Target B1 2016

Cambridge Preliminary English Test (B1)

Course Outline
I.

Overview
Title

Time: 20 lessons

Content

Students level

Focus

Total: 40 hours/20 lessons

Elementary + Upper-Elementary

Materials

18 lessons
1 Midterm + 1 Final Test

Note

Grammar:
Verb tenses
Passive
Count & Non-count Nouns
Pronouns & Possessive determiners
Relative clauses
Conditionals
Reported speech
Vocabulary: with the main topics
Fun and games
Learning and doing
Friends and relations
Buying and selling
Inventions and discoveries
People and daily life
Nature and the universe
Problems and Solutions
Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking:
Exam information and advice
Test & Explanation
Practice
Destination B1 Grammar and
Vocabulary Macmillan
Insight into PET Cambridge
University Press
Vocabulary for PET Cambridge
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Course syllabus

II.

Lesson
No.

Grammar
-

Present simple
+ continuous,
state verbs
Past simple
+continuous,
used to

Vocabulary
-

Future time
Prepositions of
time and place

Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Topic related
vocabulary 1
Topic related
vocabulary 2
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation

Reading &
Writing

Exam
overview

Exam
overview

Reading Part
1: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Listening Part
1: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Writing Part
1: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice
Reading Part
2: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Writing Part
2: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Reading Part
3: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Writing Part
3: Exam
Information
and Advice

The passive 1

The passive 2

5
-

Count & Noncount Nouns

Articles

6
-

Pronouns and
possessive
determiners
Relative
clauses
Pronouns and
possessive
determiners
(practice)

Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases

Word
formation
Word patterns
Topic related
vocabulary 3
Topic related
vocabulary 4
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Word patterns
Topic related
vocabulary 5
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word

Listening &
Speaking

Designed by Ms. Mai Nguyen ALEX Manager American Academy Haiphong

Speaking Part
1: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice
Listening Part
2: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice
Speaking Part
2: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice
Listening Part
3: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice
Speaking Part
3: Exam
Information
and Advice

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Relative
clauses
(practice)
Modals 1:
ability,
permission,
advice
Modals 2:
obligation,
probability,
possibility
Modals 3: the
modal perfect
Questions,
questions tags,
indirect
questions

formation

Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Topic related
vocabulary 6

Further
practice

Further
practice

Reading Part
4: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Listening Part
4: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Reading Part
5: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

Word
formation
Topic related
vocabulary 7

Speaking Part
3: Exam
Information
and Advice
Further
practice

10
11

12

Questions,
questions tags,
indirect
questions
(Practice)
So and Such,
too and enough
Comparatives
and
superlatives

Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases

Topic related
vocabulary 8
Phrasal verbs
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Word patterns
Topic related
vocabulary 9

13
-

Conditionals 1
(zero, first,
second)
Conditionals 2
(third)

14

15

Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Word patterns

Reported
speech
Reported
questions,
orders, requests -

Topic related
vocabulary 10
Prepositional
phrases
Word

Conditionals
(practice)

Reading Task
Explanation
Further
Practice

Writing Task
Correction
Further
Practice

Reading Task
Explanation
Further
Practice

Writing Task
Correction
Further
Practice
Reading Task
Explanation
Further
Practice

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Speaking:
Practice
Listening: Test
Practice &
Explanation
Speaking:
Practice
Listening:
Test Practice
& Explanation

Speaking:
Practice
Listening:
Test Practice
& Explanation
Speaking:
Practice
Listening: Test
Practice &
Explanation
Speaking:
Practice
Listening:
Test Practice
& Explanation

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16
-

17

18

Direct and
indirect objects
Wish

-ing and
infinitive
Both, either,
neither, so ,
nor

Connectives
The causative

formation
Phrasal verbs
Word patterns
Topic related
vocabulary 11
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Word patterns
Topic related
vocabulary 12
Word patterns
Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Word patterns
Prepositional
phrases
Word
formation
Phrasal verbs
Topic related
vocabulary 13

Writing Task
Correction
Further
Practice

Reading Task
Explanation
Further
Practice

Writing Task
Correction
Further
Practice

19

20

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Speaking:
Practice
Listening: Test
Practice &
Explanation

Speaking:
Practice
Listening:
Test Practice
& Explanation

Speaking:
Practice
Listening:
Test Practice
& Explanation