CEFR Level – B1
Year Group/Teaching Group Form 4
Examination Aims – PET (Gateway)
Christmas Term
Week / Aims for the Week / Focus, Project or Trip work1 / Family matters – ages and stages of life, the family, reading – what are your parents doing now, pres simp/continuous / Gateway student book/online
F4 Teambuilding
Project
Famous criminals/detectives
Wanted posters
2 / Noun suffixes, British teenagers and their parents, articles, family dinners
3 / asking for personal information, writing an informal email
4 / Criminal records – crimes, criminals, past simple, phrasal verbs connected with investigating and finding
5 / The origins of the British police, shoplifting, past continuous, reporting a past event, writing an informal letter
6 (A.W) / Gateway to exams units 1-2, review
7 / Half term
8 / Lost in translation – countries, nationalities and languages, learning a language, translating books, / Project
Health survey
Gateway student book/online
Ice skating -Brighton
9 / Some/any/much/many/a lot/a few, negative prefixes, English as an international language, learning to speak Klingon
10 / Relative pronouns, asking for information, a language biography
11 / Fit and Well – parts of the body, health problems and illnesses, health watch, present perfect, compound nouns with health and medicine
12 / Famous doctors, present perfect with just/yet/already, present perfect and past simple, describing a scene,
13 / Writing notes and messages, Gateway to Exams units 3-4
14 (A.W) / Revision
Easter Term
1 / Tv World –tv programmes, turn off tv blog, comparitives and superlatives, adjectives ending in ing/ed / Gateway workbook /online
Project
Protecting the Environment
Outing
Science Museum
2 / Tv heroes, the news, less..than, as…as, too/enough, negotiating, writing descriptions and opinions
3 / Living planet – geographical features, protecting the environment, future be going to/will, different uses of get
4 / Australia people, places, language and geography, zero/1st conditional, Making arrangements, writing a formal letter,
5 (A.W) / Revision, Gateway to exams 5-6
6 / Half term
7 / Odd jobs – jobs, personal qualities, unusual jobs, modal verbs of obligation/prohibition/advice, compound adjectives / Gateway workbook /online
Project
Famous Romances
8 / Working in the USA, popular culture, 2nd conditional, making polite requests, a letter of application and cv
9 / Good Friends – relationships, feelings, past perfect, noun suffixes, famous romances,
10 / Gerunds and infinitives Reporting a past event, making notes, a personal description,
11 / Gateway to exams units 7-8, project work
12 (AW) / Revision, past papers
Summer Term
Week / Aims for the Week / Focus, Project or Trip work1 / Read on – fiction/non fiction, top teen author, reported speech, phrasal verbs connected with reading and writing / Project
Great British writers
Gateway student book/online
2 / Reading for pleasure, book v film, reported speech questions, making offers, writing a questionnaire
3 / Cyberspace – computers and computing, internet cheating, the present passive, collocations with email,
4 / Inventor of the www, Silicon Valley, Wikipedia, the passive, talking about photos
5 (A.W) / Past papers PET 8 Test 1
6 / Half term
7 / Past papers PET 8 Test 2 / Gateway student book/online
Outing
Eastbourne Tennis
8 / Revision, past papers, PET 8 Test 3
9 / Revision, past papers, PET 8 Test 4
10 (A.W.)