SYLLABUS FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE 1

(For English major students)

Materials:

 New Headway Pre-intermediate 5th edition student’s book (unit 1-6)

 New Headway Pre-intermediate 4th edition workbook (unit 1-6)
 New Headway Pre-intermediate 4th edition Tests

WEEK Session Unit Content Homework Notes

1 1 Orientation + PET Test 2-hour
session: PET
2 Pet Test listening test
3-hour
session: PET
Reading and
writing test
3 Unit 1  Grammar: Tenses and questions p.10-
11 (SB)
 Practice p.12 (SB)
4 Unit 1  Tense revision p.4-5 (WB)
 Questions p.5-6 (WB)
 Listening and speaking p. 13 (SB)
2 1 Unit 1  Reading and Speaking: a blind date p.
14-15 (SB)
 Vocabulary: Right words, wrong words
p.16 (SB)
 Vocabulary: Right words, wrong words
p.7 (WB)
2 Unit 1  Listening: Andy and Ed p.9 (WB)
 Everyday English: Social Expressions
p.17 (SB)
 Writing p.18 (SB)
3 Unit 1  Reading: Janice and Andy p.8 (WB)  Just for fun!
 Pronunciation p.10 (WB) p.10 (WB)
 Unit test 1
4 Unit 2  Grammar: Present tenses and
have/have got p.20-21 (SB)
 Practice p. 22 (SB)
 Vocabulary: My perfect day p.23 (SB)
3 1 Unit 2  Reading and speaking: The
independence quiz p.24-25 (SB)
 Listening and Speaking: Getting on with
the neighbours p.26 (SB)
2 Unit 2  Everyday English: Making conversation
p.27 (SB)
 Writing an email – linking words p.28
(SB)
3 Unit 2  Present simple p.11-12 (WB)  Spelling p.12
 Present Simple and Continuous p.13 (WB)
(WB)  Reading: all
 Skill test 1 you need is
 love p.14
(WB)

4 Unit 2  Listening: The best things in life are  Pronunciation:

free p. 10 (WB) -s at the end
 Vocabulary: Gerunds and -ing forms of a word p.17
p.15 (WB) (WB)
 Have/have got p.16 (WB)  Just for fun!
 Unit test 2 p.17 (WB)

4 1 Unit 3  Grammar: Narrative tenses- Past

Simple and Past Continuous p.30-31
(SB)
 Practice p.32-33 (SB)
2 Unit 3  Reading and listening: A spy story p.34-
35 (SB)
 Vocabulary and speaking: Adverbs p.36
(SB)
3 Unit 3  Everyday English: saying when p. 37
(SB)
 Writing: Picture stories-narrative
writing p.38 (SB)
4 Unit 3  Past simple p.18 -19 (WB)
 Times expressions p.20 (WB)
 Past Continuous p. 20-21 (WB)
 Reading: Caught in the act p.22 (WB)
5 1 Unit 3  Listening: Someone stole my bag p.23  Just for fun!
(WB) p.24 (WB)
 Pronunciation: Consonants p.23 (WB)
 Vocabulary: have + noun =activity p.24
(WB)
 Unit test 3
2 Unit 4  Grammar: Expressions of quantity p.
40-41 (SB)
 Practice p.42 (SB)
 The secret to a long life: articles –
a/an/ the p.42 (SB)
 Practice p.43 (SB)
3 Unit 4  Reading and speaking: Recipes for
success p.44-45 (SB)
 Vocabulary and listening: A piece of
cake p. 46 (SB)

4 Unit 4  Everyday English: Can you come for

dinner? p.47 (SB)
 Writing a postcard p. 48 (SB)
6 1 Unit 4  Nouns p. 25-26 (WB)  Reading:
 Expressions of quantity p.26-27 (WB) Britain
 Something/no one p.28 (WB) favourite
 Listening: My favourite kinds of meal p. meals – Fish
29 (WB) and chips
p.28-29 (WB)
  Articles p.30
(WB)
2 Unit 4  Unit test 4  Vocabulary
 Skill test 2 p.30 (WB)
 Pronunciation:
Diphthongs
p.31 (WB)
 Just for fun!
p.31 (WB)

