UNIT 1 - Macmillan Practice Online

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Straightforward Pre-intermediate Practice Online This course accompanies 'Straightforward Pre-intermediate'. There are twelve units in this course. Resources are grouped into five categories: Language Focus, Grammar, Vocabulary, Reading and Listening, and Pronunciation.

UNIT 1 Lessons 1A-1D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about people and family relationships. It also provides practice of Wh- and Yes / No questions. Reading and Listening

Listening to a woman talking about her family. Listening to an interview about life in the 1920s.

Language Focus

Practising whquestions. Practising question words. Practising short answers to questions. Practising wh- question formation.

Vocabulary

Practising phrasal verbs. Practising phrasal verbs that describe what people are doing. Practising common English collocations.

Pronunciation

Identifying a speaker's attitude from the intonation of questions.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of auxiliary verbs. Checking your knowledge of Whquestions that ask about a subject. Checking your knowledge of Wh- questions that ask about an object. Checking your knowledge of asking questions beginning with 'how'.

Wh- questions

Language Exercise

Choosing question words

Language Exercise

Short answers

Language Exercise

Ask some questions ...

Language Exercise

Auxiliary verbs: summary and contrasts

Grammar Reference Unit

Wh - questions: subject


Wh - questions: object


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Straightforward Pre-intermediate Practice Online

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Wh- words: how + adverbs/adjectives


Julie's bossy parents

Vocabulary Activity

Street scene

Vocabulary Activity

Making collocations

Vocabulary Activity

Talking about families

Listening Activity

Generation gap

Listening Activity

Intonation

Pronunciation Activity

UNIT 2 Lessons 2A-2D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about schools and education. It also provides practice of the past simple and the past continuous and 'used to'. Language Focus

Practising irregular past simple and past participle forms. Practising 'used to' for past habits and states. Listening to people talking about life now and in the past. Contrasting the past simple with the past continuous.

Reading and Listening

Reading Part 4: understanding global meaning. Choosing the correct answer to five multiple-choice questions on a text about an unusual child. Listening to two English teachers talking about learning English in the future.

Vocabulary

Practising collocations. Practising combinations of verbs or nouns with prepositions. Practising words and phrases you need to talk about education.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of use of the past simple irregular. Checking your knowledge of the use of used to as a verb and as an adjective. Checking your knowledge of use of the past continuous. Checking your knowledge of past simple and past continuous use.

Pronunciation

Contrasting the different endings for regular verbs in the past simple.

Irregular past forms

Language Exercise

Used to

Language Exercise

Then and now

Language Exercise

Past simple v past continuous

Language Exercise

Past simple irregular: use


Used to: verb, adjective


Past continuous: use


Past simple v past continuous


School mornings

Vocabulary Activity

Summer school

Vocabulary Activity

Albert Einstein's education

Vocabulary Activity

Brown University, USA

Vocabulary Activity

Paper 1 Reading Part 4

Exam Preparation Exercise

Learning English

Listening Activity

Regular verb endings




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UNIT 3 Lessons 3A-3D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about homes and hometowns. It also provides practice of countable and uncountable nouns, indefinite pronouns and quantifiers. Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the uses of indefinite pronouns. Checking your knowledge of the use of 'some', 'any', 'no' and 'a/an'. Checking your knowledge of 'much' v. 'many'. Checking your knowledge of 'little/a little', 'few/a few'.

Pronunciation

Practising recognizing words with and without an initial 'h'.

Vocabulary

Practising giving directions in a town. Practising words related to houses. Practising words related to places.


Listening to six people talking about different aspects of their town.

Language Focus

Practising countable and uncountable nouns. Practising the use of 'a', 'some' and 'any'. Practising words indicating quantity: 'much', 'many', 'a lot of', 'a little', 'a few', 'enough'.

Choosing countable or uncountable nouns

Language Exercise

Determiners - quantifiers: much v many


Countable and uncountable nouns

Language Exercise

Determiners - quantifiers: little/a little, few/a few


A , some , any

Language Exercise

How do I get there?

