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 Grammar review   pages 6–7

READING LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING

Unit TEXT ORGANIZATION:  Listening to a radio interview HEDGING:  a college campus Writing offer and wanted ads

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a feature article FUNCTION  talking about survey on the use of freecycling FUNCTION describing items
bartering websites for sale
WRITING WORKSHOP
ONEY-FRE FUNCTION  writing a proposal
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Unit Reading an online article UNDERSTANDING NATIVE Talking about the possibility of OUTLINING:  writing an essay

2 FUNCTION  talking about an ENGLISH SPEAKERS: short life on other planets outline

innovation inspired by science monologues SPEAKING WORKSHOP
fiction FUNCTION  describing a
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Unit TEXT ORGANIZATION:  Listening to an interview PARTICIPATING IN A Writing a persuasive email

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an online article FUNCTION  talking about GROUP DISCUSSION:  FUNCTION  persuading
identity theft a discussion about online privacy readers to share your view
WRITING WORKSHOP
ORD PROT FUNCTION  writing a
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for-and-against essay
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Unit Reading a statistics-based UNDERSTANDING Talking about educational SEntence variety: writing

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argument NON-NATIVE ENGLISH alternatives a personal essay for a university
FUNCTION  talking about SPEAKERS: short SPEAKING WORKSHOP application
soft skills conversations
FUNCTION  expressing and
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Unit Understanding Listening to a story SUMMARIZING: online Writing a letter to a newspaper

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definitions:  a current FUNCTION  talking about comments about keeping wild editor
affairs magazine article animal welfare and conservation animals as pets FUNCTION  using arguments
to support an opinion
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FUNCTION  writing a formal

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Unit Reading an online news article INFERRING OPINIONS:  Talking about automation SUMMARIZING:  writing a

6 FUNCTION  talking about a conversation about artificial SPEAKING WORKSHOP summary of an online article
robots in the workplace intelligence
FUNCTION  comparing and
contrasting photographs
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 PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR VOCABULARY LIFESKILLS
WORDS:  intonation and attitude ADVERB PHRASES consumerism and SELF & SOCIETY: Building
FUNCTION  giving additional sustainability communities
information FUNCTION  discussing ways to reduce FUNCTION  creating a new community
NEGATIVE QUESTIONS consumption
FUNCTION  confirming an existing DESCRIBING USED ITEMS
belief FUNCTION  posting ads on a website

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WORDS:  contrastive stress
FUTURE PASSIVE
FUNCTION  talking about inventions of
the future
COnditional conjunctions
FUNCTION  talking about space
programs of the future
Business and innovation
FUNCTION  talking about how
companies launch innovations
NEGATIVE PREFIXES un-, IM-, in-
FUNCTION  talking about space
exploration
STUDY & LEARNING: Evaluating
explanations
FUNCTION  distinguishing between
correlation and causation

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WORDS:  connected speech—final
consonant sound to first vowel sound
OBJECT COMPLEMENTS Digital PRIVACY Self & society:
FUNCTION  talking about data security FUNCTION  talking about online Protecting digital privacy
Negative structures with privacy issues FUNCTION  giving advice
think, suppose, etc. PHRASAL VERBS
FUNCTION  giving opinions on online FUNCTION  talking about identity theft
privacy

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SOUNDS:  vowel length before final
consonant sounds
RElative pronouns with VERB COLLOCATIONS SELF & SOCIETY:
–ever FUNCTION  talking about higher anticipating cultural
FUNCTION  talking about online study education differences
MIXED CONDITIONALS words related to STAND FUNCTION  finding information needed
FUNCTION  talking about hypothetical FUNCTION  talking about the job in advance
situations in education market

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SOUNDS:  final consonant clusters Impersonal passive Animal rescue SELF & SOCIETY:
FUNCTION  talking about beliefs FUNCTION  talking about wildlife Understanding decision-
PASSIVE MODALS conservation making styles

FUNCTION  giving opinions on wildlife adverb-adjective FUNCTION  making decisions as a

issues collocations group
FUNCTION  talking about wildlife
population issues

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SOUNDS:  linking words with a /w/ or
a /j/ sound
FUTURE PERFECT PHRASES WITH ADJECTIVE + STUDY & LEARNING:
FUNCTION  making predictions for PREPOSITION Organizing an argument
specific times in the future FUNCTION  talking about automation FUNCTION  selecting and organizing
FUTURE PERFECT progressive in vehicles points to make
FUNCTION  predicting ongoing events phrasal verbs
at specific times in the future FUNCTION  talking about robots in the
workplace

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 READING LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING
Unit Understanding Listening to a discussion MODIFYING Offering advice

