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Syllabus checklist Grammar Vocabulary

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4 A Food: fuel or pleasure? present simple and continuous; food and restaurants
action and non-action verbs
8 B If you really want to win, cheat past tenses sport

12 C We are family Future forms: going to, present family, personality

continuous, will / shall each other or reflexive pronouns?

16 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Introductions

17 WRITING Describing a person
18 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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20 A Ka-ching! present perfect and past simple money, phrasal verbs

24 B Changing your life present perfect continuous strong adjectives:

exhausted, amazed, etc.
28 C Race to the sun comparatives and superlatives transport and travel
how long + take

32 P RACTICAL E NGLISH In the office

33 WRITING Telling a story
34 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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36 A Modern manners must, have to, should (obligation) mobile phones

40 B Judging by appearances must, may, might, can’t (deduction) describing people

look + adjective, look like + noun
44 C If at first you don’t succeed, … can, could, be able to, -ed / -ing adjectives
(ability and possibilty) so

48 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Renting a flat

49 WRITING An informal letter
50 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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52 A Back to school, aged 35 first conditional and future time clauses education
+ when, until, etc.
56 B In an ideal world… second conditional houses

60 C Still friends? usually and used to friendship

get

64 P RACTICAL E NGLISH A visit from a pop star

65 WRITING Describing a house or flat
66 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?
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Pronunciation Speaking Listening Reading

/U/ and /u;/, understanding talking about eating habits an interview with Food: fuel or pleasure?
phonetics an English chef
/O;/ and /3;/ telling an anecdote an interview with When you hear the final whistle
talking about sport a football referee
word stress, adjective prefixes families psychologist talking about We are family
and suffixes position in family
Song: We are family

saying numbers money questionnaire song: Ka-ching My life without money

sentence stress, strong adjectives
stress in compound nouns
understanding a news bulletin
How long… ? an interview with Karen It was just a holiday but it
changed my life
talking about road safety a journey from London to the Race to the sun
south of France; road safety

sentence stress talking about mobile phones an interview about politeness Culture shock
talking about manners and the English
-eigh, -aigh, -igh matching people with their jobs radio interview Do I really look like this?

sentence stress talking about abilities psychologist talking about Never give up
learning new skills; song:
You can get it if you really want

/V/ or /ju;/? talking about education
sentence stress describing your dream house
/s/ or /z/? talking about a close friend and friend-
ship; things you used to do, have, etc.
radio interview about a TV So school today is easy? Think
programme again
people’s dream houses Houses you’ll never forget
song: Our house
interview about Friends Reunited Do you need to ‘edit your friends’?
people talking about friendship
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Grammar Vocabulary
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68 A Slow down, you move too fast quantifiers noun formation

72 B Same planets, different worlds articles: a / an, the, no article verbs and adjectives + prepositions
connectors: however, according to,
on the other hand, also
76 C Job swap gerunds and infinitives work

80 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Meetings

81 WRITING Formal letters and a CV
82 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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84 A Love in the supermarket reported speech: statements, shopping
questions and commands
88 B See the film…get on a plane passive (be + past participle) cinema

92 C I need a hero relative clauses: defining and what people do

non-defining

96 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Breaking news

97 WRITING A film review
98 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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100 A Can we make our own luck? third conditional making adjectives and adverbs
what or which?

104 B Murder mysteries question tags, indirect questions compound nouns

108 C Switch it off phrasal verbs television, phrasal verbs

112P RACTICAL E NGLISH Everything in the open

85 WRITING An article for a magazine
86 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

116 Communication
122 Listening
130 Grammar Bank
144 Vocabulary Bank
157 Sound Bank
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Pronunciation Speaking
-ough and -augh planning a new city
sentence stress, the, /T/ and /D/ topics men and women talk about
men v women
word stress talking about work
imagining doing other jobs
consonant sounds: /g/, /dZ/, /k/, /S/, /tS/ shopping questionnaire
talking about complaining
sentence stress cinema questionnaire
word stress talking about a person you admire
sentence stress How lucky are you?
intonation in question tags a police interview roleplay
revision of sounds, linking talking about TV habits
Listening
an expert talks about how to
slow down in life
two journalists talk about a spa
song: Sk8er Boi
an interview with Jessica, the
librarian
understanding a radio
programme
an interview about working
with Steven Spielberg
a radio competition about
heroes and icons;
song: Holding out for a hero
the conclusions of stories
about bad luck and good luck
song: Ironic
interview with a detective
four people talk about objects
they couldn’t live without
Reading
Slow food and slow cities
A gossip with the girls?
From librarian to political
reporter … in a month!
Making a complaint –
is it worth it?
Famous films that moved us
(literally!)
Heroes and icons of our time
Bad luck? Good luck?
Can we make our own luck?
Jack the Ripper – case closed?
Couple switch on after 37 years
without power