Vocabulary Activity

Quantity words

Language Exercise

My home

Vocabulary Activity

Indefinite pronouns: some, any, every, no + compounds


Places - town and country

Vocabulary Activity

The town where I live

Listening Activity

Some, any, no, a/an


Sounds




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UNIT 4 Lessons 4A-4D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about personal relationships. It also provides practice of the present simple and the present continuous and prepositions of time. Vocabulary

Practising phrasal verbs used to talk about relationships. Practising phrasal verbs with 'get'.

Pronunciation

Practising long and short vowels. Practising contrasting the different sounds for words spelt with 's'.

Language Focus

Practising the present simple. Contrasting the present simple and present continuous. Practising recognition of the verbs that are not normally used in the continuous forms. Practising the prepositions of time 'in', 'on' and 'at'. Practising mixed prepositions.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of stative verbs. Checking your knowledge of adverbs of frequency. Checking your knowledge of adverbial expressions of frequency. Checking your knowledge of the use of the prepositions of time 'at', 'on', 'in', 'by' and cases when no preposition is used.


Listening to a radio interview with a film star.

Present continuous

Language Exercise

Present simple and present continuous

Language Exercise

Noisy neighbours

Language Exercise

State verbs

Language Exercise

Prepositions of time

Language Exercise

Women's dating rules

Language Exercise

Stative verbs


Adverbs of frequency: never to always


Adverbs of frequency: expressions of frequency


Prepositions of time: position


Chat room introduction

Vocabulary Activity

Daniela's problem

Vocabulary Activity

Jack Johnson Show

Listening Activity

Feet or fit


Pronunciation of the letter 's'




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UNIT 5 Lessons 5A-5D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about holidays and travelling. It also provides practice of future forms: 'will' and 'going to' and the language of requests and permission. Vocabulary

Practising to a conversation about pony-trekking. Practising verbs and nouns for holiday activities. Practising words related to travel. Practising words used to talk about airports.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of when to use the future with 'will/won't'. Checking your knowledge of the different uses of the future with 'going to'. Checking your knowledge of how to use 'can' and 'may'.


Listening to someone talking about his trip to South America.

Language Focus

Practising the future with 'will' and 'won't'. Contrasting the use of 'will' and 'going to'. Practising 'will' and 'going to'. Contrasting 'will', 'won't' and 'going to'. Practising making offers and requests. Practising the modal verbs 'can', 'could' and 'may'.

Pronunciation

Identifying polite or impolite intonation in requests.

A school trip

Language Exercise

Will and going to

Language Exercise

Will v going to

Language Exercise

Will , won't , going to

Language Exercise

Offers and requests

Language Exercise

Modals of permission

Language Exercise

Future with will/won't : use


Future with going to : use


Permission: can, may


A great time

Vocabulary Activity

Holiday paradise

Vocabulary Activity

Going on a trip

Vocabulary Activity

Taking a flight?

Vocabulary Activity

Going places

Listening Activity

Intonation




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UNIT 6 Lessons 6A-6D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about food. It also provides practice of comparatives and superlatives and modifiers. Grammar

Checking your knowledge of irregular comparatives. Checking your knowledge of the uses of emphasizers. Checking your knowledge of the uses of amplifiers. Checking your knowledge of the uses of downtoners.

Language Focus

Practising comparative and superlative adjectives. Practising superlatives. Practising comparatives and superlatives. Contrasting the use of 'too' and 'enough'.

Pronunciation

Identifying the stress pattern in two- and three-syllable words.


Listening activity you listen to three sets of information about food and complete a text. Reading Part 4: understanding details, attitudes and opinions and the purpose of a text by choosing the correct answer to questions about an article on 'greasy spoons' (cheap English cafés).

Vocabulary

Practising the language used in restaurants when eating out with clients or contacts. Practising words and phrases used in cooking. Practising words related to eating and drinking.

Comparative and superlative adjectives

Language Exercise

Modifiers: downtoners


Superlatives

Language Exercise

Let me buy you lunch

Vocabulary Activity

Who is the fittest?

