Successful conversations can be really rewarding. The lessons in this module will help you give a positive first impression, buy the perfect gift, and resolve a difficult issue in English.
Lesson 1 - Meeting People
The topic of this lesson is meeting new people and describing their or your own character. You will listen to a conversation between people meeting each other for the first time and read emails about personal information. This will help you to be able to talk about a person's character.
Vocabulary
- Thinking about it - spending time in a foreign city
- Words to describe character
- Describing a person's character
Grammar
- Pronouns (Relative), Verbs (Verb Tense)
- Yoshi meets Mike in Barcelona
- Mike asks Yoshi some more questions
- Yoshi and Mike in Barcelona
- Complete the information about Barcelona
Writing
- Yoshi's email
- Sue's email to Yoshi
- Writing a report: describing people
- Checking for mistakes
- Mario's profile
Pronunciation
- Pronunciation of '-ed' in the simple past
Listening
- Yoshi meets Peter
- Yoshi's notes
- Describing yourself
- Questions for a magazine interview
Reading
- Barcelona: the weekender's guide Part 1 and Part 2
- What are you like? A questionnaire
Lesson 2 - Invitations
The topic of this lesson is suggestions and invitations. You will listen to conversations about visiting places and concerts, practise making suggestions, agreeing and disagreeing, and learn how to make indirect questions in order to make requests and invitations.
Vocabulary
- Making suggestions
- Refusing or declining suggestions
- Agreeing and disagreeing 1 and 2
- Suggestions and requests 1 and 2
Grammar
- Question Words, Verbs (Modal Verbs, Verb Tense)
- Word order and question words 1 and 2
- Prepositions
- Indirect questions 1, 2, and 3
Listening
- Visiting Barcelona
- An evening in Barcelona
- Rock music or opera?
- Yoshi and Mike complete a questionnaire together
Speaking
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Polite ways to agree or disagree
Lesson 3 - Buying Clothes
The topic of this lesson is buying clothes when travelling. You will practise vocabulary for clothes and patterns, listen to a dialogue about making a complaint and read several texts about travelling.
Vocabulary
- Different kinds of shops
- Some articles of clothing
- Some colours and patterns
- Sharon's laundry bill
- An email to Chicago
- Complete the conversation
- A postcard to Elena
- A review of new words
- Spelling
Grammar
- Adjectives, Window shopping
Pronunciation
- Which sound?
- Vowel sounds
Listening
- A long flight
- Add the missing words
- Sharon's new coat
Reading
- Making a complaint
- The hotel complaint form
- How to travel comfortably on long-haul flights
Lesson 4 - Shopping in a City
The topic of this lesson is looking for presents to buy. You will read an email and an article about shopping and looking for presents, practise comparing objects and using a range of verb tenses to help you to talk about buying presents.
Vocabulary
- Shopping in Manchester
- Shopping in Oxford
Grammar
- Question Words, Adjectives, Verbs (Verb Tense)
- Structures and phrases
- Present simple and continuous
- Present perfect simple
- Present perfect continuous 1 and 2
- Past simple and continuous
- 'Have gone' and 'have been'
- Past perfect, past simple and past continuous 1 and 2
- Future: present simple and continuous
- Future: 'going to' and present continuous
- Future: 'will' and 'going to' 1 and 2
- Comparatives and superlatives 1 and 2
- Looking for presents - comparing items
- Asking direct questions
- Asking indirect questions
Listening
Reading
Speaking
- Looking for presents - asking questions
Lesson 5 - At the Airport
The topic of this lesson is meeting people at the airport. You will learn airport-related vocabulary, listen to phone messages and formal and informal conversations, and learn how to describe people and objects in order to meet a person at the airport.
Vocabulary
- Airport words
- Describing people - meeting Sara at the airport
- Describing people 2, 3 and 4
- Describing a baby
- Describing parts of a suitcase
- Describing objects
- Describing objects - adjectives and nouns
- Describing object in a hotel room
Grammar
- Pronouns (Demonstrative), Prepositions, Expressions and Conjunctions, Verbs (Verbal Voices)
- The passive form 1 and 2
- That suitcase
- This/that, these/those
- The first conditional
- The second conditional
Listening
- How many words?
- Taking messages 1, 2 and 3
- Formal and informal telephone conversations
- A business conversation
- A conversation between friends
- A formal conversation - correcting mistakes 1 and 2
- An informal conversation - correcting mistakes
Reading
- Sara's letter
- Sara's lost suitcase
Lesson 6 - Issues and Solutions
The topic of this lesson is requests and complaints. You will listen to telephone conversations based on making suggestions and requests, and learn how to agree and disagree in order to resolve issues in writing or orally.
Vocabulary
- Describing a person's character
- Describing people
- Making suggestions and requests
- Agreeing and disagreeing
- Words to do with clothes
- Shopping words
- Types of shops
- Airport words
- Vocabulary
Grammar
- Question Words, Adjectives, Verbs (Verb Tense, Verbal Voices)
- Choose the correct tense
- Irregular past tense verbs
- The passive
- Asking questions
- Comparatives
Writing
- An invitation to a birthday party
- Analysing the letter
- Useful expressions
- Complaining formally and informally
- A letter of complaint 1 and 2
Listening
- A letter of complaint
- A formal telephone conversation
- An informal telephone conversation