Reflex’English Level 3

Chatting with people living in France: Janice

• Asking for permission
• Polite requests
• The past tenses
• Since, for, ago
• Types of conditionals
• Mixed conditionals
• Review of pre-intermediate Level
• Chatting with Janice
• Northern Irish food
• About Northern Ireland
• Northern Ireland in the 20th century in short

Chatting with people living in France: Greg

• Present simple
• Simple past and past continuous
• Describing a sequence of events
• I, me, myself
• Adjectives followed by prepositions
• Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
• Too and enough
• Question tags
• Review of preintermediate Level
• Chatting with Greg
• Weather and climate
• The climate in the USA
• English as a global language

Chatting with people living in France: Mark

• Adverbs: manner, place, time, frequency
• Verbs followed by prepositions
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Present continuous
• Verbs of preference followed by verbs + -ing or to + infinitive
• Present perfect simple
• Present perfect continuous
• Review of pre-intermediate Level
• Chatting with Mark
• British cuisine

Whatever you say!

• Ever and compounds
• Emphasizing interrogative pronouns
• Imperatives and negative imperatives
• Verbs followed by gerunds or infinitives
• Review of preintermediate Level
• Illegal behaviour
• About punctuality
• Uncontrolled movements

Test Lessons 1 to 4

• Review and Test of Lessons 1 to 4

Writing a letter of complaint

• Passive forms
• « Used to » or « did not use to »
• Tense review
• Complaining about a damaged product
• How to write an effective letter of complaint
• Useful sentences and vocabulary in complaints
• Phrases with “up to”
• Around “to pick up”

Receiving a letter of complaint

• Either, or, neither, nor, not either
• Around “so far”
• Contractions
• Imperatives with question tags
• To remember vs. to remind
• Still, already, yet, etc.
• Tense review
• Letter of complaint
• Around “disappointment”
• Around “to get”
• Talking about responsibility
• Around “bills”
• From maker to user

Pronunciation: stress and linking

• Stress
• Word stress: one-syllable words
• Word stress: three-syllable words and over
• Word stress: use of prefixes and suffixes
• Linking
• Linking words
• Variability of English pronunciation

Tongue twisters: around phonetics and pronunciation

• The 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds
• Pronouncing the “th” letter group
• Pronouncing the short and long “i” sounds
• Pronouncing the “s”, “ch”, “tch”, “je”, “dje” sounds
• Pronouncing the letter R or not
• Pronouncing the letters W, V and F
• Pronouncing the « ough » and « augh » letter groups
• Tongue twisters

Test Lessons 6 to 9

• Test Lessons 6 to 9

Travelling through a phonetic labyrinth

• Travelling through a phonetic labyrinth
• Literacy devices, figures of speech
• Travel: at the airport
• Around poems and poetry

Let’s speak fast! – Part 1

• Connected speech in English
• Stress placement in a sentence
• Changes in pronunciation: contractions, elisions, assimilations, coalescences

Let’s speak fast! – Part 2

• Connected speech in English
• Changes in pronunciation: weak forms, linking

Let’s speak fast! – Part 3

• Fast speech
• Around “over”
• Pronunciation of -ed endings
• Around “word”
• Around “yard”

Test Lessons 11 to 14

• Review and Test of Lessons 11 to 1

Home conversation

• Filler words
• Must or have to: to express obligation
• Sense verbs
• Sense verbs: active or state verbs?
• Double comparative in idioms
• Phrasal verbs: to put
• Phrasal verbs: to get
• Ellipses
• Situational ellipses
• Textual ellipses
• Ellipses and substitutions
• Home conversation

Christmas Pudding – a British tradition

• Some phrasal verbs: to cut, to stand, to turn
• Imperatives: DOs and DON’Ts
• Christmas Pudding
• Weight measures
• Weights in cooking
• Liquid measures (volume)
• Liquid measures in cooking
• Measuring objects
• Dried grapes
• Cooking verbs

I’ll be at the beach hut

• Adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
• Sense verbs
• Structures followed by to-infinitives, bare infinitives and -ing forms
• The present continuous infinitive, the perfect infinitive, the perfect continuous infinitive
• Choosing the correct relative pronoun
• Who or whom with prepositions?
• Some phrasal verbs: to keep, to go
• Talking about the future
• Passive forms
• Holidays in Israel
• Travelling
• Alone, by myself, on my own
• Around “to lie”
• Weather conditions: useful adjectives
• To have + adjective + time

Seeing is believing

• “Used to” to express a past habit
• “Would” to express the past
• Defining relative clauses
• Non-defining relative clauses
• Must have + past participle
• Still and anymore
• Ever
• Beliefs
• Famous make-believe characters
• Some noises humans make
• Around “to believe”, “to happen”, “to swear”
• Around “mill”
• Beliefs and superstitions in Scotland

Test Lessons 16 to 19

• Review and Test of Lessons 16 to 19

On the roads of the United Kingdom

• Asking for and giving directions: useful sentences
• The imperative to give directions
• Driving in the UK
• Around cars: glossary
• Driving glossary
• Phrases related to driving and manoeuvres
• Pedestrian crossings in the UK
• Asking for and giving directions
• Some road signs in the UK

The driving test

• Here, there, over here, over there
• One, ones
• Phrasal verb “to run”
• To get in or to get on a vehicle
• Will for immediate intention
• Closed questions, short answers
• Some verbs with “over”
• Phrasal verbs with “away”
• Emphatic imperative
• Taking the driving test in the UK
• Road lane markings in the UK
• Useful vocabulary: on the roads
• Around “sight”
• Around “speed”

The pub – a British way of life

• Passive structures
• Advanced passive structures with reporting verbs
• Advanced passive structures with modals
• Advanced passive structures with verbs followed by infinitives or gerunds
• Conditional conjunctions
• The pub: a British way of life
• Pub culture
• Drinks in a pub
• Pub opening hours
• Entertainment in a pub

Talking about the environment

• Gradable and non-gradable adjectives
• Adverbs of degree
• Adverbs of degree and adjectives
• Adverbs of degree and adjectives: collocations
• The environment: sources of energy
• The environment: useful verbs
• The environment: useful vocabulary
• Environmental issues: lessening our carbon footprint

Test Lessons 21 to 24

• Review and Test of Lessons 21 to 24

Talking to Rachel

• Question tags
• Present perfect tense
• Present perfect continuous tense
• Still, anymore and no longer
• “Do” as an auxiliary in affirmative sentences
• Phrasal verbs with “up”
• Matching adverbs and pronouns
• Compass points
• Around “odd”
• Marketing and advertising: useful vocabulary
• Around “joy”
• Astronomy and the solar system: useful vocabulary

Talking to Rebecca

• Used to
• Causative structures
• The past perfect simple
• The past perfect continuous
• Phrasal verbs with “back”
• A bit of geography: England
• Accents in England
• Instruments and musicians
• Types of music
• Working hours and shifts

Talking to Scott

• Separable or inseparable phrasal verbs
• General knowledge: Scotland
• Geography of Scotland
• Symbols, traditions and famous Scots
• Important dates in the history of Scotland
• The Scottish economy
• 10 fun facts about Scotland

Talking to Wynne

• Phrasal verbs with « up »
• Phrasal verbs with « stand » and « run »
• Formal subjunctive
• General knowledge: Wales
• Geography of Wales
• Symbols and traditions in Wales
• Famous Welsh people
• Bad friends
• Around « chip »
• The history of Wales
• The Welsh economy
• Rugby
• 10 fun facts about Wales

Test Lessons 26 to 29

• Review and Test of Lessons 26 to 29