Reward Starter Level

   

Lesson

Grammar and functions

Vocabulary

Skills and sounds

1. Hello, I'm Frank

Greeting people you don't know

Asking and saying names

Hello, goodbye

Listening: listening and matching; word recognition

Sounds: pronouncing phrases

Reading: inserting sentences

Speaking: acting out a conversation

2. I'm a student

Jobs

The indefinite article a/an
Talking about jobs

Jobs

Sounds: stressing syllables in words

Listening: listening and reading: ordering sentences

Reading: inserting sentences

Speaking: acting out a conversation

3. How are you?

Greeting people you know

Greeting people
Asking for and saying telephone numbers

Numbers 1-10

Sounds: pronouncing and recognising numbers

Listening: listening and reading; ordering sentences

Reading: reading telephone numbers

Speaking: asking and saying telephone numbers

4. Are you James Bond?

Asking and saying names

Asking and saying names
Spelling

The alphabet

Sounds: pronouncing the alphabet; spelling names

Listening: listening and repeating a conversation

Speaking: acting out a conversation; finding out other people's professions

5. She's Russian

Talking about where people are from

Saying where people are from
Saying what nationality people are

Countries
Nationalities

Sounds: pronouncing countries and nationalities

Listening: listening and reading; listening and correcting wrong information

Reading: reading and matching; completing charts

Writing: writing sentences about people and their nationalities

6. Is she married?

Asking and giving personal information

Yes/no questions and short answers

Numbers 11-20
Personal information

Sounds: pronouncing and recognising numbers

Listening: listening and following a conversation; putting sentences in the right order

Writing: copying and completing a membership form

7. How old is he?

Talking about ages

Asking and saying how old people are
Present simple (review)

Numbers 21-100

Sounds: pronouncing and recognising numbers

Listening: listening and matching; listening and noting down personal information

Writing: writing a poster of someone famous

8. His favourite car is a Porsche

Talking about favourite people and things

Who and what
Possessive adjectives: my, your, his, her

Favourite people and things

Sounds: pronouncing words, pronouncing questions

Listening: listening and reading

Reading: reading and answering a questionnaire

Listening: listening and answering questions

Writing: writing questions

Speaking: talking about favourite people and things

9. We're twins

Common interests

Present simple: we're, you're, they're
Plurals

Words for people and their relationships to each other, e.g friend, twin, brother

Reading: inserting sentences; reading and correcting wrong information

Listening: listening and following a conversation

10. What are these?

Finding out what the word for something is

Asking and saying what things are
This, that, these and those

Personal possessions
Loan words

Sounds: pronouncing words

Listening: listening and reading

Speaking: asking and saying what things are in the classroom; playing Word Bingo

Progress check lessons 1-10

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Revision

Word categories quiz

Sounds: stressing syllables in words; stressing words in sentences

Listening: listening to a song - Rock around the clock

11. How much are they?

The price of clothes and other items

Talking about prices
Position of adjectives
The definite article the

Clothes
Money

Sounds: stressing words in sentences

Listening: listening and correcting a conversation; listening for specific information to complete a chart

Speaking: comparing prices

12. Where are Jane's keys?

Personal possessions

Prepositions of place; in, on, under
Possessive 's

Personal possessions
Furniture table, chair

Sounds: pronouncing words

Listening: listening and matching

Speaking: asking and saying where things are

Writing: writing sentences saying where things are in a picture

13. We've got three children

Talking about families

Have got
Possessive adjectives: our, your, their

Members of the family

Reading: reading and matching; completing a chart

Listening: inserting sentences

Sounds: 

Speaking: talking about families; completing a chart

14. She's got fair hair and blue eyes

Appearance and character

Talking about appearance and character
Has got

Adjectives to describe appearance and character
Colours
Modifiers quite, very

Speaking: describing people

Listening: listening and following a conversation

Reading: completing charts; reading and matching

Writing: writing about your family

15. Stand up!

Instructions in the classroom

Imperatives

Features of a room
Personal possessions

Listening: listening and following instructions

Sounds: stressing words in sentences; pronouncing instructions

Reading: reading and checking comprehension

Writing: writing instructions for a Students' Charter

16. We live in a flat in Florence

Where people live and work

Present simple: regular verbs I, we, you, they
Prepositions of place: in, to

Places where people live and work

Sounds: pronouncing words

Reading: reading and matching

Listening: listening and checking

Reading: reading and answering a game What's my name?

Writing: writing your own What's my name?; writing about where you live 

17. What's the time?

Meal times in different countries

Telling the time (1)
Present simple: have
Prepositions of time: at, in

Meals
Times of the day: hours

Listening: listening and reading

Reading: reading and completing a chart

Speaking: talking about when people around the world have meals

18. I don't like Monday mornings

Weekly routines

Present simple: negatives
Preposition of time: on

Days of the week
Routine activities

Sounds: pronouncing days of the week; pronouncing expressions of time

Reading: reading and matching

Listening: listening and reading

Writing: writing about weekly routines

Speaking: talking about weekly routines 

19. Do you like running?

Likes and dislikes

Yes/no questions and short answers

Sports

Sounds: pronouncing words

Listening: completing a chart; putting sentences in the right order

Writing: completing a conversation

Speaking: finding people who like and don't like sports

20. She likes her job

Daily routines

Telling the time (2)
Present simple: he, she, it

Times of the day: quarter past/to, half past
Routine activities

Speaking: talking about routine activities; deducing information about someone

Reading: reading and matching; reading and completing sentences

Listening: listening and checking; listening for specific information

Writing: writing a paragraph about two people's daily routine 

Progress check lessons 11-20

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Revision

Word categories quiz

Sounds: stressing syllables in words; stressing words in sentences

Listening: listening to a song - Three Little Birds

21. Does she go to work by boat?

Transport in cities

He, she, it
Yes/no questions and short answers
By

Means of transport

Sounds: pronouncing words and sentences

Reading: reading and completing a chart

Listening: listening and completing a chart

Speaking: acting out conversations; completing a questionnaire on how people get to work

