PROGRAMA DE INGLÉS ADULTOS

LEVEL 3A ENGLISH FILE INTERMEDIATE (2012): UNITS 1, 2, 3 & 4

UNITS LESSONS FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR POINTS VOCABULARY

 Describing food you consume
on a typical day
 Describing your favourite food Present simple and continuous
A. Mood Food  Describing your current diet Food and cooking
 Giving opinions regarding food Action and non-action verbs
and cooking

Giving opinions regarding family life Future forms:

Family
Talking about family plans  Present continuous
B. Family life
1  Going to
Adjectives of personality
Describing a person on the basis of  Will / won’t
his/her personality
Reacting to what people say
Asking and answering questions Family vocabulary
Practical English: Episode 1 Meeting the
parents Introducing yourself and other
Present simple Social English phrases
people
Talking about your relationship with
money
Money:
Present perfect Verbs
Talking about past experiences with
A. Spend or save? Prepositions
money
Past simple Nouns
Phrasal verbs
2 Talking about recent past action
regarding money
Present perfect
Describing tendencies in your life +
for Strong adjectives
B. Changing lives Describing repetitive actions you have since
been doing recently
Present perfect continuous

1
 Present simple and continuous

Describing your diet and the typical Future forms

diet in your country
Present perfect
Describe members of the family, Food
saying what they look like and what
Revise and check 1&2 In the street: Short they are like Past simple Family
films Oxfam
Describe some of your plans for the Present perfect Money
future +
for
Describe tendencies in your life since

Present perfect continuous

FIRST ACHIEVEMENT TEST

UNITS LESSONS FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR POINTS VOCABULARY

Asking for help as a pedestrian

Comparing means of Transport

Comparatives
transportation Public transport and vehicles
A. Race across London
On the road
Superlatives
Giving an opinion regarding
driving, drivers, dangers
connected to driving
3 Describing some stereotypes Collocation:
Articles
about men and women Verbs /adjectives+ prepositions
B. Stereotypes-or are they?
 a, an, the, no article
Stating a position regarding a Dependent prepositions
stereotype
Interviewing someone or being
Present simple
the interviewed
Simple past
Practical English: Episode 2: A difficult celebrity Giving your opinion about Social English phrases
something
Present perfect
Agreeing or disagreeing with

2
 other people’s opinions Present perfect continuous

Talking about your abilities and

inabilities Modals of ability
 can
-ed/ ing adjectives
A. Failure and Success Describing something you would  could
like to be able to do  be able to

Giving someone a tip

Modals of obligation:
4 Describing good and bad manners
Phone language
B. Modern manners?  must
Giving opinions regarding good
 have to
and bad manner
 should
Comparing means of
transportation Comparatives & Superlatives

Talking about typical stereotypes Articles Transport

C. Revise and check 3&4 In the street: Short
Collocations
films Boris Bikes
Describing something you would Modal verbs of ability Phone language
like to be able to do
Modals of obligation
Talking about good manners
SECOND ACHIEVEMENT TEST