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Page Unit Reading and Listening Speaking Writing and Projects Use of English Cross-curricular links Vocabulary 21st-century skills

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The great
outdoors
School trip
The power of nature
A trip to an outdoor activities centre
Ask and answer questions about going on a
school trip
Take part in a discussion about the power of nature
Role-play a situation in which you need help
An information display
about Australia
An advert for outdoor activities
-ing forms
Remember: present simple and
present continuous
Remember: superlatives
Health education
Geography
Outdoor equipment and
activities, including adventure
sports
Learning to learn: Learn words in groups to help
remember them
Critical thinking: Give reasons in a discussion
about the role of nature in health and well-being;

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Adventure sports in New Zealand put documents in a logical order, according to
because you are lost A plan for a day’s expedition Expressing the future (present
All about New Zealand, ‘The Land of chronological sequence
the Long White Cloud’ Describe sports and outdoor activities and your A presentation about an outdoor continuous, going to, will/shall,
feelings about them present simple) Creative thinking: Write a scene for a story, using
A trip to New Zealand activity week direct speech and descriptive language
Talk about plans for this evening, next weekend
Fiction: Hullabaloo in the Guava and your next holiday Collaborative working: Pair work, group work, projects
Orchard by Kiran Desai
Give a presentation about an outdoor activity

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Speaking strategy: Learning words in groups

129–150 6 Sports, sports people and equipment Ask and answer questions in a sports quiz A profile of a sportsperson Compound nouns Physical education Sports and sports equipment Learning to learn: Learn vocabulary by playing a
Sports and Getting to the top in sport Talk about the qualities you need for various Abstract nouns Football definitions game; use reference resources to find

My Activity games The Paralympic Games

Let’s talk football
sports
Describe a sports event
A classroom display about a sport
A presentation about the history of
Pronouns everyone, anyone,
no one; everything, anything ,
information
Social responsibility: Discuss the role of international
nothing sport in changing attitudes and opinions
The ancient Olympics Describe the sequence of events in a football a sport
match Comparative adverbs Critical thinking: Discuss the issue of using animals in
Animals in sport sport; summarise points of view
Talk about the ancient and modern Olympics Writing strategy: Follow the style
Fiction: Bend it like Beckham by Collaborative working: Pair work, group work, projects
Discuss whether it is fair to use animals in sport of an extract (short paragraphs,

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Give a presentation about the history of a sport narrative and direct speech,
punctuation for direct speech)
Learn phrases to use in a discussion

151–172 7 What people do for jobs Talk about the jobs other people do Your answer to the question: ‘What adjective + preposition, Science and technology Jobs Learning to learn: Use clues to predict what you’re

Media Success How science improves lives

A young scientist and inventor
Talk about the job you would like to do
Discuss an invention
kind of job do you want to do in the
future?’
adjective + infinitive
verb + -ing
Citizenship Adjectives to describe
personality
going to hear in a listening exercise
Social responsibility: Discuss what makes a good role
A personal profile in preparation for verb + infinitive, verb + object model
Personal strengths and skills Discuss role models an interview at a new school + infinitive Critical thinking: Discuss how science and technology
A girl jockey who made history Ask and answer questions in a personality quiz can make a difference to people’s lives
Personality quiz Give a presentation about a role model A jobs quiz Creative thinking: Write a scene for a film based on a
Listening strategy: Prepare to listen Use idiomatic phrases in a discussion A presentation about a role model narrative extract
Autobiography: The Boy Who Learn how to say what someone does as a job Collaborative working: Pair work, group work, projects
Harnessed the Wind by William using in and for
Kamkwamba Learn and use useful phrases for answering
questions
173–194 8 A school magazine Plan what to write in a school magazine A newspaper report of a Remember: present perfect for Media studies Journalism Critical thinking: Summarise opinions of people
In the news The early history of news Discuss the early history of news dramatic rescue events in the recent past Maths Expressions connected with discussing a news report; differentiate between real
Connectives: because, so that, social media and fake news; identify implied meaning; evaluate the
Real news or fake news? Discuss two news items and decide which is advantages and disadvantages of social media
‘fake’ news The news and puzzles section for as, therefore, however, although
Twins reunited – a human interest story Collaborative working: Pair work, group work, projects
Talk about similarities between people your school magazine Quantifiers: both (of), each
A news report about mobile phone use other/one another, either of/
in schools Role-play an interview between a journalist and The events and sports section for
your school magazine neither of

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A dramatic rescue someone who has been in the news
Learn phrases to use in a discussion
Complex nouns phrases
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Reading strategy: Identifying implied Past continuous
meaning
Autobiography: Separated @ Birth by
Anaïs Bordier and Samantha Futerman

195–216 9 Keeping in touch: phones and their Have a conversation about the digital devices A presentation: ‘The effect of screen Remember: reported statements Science and technology Digital technology Learning to learn: Learn expressions to make your
The digital uses you use time on young children’ Reported questions and requests writing and conversation sound more natural
world An unusual restaurant in India Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Indefinite and quantifying Social responsibility: Discuss the advantages and
A survey on using digital devices robots A diary recording the experience of pronouns disadvantages of robots and of technology in farming
Zoom in! Detailed instructions Summarise the results of a survey on digital doing without digital devices Multi-word verbs Creative thinking: Write a factual description based
devices A debate: ‘Digital devices have more on a model
Farming for the future if and unless clauses, zero and
Explain how to take a screenshot, a selfie, etc. advantages than disadvantages’ first conditional Collaborative working: Pair work, group work, projects
A digital challenge
Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of
Non-fiction: A Little History of the two new farming methods
World by E.H. Gombrich; A History
of the World in 100 Objects by Neil Have an extended conversation about life in
MacGregor and out of school
Take part in a class debate on the advantages and
disadvantages of digital devices
Learn and use words and phrases for informal
conversation

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