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Unit
Communication
Goals
Vocabulary Grammar
1
New
Perspectives
page 2
Suggest ways to enjoy life
more
Describe peoples personalities
Compare perspectives on life
Share a life-changing
experience
Personality types
Word Skill:
Classifying by positive and
negative meaning
Gerunds and infinitives: changes
in meaning
Gerunds and infinitives: summary
Grammar for Writing:
parallelism with gerunds and
infinitives
2
Musical
Moods
page 14
Describe the music you listen to
Explain the role of music in
your life
Describe a creative person
Discuss the benefits of music
Elements of music
Describing creative
personalities
Word Skill:
Using participial adjectives
The present perfect and the
present perfect continuous:
finished and unfinished actions
Noun clauses
Finished and unfinished actions:
summary
The past perfect continuous
Grammar for Writing: noun
clauses as adjective and noun
complements
3
Money
Matters
page 26
Talk about your financial goals
Express buyers remorse
Describe your spending habits
Discuss reasons for charitable
giving
Expressing buyers remorse
Describing spending habits
Charity and investment
Future plans and finished future
actions
The past unreal conditional:
inverted form
The future continuous
The future perfect continuous
4
Looking
Good
page 38
Discuss appropriate dress
Comment on fashion and style
Evaluate ways to change ones
appearance
Discuss appearance and
self-esteem
Describing fashion and style
Word Skill:
Using the prefix self-
Quantifiers
Quantifiers: review
A few and few, a little and little
Using of
Without referents
Grammar for Writing:
subject-verb agreement with
quantifiers with of
5
Community
page 50
Politely ask someone not to do
something
Complain about public
conduct
Discuss social responsibility
Identify urban problems
Ways to soften an objection
Ways to perform community
service
Word Skill:
Using negative prefixes to
form antonyms
Possessives with gerunds
Paired conjunctions
Conjunctions with so, too,
neither, or not either
So, too, neither, or not either:
short responses
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Conversation
Strategies
Listening/
Pronunciation
Reading Writing
Use Actually to soften a
negative response
Use I wonder to elicit an
opinion politely
Use You know to indicate that
you are about to offer advice
or a suggestion
Listening Skills:
Infer point of view
Listen for main ideas
Understand from context
Content words and function
words
Texts:
A magazine article about
finding balance in life
A magazine article about
optimism vs. pessimism
A survey about perspectives
onlife
Skills/strategies:
Relate to personal experience
Identify supporting details
Task:
Describe personality
types
Writing Skill:
Paragraph structure:
review
Use So to indicate a desire to
begin a conversation
Confirm information with right?
Use You know to introduce
information and be less abrupt
Begin answers with Well to
introduce an opinion
Listening Skills:
Listen to activate vocabulary
Listen for main ideas
Listen for supporting details
Intonation patterns
Texts:
Brief CD reviews from a
website
Interviews: the role of music in
ones life
A biography of Ludwig van
Beethoven
Skills/strategies:
Make personal comparisons
Activate language from a text
Task:
Describe yourself
Writing Skill:
Parallel structure
Use Hey to indicate enthusiasm
Use to tell you the truth to
introduce an unexpected
assertion
Ask What do you mean?
to clarify
Agree informally with
Youre telling me
Listening Skills:
Infer reasons
Listen for main ideas
Listen for details
Sentence rhythm
Texts:
Financial tips from a
newspaper
Interviews: financial goals
A magazine article about Paul
Newmans philanthropy
Skills/strategies:
Make personal comparisons
Express and support an
opinion
Task:
Explain your financial
goals
Writing Skill:
Sequencing events:
review
Use Can you believe to
indicate disapproval
Use Dont you think to
promote consensus
Begin a response with Well to
convey polite disagreement or
reservation
Stress the main verb to
acknowledge only partial
agreement
Listening Skills:
Infer information
Listen to activate vocabulary
Listen to summarize
Express and support an opinion
Linking sounds
Texts:
A newspaper article about
casual dress at work
A magazine article about how
the media affects
self-image
Skills/strategies:
Examine cultural expectations
Identify supporting details
Apply ideas
Task:
Compare two
peoples tastes in
fashion
Writing Skill:
Compare and
contrast: review
Use Do you mind to express
concern that an intended
action may offend
Use Actually to object politely
Use expressions such as I hope
thats not a problem to soften
an objection
Say Not at all to indicate a
willingness to comply
Listening Skills:
Listen to summarize
Listen for details
Critical thinking
Unstressed syllables
Texts:
A graph depicting world
population changes
Interviews: pet peeves about
public conduct
An interview about
megacities
Skills/strategies:
Interpret data from a graph
Express your ideas
Confirm content
Understand from context
Infer information
Task:
Complain about a
problem
Writing Skill:
Formal letters: review
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Unit
Communication
Goals
Vocabulary Grammar
6
Animals
page 62
Exchange opinions about the
treatment of animals
Discuss the benefits of
certainpets
Compare animal characters
Debate the value of animal
conservation
Ways animals are used or
treated
Describing pets
Describing character traits
The passive voice with modals
Modals and modal-like
