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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
Pronunciation
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
Grammar
Reference Unit
Determiners - quantifiers:
both ... and, either ...
or, neither ... nor
Grammar
Reference Unit
A day at school
Language Exercise
Question tags
Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit
Language Exercise
Questions, questions!
Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Present simple v
past simple
Language Exercise
Question tags
Pronunciation Activity
Listening Activity
Past tenses
Language Exercise
Listening Activity
Mixed tenses
Language Exercise
Fashion
Listening Activity
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
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.
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
Vocabulary Activity
Pronunciation Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Minimal pairs
contrasting vowels
Generation gap
Listening Activity
Listening Activity
Working in a restaurant
Language Exercise
Listening Activity
Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit
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
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.
Grammar
Reference Unit
Grammar
Reference Unit
Reported questions:
wh- questions
Grammar
Reference Unit
Second conditional
Language Exercise
Reported questions:
yes/no questions
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Reported speech:
tense changes
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Money
Vocabulary Activity
Language Exercise
Pronunciation Activity
Language Exercise
Pronunciation Activity
Reporting verbs
Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit
Upper Intermediate
Test 14
Practice Test
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
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
Language Exercise
Language Exercise
An emergency meeting
Language Exercise
In the Restaurant
Game
A Titanic romance
Language Exercise
Game
Language Exercise
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Unreal tenses
Language Exercise
Terraformer - Average
Game
Question tags
Language Exercise
Word stress
Pronunciation Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Paper 4 Part 3
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Upper Intermediate
Test 02
Practice Test
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
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
Grammar
Reference Unit
Health problems
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Paper 1 Part 3
Grammar
Reference Unit
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Reading Part 3
Grammar
Reference Unit
Exam Preparation
Exercise
A great explorer!
Listening Activity
Language Exercise
Paper 4 Part 4
Language Exercise
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Feeling off-colour
Vocabulary Activity
Listening Section 1:
Sports club (Task 1)
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Vocabulary Activity
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
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
Vocabulary Activity
Horoscopes
Vocabulary Activity
Salvador Dali
Vocabulary Activity
Gobbling Goblins
Game
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
Language Exercise
Listening Activity
Paper 3 Part 2
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Listening Activity
Upper Intermediate
Test 03
Practice Test
Ghost story
Listening Activity
Annoying habits
Listening Activity
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
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.
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Present simple v
present continuous
v present perfect
Grammar
Reference Unit
Eating out
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Passive
Language Exercise
Contracted speech
Pronunciation Activity
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Language Exercise
International food
Listening Activity
Linkers
Language Exercise
Listening Activity
Language Exercise
Listening Activity
Vocabulary Activity
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
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.
Future tenses
Language Exercise
An appointment
with the dentist
Vocabulary Activity
Future tenses
Language Exercise
Language Exercise
Vocabulary Activity
Feeling ill
Vocabulary Activity
Language Exercise
Sentence stress
Pronunciation Activity
Language Exercise
Reading Part 3
Language Exercise
Exam Preparation
Exercise
What's cooking?
Listening Activity
Passive
Language Exercise
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
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
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
Vocabulary Activity
Adjective prefixes
(un-, im-, in-, ir-)
Vocabulary Activity
Verb prefixes
( mis-, dis-, un- )
Vocabulary Activity
Holiday paradise
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Grammar
Reference Unit
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
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
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
Pronunciation
Practising identifying the changing syllable stress in nouns and their corresponding
adjectives.
Listening
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.
Grammar
Reference Unit
Grammar
Reference Unit
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
Vocabulary Activity
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
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
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.
Grammar
Reference Unit
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
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
Listening Activity
<b>Exploring Easter
Island</b>
Web Project
10
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
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
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
Listening Activity
Upper Intermediate
Test 11
Practice Test
A biography of
Andy Warhol
Listening Activity
Advanced Test 01
Practice Test
11
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
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
Grammar
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.
Grammar
Reference Unit
Advertising and
marketing methods
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
A successful exhibition
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Developments in
advertising and marketing
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Pronunciation Activity
Language Exercise
Academic Reading
Passage 3: The Wall
Street Crash (Task 1)
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Language Exercise
BEC Vantage
Listening Part 3
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Inversion
Language Exercise
Vocabulary Activity
Presentation about an
advertising campaign
Listening Activity
12
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
Listening
Vocabulary
Reading
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Acronyms
Vocabulary Activity
Bills included?
Vocabulary Activity
Grammar
Reference Unit
Reading Part 1
Exam Preparation
Exercise
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
Listening Activity
Vocabulary Activity
Listening Activity
Future predictions
and intentions in
academic English
Grammar
Reference Unit
Future perfect
continuous: use
Grammar
Reference Unit
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12 Home
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
Reading
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
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
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
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Prepositions
following nouns
Grammar
Reference Unit
Business meals
Listening Activity
Professor Keen's
Eggcellent Breakfast
Game
Listening Activity
14
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
Grammar
Reference Unit
Language Exercise
Will/won't v
present simple
Grammar
Reference Unit
A politician's statement
Language Exercise
Grammar
Reference Unit
Interactive advertising
Vocabulary Activity
Reading Part 4
Participle clauses in
academic English
Grammar
Reference Unit
Exam Preparation
Exercise
Houses
Vocabulary Activity
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
Listening Activity
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