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Vocabulary Aa Bb
Reading Grammar Life skills Listening Speaking Writing Exam success

Family life Ages and stages of ▶ Problem letters    Present simple and Autonomy: ▶ Family dinners ▶ Asking for personal ▶ An informal email Reading: Multiple-choice
p6 life, The family present continuous Contributing to information activities
Teenagers' rights Teenagers’ responsibilities Making a timetable
family life
Noun suffixes -ment, and responsibilties Articles Family arguments Speaking: Information
Unit 1

Asking for personal

-ion, -ence role-plays
An informal email information Family dinners

Who did Crimes and criminals, ▶ Crime stories    Past simple Social skills ▶ Describing an incident ▶ Apologising ▶ A blog post Listening: True/False/Not
it? Detective work and citizenship: Mentioned activities
Discussing values Past continuous Doing the right thing Discussing crime stories A questionnaire
p18 Thinking about
Phrasal verbs Writing: Knowing evaluation
Unit 2

A blog post right and wrong Apologising Telling stories

connected with criteria
investigating and
finding

Gateway to exams: Units 1–2 p30

Universal Countries, ▶ Mapping the    some, any, much, Social skills: ▶ Languages ▶ Asking for information ▶ A language biography Use of English:
language nationalities and world's languages many, a lot (of), a few, Public speaking Multiple-choice cloze
Speaking in public Talking about social Preparing a presentation
p32 languages, Learning a a little activities
Body language networks
Unit 3

language Asking for information

Relative pronouns Speaking: Knowing
A language Discussing definitions
Negative prefixes evaluation criteria
biography
un-, in-, im-, ir-, il-

Health Parts of the body, ▶ Teen health tips    Present perfect with Physical ▶ Action scenes ▶ Describing photos ▶ Notes and messages Reading: Matching activities
watch Health problems and ever and never well-being:
Why learn first aid? Giving first aid Discussing health tips Writing a quiz Writing: Content and style
p44 illnesses Learning some
Present perfect with for
Unit 4

Notes and basics of first aid Describing photos Talking about past
Compound nouns and since
messages experiences
connected with
Present perfect with just, yet,
health and medicine
already
Present perfect and past simple

Gateway to exams: Units 3–4 p56

TV addicts Television, Adjectives ▶ Slow TV    Comparatives and Personal ▶ TV today ▶ Negotiating ▶ A review Listening: Identifying the
p58 describing TV superlatives well-being: speaker activities
I just want to be Talking about fame Discussing Slow TV A video message or email
programmes Thinking about
famous! less … than, (not) as … as Speaking: Negotiating
Unit 5

fame Negotiating Giving opinions on TV

Adjectives ending in
A review too and (not) enough and films
-ing and -ed

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 Vocabulary Aa Bb
Reading Grammar Life skills Listening Speaking Writing Exam success

Planet Geographical ▶ Is this the    be going to and will The world around ▶ Sustainable energy ▶ Making arrangements ▶ A formal letter Use of English: Sentence
Earth features, most important you: Reducing transformation activities
will, may, might Reducing your carbon and The future of the planet A video or a poster
p70 The environment building in the our ecological
water footprint Writing: Writing in exam
Unit 6

world? Zero conditional footprint Talking about your future

Different uses of get conditions
Making arrangements
Carbon and water First conditional
footprints
A formal letter

Gateway to exams: Units 5–6 p82

Job Jobs and work, ▶ Do you have an   Modal verbs of The world of work: ▶ Film and TV extras ▶ Making polite requests ▶ A letter of application Reading: True/False
hunting Personal qualities unusual job? obligation, prohibition and Assessing your and CV activities
Transferable skills Discussing unusual jobs
p84 advice transferable skills
Compound adjectives Transferable skills A description of Listening: Multiple-choice
Unit 7

Making polite requests Giving advice

Second conditional transferable skills activities
A letter of
application and CV

Best Friendships, Feelings ▶ A lesson in    Past perfect Personal ▶ Discover your secret self ▶ Reporting a past event ▶ An email of advice Speaking: Reporting
friends friendship well-being: activities
Noun suffixes -ness, used to Making friends at university Talking about friendship A leaflet or a webpage
Managing
forever -ship, -dom Loneliness is Writing: Answering the
Unit 8

Gerunds and infinitives friendships Reporting a past event Discussing interests

p96 common at question
university
An email of advice

Gateway to exams: Units 7–8 p108

Bestsellers Fiction, Non-fiction ▶ The life of a    Reported speech – Art and culture: ▶ Book vs. film ▶ A presentation ▶ A story Reading: Missing sentences
p110 top children’s statements Enjoying fiction activities
Phrasal verbs Book descriptions Favourite books Organising a book club
author
connected with Reported speech – questions Listening: Completing notes
Unit 9

A presentation Reporting interviews

reading and writing Prologue
A story

Log on Using a computer, ▶ The computer    The passive – present ICT: Protecting ▶ Wikipedia ▶ Comparing and ▶ Text messages Use of English: Cloze
p122 The Internet that began it all simple yourself on the contrasting photos activities
Internet security Preparing a presentation
Internet
Unit 10

Collocations with Social networking The passive – other tenses The importance of the Speaking: Speculating
Comparing and contrasting
email today, no job Internet about photos
have something done photos
tomorrow?
Trivia quiz
Text messages

Gateway to exams: Units 9–10 p134

Aa Bb
  Unit-by-unit wordlist  p136   Exam success  p144   Communication activities  p147   Irregular verbs  p149   Writing bank  p150

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