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Grammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

Language State and action verbs The Hobbit (p6) Greetings (p6) Greetings (p6) P Intonation and different meanings (p6)
(p6) English for a English for specific purposes Fantasy stories and films (p7)
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Present simple and specific purpose (p8) P Word stress (p8)
present continuous (p9) (p8)
Languages (p9)

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Culture Questions (p11) Towards a definition of Capitals of Collocations for describing P Word stress (p11)
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Subject/object questions culture (p12) culture (p10) places (p11) Nominating a town (p11)
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(p12) EV look (p10) Towards a definition of culture (p12)
Culture quiz (p13)

Function globally: Making recommendations (p14) Writing: Culture quiz (p13)

Global English: A world full of Englishes (p15) A report (p16)
Study skills: Understanding your learning style (p17)

Lives Past simple and past White Teeth (p20) An interview with -ing and -ed adjectives (p19) Ghostwriting (p18)
continuous (p19) a ghostwriter Relationships (p20) Word stress (p19)
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Past simple and past (p18)
P Weak forms (p21)
perfect (p21)

Legends Modifiers (p22) Grimms’ fairy tales (p23) A fairy tale (p22) Extreme adjectives, sentence A fairy tale (p22)
used to & would (p25) Legendary places – stress (p23) Sentence stress (p23)

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modern meanings (p24) Prepositions (p24) Grimms’ fairy tales (p23)

EV Ways of talking about
meaning (p24)

Function globally: Generalising and giving examples (p26) Writing: Ghostwriting a partner’s experience (p19)
Global voices: An important influence (p27) A mini saga (p25)
A narrative (p28)
Study skills: Improving your reading skillls (p29)

Hot Future forms: plans & Endless energy? (p32) A desert survival Materials (p31) Talking about a photo from different
intentions (p31) expert (p30) Energy (p32) points of view (p30)
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will & be going to for Energy sources EV Words that go with Planning a trip (p31)
predictions (p33) (p32) problem (p32)

Cold so & such (p34) Coming in from the cold In a department cold (metaphor) p35 Talking about the cold (p34)

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(p34) store (p36)
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page 34 Real conditionals (p37) Words to describe statistics P Intonation (p36)

Weather ups and downs (p36)
(p36)

Function globally: Requests and offers (p38) Writing: An online comment: giving opinions (p33)
Global English: Caribbean English (p39) A list poem (p37)
A formal letter (p40)
Study skills: Writing a learner diary (p41)

Friends Present perfect and past A creative friendship Adjective suffixes: -ive, -ful, P Contrastive stress (p42)
simple (p42) (p42) -ous (p43) Word stress (p43)
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Present perfect with yet & Guardians of the Expressions with what (p44) Telling a friend your news (p45)
already (p44) Kingdom (p44)

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Strangers Modals of deduction (p47) Strangers on a train Strangers on a Crime (p46) Making predictions about a film (p47)
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somebody, anybody, (p46) Train (p46) stranger and foreigner usual and unusual (p48)
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nobody, everybody (p49) Average UK Man (p48) Who is Average (p47) The class Average Man or Woman (p49)
Man? (p48) usual and unusual (p48)

Function globally: Starting a conversation (p50) Writing: Giving your news (p52)
Global voices: A good friend (p51) Study skills: Working with mistakes (p53)

Law Modals of obligation and Asimov’s laws of Laws of EV -ics and -ology (p54) Government (p56)
permission (p55) robotics (p54) bureaucracy Government Collocations (p56) Bureaucratic situations (p57)
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Past modals of obligation (p56)
(p57)

Order Present perfect simple I’m a Teacher, Get Me An orderly lunch Education compound nouns P Education compound nouns (p58)
and continuous, for & Out of Here! (p58) (p60) (p58) Order in the kitchen, phrasal verbs with

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since (p59) EV control (p58) up (p60)

Separable phrasal verbs Order in the kitchen, phrasal P Phrasal verbs, sentence stress (p61)
(p61) verbs with up (p60)

Function globally: Giving advice and warnings (p62) Writing: Cartoon captions (p55)
Global English: Legal protection for languages (p63) My school years (p58)
Giving instructions (p64)
Study skills: Using your dictionary: phrasal verbs (p65)

