order This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about law, politics and
education. It also provides practice of modal
verbs, the present perfect tense and phrasal
verbs.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Web project GRU00053C Obligation/necessity: need,
needn't, must, mustn't, have to,
don't have to, needn't have,
didn't need to.
Language Practising the modal verbs 'mustn't', 'don't have to', GRU00049B Permission: can, may, be
'don't need to' and 'needn't'. Practising the modal allowed to
verbs 'can', 'could' and 'may'. Practising the present
perfect simple and continuous. Practising 'for' and
'since' with the present perfect. Practising the
position of objects in sentences with phrasal verbs.
Vocabulary Practising phrasal verbs with 'up'. Practising political MLG001762 Modal verbs
vocabulary. Practising words you need to talk about
education.
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 Listening and reading Listening to a meeting between three people and MLG001759 Modals of permission
deciding which of the action points in the list they
need to do.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of using forms of 'must', MLG000394 Ibiza - paradise lost
'need' and 'have to' to talk about obligation and
necessity. Checking your knowledge of using 'can',
'may' or 'be allowed to' to ask for and give
permission.
MLG002855 Present perfect with for and
since
MLG005559 Position of objects with phrasal
verbs
MVA004354 Phrasal verbs with up
MVA004409 Winston Churchill
MVA004411 Brown University, USA
MLAB004028 Setting up a restaurant

UNIT 6 Description ID number Title

5 Seen & Heard This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about technology,
describe images and give opinions. It also
provides practice of reported speech and
articles.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Vocabulary Practising verbs describing ways of speaking. GRU00064B Reporting verbs: list
Practising words for shapes and materials.
Web project GRU00066A Reported requests
Listening and reading Listening to eight different people being asked for MLG000383 The spy granny
their opinions about a proposal and deciding if they
agree, disagree or can't decide. Reading an article
about a photography company, deciding which verb
forms in the text are incorrect, then answering
questions with information given in the article.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of reporting verbs. MLG001919 Definite, indefinite and zero
Checking your knowledge of reported requests. articles
Language Practising reported speech. Practising the use of MLG006208 The age of technology
'a/an', 'the' and the zero article. Practising
expressions used to give opinions
MVA004402 Ways of speaking
MVA004296 Shapes and materials
MLGB005415 Colorama
MLAB004042 Different opinions

UNIT 7 Description ID number Title

6 Supply & Demand This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about money and
finance and making wishes. It also provides
practice of relative clauses.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Vocabulary Practising words used to talk about money. GRU00082A Defining v non-defining relative
Practising words used frequently when speaking clauses: comparison
about money and finance. Practising common
collocations in business language.
Listening and reading Listening to a telephone call about a business trip GRU00183A Unreal tenses: wish, if only,
and deciding how much the businessman is would rather, it's time, hope
claiming for reimbursement of expenses.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of the difference between MLG000792 Defining and non-defining
defining and non-defining relative clauses. Checking relative clauses
your knowledge of unreal tenses.
Language Practising relative pronouns and their use in MLG001824 Relative clauses
defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Practising defining and non-defining relative
clauses. Practising 'I wish' and 'if only'. Practising
compound nouns.
Web project MLG001778 I wish ...
MLGB005341 Why do prices rise?
MVAB004272 A banking complaint
MVA004337 Money and business
MVAB004265 Arranging a loan
MLAB004036 Expense claim

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UNIT 8 Description ID number Title
7 Lost & Found This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to describe a picture and to
talk about discoveries and inventions. It also
provides practice of conditional sentences, and
the use of 'make' and 'do'.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Grammar Checking your knowledge of how to use 'would' with GRU00032B Would: conditional
the second and the third conditionals. Checking
your knowledge of the third conditional. Checking
your knowledge of nouns and noun phrases used
with 'make' and 'do'.
Web project Doing a project about the history of the Nobel Prize. GRU00059D Third conditional: use
Vocabulary Practising words used to describe different kinds of GRU00095A Make v do: A-L
paintings.
Listening and reading Reading an article about Scottish inventions and GRU00095B Make v do: M-W
discoveries, deciding if a series of statements are
true, false or if the answer is not given, then
matching key words and phrases with their
definitions. Reading a text about the discovery of
China's Terracotta Army, matching the correct
heading to each paragraph in the text and then
answering a series of multiple choice questions on
the text. Listening to a radio interview with a man
from a museum of archeology and choosing true or
false to answer statements.
Language Practising zero, first, second and third conditional MVA004407 What kind of paintings are they?
sentences.
MLG006511 A world of Scottish invention
MLG006519 China's Terracotta Army
MLG001210 Conditional sentences
MLA000955 Interview with Dr Martin
MWP006196 The Nobel Prize

UNIT 9 Description ID number Title

8 Love & Hate This syllabus item provides some practice of the
language we use to talk about sport and
competition. It also provides practice of
gerunds, infinitives and making comparisons.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Listening and reading Listening to Richard, who lives in Prague, GRU00072A Infinitive v -ing form
comparing the city with London and clicking on the
adjectives he uses to describe Prague. Looking at
pictures and listening to six short conversations,
then matching the pictures with the correct
conversation.
Vocabulary Practising words associated with business GRU00071B -ing form: purpose
competition. Practising phrasal verbs used to talk
about sports and hobbies.
Language Practising the '-ing' form and infinitive with 'to'. MLG000725 Fitness freaks
Practising verbs followed by the '-ing' form or an
infinitive. Practising verbs followed by an '-ing' form
or infinitive with a change in meaning. Practising
comparative and superlative adjectives. Practising
verbs followed by certain prepositions.
Web project MLGB005304 Effective meetings
Grammar Checking your knowledge of the difference between MLG002127 -ing forms and infinitives
the infinitive and '-ing' forms. Checking your
knowledge of '-ing' forms to indicate purpose.
MLGB005306 Supermarket reviews
MLG001019 Young people now and then
MLG001246 Verbs and prepositions
MVAB004268 Hot competition
MVA005539 Why I love my hobby
MLA003076 Prague v London
MLA003447 Match the picture

UNIT 10 Description ID number Title

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9 Beginnings & This syllabus item provides some practice of the
Endings language we use to talk about books and films,
describe celebrations and say goodbye. It also
provides practice of tenses and reflexive
pronouns.
Syllabus components Syllabus component description
Web project Doing a web project about the author Philip Pullman GRU00134A Reflexive pronouns: use
and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
Vocabulary Watching a video in which a woman talks about GRU00135A Reflexive pronouns v each
Christmas, matching sentence halves and then other: use
choosing the correct adjective to complete
sentences.
Language Practising modals of ability: 'can', 'could', 'be able GRU00134C Reflexive pronouns: v object
to'. pronouns v no pronoun
Listening and reading Reading three reviews of the film 'Pride and MLG000227 A wedding day to remember
Prejudice' and answering multiple-choice questions
on the opinion of each of the reviewers. Listening to
a reporter talking about a film and deciding whether
statements are true or false. Watching a
conversation between three people in a hotel bar,
studying the informal way they talk together and
filling in the gaps in a story. Listening to five people
talking about films, choosing the film each person is
describing and then choosing true or false to
answer statements.
Grammar Checking your knowledge of the use of reflexive MVA006690 Christmas memories
pronouns. Checking your knowledge of reflexive
pronouns and 'each other'. Checking your
knowledge of the uses of reflexive and object
pronouns.
MLG006507 Pride and Prejudice
MLA005249 The big screen
MLA006750 Informal goodbyes
MLA002817 The last film I saw
MWP006192 An author and his fantasy world

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