Scope and Sequence

Level 5*
Welcome Unit

Review of B2 grammar structures

Unit 1

Talking about habits: always + present continuous (for irritation); tend to; will/would; used to
Attitudinal discourse markers e.g. admittedly, understandably

Unit 2

Future perfect and future continuous (review)

Future in the past

Unit 3

Mixed conditionals (review)

Alternatives to if: as long as, as soon as, unless, provided/providing that, suppose/supposing etc.

Unit 4

Past tenses with hypothetical meaning, i.e. I wish, If only, Id rather, its time (review)
Discourse markers for organising, contrasting and for expressing cause and effect

Unit 5

Modals (all uses) review

Unit 6

Reference and substitution: the ones / so / those / that of

Ellipsis

Unit 7

Emphatic structures: cleft sentences with what, it, all; auxiliary do

Boosting

Unit 8

Negative/limiting adverbials
Adverbs for modifying comparatives

Unit 9

Relative clauses with prepositions: some of whom, many of which, in which case
whatever, whoever, whenever, etc.

Unit 10

Participle clauses e.g. Watching the sunset, she

Verbs of perception: I heard him singing, I saw her fall off her bike

Unit 11

Causative have (review)

Get in passives
Modal passives (present and past)

Unit 12

Reporting verb patterns and passive reporting structures (review)

Hedging/vague language

C EFR C 1

* This table shows the expected grammar syllabus for THINK level 5.

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