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This course accompanies 'Inside Out Upper Intermediate'. It corresponds to CEFR level B2
and Cambridge ESOL FCE. There are 16 syllabus items, including four 'Review' syllabus items,
each matching a student's book unit. Within each syllabus item, resources are grouped into five
categories - Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Listening and Reading.

UNIT NUMBER
1 Impressions
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about appearances
and impressions. It covers mixed tenses, auxiliary verbs, 'so' and 'neither', question tags and
embedded questions.
Listening

Listening to a boss complaining politely to an employee about his clothes. Listening to


a journalist from a men's fashion magazine, CHAPS, stopping four men in the street
and asking them about their self-image. Listening to an interview about fashions in
the 60s and 70s.

Pronunciation

Practising intonation of questions qith tags.

Vocabulary

Practising collocations.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of when to use the present perfect continuous. Checking
your knowledge of the use of 'so', 'neither' and 'nor' to agree with somebody.
Checking your knowledge of 'both ... and', 'either ... or', 'neither ... nor'. Checking
your knowledge of question and reply tags. Checking your knowledge of embedded
questions. Practising the present simple and past simple. Practising the past simple,
present perfect, past perfect simple and continuous. Practising the past simple and
present perfect simple and continuous. Practising the present perfect simple and
continuous. Practising 'so' and 'neither' and the auxiliary verbs that you use with
them in short responses. Practising question tags. Practising indirect questions during
an interview. Practising question tags and negative questions.

Present perfect
continuous: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Inversion: with so,


neither and nor

Grammar
Reference Unit

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Determiners - quantifiers:
both ... and, either ...
or, neither ... nor

Grammar
Reference Unit

A day at school

Language Exercise

Question tags

Language Exercise

Question, reply tags: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Interviewing a young star

Language Exercise

Questions, questions!

Language Exercise

Embedded questions: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Boost your self-esteem

Vocabulary Activity

Present simple v
past simple

Language Exercise

Question tags

Pronunciation Activity

The dress code

Listening Activity

Past tenses

Language Exercise

You are what you wear

Listening Activity

Mixed tenses

Language Exercise

Fashion

Listening Activity

Ibiza - paradise lost

Language Exercise

2 Generations
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about relationships
between teenagers and parents. It covers verbs + infinitive and 'ing' and adjective structures.
Pronunciation

Contrasting vowels and diphthongs in minimal pairs.

Listening

Listening to an interview about life in the 1920s. Listening to Andy saying how he
feels about meeting his girlfriend's parents. Listening to Sarah's parents discussing
how they feel about meeting her boyfriend.

Vocabulary

Practising phrasal verbs with 'get'. Practising words for family relationships. Practising
using synonyms. Practising phrasal verbs.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the structure object + infinitive without 'to'. Checking
your knowledge of the structure verb + object + infinitive. Checking your knowledge
of common adjectives followed by the prepositions 'about', 'at', 'by' and 'for'.
Checking your knowledge of adjectives followed by the prepositions 'in', 'of', 'to'
and 'with'. Checking your knowledge of adjectives ending in '-ed' followed by a
preposition. Practising verbs followed by an '-ing' form or infinitive with a change in
meaning. Practising the use of prepositions after certain adjectives.

-ing forms and infinitives

Language Exercise

My musical friend

Language Exercise

Grammar
Reference Unit

Daniela's problem

Vocabulary Activity

Family relationships

Vocabulary Activity

Adjectives followed
by prepositions:
about, at, by, for

Grammar
Reference Unit

A society wedding

Vocabulary Activity

Personal space

Vocabulary Activity

Adjectives followed
by prepositions:
in, of, to, with

Grammar
Reference Unit

Julie's bossy parents

Vocabulary Activity
Pronunciation Activity

Adjectives ending in -ed


and -ing : -ed adjectives
followed by prepositions

Grammar
Reference Unit

Minimal pairs
contrasting vowels
Generation gap

Listening Activity

Meeting the parents

Listening Activity

Working in a restaurant

Language Exercise

Meet the boyfriend

Listening Activity

-ing forms and infinitives

Language Exercise

Verb + object + verb:


object + infinitive
without to

Grammar
Reference Unit

Verb + object + verb:


object + infinitive

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3 Gold
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about money matters. It
covers reported speech and unreal tenses.
Pronunciation

Practising the schwa sound. Practising identifying the schwa sound.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of reported speech. Checking your knowledge of 'Wh' reported questions. Checking your knowledge of 'yes/no' reported questions.
Checking your knowledge of the tense changes used in reported speech. Practising
reported speech. Practising reported speech and questions. Practising a variety of
reporting verbs. Checking your knowledge of unreal tenses. Checking your knowledge
of the uses of the second conditional. Practising the second conditional.

