LEARNING OBJECTIVES Top Notch 1 learning objectives are designed for false beginners.

They offer a rigorous review and

an expansion of key beginning concepts as well as a wealth of new and challenging material.

COMMUNICATION GOALS VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CONVERSATION STRATEGIES LISTENING / PRONUNCIATION READING WRITING
• Meet someone new • Formal titles • Information questions with be: Review • Begin responses with a question Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT to confirm • Listen for details • An enrollment form • Write a description of a classmate
• Identify and describe people • Positive adjectives to describe • Contractions
• Provide personal information people • Modification with adjectives: Review • Use Let’s to suggest a course • Infer information • Personal profiles
of action WRITING BOOSTER
• Introduce someone to a group • Personal information • Positive adjectives Pronunciation • A photo story
• Ask personal questions to • Capitalization
Getting • Countries and nationalities • Yes / no questions and short answers with be: Review indicate friendliness
• Intonation of questions Skills/strategies
• Infer information
Acquainted GRAMMAR BOOSTER • Intensify an informal answer
• Scan for facts
• Information questions with be: usage and form with sure
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• Possessive nouns and adjectives
• Verb be: usage and form
• Short answers with be: common errors

• Accept or decline an invitation • Music genres • Prepositions of time and place; Questions with • “Use Would you like to go?” to Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT When, What time, and Where: Review make an invitation • Listen for key details • A music website • Write about oneself and one’s
• Express locations and give • Entertainment and cultural events
directions • Locations and directions • Contractions • Repeat with rising intonation to • Draw conclusions • An entertainment events page musical tastes
• Make plans to see an event confirm information • Listen for details • Authentic interviews
GRAMMAR BOOSTER WRITING BOOSTER
• Provide reasons to decline
Going Out • Talk about musical tastes
• Prepositions of time and place: usage rules an invitation
• Listen for locations • A survey of musical tastes
• A photo story
• The sentence
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disappointment • Rising intonation to confirm Skills/strategies
information • Interpret maps and diagrams
• Use Thanks, anyway to
acknowledge an unsuccessful • Confirm content
attempt to help • Make personal comparisons

• Report news about relationships • The extended family • The simple present tense: Review • Use Actually to introduce a topic Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT • Listen to classify • Family tree diagrams • Make a Venn diagram
• Describe extended families • Relationships and marital status • Spelling exceptions • Respond to good news with
• Compare people • Other family relationships • Contractions Congratulations! • Listen to infer • A self-help website • Compare two people in a family
• Discuss family cultural traditions • Similarities and differences • The simple present tense—information • Respond to bad news with • Listen to identify similarities and • A survey about adult children
I’m sorry to hear that differences WRITING BOOSTER
The Extended questions: Review
• Use Thanks for asking to • Listen to take notes
• A photo story
• Combining sentences with and
Family GRAMMAR BOOSTER acknowledge an inquiry • Listen for details
Skills/strategies
• Interpret a diagram
or but
• The simple present tense: usage and form of concern
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• Information questions in the simple present tense: • Use Well to introduce a
lengthy reply • Linking sounds • Infer information
form questions with who, common errors
• Ask follow-up questions to keep a
conversation going

• Ask for a restaurant • Parts of a meal • There is and there are with count and non-count nouns; • Use Could you . . . ? to make a Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT recommendation Anything and nothing polite request • Listen to take notes • Menus • Write a short article about food for
• Categories of food
• Order from a menu • Degrees of hunger • Definite article the • Use Sure to agree to a request • Listen to predict • A nutrition website a travel blog
• Speak to a server and pay for a meal • Communicating with a waiter • Clarify a request by asking for • Infer the location of a conversation • A photo story WRITING BOOSTER
GRAMMAR BOOSTER more specific information
Food and • Discuss food and health or waitress
• Adjectives to describe the
• Non-count nouns: expressing quantities • Indicate a sudden thought
Pronunciation Skills/strategies • Connecting words and ideas: and
• The before consonant and vowel • Interpret a map
Restaurants healthfulness of food • Some and any with Actually sounds • Understand from context
or in addition

PAGE 38 • Questions with How much and How many • Use I’ll have to order from
a server • Infer information
• Words that can be count nouns or non-count nouns
• Plural count nouns: spelling rules • Increase politeness with please
• Non-count nouns: categories and verb agreement

• Recommend a brand or model • Electronic devices • The present continuous: Review • Use Hey or How’s it going for an Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT informal greeting • Infer meaning • Newspaper advertisements • Write a review of a product
• Express sympathy for a problem • Replacing products
GRAMMAR BOOSTER • Use What about . . . ? to offer • Listen to predict • An online review for a product
• Complain when things don’t work • Positive descriptions WRITING BOOSTER
• The present continuous: spelling rules for the a suggestion • Listen for details • A photo story
• Describe features of products • Collocations for using present participle • Placement of adjectives: before
• Use Really? to indicate surprise
Technology •
electronic devices
Activities
• The present continuous: rules for forming • Use You know to introduce a topic
• Listen to classify Skills/strategies nouns and after the verb be
• Understand from context
and You • Ways to sympathize
statements
• Express sympathy when someone
Pronunciation
• Intonation of questions • Activate language from a text
• The present continuous: rules for forming is frustrated
PAGE 50 • Negative descriptions questions
• Household appliances and
machines
• Ways to state a problem
• Features of manufactured
products

