| LESSON |
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS |
VOCABULARY |
SKILLS AND
SOUNDS |
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English … at home and abroad |
Questions: basic rules |
Words used in English from other languages |
Reading: |
Reading sings from around the world; reading and answering
a questionnaire; reading for main ideas |
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Sings in English from around the world |
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Speaking: |
Talking about hopes and expectations for an English
course;asking questions about
Reward Upper-intermediate (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing questions about
Reward Upper-intermediate (только в книжной
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Discussion about learning; learning styles |
Questions tags; negative questions; imperative questions;
suggestions and replay questions |
Vocabulary to describe language errors and parts of speech
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Sounds: |
Intonation in question tags; using a model dialogue for
guided speaking practice |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; inferring |
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Writing: |
Writing a composition The best way to learn English
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| 2. |
Friends and relations |
The indefinite, definite and zero article |
Gestures and movements of the body |
Speaking: |
Talking about ways of greeting and addressing people;
using a model dialogue for guided speaking |
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Customs and rituals in different cultures |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; understanding the text
organisation; focusing on topic sentences; inferring |
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Customs in different age groups |
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Sounds: |
/ /
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; interpreting information;
talking about customs and rituals |
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Writing: |
Text organisation in an informal letter; writing an
informal letter about customs and rituals |
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| 3. |
Passion play |
Tense review: present tenses |
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Speaking: |
Exchanging information on hobbies and leisure activities;
a commentary of a sport event (только в книжной
версии) |
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Italian football |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; linking ideas; dealing with
unfamiliar words |
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Writing: |
Preparing a commentary of a sport
event (только в книжной
версии) |
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Hobbies and leisure activities |
Criticising behaviour and habits; agreeing and disagreeing
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Sports and leisure activities |
Speaking: |
Talking about hobbies and leisure activities; a discussion about hobbies (только в книжной
версии) |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Sounds: |
Stressed words in sentences of complaint |
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Writing: |
Writing a report of a discussion on
hobbies (только в
книжной версии) |
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| 4. |
Twenty-four hours in your town |
Tense review: talking about the future; making suggestions
and responding to them |
People, places and types of entertainment |
Listening: |
Identifying context and purpose; listening for specific
information |
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Arranging a day out in Boston, USA |
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Speaking: |
Planning a day out in Boston; making
suggestions (только
в книжной версии) |
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Writing: |
Identifying the difference between formal and informal
expressions; writing a formal business letter |
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Planning a tourist guide of a town or region |
Tense review: talking about the future with will
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Features of city life |
Reading: |
Reading for specific information; evaluating a text |
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Sounds: |
Polite and friendly intonation |
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Speaking: |
Describe different aspects of a town or
region (только в
книжной версии) |
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Writing: |
Note-talking (только в книжной
версии); writing a tourist guide for a town or
region |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Using a monolingual dictionary; learning vocabulary |
Sounds: |
/ / and
/ / ; / / ; stressed
words in sentences |
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Lessons 1-4 |
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Speaking: |
Talking about plans for a penfriend’s
visit (только в
книжной версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing a letter giving advice about greeting people and
arrangements for a stay |
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| 5. |
Achievements and ambitions |
Tense review: present perfect simple and continuous |
Important life events |
Speaking: |
Talking about personal achievements and ambitions; exchanging information about
biographies (только в
книжной версии) |
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An extract from Great Railway Journeys by Lisa St.