Reading
Listening

Listening to four young people talking about how they spend their pocket money and
completing a table.

Vocabulary

Practising collocations with the verbs 'take', 'have' and 'break'. Practising collocations
with the verbs 'get', 'do' and 'make'. Practising words that are often confused.
Practising verbs you need to talk about money.

Reported speech: changes

Grammar
Reference Unit

Second conditional: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Reported questions:
wh- questions

Grammar
Reference Unit

Second conditional

Language Exercise

Reported questions:
yes/no questions

Grammar
Reference Unit

Take, have or break?

Vocabulary Activity

Get, do and make

Vocabulary Activity

Reported speech:
tense changes

Grammar
Reference Unit

How much do you earn?

Vocabulary Activity

Money

Vocabulary Activity

The spy granny

Language Exercise

Money, money, money

Pronunciation Activity

An interview with Picasso

Language Exercise

Find the schwa

Pronunciation Activity

Reporting verbs

Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit

Upper Intermediate
Test 14

Practice Test

Unreal tenses: wish,


if only, would rather,
it's time, hope

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Review A
This syllabus item provides further practice of the language points revised in the student's book
unit. It also provides additional practice of listening skills.
Pronunciation

Identifying the stress pattern in two- and three-syllable words.

Listening

Listening to five people talking about their sisters and matching statements with each
speaker.

Vocabulary

Practising phrasal verbs with 'take'. Practising phrasal verbs used to talk about
relationships. Playing a problem-solving game involving buying and selling.

Grammar

Testing your knowledge of tenses and quantifiers. Practising the past simple, present
perfect and present perfect continuous. Practising the present and past simple.
Practising the use of the verbs 'hope' and 'expect'. Practising unreal tenses. Practising
question tags. Checking your knowledge of the use of gerunds and infinitives. Testing
your knowledge of tenses and verbs followed by '-ing' form or infinitive. Practising the
use of reported speech. Playing a game to match statements in the present with their
reply tags. Playing a game to complete the conditional sentences.

Upper Intermediate
Test 04

Practice Test

What did you say?

Language Exercise

The Martians are


not coming

Language Exercise

An emergency meeting

Language Exercise

In the Restaurant

Game

A Titanic romance

Language Exercise

The Balloon Fiesta

Game

Visitor hopes and


expectations

Language Exercise

Phrasal verbs with take

Vocabulary Activity

Chat room introduction

Vocabulary Activity

Unreal tenses

Language Exercise

Terraformer - Average

Game

Question tags

Language Exercise

Word stress

Pronunciation Activity

Gerunds and infinitives:


likes and dislikes

Grammar
Reference Unit

Paper 4 Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Upper Intermediate
Test 02

Practice Test

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4 Challenge
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about challenges and
health. It covers future tenses and phrasal verbs.
Grammar

Checking your knowledge of how to use narrative tenses correctly. Checking your
knowledge of the uses of the future perfect. Checking your knowledge of when to use
the future continuous. Checking your knowledge of the different ways of expressing
the future in the past. Checking your knowledge of the future with 'will', the future
continuous and the future perfect. Practising the present simple, the present
continuous and 'will'. Practising the future perfect and continuous, 'will' and 'going
to'.

Listening

Listening to a conversation about Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Listening to a man called


Leonard talking to a friend of his about a sports club.

Vocabulary

Practising common idioms of health and sickness. Practising the correct use of words
and the understanding of a text by putting the correct forms of certain words into
gaps to complete the text, and then selecting which points are made about health
and safety in the article. Practising looking for more formal equivalents for a number
of different expressions in an article that discusses the impacts on health of banning
smoking in public places. Practising words for different types of health problems.
Practising phrasal verbs used to talk about sports and hobbies.

