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GMAT.cz KET (Key English Test) Preparating Course Syllabus

Lesson Overview of Lesson Plan Key Content Covered

Numbers
1&2 • Introduction to Cambridge KET • KET Overview:
• Handing Over of GMAT.cz
KET General Preparation o Paper1 READING &
Package WRITING –
• Introduce Methodology for
Vocabulary Log
Five parts (Parts 1–5) test a
• Introduce Methodology for range of reading skills with a
Grammar Checklist variety of texts, ranging from
very short notices to longer
continuous texts.

Parts 6–9 concentrate on
testing basic writing skills.

o Paper2 LISTENING –

Five parts ranging from short

exchanges to longer dialogues
and monologues.

o Paper3 SPEAKING –

Two parts:

in Part 1, candidates interact
with an examiner;

in Part 2 they interact with
another candidate.

• Course Book: Objectives KET

• Home Assignment: Prepare for
Speaking Test Part1

3&4 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit1

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
• Objective KET Unit1: Friends o Grammar – Verbs
o Regular and irregular
form
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5&6 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit2

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
• Objective KET Unit2: Shopping o Grammar – Modals
o can (ability; requests;
permission)
o could (ability; polite requests)
o would (polite requests)
o will (future)
o shall (suggestion; offer)
o should (advice)

7&8 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit3

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Modals
• Objective KET Unit3: Food & o may (possibility)
Drink o have (got) to (obligation)
o must (obligation)
o mustn’t (prohibition)
o need (necessity)
o needn’t (lack of necessity)

9&10 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit4

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Tenses
• Objective KET Unit4: The Past o Present simple: states,
habits, systems and
processes and with
future meaning (and
verbs not used in the
continuous form)
o Present continuous:
present actions and
future meaning
o Present perfect simple:
recent past with just,
indefinite past with yet,
already, never, ever;
unfinished past with for
and since
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11&12 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit5

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Tenses
• Objective KET Unit5: Animals o Past simple: past events
o Past continuous: parallel
past actions, continuous
actions interrupted by
the past simple tense
o Future with going to
o Future with will and
shall: offers, promises,
predictions, etc.

13&14 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit6

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Verb forms
• Objective KET Unit6: Leisure & o Affirmative, interrogative,
Hobbies negative
o Imperatives
o Infinitives (with and
without to) after verbs
and adjectives

15&16 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit7

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Verb forms
• Objective KET Unit7: Clothes o Gerunds (-ing form) after
verbs and prepositions
o Gerunds as subjects and
objects
o Passive forms: present
and past simple
o Short questions (Can
you?) and answers (No,
he doesn’t)
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17&18 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit8

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar - Clause
• Objective KET Unit8: types
Entertainment o Main clause: Carlos is
Spanish
o Co-ordinate clause:
Carlos is Spanish and
his wife is English.
o Subordinate clause
following sure, certain:
I’m sure (that) she’s a
doctor.
o Subordinate clause
following know, think,
believe, hope:I hope
you’re well.

19 & 20 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit9

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar - Clause
• Objective KET Unit9: Travel types
o Subordinate clause
following say, tell: She
says (that) she’s his
sister.
o Subordinate clause
following if, when,
where, because:
o I’ll leave if you do that
again.
o He’ll come when you
call.
o He’ll follow where you
go.
o I came because you
asked me.

21&22 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit10

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
• Objective KET Unit10: Places Interrogatives
& Buildings o What, What (+ noun)
o Where; When
o Who; Whose; Which
o How; How much; How
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many; How often; How

long; etc.
o Why (including the
interrogative forms of all
tenses and modals
listed)

23&24 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit11

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Nouns
• Objective KET Unit11: Sport o Singular and plural
(regular and irregular
forms)
o Countable and
uncountable nouns with
some and any
o Abstract nouns

25&26 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit12

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Nouns
• Objective KET Unit12: The o Compound nouns
Family o Noun phrases
o Genitive: ‘s & s’
o Double genitive: a friend
of theirs

