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Grammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

Alive Auxiliaries (p6) How does your city Genealogy (p8) Predicative adjectives (p8) Supporting opinions (p6)
Review 1: present tenses make you feel alive? (p6) Emphasising (7)
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(p9) Questions about families (p9)

Well Review 2: future tenses What are you optimistic What are you What are you optimistic about? All’s well that ends well (p10)
(p11) about? (p10) optimistic about? (p11)

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UNIT

Future perfect and future Winning the battle (p10) The suffix
continuous (p13) against disease (p12) -able (p12)
EV Metaphors: illness (p12)

Function globally: Generalising and making exceptions (p14) Writing: What are you optimistic about? (p11)
Global English: Languages alive and dead (p15) A report (1) (p16)
Study skills: Exploring your dictionary (p17)

Right Questions review (p21) E pur si muove (p18) The right answer Certainty and truth (p18) Certainty and truth (p18)
The right answer quiz quiz (p20) right (p20) Change your mind! speaking game (p19)
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(p20) The right answer quiz (p20)
Agreeing and disagreeing (p21)

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Wrong The definite article (p23) No longer at ease by The wrong word The prefix mis- (p22) The prefix mis- (p22)
UNIT

Narrative tenses (p24) Chinua Achebe (p24) (p22) -ism (p22) Different ways to say the (p23)
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Metaphors: honesty and

EV No longer at ease (p24)
dishonesty (p25)

Function globally: Correcting and restating (p26) Writing: A moral dilemma (p25)
Global voices: Errors in English (p27) An essay (p28)
Study skills: Moving beyond the plateau (p29)

Land The Sacred Balance by A news story EV land and country (p30) 19th Century Cree Indian quotation (p30)
David Suzuki (p30) (p32) Collocations for the natural Collocations for the natural world (p31)
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world (p31) A news story (p32)
Land (p33) P Contractions (p33)

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Sea Present perfect, present Amazing Ocean Facts The Carta Marina The sea (p34) The sea (p34)
perfect continuous (p35) (p34) (p36) Maps (p36)
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Adjective order (p37) P Sea Fever poem (p37)

Function globally: Interpreting data (p38) Writing: A news story (p32)

Global English: Trade language (p39) An email to a friend  (p40)
Study skills: Communication strategies (p41)

Magic Modals of speculation: Magical places (p44) The conjurer EV Metaphors (p42) The conjurer (p42)
present and past (p43) (p42) Suffixes (p43)
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Passive and anticipatory
it (p44)

Mystery Past perfect and past The Invisible Man by A lecture on Vague language (1) (people) P Contractions and weak forms (p47)
continuous (p47) H.G. Wells (p46) mysteries of the (p46)

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page 46 Discussing a quotation (p48)
UNIT

silver screen: plot Vague language (2) (things)

devices (p48) Vague language (2)
(p49)
(things) (p49)

Function globally: Expressing doubt (p50) Writing: A tourist brochure (p44)

Global voices: Mysterious experiences (p51) About a film (p49)
A review (p52)
Study skills: Preparing to read or listen (p53)

Parents will for present habits Baby and Child Care by Names (p56) Parenthood (p54) Parenthood (p54)
(p57) Dr Spock (p54) EV Metaphors: Discussing quotations about names and
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Discussing quotations relationships (p54) naming (p56)
about names and Names (p56) P will for present habits (p57)
naming (p56)
Naming customs (p57)

Children Past habits (p58) Now here, now there by Children of their Adjectives to describe taste Childhood food memories (p59)

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Molly Wizenberg (p58) time (p60) and texture (p59)
UNIT

page 58 be used to / get used Children of their time (p60)

to (p60) EV prefixes with self (p60) P Consonant clusters (p61)
Generation gap: find someone who …
(p61)

Function globally: Moving off topic (p62) Writing: Tips for parents  (p55)
Global English: Learning to talk (p63) My earliest memory  (p58)
An article (p64)
Study skills: Developing your speaking skills (p65)

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 Grammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

