Receptive Skills
Reading
Teenagers in Britain
+ Discussion box
(p. 6)
Unit 1 MULTI-CULTURAL SOCIETY – Best of British
September
Teenagers in Ireland
(p. 8)
What do you think
about England?
(p. 9)
Listening
Describing teenagers
in Britain (p. 7)
Interviews with
foreigners in Britain
(p. 9)
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
The schwa (p. 11)
Writing
Text: Write a text
about yourself (p. 7)
Talking about statistics
(p. 13)
Discussing refugees
and asylum seekers
(p. 15)
Text: Write a
paragraph about
foreign culture (p. 16)
Email: Write an email
(p. 17)
Language in use
Turkey today (p. 18):
Multiple choice cloze
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Grammar:
Present simple vs. present
continuous (Review) (p. 7)
Present perfect simple with
for and since (Review) (p. 10)
Present perfect simple with
just, already, yet, and still
(p. 10)
Cultural influences
+ Discussion box
(p. 12)
Present perfect simple with
for, since, yet, and already
(p. 10)
Extract from Ruby
Tanya (p. 14)
Grammar for
communication:
How long…? questions
(p. 11)
Explosive message
(p. 16): Multiple choice
cloze
Vocabulary:
Giving statistics and making
generalisations
(p. 8)
Making new friends (p. 11)
Expressions about / in Britain
(p. 19)
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Special focus
INTO Literature:
Ruby Tanya by Robert
Swindells
(p. 14/15)
INTO Music:
Common People by
Pulp (p. 17) (DVD)
Receptive Skills
Unit 2 COMMUNICATION – Ways of talking
October
Reading
Sharing Silence
+ Discussion box
(p. 20)
Wordsmithery (p. 28)
Listening
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Sharing Silence
(p. 21)
Saying a monologue
(p. 27)
Presentation about
how to communicate
with deaf people (p.
21)
Sentence stress:
rhythm in questions
(p. 29)
Writing
Text: Write a text
about a person you
have known for a long
time (p. 24)
Language in use
Word formation
(p. 32)
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Grammar:
Past simple vs. present
perfect simple (p. 22/23)
Special focus
INTO Culture:
Wordsmithery
+ Discussion box
(p. 28/29)
Time expressions (p.22)
Email: Write an email
(p. 30)
Grammar for
communication:
present perfect simple with
just (p. 23)
Interview about body
language (p. 25):
Multiple choice
INTO Film:
Children of a Lesser
God
+ Film work: Shots
(p. 31) (DVD)
Vocabulary:
Body language (p. 25)
say and tell (p. 26)
Unit 3 RELATIONSHIPS (1) – A true friend
October / November
Phrases with talk and speak
(p. 33)
Old Shep (p. 34/35)
Old Shep (p. 35)
Are you a loyal friend?
(p. 38)
Discussion about a
questionnaire (p. 39)
Hugs (p. 40):
Completing sentences
using a maximum of 4
Discussion about a
book (p. 42)
words
Extract from Girls in
love (p. 43)
Expressing opinions
(p. 42)
Email: Write four
emails (p. 41)
Story: Rewrite a story
(p. 41)
Gapped sentences
(p. 46)
Grammar:
Past simple vs. past
continuous (p. 36)
Time conjunctions: as / then /
as soon as (p.36)
Past simple vs. past perfect
simple (p. 37)
Different opinions
about best friends
(p. 44)
Grammar for
communication:
Past simple and past
continuous (p. 36)
Vocabulary:
Are you a loyal friend?
(p. 38/39)
Friends (p. 47)
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INTO Literature:
Girls in love by
Jaqueline Wilson
(p. 43)
INTO Music:
Wannabe by Spice
Girls (p. 45) (DVD)
Receptive Skills
Unit 4 TRAVEL (1) – Great adventures
Unit 5 TECHNOLOGY – Live forever
December
November / December
Reading
Britain's solo sailor
+ Discussion box
(p. 48/49)
Space tourists
+ Discussion box
(p. 52)
Listening
Interview with Ellen
MacArthur (p. 50):
Multiple choice
Interview about a gap
year (p. 54)
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Interviews (p. 54/55)
Writing
Email: Write an
informal email (p. 55)
Giving a presentation
(p. 58)
Language in use
Key word
transformations
(p. 60)
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Grammar:
Future (Review) (p. 50/51)
Grammar for
communication:
Travel words and
prepositions (p. 53)
gonna vs. going to
(p. 51)
Hannah’s email to a
friend (p. 55)
Vocabulary:
Travel (p. 53, 61)
Going it Alone
(p. 56/57): Answer
questions using a
maximum of 4 words
Intelligent machines
+ Discussion box
(p. 62/63): Choosing
the correct heading
Special focus
INTO Culture:
Going it Alone
+ Discussion box
(p. 56/57)
INTO Film:
Monty Python “The
Kilimanjaro Expedition”
+ Film work:
Camerawork (p. 59)
(DVD)
Movement (p. 57)
Interviews about how
to live longer (p. 63)
Interview with an
expert on old age (p.
