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Contents
Unit

Language focus

Vocabulary

Reading

1 The concrete
jungle

Subject and object questions

City adjectives
Compound nouns

Person and city profiles

page 6

2 Lives and loves

page 14

Recycling
Present Simple & Past Simple
Question words
Past Simple and Past
Continuous
used to
Recycling
Past Simple

3 Work it out
page 22

Present Perfect
for & since
Present perfect + yet
Recycling
Present Perfect & Past Simple

The Real Thing

a bit (of)

Newspaper article about

London
Promotional texts

Describing people
Relationship verbs

Article about meeting

partners

The Real Thing

-ish

Questionnaire about
friendship
Short text about Friends

Jobs
Job adjectives

Web page about job

candidates

The Real Thing

you see / let me see

Quiz about stress

Article about the rat race
Short job adverts and
application letter

World English DVD 1: Jobs and cities, page 30

Flashback 1, page 32

4 Sportmania
page 34

5 In transit
page 42

Modals of obligation: mustnt

and dont have to
Recycling
can / cant, have to / dont
have to, must / mustnt

will and going to

might
Recycling
going to for intentions

6 Food to go
page 50

(not) as as
more / less / fewer + noun +
than
the most / least + noun

Sports
Sports equipment and places
Attributes for sport
The Real Thing
so, such

Holiday items
Travel collocations
Hotel room facilities

Article about gap years

Holiday e-mails

Fast food
Recipe words

Quiz about junk food

The Real Thing

far / by far

Synopsis of a TV
programme

Recycling
should
Comparatives and superlatives

World English DVD 2: The Cinnamon Club, page 58

Travel itinerary

The Real Thing

So do I / Nor do I

First conditional

Flashback 2, page 60

Article about Nike and

Umbro
Biography of a sports star
Article about Olympic
emblems

Article about chocolate

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Contents

Speaking

Listening

Writing

Pronunciation

Takeaway
English

Interviewing a partner

Describing how a city has

changed

A short text about

a classmate

Word stress

Classroom
language

Talking about films

and famous cities

Describing famous cities

Sell your town

an advert

Discussing physical
appearance

Describing partners

//

Chatting up

/j/ and /d/

A job interview

Describing your city

Song: New York, New York

Talking about best friends

A love story from

picture prompts
A soap opera

Talking about how

people meet each other

WORKBOOK
Writing stories

Describing personal
changes
Hypothesising about
jobs

Describing jobs

Discussing stressful
situations

Job interviews

Discussing choices

A job application
letter

Discussing job
interviews

Discussing favourite
sports

Talking about favourite sports

Poster presentation /n/ and //

Descriptions of various sports

Connected speech

Discussing celebrity
endorsements

A TV advert discussion

WORKBOOK
Writing about an
interest

Discussing holidays

Talking about holiday

preparations

A holiday e-mail

Contractions with will: /l/

Booking a hotel

Ordering food

Talking about gap

years

Joining a gym

Describing gap year plans

Practising making
decisions

People making decisions

Talking about diet

Talking about fast food

A recipe

/u/ and //

Discussing addictions

Interview with a chocoholic

Food

Giving advice about

health and other
problems

Talking about losing weight

WORKBOOK
Writing about
your opinions

Listening to a recipe

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Unit

Language focus

Vocabulary

Reading

7 Money talks

Passive voice present and

past
Present Perfect for recent
events (with just and already)

Money collocations
make and do

Questionaire about
money

The Real Thing

I suppose / I guess

Company histories

The press
see, watch, look at

Biographical texts

page 62

Text about antiglobalisation

Recycling
Present Perfect

8 Gossip
page 70

9 Hi-tech
page 78

Past Perfect
Recycling
Passive voice
Past tenses

The Real Thing

dont you think? isnt he?

Second conditional
Reported statements
Recycling
First conditional

Gadgets
Time verbs
The internet
Machine nouns and verbs

Short newspaper
articles
Report of a survey on
gossip

Article about attitudes

to technology
Quiz about mobile
phones

The Real Thing

No way!

World English DVD 3: Retail therapy, page 86

Flashback 3, page 88

10 Global chat
page 90

Adverbs
Relative pronouns: who,
which, that, where

Foreign words
The Real Thing
kind of / loads of / about

Recycling
Adverbs

11 Street styles
page 98

page 106

Article about
languages
Advert for a language
course

-ing form
Adjective order
The infinitive

Clothes nouns and adjectives

Street styles

Short descriptions of
peoples clothes

The Real Thing

stuff

Personality colour quiz

Definite and zero article

speculation: could, might,
may, must, cant

Forms of transport
get + preposition
-ed / -ing adjectives

Article about cars

Recycling
Future structures

The Real Thing

actually, to be honest, in fact

Novel extract

Recycling
used to

12 Alternatives

Article about
Spanglish

Questionaire about
fashion

Article about
protesters
Description of future
homes

World English DVD 4: Who speaks English? page 114

Flashback 4, page 116

Communication Bank
4

page 118

Irregular verb list

page 126

Phonetic chart

page 127

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Contents

Speaking

Listening

Writing

Pronunciation Takeaway
English

Discussing market
leaders and
globalisation

Describing spending
habits

An advert

// and //

Apologies and excuses

Analysing and
describing adverts

Discussing adverts

Discussing celebrities

Talking about celebrities

A news story

/h/

Gossiping

Debate about the

paparazzi

A day in the life of a

paparazzo

WORKBOOK
A profile of a film star

Defining gossip

Gossipy conversations

d and ll
/ai/

Telephoning
business or pleasure?

/t/ and /k/

Giving advice

A live news report

Song: I heard it through

the grapevine

Talking about time

saved and wasted with
new technology
Discussing pros and
cons of mobile phones
Talking about
websites, the internet
and chat rooms

Discussing life abroad

Analysing small talk

Teenagers talking about

technology
Mobile phone
conversations
A favourite website
A conversation about a
date
Problems with machines

Giving instructions

Anecdotes about life as

an expat

Quiz questions

Asking and answering Snippets of small talk

People persuading a
quiz questions
Discussing classroom friend to learn a language

WORKBOOK
Writing about
advantages and
disadvantages

rules

Describing fashion style

A favourite item of
clothing
Talking about favourite
music
Talking about dressing up

Writing sentences
// and //
about changes of look

Discussing pros and

cons of cars

Talking about transport

A diary

Discussing protesters

Preparing a speech

Discussing the future

Making predictions
about the future

Discussing buildings

WORKBOOK
Writing a letter to a
newspaper

Talking about changes

of image
Describing personality
Talking about fashion

Clothes shopping

A description of an
item of clothing
A class survey

/ju/ and //

Future plans

Song: Driving in my car

Discussing buildings