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Unit Listening Reading Writing

We are all friends now Section 1: Note completion Choosing suitable section headings from Task 1: Describing a line graph
1 Page 6 a list
Sentence completion
Verbs of movement
Analysing main trends and purpose
Identification of information in the text –
True/False/Not Given
Section 2: Multiple-choice Identification of information in the text – Task 2: Discussing both views
2 Technology – now and then
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Matching True/False/Not Given
Classification
and giving own opinion

Multiple-choice

Thrill seekers Section 3: Note completion Matching information Task 1: Describing a table
3 Page 30 Table completion Identification of information in the text –
True/False/Not Given
Analysing and comparing data

Multiple-choice
Ready for Listening
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Global issues and Section 4: Note completion Summary completion Task 2: Suggesting causes and solutions
4 opportunities
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Multiple-choice Identification of writer’s views/claims –
Yes/No/Not Given
Developing a topic sentence

The future Section 1: Note completion Summary completion Task 1: Describing a pie chart
5 Page 60 Table completion Multiple-choice
Short-answer questions

The fruits of nature Section 2: Multiple-choice Matching information Task 1: Describing a process
6 Page 72 Labelling a map
Sentence completion
Identification of information in the text –
True/False/Not Given
Describing sequences

Flow-chart completion

Ready for Reading IELTS Reading checklist

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The world of work and Section 3: Multiple-choice Matching information Task 2: Comparing advantages and
7 education
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Sentence completion
Short-answer question
Matching names
Multiple-choice
disadvantages

Mapping the world Section 4: Note completion Matching sentence endings Task 1: Describing changes
8 Page 104 Table completion
Multiple-choice
in maps

WPagehat116is beauty? Section 3: Sentence completion Sentence completion Task 2: Describing effects and
9 Matching information Classification
Matching information to paragraphs
consequences

Ready for Writing IELTS Writing checklists

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IPage
s it art? Section 2: Selecting items from a list Summary completion Task 2: Discussing an opinion about a
10 140 Multiple-choice
Sentence completion
Labelling a diagram statement

The family and society Section 1: Note completion Sentence completion Task 2: Agreeing or disagreeing with a
11 Page 152 Matching information to paragraphs
Selecting items from a list
statement
Discussing views, causes, solutions
Concession

Travelling around the world Section 2: Multiple-choice Summary completion Task 2: Developing ideas
12 Page 164 Sentence completion Identification of information in the text –
True/False/Not Given
Short-answer questions
Ready for Speaking IELTS Speaking checklists
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The importance of Section 3: Multiple-choice Matching headings Task 1: Describing tables
13 infrastructure
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Multiple-choice
Multiple-choice
Identification of writer’s views/claims
Yes/No/Not Given
Multiple-choice

Money and well-being Section 4: Multiple-choice Matching information Task 1: Describing charts
14 Page 194 Note completion Matching names
Multiple-choice

Additional material Wordlist Grammar reference Listening scripts

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 Speaking Language focus Vocabulary

Part 2: Describing a person 1 Likes and dislikes Describing people

2 Present simple, present continuous
and past simple

Part 2: Describing an electronic device 1 Past simple and present perfect Verbs of cause and effect
2 Habit in the past Word building: Evaluating adjectives
Adverbs of frequency

1 Part 1: Discussing sport 1 Adjectives with prepositions Sports

2 Part 3: Discussing physical activity 2 Comparison Word building: Adjectives ending in
and the benefits of sport -ing/-ed

1 Part 1: Discussing food and

manufactured goods
2 Part 3: Discussing world problems
Countable and uncountable nouns 1 General nouns
2 Developing ideas

Part 3: Discussing the future Ways of looking at the future 1 Adjective/Noun collocations
Word building: Forming adjectives
from nouns
2 Verbs of prediction

Part 2: Describing a place of natural Transitive and intransitive verbs 1 Lifecycles and processes
beauty 2 Conservation

1 Part 3: Discussing goals and career Conditionals 1 1 Work

2 Part 2: Describing a job/an 2 Collocations:
achievement
1 Part 1: Describing a neighbourhood
2 Part 2: Social interaction with
neighbours
Referring in a text Nouns relating to places

1 Part 2: Describing a building or Modal verbs for evaluating Beauty
monument Word building: Prefixes under-
2 Part 3: Discussing buildings and and over-
traditions

1 Part 3: Discussing the arts Defining and non-defining relative Art

2 Part 2: Describing an art form clauses

Part 2: Describing friendship, Conditionals 2 The family

relationship, period of your life, Word building: Suffixes -hood and
membership -ship

1 Part 1: Discussing travel Articles Adjectives with multiple meanings

2 Part 2: Describing a journey Word building: Words related to
memory

1 Part 2: Describing a street or Concession and developing ideas Nouns related to systems
square Word building: Modal verbs to
2 Part 3: Discussing transport systems adjectives

Part 3: Discussing well-being and Substitution and ellipsis Money matters

money Word building: Values and beliefs

Sample answer sheets Answer key

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