Introduction
Focus on KET is an online course designed for students who are thinking of taking the Cambridge Keystage English Test. It consists of 12 modules and 200 units of English and provides approximately 120 hours of study for students.
Course aims
- Take students from Elementary CEFR A1 up to A2.
- Provide coaching and practice in all areas of the KET exam to ensure students are fully prepared when taking the test.
- Blend grammatical structures necessary for this level with vocabulary including simple verb + preposition combinations, spelling, reading, listening, writing, and speaking.
Gramatika
By the end of the course, students will be able to…
- Use present simple and present continuous verb forms, as well as simple past with regular and irregular verbs in the affirmative, negative, and interrogative forms.
- Talk about future prediction and intention using will and going to.
- Use the present perfect simple to talk about past experience.
- Identify things using there is/there are, have got, possessive adjectives and pronouns, articles, and the possessive genitive.
- Talk about adjectives including comparative and superlative forms.
- Create yes/no and information questions.
- Give information on time and place using prepositions.
- Use the modal verbs can, could, must, should, may, and might.
- Use adverbs of frequency.
- Use prepositions of place and time.
- Use simple connecting words.
- Compare adjectives and adverbs using comparatives and superlatives.
- Talk about quantity.
Slovná zásoba
- Learn approximately 1000 lexical items including common nouns, verbs, adjectives, and simple lexical sets.
Skills
- Exposure to and practice in reading and hearing about everyday routines, biographies, countries and cities, TV and films, and simple stories.
Unit Summary
Module 1
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Countries, Nationalities, and Languages
- Gramatika: Prepositions of place
- Slovná zásoba: Days, Months, Seasons, and Parts of the Day
- Gramatika: Prepositions of time
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 1
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 08
- Spelling: Spelling 09
- Čítanie: Going abroad for the first time
- Počúvanie: Mrs Jones
- Hovorenie: Personal information
- Čítanie: Australia
- Počúvanie: My day
- Písanie: Writing about yourself using Simple Present verbs
- Revision: Module 1 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 1
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 1 Practice test 3
Module 2
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Colours
- Gramatika: Present Simple and Present Continuous
- Slovná zásoba: Telling the time
- Gramatika: Simple Past – Regular verbs
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 2
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 10
- Spelling: Spelling 10
- Čítanie: Ecuador
- Počúvanie: Spain
- Hovorenie: Personal Information questions
- Čítanie: Switzerland
- Počúvanie: Mexico City
- Písanie: Writing about yourself using Simple Present verbs
- Revision: Module 2 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 2
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 2 Practice test 3 – Multiple choice
Module 3
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Adjective opposites
- Gramatika: Articles
- Slovná zásoba: How do you feel today?
- Gramatika: Articles
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 3
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 11
- Spelling: Spelling 01
- Čítanie: Politics in Britain
- Počúvanie: My family
- Hovorenie: Reading Aloud 1
- Čítanie: The news
- Počúvanie: My dogs
- Písanie: Writing about yourself using Useful Phrases
- Revision: Module 3 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 3
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 3 Practice test 3
Module 4
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Food and drink
- Gramatika: Adverbs of frequency
- Slovná zásoba: Food and drink
- Gramatika: Conjunctions and connectors
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 4
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 12
- Spelling: Spelling 02
- Čítanie: Glastonbury
- Počúvanie: What’s in the fridge?
- Hovorenie: Likes and dislikes
- Čítanie: My life through music
- Počúvanie: Fast Food
- Písanie: Using adjectives for things
- Revision: Module 4 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 3
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 3 Practice test 3
Module 5
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Important verbs
- Gramatika: The possessive genitive
- Slovná zásoba: Weather
- Gramatika: Possessive pronouns
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 5
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 13
- Spelling: Spelling 03
- Čítanie: The dentist
- Počúvanie: Duncan
- Hovorenie: Reading Aloud 2
- Čítanie: Friday night
- Počúvanie: Mary
- Písanie: Using adjectives in writing
- Revision: Module 5 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 4
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1
Module 6
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Animals
- Gramatika: Comparatives and superlatives
- Slovná zásoba: Animals
- Gramatika: Comparatives and superlatives
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 6
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 01
- Spelling: Spelling 04
- Čítanie: The Mary Baker zoo
- Počúvanie: Sports I like
- Hovorenie: Talking about what someone looks like
- Čítanie: Going to the jungle
- Počúvanie: Football fans
- Písanie: Describing what people are like
- Revision: Module 6 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 2 Part 2
Module 7
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Jobs
- Gramatika: Some or Any?