Aubin de Teran |
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Reading: |
Predicting; reading for main ideas; reading for specific
information; evaluating a text; inferring |
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Writing: |
Writing a questions to obtain biographical information
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Personal achievements and ambitions |
Tense review: present perfect simple and continuous |
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Sounds: |
Weak form /bin/ |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Writing: |
Writing a biography for a newspaper
article (только в
книжной версии) |
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| 6. |
Trust me - I’m a doctor |
Tense review: past tenses |
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Speaking: |
Talking about truth and deception |
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Truth and deception; Sister Coxall’s revenge, a
short story in two parts |
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Listening: |
Predicting the order of events; listening for main ideas;
listening for specific information |
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Writing: |
Rewriting the story from a different point of view |
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The story of a doctor in 19th century |
Describing a sequence of events in the past |
Words connected with medical matters |
Sounds: |
Syllable stress; stress in compound nouns |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring; dealing with unfamiliar
words |
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Speaking: |
Talking about different jobs |
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| 7. |
Wish you were here? |
Adjectives |
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Speaking: |
Talking about features of the holiday; discussing holiday
preferences |
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An extract from The Lost Continent by Bill
Bryson |
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Writing: |
Writing statements about holiday
preferences (только в
книжной версии) |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring; understanding writer’s
style; distinguishing between fact and opinion |
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Talking about holidays |
Describing position |
Geographical description |
Listening: |
Listening for specific information; inferring |
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Sounds: |
Linking sounds /y/, / / |
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Writing: |
Writing a description of a town or region using fact and
opinion adjectives |
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Strange sensations |
Participle (-ing) clauses |
Words connected with the senses |
Reading: |
Predicting (только в книжной
версии); reading for main ideas; reading for
specific information; dealing with difficult vocabulary |
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Four stories from True ghost stories of our time |
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Speaking: |
Talking about ghost stories |
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A ghost story set in Scotland |
Verbs of sensation |
Words connected with sounds |
Sounds: |
Pauses, word stress, intonation for dramatic effect |
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Listening: |
Predicting; listening for specific information; dealing
with difficult expressions |
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Speaking: |
Talking about a ghost story (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing a ghost story, linking words meanwhile,
eventually, finally |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Positive and negative connotation; adjective suffixes |
Sounds: |
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stressed words in sentences |
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Lessons 5-8 |
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Listening: |
Listening and note-talking |
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Speaking: |
Retelling a story |
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Writing: |
Note-talking (только в комп.
версии) |
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Impressions of school |
Talking about memories: remember +
noun/-ing |
Education and school |
Speaking: |
Talking about early schooldays |
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An extract from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
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Reading: |
Predicting; reading for main ideas; dealing with
unfamiliar words; inferring |
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An interview with an English teacher in Sudan |
Used to and would + infinitive; be/get
used to + noun/-ing |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information; inferring |
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Sounds: |
/j/ in British and American words |
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Writing: |
Interpreting and writing a school report |
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Rules of law |
Modal verbs: must, have to, have got to, can’t, mustn’t
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Words connected with crimes |
Sounds: |
Syllable stress |
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Strange laws around the word |
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Reading: |
Reacting to text; reading for main ideas; reading for
specific information |
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Speaking: |
Talking about new laws (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing new laws |
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The legal system in Britain |
Modal verbs: don’t need to / needn’t have / didn’t need
to, should / shouldn’t |
Words connected with law and order |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Reading: |
Reacting to text; reading for main ideas |
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Writing: |
Writing a letter to a newspaper expressing an opinion:
linking words and expressions for opinions |
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Discoveries and inventions |
Clauses of purpose |
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Speaking: |
Talking about inventions, talking about
tips for everyday situations (только в книжной
версии) |
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The story of the inventor and traveller, Francis Galton |
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Reading: |
Reacting to text; reading for main ideas; dealing with
unfamiliar words |
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Writing: |
Writing practical advice |
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Strange inventions |
Noun / adjective + to + infinitive |
Household items and actions |
Speaking: |
Guessing the purpose of different
inventions (только в
книжной версии) |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Sounds: |
Assimilation of / / and / / in connected speech |
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Writing: |
Writing a product description |
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Food, glorious food! |
Conditionals (1): zero, first and second conditionals;
if and when |
Food and drink |
Speaking: |
Talking about different ways of cooking
and preparing food (только в книжной
версии), talking about typical food and drink
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What your choice of food reveals about you |
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Reading: |
Reading and answering a questionnaire; reading for main
ideas |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information; inferring |
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Sounds: |
Stressed words in sentences |
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Car-engine cooking |
Conditionals (2): unless, even if, as long as, provided
(that), or/otherwise |
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Reading: |
Predicting; reading for main ideas; reading for specific
information |
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Speaking: |
Talking about car-engine cooking
(только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing advice on eating in different situations, such as
picnics and barbecues |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Remember, forget, try, stop, regret + -ing or
infinitive; opposite or negative meaning with prefixes |
Sounds: |
/ / ,
// and
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different ways of pronouncing -ough; stressed words in
connected speech |
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Lessons 9-12 |
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Listening: |
