READINGLISTENINGSPEAKINGWRITING

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B1 Skills Program
SCOPE AND SEQUENCE
Module Reading Listening Speaking Writing

1
Travel Holidays Friendship Making friends Language Appearance, A day out A day out with friends
My great holiday Past simple and past How we choose our Present, future, and exchange personality, interests Write a blog post Linking phrases for
continuous tenses friends past tenses Describe yourself Language learning time and contrast
Time sequencing Listening for gist** Task Regular and irregular
expressions Listening for detail** Describing yourself past simple verbs
Reading for gist* Discussion Discussion Task
Reading for detail* Social networking sites The best activities for Writing a blog post
and meeting people language learning about a day out
Discussion
A holiday when Quiz
everything went Spending time with
wrong friends

2
Starting a Success in business At an airport Airport and flight Last weekend Leisure time activities, Summer plans Summer activities
business Past simple and Waiting for a flight vocabulary Talk about your housework Reply to an Phrases for an informal
The Boden success present perfect tenses Future forms weekend Past simple tense informal email email
story
Discussion for + duration of time Prepositions of time Task
Ideas for starting your Discussion and place Replying to an
own business Airports in your Task informal email
country Talking about last Discussion
weekend The best summer
Discussion activities
Weekend chores

3
Positive thinking Positive thinking, City and country Places to live Hopes and Future forms Visiting cities Famous landmarks
Positive thinking happiness, and Where you live Positive and negative dreams Predictions with will Write a travel Things to see and do
success adjectives Talk about hopes and wont review on holiday
Emotions vocabulary for the future
Politeness phrases Verb phrases with Positive and negative
Zero and first Forming questions have, do, get adjectives
conditional and short answers Task Task
Discussion Discussion Talking about hopes Writing a travel review
Are you an optimist or Discussing where you for the future Discussion
a pessimist? live Discussion A city youve visited
Dreams for the future
Module Reading Listening Speaking Writing

4
Languages and Bilinguals and their Problems and Personality adjectives Foreign visitors Social rules, behaviour, Happiness Things that make you
personality languages advice Phrasal verbs Give advice and etiquette Write an article happy
Different words for Personality adjectives Personal problems Giving advice with Expressing likes and
different situations Modal verbs should
Comparatives and can should, have to, can dislikes

Discussion Giving advice Task Gerunds and

Personality and Giving advice to infinitives
Discussion visitors to your
foreign languages Solving problems and Task
country Writing an article
giving advice
Quiz about what makes you
Taboos in different happy
cultures Discussion
How to be happy

5
Parents and Biographies and life School days Education Life stories Life stages Inventions Important inventions
children stages Memories of school used to Tell someones Past simple and Describe an The passive
Like father like son? Past simple and story present perfect tenses invention
Past simple and Comparatives and
present perfect tenses present perfect tenses Time prepositions and superlatives
Discussion Discussion conjunctions Task
Celebrity parents How can schools help Task Describing an
students? Describing someones everyday invention
life story Discussion
Discussion The most and least
Whats the best age useful inventions
to be?

6
Sleep and Sleep and personality Gossip and news Sharing news and Using the internet The internet Sport Sport
personality vocabulary Have you heard...? gossip Give an opinion Phrases for giving an Write an opinion Opinion phrases
Night owls or early Comparing and Expressing certainty opinion essay
birds Structuring an essay
contrasting Reported speech Task Task
Task will for predictions Advantages and Writing an opinion
Create a word picture disadvantages of the essay
Discussion internet
Do you believe Quiz
celebrity gossip? Discussion How sporty are you?
How do you spend
your time online?

*Reading for gist and reading for detail are practised in each Reading Module.
**Listening for gist and listening for detail are practised in each Listening Module.