expressions: summary
7
Advertising
and
Consumers
page 74
Give shopping advice
Discuss your reactions to ads
Persuade someone to buy a
product
Describe consumer shopping
habits
Describing low prices and
high prices
Shopping expressions
Ways to persuade
Passive forms of gerunds and
infinitives
Grammar for Writing: past
forms of gerunds and infinitives
8
Family
Trends
page 86
Describe family trends
Discuss parent / teen issues
Compare generations
Describe care for the elderly
Examples of bad behavior
Describing parent and teen
behavior
Word Skill:
Transforming verbs and
adjectives into nouns
Repeated comparatives and
double comparatives
Making comparisons: summary
Other uses of comparatives,
superlatives, and comparisons
with as . . . as
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Historys
Mysteries
page 98
Speculate about the
out-of-the-ordinary
Present a theory about a
pastevent
Discuss how believable a
storyis
Evaluate the trustworthiness
of news sources
Ways to say I dont know
Ways to express certainty
Word Skill:
Using adjectives with the
suffix -able
Indirect speech with modals
Perfect modals in the passive
voice for speculating about
thepast
Say, ask, and tell: summary
Grammar for Writing: other
reporting verbs
10
Your Free
Time
page 110
Explain the benefits of leisure
activities
Describe hobbies and other
interests
Compare your use of leisure
time
Discuss the risk-taking
personality
Ways to express fear and
fearlessness
Word Skills:
Using collocations for leisure
activities
Modifying with adverbs
Order of modifiers
Adverbs of manner
Intensifiers
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Pronunciation table / Irregular verbs .................................................................................................... page A2
Stative verbs / Verbs followed by a gerund / Expressions that can be followed by a gerund ............. page A3
Verbs followed directly by an innitive / Verbs followed by an object before an innitive ................ page A4
Adjectives followed by an innitive ....................................................................................................... page A4
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Conversation
Strategies
Listening/
Pronunciation
Reading Writing
Use Ive heard to introduce a
statement of popular opinion
Use for one thing to provide
one reason among several in
supporting an argument
Use believe it or not
to introduce surprising
information
Listening Skills:
Listen to activate vocabulary
Express and support an opinion
Draw conclusions
Make comparisons
Sound reduction
Texts:
The Chinese Zodiac
A discussion board about the
humane treatment of animals
An article about animal
conservation
Skills/strategies:
Evaluate ideas
Understand from context
Critical thinking
Task:
Express an opinion
on animal treatment
Writing Skill:
Persuasion
Soften a wish or a statement of
intent with I think Id like to
Respond with nothing in
particular to indicate indecision
or avoid commitment
Make a suggestion by saying
something would be a good bet
Say Of course to make an
affirmative answer stronger
Listening Skills:
Listen to activate vocabulary
Support reasoning with details
Apply ideas
Vowel sounds
Texts:
Interviews: reactions to ads
A presentation of eight
advertising techniques
A magazine article about
compulsive shopping
Skills/strategies:
Understand from context
Infer information
Relate to personal experience
Task:
Explain an article
youread
Writing Skill:
Summarize and
paraphrase another
persons ideas
Use I hate to say it, but
to introduce unwelcome
information
Respond with I suppose to
indicate partial agreement
Use But to introduce a
dissenting opinion
Listening Skills:
Listen to apply grammar
Listen to activate vocabulary
Make personal comparisons
Listen to summarize
Listen for details
Compare and contrast
Critical thinking
Stress placement
Texts:
A brochure about falling
birthrates
A newspaper article about
Chinas elderly population
Case studies: aging parents
Skills/strategies:
Identify cause and effect
Summarize
Confirm content
Draw conclusions
Task:
Describe your
relationship with a
family member
Writing Skill:
Avoiding run-on
sentences and
comma splices
Respond with Beats me to
admit lack of knowledge
Say Youre probably right
to acknowledge anothers
encouragement
Ask a question with Why else
would to confirm ones own
opinion
Listening Skills:
Listen for main ideas
Listen to summarize
Draw conclusions
Reduction and linking
Texts:
Encyclopedia entries about
well-known mysteries
A magazine article about the
worlds greatest hoaxes
Skills/strategies:
Draw conclusions
Activate prior knowledge
Confirm facts
Task:
Write a news article
Writing Skill:
Avoiding sentence
fragments
Use kind of like to make a
loose comparison
Use I hate to say this, but to
excuse oneself for disagreeing
Use Well, even so to
acknowledge someones point
but disagree politely
Listening Skills:
Listen to define
Relate to personal experience
Vowel sounds
Texts:
Statistics comparing
technological promises vs. reality
Message-board posts about
unusual hobbies
A magazine article about
technology and leisure time
Skills/strategies:
Draw conclusions
Identify supporting details
Task:
Comment on
anothers point
ofview
Writing Skill:
Expressing and
supporting opinions
clearly
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Verbs that can be followed by a gerund or an innitive / Participial adjectives .................................. page A4
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