This is a flex course, meaning there will be no live meetings. This is perfect for an exam preparation class as learners can prepare at their own rate with the support of the teacher and other learners. 

Each week will include a range of activities to help learners to prepare for each of the skills areas - Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening. Each week will include input from the teacher on vocabulary, grammar and other areas whilst ensuring that the course is interactive through collaboration in the classroom on a variety of tasks.

This course uses the Complete Preliminary for Schools book by Emma Heyderman and Peter May (Cambridge Second Edition). This is a B1 course for the revised exam from 2020.

What is covered in this course?

Week 1 - My Life and Home
🔹Writing an email
🔹Listening for specific information
🔹Reading to understand vocabulary
🔹Using prepositions of time and place, frequency adverbs, present simple and present continuous

Week 2 - Making Choices
🔹 Writing an article
🔹 Listening to seven texts about daily life
🔹Talking about new ideas, agreeing and disagreeing, coming to a decision
🔹Using past simple, past continuous, used to and 'so do I/nor/neither do I'

Week 3 - Having Fun
🔹Writing a story using paragraphs
🔹Listening to a conversation about holidays
🔹Talking about leisure activities, hobbies and using prepositions of place and phrasal verbs
🔹Using verbs followed by -ing or to

Week 4 - Holidays
🔹Writing an email
🔹Listening to a conversation about holidays
🔹Talking about holiday activities using comparative structures
🔹Using comparative and superlative adjectives

Week 5 - Feelings
🔹Writing a story
🔹Listening to identify facts, opinions and feelings
🔹 Talking about feelings with adjectives and prepositions, adjectives and -ed / -ing endings
🔹Using can, could, might, may and other modal verbs.

Week 6 - Entertainment
🔹Writing an article in the correct style
🔹Listening to conversations making plans
🔹Talking about television programmes and going out
🔹Using present perfect with just, already, yet, since and for. Identifying when to use present perfect or past simple.


A flex course allows learners to cover material during a time that is convenient for them each week.  Students are encouraged to check in with the teacher weekly via the Outschool classroom, which will allow for more engagement between the teacher and learner.  After weekly lessons, students can collaborate with their peers by replying to the announcements and lesson postings in the Outschool classroom.

Participation will include the Introduction post, discussion posts, assignments, and projects in the Classroom. This allows students to process what they are learning by collaborating with peers and the teacher.  Participation in assignments allows students to practise and reinforce learning.  This also provides opportunities for the teacher to gauge student learning and provide interventions if necessary.  Private messages or classroom comments are usually responded to within 24 hours with the exception of Saturdays and Sundays.

The videos will be available for the length of the course. 

This course is taught by Teacher Helen.

We look forward to being part of your learning journey!

Please contact us with further questions.