Reading

Reading and choosing the correct options to answer questions on a text about people
who gave up TV for a month. Reading for gist and specific information and selecting
the correct option to answer questions on a text about smoking in the developing
world.

Narrative tenses
contrasted

Grammar
Reference Unit

Health effects of
banning smoking

Vocabulary Activity

Future perfect: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Health problems

Vocabulary Activity

Future continuous: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Why I love my hobby

Vocabulary Activity

Paper 1 Part 3

Future in the past

Grammar
Reference Unit

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Reading Part 3

Will v future continuous


v future perfect

Grammar
Reference Unit

Exam Preparation
Exercise

A great explorer!

Listening Activity

English: a global language

Language Exercise

Paper 4 Part 4

Future tense contrasts

Language Exercise

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Feeling off-colour

Vocabulary Activity

Listening Section 1:
Sports club (Task 1)

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Health and safety

Vocabulary Activity

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5 Ritual
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about rituals, ceremonies
and habits. It covers 'would' and 'used to' for habits and verb patterns.
Grammar

Checking your knowledge of 'would' and 'used to' to talk about past habits and
states. Checking your knowledge of how to use 'would' to talk about repeated actions
in the past. Practising 'used to' for past habits and states. Testing your knowledge
of tenses and verbs followed by gerund or infinitive. Practising mixed prepositions.
Completing a text about how much TV very young children in Britain watch.

Pronunciation

Identifying attitude by listening to sentence intonation and stress. Listening to


different people talking about celebrations they have attended and keying in the
correct answers, then, choosing what linking sound is made between words.

Listening

Listening to Laura talking about her father and his car. Listening to someone from the
Marriage Guidance Organization talking about the type of problems it helps couples
with. Listening to students exchanging views on declining birth rates. Listening to a
conversation about seeing a ghost. Listening to a woman talking about her annoying
work-mate.

Vocabulary

Practising phrasal verbs. Practising word formation. Playing a game by putting all the
phrases to do with a teenager's daily routine in order.


Would v used to : past
habits v past states

Grammar
Reference Unit

A night at the Oscars!

Vocabulary Activity

Horoscopes

Vocabulary Activity

Salvador Dali

Vocabulary Activity

Gobbling Goblins

Game

Are they angry?

Pronunciation Activity

Celebrations

Pronunciation Activity

Rituals

Listening Activity

Would : repeated
actions in the past

Grammar
Reference Unit

Used to

Language Exercise

Upper Intermediate
Test 01

Practice Test

Women's dating rules

Language Exercise

Trouble and strife

Listening Activity

Paper 3 Part 2

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Declining birth rates

Listening Activity

Upper Intermediate
Test 03

Practice Test

Ghost story

Listening Activity

Annoying habits

Listening Activity

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6 Eat
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about food and eating
out. It covers the present perfect, the passive and linkers.
Pronunciation

Practising the difference between 'like' and 'would like' in its contracted form.

Vocabulary

Practising words for parts of the body. Practising words and phrases used in cooking.
Practising words related to eating and drinking. Practising numbers and prices.

Listening

Listening to extracts from a conversation about international food. Listening to two


business people discussing which restaurant to go to. Listening to a nutritionist
talking about food and drink. Listening to someone ordering food in a restaurant.

Reading

Understanding details, attitudes and opinions, and the purpose of a text in an article
on 'greasy spoons' (cheap, typical English cafs).

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the use of the present perfect simple and continuous.
Checking your knowledge of when to use the present simple, the present continuous
or the present perfect. Contrasting various tenses of the passive voice. Practising the
linkers 'although', 'however', 'furthermore', 'in spite of', 'because' and 'because of'.
Practising linking words like 'however', 'since' and 'therefore'. Practising concession
clauses.

Present perfect simple


v continuous

Grammar
Reference Unit

Eating and drinking

Vocabulary Activity

Present simple v
present continuous
v present perfect

Grammar
Reference Unit

Eating out

Vocabulary Activity

Numbers and prices

Vocabulary Activity

Passive

Language Exercise

Contracted speech

Pronunciation Activity

Paper 1 Reading Part 4

Exam Preparation
Exercise

What do you think of


computer games?

