Lesson plan

Unit 1: Getting to know you – People and places

Unit 2: Keeping in touch – Making contact

Unit 3: The real you – Career paths

Unit 4: Acting on instructions – Memory techniques

Unit 5: Dear Sir or Madam – Dream jobs

Unit 1-5: Revision

Unit 6: Speak after the tone – Communications technology

Unit 7: Running a successful business – The world of work

Unit 8: Best thing since sliced bread – Inventions

Unit 9: You live and learn – Further studies

Unit 10: I have a dream – Social change

Unit 6-10: Revision

Unit 11: Read all about it – Fashion

Unit 12: In a nutshell – Dreaming

Unit 13: Leaf through a leaflet – Leaving home

Unit 14: Views from the platform – Language development

Unit 15: If you want to know what I think – Family life

Unit 11-15: Revision

Unit 16: Raving and panning – The arts

Unit 17: Do it for my sake – Persuasion

Unit 18: May I introduce…? – White lies

Unit 19: Feeding the mind – Food, pictures and sience

Unit 20: Answers on a postcard – Mini sagas

Unit 16-20: Revision

Unit 21: Travel broadens the mind – Trips and travel

Unit 22: Under the weather – Climate change

Unit 23: I’m afraid I really must insist – How to complain

Unit 24: News and views – Stories in the news

Unit 25: Powers of observation – Research methods

Unit 21-25: Revision

Unit 26: Natural wonders – Beauty spots

Unit 27: A friend in need – Personality traits

Unit 28: Weighing up the pros and cons – Air transport

Unit 29: A testing question – Education

Unit 30: Why should we employ you? – Job interviews

Unit 26-30: Revision

UNIT 1: GETTING TO KNOW YOU – PEOPLE AND PLACES

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2. Read the extracts (a-e) and then matched each one with a city from the box below.

a. The exuberant friction of a port city marked me forever; the beautiful and the decrepit – wrought-iron balconies holding up the
tottering facades of Royal and Chartres Streets. It is a densely-packed city of half a million souls, with houses of the well-to-do and
the poor often side by side.

b. I walked out for a good view of the world-famous building. The Broadwalk, a promenade surrounding the Opera House, led me
along to splendid vistas: to the west, that magnificent structure, the Harbour Bridge, to the east, a bay with Manly hydrofoil ferry
charging in on plumes of spray.

c. It is March, a mild late-summer day here in the Southern Hemisphere. I have spent a glorious morning hiking up Table Mountain
through deep green forests, up rocky ravines and finally out into wide-open moorland at the top.

d. The twin streams of history converge just below the delta, where the greatest city in the Islamic world sprawls across the Nile
towards the Pyramids, those supreme mountains of antiquity. Every visitor comes here.

e. The background music in the café sounds like a distant Fellini film store; a poster of Carlos Gardel, tango idol of the thirties,
winks down from the wall. Croissants are stacked along the blond wood bar. Outside the traffic has reached total gridlock, but no
one is honking. [traffic jam = congestion = gridlock]

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Cairo, Egypt. Cape Town, South Africa. New Orleans, USA. Sydney, Australia.
Expressions
I __________ sight of an old friend of mine when I went to the bank yesterday.
A. saw B. caught C. set D. gained

Collocations
All that was left for breakfast were some _________ rolls and tea.
A. stale B. rotten C. sour D. rancid
stale bread, rotten fruit, rotten vegetables, rotten meat, sour milk, rancid butter

Phrasal verbs
With all his experience he intends to _________ up a computer business with his brother.
A. put B. lay C. get D. set

Linking words
He decided to go _______ his family begged him not to.
A. although B. despite C. otherwise D. if

Vocabulary

A. skimmed B. grazed C. rubbed D. scrubbed

Use the words in the box to complete the article.

accorded amount at a time closed

cut down declined deep-rooted endangered
gentle gently huge local
mixture primal scary sociable
swooping tiny tragedy wipe out

Despite the fact the fifteen British bat species were (1) __accorded_______ protection status in 1981, they are still among the most (2)
__endangered____ of all creatures. The population has (3) ____declined______ by 66 per cent in the past ten years because of the use of
chemicals and the destruction of roosts as barns are converted, forests (4) ____cut down_____ and mines (5) ____closed______.

These (6) _____tiny_____, (7) _____gentle______, (8) _____sociable_____ creatures are often regarded with a (9) _____mixture______ of fear,
hatred and (10) ____deep-rooted______ suspicion. ‘I can understand people’s prejudices,’ says Mrs Little, (11) _____gently____ stroking
Apple Blossom, a badly-inspired baby pipistrelle found hanging on a milk bottle holder at a (12) ____local_____ farm. ‘It’s probably
due to (13) __primal_______ fear. Bats are mysterious, suddenly (14) ____swooping_____ out of the dark and disappearing just as quickly.
That can be (15) _______scary_______. But it is a (16) _____tragedy______ that they are so misunderstood and are being killed in such (17)
________huge________ numbers. They are like us in many ways. They’re warm-blooded, make wonderful mothers, have one baby (18)
_____at a time__________ and suckle their young. They also do an enormous (19) ______amount______ of good – one pipistrelle can eat
3,000 midges in a night. In one area of Mexico they used bats to (20) ___wipe out____ malaria.’