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 Grammar Reading texts Listening texts Vocabulary Speaking and Pronunciation

Seen Passive voice (p67) Now you see it ... now Optical illusions take (p66) Photography (p66)
Articles (p69) you don’t! (p66) (p68) Colours and shapes (p69) the (p69)
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Optical illusions (p68) Colours and shapes (p69)

Heard Reported statements and Overheard in New York Ways of speaking Ways of speaking (p70) What did she say? (p71)
questions (p71) (p70) (p70) listen and hear (p70) Describing equipment (p72)

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Reported requests and What did she Electronic equipment (p72)

commands (p73) say? (p71)
An interview
about the Stasi
(p73)

Function globally: Asking for and giving opinions (p74) Writing: A description of a place (p76)
Global voices: Good news (p75) Study skills: Developing fluency in speaking (p77)

Supply Defining relative clauses A good swap / Trash or Tulipmania (p80) Inexact numbers (p79) Bartering (p79)
(p78) treasure (p78) -mania (p80) The best way to make money (p80)
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Non-defining relative Wordbuilding: trade (p81) P Word stress (p81)
clauses (p81)

Demand Countable & uncountable Meeting our demands Three men on Abstract nouns (p82) Something you were motivated to do

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nouns (p83) (p82) a desert island other ways of saying funny (p83)
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wish (p85) (p84) (p84) P The letter i (p85)
Jokes (p85)

Function globally: Making formal phone calls (p86) Writing: Describing objects for an auction (p78)
Global English: A global language for business (p87) Giving your opinion (p88)
Study skills: Learning word families (p89)

Lost would (p91) Life of Pi (p90) Sending objects Expressions with lose & lost Describing a picture (p90)
Second conditional (p93) Lost in space (p92) into space (p93) (p91) A guessing game (p93)
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Found Third conditional (p94) Top five inventions and Bulgaria’s Expressions with make & do P Intonation (p95)
discoveries made by Thracian (p94)

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page 94 Past modals of deduction Finding treasure (p96)
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(p97) accident (p94) treasures (p96) EV with or without a plan (p94) Speculating about treasures (p97)
Finding treasure (p96) Treasure (p97)

Function globally: Expressing sympathy (p98) Writing: How would your life have been different? (p95)
Global voices: Lost and found (p99) An essay (p100)
Study skills: Using your dictionary: learning fixed expressions (p101)

Love Verb patterns: verbs A Short History of The relationship Stereotypes (p102) English and French satirical images (p102)
followed by -ing and Tractors in Ukrainian between the I mean (p105) Word stress (p102)
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infinitive with to (p103) (p104) English and the
French (p103) Love (p105) A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Comparatives and (p104)
superlatives (p104)

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Hate Verb patterns: verbs Room 101 (p106) Sports (p108) P Sentence stress and meaning (p106)
followed by prepositions Classic sporting rivalries Categories (p107)
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(p106) (p108) Sports (p108)

Function globally: Giving and accepting compliments (p110) Writing: Expanding sentences (p109)
Global English: Strong language (p111) An informal email (p112)
Study skills: Improving your listening skills (p113)

Beginnings Verb form review (p117) Famous opening lines Desciptions of Beginnings and endings
EV P Silent letters (p114)
(p114) novels (p114) (p114) Reading questionnaire (p115)
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Birthday customs (p116) Books and reading (p115) Birthday customs (p116)
Celebrations (p116) Verb form review (p117)

Endings Reflexive pronouns (p118) Unhappy endings: the Death in sixteenth Death (p118) A presentation (p119)

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wives of Henry VIII century England farewell (p120)

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(p118) (p118)
Leaving (p120)
Famous farewells (p120)

Function globally: Saying goodbye (p122) Writing: A thank-you letter (p117)

Global voices: A favourite film (p123) A farewell email or speech (p121)
A speech (p124)
Study skills: Using your dictionary: exploring synonyms (p125)

Communication activities: Additional material:  (p130) Grammar focus:  (p132) Audioscript:  (p152)
Student A: (p126)    Student B: (p128)

EV – Extend your vocabulary    P – Pronunciation   

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