Language Exercise
International food

Listening Activity

Linkers

Language Exercise

Where shall we eat?

Listening Activity

Food in the Harbour City

Language Exercise

What food is good for you?

Listening Activity

Parts of the body

Vocabulary Activity

Restaurants and eating out

Listening Activity

Cooking

Vocabulary Activity

Review B
This syllabus item provides further practice of the language points revised in the student's book
unit. It also provides additional practice of reading and listening skills.
Pronunciation

Identifying the main stressed words in sentences and questions.

Vocabulary

Practising mixed phrasal verbs. Practising words for parts of the body. Practising
words for different types of health problems.

Listening

Listening to people talking about restaurants. Listening to two people ordering food.
Listening to parents talking to their daughter about mobile phones.

Reading

Reading for gist and specific information and selecting the correct option to answer
questions on a text about smoking in the developing world.

Grammar

Practising a variety of future tenses. Practising past tenses with various meanings.
Practising 'used to' and the past simple. Practising different forms of the passive.
Practising the passive. Practising linking with '-ing' clauses.

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Future tenses

Language Exercise

An appointment
with the dentist

Vocabulary Activity

Future tenses

Language Exercise

The rain will have


stopped by then

Language Exercise

Parts of the body

Vocabulary Activity

Feeling ill

Vocabulary Activity

Present, past or future?

Language Exercise

Sentence stress

Pronunciation Activity

Used to v past simple

Language Exercise

Reading Part 3

Buying goods and


equipment

Language Exercise

Exam Preparation
Exercise

What's cooking?

Listening Activity

Passive

Language Exercise

What's on the menu?

Listening Activity

Visit to a restaurant

Language Exercise

Paper 4 Part 4

Exam Preparation
Exercise

7 Escape
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about travelling and
holidays. It covers reporting verbs, modals and articles.
Vocabulary

Practising suffixes used to make adjectives into nouns. Practising adjective prefixes
(un-, im-, in-, ir-). Practising verb prefixes (mis-, dis-, un-). Practising verbs and nouns
for holiday activities. Completing a text about a prize holiday.

Reading

Choosing the correct options to answer questions on a text about campsites in


various countries.

Pronunciation

Focusing on word stress in sentences in which speakers express strong opinions and
feelings. Identifying speakers' attitudes from their intonation. Identifying the main
syllable stress in countries and nationalities.

Listening

Listening to three speakers talking about their holidays.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the verbs 'say' and 'tell'. Checking your knowledge of
reporting verbs. Checking your knowledge of how to use reporting verbs. Checking
your knowledge of talking about ability in the past. Checking your knowledge of using
forms of 'must', 'need' and 'have to' to talk about obligation and necessity. Checking
your knowledge of articles. Practising the use of articles.

Say v tell
: differences and uses

Grammar
Reference Unit

Nouns from adjectives

Vocabulary Activity

Adjective prefixes
(un-, im-, in-, ir-)

Vocabulary Activity

Verb prefixes
( mis-, dis-, un- )

Vocabulary Activity

Holiday paradise

Vocabulary Activity

Reporting verbs: list

Grammar
Reference Unit

Reporting verbs: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Ability: could, be able to


Grammar
Reference Unit

Paper 3 Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Obligation/necessity:
need, needn't, must,
mustn't, have to, don't
have to, needn't have,
didn't need to.

Grammar
Reference Unit

A trip abroad

Pronunciation Activity

Speaking with feeling

Pronunciation Activity

Word stress

Pronunciation Activity

Articles: contrast
of all forms

Grammar
Reference Unit

Paper 1 Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Marketing strategies

Language Exercise

Holidays

Listening Activity

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8 Attraction
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about appearance and
attraction. It covers passive structures, passive reporting verbs and unreal tenses.
Vocabulary

Practising fixed phrases. Practising idiomatic similes. Practising compound adjectives


used to descibe people. Practising word formation. Practising word building.

Pronunciation

Practising identifying the changing syllable stress in nouns and their corresponding
adjectives.

