English Banana.com Schools Scheme of Work – Intermediate Class Week: Topic: Let’s start a project Grammar: present continuous vs present simple Vocabulary: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) modal verbs: will / shall word stress word order in sentence structure sentence stress articles and nouns clothes Social English Themes: project work in groups: • • • • • • • devise a magazine / newspaper write a short story collection charity work / fundraising organise a talent / variety night consumer surveys build an English language learning website make a short film focus on study skills Sport and leisure past continuous homophones modal verbs: can / could / able to word collocation using the infinitive (after modal verbs) sport and leisure simple, compound and complex sentences using adverbs 2nd week review Health and lifestyle project work in groups trip to a local museum / gallery writing for different purposes: letter, email, diary, report, assignment, etc project work in groups present perfect rhyming words present perfect vs past simple health and different lifestyles modal verbs: must / mustn’t going to the doctor’s / dentist’s / hospital English Banana Schools English Banana.com Schools Scheme of Work – Intermediate Class auxiliary verbs in question forms asking for and giving advice question tags Finding a job modal verbs: may / might formal and informal letter writing quantity words – much, many, few, a lot etc understanding discourse markers, e.g well, right, er, OK, now, etc adverbials of time, manner, degree, frequency, etc develop a group role play when and if careers advice project work in groups first conditional zero conditional Thinking it over mid-course review / test individual tutorials Accent on English present perfect continuous hypothetical ideas project work in groups modal verbs: should / would / could global and local issues project work – review passive voice change vs staying the same second conditional the environment / pollution prepositions of place evening trip to a concert or exhibition past perfect writing a newspaper report reported speech understanding informal English – vocabulary, pronunciation, accent and project work in groups English Banana Schools English Banana.com Schools Scheme of Work – Intermediate Class defining relative clauses – e.g that, where, who, whose, etc third conditional errors made by native speakers of English; including short cuts and grammatical ellipsis, e.g “Saw Helen today.” = “I saw Helen today.” trip to a nearby town / place of interest prepositions of time Different people making comparisons – comparatives and superlatives personality – differences between people future – will, going to, will be –ing, will have done arguments and problems project work in groups booking a holiday Let’s get together adverbials of possibility – e.g perhaps, possibly, definitely, maybe animals past simple – revision using phrasal verbs phrasal verbs famous inventions / famous firsts articles – a, an and the famous people subject revision writing my autobiography project work in groups going on a date / getting married personal relationships problem pages – agony aunt / uncle English Banana Schools English Banana.com Schools Scheme of Work – Intermediate Class Enjoying the classics subject revision project work – presentations subject revision classic books in the English language language used in English literature 10 Revision week end of course weekend camping trip – organised by the students practice papers practice listening tests individual tutorials revision of previous topics – recapping and consolidation mock exam/s exam/s English Banana Schools