studio Advanced

Scope and Sequence

Topic Vocabulary Grammar Skills Video & Audio

1 CEFR B2+, C1

1A Tidying up Simple & continuous LISTENING

(to) accumulate forms Decluttering
The simple life (to) allocate Habits SPEAKING
LIVING (to) declutter Complete actions Talk about essential
(to) deposit States and general truths items in the home
(to) donate Actions in progress
Spot the difference
(to) get rid of Temporary actions
(to) mend Repeated actions
(to) sort out Stative verbs
(to) upcycle
WORD MAKER The suffix
-ism
1B Possibility & change: READING
Make unnecessary The invisible invention
Inventing the modern world (to) dispense with that transformed our
BUSINESS (to) do away with cities
(to) make obsolete, SPEAKING
redundant, superfluous, Discuss items that have
a thing of the past an impact on our lives
(to) supersede
Change completely
(to) bring about a
transformation,
revolution in
(to) have a profound
impact on
(to) revolutionise
(to) transform
Make possible or easier
(to) enable
(to) facilitate
(to) permit
(to) simplify
1C Strong emotional Perfect forms SPEAKING Interview with a
reactions Unfinished actions Talk about an emotional psychologist
Moved by music Finished actions reaction
(to) be in tears
STUDIO VIEWS (to) burst into tears Present and past perfect:
(to) feel a lump in your specific uses
throat Present perfect and past
(to) feel an simple in American
overwhelming sense English
of sadness, joy
(to) get butterflies (in
your stomach)
(to) get goosebumps
(to) get the chills
(to) make your hair stand
on end
my heart was racing,
pounding
(to) send shivers up /
down your spine

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studio Advanced
Scope and Sequence
Topic Vocabulary Grammar Skills Video & Audio

2 CEFR B2+, C1

2A Describing amounts Future forms LISTENING

considerable Plans Interview about plastic
Are you eating plastic? overwhelming Predictions WRITING & SPEAKING
EARTH sizeable Other future forms Do a survey on plastic
substantial Completed and usage
whopping continuous actions in the
insignificant future
minuscule Future assumptions
modest The immediate future
negligible
A future story
nominal

WORD MAKER Negative

prefixes and suffixes
2B Personality & style READING
assertive What’s your type?
More than just words authoritative SPEAKING
STYLE childish Choose fonts for
daring different contexts
elegant
inventive
refined
self-assured
sincere
straightforward
superficial
trustworthy
2C Truth & falsehood Obligation & necessity LISTENING
an assumption must, have to and need to Interview with a personal
Exercise myths & beyond dispute didn’t need to and trainer
misconceptions (to) cast doubt on needn’t SPEAKING
STUDIO VIEWS (to) challenge should, ought to, Discuss your relationship
a claim supposed to and meant with exercise
conflicting to
(to) debunk Other verbs and
entrenched expressions to express
incompatible obligation and necessity
a misconception Prohibition
a myth
(to) prove beyond doubt
Exclamations of annoyance Emphasis Express irritation &
For crying out loud! annoyance
Express irritation &
Argh!
annoyance That’s the last straw!
Phrases meaning
‘It annoys me’
I’ve had enough of this.
I can’t stand this.
It drives me up the wall.

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