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Pre-intermediate GRAMMAR VOCABULARY EVERYDAY DIALOGUES & READING & LISTENING WRITING
EXPRESSIONS
Unit 1  Tense revision: Simple  Words easily confused: do-  Are you new at  Two important  A short biography
present, present make, get-take-have, say-tell school, in the people: My mother about a person
Generations continuous, simple past  Adjectives + nouns (heavy office…? & my daughter etc. important for you
and future rain etc.)
 Question words  Adjective + preposition (good
at etc.)

Unit 2  Present Tenses:  Frequency adverbs:  Talking about your  The life of a  A perfect holiday,
Simple present Vs. Always, usually, often, hobbies, free time professional weekend etc.
Life these days Present continuous sometimes etc. activities etc. (doctor, engineer,  Daily routines of
 State verbs (look, taste  Time expressions: now, these (shopping, going out, athlete, singer etc.) people you know
etc.) days, every day, every week camping etc.)  Facts in the nature
etc.
Unit 3  Past continuous  Regular & irregular verbs  At the doctor’s  An accident which  Completing a given
 Simple past Vs. Past  Adverbs  Doctor’s advice you were involved story (Last week
Illnesses, accidents continuous  Illnesses, injuries  Doctor’s prescription in or illness you while I was walking
 Time clauses (when,  Safety rules recovered from down the street, I ….)
while)  Your body (ankle, wrist, head,
(When I was a child, I chest etc.)
loved cycling.)
 Used to …

Unit 4  Countable &  Food  At a department  Street food  Do you like cooking?
Uncountable nouns  Devices we use most store  How to make your What do you cook?
 Many-much  Clothes and accessories Buying clothes, favourite dish  Who cooks for you
Shopping  Some-any  A piece of, a slice of, a bar of, food& drinks,  Shopping online and what does she
 A few-a little a liter of, a kilo of… stationary etc. cook?
 A lot of-lots of  Chemist’s, hairdresser’s,  Where do you go
 Enough / too newsagent’s…. shopping for clothes
 Articles: a/an -the and why?
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Unit 5  Ability, permission,  Healthy diet  How to lose weight  You are what you  Write about the
request: Can-could  Healthy life style (doing  Giving advice eat. things you have to do
 Possibility: May-might sports, going to bed early…)  Your responsibilities  How to be at school, at home, at
A healthy life  Advice: Should-had  Good & bad habits  Dos and Don’ts at environmental work …
better school, at work… friendly?
 Obligation: Have to-must  How to get to…?
 Giving directions

Unit 6  Future tense:  Too + adjective  Making  Travel, education,  The dangers waiting
going to Too expensive to buy arrangements for health care in the for us in future:
Hopes, ambitions, will  Adjective + enough summer holiday future wars, pollution,
plans and intentions  future arrangements: Rich enough to have a yacht  Making suggestions  People’s natural disasters etc.
present continuous Why don’t we…? expectations for the
 Verb patterns: Gerunds Shall we…? future
and infinitives Let’s…
want to dance
enjoy dancing
Unit 7  Comparatives and  Irregular adjectives  Which country do  Life in cities and  Discuss the recent
superlatives good-better-best you prefer to visit? villages developments in big
Urban or rural?  As…as much-more-most Why? cities
 Intensifier: A lot, much … little-less-least  Living in the city or in
 Geographical features the country?
Mountains, lakes, rivers etc.
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Unit 8  Present Perfect tense  Participle adjectives  The countries you  Experiences about  The changes in the
For, since, just, yet, (interested, interesting) have been to school, families, last ten years of your
Real life experiences already, ever, never,  Time expressions (ago, last  An interview with a holidays, sport, job life
lately, recently etc.) tour guide  The life of the
 Present perfect Vs.  How + adjective… planet Earth
Simple Past How old, How long, How far
 How long Vs. When …
 been / gone  What + noun….
What colour …, What time,
What kind…
Unit 9  First conditional:  Arranging and preparing for  Do you have a plan B  Moon Shadow by  How would you make
If + will parties (wedding ceremonies, if things go wrong? Cat Stevens the world a better
Party time  If/When birthday parties,  What would you do if  If the place?
 Second Conditional: anniversaries etc. you were the environmental  What would you do if
If I + would  Phrasal verbs president? pollution goes on you had a lot of
 Might, could like this, the life on money?
earth will be in
danger.
Unit 10  Active voice-passive  Technological terms  Artificial intelligence  Uses of robots in  What will be the uses
voice  Electronic devices: charger, or human intelligence various fields: of robots in the
Innovations  Word formation Central Processing Unit, hard  Talking on the phone medicine, military, future?
Prefixes and suffixes drive, Random Access  Virtual classroom industry, space  What if robots go out
Memory etc.  Messaging on the exploration etc. of control?
skype  Isaac Asimov: “I, the
Robot”
Unit 11  Past perfect tense  Burglary, theft, mugging,  Informing the police  Crime and  What precautions do
 Past perfect and simple murder, harassment, about a crime? punishment you take not to be
Crime and past blackmail, kidnapping etc.  Causes of crime?  A sensational burgled?
precautions  Conjunctions: before,  Prepositions murder, robbery  Is crime rate rising in
after, as soon as, etc. your country? Why?
although, because, so, What to do to stop it?
when, until etc.
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Unit 12  Present perfect  Human conditions: birth,  Have you heard she is  Biography: A  Writing about the life
continuous education, graduation, engaged to a popular person of a celebrity, popular
Relationships and  Present perfect marriage, divorce, career, billionaire?  The love affair of a person etc.
events in our lives continuous and present retirement, death etc.  How is your teenage celebrity.
perfect simple son getting along?
 Tense review