BBC Learning English - Syllabus - Intermediate

2018. 2. 10.
BBC Learning English - Syllabus: Intermediate
Syllabus: Intermediate
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Intermediate Course – A=activity, L=listening, R=reading
Grammar Vocabulary Drama
Unit 1 – Pop-ups
L Present tenses L Hyphenation L Jamaica Inn – Part 1

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Mixed tenses: present simple,
present continuous, present
R Present tense review A Numbers and hyphens perfect
R The present simple, present continuous A Two-word adjectives with hyphens
and present perfect tenses
Grammar reference R The pop-up phenomenon
Vocabulary relating to pop-up businesses
L How to haggle
Fucntional language
Unit 2 – Hidden talents
L Present perfect continuous L In, at, on with time expressions L Jamaica Inn – Part 2
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Present perfect continuous
A Making the present perfect continuous A Which preposition?

Time expressions
L Song Stars UK
Present perfect continuous in context R Talent shows: from human judges to
computers
R Present perfect continuous Vocabulary relating to fame
Grammar reference
Unit 3 – Can’t buy me love
L Quantifiers L Uncountable nouns L Jamaica Inn – Part 3

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Quantifiers: all, each, every,
either, neither
A All, each, every, both, either and neither A How uncountable nouns work
Quantifiers
R More money might not mean more
R Quantifiers happiness
Grammar reference Vocabulary relating to wealth and lifestyle
L Are we ‘stuffocating’?
Materialism and minimalism
Unit 4 – Travellers’ tales
L Phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs L Spoken short forms: gonna, wanna, L Jamaica Inn – Part 4
6 Minute Grammar dunno, whatcha Phrasal verbs
6 Minute Vocabulary
R Multi-word verbs with break
L Spot the short forms
R Multi-word verbs Whatcha, gonna, gimme, lemme
Grammar reference
L Pronunciation practice of short
forms
R The man who got dumped just

before his honeymoon
Phrasal verbs relating to travel and
relationships
L Making complaints
Functional language
Unit 5 – The colleague from hell
L Zero conditional and first conditional L Ordinal numbers L Jamaica Inn – Part 5
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Zero conditional, first conditional,
second conditional
A Zero conditional and first conditional R Writing ordinal numbers
R Zero conditional and first conditional R Dates and ordinal numbers

Grammar reference
L English at Work
Asking someone to do something
R Dealing with difficult people

Vocabulary relating to working together
Unit 6 – Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
L Modals of deduction and speculation L Prefixes de-, dys- and dis- L Jamaica Inn – Part 6
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Modals of speculation and
deduction in the present
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R Modal verbs R The little prefixes
Might, may, could, might not, may not, Dys-, dis- and de-
couldn’t, must, can’t
A Prefixes
R Might, may, could, must and can’t Re-, pre-, pro-, in-, un-, mis-
Grammar reference
R Three million-year-old technology
Vocabulary relating to an archaeological
discovery
L Double contractions
Unit 7 – Career changes
L Past perfect L Suffixes: -less and –free L Jamaica Inn – Part 7

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Past perfect
R Two events in the past R More suffixes

Past perfect -ee, -able, -ible, -ness and job suffixes
R Past perfect L The ‘Awesome Apple’

Grammar reference Functional language to prepare someone
for disappointment
R Finding a career that’s right for you

Vocabulary relating to work and careers
Unit 8 – Art
L Adjectives and adverbs L Easily confused words L Jamaica Inn – Part 8

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Adjectives and adverbs
R Adjectives and adverbs review L Easily confused words
R Adjectives and adverbs R Who decides what 'art' is?