65)
Will computers ever
be more intelligent
than people? (p. 68)
Debate about space
programmes (p. 69)
Extract from Feed
(p. 70/71): T / F / NG
Extract from Feed
(p. 71)
A debate (p. 69, 71)
Essay: Write an essay
on intelligent
computers (p. 68)
Letter: Write a letter of
application (p. 72)
Cloze text (p. 74)
Grammar:
Future predictions (p. 64/65)
First conditional (Review),
if and unless (p. 66)
INTO Music:
Live forever by Oasis
(p. 73) (DVD)
Vocabulary:
Time conjunctions: if / unless
/ when / until / as soon as
(p. 66/67)
Verbs with prepositions
(p. 67)
Verbs + prepositions: with /
for / about (p. 75)
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INTO Literature:
Feed by M.T.
Anderson (p. 70/71)
Receptive Skills
Unit 6 MEDIA – Reality TV
January
Reading
Listening
Reality TV – a real
problem?
+ Discussion box
(p. 76/77): Multiple
Interview with a
psychologist about
reality TV (p. 80)
choice
Conversation about
reality TV (p. 83)
Cave people coming
our way (p. 82)
Big Brother Worldwide
(p. 84/85): Putting
chunks back in
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Telling an anecdote
(p. 83)
Writing
Article: Write a
magazine article about
a new reality show (p.
82)
Story: Write a story of
how you survived on a
desert island (p.82)
Article: Write an article
about a TV
programme (p. 86)
Language in use
Text correction
(p. 88)
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Grammar:
make / let / be allowed to
(p. 78)
Modal verbs of obligation,
prohibition and permission
(p. 80/81)
Grammar for
communication:
make / let / be allowed to
(p. 78)
Vocabulary:
Collocations with on
(p. 77/78)
Television (p. 79)
Extreme adjectives and
modifiers (p. 81, 89)
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Special focus
INTO Culture:
Big Brother Worldwide
(p. 84/85)
INTO Film:
American Dreamz
+ Film work: Mise-enscène: Body language
(p. 87) (DVD)
Receptive Skills
Unit 7 NATURE AND ENVIRONMENT – Campaigning for Survival
January / February
Reading
Tribes In Danger
+ Discussion box
(p. 90): Choosing the
correct heading
Letter to a newspaper
(p. 96)
Extract from Flush
(p. 98)
Review of another
novel by Hiaasen
(p. 99)
Listening
Opinions on the
building of a new
Olympic water sports
centre
(p. 93, 97): Matching
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Role-play (p. 97)
Writing
Language in use
Letter: Write a letter to
a politician (p. 96)
Dinosaur planet (p.
102): Multiple choice
Presentation about
being eco-friendly (p.
99)
sentence halves
cloze
Word formation
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Grammar:
Present passive and past
passive (Review) (p. 91)
Causative have (have
something done) (p. 91/92)
(p. 102)
Present perfect passive
(p. 94)
Conversation about
Carl Hiaasen (p. 99)
Future passive (p. 95)
Five short recordings
(p. 100)
Grammar for
communication:
Future passive (p. 96)
Vocabulary:
make and do (p. 93)
Expressions with make
(p. 103)
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Special focus
INTO Literature:
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
(p. 98/99)
INTO Music:
We are the champions
by Robbie Williams
(p. 101) (DVD)
Receptive Skills
Unit 8 MORAL ISSUES – Good and evil
February
Reading
Summaries of The
Picture of Dorian
Gray, The Strange
Case of Doctor Jekyll
and Mr Hyde, Faust,
Frankenstein, Dracula
(p. 104/105)
The writing’s on the
wall (p. 112)
Listening
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Conversation about a
video game (p. 108)
Describing a picture
(p. 111)
Description of a
picture (p. 111)
Stress in nouns,
adjectives and verbs
(p. 109)
Writing
Language in use
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Essay: Write an essay
(p. 113)
Good guys and bad
guys (p. 109): Word
Grammar:
Verbs + gerunds (p. 106)
Interview with a film
critic about monsters
in films (p. 114):
Completing sentences
using a maximum of 4
formation
Gapped sentences
(p. 116)
Open cloze (p. 116)
Verbs + infinitives (p. 106)
Verbs with gerunds or
infinitives (p. 110)
Vocabulary:
Noun suffixes (p. 108/109)
Belonging to a group (p. 113)
Noun suffixes: -ity / -ment /
-ness / -ion / -ation (p. 117)
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INTO Culture:
The Writing's on the
Wall
+ Discussion box
(p. 112/113)
Verbs with gerunds; verbs
with infinitives (p. 107)
Grammar for
communication:
Gerunds and infinitives with
like, hate, remember and start
(p. 110)
words
Special focus
INTO Film:
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
(1932) vs. (1941)
+ Film work: Genre
(p. 115) (DVD)
Receptive Skills
Unit 9 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT – Getting into trouble
Unit 10 SOCIETY – Two sides to every story
April
March
Reading
Are you really honest?
