Syllabus: Lower Intermediate
Use this page to find your way around our lower intermediate course. Click the links to go to our other course sitemaps.
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Lower Intermediate Course – A=activity, L=listening, R=reading, V=video |
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Grammar |
Vocabulary |
News and Drama |
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Unit 1 – Nice to meet you! |
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L Question forms |
L Suffixes
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L News Report L The Race – Episode 1 |
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Unit 2 – What to wear |
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L Present simple and present continuous |
L Adjectives and adverbs |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 2
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Unit 3 – Like this, like that |
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L 'Like' as a verb and preposition R 'Like' |
L Prefixes |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 3 |
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Unit 4 – The daily grind |
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L Adverbs of Frequency R Adverbs of frequency |
L Chunks of language |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 4 |
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Unit 5 – Christmas every day |
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L 'Have to' and 'must' L Jagtar's interview |
L Binomials
L Informal English
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L News Report L The Race – Episode 5 |
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Unit 6 – Great achievers |
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L Past Simple |
L -ing and –ed adjectives |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 6 |
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Unit 7 – The Titanic |
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L Past simple and continuous |
L Lexical sets |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 7 |
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Unit 8 - Travel |
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L Articles A When to use 'the' R Articles |
L Compound adjectives |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 8 |
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Unit 9 – The big wedding |
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L 'Going to' and present continuous R 'Going to' and present continuous to talk about the future |
L Word stress |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 9 |
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Unit 10 – Sunny’s job hunt |
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L Verb patterns |
L Job Suffixes |
L News Report L The Race – Episode 10 |
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Unit 11 – The bucket list |
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L Present Perfect |
L Contractions R Susan Boyle's present perfect life |
L News Report L Frankenstein – Episode 1 |
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Unit 12 – Moving and immigration |
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L Present perfect with 'for' and 'since' |
L Adjective order |
L News Report L Frankenstein – Episode 2 |
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Unit 13 – Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House |
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L Comparatives and superlatives |
L Similar words V The BBC |
L News Report |
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Unit 14 – New Year, New Project |
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L 'Just', 'already' and 'yet' with the present perfect tense |
L Compound nouns
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L News Report |
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Unit 15 – From Handel to Hendrix |
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L Defining relative clauses R Defining relative clauses |
L Homophones L The Handel House Museum |
L News Report |
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Unit 16 – What’s the weather like? |
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L May, might and could |
L Weather words L Meet a weather presenter |
L News Report |
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Unit 17 – The Digital Revolution |
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L Used to |
L New words |
L News Report
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Unit 18 – A detective story |
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L Subject questions R Subject-object questions |
L Male and female job words |
L News Report |
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Unit 19 – A place to live |
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L 'Too', 'very', 'enough' A Modifying adjectives with 'too', 'very' and 'enough' R 'Too much', 'too many', 'enough', 'not enough', 'very' |
L Strong adjectives V Goldilocks and the three bears R London’s housing crisis V 'ough' words L 'Too', 'very' and 'enough' |
L News Report L Frankenstein – Episode 9 |
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Unit 20 – The Cult of Celebrity |
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L Tenses V Daisy's audition V Living in The Box R Mixed tenses |
L –ic and –ical adjectives V Life after The Box R Daisy goes global R A disease called fame |
L News Report L Frankenstein – Episode 10 |
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Unit 21 – Welcome to your new job |
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L Indirect questions R Indirect questions |
L Multi-word verbs V Going Up: Amith's First Day R Indirect questions with 'if' and 'whether' L 'I wonder if you could help me' R French cafe causes a stir |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 1 |
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Unit 22 – Beyond the planets |
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L Present and past passives R Present and past passives |
L Onomatopoeia L NASA's last shuttle flight R Is there hope for the future? |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 2 |
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Unit 23 – Great expectations! |
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L First conditional L Advice for new mums R First conditional |
L Silent letters L Baby talk L Parents-to-be R Different countries, different systems |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 3 |
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Unit 24 – Eco-tourism |
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L The second conditional L Would the world be better if… R Second conditional |
L Re- pre- and pro- R Would you go to Antarctica? L My dream holiday |
If cars could run themselves L Alice in Wonderland – Part 4 |
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Unit 25 – Moving house |
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L State verbs A State verbs: 'love' and 'hate' R State verbs and action verbs |
L Phrasal verbs and context R Finding somewhere to live L Getting along with your housemates R How can you avoid choosing a terrible flatmate? |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 5 |
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Unit 26 – It must be love |
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L Present perfect and past simple R Present perfect and past simple |
L Spelling words that begin with /s/ L She’s the one |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 6 |
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Unit 27 – Job hunting success… and failure |
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L Question tags A Find the correct question tags R Question tags |
L Business jargon R The ideal candidate R The dos and don'ts of job interviews |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 7 |
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Unit 28 – Speeding into the future |
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L 'Will', 'going to', 'might' and 'be likely to' R Predicting the future R 'Will', 'going to', 'be likely to', 'might' |
L British and American English R Too much tech? R Do we need to rescue our kids from the digital world? |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 8 |
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Unit 29 – Lost arts |
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L 'Used to' and 'would' R 'Used to' and 'would' |
L Pronouncing verbs and nouns L The Knowledge R How to plant the perfect tree |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 9 |
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Unit 30 – Tales of survival |
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L 'Can', 'could', 'be able to', 'manage' R Turning tragedy into triumph R Present and past modals of ability |
L Words with double letters R Surviving in tough times R After Typhoon Haiyan L Meet Jackie |
L News Report L Alice in Wonderland – Part 10 |
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