Contents Map
Grammar Phonology Functions and Specific Skills Topics and Notions
Students learn or revise these grammar points Students work on these aspects of pronunciation Students learn or revise ways of doing these things Students learn to talk about
1 to 6
Be, can and have got; Simple Present and Present Progressive; comparison of adjectives; frequency adverbs and adverbials; word order (position of adverbs); structures with question-word as subject and object; linking words and expressions.

Polite intonation; strong, weak and contracted pronunciations; decoding rapid speech; // and //; pronunciations of the letter i.

Greet; introduce; begin conversations with strangers; keep conversations going; agree and disagree; describe people and things; compare; ask for and give personal information; exchange opinions; construct continuous spoken and written text; ask about English. Ability; change; habits and routines; events happening at the time of speaking; personal details; personality traits; frequency; pars and shapes; food; prices; economic and political development.

7 to 12
Have got; do as pro-verb; can; could; had better; will/I'll in offers and agreement; shall in offers; should; would; Simple Past and Past Progressive; irregular verbs; infinitives with and without to; comparison of adjectives; comparative structures; quantifiers; possessive pronouns; when- and while-clauses; so/neither do / etc.; ellipsis in speech. Perceiving and pronouncing final consonants; pronunciations of -ed; decoding rapid speech; rhythm and stress // and //; spellings of //; pronunciations of the letter a; other spelling/pronunciation correspondences. Ask for things; ask for things when they don't know the words; use appropriate language in shops; react to information; express sympathy; make and reply to requests, offers and suggestions; agree and refuse to do things; borrow; lend; describe and compare people and things; ask about and express wishes; narrate; report; ask for clarification; manage conversation. Time and place; quantity; things happening at the same time and in sequence; physical appearance; physical characteristics; differences and similarities; possession; routines; people's past lives; wishes; obligation; accidents; misfortune; speed and weight; shopping; clothes.
13 to 18

Can and be able; may; must; will; used to; Present Perfect Simple and Progressive; Present Perfect and Simple Past; Present Perfect and Present; non-progressive be, know and have in Present Perfect; ever and just with Present Perfect; since and for; quantifiers.

 Linking; pronunciations of the letter e in stressed and unstressed prefixes; // in unstressed syllables; voiced and unvoiced th (// and //). Give news; ask and talk about experience; make appointments; bargain; borrow and lend; ask for and give directions; make enquiries; make applications; thank; persuade; give polite refusals; telephone; ask about English; distinguish formal and informal language; use appropriate language in various common situations. Ability; certainty and possibility; change; duration; quantity; sufficiency; excess; lack; experience; recent events; finished habits; economic and political development; travel; weather; prices; traffic; holidays; work; interviews; food and drink; places; personality.
19 to 24
May; be able; should; have (got) to; will; would; Present Progressive; future reference (will, going to and Present Progressive); reported statements and questions; infinitive after adjective; if-clauses (open and hypothetical); If I were you ... ; when-clauses; if and when; punctuation of complex sentences; verbs with adverb particles; time prepositions; end-position of prepositions; verb + object + infinitive; demonstratives. Decoding rapid speech; signalling a question by intonation; linking; stress and rhythm; developing fluency and confidence; consonant clusters; conversational pronunciation of going to, want to and got to; //; 'dark' /'; //; //; // and //; spellings of //. Advise; agree and disagree; persuade; show interest; make appointments; telephone; describe people; express feelings about people; discuss; predict; invite; make suggestions; make offers; agree to do things; report; give opinions. Ability; arrangements; certainty, probability and possibility; conditions; feelings and emotions; remembering and forgetting; time relations; the future; plans; obligation; hope; quantity; intentions; likes and dislikes; personal and professional relationships; orientation in space; present/future events; geographic features; weather.
25 to 30
Can; could; do as pro-verb; might; must; should; Present Simple and Progressive Passive; Past Simple Passive; reported statements and questions; say and tell; present and past participles; irregular verbs; reflexive/emphatic pronouns; each other; somebody else; relative pronouns and clauses; compound adjectives; zero article in generalisations; quantifiers (both and neither; word order (position of both, end-position of prepositions). Decoding rapid speech; stress and rhythm; linking; initial clusters beginning with /s/; perceiving //; //; /h/; //; //; pronunciations of the letter u. Describe, compare and contrast people and things; describe processes; define; agree and disagree; ask for and give information; exchange opinions; express doubt and certainty; generalize; report; write a simple narrative; ask about English. Materials and products; manufacturing and other processes; causes and origins; historical events; agents; certainty, probability and possibility; doubt; truth and lies; similarities and differences; ability; actions directed towards oneself; reciprocal action; self and others; present and past time relations; obligation; household chores.
31 to 36
Can; emphatic do; will; shall; must; would; Past Perfect; unfulfilled past conditions; phrasal verbs; question tags; imperatives; reported instructions; before, after, as soon as and until; to as pro-verb; verb + object + infinitive; place prepositions; so and such; still, yet and already; linking words and expressions; sequencing markers. Intonation of question tags; strong and weak pronunciations; stress and rhythm; emphatic and contrastive stress; perceiving unstressed syllables; unstressed vowels in initial syllables; //, // and // and their spellings; pronunciation of the letter r; words with misleading spellings. Make enquiries; offer; discuss; agree and disagree; ask for agreement; tell people to do things; make, grant and refuse requests; ask for and give directions; tell stories; report instructions; emphasize; express degrees of formality; construct continuous spoken and written text; use language appropriate to various situations. Present, past and future time relations; place relations; conditions, including unfulfilled past conditions; obligation; parents and children; parties and entertaining; travel

Skills
 The Student s Book and Class Cassettes, together with the Practice Book, provide regular work on the basic four skills. Special skills taught or practised at Level 2 include decoding rapid colloquial speech, reading and listening for specific information, writing simple connected prose (expository, descriptive, narrative, persuasive) and writing simple business letters.

Vocabulary
In addition to revising vocabulary taught at Level 1, students will learn 900 or more new words and expressions during their work on Level 2 of the course.