Scope & Sequence
Optimise Stars A1 B2
Level A2
Level B1
Level B1+
Level B2
• Simple present and present progressive, present progressive for future use • Past Simple: regular and irregular verbs, Wh -words, • Past Progressive, linking words, simple past and Past progressive • Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns, comparatives and superlatives • Present Perfect Simple with ever and never , present perfect simple and past • Going to and will • Modals: ability, obligation, necessity, possibility, advice, permission, polite requests, prohibition • Zero, First, and Second Conditional • Present Perfect Simple: for, since, already, yet, and just, verb. Patterns: to / -ing • Simple present passive, simple past passive with by
• Simple past and past progressive, used to and would • Present Perfect Simple and continuous, countable and uncountable nouns • Will and going to, simple present, and present progressive for future • Modals: ability, obligation, advice, permission • Modals: possibility, probability, certainty • Relative Clauses, articles • Past Perfect simple and continuous, comparatives and superlatives • The passive, question tags • Conditionals: zero, first and second conditionals, time clauses • Conditionals: third conditionals, the causative • Reported Speech, Reported questions
• Tense review: simple past and past progressive, would, used to, be used to • Modals: review • Modals: deductions about present • Tense review: present perfect simple and continuous • Question review: question tags and question forms • The future: will, going to , simple present and present progressive • Comparatives and superlatives adjectives • Conditional: zero, first and second conditionals • Relative clauses • Tense review: past perfect simple and continuous • Connectors and contrast • The passive: review • Countable and uncountable nouns, articles, quantifiers • Reported speech, indirect questions • Result clauses: so, such, too, enough • Conditionals: third conditional • Modals: modal perfect, the causative
• Tenses: simple present, simple past, used to, would, be/get used to, present perfect simple, past perfect simple, present progressive, past progressive, future • Comparatives and superlatives adjectives • Conditionals: zero and first conditional • Modals: ability, permission, advice / criticism, obligation, degrees, and certainty • Verb patterns: verb + infinitive / -ing. • Verb patterns: infinitives of purpose
• Pronouns, result clauses • Connectors of contrast • Conditionals: second, third, and mixed conditionals • The Passive, the causative • Direct and indirect objects
• Relative clauses • Participle clauses • Reported Speech • Indirect questions
Gateway to the World
A1+ C1
Level A1+
Level A2
Level B1
Level B1+
Level B2
Level B2+
Level C1
• Verb: to be • Have got • Possessive adjectives and pronouns • Regular / irregular plural nouns • This, that, these, those • Articles • Present simple • Yes / no questions and short answers • Wh– questions • Adverbs of frequency • There is / There are • Prepositions of place and time • Countable and uncountable nouns • Some, any, a / an • Present continuous • Present simple and present continuous • Past simple • There was / were • Comparative and superlative adjectives • Present perfect with eve r and never • Be going to • Should / shouldn’t • Must, have to
• Adverbs of manner • Have to / don’t have to, must / mustn’t • Past simple of can • Past continuous • A lot of / much / many • Will / won’t • Present continuous for future • Present
• Articles • Some, any,
• State and action verbs • Past simple, past continuous and past perfect • Used to • Would • Present perfect continuous • Will, be going to, present continuous and present simple for future • Future continuous and future perfect • Modal verbs of obligation, prohibition, advice and permission • Defining and non- defining relative clauses • Reported speech commands • Modal verbs of speculation and deduction • Third conditional Indeterminate pronouns: some–, any–, no–, every– • So and such • I wish and If only.
• Present simple, present continuous, and present habits • Past habits • Future forms • Comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs • Other ways of making comparisons • So, such, too, enough • Modal verbs of obligation, prohibition and advice in past, present, and future • Unless, as long as, provided / providing (that), in case • The passive with say, know, believe • Relative clauses • Future activities in the past • Mixed conditionals • Indirect questions • Question tags
• Modal verbs of obligation • Verbs + object
• Modifying comparative and superlative forms • Synonyms: achievement and difficulty • Phrasal verbs • Narrative tenses • Order of adjectives • Academic collocations • Advanced future forms • Collocations • Advanced conditional forms • Past regrets • Passives and causatives • Adding emphasis • Expressions and phrases with self • Inversion • Different uses of can, could, may, and might • Ellipsis and substitution • Prepositional phrases
much, many, a lot (of), a few, a little
+ –ing forms and infinitive
• Relative
• Advanced
pronouns
future forms
• Present
• Reporting structures • Passives with verbs with two objects • Causatives • Determiners and quantifiers • Participle clauses • Making and modifying comparisons • Prepositions in relative clauses
perfect with for and since
• Present
perfect and past simple • Less … than, (not) as … as • Too and ( not) enough • Be going to and will • Will, may, might • Second conditional • Used to • Gerunds and infinitives • Reported speech statements and questions • The passive
perfect with just, already, and yet
• The passive • The passive with by • Zero conditional • First conditional
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