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Lesson and objective Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation Everyday English
Unit 1 Outstanding people
Getting started Discuss meeting famous people
1A Discuss people you admire Review of tenses Character The letter e; Word
adjectives stress

1B Discuss a challenge Questions Trying and

succeeding
1C Explain what to do and check Rapid speech Breaking off a conversation;
understanding Explaining and checking
understanding
1D Write an article
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Unit 2 Survival
Getting started Discuss coping with natural disasters
2A Discuss dangerous situations Narrative tenses Expressions with Sounds and
get spelling: g
2B Give advice on avoiding danger Future time clauses and Animals and the
conditionals environment
2C Give and respond to compliments Tone in question tags Agreeing using question tags;
Giving and responding to
compliments
2D Write guidelines in a lealet
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Unit 3 Talent
Getting started Discuss what makes something a work of art
3A Discuss ability and achievement Multi-word verbs Ability and
achievement
3B Discuss sports activities and issues Present perfect simple Words connected Word stress
and continuous with sport

3C Make careful suggestions Sounds and spelling: Keeping to the topic of the
Consonant sounds conversation; Making careful
suggestions
3D Write a description of data

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Unit 4 Life lessons
Getting started Discuss childhood experiences
4A Discuss events that changed used to and would Cause and result
your life
4B Discuss and describe rules Obligation and Talking about Sounds and
permission dificulty spelling: u
4C Describe photos Contrastive stress Describing photos; Expressing
careful disagreement
4D Write an email to apply for work

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Unit 5 Chance
Getting started Discuss attitudes to risk
5A Discuss possible future events Future probability Adjectives Sounds and
describing attitude spelling: th

5B Prepare for a job interview Future perfect and future The natural world
continuous
5C Discuss advantages and Tone groups Responding to an idea;
disadvantages Discussing advantages and
disadvantages
5D Write an argument for and against
an idea
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Unit 6 Around the globe

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Listening and Video Reading Speaking Writing

Conversation about Jocelyn Bell- Articles: Apple’s design genius Discussing inspiring people
Burnell and The woman who reinvented
children’s TV
Podcast: The 30-day challenge Interviews: 30-day challenge Asking and answering questions about
challenges
Starting a new job Explaining a process; Checking
understanding

Conversation about technology Article: Tech free! Discussing technology Organising an article

Conversation about a survival situation Article: Lost at sea Telling a survival story

Interview: The Tiger Lealet: How to survive … an Giving advice; Asking questions
animal attack
Taking photos Giving compliments and responding

Talking about getting lost Lealet with guidelines for hiking Discussing the natural environment Organising guidelines in a lealet

Conversation: learning experiences Text about learning: Learning to Talking about something you have put a
learn lot of effort into
Radio programme: The Sports Gene Article: Born to be the best?; Discussing sport and ways to improve
Two articles about US baseball performance
players
Making wedding plans Planning a party

Interviews about sports Article: A nation of armchair Talking about popular sports Describing data
athletes?

Interview: Psychology of money; Two texts about winning the Talking about how your life has
Two monologues: Life-changing events lottery changed
Two monologues: training for a job Article: Training to be the best Discuss experiences of training and
rules
Presenting photos Discussing photos; Disagreeing
carefully
Three monologues: living in different Webpage about being an Discussing living in a different country Giving a positive impression
places international student ‘buddy’

Monologue: What are your chances? Quiz: Are you an optimist or a Discussing possible future events
pessimist?; Article: Why we think
we’re going to have a long and
happy life.
Conversation: talking about work Quiz: The unknown continent; Role play: a job interview
Article: Cooking in Antarctica
Money problems Explaining and responding to ideas for
a café

News reports: extreme weather Essay about climate change Giving opinions on climate change Arguing for and against an idea

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Getting started Discuss travelling
6A Discuss choices Gerunds and ininitives Travel and tourism Consonant groups

6B Discuss changes The passive Describing change

6C Introduce requests and learn to say Consonant sounds Introducing requests; showing
you are grateful you are grateful
6D Write a travel blog

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Unit 7 City living
Getting started Discuss the design of new buildings
7A Discuss living in cities too / enough; so / such Describing life in
cities
7B Discuss changes to a home Causative have / get Film and TV; Sounds and
Houses spelling: o
7C Imagine how things could be Stress in compound Imagining how things could be;
nouns Using vague language
7D Write an email to complain