The massed crowds of supporters accorded him a hero’s welcome. accord = treat someone specially, usually
by showing respect.
Pandas are considered as (1) _______(DANGER) endangered_____ species.
The mixture of flour, water, and yeast is then left in a warm place for four hours.
She lovingly stroked Chris’ face with the tops of her fingers.
Gently stroke the dog if you want, he won’t bite.
primal = basic, relating to an early stage of development, primal fears

Unit 2: Keeping in touch – Making contact

2. Complete the following sentences by putting in any necessary prepositions or adverbs

a. It’s your brother on the phone.

b. He got married to Sarah when he was in his 30s.

c. The noise of the storm prevented me from sleeping.

d. Who is that present from/for?

e. When I was on my way to London, I realized I’d left my wallet home.

f. I always suffer from hay fever the summer.

g. I think I was beginning to get stuck in a rut in my home town.

h. In the discount book shops near me you can get books for next to nothing.

i. You can find this chain of restaurants throughout the country.

j. I’m afraid you can’t trust the trains to run on time.

k. Some of the students couldn’t come to the pub because they are under age.

l. Mary’s got a job as a teacher.

m. Tom’s a doctor and seems to be on duty most weekends.

be on the phone
get married to
prevent someone from doing sth
who is it for/from?
on my way
fell at home
suffer from
in the summer
stuck in a rut
get something for next to nothing
throughout the country
on time
to the pub
under age
as a teacher
on duty
3. Read this extract from a book. In the extract, some family members are all sitting down together reading the letters which they
have just received. Look at the prepositions and adverbs in italics in the first paragraph. Then complete the gaps with a suitable
preposition or adverb.

In the crisp, heady weather the family spent most of its time on the veranda, eating, sleeping or just simply arguing. It was here,
once a week, that we used to congregate to read our mail which Spiro had brought to us. As we browsed through our letters we
would frequently pass remarks to one another.

“Aunt Mabel’s moved (1) ____to______ Sussex. She says Henry’s passed all his exams and is going to work (2) _____for_____ a bank. At
least, I think it’s a bank. Her writing is really awful, (3) ______in_____ spite of that expensive education she’s always boasting (4)
______about____ Uncle Stephen’s broken his leg, poor old dear, and done something (5) _____to_____ his bladder? Oh, no, I see. Really,
this writing – he broke his leg falling (6) _____off____ a ladder. You’d think he’d have more sense than to go (7) __up__ a ladder (8)
___at__ his age. Ridiculous. Tom’s married one (9) ____of____ the Garnet girls.”

Mother always left (10) _____to____ the last a fat letter, addressed (11) ___in_____ large, firm, well-rounded handwriting, which was the
monthly instalment (12) ____from_____ Great-aunt Hermione. Her letters invariably created an indignant uproar (13) ____in____ the
family, so we all put (14) ______away____ our mail and concentrated when Mother, (15) _____with_____ a sigh (16) ___of_________
resignation, unfurled the twenty odd pages, settled herself comfortably and began to read.

move to somewhere

work for a bank, for someone

work in a bank

in spite of

boast about

do something to his bladder

fall off a ladder

go up a ladder

at one’s age

left to the last a fat letter

left until the last a fat letter

create an uproar in/among the family

put down/away/aside the mail

with a sign of resignation

1. Which word can fit all three sentences?

a. I hurt my __________ while I was climbing.

It’s at the _____foot____ of the page.

I’ll have to ________ the bill.

b. The ___last___ I heard of him, he was living in Hastings.

She’s awful, I hope we’ve seen the ____last____ of her.

The rain is expected to ____last___ all week.

c. After the accident he was so shocked he lost the ___power___ of speech.

It’s not in your ______power_______ to cancel the project.

You need tremendous _______ in your legs to be good runner.

d. Have we got time for another ___round____ of drinks before we go?

There were 14 of us all _____round____ the table.

It was disappointing to see the politician ____round____ on his critics.

e. She showed me a computer which might ____answer___ my particular needs.

Police are interviewing a man who is said to __answer____ the description of the attacker.

Does anyone ____answer____ to the name of Devlan?

f. Someone ___run____ into the back of my car yesterday.

Halfway down the motorway we ____run____ out of petrol

Mr Jones ____run______ the company single-handedly for many years.

at the foot of the page, foot the bill

the last time, see the last of somebody,
lose the power of speech, in your power to do something,
another round of drinks, be round the table,
answer my needs, answer the description of noun, answer

Unit 3: The real you – Career paths

Unit 4: Acting on instructions – Memory techniques

Unit 5: Dear Sir or Madam – Dream jobs

Unit 1-5: Revision

Unit 6: Speak after the tone – Communications technology

Unit 7: Running a successful business – The world of work

Unit 8: Best thing since sliced bread – Inventions

Unit 9: You live and learn – Further studies

Unit 10: I have a dream – Social change

Unit 6-10: Revision

Unit 11: Read all about it – Fashion

Unit 12: In a nutshell – Dreaming

Unit 13: Leaf through a leaflet – Leaving home

Unit 14: Views from the platform – Language development

Unit 15: If you want to know what I think – Family life

Unit 11-15: Revision

Unit 16: Raving and panning – The arts

Unit 17: Do it for my sake – Persuasion

Unit 18: May I introduce…? – White lies

Unit 19: Feeding the mind – Food, pictures and sience

Unit 20: Answers on a postcard – Mini sagas

Unit 16-20: Revision

Unit 21: Travel broadens the mind – Trips and travel

Unit 22: Under the weather – Climate change

Unit 23: I’m afraid I really must insist – How to complain

Unit 24: News and views – Stories in the news

Unit 25: Powers of observation – Research methods

Unit 21-25: Revision

Unit 26: Natural wonders – Beauty spots

Unit 27: A friend in need – Personality traits

Unit 28: Weighing up the pros and cons – Air transport

Unit 29: A testing question – Education

Unit 30: Why should we employ you? – Job interviews

Unit 26-30: Revision