Listening

Listening to the desciptions of four people. Listening to three people discussing


cosmetic surgery. Listening to teenagers talking about a celebrity they met.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the way in which we use 'have something done'.
Checking your knowledge of the use of 'have somebody / something do something'.
Checking your knowledge of the passive voice. Practising the passive and causatives.
Checking your knowledge of unreal tenses. Practising unreal tenses. Checking your
knowledge of how reported speech is used in academic English.

Uses of have: have


something done

Grammar
Reference Unit

Uses of have: have


somebody / something
do something

Grammar
Reference Unit

The passive: impersonal


statements

Grammar
Reference Unit

Cher

<b>Reported speech in
academic writing</b>

Grammar
Reference Unit

A strange creature

Vocabulary Activity

My grandfather

Vocabulary Activity

Compound adjectives

Vocabulary Activity

Language Exercise

Could Shakespeare write?

Vocabulary Activity

Unreal tenses: wish,


if only, would rather,
it's time, hope

Grammar
Reference Unit

Paper 3 Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Changing stress in
nouns and adjectives

Pronunciation Activity

Unreal tenses

Language Exercise

Describing people

Listening Activity

Plastic surgery

Listening Activity

Meeting a celebrity

Listening Activity

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9 Genius
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about art and inventions.
It covers modals of deduction, certainty and possibility.
Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the use of 'have' to make deductions. Practising modals
of deduction, 'must' and 'can't', and of possibility, 'might' and 'could'. Practising the
use of the linking phrase 'as if/as though' for describing impressions.

Pronunciation

Practising syllable stress in single words. Practising syllable stress.

Reading

Matching pieces of information with the sections of the text in which they are
mentioned. Focusing on detailed comprehension of points made, opinions expressed
and vocabulary used in a text. Doing a web project on Easter Island.

Listening

Listening to four people talking about some new products. Listening to a radio
debate concerning the greatest inventions of the past 200 years. Listening to part of
a radio programme about a museum and keying in missing information to complete
sentences. Listening to part of a radio programme about a museum and keying in
missing information to complete sentences. Listening to the description of the Nazca
Lines in Peru.

Vocabulary

Practising words you need to talk about music. Practising words used to describe
different kinds of paintings. Practising fixed phrases. Practising grouping nouns with
their related nouns and adjectives. Selecting the correct words to complete a text
about ancient art.

Uses of have : deduction

Grammar
Reference Unit

Certainty and possibility

Language Exercise

Progress report

Language Exercise

Music

Vocabulary Activity

What kind of
paintings are they?

Vocabulary Activity

Ancient art

Vocabulary Activity

Word building

Vocabulary Activity

Paper 3 Part 1

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Word stress patterns

Pronunciation Activity

Word stress

Pronunciation Activity

Paper 1 Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Paper 1 Part 1

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Strange inventions

Listening Activity

Inventions

Listening Activity

Paper 4 Part 2

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Mysteries: the Nazca Lines

Listening Activity

<b>Exploring Easter
Island</b>

Web Project

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Review C
This syllabus item provides further practice of the language points revised in the student's book
unit. It also provides additional practice of reading and listening skills.
Vocabulary

Selecting the correct adjectives to complete a conversation about pony-trekking.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of how to make suggestions and give advice using 'would'.
Checking your knowledge of using 'had better' and 'would rather' to give advice and
opinions. Checking your knowledge of using 'should' and 'ought to' to give advice
and opinions. Practising reporting verbs like 'agree', 'accuse' and 'insist'. Testing your
knowledge of the passive voice and tense consolidation. Testing your knowledge of
future tenses and past tense modals. Practising the modal verbs 'can't' and 'must'.
Testing your knowledge of passives and prepositions of time: 'in', 'at', 'on'.

Listening

Listening lecturer talking about the Young British Artists and completing a student's
notes with missing words. Listening a speaker talking about the life of Andy Warhol
and keying in the missing words to complete the student's notes.

Reading

Reading a short text on the art movement known as Impressionism and deciding on
the meaning of a series of words in the context of the text. Reading an article about
Scottish inventions and discoveries and deciding if a series of statements expressing
the writer's opinion are true, false or if the answer is not given.

Pronunciation

Identifying interested intonation in questions.

