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English 2 Step 1 – SLFT Plan
Unit 1 Breaking the ice
1.1 Greeting people
Functions: Using polite greetings appropriately
Target
Language:
Review and extension of formal and informal greetings
Theme: Usage of polite expressions
1.2 Discussing present situations
Functions: Talking about general and long-term present situations
Talking about current and short-term present situations
Target
Language:
Contrasting the Present Simple and Present Continuous tenses
Theme: Living in Australia
1.3 Talking about different situations
Functions: Discussing usual and specific situations
Target
Language:
Review of zero conditional with if, extension with when
Gerund as subject and object
Theme: First impressions
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 31
Unit 2 Background
2.1 Talking about events in life
Functions: Discussing biographical information
Target
Language:
Biographical information vocabulary – verb and noun collocations
Theme: Higher education
2.2 Discussing past events
Functions: Referring to past events and situations
Target
Language:
Review of the Past Simple tense – regular and irregular verbs
Theme: A year off
2.3 Talking about your education
Functions: Referring to common academic subjects
Discussing experiences of education
Talking about lessons learned from the past
Target
Language:
Academic subject vocabulary
Education-related collocations with Past Simple verbs
Theme: Soft skills
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 32
Unit 3 Achievement
3.1 Talking about experiences
Functions: Referring to things you have and haven’t done before
Talking about past experiences in detail
Target
Language:
Review of Present Perfect Simple for unstated time + before, ever/never, been to
versus gone to
Contrast of Present Perfect Simple and Past Simple
Theme: 100 Things To Do Before You Die
3.2 Discussing progress toward goals
Functions: Talking about goals you have and haven’t achieved
Target
Language:
Review of Present Perfect with yet, already, for, since, so far and still
Further contrast of Present Perfect Simple and Past Simple
Theme: Parachuting from space
3.3 Talking about competition
Functions: Talk about competitions and competitive situations
Referring to types of sports and physical activities
Target
Language:
Vocabulary relating to competition
Types of sports and sporting activities with play, go and do
Theme: The scope of competition
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 33
Unit 4 News
4.1 Discussing news stories
Functions: Understanding and discussing frequent news topics
Target
Language:
High-frequency news story vocabulary
Theme: Common types of news story
4.2 Discussing recent events
Functions: Summing up recent events
Discussing the details of recent events
Target
Language:
Words and phrases for referring to recent events
Present Perfect and Past Simple – contrast and interchangeable usage
Theme: A new job
4.3 Talking about memories
Functions: Referring to memories
Describing past circumstances
Target
Language:
Vocabulary relating to memories
Past Continuous with when and while
Theme: Flashbulb memories
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 34
Unit 5 Virtual world
5.1 Discussing purposes and reasons
Functions: Discussing purposes and uses
Explaining reasons for doing things
Target
Language:
Purpose: to, in order to, for ...ing, so that, because
Review of able to
Theme: Computer stress
5.2 Understanding common IT terms
Functions: Understanding common computer terminology
Understanding common Internet terminology
Target
Language:
Common computer terminology
Common Internet terminology
Theme: The origin of IT words
5.3 Writing emails
Functions: Using appropriate language in everyday emails
Target
Language:
Common words and short expressions in emails
Theme: Email styles
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 35
Unit 6 On the move
6.1 Discussing travel procedures
Functions: Talking about procedures at airports and stations
Target
Language:
Review and extension of air and rail travel vocabulary
Theme: Taking the Eurostar
6.2 Talking about frequency
Functions: Talking about frequent and infrequent situations
Target
Language:
Review and extension of adverbs of frequency and related phrases
Theme: Crossing the English Channel
6.3 Talking about travel problems
Functions: Describing travel problems
Discussing changes to travel arrangements
Target
Language:
Language for describing travel problems
Language for describing changes to travel arrangements
Theme: Timetable stress
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 36
Unit 7 Planning
7.1 Making arrangements
Functions: Offering to do things
Making future arrangements
Target
Language:
Review of I’ll (spontaneous decisions), Shall I ...?
will/won’t + when, as soon as, until
Theme: Training course arrangements
7.2 Describing arrangements
Functions: Talking about future personal arrangements
Talking about future timetabled events
Target
Language:
Review of Present Continuous as future
Present Simple as future
Theme: Training course arrangements
7.3 Discussing plans and decisions
Functions: Describing plans
Discussing decisions
Target
Language:
Contrast of going to (plans) and I’ll (spontaneous decisions)
Words and phrases relating to decisions
Theme: Decision-making
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 37
Unit 8 Predictions
8.1 Discussing predictions
Functions: Referring to the future with different degrees of certainty
Target
Language:
will + certainly, definitely, maybe, perhaps, possibly, probably
may, might
Theme: The difficulties of forecasting
8.2 Describing the weather
Functions: Describing climatic conditions
Understanding weather forecasts
Target
Language:
Review and extension of weather vocabulary
Theme: Climate change
8.3 Discussing forecasts and scenarios
Functions: Giving confident forecasts
Discussing possible scenarios
Target
Language:
going to and will for confident forecasts
First conditional: if + will, could (= might)
Theme: Will global warming freeze Britain?
