Capacitar al alumnado para utilizar el idioma con cierta seguridad siendo capaz de comprender, expresarse e interactuar, tanto en forma hablada como escrita sobre temas generales, cotidianos o de interés personal.
Preparar a los alumnos para la obtención de la certificación oficial del nivel
B1 conforme al Marco Común Europeo de las Lenguas
Objetivos específicos
- Comprender las ideas principales cuando el discurso es claro y normal y se tratan asuntos cotidianos que tienen lugar en el trabajo, en la escuela, durante el tiempo de ocio, etc.
- Comprender la idea principal de muchos programas de radio o televisión que tratan temas actuales o asuntos de interés personal o profesional, cuando la articulación es relativamente lenta y clara.
- Comprender textos redactados en una lengua de uso habitual y cotidiano o relacionada con el trabajo.
- Comprender la descripción de acontecimientos, sentimientos y deseos en cartas personales.
- Saber desenvolverse en casi todas las situaciones que se presentan al viajar donde se habla esa lengua.
- Poder participar espontáneamente en una conversación que trate temas cotidianos de interés personal o que sean pertinentes para la vida diaria (por ejemplo, familia, aficiones, trabajo, viajes y acontecimientos actuales).
- Saber enlazar frases de forma sencilla con el fin de describir experiencias y hechos, sueños, esperanzas y ambiciones.
- Poder explicar y justificar brevemente las propias opiniones y proyectos. Saber narrar una historia o relato, la trama de un libro o película y poder describir las propias reacciones.
- Ser capaz de escribir textos sencillos y bien enlazados sobre temas que son conocidos o de interés personal.
Poder escribir cartas personales que describen experiencias e impresiones.
UNIT 1. WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE
- Grammar focus
- Present simple review
- Adverbs of frequency
- Present continuous
- Theme/Lexical focus – Daily life/Activities
- Functional focus – Starting conversation/Meeting people
- Writing task – An informal letter to a pen pal describing your typical working day
UNIT 2. WHAT’S YOUR FAMILY LIKE?
- Grammar focus
- Personal descriptions
- Have got/like/enjoy doing
- Saxon genitive
- Theme/Lexical focus – People/Parts of the body
- Adjectives of physical description
- Functional focus – Introducing people to each other
- Writing task – A short email describing your new girl/boyfriend to another friend
UNIT 3. MOVING AROUND!
- Grammar focus – Past simple
- Theme/Lexical focus
- Transport
- Airport/holidays
- Functional focus – Enquiring about and buying a train ticket
- Writing task – A chronological narrative: writing about a disastrous holiday
UNIT 4. A WINDOW TO ANOTHER WORLD
- Grammar focus – Past simple and past continuous
- Theme/Lexical focus – Books & Stories/Types of books
- Functional focus – Telling an anecdote
- Writing task – A story: students will be given a choice of titles
UNIT 5. THE ANIMAL WORLD
- Grammar focus – Comparative and superlative adjectives
- Theme/Lexical focus – Zoo animals: Gorilla
- Functional focus – Joining a gym/sportsclub
- Writing task – Filling out a membership form
UNIT 6. WHAT SHOULD I WEAR?
- Grammar focus – Countable and uncountable nouns
- Theme/Lexical focus
- Shopping and clothes
- Food
- Clothes
- Functional focus
- Buying food
- How many/much…?
- Writing task – Writing a note: instructions for a shopping trip (what to buy and where, etc.
UNIT 7. LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
- Grammar focus – Present perfect: just, yet, already
- Theme/Lexical focus – Entertainment/Types of entertainment
- Functional focus – Giving and responding to invitations
- Writing task – An email to a friend: have you seen … yet? Would you like to go?
UNIT 8. RUN FASTER, JUMP HIGHER, FEEL BETTER
- Grammar focus – Present perfect: for and since
- Theme/Lexical focus – Health & Sport/Adjectives describing sports
- Functional focus – Joining a gym/sportsclub
- Writing task – Filling out a membership form
UNIT 9. TURN OFF YOUR PHONES, PLEASE
- Grammar focus – Passive (present)
- Theme/Lexical focus – Science and technology gadgets
- Functional focus – Asking for information in a shop
- Writing task – An essay: A gadget I couldn’t live without
UNIT 10. WATCH OUT!
- Grammar focus
- Modals: advice, prohibition/obligation
- Need to/needn’t
- Theme/Lexical focus
- Safety/Safety equipments
- Dangerous jobs
- Functional focus – Giving advice (to someone who wants to do a dangerous job)
- Writing task – An email to a friend telling them what they need to bring on a camping trip.
