Preparing for College Preparation Courses

All courses are available in the workplace, in the classroom or by online delivery

Unit 1 – Personal Introductions

• Questions and Answers
• Sentence Structure
• Present Tenses
• Sentence Order with Adverbs of Frequency
• Have or Have Got?
• Planning a Personal Profile

Unit 2 – Natural Disasters

• Weather and Climate
• Phonemes
• Narrative Tenses
• Past Perfect Tense
• Past Time Expressions
• Prepositions with Time
• Writing a Narrative

Unit 3 – Healthy and Happy

• Topic Sentences and Paragraphs
• Making Comparisons
• Vocabulary – Health
• Paragraphs and Outline Summaries
• Writing a Comparison
• Speaking – Sympathy and Advice
• Adjectives with -ed and -ing
• Writing Formal Letters of Complaint

Unit 4 – Extraordinary People

• Describing People
• Speaking – Someone you Admire
• Present Perfect and Past Simple
• Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Continuous

Unit 5 – Looking to the Future

• Making Future Predictions
• Future Predictions – Will or Going To?
• Relative Clauses
• Describing Objects, Procedures and Instructions

Unit 6 – Revision

• Reading Revision
• Listening Revision – Incredible, But True!
• Grammar Revision
• Vocabulary Revision
• Speaking Practice
• Writing Revision
• Pronunciation Revision

Unit 7 – Jobs People Do

• Speaking and Reading – Which Job Best Suits You?
• Language – Gerunds
• Listening and Speaking – Giving Opinions
• Language Verb Patterns – The Infinitive
• Vocabulary and Writing – Describing a Place
• Writing – Describing Visual Information

Unit 8 – Going on Holidays

• Vocabulary – Where to Go and How to Get There
• Listening – Travel and Holidays
• Language – Future Forms
• Language – More Verb Patterns
• Language Functions and Situations
• Speaking – Looking for Somewhere Nice to Stay

Unit 9 – Crime and the Media

• Reading – Crimes of the Century
• Language – Passive Forms
• Vocabulary – Crime
• Vocabulary and Listening – The Changing Face of News
• Reading – Fact or Opinion?
• Speaking – Extended Topics
• Writing – Describing a Graph
• Explaining the Stages in a Process

Unit 10 – Opinions and Belief

• Vocabulary Quiz
• Listening – Is There Life on Mars?
• Language – Modal Verbs of Probability
• Speaking – Group Discussion
• Writing Essays
• Speaking and Reading – Superstitions and Beliefs
• Language – Conditional Tenses

Unit 11 – Freedom and Rules

• Vocabulary – Life Stages and Parenting
• Language – Rules, Obligations and Permission
• Giving a Presentation
• Writing an Essay

Unit 12 – Revision

• Listening Revision
• Grammar Revision
• Vocabulary Revision
• Speaking Practice
• Reading Revision
• Writing Revision
• Writing – Writing a Summary
• Writing – Writing an Essay
• Writing – Describing the Stages in a Process
• Writing – Writing a Report
• Writing – Describing a Graph
• Pronunciation Revision