Grammar reference
L An interview with an artist
Adjectives to describe style, colour,
atmosphere and characters in a story
Unit 9 – Project management
L Third conditional L Words with 'ough' L Jamaica Inn – Part 9

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Third conditional
R Imagined past events L A bad day at the office

Third conditional Vocabulary relating to project
management
R Third conditional
Grammar reference R The principles of project
management
Vocabulary relating to project
management
Unit 10 – The dog ate my homework!
L Linking devices: cause and effect L False friends L Jamaica Inn – Part 10
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Linking devices of cause and
effect: due to, owing to, because,
R Cause and effect: how to link them R Loanwords, cognates and false because of, consequently, as a
friends result, result in, as a result of,
R Linking devices of cause and effect thus, therefore
Grammar reference L English at Work
Giving the background to a situation
R Terrible excuses
Vocabulary relating to making excuses
Unit 11 – The diary of a double agent
L Reported speech L Reporting verbs L The Importance of Being

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 1
Reported speech
R The grammar of reporting verbs A Reporting verbs
Say, tell, deny, admit, apologise, insist,
R Direct speech and reported speech suggest, advise, demand and offer.
A Reported questions R Can you spot a big lie?

Reading about people telling lies
L How to stop Dr XYZ
Reported speech in context
R Reported speech
Grammar reference
Unit 12 – Fashion forward
L Active voice and passive voice L Irregular verbs L The Importance of Being
Passive voice
R Using and making the passive A Do you know the correct form?
Irregular verbs
R Active voice and passive voice
Grammar reference R How high is too high?
Reading about fashion
L Where do your old clothes go?
Unit 13 – Flat pack skyscrapers
L Comparatives and superlatives L Someone, nothing, anywhere L The Importance of Being
Comparatives and superlatives
A These boots are made for comparing R Pronouns with some and any
Comparative adjective forms
R Mini Sky City
R Comparative and superlative adjectives Reading about a record-breaking tower
Grammar reference
L How to chat someone up
Functional language for flirting
Unit 14 – Extreme sports
L Past perfect continuous L Suffixes: -ment, -ance, -ence L The Importance of Being
Past perfect continuous
R Past perfect continuous and past simple A Do you know your suffixes?
-ence, -ance, -ment
R Past perfect simple or past perfect
continuous R Root words and suffixes
R Past perfect continuous L English at Work

Grammar reference Functional language to tell people it’s the
end of the working day
R Love the fear

Vocabulary relating to extreme sports and
thrill-seeking
Unit 15 – Food fads
L Adverb position 1 L Discourse markers: showing your L The Importance of Being

6 Minute Grammar attitude towards something Earnest – Part 5
6 Minute Vocabulary Adverbs
R Adverbs and verbs
Adverb position R Discourse markers: like and you
know
R Adverbs and auxiliary verbs
R Hungry for the new
R Ands and buts Vocabulary relating to food fads
Conjunctions
L Rob’s full English breakfast
R Adverb position 1 Onomatopoeia
Grammar reference
Unit 16 – Me, my selfie and I
L Definite article and abstract uncountable L Suffixes: -ness and –ity L The Importance of Being
nouns 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 6
6 Minute Grammar The definite article with abstract
R Same word, different meanings uncountable nouns
R Countable and uncountable nouns Building vocabulary with suffixes
R Abstract uncountable nouns R The suffix –ish

A suffix with many meanings and uses
R The definite article with abstract
uncountable nouns R Are you selfie obsessed?
Grammar reference Reading about photography, social
media, celebrity and privacy
L Sounds great!
Functional language for responding using
link verbs
Unit 17 – Endangered animals
L Talking about the future L Antonyms L The Importance of Being

Talking about the future: about to,
R The future is now A The long and short of it going to, will, intend to,
Six ways to talk about the future Identifying antonyms
A Helga hits the road A Who is who in the animal world?

Making sentences to talk about the future A quiz
R Ways of talking about the future R Five of the world's most endangered
Grammar reference animals
Vocabulary relating to animals, natural
habitats and conservation
L How can a zoologist save the future?