- Slovná zásoba: Jobs and professions
- Gramatika: Much, Many, or A lot of?
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 7
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 02
- Spelling: Spelling 05
- Čítanie: The story of Jenny
- Počúvanie: Summer School
- Hovorenie: Reading Aloud 3 – The Mary Baker zoo
- Čítanie: Dennis’ strange day
- Počúvanie: Studying at university
- Písanie: Describing what people feel like
- Revision: Module 7 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 5 Multiple choice cloze
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 5 Practice test 3 – Multiple choice
Module 8
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Parts of the Body
- Gramatika: Simple Past questions
- Slovná zásoba: Parts of the body
- Gramatika: Irregular Verbs
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 8
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 03
- Spelling: Spelling 06
- Čítanie: How to dance salsa
- Počúvanie: Africa
- Hovorenie: Talking about your house
- Čítanie: Embarrassment in Sweden
- Počúvanie: Working in Australia
- Písanie: Describing a person’s character
- Revision: Module 8 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 6 – Word completion
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 6 Practice test 3 – Word completion
Module 9
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Shops
- Gramatika: Adverbs of manner
- Slovná zásoba: Shops
- Gramatika: Word Order
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 9
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 04
- Spelling: Spelling 07
- Čítanie: Paula’s Shopping Trip
- Počúvanie: An Oxford street
- Hovorenie: Reading Aloud 4 – Australia
- Čítanie: A conversation about shopping
- Počúvanie: The Living Room
- Písanie: Writing about your job
- Revision: Module 9 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 2 Part 3 – Multiple choice
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 2 Part 3 Practice test 3
Module 10
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Transport
- Gramatika: Must and Should
- Slovná zásoba: Transport
- Gramatika: May and Might
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 1
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 05
- Spelling: Spelling 08
- Čítanie: The train crash
- Počúvanie: Chess
- Hovorenie: Talking about your country
- Čítanie: The burglary
- Počúvanie: Sunbathing
- Písanie: Writing about your family
- Revision: Module 10 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 7 – Open cloze
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 7 Practice test 3 – Open cloze
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 8 – Information transfer
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 8 Practice test 3 – Information transfer
Module 11
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Adjectives of character
- Gramatika: Will and Going to – prediction
- Slovná zásoba: Adjectives of mood
- Gramatika: Will and Going to – intention
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 2
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 06
- Spelling: Spelling 09
- Čítanie: What Britain is like to a foreigner
- Počúvanie: Best friends
- Hovorenie: Reading Aloud 5 – The life of a footballer
- Čítanie: Leaving home
- Počúvanie: Which man to choose?
- Písanie: Half a story
- Revision: Module 11 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 1 Part 9 – Guided writing
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 1 Part 9 Practice test 3 – Guided writing
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 2 Part 4 – Gap-fill
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 2 Part 4 Practice test 3
Module 12
- Introduction
- Slovná zásoba: Clothes
- Gramatika: Present Perfect Simple – Past experience
- Slovná zásoba: Physical appearance
- Gramatika: Verb Patterns
- Slovná zásoba: Phrasal verbs 3
- Slovná zásoba: Wordbuilding 07
- Spelling: Spelling 10
- Čítanie: The cinema
- Počúvanie: Paranormal activity
- Hovorenie: Directions
- Čítanie: What Lies Beneath
- Počúvanie: Bridget Jones’ Diary
- Písanie: Punctuation
- Revision: Module 12 revision test
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 2 Part 5 – Gap-fill
- Exam: KET Practice: Paper 2 Part 5 Practice test 3
- Exam: KET Coaching: Paper 3
Follow-up
Students completing the Focus on KET course should feel confident in tackling any pre-intermediate course, including our Pre-intermediate Power or Focus on PET course.