introductory lecture
bonding with new friends
lesson 1: relationships: friendship and family. multi-word verbs + past perfect + talk about friendship & family & relationships
lesson 2: people and personality. personality adjectives + modals and phrases of ability + so & such + describe people and their abilities
lesson 3: looking for a partner & people's stories about how they met their love + narrative tenses. past perfect + tell a story
studies abroad & culture shock
lesson 4: compound nouns, multi-word verbs + modals of obligation + talk about different cultures, culture shock, advice and rules
lesson 5: food from around the word + comparatives and superlatives: diving deeper + describe food
lesson 6: recommend a restaurant to a friend + go
settling in in a new city
lesson 7: houses & ideal home + modals of deduction + talk about ideal houses. describe a building
lesson 8: towns & cities. verbs and prepositions + quantifiers
lesson 9: make offers and ask for permission + over
communication across ages and life experiences
lesson 10: communication and different generations + subject and object questions
lesson 11: exchanging experiences. gradable and extreme adjectives + present simple and present continuous
lesson 12: give and respond to opinions about social problems + yourself
daily grind & tech
lesson 13: 9 to 5 working life + present perfect simple and past simple
lesson 14: tech and physical media trend! + present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
lesson 15: suggesting sth to a friend + look + make and respond to suggestions
what’s the story?
lesson 16: information & retelling interesting news + reported speech + talk about an interesting news story
lesson 17: reporting verbs + talk about what other people say + verb patterns
lesson 18: generalise & be vague + in/on + noun
progress test 1/2
entertainment & art
lesson 19: entertainment, cinema & TV + the passive: more tenses + talk about films and TV / preferred brand of entertainment
lesson 20: music. word-building (nouns) + defining and non-defining relative clauses + give extra information
lesson 21: recommend and get recs! + see, look at, watch, hear, listen to + recommend and respond to recommendations
environmental and future thinking
lesson 22: environmental issues, animals & the future + future forms +talk about endangered animals. talk about the future
lesson 23: the natural world. what if? + zero conditional and first conditional + talk about if and when
lesson 24: problems & give reasons, results and examples
new and past adventures
lesson 25: new opportunities, interests & sports + second conditional + talk about different kinds of opportunities. talk about new things you would like to do
lesson 26: imagined past events. expressions with do, make and take + third conditional
lesson 27: reassuring someone with problems + easily confused words
travel & change
lesson 28: around the globe: travel & tourism + gerunds and infinitives + discuss travelling, discuss choices
lesson 29: describing and discussing change + articles
lesson 30: introduce requests and learn to say you are grateful + out + introduce requests and learn to say you are grateful
language skills and structured discussion
lesson 31: language skills and structured discussion + phrasal verbs and their synonyms
lesson 32: debates
lesson 33: discussion essay
revision & results
lesson 34: repetition: grammar. file. tasks
lesson 35: repetition: vocab. file. tasks
lesson 36: progress Test 2/2