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Exam skills and tasks in the lessons are highlighted in blue

Skills focus

MODULE 1 Identity
Warm-up (p.5)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Personality

Grammar focus

Skills focus

1 Autobiography (p.6-7)

2 Who Are You? (p.8-9)

3 National Identity (p.10-11)

Reading Strategies: Revision

Vocabulary: Wordbuilding

Revision of all tenses (gap filling,

multiple-choice, matching)

Listening Strategies: Revision

Listening: (T/F, gap filling)
Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Function: Preferences

Language Awareness 1 Determiners (p.14)

MODULE 2 Laughter

5 A Comic Novel (p.16-17)

6 Crazy But True (p.18-19)

7 Whats So Funny? (p.20-21)

Warm-up (p.15)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Laughter

Reading Strategies:
Answering m-c questions
Vocabulary: Collocations

Past tenses, Past Perfect Continuous

(matching, gap filling)

Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs

Listening Strategies: Answering m-c
questions
Listening: (m-c questions)
Function: Telling jokes

Language Awareness 2 Continuous and Simple Tenses (p.25)

Review Modules 1 and 2 (p.26-27) Culture Corner 1 The history of English (p.28)

MODULE 3 Style
Warm-up (p.29)
Listening: (matching)
Reading: (m-c)
Vocabulary: Opinion adjectives

MODULE 4 Beauty
Warm-up (p.39)
Listening: (matching, categorising)
Vocabulary: Describing beauty

9 Street Art (p.30-31)

10 Body Language (p.32-33)

11 Branded (p.34-35)

Reading Strategies:
Matching headings and paragraphs
Vocabulary: make, get, have (m-c)

Relative and participle clauses

Listening: (matching, gap filling, T/F)

Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Listening Strategies: Answering T/F
questions
Function: Describing people

13 Poetry (p.40-41)

14 Wrapped Up (p.42-43)

15 Music (p.44-45)

Reading Strategies: Reading poetry

(T/F, matching)
Vocabulary: Idiomatic language

The Passive
(matching, sentence
transformation)

Listening Strategies: Matching

people and opinions
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Function: Agreeing and Disagreeing

Language Awareness 3 Pronouns (p.49) Review Modules 3 and 4 (p.50-51)

Culture Corner 2 English around the World (p.52)

MODULE 5 New Frontiers

Warm-up (p.53)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Science

MODULE 6 Soft Machine

Warm-up (p.63)
Listening: (matching)
Reading: (m-c)
Vocabulary: The body

17 Eureka!

(p.54-55)

18 Futurology

(p.56-57)

19 Artificial Intelligence

(p.58-59)

Reading Strategies: Answering T/F

questions
Vocabulary: Compound words

The future, Future Perfect,

Future Continuous
(matching, gap filling)

Listening: (answering questions, gap filling)

Listening Strategies: Multiple matching
Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Function: Clarifying and asking questions

21 Life Savers

22 Super Athletes

23 Brain Power

(p.64-65)

Reading Strategies: Texts with

paragraph gaps
Vocabulary: Synonyms

(p.66-67)

Conditionals, Mixed Conditionals

(p.68-69)

Listening Strategies: Completing a

text
Listening: (gap filling, matching)
Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Function: Giving and asking for advice

Language Awareness 4 Modality (p.73) Review Modules 5 and 6 (p.74-75)

Culture Corner 3 The USA Part 1 (p.76)

MODULE 7 Journeys
Warm-up (p.77)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Describing places

25 On the Road

(p.78-79)
Reading Strategies: Answering T/F
questions in more than one text
Vocabulary: Wordbuilding

26 Migrating

(p.80-81)

Verb patterns; -ing form, infinitive

27 Trans-continental

(p.82-83)
Listening Strategies: Identifying
situations and people
Listening: (m-c, gap filling)
Vocabulary: Multi-part Verbs
Speaking Strategies: Being polite
Function: Polite requests

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Communication Workshops

Language Powerbook

4 Communication Workshops (p.12-13)

Vocabulary: Personality, wordbuilding Remember: Modal verbs Grammar: Revision of tenses

Function: Expressing preferences Multi-part Verbs Writing: A letter
Word Power Language Awareness

Writing: A formal/informal letter

Speaking: A short presentation
Speaking Strategies: Revision

8 Communication Workshops (p.22-24)

Writing: A book review
Listening: A sketch (matching, m/c)
Speaking: A topic presentation
Speaking Strategies: Preparation

12 Communication Workshops (p.36-38)

Writing: A description of a place
Listening: A song (gap filling)
Speaking: Discussing a topic (picture description)
Speaking Strategies: Gaining time

16 Communication Workshops (p.46-48)

Writing: A film review
Listening: A conversation (matching)
Speaking: Planning an event
Speaking Strategies: Taking turns in group
discussions

20 Communication Workshops (p.60-62)

)

Writing: A description of an event

Listening: A song (matching)
Speaking: A presentation
Speaking Strategies: Giving presentations

24 Communication Workshops (p.70-72)

Writing: A discursive essay (1)
Listening: A TV programme (completing sentences)
Speaking: A discussion
Speaking Strategies: Avoiding problems

