| LESSON |
GRAMMAR AND FUNCTIONS |
VOCABULARY |
SKILLS AND SOUNDS |
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| 1. |
Could I ask you something? |
Asking questions |
Language learning and classroom language |
Reading: |
Reading and answering a questionnaire |
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Personal information; classroom language |
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Words for giving personal information |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Sound: |
Polite intonation in questions |
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Speaking: |
Talking about personal information |
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| 2. |
Going places USA |
Present simple and present continuous |
Journeys by train |
Listening: |
Listening with background noise; listening for main
ideas |
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Plans and agreements |
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Writing: |
Completing a diary (только в книжной
версии); writing a personal letter |
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| 3. |
All dressed in red |
Describing a sequence of events (1): before and
after; during and for |
Words to describe weddings |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas (только в книжной
версии) |
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Wedding customs in different countries |
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Speaking: |
Talking about wedding customs |
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Writing: |
Writing about traditional weddings in your country |
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| 4. |
Are you a couch potato? |
Adverbs (1): adverbs and adverbial phrases of frequency;
talking about likes and dislikes; verb patterns (1): to
or -ing |
Adjectives to describe likes and dislikes |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Leisure activities |
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Leisure activities |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Speaking: |
Talking about what you like doing in your spare time |
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Writing: |
Writing about other people's favourite leisure activities;
linking words with and, but and because |
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| 5. |
Face the music |
Adjectives (1): -ed and -ing endings;
question tags |
Types of music |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring |
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Different types of music |
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Adjectives to express how you feel about something |
Sounds: |
Intonation in question tags to show agreement or ask a
real question |
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Speaking: |
Giving opinions about contemporary music |
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Writing: |
Writing a short report; linking words
on the whole , in my opinion, the trouble is, in
fact (только в книжной
версии) |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Countries, nationalities and people |
Sounds: |
Stress change in words for counties and people; / / and / / ; being aware
of speaker's attitude |
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Lessons 1-5 |
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Techniques for dealing with difficult words |
Speaking: |
Describing a photo (только в книжной
версии) |
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Starting a Wordbank |
Writing: |
Joining sentences using after and before
clauses; writing a paragraph about New Year's Eve |
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| 6. |
How we met |
Past simple and past continuous |
Nouns and adjectives to describe personal qualities |
Reading: |
Jigsaw (только в книжной
версии) reading for specific information |
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Friendship |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for details |
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Writing: |
Writing a paragraph about a special friend |
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| 7. |
The way things used to be |
Used to and would+ infinitive |
New words from a passage called Interesting in
memories |
Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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Childhood memories |
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Nouns and verbs which go together |
Sounds: |
Stress and intonation when correcting someone |
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Writing: |
Writing a paragraph about the way things used to be;
linking words when, as soon as, while, just as,
until |
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| 8. |
Cold, lost, hungry and alone |
Describing a sequence of events (2): when, as soon as,
as, while, just as, until |
New words from a passage called Cold, lost, hungry and
alone |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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Experiences in a foreign country |
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Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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Writing: |
Writing paragraphs about experiences in a foreign country;
linking words when, as soon as, as, while, just as,
until |
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| 9. |
Chocolate – like falling in love |
Non-defining relative clauses; who, which, where |
Words related to food |
Reading: |
Reacting to a text; reading for main ideas |
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Facts about chocolate |
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Speaking: |
Talking about well-known people, things and places |
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Writing: |
Writing about well-known people, things and places |
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| 10. |
What did I do? |
Verbs with two objects; complaining and apologising;
making requests |
New words from a passage called What did I do? |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Social gaffes around the world |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Sounds: |
Intonation in complaints and apologies |
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Speaking: |
Talking about misunderstandings |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Adjectives and strong equivalents |
Sounds: |
Linking words in connected speech; word stress in
sentences |
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Lessons 6-10 |
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Adjectives prefixes |
Writing: |
Deleting and inserting words |
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Homophones |
Speaking: |
Talking about embarrassing incidents |
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| 11. |
Do it now! |
Present perfect (1): already, yet, still |
Verbs for household actions |
Reading: |
Reading and answering a questionnaire |
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Organisational skills and routine activities |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Speaking: |
Talking about domestic activities and personal
organisation |
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| 12. |
London calling |
Present perfect continuous (1) for asking and saying how
long |
Words connected with news items; politics and military |
Listening: |
listening for main ideas |
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Radio news broadcasts |
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Sounds: |
Word stress in sentences |
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Writing: |
Reconstructing a text |
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Speaking: |
Expressing opinions |
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| 13. |
Fictional heroes never die |
Present perfect simple (2) |
New words from a passage called Fictional heroes never
die |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Famous character from fiction |
Present perfect continuous (2) |
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Speaking: |
Talking about important event in your
life (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing a short biography |
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| 14. |
Twin cities |
Making comparisons |
Town features and facilities |
Listening: |
Inferring |
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A view of Prague |
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Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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Writing: |
Writing a description of a town, using linking words