Vocabulary relating to conservation and
the impact of humans on the natural
world
Unit 18 – A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
L Defining and non-defining relative L Acronyms L The Importance of Being

clauses 6 Minute Vocabulary Earnest – Part 8
6 Minute Grammar Defining and non-defining relative
A Is that a word? clauses
R Identifying relative clauses How to say acronyms: as a word or as
letters
R Relative pronouns
Who, that, which, whose, where, when R Getting a new face
Vocabulary relating to cosmetic surgery
R Relative clauses
Grammar reference L At what price?
Discussing cosmetic surgery
Unit 19 – I'm really sorry…
L Adverb position 2 L Words with more than one spelling L The Importance of Being
Adverbs 2
R Adverbs with adjectives A British or American
Check your spelling
R Adverb position 2
Grammar reference R The migrant who wasn't
Reading about a fictional account of
migration
L How to say sorry

Functional language
Unit 20 – Telling stories
L Narrative tenses L Linking words L The Importance of Being

Narrative tenses: past simple,
R It’s all in the past R Linking words to talk about the past continuous, past perfect,
Past verb forms for narratives order that something happens present simple
R A horse walks into a bar… R Stating the obvious

Using present verb forms to narrate past Linking words and phrases for saying
events something we think is easily understood
L Who do you believe? L Brian’s incredible life

Three narratives told by BBC Learning Words and phrases for expressing
English disbelief
R Narrative tenses
Grammar reference
Unit 21 – Fakes and phrasals
L The grammar of multi-word verbs L Commonly misspelled words L Gulliver's Travels – Part 1
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Phrasal verbs
R What is a multi-word verb? R Some simple spelling rules
R Multi-word verbs / Phrasal verbs type 1, R Same sound, different spelling

2, 3 and 4 Homophones
Grammar reference
R Getting forgery down to a fine art
Vocabulary relating to art forgery and
crime
L Marcus the centurion goes on

holiday
Using phrasal verbs to sound natural
Unit 22 – Looking to the future
L Future continuous and be + infinitive L Discourse markers: interjections L Gulliver's Travels – Part 2
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Future continuous
R This time next week R Yuck!

The future continuous Discourse markers for expressing likes
and dislikes
L Excuses, excuses
The future continuous in context R Running against the Olympic clock
Reading about preparations for the 2016
R Future continuous and be + infinitive Olympic Games
with future sense
Grammar reference
Unit 23 – Becoming familiar with things
L Used to, be used and get used to L Synonyms L Gulliver's Travels – Part 3
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Used to
R Used to R Synonyms and collocations

Talking about the past
R Are you an early bird or a night owl?
R Our guide to life away from home Be used to something and get used to
Be used to and get used to in context something
R Used to and be/get used to L English at Work

Grammar reference Functional language for when you can’t
understand something
Unit 24 – From rags to riches
L Review of conditionals L Suffixes: -tian, -sion, -tion L Gulliver's Travels – Part 4

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Conditionals
R What is a conditional sentence? L The disappearing spy

Words with suffixes that end in 'shun' or
R Conditionals review 'jhun'
Grammar reference
R The music icon that never was
A second chance at fame
L How to make polite requests

Functional language for being polite
Unit 25 – Against the odds
L Linking devices of contrast L Large numbers L Gulliver's Travels – Part 5

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Linking devices of contrast
R Thousands and millions
R Brave or foolish? R The appeal of the underdog
Linking devices of contrast: even though, Vocabulary for talking about succeeding
although, despite, in spite of, however, but against the odds
R Linking devices of contrast L How to disagree

Grammar reference Functional language
Unit 26 – Our future on Mars?
L The future perfect L Adjectives from names L Gulliver's Travels – Part 6

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Future perfect
R What will the future bring and when? R Artistic eponymous adjectives
The future perfect form -esque adjectives
R One-way ticket to Mars

The future perfect in context
L By this time next week…

The future perfect in context
R The future perfect

Grammar reference
Unit 27 – Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
L -ing and -ed clauses (participle clauses) L Eponyms as nouns and verbs L Gulliver's Travels – Part 7
6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary
Participle clauses
R A business trip R New language of technology
Present participle clauses
L Did you know: Crazy laws?
R Public notices: Are you talking to me? Listening to some descriptions of some
Participle clauses in context unusual laws
R Participle (-ing and –ed) clauses

Grammar reference
Unit 28 – Dodgy dating
L So, such, enough, too L Irregular verbs L Gulliver's Travels – Part 8

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary So, such, enough, too
R Intensifiers R Do you want to get a date?

