CONTENTS

Learning objectives Grammar Vocabulary Pronunciation

■ Talk about personal achievements ■ Tense review (simple ■ Describing ■ Saying the letter y
And we’re off!

■ Talk about qualities that employers and continuous) accomplishments

Unit 1

look for ■ Dynamic and stative ■ Describing key qualities

■ Make and respond to introductions verbs
■ Write a comment on a blog post
■ Practice a job interview

■ Talk about trends ■ Real conditionals ■ Describing trends ■ Saying the vowel sounds
The future of food

■ Talk about preparing food ■ Clauses with after, until, ■ Talking about preparing /aɪ/, /i/, and
■ Make, accept, and refuse offers in when food /eɪ/
Unit 2

social situations ■ Listening for deleted /t/

■ Write the results of a survey sounds
■ Create a plan to improve a
restaurant

■ Discuss the relative importance of ■ too and enough ■ Talking about time and ■ Saying /s/ at the
time and money Modifying comparisons money beginning of a word
What’s it worth?

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■ Discuss value and how we ■ Talking about prices and
measure it value
Unit 3

■ Apologize for damaging or losing

someone’s property
■ Write a product review
■ Discuss ways to respond to a
negative product review

Review 1 (Review of Units 1–3)

■ Speculate about a picture ■ Modals of speculation ■ Talking about ■ Saying the vowel sounds
■ Talk about viral stories ■ Subject and object advertising /ɔ/ and /ɑ/
Going glocal

■ Exchange and discuss opinions relative clauses ■ Talking about people in ■ Listening for topic
Write a response to a post about the media organization
Unit 4

■
local businesses
■ Design an ad for a product

■ Discuss different types of stories ■ Past perfect ■ Describing stories ■ Saying consonants at
■ Talk about plans and changes to ■ was/were going to; ■ Making and breaking the end of a word
plans in the past was/were supposed to plans
True stories

■ React to problems and

Unit 5

disappointing news
■ Write a formal apology
■ Tell a story about a chance meeting

■ Discuss charities and volunteer work ■ Present and past passive ■ Discussing good works ■ Saying /b/ or /v/ in the
Community action

■ Discuss acts of kindness in your ■ Passive with modals ■ Describing good deeds middle of a word
community ■ Listening for /j/ between
■ Offer, refuse, and accept help with words
Unit 6

something
■ Write a report about a community
project
■ Design an urban project for your
community

Review 2 (Review of Units 4–6)

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