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Unit 8 Dilemmas
Getting started Discuss attitudes to money
8A Discuss personal inance First and second Money and inance
conditionals
8B Discuss moral dilemmas and crime Third conditional; should Crime Sounds and spelling: l
have + past participle
8C How to be encouraging Word groups Being encouraging; Showing you
have things in common
8D Write a review
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Unit 9 Discoveries
Getting started Discuss the impact of new inventions
9A Discuss new inventions Relative clauses Health Sounds and
spelling: ui
9B Discuss people’s lives and Reported speech; Verbs describing
achievements Reporting verbs thought and
knowledge
9C Express uncertainty Linking and intrusion Expressing uncertainty;
Clarifying a misunderstanding
9D Write an essay expressing a point
of view
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Unit 10 Possibilities
Getting started Discuss goals and expectations
10A Speculate about the past Past modals of deduction Adjectives with Word stress
preixes

10B Discuss life achievements Wishes and regrets Verbs of effort

10C Describe how you felt Consonant groups Describing how you felt;
Interrupting and announcing
news
10D Write a narrative
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Communication Plus p.127 Grammar Focus p.134 Vocabulary Focus p.154

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Two monologues about sightseeing Website about four tourist Comparing different tourist destinations
tours destinations; Website: Where
to go?
Interview: disappearing languages Article: Danger! Dying languages Agreeing and disagreeing
Asking for a favour Asking for a favour

Conversation: a trip to the Grand Travel blog: Around the Grand Discussing local tourist destinations Using descriptive language
Canyon Canyon

Interview: ‘Smart’ cities; Two Article: Quick – slow down! Discussing good and bad points about
monologues talking about ‘smart’ cities a city
Two monologues: house renovations Article: Who puts the ‘real’ in Planning a home renovation
reality TV?
Flat hunting Designing and describing a new room

Interviews about a new shopping mall Email: complaining about an Using formal language
important issue

Radio programme: personal inance Article: Is it time to give up on Giving opinions on inancial matters
cash?
Four monologues about honesty Newspaper article: Honest Discussing moral dilemmas
London?
Going to the bank Talking about hopes and worries

Conversation about a TV programme Review: Did the doctor do it? Discussing programmes about crime Organising a review

Conversation about inventions Article: Too good to be true? Talking about inventions

Conversation about a music Article: The rock star who wasn’t Describing an incredible person
documentary

Finding the perfect lat Giving and receiving surprises

Four monologues about alternative Essay about the value of Presenting a series of arguments
medicine alternative medicine

Interview about Dan Cooper Story: The man who Telling stories about coincidences
disappeared;
Blog: The wreck of the Titanic
Two monologues: pursuing a dream Article: Golden Dreams and Describing and comparing brave or
Golden Girls! amazing people
Celebrating good news Telling an important piece of news

Monologue: extract from a thriller Story: extract from a thriller Describing a picture Making a story interesting

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Speaking Plus Listening Useful Language Pronunciation

1E Have you got that? Helping out at work; Explaining what to do; Word stress: weak forms
A new job Checking understanding

2E It looks really good on you Great presentation; Giving compliments; Intonation: conveying meaning and
A new look; Responding to compliments attitude
Conference success;
A lovely cake

3E We could always … Fashion mistake; Making careful suggestions Consonant sounds: ‘silent’ letters
The casual look;
A lift home;
Dinner choices

4E It’s a beautiful shot Three wonderful photos Describing photos Vowel sounds: diphthongs /aʊ/
and /əʊ/

5E The best thing is … Trip of a lifetime Discussing advantages and Consonant sounds: the letter r
disadvantages

6E Please feel free to say no Short-notice stay; Introducing requests Intonation: requests
Can I borrow your dress?;
Babysitting favour

7E It would be a great place to The ideal party location Imagining how things could be Connected speech: elision
dance

8E Try to look on the bright side A dificult situation at work; Being encouraging Vowel sounds: diphthongs /ɪə/, /eə/
Don’t give up! and /ʊə/

9E I haven’t got a clue We’re lost!; Expressing uncertainty Sentence stress: stress in ixed
Can you give me directions?; phrases
A weird insect

10E I was over the moon Congratulations!; Reacting to news Consonant sounds: consonant clusters
What now?
A new job

Get it right! Grammar Vocabulary Spelling

1–3 Learn to talk about people Adjectives Fixed pairs; Double s
and sport Prepositions;
Confusing words

4–6 Learn to talk about The passive; Prepositions; Sufixes

environmental issues Word order: adverbs Confusing words

7–10 Learn to talk about money Reporting verbs; Prepositions; Preixes

Intensiiers Confusing words

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