Syllabus checklist

Grammar Vocabulary
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4 A Self-portrait have: auxiliary or main verb? personality

8 B Nice work! discourse markers (1): linkers work

12 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH 1 Talking about…work and family

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14 A Changing language pronouns learning languages

18 B Do you remember…? the past: habitual events and specific word building: abstract nouns
incidents

22 REVISE & CHECK 1&2 Short film The history of English

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24 A Don’t get mad, get even get phrases with get

28 B History in the making discourse markers (2): adverbs and conflict and warfare
adverbial expressions

32 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH 2&3 Talking about…history

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34 A Sounds interesting speculation and deduction sounds and the human voice

38 B From cover to cover? adding emphasis (1): inversion describing books and films

42 REVISE & CHECK 3&4 Short film York Literature Festival

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44 A One thing at a time distancing expressions with time

48 B A material world unreal uses of past tenses money

52 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH 4&5 Talking about…stress and relaxation

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 Pronunciation Speaking
using a dictionary Discussion about families
Agreeing and disagreeing
the rhythm of spoken Talking about jobs you would
English hate / love to do
sound–spelling Talking about language and spelling
relationships;
understanding accents
word stress with suffixes Talking about childhood and early
memories
words and phrases of Talking about blind dates
French origin
stress in word families Describing a scene from a film or a
book; talking about historical films
and books
consonant clusters Talking about unusual pictures
taken in London
Talking about starting
conversations with strangers
sounds and spelling: /ɔː/ Talking about reading habits
linking in short phrases Talking about time management
and multitasking
US and UK accents Talking about the level of
importance of money for men and
women
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Listening Reading
An audio guide describing a Frida What’s your personality?
Kahlo painting
Interview with Lisa Imlach, a What I’m really thinking
Skyscanner employee
Interview with a non-native speaker A book review: Spell it out
of English
Three people talking about their Roald Dahl: Boy
earliest memory
A radio interview about research
into first memories
Song: The Best Day
A radio programme about first Getting your own back
dates
Song: 50 Ways to Say Goodbye
An interview with Adrian Hodges, The scenes you’ll never
a screenwriter forget
Five people talking about the I have a phobia of sound
noises they don’t like
Interview with Polly Akhurst, one
of the founders of ‘Talk to me
London’
An interview with a professional Time to rename the spoiler
translator Translation Diary
Song: Story of Your Life
The Chocolate Meditation Two extracts about time
Six people talking about waiting management: Multitasking;
for things Mindfulness
Sarita Gupta talking about Do women really want to
microfinance and three financial marry for money?
success stories
Song: Material Girl
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 Grammar Vocabulary
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54 A Change your life! verb + object + infinitive or gerund compound adjectives

58 B Can’t give it up conditional sentences phones and technology; adjectives +

prepositions

62 REVISE & CHECK 5&6 Short film Giving presentations

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64 A Quite interesting permission, obligation, and necessity word formation: prefixes

68 B A beautiful idea verbs of the senses art; colour idioms

72 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH 6&7 Talking about…illustration

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74 A Doctor’s orders gerunds and infinitives health and medicine; similes

78 B Traveller or tourist? expressing future plans and arrangements travel and tourism

82 REVISE & CHECK 7&8 Short film The history of penicillin

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84 A Animal planet ellipsis animal matters

88 B How to eat out…and in nouns: compound and possessive forms preparing food; food adjectives with
-y

92 COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH 8&9 Talking about…insects and animals

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94 A Where do I belong? adding emphasis (2): cleft sentences words that are often confused

98 B A good sport relative clauses word building: adjectives, nouns, and

verbs

102 REVISE & CHECK 9&10 Short film Ellis Island

104 Communication 140 Grammar Bank 173 Irregular verbs

112 Writing 160 Vocabulary Bank 174 Sound Bank

126 Listening 172 Appendix – dependent prepositions

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 Pronunciation Speaking Listening Reading

main and secondary Giving a presentation about a TED talks: Try something new for How to survive living with
stress challenge 30 days your parents
How to survive exam stress

/æ/ and /ʌ/ Talking about obsessions and A doctor talking about addiction Without a mobile phone, you
addictions Song: Under the Influence basically don’t exist

intonation and linking in Talking about proposed A journalist talks about the TV It’s health and safety gone
exclamations laws show QI mad!

-ure Talking about art and piracy An art expert talking about The Secret of The Forest
installation art and four works of
art
Song: All the Rowboats

/ə/ Talking about alternative and Four people talking about What doctors won’t do...
mainstream medicine alternative medicine
A radio program about healthy
living

homophones Talking about what kind of traveller Story of a disastrous journey Are you a tourist or a
you are Song: Holiday Romance traveller?

auxiliary verbs and to Discussion about animal issues A radio programme about the pros In defence of NOT liking
and cons of being a vegetarian animals
Song: Talking Bird

words with silent Discussion about eating out Extracts from the book: Well-known faces reveal
syllables How to Eat Out their ultimate comfort food

intonation in cleft Talking about living in another An interview about emigrating to Tea and sandwiches with the
sentences country another country Queen
Song: Immigrant Eyes

homographs Discussion about fair play in sports An interview with a sports Battle of the workouts
journalist

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