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EXPLANATIONS AND FUNCTION  talking about A STATEMENT:  a discussion FUNCTION  thinking of ways
EXAMPLES:  a magazine article sustainable shopping about personal finances to reduce consumption
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RITI FUNCTION  interpreting charts
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Unit Reading an article about art INFERRING FACTUAL Talking about meaning in art WRITING A REVIEW: giving

8 FUNCTION  talking about INFORMATION:  a lecture SPEAKING WORKSHOP information and opinions on an
graffiti artists about Surrealism event
FUNCTION  proposing a
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Unit UNDERSTANDING INTENT:  Listening to a radio talk show MAKING AND Writing a short article

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a magazine article FUNCTION  talking about how RESPONDING TO FUNCTION  giving an opinion
children’s play has changed INVITATIONS:  formal and on a controversial issue
informal conversations inviting
LAYIN WRITING WORKSHOP
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FUNCTION  writing a short
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Unit Reading a wiki entry DIFFICULT SITUATIONS:  Talking about popular beliefs WRITING A WIKI ENTRY: 

10 FUNCTION  talking about a conversation about viral loops SPEAKING WORKSHOP writing in collaboration with
popular beliefs on social media others
FUNCTION  responding with
an opinion
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Unit UNDERSTANDING Listening to an informal SOFTENING LANGUAGE Posting an opinion

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INTENT:  a magazine article discussion FOR REFUSALS:  an informal FUNCTION  writing a response
FUNCTION  talking about discussion about downloading to someone else’s opinion
musical intelligence music
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Unit Reading a travel memoir DIFFICULT SITUATIONS: Talking about a mysterious WRITING AN EDITORIAL: 

12 FUNCTION  talking about a conversation about geology phenomenon giving an opinion on a current
man-made environmental SPEAKING WORKSHOP affairs issue
changes FUNCTION  giving a mini-
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  Communicative wrap-ups    pages 152–163   Grammar reference   pages 164–175

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 PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR VOCABULARY LIFESKILLS
SOUNDS:  /ʌ/, /ʊ/, and /u/ REDUCED ADVERB time CLAUSES ADJECTIVES ENDING IN –ABLE/ work & career:
FUNCTION  talking about food labeling –iBLE Evaluating claims
and health FUNCTION  talking about sustainable FUNCTION  identifying and testing
REDUCED ADVERB shopping and consumption claims
CAUSE–EFFECT clauses MONEY AND FINANCES
FUNCTION  talking about consumption FUNCTION  talking about personal
and the environment finance

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words:  words ending in –ical
inverted conditionals DESCRIBING ART self & society:
FUNCTION  talking about hypothetical FUNCTION  talking about meaning and developing curiosity
situations in a formal context influences in art FUNCTION  learning about the
ADJECTIVE PHRASE + INDIRECT negative prefixes UN-, NON-, importance of curiosity
QUESTION MIS-, IM-, IN-
FUNCTION  talking about FUNCTION  talking about opinions
non-permanent art on art

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SOUNDS:  assimilation the subjunctive CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT WORK & CAREER:

FUNCTION  talking about requests,
orders, and recommendations in the
workplace
alternatives to the
SUBJUNCTIVE
FUNCTION  talking about brain training
FUNCTION  talking about how children Recognizing contradiction
learn and develop FUNCTION  identifying points in an
MAKING AND RESPONDING TO argument that contradict each other
INVITATIONS
FUNCTION  making, accepting, and
declining invitations

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WORDS:  thought groups INVERSION with negative FALSEHOOD STUDY & LEARNING:
expressions FUNCTION  talking about things that Evaluating Internet source
FUNCTION  talking about conspiracy aren’t true or real reliability
theories WORD FORMS (proving and FUNCTION  checking the reliability of
ELLIPSIS AND SUBSTITUTION disproving) websites
FUNCTION  talking about internet FUNCTION  talking about proving and
scams disproving claims

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SOUNDS:  intonation in cleft sentences
past tense for unreal IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS WITH SELF & SOCIETY:
situations TAKE Identifying bias
FUNCTION  talking about hypothetical FUNCTION  talking about perceptions FUNCTION  recognizing views that are
situations related to music of famous musicians not balanced or fair
CLEFT SENTENCES SHARING MUSIC
FUNCTION  talking about musicians FUNCTION  talking about ways of
sharing music electronically

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SOUNDS:  stress shifts in parts of participle CLAUSES ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS WORK & CAREER:
speech FUNCTION  talking about travel FUNCTION  describing an unusual place Maximizing your potential
destinations GEOLOGY FUNCTION  assessing and developing
impersonal passive in the past FUNCTION  talking about geological hard and soft skills
FUNCTION  talking about natural phenomena
disasters

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