Language Exercise

Cooking

Vocabulary Activity

Too and enough

Language Exercise

Eating and drinking

Vocabulary Activity

Comparative adjectives: irregular comparatives


Pre-intermediate Test 03

Practice Test

Modifiers: emphasizers


Paper 1 Reading Part 4


Modifiers: amplifiers


Word stress




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UNIT 7 Lessons 7A-7D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about work, job applications and interviews. It also provides practice of the present perfect simple. Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the present perfect affirmative. Checking your knowledge of the present perfect negative. Checking your knowledge of the use of the present perfect.


Listening to a conversation about how people are selected for job interviews.

Vocabulary

Practising words and phrases used to talk about work. Practising words and phrases used to talk about skills and qualifications. Practising words and phrases commonly used in letters of application. Practising phrases often used in job interviews.

Pronunciation

Contrasting the vowel sounds /æ/ and /ʌ/ in sentences.

Language Focus

Practising the present perfect. Practising present perfect questions. Practising word order with adverbs of time. Practising the past simple and the present perfect.

My colleagues

Language Exercise

Present perfect: use


Present perfect

Language Exercise

Present perfect with adverbs of time

Language Exercise

Work, work, work

Vocabulary Activity

How skilled are you?

Vocabulary Activity

The worst job

Language Exercise

Letter of application

Vocabulary Activity

Present perfect: affirmative


I've got an interview!

Vocabulary Activity

Present perfect: negative


Talking about CVs and job interviews

Listening Activity

Vowel sounds


UNIT 8 Lessons 8A-8D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the future. It also provides practice of the language used for making predictions. Reading and Listening

Listening to two English teachers talking about learning English in the future.

Pronunciation

Practising word stress.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of using the present simple to talk about fixed future events. Checking your knowledge of the use of the present simple to talk about the future in subordinate clauses. Checking your knowledge of using 'can', 'could', 'may' and 'might' to talk about possibility. Checking your knowledge of adjectives + the infinitive.

Vocabulary

Practising words made up of two nouns. Practising everyday language.

Language Focus

Practising the use of future forms: 'will' and the present continuous. Practising the use of the present continuous. Practising the use of future forms. Practising the present continuous. Practising a variety of future tenses for predictions and assumptions.



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Language Exercise

Possibility: could, may, might


Sally's diary

Language Exercise

Adjectives + infinitive

Science fiction?

Language Exercise


Present simple with future meaning: fixed events


Compound nouns

Vocabulary Activity

Computer classes

Vocabulary Activity

Present simple with future meaning: subordinate clauses


Learning English

Listening Activity

Word stress in compound nouns


Talking about the future

Language Exercise

Leaving messages

UNIT 9 Lessons 9A-9D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about films and television. It also provides practice of the passive and adjectives ending in '-ed' and '-ing'. Language Focus

Practising the present passive. Practising the past passive. Practising the use of active and passive voice. Practising '-ed' and '-ing' adjective endings.

Pronunciation

Distinguishing between words which contain diphthongs and words which don't.


Listening to a radio competition about film trivia. Reading a text about famous pets.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the present simple passive form. Checking your knowledge of the past simple passive form. Checking the use of 'by' + agent in passive sentences. Checking your knowledge of the use of the agent in passive sentences. Checking your knowledge of adjectives ending in -ed and -ing and adjectives ending in '-ed' followed by a preposition.

Vocabulary

Placing adjectives in the correct order and help the cinema manager advertise his films. Practising names of types of TV programmes.

Helping the environment

Language Exercise

The passive: omission of agent


The story of jeans

Language Exercise

Passive v active

Language Exercise

Adjectives ending in ed and -ing : use


Adjectives ending with -ed and -ing

Language Exercise

Popcorn Frenzy

Game

The passive: present simple


Television programmes

Vocabulary Activity Listening Activity

The passive: past simple


Fan club radio phonein competition Paper 1 Part 4

The passive: by + agent



Diphthongs




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UNIT 10 Lessons 10A-10D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about health and fitness. It also provides practice of the present perfect with adverbs of time. Reading and Listening

Listening to two teenagers talking about a healthier lifestyle.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the use of the prepositions of time 'for' and 'since'. Checking your knowledge of the difference between the use of the past simple and the present perfect.