Listening and note-talking |
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Writing: |
Rewriting news stories (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 13. |
High-tech dreams or nightmares? |
The passive |
Words connected with technology |
Reading: |
Predicting; reading for specific information;
inferring |
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A computerised home |
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Writing: |
Writing a letter of complain |
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Items of new technology |
Passive infinitive; passive gerund |
Words connected with different kinds of communication |
Listening: |
Listening for specific information; inferring |
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Sounds: |
Stressed in compound nouns |
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Speaking: |
A discussion about technology and communication |
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Writing: |
Writing a summary of a discussion
(только в книжной
версии) |
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Lifestyles! |
Relative clauses |
New words from a passage about the Amish people |
Speaking: |
Talking about lifestyle; talking about changes in
lifestyles |
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The Amish people of Pennsylvania |
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Reading: |
Reading for specific information; inferring |
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Living in California |
Relative and participle clauses |
Lifestyle in California |
Listening: |
Predicting; listening for specific information |
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Sounds: |
Pauses in defining and non-defining relative clauses |
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Writing: |
Writing a diary of a day in a life of an Amish family or
in a California community |
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Lucky escapes! |
Third conditional |
Positive and negative feelings |
Speaking: |
Talking about lucky and unlucky situations |
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Talking about lucky escapes |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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Writing: |
Writing a summary |
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Stories about good and bad luck |
Expressing wishes and regrets |
Opinions |
Reading: |
Predicting, reading for main ideas; understanding the text
organisation |
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Sounds: |
/ / and
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stressed words in sentences expressing wishes and
regrets |
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Speaking: |
Talking about the stories |
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All-time greats |
Phrasal verbs |
Types of music and words connected with music |
Speaking: |
Talking about different types of music; talking about national character of
music (только в
книжной версии) |
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The story of the song The Girl from Ipanema |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring; linking ideas |
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Favourite music and books |
Phrasal verbs |
Words connected with music and books |
Sounds: |
Stressed words in sentences with phrasal verbs |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Writing: |
Completing a book review using attitude words or phrases;
writing a review of a favourite pieces of music or books |
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Speaking: |
Talking about favourite pieces of music or books |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Phrasal verbs |
Sounds: |
// and
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consonants; being aware of speaker’s attitude |
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Lessons 13-16 |
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Writ
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Writing about a lucky
escapes (только в
комп. версии); preparing for a
game called if things had been different (только в книжной
версии) |
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Speaking: |
Playing a game if things had been
different (только
в книжной версии) |
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Spending money |
Countable and uncountable nouns |
Shopping items; new words from a story |
Speaking: |
Talking about shopping; discussing
humorous sayings (только
в книжной версии) |
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An extract from Tender is the Night by F. Scott
Fitzgerald |
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Reading: |
Predicting; understanding the writer’s style; reading for
main ideas; reacting to a text |
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Sounds: |
Timing and intonation in jokes; different ways of telling
a joke |
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Different shopping habits |
Ways of expressing quantity |
Words connected with money |
Listening: |
Predicting; listening for main ideas;
listening for specific information (только в комп.
версии) |
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Speaking: |
Talking about words connected with money |
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Speaking: |
Talking about shopping habits |
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Writing: |
Writing a questionnaire about people’s shopping
habits |
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Trends |
Future continuous and future perfect |
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Reading: |
Predicting; reading for main ideas; dealing with difficult
vocabulary; inferring |
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How to survive the 21st century |
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Speaking: |
Talking about future trends |
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Writing: |
Writing advice about future
trends (только в
книжной версии) |
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Future trends and party politics |
Future in the past |
Words connected with politics |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Sounds: |
Syllable stress |
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Writing: |
Looking at words and phrases often used in
discussions; writing a composition about the
21st century (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 19. |
Legendary Britain |
Passive constructions with say, believe etc. |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; reading for specific information
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The legend of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round
Tables |
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Speaking: |
Talking about legends |
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Legendary places |
Speculating about the past: may have, might have, must
have, can’t have |
Words connected with legends |
Listening: |
Predicting; listening for specific information; listening
and non-talking; inferring |
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Sounds: |
Stressed words in a dialogue |
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Writing: |
Writing a guide to legendary people and places |
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The real thing? |
Reported speech |
Adjectives to describe different products |
Speaking: |
Talking about well-known brands and
products (только в книжной
версии) |
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Characteristics of different brands and products |
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Listening: |
Predicting; listening for specific information |
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Sounds: |
Understanding different tones of voice |
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Global advertising |
Reporting verbs |
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Speaking: |
Talking about advertising; using a model
dialogue for guided speaking practice (только в книжной
версии) |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; linking ideas; distinguishing
between main ideas and examples |
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Listening: |
Predicting; understanding text organisation |
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Writing: |
Writing a dialogue complaining about an advertising
claim |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Idioms, slang and informal language |
Sounds: |
Homophones; homographs |
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Lessons 17-20 |
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Speaking: |
Planning a stay in a foreign country |
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