Power The passive voice (p67) Quote me on that! (p66) The power of Adverb phrases (p69) P Famous political quotations (p66)
Causative have / get (p68) The Masters of the words (p66) The power of words (p66)
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Universe? (p68) Delivering a speech (p67)
have / get (p68)

Money quite (p71) Ten facts about lotteries EV Metaphors: money (p72)

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(p70) Collocations (p73)

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Economics for everyone
by Jim Stanford (p72)

Function globally: Asking for a favour (p74) Writing: Delivering a speech (p67)
Global voices: Money (p75) Problem solving (p71)
A report (2) (p76)
Study skills: Recording and learning vocabulary (p77)

Rhyme so and such (p81) Three verses from A good EV Ways of saying beautiful P Three verses from The Golden
The Golden Gate by advertising (p78) Gate (p78)
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Vikram Seth (p78) slogan (p80) Homophones (p79) P Homophones (p79)
Advertising (p80) Advertising a new product (p81)

Reason Reporting statements and Puzzling questions and A Study in Scarlet Idioms for knowing and not Puzzling questions and scientific reasons
questions (p82) scientific reasons (p82) by Arthur Conan knowing (p83) (p82)

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UNIT

Reporting verbs (p85) Reasoning backwards Doyle (p84) Reasoning (p84)

by Arthur Conan Doyle
(p84)

Function globally: Stating another point of view (p86) Writing: A rhyming verse (p79)
Global English: The appeal of rhyme (p87) A newspaper report (p85)
An information sheet (p88)
Study skills: Dealing with unknown words (p89)

Dreams Conditional structures The American Dream The American EV Metaphors: the mind (p91) The American Dream (p90)
(p91) (p90) Dream (p90) Imagination (p93) Dreams (p91)
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Unreal conditionals (p93) A Dream within a Dream Quotations about dreams (p92)
by Edgar Allan Poe (p92)

Reality Regrets (p96) Reality check: six word Changing Phrases with real (p94) P Phrases with real (p94)

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memoirs (p96) reality: nature Truth and lies (p95) Changing reality: nature documentaries
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documentaries (p94)
(p94) Life experiences (collocations)
(p97) Spot the lies (p95)

Function globally: Giving and reacting to surprising news (p98) Writing: A memoir (p97)
Global voices: Childhood dreams (p99) A formal letter of complaint (p100)
Study skills: Examination strategies (p101)

Rise Phrasal verbs (p105) Two of the world’s tallest The rise of the Word formation: nouns & For & against skyscrapers (p103)
buildings (p102) phoenix (p104) adjectives (p102) Survivors (p105)
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Collocations with rise (p104)
EV words with re (p104)

Fall Verbs with to and -ing Ten ways to fall: theories Ted’s downfall Cause and result (p106) Talking about history (p106)

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(p108) on the decline and fall of (p108) Falling (p108) Ted’s downfall (p108)
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UNIT

Rome (p106)
An anecdote on falling over (p109)
Behind the Scenes at
the Museum by Kate
Atkinson (p108)

Function globally: Conceding points in a discussion (p110) Writing: Describing a building (p102)
Global English: The rise and fall of English? (p111) A proposal (p112)
Study skills: Improving your grammar (p113)

Tears Defining and non-defining Sense and Sensibility by The science of Crying (p114) Crying questionnaire (p115)
relative clauses (p115) Jane Austen (p116) tears (p114) EV Metaphors: strong
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Present participle clauses emotions (p116)
(p116)

Laughter Emphasising (cleft Comedy performance Laugh tracks EV Ways of saying laugh World proverbs (p118)

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sentences) (p119) around the world (p120) (p118) (p118) Emphasising (cleft sentences) (p119)
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UNIT

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Humour around Humour around the word (p120)
the world (p120) Improvisation dialogue (p121)

Function globally: Interrupting (p122) Writing: Crying (p114)

Global voices: Funny people (p123) Rewriting a story (p117)
A competition entry (p124)
Study skills: Keeping up your English (p125)

Communication activities:     Phonetic symbols: (p127)    Additional material: (p128)    Grammar focus: (p134)    Audioscript: (p150)    Irregular verbs: (p158)
Student A: (p126)    Student B: (p133)

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