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Welcome section A People B Rooms and homes C Activities D In town and shopping

Unit Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation

1 Free time Present simple (positive and negative;
questions and short answers)
like + ing
2 Helping other people Present continuous for activities
happening now
Present simple vs. present continuous
Hobbies and interests, school subjects /n/ (man) and /ŋ/ (song)
Vocabulary bank: hobbies and interests
Housework /‰/ (world)
Everyday English
Vocabulary bank: rooms and housework

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3 Who’s your hero? Past simple; be and regular verbs Multi-word verbs(1) was and were
(positive and negative); was born / Memory words -ed endings
were born Vocabulary bank: multi-word verbs (1)
(with up, down, on, off)

4 Making friends Past simple (regular and irregular verbs; Past time expressions, sports word stress
questions and short answers) Everyday English
Vocabulary bank: sports equipment and places
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5 Successful people have to / don’t have to Jobs, work and money have to
Vocabulary bank: jobs / times and places
of work
6 Eat for life Countable and uncountable nouns Food and drink /ə/ (water)
a/an, some and any, much and many Everyday English
Vocabulary bank: food / things we use to eat
and drink

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7 Learning languages Comparatives and superlatives Language learning than

8 We’re going on Present continuous for future Future time expressions, holiday activities /θ/ (think) and /ð/ (that)
holiday arrangements Everyday English
Vocabulary bank: holiday activities

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9 It’ll never happen will / won’t Expressions to talk about the future, expressions ’ll
to talk about fortune telling

10 Don’t give up too + adjective, adverbs The weather /əυ/ (go)

Everyday English
Vocabulary bank: adjectives to talk about
the weather

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11 Promises, promises be going to (intentions and predictions), Multi-word verbs (2), prepositions must and mustn’t
must/mustn’t Vocabulary bank: multi-word verbs (2)
(with go and put)
12 What a brave First conditional, when and if Adjectives of feeling stress in conditional
person! Everyday English sentences
Vocabulary bank: feelings and actions

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13 Travellers’ tales should / shouldn’t, What’s it like? Personality adjectives, adjectives for expressing silent consonants
opinions
Vocabulary bank: personality adjectives
14 Crazy records Present perfect + ever / never Verb and noun pairs, expressions about sleep have and has in the
Everyday English present perfect
Vocabulary bank: verb and noun pairs

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Pronunciation • Vocabulary bank • Get it Right! • Projects • Speaking B • Irregular verbs and phonetics

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Herbert Puchta and Jeff Stranks
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Speaking & Functions
Talking about school subjects
Talking about hobbies
Expressing likes and dislikes
Talking about activities happening now
Talking about housework
Last but not least: arranging to meet
and making plans
Talking about the past
Talking about when/where you were
born
Asking about the past
Retelling a story
Last but not least: the alibi game
Talking about obligations
Describing job requirements
Talking about people and their jobs
Talking about food and fitness
Last but not least: talking about
food and places to eat
Comparing things
Talking about learning English
Talking about arrangements
Discussing holiday plans
Last but not least: information gap:
talking about holidays
Making predictions
Talking about your future life
Inventing methods of fortune telling
Describing actions
Relating Hermann Maier’s life story
Describing the weather
Last but not least: information gap
about famous sportspeople
Talking about intentions
Talking about a song
Expressing future possibilities
Telling a story about being brave
or not brave
Last but not least: talking about
situations where you are brave/
not brave
Giving advice and recommendations
Talking about what somebody is like
Talking about life experiences
Last but not least: talking about
things you’ve done / never done
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Listening
An interview about a hobby
Radio interview with a volunteer
in Namibia, Africa
Presentation of ‘my hero’
Television story
Song: You’ve got a friend in me
Talking about success
Descriptions of future jobs
School canteen dialogue
Descriptions and interview about
language learning
An interview with David Crystal
Radio programme about family
holidays
Dialogues about holiday plans
Future predictions
Song: When I’m sixty-four
A weather forecast
Dialogue about the life
of Hermann Maier
Dialogue about a New Year’s Eve party
Song: Wonderful World,
Beautiful People
Dialogues about bravery
A quiz about UK culture
Information about different customs
around the world
Conversation about strange
world records
Reading Writing
Article: An unusual hobby Email about your
Culture in mind: school clubs hobbies and interests
Article: Helping at a hospital Email about organising
Photostory: Let’s give him a hand a party
Article: Erin Brockovich Poster about your hero
Culture in mind: Remembering heroes
Article: The ping pong friendship that Diary entry or email
changed the world about an enjoyable
Photostory: Not a nice thing to say weekend
Article: What does ‘success’ mean? Description of a job
Following a dream
Culture in mind: Teenagers: earning money
Article: A long and healthy life Paragraph about food
Photostory: A double ice cream... and fitness
Article: Speaking in many tongues Description or email
Culture in mind: Teen talk about language learning
Magazine: Family holidays can be fun! Email about a trip
Travel brochure: Welcome to Cape Town –
the city that has everything!
Photostory: Having fun?
Article: Getting the future wrong! Text predicting
Culture in mind: Fortune telling the future
Article: Jungle survival Email giving advice
Photostory: Keep on running to a friend
Article: In New York for New Year’s Eve Email about New
Culture in mind: Reggae Music Year’s Eve
Article: Subway hero A book or film review
Photostory: Chicken
Quiz: What do you know about UK culture? Email giving tips to
Culture in mind: Heroic Ulises on a journey a tourist
of hope
Article: You’ve never seen anything like this Email about a visit
He holds the record – for records! to Los Angeles
Photostory: What’s the next thing?
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