the main reason why, another reason is that, both… and,
neither... nor, while, whereas |
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| 15. |
I couldn’t live without it |
Adjectives (2): order of adjectives |
Possessions and objects around the home |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Personal possessions |
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Compound nouns |
Sounds: |
Stress in compound nouns |
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Nouns and adjectives which go together |
Speaking: |
Talking about personal possessions |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Adjectives and participles |
Sounds: |
Consonant clusters in the end position; linking words in
connected speech; stressed words in sentences |
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Lessons 11-15 |
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Adjectives which go after the noun |
Speaking: |
Describing objects (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 16. |
Do it in style |
Asking for and giving advice; must and
should |
Clothes, accessories, appearance |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Style and fashions |
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Materials and colours |
Speaking: |
Talking about fashions |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
Writing: |
Writing advice for visitors to your country |
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| 17. |
Rose Rose |
Making predictions: may and might; going to
and will |
New words from a story called Rose Rose |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for specific
information |
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A ghost story by Barry Pain |
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Speaking: |
Predicting (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing the ending of a story from a different point of
view; linking words although, in spite of + -ing |
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| 18. |
What do you do for a living? |
Drawing conclusions; must, can’t, might, could;
describing impressions |
Jobs |
Speaking: |
Talking about your job or your ideal job |
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Jobs and conditions of work |
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Adjectives to describe personal and professional
qualities |
Sounds: |
Stressed syllables in words; intonation when
disagreeing |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Reading: |
Understanding text organisation |
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| 19. |
Guided tours |
Talking about obligation, permission and prohibition |
Religion and tourism |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring |
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Pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela |
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Sounds: |
Strong and weak forms of can, have to and
must |
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Writing: |
Writing a description of rules in your country |
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| 20. |
How unfair can you get? |
Talking about ability and possibility: can, could, be
able to |
Compound adjectives |
Speaking: |
Talking about personal
qualities (только в книжной
версии) |
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Emotional reactions |
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Listening: |
Predicting; listening for main ideas; listening for
details; listening for specific information |
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Writing: |
Re-telling the story from notes and from
the listening activity (только в книжной
версии) |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Multi-part verbs: phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs
with objects |
Sounds: |
Different ways of pronouncing the letter a; linking
words in connected speech; consonant clusters in initial
position |
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Lessons 16-20 |
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Speaking: |
Talking about unlikely statements |
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Writing: |
Writing statements which must be, might be and can’t be
true |
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| 21. |
Cinema classics |
Adverbs (2): formation; giving opinions; emphasising |
Types of films |
Listening: |
Listening for specific information; listening for main
ideas |
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Films |
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Adjectives to describe opinions |
Sounds: |
Strong intonation for emphasising an opinion |
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Writing: |
Inserting words; writing a plot of the
classic film (только в
книжной версии) |
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Speaking: |
Talking about classic films |
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| 22. |
Wild and beautiful |
Adverbs (3): position of adverbs and adverbial phrases |
Animals |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; evaluating a text |
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Animal conservation |
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Speaking: |
Talking about environmental changes in the world |
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Writing: |
Writing about something which has changed with linking
words ago, then, today, in… years’ time |
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| 23. |
Valentine |
Reported speech (1): statements |
Love symbols |
Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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A poem |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
Listening: |
Inferring, listening for main ideas |
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Adjectives to describe personal characteristics |
Sounds: |
Reciting a poem |
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Speaking: |
Talking about romantic things, people
and place (только в книжной
версии) |
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Writing: |
Writing a poem |
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| 24. |
Medium wave |
Reported speech (2): questions |
Newspapers, television and radio |
Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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The media |
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Writing: |
Writing a report of an interview; linking words the
reason for this, because, another reason for this,
besides |
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Speaking: |
Talking about the media |
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| 25. |
A cup of tea |
Reported speech (3): reporting verbs |
New words from a story called A cup of tea |
Speaking: |
Predicting (только в книжной
версии) |
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A short story by Katherine Mansfield |
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Reading: |
Predicting; reading for main ideas |
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Writing: |
Rewriting the story from another point of view |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Rewriting the story from another point of view |
Sounds: |
Different ways of pronouncing the letter e,
silent consonant; stress when correcting someone |
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Lessons 21-25 |
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Multi-part verbs: phrasal verbs without objects and
phrasal prepositional verbs |
Speaking: |
Talking about yourself; responding to
others (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 26. |
Eat your heart out … in the USA |
Giving instructions and special advice |
Food |
Speaking: |
Talking about typical food from your country or
region |
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American regional cooking |
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Ways of preparing food, ways of cooking, kitchen
equipment |
Reading: |
Reading for specific information; reacting to a text |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information; understanding text
organisation |
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| 27. |
Home thoughts from abroad |
Defining relative clauses |
Holidays |
Speaking: |
Talking about holiday postcards
(только в книжной
версии) |
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Holiday postcards |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; linking ideas |
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Sounds: |
Pauses in relative clauses |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideass |
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Writing: |
Writing postcards |
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| 28. |
Local produce |
The passive |
Manufactured and natural products |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Things grown and made in Britain |
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Words which go together |
Speaking: |
Talking about typical food, drink or products of your
town, region or country |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
Writing: |
Writing about typical food, drink or products |
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| 29. |
Just what we’re looking for! |
Verbs patterns (2): need + -ing and passive
infinitive; causative constructions with have and
get; reflexive pronouns |
Adjectives to describe things which go wrong with a house
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Looking for somewhere to live |
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Furniture and fittings |
Speaking: |
Discussing if you are
houseproud (только в
книжной версии);talking about homes |
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Jobs |
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Verbs for household maintenance |
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| 30. |
Sporting chance |
Verbs patterns (3): make and let; infinitive
constructions after adjectives |
Sports and sports equipment |
Reading: |
Inferring |
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New rules for old sports |
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Words which go together |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Sounds: |
Stressed words in sentences |
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Speaking: |
Talking about sport |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Verbs which go together |
Sounds: |
Different ways of pronouncing the letter i |
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Lessons 26-30 |
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Words which are sometimes confused |
Reading: |
Understanding text organisation |
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Writing: |
Inserting words and sentences |
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| 31. |
I never leave home without it |
Zero conditional: in case |
Personal possessions |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Useful objects and equipment |
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Sounds: |
Syllable stress |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Speaking: |
Talking about the things you always take
with you (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 32. |
Politely but firmly |
Describing a sequence of events (3): as soon as,
when and after for future events |
Parts of a car |
Speaking: |
Talking about making complaints |
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Letters |
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Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Complaining about a new car |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Writing: |
Writing a letter of complaint |
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| 33. |
Superhints |
Verb patterns (4): infinitive of purpose; by +
-ing; giving advice; if clauses |
Household objects and actions |
Reading: |
Reading for specific information |
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Practical household advice |
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Sounds: |
Different pronunciation of vowels and diphthongs; weak
forms in connected speech |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Writing: |
Writing household advice |
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| 34. |
The green tourist |
First condition |
New words from a passage called Are you a green
tourist? |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring |
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The effects of tourism on the environment |
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Words which go together |
Sounds: |
/ / ;
stress and intonation in first conditional sentences |
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Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Speaking: |
Talking about the effects of tourism |
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| 35. |
Lost in the pacific |
Past perfect simple and continuous |
New words from a passage about Amelia Earhart |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; understanding text
organisation |
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The story of Amelia Earhart |
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Writing: |
Writing a paragraph about an unsolved mystery |
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Progress check |
Revision; |
English words borrowed from other languages |
Sounds: |
Different ways of pronouncing the letter o;
syllable stress |
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Lessons 31-35 |
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Words which go in pairs |
Speaking: |
Talking about true and false information about
Britain |
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Antonyms |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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| 36. |
What’s your advice? |
Second conditional; giving advice |
Relationships |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas |
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Letters to a problem page |
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Sounds: |
Linking words in connected speech |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Writing: |
Writing a letter of advice |
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| 37. |
You should have been here last week! |
Past modal verbs (1): should have |
Tourism in Hong Kong |
Reading: |
Reading for main ideas; inferring |
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A visit to Hong Kong |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
Listening: |
Listening for main ideas; listening for detail |
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Speaking: |
Talking about something you did wrong and which you
regret |
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| 38. |
Now you see me, now you don’t |
Past modals (2): may have, might have, must have, can’t
have |
New words from three stories about strange incidents |
Reading: |
Understanding text organisation; inserting phrases |
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Strange and supernatural incidents |
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Speaking: |
Telling stories; speculating (только в книжной
версии) |
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| 39. |
Making the grade |
Expressing wishes and regrets |
Education |
Listening: |
Listening for specific information |
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Education in Britain and the USA |
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Subjects that are studied at school or college |
Sounds: |
/ / ;
intonation in sentences with if only |
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Speaking: |
talking about important events in your educational
career |
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Writing: |
Writing a description of the education system in your
country; linking words like and unlike |
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| 40. |
The man who was everywhere |
Third conditional |
New words from a story called The man who was
everywhere |
Reading: |
Understanding text organisation; understanding a writer’s
style |
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A thriller by Edward D. Hoch |
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Speaking: |
Predicting; discussing what you would
have done (только в книжной
версии) |
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Listening: |
Listening for main ideas |
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Writing: |
Rewriting the story from a different point of view |
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Progress check |
Revision |
Colloquial language |
Sounds: |
Different ways of pronouncing the letter u; silent
letters; linking words in connected speech |
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Lesson 36-40 |
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Idiomatic expressions |
Reading: |
Understanding text organisation |
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Speaking: |
Reacting to a story (только в книжной
версии) |
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Techniques for dealing with unfamiliar words |
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