Pronunciation

Contrasting the vowel sounds /ɔ:/ and /ɜ:/ in single words.

Language Focus

Practising the prepositions of time 'for' and 'since' and the adverb of time 'ago'. Practising the present perfect with 'for' or 'since'. Practising 'for' and 'since' with the present perfect. Practising word order with adverbs of time.

Vocabulary

Practising collocations. Practising words for different types of health problems. Practising the correct use of words and the understanding of a text about health and safety in the workplace.

For, since and ago

Language Exercise

I've lived here for three years

Language Exercise

Present perfect with for and since

Language Exercise

Present perfect with adverbs of time

Language Exercise

Prepositions of time: for v since


Past simple v present perfect


Football

Vocabulary Activity

Feeling ill

Vocabulary Activity

Health and safety

Vocabulary Activity

Healthy eating

Listening Activity

Vowel sounds


UNIT 11 Lessons 11A-11D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about fashion. It also provides practice of modals of obligation and the infinitive to express purpose. Pronunciation

Practising the sounds /θ/ and /ð/.

Vocabulary

Practising words related to technology and clothes. Practising expressions that are useful when shopping. Practising finding the meaning of definitions.


Reading to extract the main points made in a text about shoppers and retail companies. Listening to an interview about fashions in the 60s and 70s.

Language Focus

Practising the modal verbs 'must / mustn't'. Practising the modal verbs 'mustn't' and 'don't have to'. Practising the modal verbs 'mustn't', 'don't have to', 'don't need to' and 'needn't'. Practising the modal verbs 'must', 'can' and 'needn't'.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the use of 'have to' to talk about obligation. Checking your knowledge of 'must' and 'have to'. Checking knowledge of using 'mustn't' and 'don't have to' to talk about obligation and necessity. Checking your knowledge of the form and uses of the infinitive.



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Modals of obligation

Language Exercise

Obligation/necessity: mustn't, don't have to


Modals of obligation and necessity

Language Exercise Language Exercise

The infinitive: form, subject, complement, purpose and split


Modal verbs Necessity and obligation

Language Exercise

Smart clothes

Vocabulary Activity

Uses of have : obligation


Shopping around

Vocabulary Activity

Obligation/necessity: must, have to


The science of shopping

Vocabulary Activity

Fashion

Listening Activity

Consonant sounds


UNIT 12 Lessons 12A-12D This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the world and global issues. It also provides practice of relative clauses and prepositions of movement. Vocabulary

Practising the use of nationality nouns and adjectives.

Pronunciation

Identifying the main syllable stress in countries and nationalities.


Listening to somebody talk about changed arrangements.

Language Focus

Practising prepositions of movement and verbs used for describing movement. Practising relative pronouns.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the prepositions of place 'into/out of', 'onto/off', 'over/ under', 'to/from' and 'up/down'. Checking your knowledge of the prepositions of movement 'across', 'along', '(a)round', 'past' and 'through'. Checking your knowledge of relative pronouns. Checking your knowledge of the omission of object pronouns in relative clauses. Checking your knowledge of the differences between British and American English vocabulary. Checking your knowledge of preposition use in British and American English.

Stanley goes to the playground

Language Exercise

Object pronoun omission in relative clauses


Relative pronouns

Language Exercise

Reggae and Bob Marley

Language Exercise

British v American English: vocabulary


Relative pronouns in impersonal statements

Language Exercise

British v American English: prepositions


Prepositions of movement 1


Where are they from?

Vocabulary Activity Listening Activity

Prepositions of movement 2


What's happening this week? Word stress


Relative pronouns: use




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UNIT 1 - Macmillan Practice Online

UNIT 1 - Macmillan Practice Online

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