Pre Intermediate 2

Acquire vocabulary about Social and Intercultural relations (customs, appreciation, attitudes and protest); Discuss about discovery and culture shock in a new country.

Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of learning a new language; List challenges one can face while learning a new language (false friends, accent, etc.); Learn expressions about Hesitation and Confidence to encourage a friend to learn a new language.

Study the Past Perfect tense; Use the Past tenses (Simple, Perfect and Imperfect) to narrate about a past trip that was surprising. For example, “I travelled to Japan two years ago. Before reaching there, I had taken a Japanese language course. However, I was finding it difficult to understand what the people were saying (…)”

Learn vocabulary about Diversity abroad; Imagine a new city in terms of new culture and lifestyles; Develop a dialogue about a Trip to Space and its challenges.

Watch and understand a video about the Evolution of the French language; Discover borrowed words in languages; Correctly apply the Pronouns “y” and “en” to discuss about the survival of the French language in different parts of the world; Argue about growing up children in one’s native language.

Listen to a dialogue and comprehend some Slang words; Review the Time Indicators (completed, simultaneous, future projection); Use the Time Indicators to speak about one’s progress and achievements in learning the French language.

Recall vocabulary about Travel, Accommodation and the Weather; Gather ideas from a text to compose a blog post about how to plan a perfect holiday trip.

Study the Simple Future tense; Develop vocabulary related to Air Travel to predict about the future of Air Travel; Discuss about the differences between travelers and tourists, based on an infographic.

Gather notions from a poem to indicate an itinerary about an unusual location; Distinguish between the different Conditional structures “If + presentà Present/Future/Imperative” and “If + Past ImperfectàPresent Conditional” to imagine and hypothesize about a perfect trip to a dream land.

Read a text about Going Back in time and identify phrases which express Regrets; Learn and apply the Past Conditional to speak about things one would like to change about past trips. For example, “If we had checked the weather forecast before embarking on that trip, we could have avoided the road accident.”

Learn extended vocabulary about Landscape (bay, desert, valley, etc.); Watch and understand a video on a Trip to Greenland; Discover a couple of unexplored lands and imagine how holidays are different in such regions. For example, “Tourists don’t really swim on a trip to Iceland.”

Acquire terms of Travel Insurance; Study an infographic about Travel Insurance and define an ideal travel insurance plan for a trip to Japan.

Learn vocabulary about Recycling (materials, products and processes); Discover Bookcrossing through a text and share ideas about what one can do with used books.

Apply the structures “verb + preposition” and “adjective + preposition” to speak about production and destruction of Packaging; Write a letter to the mayor to suggest placing a ‘Sharing Box’ in the region.

Consider the Environmental Challenges that exist today (climate change, global warming, water wastage, etc.); Find out about the causes and effects of each issue.

Suggest practical and technological solutions to tackle every environmental problem known; Review Gerunds in the use of stating consequences and apply expressions to insist and convince friends to take actions. For example, “You should avoid printing e-mails, I assure you that they it’s not important. So doing would save a lot of trees!”

Watch a video about Tomorrow to gather concepts about Ecological Measures; Study the document Tomorrow Geneva and discuss about the influence of documentaries and films on sensitizing the public.