22. What do they eat in Morocco?

Food and drink in different countries

Present simple: Wh-questions

Food and drink
Food from different countries

Reading: reading and matching; completing a chart

Listening: listening and checking

Writing: writing a paragraph about food and drink

Speaking: talking about food and drink

23. I don't like lying on a beach

Holiday activities

Like + ing
Present simple: negatives

Holiday activities

Reading: reading and checking comprehension

Listening: listening and completing a chart

Speaking: asking and answering questions about holidays

Writing: writing about your partner's holiday

24. There's a telephone in the hall

Homes

There is/are
Any

Rooms of the house
Furniture

Sounds: pronouncing words

Reading: reading and checking comprehension

Listening: listening to a commentary; listening and deducing

Speaking: describing a room in your house

Writing: writing a description of a room in your house

25. I usually have a party

Birthday celebrations

Present simple: adverbs of frequency

Months of the year
Ordinal numbers

Sounds: pronouncing words

Reading: reading and answering questions

Listening: listening and completing a chart

Speaking: asking and answering questions about birthdays

26. I can cook

Abilities for jobs

Can for ability

Abilities e.g cook, draw, drive, sing

Sounds: pronouncing the strong and weak form of can

Reading: listening and making notes

Listening: listening for specific information

Speaking: acting out a job interview

27. Can I have a sandwich, please?

Restaurant menus

Talking about food and drink

Food and drink

Sounds: pronouncing expressions such as a cup of tea, a glass of wine

Listening: listening and inserting sentences; listening for specific information

Speaking: acting out conversations in a restaurant

28. Where's the station?

Finding out way around town

Asking for and giving directions

Shops
Directions, e.g go straight ahead, turn left

Sounds: pronouncing words; stressing syllables in words

Listening: listening and matching; following a route on a map

Reading: reading and following a route on a map

Writing: writing a guided tour of your city

29. He's buying lunch

Times and actions around the world

Present continuous (1)

Words for actions buy, drive, sit, run

Reading: reading and matching

Sounds: pronouncing the present continuous

Speaking: describing what people are doing in a picture and around the world

30. He isn't having a bath

Talking about what's happening at the moment

Present continuous (2)
negatives; questions

Nouns which go with certain verbs, have, make

Reading: reading and matching

Listening: listening for specific information

Speaking: saying the differences between two pictures

Writing: writing the differences between two pictures

Progress check lessons 21-30

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Revision

Identifying parts of speech
Verbs and nouns which go together
Word categories quiz

Sounds: stressing syllables in words; stressing words in sentences: contrastive stress

Listening: listening to a song - Daniel

31. We're going to Australia

A visit to Australia

Present continuous (3)
future plans

Words for travel

Reading: reading and answering questions

Listening: listening and checking; listening for specific information

Speaking: planning a trip to somewhere special

32. Let's go to the cinema

Entertainment

Making suggestions
Accepting and refusing
Talking about the cinema and theatre

Places and forms of entertainment

Listening: listening and checking

Sounds: using suitable intonation; stressing words in sentences

Speaking: making, accepting and refusing suggestions to do things in your town

33. Yesterday, I was in Paris

Weekends

Past simple (1) be: was/were affirmative
Expressions of time

Adjectives to describe moods and feelings, such as happy, cold

Listening: listening and reading

Sounds: pronouncing the strong and weak forms of was and were; pronouncing sentences

Reading: reading and answering questions

Writing: completing a passage

34. Was she in the kitchen?

A murder mystery

Past simple (2): yes/no questions and short answers

New words from the murder mystery

Reading: predicting, reading and matching

Listening: listening and checking; completing a chart

Speaking: talking about the murder mystery

35. They didn't have computers

Technology and household goods in the past

Past simple (3): had

Household equipment

Sounds: stressing syllables in words

Reading: reading and competing a chart

Listening: listening for specific information

Speaking: talking about an anachronistic picture; talking about inventions and discoveries

36. We listened to the radio

Childhood memories

Past simple (4): regular verbs

Expressions of past time

Reading: reading and matching; correcting sentences

Sounds: pronouncing the endings of regular verbs

Listening: listening for specific information

Writing: writing sentences about yourself ten years ago

37. Picasso didn't live in Spain

The life of Pablo Picasso

Past simple (5): negatives

Verbs to describe the life of Picasso

Reading: predicting; reading and checking

Sounds: stressing words in sentences: contrastive stress

Speaking: talking about the life of a famous person

Writing: writing about the life of a famous person

38. Did you take a photograph?

Animal mysteries

Past simple (6): yes/no questions and short answers

Animals

Reading: inserting sentences

Listening: listening and checking

Sounds: using suitable intonation for questions

Reading: reading and answering questions; predicting a story

39. We went to New York

A visit to New York

Past simple (7): questions; irregular verbs

Paper documents, such as bills, ticket, receipts

Sounds: pronouncing words

Listening: listening and reading

Reading: reading and answering questions

Writing: completing a letter; writing about a visit

Speaking: checking information

40. The end of the world?

A short story

Tense review: present simple, present continuous, past simple

New words from
The end of the world?

Reading: reading and answering questions

Listening: listening and checking

Speaking: predicting the end of the story

Progress check lessons 31-40

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Revision

Different ways of recording vocabulary
Survival vocabulary
Word categories quiz

Sounds:

Listening: listening to a song - Yesterday