Would : suggestions/advice

Grammar
Reference Unit

Underwater discovery

Language Exercise

Advice/opinion: had
better, would rather

Grammar
Reference Unit

Intermediate Test 10

Practice Test

A world of Scottish
invention

Language Exercise

Advice/opinion:
should, ought to

Grammar
Reference Unit

A great time

Vocabulary Activity

Certainty/deduction:
must, can't

Grammar
Reference Unit

Impressionism

Vocabulary Activity

Intonation

Pronunciation Activity

Reporting verbs

Language Exercise

Young British Artists

Listening Activity

Upper Intermediate
Test 11

Practice Test

A biography of
Andy Warhol

Listening Activity

Advanced Test 01

Practice Test

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10 Sell
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about buying and selling,
and marketing. It covers relative clauses and cleft sentences.
Listening

Listening to an interview about marketing and selecting the correct answer to


questions. Listening to a presentation by an advertising executive about a campaign
his agency is planning for a client.

Reading

Reading a text about an important event that took place in the United States in 1929
and choosing the correct heading for each paragraph of the passage.

Pronunciation

Identifying speakers' attitudes from their intonation.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the omission of object pronouns in relative clauses.


Checking your knowledge of the use of 'that' in relative clauses. Checking your
knowledge of the difference between defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Checking your knowledge of relative pronouns. Practising the use of 'What' at the
beginning of sentences for emphasis. Practising fronting. Contrasting the positions of
adverbial phrases with and without inversion.

Vocabulary

Practising collocations that are widely used in business. Practising words and phrases
in common use in the world of advertising and marketing. Watching a video and
matching business terms to their definitions. Using language from the video to create
a summary of the presentation. Practising terms used in marketing. Practising words
and phrases connected with advertising and marketing.

Object pronoun omission


in relative clauses

Grammar
Reference Unit

Advertising and
marketing methods

Vocabulary Activity

Defining v nondefining relative


clauses: use of that

Grammar
Reference Unit

Video 3: New lines

Vocabulary Activity

What does that mean?

Vocabulary Activity

A successful exhibition

Vocabulary Activity

Defining v nondefining relative


clauses: comparison

Grammar
Reference Unit

Developments in
advertising and marketing

Vocabulary Activity

Relative pronouns: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Speaking with feeling

Pronunciation Activity

Comments on the cinema

Language Exercise

Academic Reading
Passage 3: The Wall
Street Crash (Task 1)

Exam Preparation
Exercise

The Sony Ericsson


Empire Film Awards

Language Exercise

BEC Vantage
Listening Part 3

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Inversion

Language Exercise
Vocabulary Activity

Presentation about an
advertising campaign

Listening Activity

Business news extracts

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11 Student
This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about education and job
interviews. It covers future forms and time clauses.
Grammar

Checking your knowledge of how to express future predictions and intentions


in academic English. Checking your knowledge of the use of the future perfect
continuous. Checking your knowledge of using the present simple to talk about fixed
future events. Checking your knowledge of the use of the present simple to talk about
the future in subordinate clauses. Checking your knowledge of how to use 'would' to
express future in the past. Checking your knowledge of using 'be possible' and 'be
likely' to talk about possibility.

Listening

Listening to a telephone conversation about a job interview and deciding if


statements are true or false. Listening to a speaker giving advice about job interviews
to a group of college students. Listening to a conversation about how people are
selected for job interviews.

Vocabulary

Reading a text explaining to university students some of the facilities available on


campus and completing the text with words and phrases. Practising words and
phrases you need to talk about education. Watching a video of an applicant being
interviewed for a job, identifying phrases expressing likes and dislikes and deciding
how much each applicant likes his or her job. Practising common collocations in
business language. Practising the full form of common English abbreviations.
Matching vocabulary and abbreviations with their definitions.

Reading

Focusing on scanning and understanding gist in job descriptions and advertisements.


Identifying which words are incorrect or unnecessary in a job advertisement.
Brown University, USA

Vocabulary Activity

Video 1: Why are you


applying for the job?

Vocabulary Activity

Applying for a job

Vocabulary Activity

Grammar
Reference Unit

Acronyms

Vocabulary Activity

Bills included?