So, such, too, enough Vocabulary relating to online dating, apps
and relationships
R Intensifiers: so, such, enough, too
Grammar reference L The Dodgy Dating Agency
Intensifiers in action
Unit 29 – Annoying advice
L Verb patterns L Talk like Shakespeare L Gulliver's Travels – Part 9

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Verb patterns
R What comes after a verb? R Annoying advice for new parents

Verb patterns, verb + infinitive, verb + gerund Vocabulary relating to advice about
parenting
L Babysitting advice
Verb + infinitive, verb + gerund, verb + (that)
clause in context
R Verb patterns
Grammar reference
Unit 30 – I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
L Future perfect continuous L Academic English L Gulliver's Travels – Part 10

6 Minute Grammar 6 Minute Vocabulary Future perfect continuous
R Looking back from the future R General v Academic English

The future perfect continuous Differences between general and
academic English
L 24-hour BBC Learning English-athon
Future perfect continuous in context R Giving a presentation
Top tips for presentations
R Future perfect continuous
Grammar reference R Going ape for charity!
Vocabulary relating to fund-raising and
charity
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Lower Intermediate course sitemap

Intermediate Course – A=activity, L=listening, R=reading

Grammar Vocabulary Drama

L Present tenses L Hyphenation L Jamaica Inn – Part 1

Unit 2 – Hidden talents

A Making the present perfect continuous A Which preposition?

Unit 3 – Can’t buy me love

L Quantifiers L Uncountable nouns L Jamaica Inn – Part 3

Unit 4 – Travellers’ tales

R The man who got dumped just

Unit 5 – The colleague from hell

R Zero conditional and first conditional R Dates and ordinal numbers

R Dealing with difficult people

Unit 6 – Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past

Unit 7 – Career changes

L Past perfect L Suffixes: -less and –free L Jamaica Inn – Part 7

R Two events in the past R More suffixes

R Past perfect L The ‘Awesome Apple’

R Finding a career that’s right for you

L Adjectives and adverbs L Easily confused words L Jamaica Inn – Part 8

R Adjectives and adverbs review L Easily confused words

R Adjectives and adverbs R Who decides what 'art' is?

Unit 9 – Project management

L Third conditional L Words with 'ough' L Jamaica Inn – Part 9

R Imagined past events L A bad day at the office

Unit 10 – The dog ate my homework!

Unit 11 – The diary of a double agent

L Reported speech L Reporting verbs L The Importance of Being

A Reported questions R Can you spot a big lie?

Unit 12 – Fashion forward

L Where do your old clothes go?

Unit 13 – Flat pack skyscrapers

Unit 14 – Extreme sports

R Past perfect continuous L English at Work

R Love the fear

Unit 15 – Food fads

L Adverb position 1 L Discourse markers: showing your L The Importance of Being

Unit 16 – Me, my selfie and I

R Abstract uncountable nouns R The suffix –ish

Unit 17 – Endangered animals

L Talking about the future L Antonyms L The Importance of Being

A Helga hits the road A Who is who in the animal world?

L How can a zoologist save the future?

Unit 18 – A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery

L Defining and non-defining relative L Acronyms L The Importance of Being

Unit 19 – I'm really sorry…

L How to say sorry

Unit 20 – Telling stories

L Narrative tenses L Linking words L The Importance of Being

R A horse walks into a bar… R Stating the obvious

L Who do you believe? L Brian’s incredible life

Unit 21 – Fakes and phrasals

R What is a multi-word verb? R Some simple spelling rules

R Multi-word verbs / Phrasal verbs type 1, R Same sound, different spelling

L Marcus the centurion goes on

Unit 22 – Looking to the future

R This time next week R Yuck!

Unit 23 – Becoming familiar with things

R Used to R Synonyms and collocations

R Used to and be/get used to L English at Work

Unit 24 – From rags to riches