AA VV, FOCUS AHEAD PRE-INTERMEDIATE, PEARSON LONGMAN
E. JORDAN, P. FIOCCHI, GRAMMAR FILES GOLD, TRINITY WHITEBRIDGE

FOCUS AHEAD PRE-INTERMEDIATE
UNIT 1: PERSONALITY
Vocabulary: personality adjectives; adjective antonyms, negative prefixes, adjective + preposition.
Grammar: Present Tenses – question forms; subject and object questions, wh- questions ending with prepositions, verbs + ing formor verb + to infinitive.
Listening: voluntary work.
Reading: Teenage dreams and ambitions, Teenage stereotypes.
Watching and Speaking: showing interest.
Writing: a personal letter/email.

UNIT 2: INVENTION
Vocabulary: Technology and science; computers. Compound nouns, collocations, phrasal verbs.
Grammar: Past Continuous and Past Simple, used to.
Listening: Digital firsts, Becoming a scientist.
Reading: Space travel.
Watching and speaking: telling a story.
Writing: a story.

GRAMMAR FILES GOLD
FILE 1: PRONOMI PERSONALI SOGGETTO; INFINITO DEL VERBO "ESSERE" : TO BE; PRESENT SIMPLE DEL VERBO BE; QUESTION WORDS; ESPRESSIONI IDIOMATICHE CON BE; ECCO.
FILE 2: ARTICOLI: THE, A/AN; PAESI E NAZIONALITA'; AGGETTIVI; ORDINE DEGLI AGGETTIVI.
FILE 3: PLURALE DEI SOSTANTIVI; AGGETTIVI E PRONOMI DIMOSTRATIVI: THIS, THESE, THAT, THOSE; PRONOMI PERSONALI COMPLEMENTO; PREPOSIZIONI SEMPLICI.
FILE 4: THERE IS / THERE ARE; PREPOSIZIONI DI STATO IN LUOGO; USI PARTICOLARI DI IN, AT, ON.
FILE 5: PRESENT SIMPLE DI HAVE (GOT); GLI INDEFINITI SOME, ANY, NO, NONE; SOSTANTIVI NUMERABILI E NON NUMERABILI.
FILE 6: AGGETTIVI POSSESSIVI – WHOSE…?; GENITIVO SASSONE E DOPPIO GENITIVO; PRONOMI POSSESSIVI.
FILE 7: NUMERI CARDINALI; ETA', INDIRIZZI, NUMERI DI TELEFONO; PREZZI; MISURE.
FILE 8: L'ORA, NUMERI ORDINALI – LA DATA; PREPOSIZIONI DI TEMPO.
FILE 9: PRESENT SIMPLE; AVVERBI ED ESPRESSIONI DI FREQUENZA; USO DI DO / DOES NELLE WH- QUESTIONS.
FILE 10: ESPRESSIONI IDIOMATICHE CON HAVE; LIKE E ALTRI VERBI DI GRADIMENTO; I NEED, i TAKE; PREPOSIZIONI DI MEZZO; PRONOMI RIFLESSIVI E PRONOMI RECIPROCI.
FILE 11: PRESENT CONTINUOUS – FORMA IN -ING; PRESENT SIMPLE /PRESENT CONTINUOUS; VERBI DI STATO; COMPLEMENTO DIRETTO E INDIRETTO.
FILE 19: PAST CONTINUOUS; PAST SIMPLE / PAST CONTINUOUS; USED TO E WOULD.

FOCUS AHEAD PRE-INTERMEDIATE
UNIT 3: THE ARTS
Vocabulary: The arts and media, types of books and writers, films, music; film descriptions.
Grammar: Present Perfect with just, already, (not) yet, and Past Simple. Comparative and superlative adjectives, too and enough.
Listening: A street artist.
Reading: How writers write, Film descriptions and reviews.
Watching and speaking: describing a photo.
Writing: a film review.

UNIT 4: LIVING
Vocabulary: Houses and homes. Describing houses. Things inside and outside a house. Teenagers’ rooms. Phrases with make and do.
Grammar: Present Perfect with for and since, adjective order. Future forms: present continuous, be going to and will.
Listening: Teenagers' rooms.
Reading: The Hobbit House. Places to visit.
Watching and speaking: making suggestions.
Writing: a blog entry.

UNIT 5: SCHOOL
Vocabulary: Education. Phrasal verbs. Phrases with get.
Grammar: First Conditional. Relative clauses.
Listening: Exams and getting into university.
Reading: Charity schools
Watching and speaking: giving an opinion; agreeing and disagreeing.
Writing: An email/a letter of enquiry

UNIT 6: WORKING LIFE
Vocabulary: Jobs and work, terms and conditions, work + prepositions, collocations, confusing words – job vs work.
Grammar: Second Conditional, Modal verbs for obligation and permission.
Listening: Becoming an airline pilot
Reading: A man who lived without money.
Watching and speaking: asking for and giving advice.
Writing: An email/a letter of application.

UNIT 7: SHOPPING
Vocabulary: shops and services, partitives, shopping, places in a town.
Grammar: the passive, quantifiers.
Listening: Advantages and disadvantages of shopping malls. Buying presents.
Reading: Colours in advertising.
Watching and speaking: shopping and making complaints.
Writing: An email/a letter of complaint

UNIT 8: SOCIETY
Vocabulary: Politics; crime; the justice system; society; crime and criminals; people involved in a crime case.
Grammar: Past Perfect. Reported Speech.
Listening: Lie-spotting.
Reading: UK crime trends. Fight against racial discrimination.
Writing: A reader’s comment

GRAMMAR FILES GOLD
FILE 20: AVVERBI DI MODO; COMPARATIVO E SUPERLATIVO RELATIVO DI MAGGIORANZA CON AGGETTIVI; COMPARATIVO E SUPERLATIVO RELATIVO DI MAGGIORANZA CON AVVERBI, SOSTANTIVI E DOPO UN VERBO.
FILE 21: COMPARATIVO DI UGUAGLIANZA CON AGGETTIVI, AVVERBI, SOSTANTIVI E DOPO UN VERBO; COMPARATIVO E SUPERLATIVO DI MINORANZA CON AGGETTIVI, AVVERBI, SOSTANTIVI E DOPO UN VERBO; COSTRUZIONI PARTICOLARI CON I COMPARATIVI; RAFFORZATIVI DEI COMPARATIVI E DEI SUPERLATIVI.
FILE 23: PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE; PRESENT PERFECT SIMPLE / PAST SIMPLE.
FILE 26: PRESENT CONTINUOUS CON VALORE DI FUTURO; BE GOING TO; PRESENT CONTINUOUS / BE GOING TO; FUTURE SIMPLE: WILL; FUTURE SIMPLE: BE GOING TO.
FILE 27: PRESENT SIMPLE CON VALORE DI FUTURO; PERIODO IPOTETICO DI TIPO 0; PERIODO IPOTETICO DI PRIMO TIPO
FILE 36: FORMA PASSIVA: PRESENT SIMPLE E PAST SIMPLE; FORMA PASSIVA: ALTRI TEMPI E MODI; FORMA PASSIVA CON I MODALI.

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