Unit 1: What do you do at work?

Theme: Jobs and responsibilities

Objectives:

• Describe your job using simple sentences.
• Ask a colleague what they do.
• Talk about basic responsibilities.
  Grammar: Present Simple consolidation

Unit 2: What does your colleague do?

Theme: Talking about other people at work

Objectives:

• Describe a colleague’s role, department and regular tasks.
  Grammar: Third-person singular: he/she works, has, does, goes

Unit 3: Do you start at nine?

Theme: Working hours

Objectives:

• Talk about starting and finishing times, breaks and regular working hours.
• Ask about another person’s schedule.
  Grammar: Present Simple questions and short answers

Unit 4: I don’t work on Fridays

Theme: Routines and schedules

Objectives:

• Say what you do and don’t do regularly.
• Ask simple questions about work routines.
  Grammar: Present Simple affirmative, negative and interrogative forms

Unit 5: Checkpoint

Review: Units 1–4

I CAN:

• Talk about my work.
• Describe a colleague’s job.
• Explain my working hours.
• Ask and answer simple questions about routines.

Unit 6: There’s a meeting room upstairs

Theme: The workplace

Objectives:

• Describe the basic layout of a workplace.
• Say what rooms and facilities are available.
  Grammar: There is / There are

Unit 7: Is there a printer near here?

Theme: Facilities and equipment

Objectives:

• Ask whether something is available.
• Say what is or isn’t available.
  Grammar: Is there...? / Are there...? + some / any

Unit 8: It’s next to the kitchen

Theme: Locating things

Objectives:

• Ask where a room, person or object is.
• Give simple location information.
  Grammar: Prepositions of place: in, on, under, next to, between, behind, in front of

Unit 9: How do I get to reception?

Theme: Simple directions

Objectives:

• Ask for short directions.
• Follow simple directions.
• Give simple directions inside or around a workplace.
  Grammar: Imperatives and direction language: go, turn, take, stop

Unit 10: Checkpoint

Review: Units 6–9

I CAN:

• Describe a workplace.
• Ask about facilities.
• Locate things.
• Understand and give short, simple directions.

Unit 11: Whose laptop is this?

Theme: Possessions at work

Objectives:

• Ask who an object belongs to.
• Say who owns an item.
  Grammar: Possessive ’s + whose

Unit 12: This one or that one?

Theme: Identifying objects

Objectives:

• Identify documents, equipment and everyday objects.
• Distinguish between different objects.
  Grammar: This / that / these / those + one / ones

Unit 13: What does it look like?

Theme: Describing objects

Objectives:

• Give a basic description of an object.
• Use colour, size and other simple characteristics.
  Grammar: Adjective position + be
  Vocabulary: Colours, size and basic descriptive adjectives

Unit 14: I have two, but I need three

Theme: Things we have and need

Objectives:

• Say what you have.
• Say what you don’t have.
• Say what you need.
• Ask someone if they have something.
  Grammar: Have / has + plural nouns

Unit 15: Checkpoint

Review: Units 11–14

I CAN:

• Talk about possession.
• Identify objects.
• Describe basic characteristics.
• Say what I have or need.

Unit 16: What are you doing?

Theme: Activities happening now

Objectives:

• Say what you are doing at the moment.
• Ask what another person is doing.
  Grammar: Present Continuous

Unit 17: She’s talking to a customer

Theme: People at work right now

Objectives:

• Describe what people are doing in a workplace.
• Make simple affirmative and negative statements.
  Grammar: Present Continuous affirmative and negative

Unit 18: Are you using the meeting room?

Theme: Asking about current activities

Objectives:

• Ask whether someone is doing something now.
• Give short answers.
  Grammar: Present Continuous questions

Unit 19: Usually I work here, but today I’m at home

Theme: Routine vs now

Objectives:

• Distinguish between something that happens regularly and something happening now.
• Talk about simple temporary situations.
  Grammar: Present Simple vs Present Continuous — basic consolidation

Unit 20: Checkpoint

Review: Units 16–19

I CAN:

• Say what I and other people are doing now.
• Ask about current activities.
• Distinguish a regular routine from what is happening today.

Unit 21: Can I use this computer?

Theme: Permission

Objectives:

• Ask for simple permission.
• Give or refuse permission in everyday workplace situations.
  Grammar: Can / can’t for permission

Unit 22: Can you send me the file?

Theme: Simple requests

Objectives:

• Ask someone to do something simple.
• Respond positively or negatively to a request.
  Grammar: Can you...? — request consolidation

Unit 23: I need some paper

Theme: Supplies and basic needs

Objectives:

• Say what you need.
• Ask whether supplies are available.
• Request everyday workplace items.
  Grammar: Need + nouns; some / any consolidation

Unit 24: How many do you need?

Theme: Quantities

Objectives:

• Ask simple questions about quantities and amounts.
• Answer questions about quantities.
  Grammar: How many / How much + countable and uncountable nouns

Unit 25: Checkpoint

Review: Units 21–24

I CAN:

• Ask permission.
• Make simple requests.
• Explain what I need.
• Communicate basic quantities.

Unit 26: Did you send the email?

Theme: Completed actions

Objectives:

• Ask whether a simple task was completed.
• Give a short positive or negative answer.
  Grammar: Past Simple questions with did — consolidation

Unit 27: I sent it yesterday

Theme: Recent work activities

Objectives:

• Say what you did yesterday.
• Talk simply about something you did earlier in the week.
  Grammar: Past Simple — common regular and irregular verbs

Unit 28: I didn’t receive the document

Theme: Simple follow-up

Objectives:

• Say that an action did not happen.
• Explain simply what you did or did not receive, send or complete.
  Grammar: Past Simple negative with didn’t

Unit 29: Was the meeting yesterday?

Theme: Simple past information

Objectives:

• Ask and answer basic questions about where or when something was.
• Give a very short description of a past event.
  Grammar: Past Simple of to be: was / were

Unit 30: Checkpoint

Review: Units 26–29

I CAN:

• Ask and answer simple questions about completed actions.
• Talk briefly about something I did.
• Say what did not happen.
• Communicate basic information about a past event.