READING AND

UNIT VOCABULARY GRAMMAR

CRITICAL THINKING
STARTER What do you Vocabulary: activities, likes and dislikes, adjectives, the environment
know?

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11 Amazing people Describing people
Personal qualities
WDYT ? Who inspires you?
Helping others: Verb
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and noun collocations
Could you work in
space?
Past simple, past continuous A magazine article
and used to Unique strengths
when and while
Subskill: Reading for
Subject and object questions
gist/skimming

2 Love to learn! Skills and abilities

Learning techniques
Present perfect with for, since and
How long …?
Online reviews
Learn new skills!
WDYT ? What’s the best
Sophie’s monthly just, yet and already
new skill you’ve ever learnt, Subskill: Scanning for
update Present perfect and past simple
and how can you teach it to specific information
others?
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3 Look after yourself Staying healthy

Health and well-being
Modal verbs
Gerund and infinitive
An advice page
Mind what you eat!
WDYT ? How can you
Phrasal verbs: healthy
improve your health? Subskill:
habits
Page 36 Understanding new
Ethan’s top tips words

4 Invention Jobs in science

Science: verb and noun
Past perfect
Relative pronouns
An online article
Science making a
WDYT ? What makes a good
collocations Defining relative clauses difference
invention? What’s the best way
Describing products
to present it to people? Subskill: Identifying
The perfect pitch text purpose
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5 Smile! Describing art

Photography
The passive: present and past
Active and passive
An online article
Smile please!
WDYT ? Who took the first
Types of art and word The passive: questions and answers
selfie? Subskill: Using images
families
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A different kind of understand a text
portrait
6 
Let’s go! Transport
Travelling
Future tenses: review
Present tenses with future meaning
An interview
Miro’s real world-
WDYT ? How can travel help
Extreme adjectives Future continuous schooling adventure
us to learn about the world?
Taking the high road Subskill: Identifying
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facts and opinions

7 Choices IT
Technology
First and second conditional
Third conditional
An infographic
Digital DOs and digital
WDYT ? Do we control
Screen–life balance: phrasal DON’Ts
technology or does it control
verbs
us? Subskill:
Question time: Understanding
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8 In the news Types of media Reported speech A web page

The news Reported offers, requests, How to spot fake news
WDYT ? How do we know if
Reporting verbs suggestions and commands
news is reliable? Subskill: Navigating
Fact or fiction? web pages
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9 L ook what you

know!
Vocabulary and Grammar review Reading: review of subskills

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 REAL-WORLD
LISTENING WRITING PRONUNCIATION PROJECT
SPEAKING
Grammar: present simple and present continuous, comparative and superlative adjectives, was/were and there was/there
were, quantifiers too, too much/many, (not) enough, a/an, some/any, much/many, a few, a lot of, past simple and used to

A radio interview Giving an opinion A profile -ed endings: /d/ Create a video about an
about an inspirational /t//ɪd/ inspiring person.
Subskill: Using
teenager
conjunctions – Communication
Silent letters
Subskill: Predicting because, Verbal and non-verbal
what you will hear so, although communication

A podcast about Asking for and A blog Recognising Create a tutorial to

learning languages giving information contractions teach your classmates a
Subskill: Using
Subskill: Remembering tenses correctly new skill.
what you hear Critical thinking
Finding the best solution
for a problem
An informal Giving An informal email Short /ɒ/ and long Create a diary of a
conversation about instructions /ɔ:/ fitness weekend.
Subskill: Using
healthy habits
punctuation Creativity
Subskill: Recognising Evaluating different ideas
informal speech

A talk about an Checking A formal letter Diphthongs Present an invention as

invention information a product pitch.
Subskill: Using
Subskill: Listening for formal language Communication
the information you Question tags
Using language to
need persuade people
An audio guide Talking about An online post Weak forms: /ə/ Create a timeline about
photos with was /wəz/ the history of selfies.
Subskill: Checking what Subskill: Using both
and were /wə/
information you need and neither Collaboration
Being flexible to reach a
common goal

A conversation Buying tickets An opinion essay going to /gənə/ Create a map and
between two teenagers itinerary for a world-
Subskill: Giving
Will for spontaneous Syllables and word schooling curriculum.
Subskill: Following a opinions
decisions stress with extreme
conversation Creativity
adverbs and
adjectives Using visuals
A radio phone-in about Giving advice A survey report Sentence stress Write a questionnaire
surviving without your to find out about screen
Subskill: Using
phone habits.
indefinite pronouns
Subskill: Understanding Collaboration
sentence stress Working collaboratively to
do a task
A radio news bulletin Reacting to news A news report Intonation in Report a news story in
reported speech two different ways.
Subskill: Guessing Subskill: Editing
meaning from context your writing Critical thinking
Assessing the reliability of
sources
Listening: review of subskills Speaking: review of Key phrases Writing: review of subskills

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