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 38
Unit 9 Buying and selling
9.1 Talking about purchasing
Functions: Talking about transactions and purchases
Dealing with refunds and exchanges of purchased goods
Target
Language:
Review and extension of shopping/transactions vocabulary
Theme: Online store FAQ
9.2 Discussing advantages and disadvantages
Functions: Talking about advantages
Talking about disadvantages
Target
Language:
Phrases for referring to advantages and disadvantages
Theme: Combining physical and virtual shopping
9.3 Making comparisons
Functions: Making detailed comparisons
Target
Language:
Comparatives with: slightly / a little / a bit, much / a lot / far
Theme: Buying brand new cars
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 39
Unit 10 Leisure time
10.1 Talking about leisure
Functions: Referring to interests and leisure activities
Talking generally about leisure
Target
Language:
Personalized language for referring to interests and leisure pursuits
Prepositions after go and related verbs
Theme: Leisure as an opposite of work
10.2 Discussing likes and dislikes
Functions: Describing varying degrees of likes and dislikes
Talking about preferences
Target
Language:
Verbs and phrases for referring to likes, dislikes and preferences
Use of gerund and infinitive forms after the above verbs and phrases
Theme: Divisive pastimes
10.3 Discussing feelings about experiences
Functions: Relating feelings to experiences
Target
Language:
Adjectives to describe emotions and experiences: ...ing and ...ed endings
Theme: Corporate entertainment
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 40
Unit 11 Lifestyle
11.1 Talking about time
Functions: Discussing issues relating to use of time
Target
Language:
Expressions containing the word “time”
Theme: Time pressure
11.2 Giving advice
Functions: Making recommendations
Target
Language:
Review of should / shouldn’t
Phrases for offering advice
Theme: Time management
11.3 Discussing imaginary scenarios
Functions: Discussing hypothetical situations
Target
Language:
Second conditional: If ... would ...
Theme: Escaping the rat race
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 41
Unit 12 Forces of nature
12.1 Discussing the natural environment
Functions: Describing natural geographical features
Target
Language:
Review and extension of geographical vocabulary
Theme: “Natural superpowers”
12.2 Describing systems
Functions: Describing systems and processes
Target
Language:
Passive: review of Present Simple form, extension with Past Simple form
Theme: Renewable energy
12.3 Describing position and movement
Functions: Describing relative positions of objects
Describing the nature of movement
Target
Language:
Review and extension of prepositions of place and movement
Theme: Underground homes in Australia
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 42
Unit 13 On the road
13.1 Talking about cars and roads
Functions: Discussing road and traffic systemsReferring to car controls
Target
Language:
Review and extension of road/traffic vocabulary
Essential car vocabulary (1)
Theme: Driving on the left versus driving on the right
13.2 Explaining rules
Functions: Explaining rules
Discussing traffic laws
Target
Language:
Review and analysis of must, mustn’t, can, can’t, have to, don’t have to
(not) allowed to
Essential traffic-regulations vocabulary
Theme: Confusing and dangerous road rules
13.3 Discussing rental arrangements
Functions: Making arrangements to rent vehicles and equipment
Target
Language:
Car rental vocabulary
Essential car vocabulary (2)
Theme: Checklist for renting a car
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 43
Unit 14 Food and drink
14.1 Referring to fruit and vegetables
Functions: Referring to common fruits
Referring to common vegetables
Target
Language:
Common fruit and vegetable vocabulary
Theme: Locally grown fruit and vegetables
14.2 Referring to categories of food and drink
Functions: Referring to common categories of food
Referring to common categories of beverages
Referring to common food and beverage containers
Target
Language:
Food and beverage vocabulary
Food/Beverage container and packaging vocabulary
Theme: Bringing home food and drink from abroad
14.3 Describing cooking methods
Functions: Describing ways of preparing food
Describing ways of cooking food
Referring to common cooking equipment
Target
Language:
Food preparation vocabulary
Cooking method vocabulary
Cooking equipment vocabulary
Theme: Characteristics of national styles of cuisine
English 2 Step 1 Trainer Resource Pack SLFT-Plan 44
Unit 15 Dress sense
15.1 Describing things relatively
Functions: Describing degree
Describing clothing styles
Target
Language:
Modifiers
so, such a
Common clothing style adjectives
Theme: The history of jeans
15.2 Describing clothing
Functions: Referring to items of clothing
Referring to clothing materials
Target
Language:
Review and extension of vocabulary for items of clothing
Vocabulary for clothing materials
Theme: The history of items of clothing
15.3 Discussing safety issues
Functions: Referring to clothing accessories
Referring to parts of the body
Referring to common, minor injuries
Target
Language:
Clothing accessories vocabulary
Review and extension of body parts vocabulary
Vocabulary for minor injuries
Reflexive pronouns
Theme: Safety clothing