Vocabulary Activity

Present simple with


future meaning:
subordinate clauses

Grammar
Reference Unit

Reading Part 1

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Would : future in the past

Grammar
Reference Unit

Reading Part 6

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Possibility: be likely,
be possible

Grammar
Reference Unit

Short-listed for
an interview

Listening Activity

On the campus

Vocabulary Activity

Your first interview

Listening Activity

Albert Einstein's education

Vocabulary Activity

Talking about CVs


and job interviews

Listening Activity

Future predictions
and intentions in
academic English

Grammar
Reference Unit

Future perfect
continuous: use

Grammar
Reference Unit

Present simple with future


meaning: fixed events

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This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about houses and eating
habits. It covers participle clauses, prepositions and quantity expresssions.
Listening

Understanding gist, specific information, attitude and opinion in a talk about


architecture in the United States. Listening to part of a radio programme on business
meals. Listening to a psychologist talking about what a room says about the person
living there.

Reading

Reading a text about houses of the future in Britain.

Vocabulary

Playing a game by selecting the prepositions that describe the movements of the egg
while it goes through the machine and helping Professor Keen have a good breakfast.
Practising words related to houses. Practising phrasal verbs connected with daily
routines.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of the use of the participle in clauses. Practising participle
clauses. Checking your knowledge of the uses of quantity pronouns. Practising 'a lot
of', 'a little', 'a few', 'too many', 'too much' and 'enough'. Practising verbs followed
by certain prepositions. Practising prepositions following adjectives. Checking your
knowledge about prepositions that follow nouns.

Participles: clauses

Grammar
Reference Unit

My home

Vocabulary Activity

Participle clauses

Language Exercise

A very bad day

Vocabulary Activity

Quantity pronouns:
enough, plenty, a
lot, a great deal

Grammar
Reference Unit

Academic Reading
Passage 2: Houses of
the future (Task 1)

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Quantity

Language Exercise

Academic Reading
Passage 2: Houses of
the future (Task 2)

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Verbs and prepositions

Language Exercise

Prepositions after
adjectives

Language Exercise

Academic Reading
Passage 2: Houses of
the future (Task 3)

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Prepositions following
adjectives

Grammar
Reference Unit

FCE Paper 4 Part 4

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Prepositions
following nouns

Grammar
Reference Unit

Business meals

Listening Activity

Professor Keen's
Eggcellent Breakfast

Game

What does your room


say about you?

Listening Activity

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Review D
This syllabus item provides further practice of the language points revised in the student's book
unit. It also provides additional practice of reading and listening skills.
Reading

Choosing the correct word to complete a text about a target market. Reading a text
explaining to university students some of the facilities available on campus.

Vocabulary

Reading a lecture transcript about the methodology and results of a piece of research
and selecting the correct answers to complete the text. Practising rooms and places
inside and outside the home.

Grammar

Checking your knowledge of using the present simple to talk about fixed future
events. Checking your knowledge of the future with 'will' and the present simple to
talk about the future. Checking your knowledge of how to use the present simple of
'be' to talk about events in the future. Checking your knowledge of participle clauses
in academic English. Practising the use of the verbs 'hope' and 'expect'. Practising
'wh-' clauses. Practising defining and non-defining relative clauses. Practising relative
pronouns and their use in defining and non-defining relative clauses. Practising the
use of prepositions in relative clauses.

Listening

Listening to a colleague explaining the focus of an advertising campaign. Listening to


a lecturer talk about independent and state schools in the United Kingdom. Listening
to people talking about breakfast habits in different places.

Present simple with future


meaning: fixed events

Grammar
Reference Unit

Defining and nondefining relative clauses

Language Exercise

Will/won't v
present simple

Grammar
Reference Unit

A politician's statement

Language Exercise

Present simple with future


meaning: other uses

Grammar
Reference Unit

Interactive advertising

Vocabulary Activity

Reading Part 4

Participle clauses in
academic English

Grammar
Reference Unit

Exam Preparation
Exercise

Houses

Vocabulary Activity

Visitor hopes and


expectations

Language Exercise

On the campus

Vocabulary Activity

Selling points

Listening Activity

A protest march

Language Exercise

Schools in the UK

Listening Activity

Relative clauses

Language Exercise

Breakfast all over


the world

Listening Activity

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