27&28 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit13

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Pronouns
• Objective KET Unit13: The o Personal (subject,
Weather object, possessive)
o Impersonal: it, there
o Demonstrative: this, that,
these, those
o Quantitative: one,
something, everybody,
etc.
o Indefinite: some, any,
something, one, etc.
o Relative: who, which,
that

29&30 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit14

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
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• Objective KET Unit14: Books & Determiners

Studying o a + countable nouns
o the +
countable/uncountable
nouns
o Adjectives
o Colour, size, shape,
quality, nationality

31&32 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit15

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
• Objective KET Unit15: The o Predicative and
World of Work attributive
o Cardinal and ordinal
numbers
o Possessive: my, your,
his, her, etc.
o Demonstrative: this, that,
these, those
o Quantitative: some, any,
many, much, a few, a lot
of, all, other, every, etc.

33&34 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit16

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
• Objective KET Unit16: Determiners
Transport o Comparative and
superlative forms
(regular and irregular)
o Order of adjectives
o Participles as adjectives

35&36 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit17

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Adverbs
• Objective KET Unit17: Science o Regular and irregular
& Technology forms
o Manner: quickly,
carefully, etc.
o Frequency: often, never,
twice a day, etc.
o Definite time: now, last
week, etc.
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o Indefinite time: already,

just, yet, etc.
o Degree: very, too,
rather, etc.

37&38 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit18

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar – Adverbs
• Objective KET Unit18: Health o Place: here, there, etc.
& Well-being o Direction: left, right, etc.
o Sequence: first, next,
etc.
o Pre-verbal, post-verbal
and end-position
adverbs
o Comparative and
superlative forms
(regular and irregular)

39&40 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit19

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
• Objective KET Unit19: Prepositions
Language & Communication o Location: to, on, inside,
next to, at (home), etc.
o Time: at, on, in, during,
etc.
o Direction: to, into, out of,
from, etc.
o Instrument: by, with
o Miscellaneous: like,
about, etc.
o Prepositional phrases: at
the end of, in front of,
etc.
o Prepositions preceding
nouns and adjectives:
by car, for sale,
o on holiday, etc

41&42 • Review Home Assignment • Objective KET Unit20

• Monitor Vocabulary Log
o Grammar –
• Objective KET Unit20: People Connectives
o and, but, or
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o when, where, because, if

43&44 • Vocabulary Review Units 1-2 • Objective KET Unit 1-2 review
of Friends & Shopping
• Including Sample Questions

45&46 • Vocabulary Review Units 3-4 • Objective KET Unit 3-4 review
of Food & Drink, and the Past
• Including Sample Questions

47&48 • Vocabulary Review Units 5-6 • Objective KET Unit 5-6 review
of Animals, Leisure & Hobbies
• Including Sample Questions

49&50 • Vocabulary Review Units 7-8 • Objective KET Unit 7-8 review
of Clothes & Entertainment
• Including Sample Questions

51&52 • Vocabulary Review Units 9- • Objective KET Unit 9-10 review

10 of Travel, Places & Buildings
• Including Sample Questions

53&54 • Vocabulary Review Units 11- • Objective KET Unit 11-12

12 review of Sport & The Family
• Including Sample Questions

55&56 • Vocabulary Review Units 13- • Objective KET Unit 13-14

14 review of The Weather, Books
& Studying
• Including Sample Questions

57&58 • Vocabulary Review Units 15- • Objective KET Unit 15-16

16 review of Transport, The World
of Work
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• Including Sample Questions

59&60 • Vocabulary Review Units 17- • Objective KET Unit 17-18

18 review of Science &
Technology, Health & Well-
being
• Including Sample Questions

61&62 • Vocabulary Review Units 19- • Objective KET Unit 19-20

20 review of People, Language &
Communication,
• Including Sample Questions

63-70 • Applied Grammar Review • Grammar Review with a focus

on specific needs of student.
• General drilling of key grammar
topics from lessons 3-42

71-80 • Exam Practice • Applied training in past KET

• Vocabulary Review papers
• Troubleshooting sessions
according to specific needs of
student
• General overview and testing
of all vocabulary

N.B. Students will be given additional KET Sample Tests in the weekends leading up
to the exam date.