3  MIDTERM TEST

4 Unit 5  Grammar: Verb patterns p. 50-51 (SB)

 Practice p.51 (SB)
 Have you got any plans? Going to, will,
Present Continuous for future p.52 (SB)
 Practice p.52-53
7 1 Unit 5  Listening and speaking: Different
Generations – What can we look
forward to? p.53 (SB)
 Reading and speaking: He was only 16
p.54-55 (SB)
2 Unit 5  Vocabulary and speaking: Phrasal verbs
p. 56 (SB)
 Everyday English: Expressing doubt and
certainty p.57 (SB)
 Verb patterns p. 32-33 (WB)
 I like and I’d like p.33 (WB)
3 Unit 5  Future forms p.34 -35 (WB)
 Pronunciation p.35 (WB)
 Writing: Writing for talking p. 58 (SB)
4 Unit 5  Reading: The refugee from Afghanistan  The verb Get
p.36 (WB) p.37 (WB)
 Listening: Three teenagers and their  Just for fun
ambitions p.37 (WB) p.38 (WB)
 Unit test 5
8 1 Unit 6  Grammar: Present Perfect, for, since
p.60- 61 (SB)
 Digging up the past: Present Perfect
-always, ever and never p.62 (SB)
 Practice: p. 63 (SB)
2 Unit 6  Vocabulary and pronunciation: Word
endings and word stress p. 63 (SB)
 Reading and speaking: The not so
distant past p. 64-65 (SB)
3 Unit 6  Listening and speaking: Family history
p.66 (SB)
 Everyday English: Agree with me! p. 67
(SB)
4 Unit 6  Writing: A biography p. 68 (SB)
 Present Perfect p.39-40(WB)
 9 1 Unit 6  Present perfect and past simple  Reading:
p.41(WB) 14,000 miles
 Present perfect +adverbs p. 42 (WB) on a ‘pizza
 Tense revision p.42 (WB) delivery bike’
 Skill test 3 p.43 (WB)

2 Unit 6  Listening: Till death do us part p.44

(WB)
 Pronunciation: sentence stress p.44
(WB)
 Vocabulary: Word endings p.45 (WB)
 Unit test 6
3 PET SAMPLE TEST 2-hour
session: PET
4 PET SAMPLE TEST listening test
3-hour
session: PET
Reading and
writing test

Notes:

- Each teacher of sessions 1,2,4 marks 1 SPEAKING TEST and 1 WRITING PAPER.
- The teacher of session 3 mark the MIDTERM TEST
 SYLLABUS FOR PRE-INTERMEDIATE 2

(For English major students)

Giáo trình:

 New Headway Pre-intermediate 5th edition student’s book (unit 7-12)

 New Headway Pre-intermediate 4th edition workbook (unit 7-12)
 New Headway Pre-intermediate 4th edition Tests

WEEK Session Unit Material Homework Notes

1 1 Orientation + PET Test - 2-hour session:
PET listening
2 Pet Test test
- 3-hour session:
PET Reading
and writing
test
3 Unit 7  Grammar: What’s it like? p.
70 (SB)
 Practice: What’s Berlin like?
p. 71 (SB)
 Good, better, best! p.71 (SB)
 Practice p. 72-73 (SB)
4 Unit 7  Describing p. 46 – 47 (WB)
 Comparative and
superlatives p. 47-48 (WB)
 Listening and speaking: The
best things in life are free. P.
73 (SB)
2 1 Unit 7  Reading and speaking:
Favourite pictures p.74-75
(SB)
 Vocabulary: Synonyms and
antonyms p. 76 (SB)
Everyday English: What’s
on? p.77 (SB)
2 Unit 7  Reading: Three great things
to do in London p.49 (WB)
 Writing: Describing my
hometown p.78 (SB)
3 Unit 7  Listening: Visiting London p.  Pronunciation:
50 (WB) Word stress p.
 Vocabulary: Synonyms and 52 (WB)
antonyms p. 51(WB)  Just for fun
 Unit test 7 p52. (WB)
4 Unit 8  Grammar: Have to/ don’t
have to p.80-81 (SB)
 Practice: p.81 (SB)
 What should I do?:
should/must p.82 (SB)
 Practice p.83 (SB)
3 1 Unit 8  Listening and speaking: A
 health and fitness quiz p.83
(SB)
 Reading and speaking: Two
stuntwomen and a
stuntman p.84-85 (SB)
 Vocabulary and speaking:
Not a thing to wear! p.86
(SB)
2 Unit 8  Everyday English: At the
doctor’s p.87 (SB)
 Writing: Writing emails p.88
(SB)
3 Unit 8  Have to p. 53 -54 (WB)  Vocabulary:
 Should p.55 (WB) Verb + noun
 Must p.56 (WB) p.58 (WB)
 Reading: The helicopter  Pronunciation:
pilot p.56-57 (WB) Sounds and
 Listening: The train driver spelling p.59
p.57 (WB) (WB)
 Just for fun
p.59 (WB)
4 Unit 8  Unit test 9
 Skill test 4
4 1 Unit 9  Grammar: Past Perfect and
narrative tenses p. 90-91
(SB)
 Practice p.91 (SB)
 The role-swap: Joining
words p.92 (SB)
 Practice p.93 (SB)
2 Unit 9  Listening and speaking:
Young adult literature p.93
(SB)
 Reading and speaking: The
train journey p.94-95 (SB)
3 Unit 9  Vocabulary and speaking:
Feelings p.96 (SB)
 Everyday English:
Exclamation with so and
such p. 97 (SB)
 Past perfect p. 60-61 (WB)
4 Unit 9  Joining sentences p. 62 (WB)
 Vocabulary: Homonyms
p.63 (WB)
 Writing: Reviewing a book
or film p.98 (SB)
5 1 Unit 9  Listening: A love story p. 64  Pronunciation
(WB) of -ea p.66
 Reading: Love story p.64-65 (WB)
(WB)  Just for fun
 Unit test 9 p.66 (WB)
2 Unit 10  Grammar: Passives- all
 tenses p.100 -101 (SB)
 Practice p.102 (SB)
 Vocabulary and speaking:
Words that go together
p.103 (SB)
3 Unit 10  Reading and Speaking: The
world’s most loved football
team! P.104 -105(SB)
 Listening and speaking: The
world’s number one habit!
p.106 (SB)
4 Unit 10  Everyday English: On the
phone p107 (SB)
 Writing: Discuss pros and
cons p.108 (SB)
6 1 Unit 10  Passives p.67-69 (WB)
 Reading: Look who we
found on the Internet p.70
(WB)
 Listening: Internet dating
disasters p.71 (WB)
2 Unit 10  Vocabulary: Compound Just for fun:
nouns p.72 (WB) p.73 (WB
 Pronunciation: Silent letters
p.73 (WB)
 Unit test 10
3 MIDTERM TEST

