This document provides a summary of the topics, language skills, and activities covered in an 8-unit, high-beginner English course at level 1B requiring 30 hours to complete. Each unit focuses on a central theme and covers speaking, grammar, reading/writing/vocabulary, and listening/pronunciation skills. The units progress from describing people and clothing to discussing cities, health, food, leisure activities, life changes and future plans.

1. English: Level 1
High-beginner
1B - 30 hours
8 Units
Topics Speaking Grammar Reading / Writing / Vocabulary Listening / Pronunciation
Unit 1
Questions for describing people: what___ Reading about clothing styles: Writing a
look like, how old, what color, how long, description of some type of fashion:
Appreance and dress; clothing and Asking about and describing people's how tall; modifiers with participles and Vocabulary related to fashion and Listening to descriptions of people:
clothing styles; people appearance; identifying people prepositions clothing Contrastive stress
Unit 2
Present perfect yes/no questions and Reading about unusual or dangerous
Describing past experiences; making statements; regular and irregular past sports: Writing a description of an Listening for time and place of an event;
plans; exchanging information about past participles; already, yet; present perfect unusual activity: Vocabulary related to listening to descriptions of events:
Past experiences; unusual events experiences and events and past tense contrast sports an events Pronunciation of the word have
Unit 3
Listening to descriptions of cities and
Asking about and describing cities; asing Adverbs and adjectives; conjunctions and, Reading about cities around the world: hometowns; listening for incorrect
for and giving suggestions; talking about but, however, though; modal verbs: can, Writing a description about a city learner information: Pronunciation of can't and
Cities, hometowns, countries travel and tourism should has visited: Vocabulary related to travel shouldn't
Unit 4
Reading about home remedies: Writing
Talking about health problems; asking about a home remedy: Vocabulary
Health problems, medicine and for and giving advice; making requests, Infinitive complements; modal verbs can, related to medicine, remedies and being Listening to advice; listening to requests
remedies asking for and giving suggestions could, may requests sick in a store: Reduced form of to
Review. Stop and check.
Unit 5
Reading about customers tipping in
Expressing likes and dislikes; agreeing different countries: Writing a restaurant Listening to people make dinner plans;
and disagreeing; ordering a meal and so, neither, too, either; modal verbs would, review: Vocabulary related to restaurants listening to someone ordering at a
Food and restaurants talking to restaurant staff will for requsts and eating out restaurant: Stress responses
Unit 6
Describing countries; making simple Comparative and superlative of adjectives; Reading about the environment: Writing
comparisons; expressing opinions; questions with how: how far, how big, how about and interesting or beautiful place: Listening to a TV game show; listening for
World geography; countries; the talking about distance and high, how deep, how long, how hot, how Vocabulary related to the environment information about a country: Intonation in
environment measurements cold and nature questions
Unit 7
Reading about telephone manners:
Talking about plans; making invitations; Writing a request to give a message: Listening for information about invitation;
Invitations; leisure-time activities; accepting and refusing invitations; giving Future with present continuous and be Vocabulary related to leisure-time receiving telephone messages: Reduced
telephone messages reasons; taking and leaving messages going to; message with tell, ask activities and telephone language forms of could you and would you
Unit 8
Exchanging personal information; Describing changes with the present Reading about plans of successful young Listening to descriptions of changes;
Life changes; plans and hopes for describing changes; talking about plans tense, the comparative, and past tense, people: Writing about future plans: listening to hopes for the future: Reduced
the future for the future and the present perfect; verb + infinitive Vocabulary related to future plans form of to
Final Review