28 Communication Workshops (p.84-86)

Writing: A formal letter
Listening: A song
Speaking: A topic presentation

(p.2-15)

Exam Zone: Use of English; Reading; Writing

Vocabulary: Laughter Remember: Past tenses Grammar: Past Perfect Continuous

Function: Telling a joke
Multi-part Verbs Writing: A book review Word Power Language Awareness
Check Your Grammar

(p.16-27)

Vocabulary: Opinion adjectives Remember: Comparison of adjectives

Grammar: Relative and participle clauses Function: Describing people
Multi-part Verbs Writing: A description of a place Word Power

(p.28-41)

Exam Zone: Use of English; Reading; Writing

(p.42-53)
Vocabulary: Opinion adjectives Remember: Active, Passive and Causative
Grammar: The Passive
Function: Agreeing, disagreeing, asking for opinions Multi-part Verbs Writing: A film review
Word Power Language Awareness Check Your Grammar

Vocabulary: Compound words Remember: will, going to

Grammar: Future Perfect, Future Continuous
Function: Clarifying Multi-part Verbs Writing: A description of an event
Word Power

(p.54-67)

Exam Zone: Use of English; Reading; Writing

Vocabulary: Parts of the body Remember: Conditionals Grammar: Mixed Conditionals

Function: Giving advice Multi-part Verbs Writing: A discursive essay
Word Power Language Awareness Check Your Grammar

Vocabulary: Wordbuilding Remember: -ing form, infinitive Grammar: Verb patterns

Function: Asking for permission Multi-part Verbs Writing: A formal letter
Word Power

(p.68-79)

(p.80-93)

Exam Zone: Use of English; Reading; Writing

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CONTENTS
Skills focus

Grammar focus

Skills focus

Communication
Workshops

Language Powerbook

31 Rich and
Poor (p.92-93)

32
Communication
Workshops

Vocabulary: Wordbuilding (p.94-105)

Remember: Reporting
Grammar: Reporting verbs
Function: Giving opinions,
justifying arguments
Multi-part Verbs
Writing: A letter of application
Word Power
Language Awareness
Check Your Grammar

MODULE 8 Global
Issues

29 Unnatural
Disasters (p.88-89)

30 Global
Warming

Warm-up (p.87)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Global issues

Reading Strategies:
Completing texts with
sentence gaps
Vocabulary: Prefixes

(p.90-91)
Reporting, Reporting
Verbs
(matching, sentence
transformation)

Listening
Strategies: Taking
lecture notes
Listening: (T/F)
Vocabulary: Multipart Verbs
Function:
Justifying
arguments

(p.94-96)
Listening: A radio
interview (gap filling)
Writing: A letter of
application
Speaking: Discussing
photos and texts
Speaking Strategies:
Using photos and texts
in discussions

Language Awareness 5 Impersonal report structures (p.97)

Review Modules 7 and 8 (p.98-99) Culture Corner 4 The USA Part 2 (p.100)

MODULE 9 Society

33 Golden Ages
(p.102-103)

Warm-up (p.101)
Listening: (matching,
table completion)
Vocabulary: Social problems

MODULE 10 Conflict
Warm-up (p.111)
Listening: (matching)
Vocabulary: Conflict

Reading Strategies:
Summarising
Vocabulary: Rich
language

37 War
Memories

34 Consumer
Society
(p.104-105)
Complex sentences:
persuasion

35 Utopia
(p.106-107)
Listening
Strategies:
Understanding
cultural references
Listening:
(answering
questions, matching)
Vocabulary:
Multi-part Verbs
Function: Making
suggestions

38 Neighbours
from Hell

39 Conflict
resolution

(p.112-113)

(p.114-115)

(p.116-117)

Reading Strategies:
Questions with more
than one type of
examination task
Vocabulary: Word
families

Complex sentences:
emphasis (sentence
completion,
sentence
transformation)

Vocabulary: Multipart Verbs

Listening
Strategies:
Identifying mood
Listening: (T/F,
m-c)
Function: Arguing

Language Awareness 6 Perfective verb forms (p.121)

Review Modules 9 and 10 (p.122-123)
Literature Spots 1-5 (p.124-133)
Writing Help (p.137-145)
Grammar Summary (p.146-150)
Lexicon (p.151-176)

36
Communication
Workshops
(p.108-110)
Writing: A discursive
essay (2)
Listening: A song
(matching)
Speaking Strategies:
Preparing for problem
solving
Speaking: Problem
solving

40
Communication
Workshops
(p.118-120)
Writing: A letter of
complaint
Listening: A
filmscript (matching)
Speaking: A formal
telephone
conversation

Vocabulary: Social
(p.106-119)
problems
Remember: Expressing regret
Grammar: Persuasion
Function: Suggestions
Multi-part Verbs
Writing: A discursive essay
Word Power
Exam Zone: Use of English;
Reading; Writing

(p.120-131)
Vocabulary:
Conflict words
Remember: Present Perfect
Grammar: Emphasis
Function: Arguing
Multi-part Verbs
Writing: Writing under pressure
Word Power
Language Awareness
Check Your Grammar

Mini-Grammar (p.132-143)