Welcome to level 3 of the step-by-step core course! This level is aimed at beginners (CEFR level A1), with more of a focus on grammar – particularly the present continuous tense and future tense. Students will also build their confidence using more extended and complex sentences. Each lesson is designed for 25-30 minute classes, and comes with lesson previews, workbooks and flashcards.
Unit 1: My town
This unit teaches words for places in town, as well as prepositions of place and giving directions.
Unit 2: Being helpful
This unit teaches words for different pets, while introducing possessive adjectives.
Unit 3: Weather + clothes
This unit introduces the present continuous tense, contrasting it with the present simple.
Unit 4: School activities
This unit consolidates students’ understanding of the present continuous tense.
Unit 5: Hobbies
This unit continues exploring the present continuous tense, in the context of hobbies.
Unit 6: My home
This unit discusses rooms and common activities in the home.
Unit 7: Eating out
This unit focuses on how to order food and quantifiers for countable / uncountable nouns.
Unit 8: Study abroad
This unit introduces the future simple tense and using connectives to extend sentences.
Unit 9: Jobs
This unit discusses job plans and focuses on the simple future tense.
Unit 10: Travel
This unit focuses on making future plans using “going to” and “will”, with a travel theme.
Hi. It would be nice if Units 8, 9 & 10 had subjects that weren’t limited to older students. My kids are ready to for ‘going to / will’ but are young so get bored with travel plans / jobs.
Thanks so much for the feedback! Yes, actually this unit is being re-planned a bit with the rollout of the new curriculum format, and those later lessons are actually going to be scrapped and replaced with topics more interesting for younger learners (instead, these topics are being moved to levels 5 and 6) 🙂 I really appreciate your insights!