Let’s Go Flyers

Introduction

Let’s Go, Flyers is an online course, consisting of 30 units of English, and providing approximately 60 hours of study for students.

Course aims

• To give students at Pre-Intermediate, CEFR A2 level practice in exam-style questions from the Cambridge Flyers examination.
• The course tests students’ knowledge of different linguistic devices and lexis required for the exam.

Grammar

• Say that they do not understand something or cannot do something, and ask for help.
• Talk about a problem in simple terms.
• Understand longer texts about everyday topics, even if they do not know all the words.
• Use a dictionary to help them understand a word they do not know.
• Arrange with friends to do something or play together.
• Make and respond to invitations, suggestions, apologies, and requests.
• Write a short message on a postcard or in an email.
• Write about how they feel and give reasons why, in simple sentences.
• Understand audio and video clips used in the English lesson.
• Talk briefly about things they have done, for example about their favourite holiday.
• Write short dialogues, for example in speech bubbles, picture stories, comics.
• Make up a story in English using ideas, pictures, or words given by the teacher.

Vocabulary

By the end of the course students will have learnt lexical items connected with the following topics:

• Animals
• Body and health
• Clothes and materials
• Family
• Food and drink
• The home
• Places and transport
• School
• Sports and leisure
• Time and numbers
• Weather
• Work
• The world around us

Skills

By the end of the course students will have had exposure to and practice in reading and hearing English from a variety of contexts.

Unit summary

Follow-up

Students completing the Let’s Go, Flyers course should feel confident in tackling any Intermediate course.