4 Unit 11  Grammar: Present Perfect

Simple and Continuous
p.110-111 (SB)
 Practice p111-112 (SB)
 Tense review – simple and
continuous p.112-113 (SB)
 Listening and speaking: My
kind of thing! P.113 (SB)
7 1 Unit 11  Reading and speaking: The
collectors p.114-115 (SB)
 Vocabulary and listening:
Life’s big moments p.116
(SB)
2 Unit 11  Everyday English: Finding
the right words! p.117 (SB)
 Writing note-taking p.118
(SB)
 Present Perfect Simple p.74-
75 (WB)
3 Unit 11  Present Perfect Continuous
p.75-76 (WB)
 Tense review p.76-77 (WB)
 Vocabulary: Phrasal verbs
p.78 (WB)
  Listening: My kind of music
p. 79 (WB)
4 Unit 11  Reading: The greatest rock Just for fun! p.80 (WB)
‘n’ roll band in the world
p.78-79 (WB)
 Pronunciation: Words that
sound the same. p.80 (WB)
 Extra activity: Speaking
(topic – celebrities)
8 1 Unit 11  Unit test 11
 Skill test 5
2 Unit 12  Grammar: First Conditional:
if+ will/might p.120 (SB)
 Practice p.121(SB)
 But what if? Second
conditional: if +would p.122
(SB)
 Practice p.123 (SB)
3 Unit 12  Listening and speaking: At a
crossroads in life p.123 (SB)
 Reading and speaking: Risk a
chance p.124-125 (SB)

4 Unit 12  Vocabulary and speaking:

bring and take, come and go
p.126 (SB)
 Everyday English: Thank you
and goodbye! P.127 (SB)
 Writing: Correcting common
mistakes p.128 (SB)
9 4 Unit 12  First Conditional p.81-82
(WB)
 Might p.82 (WB)
 Second Conditional p.83-84
(WB)
 Reading: Sleep-where would
we be without it? p84-85
(WB)
1 Unit 12  Listening: The meaning of Pronunciation: Word
dreams. p.85 (WB) stress p.86 (WB)
 Vocabulary: Prepositions Just for fun:p.87 (WB)
p.86 (WB)
 Unit test 12
3 PET SAMPLE TEST 2-hour session: PET
listening test
4 PET SAMPLE TEST 3-hour session: PET
Reading and writing
test

Notes:

- Each teacher of sessions 1,2,4 marks 1 SPEAKING TEST and 1 WRITING PAPER.
- The teacher of session 3 mark the MIDTERM TEST