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 COMMUNICATION GOALS VOCABULARY GRAMMAR CONVERSATION STRATEGIES LISTENING / PRONUNCIATION READING WRITING
• Plan an activity with someone • Physical activities • Can and have to • Use Why don’t we . . . ? to Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT suggest an activity • Listen to activate grammar • A bar graph • Write about one’s exercise and
• Talk about habitual activities and • Places for sports and exercise • The present continuous and the simple
future plans • Frequency adverbs present tense: Review • Say Sorry, I can’t to apologize for • Listen for main ideas • A fitness survey health habits
• Discuss fitness and eating habits turning down an invitation • Listen for details • A magazine article
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• Provide a reason with have to to
Staying in • Describe your routines
• Can and have to: form and common errors decline an invitation
• Apply and personalize information • A photo story
• Punctuation of statements and
Shape • Can and have to: information questions • Use Well, how about . . . ? to Pronunciation
• Can / can’t
Skills/strategies
• Interpret a bar graph
questions
• Can and be able to: present and past forms suggest an alternative
PAGE 62 • Third-person singular –s: Review • Infer information
• The simple present tense: non-action verbs • Use How come? to ask for a
reason • Summarize
• The simple present tense: placement of
frequency adverbs • Use a negative question to
• Time expressions confirm information

• Greet someone arriving from a trip • Adjectives to describe trips • The past tense of be: Review • Say Welcome back! to indicate Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT enthusiasm about someone’s • Listen for main ideas • Travel brochures Write a guided essay about a vacation
• Ask about someone’s vacation • Intensifiers • Contractions
• Discuss vacation preferences • Decline and accept help return from a trip • Listen for details • Personal travel stories
• The simple past tense: Review WRITING BOOSTER
• Describe good and bad vacation • Adjectives for vacations • Acknowledge someone’s interest • Infer meaning • A vacation survey
• Regular and irregular verb forms with Actually • Time order
On Vacation experiences • Bad and good travel experiences
GRAMMAR BOOSTER • Decline an offer of assistance Pronunciation • A photo story
with It’s OK. I’m fine. • The simple past tense ending: Skills/strategies
PAGE 74 • The past tense of be: form Regular verbs
• Confirm that an offer is declined • Activate language from a text
• The simple past tense: spelling rules for
with Are you sure? • Identify supporting details
regular verbs
• Use Absolutely to confirm a • Support an opinion
• The simple past tense: usage and form
response • Draw conclusions
• Show enthusiasm with No
kidding! and Tell me more.

• Shop and pay for clothes • Clothes and clothing departments • Uses of object pronouns • Use Excuse me to indicate you Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT didn’t understand or couldn’t • Infer the appropriate location • An online clothing catalogue • Write a letter or e-mail explaining
• Ask for a different size or color • Types of clothing and shoes • Subject and object pronouns
• Navigate a mall or department • Formal clothes hear • Understand locations and directions • Simple and complex diagrams what clothes to pack
• Comparative adjectives
store • Clothing that comes in “pairs” • Use Excuse me to begin a and plans
conversation with a clerk Pronunciation WRITING BOOSTER
GRAMMAR BOOSTER • A travel article
Shopping for • Discuss clothing do’s and don’ts • Store departments
• Direct objects: usage • Follow a question with more
• Contrastive stress for clarification
• A personal opinion survey • Connecting ideas with because
Clothes •
•
Clothing sizes
Interior store locations and
• Indirect objects: usage rules and common errors information for clarification • A photo story
and since
• Comparative adjectives: spelling rules • Acknowledge someone’s
PAGE 86 directions assistance with Thanks for your Skills/strategies
• Prepositions of interior location help • Identify supporting details
• Formality and appropriateness • Respond to gratitude with • Paraphrase
in clothing My pleasure • Apply information

• Discuss schedules and buy tickets • Kinds of tickets and trips • Modals should and could • Use I’m sorry to respond with Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT disappointing information • Infer the type of travel service • Transportation schedules • Write about two different trips, one
• Book travel services • Ways to express disappointment • Be going to + base form to express the future:
• Understand airport announcements • Travel services Review • Use Well to introduce an • Understand public announcements • Public transportation tickets past trip and one future trip
• Describe transportation problems • Airline passenger information alternative • Listen for details • Arrival and departure boards
GRAMMAR BOOSTER WRITING BOOSTER
• Use I hope so to politely respond
Taking • Some flight problems • Modals can, could, and should: meaning, form, to an offer of help
• Use reasoning to evaluate
statements of fact
• Magazine and newspaper articles
• A photo story
• The paragraph
Transportation •
•
Transportation problems
Means of transportation
and common errors • Use Let me check to buy time to
Pronunciation
• Expansion: future actions get information Skills/strategies
PAGE 98 • Intonation for offering alternatives • Make decisions based on
schedules and needs
• Critical thinking

• Ask for a recommendation • Financial terms • Superlative adjectives • Use Well to connect an answer to Listening Skills Texts Task

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UNIT an earlier question • Listen for key details • A travel guide • Write a guide to your city, including
• Bargain for a lower price • How to bargain • Irregular forms
• Discuss showing appreciation • How to describe good and • Use How about . . . ? to make a • Listen for main ideas • Product ads information on where to stay, visit,
• Too and enough
for service bad deals financial offer and shop
• Listen for details • A magazine article
GRAMMAR BOOSTER • Use OK to indicate that an
Spending • Describe where to get the best
deals • Comparative and superlative adjectives: usage agreement has been reached Pronunciation • Personal travel stories
• A photo story
WRITING BOOSTER
• Rising intonation for clarification
Money and form • Connecting contradictory ideas:
even though, however, on the
• Intensifiers very, really, and too Skills/strategies
PAGE 110 • Classify information other hand
• Draw conclusions
• Apply information

Countries and nationalities / Non-count nouns / Irregular verbs page 122

Grammar Booster page 123
Writing Booster page 142
Top Notch Pop Lyrics page 149
Pronunciation Table page 151

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