(p. 118)
Extract from Nicholas
Dane (p. 126)
Texts about two other
books on boot camps
(p. 127)
Listening
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Conversation about
getting into trouble
(p. 118)
Asking a partner
hypothetical questions
(p. 120)
Radio show about
crimes (p. 121)
Telling a joke (p. 125)
Two jokes (p. 125)
Writing
Letter: Write a letter to
a newspaper (p.124)
Essay: Write an essay
(p. 128)
Language in use
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
Key word
transformation
(p. 130)
Grammar:
Second conditional (Review)
(p. 119, 120)
Text correction
(p. 130)
First conditional vs. second
conditional (p. 119)
Discussion about boot
camps (p. 127)
I wish / if only (p. 123/124)
Grammar for
communication:
I wish / if only (p. 124)
Extract from Nicholas
Dane (p. 127)
Special focus
INTO Literature:
Nicholas Dane by
Melvin Burgess
(p. 126/127)
INTO Music:
Don’t worry, be happy
by Bobby McFerrin
(p. 129) (DVD)
Vocabulary:
Crime (p. 122)
Crimes (p. 131)
The making of The
Beach (p. 132/133)
Radio show about the
moon landing (p. 136)
Talking about the
moon landing (p. 136)
Tourism and culture
(p. 140/141)
Discussion about a
conspiracy theory
(p. 139)
Discussions about
conspiracy theories (p.
139)
Essay: Write an essay
(p. 141)
Is Tourism Bad for the
Environment? (p. 141)
True lies (p. 144):
Multiple choice cloze
A lucky escape? (p.
144): Word
formation
Grammar:
Linkers of contrast: however /
although / even though / in
spite of / despite (p. 134/135)
INTO Culture:
Tourism and culture
+ Discussion box
(p. 140/141)
Modal verbs of deduction
(present) (p. 136/137)
INTO Film:
The Beach
+ Film work: Sound
(p. 143) (DVD)
Grammar for
communication:
linkers of contrast (p. 135)
Film Review
Conspiracy Theory
(p. 142)
Vocabulary:
Problems (p. 138)
Talking about problems
(p. 145)
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Receptive Skills
Unit 11 TRAVEL (2) – Mysterious places
Unit 12 RELATIONSHIPS (2) – Love
June
May
Reading
No One Knows Why
They're There +
Discussion box
(p. 146/147)
Extract from Cosmic
(p. 154/155)
Listening
Interview about
Seahenge (p. 149):
Matching sentence
halves
Report about the
discovery of Machu
Picchu (p. 151)
Conversation about
Frank Cottrell Boyce
(p. 155): Answering
questions using a
maximum of 4 words
Productive Skills
Speaking and
Pronunciation
Writing
Language in use
Grammar & Lexical
Structures (Vocabulary)
A presentation
(p. 152/153)
Email: Write an email
(p. 155)
Gapped sentences
(p. 158)
Grammar:
Indirect questions (p. 148)
Discussion about
things you expect from
your parents (p. 155)
Story: Write a story
beginning or ending
with “And then the
phone rang.” (p. 156)
Open cloze (p. 158)
Indirect questions and
auxiliaries (p. 148)
Modals of deduction (past)
(p. 149/150)
must have / might
have / can't have /
could have / couldn't
have (p. 150)
Grammar for
communication:
Indirect questions (p. 148)
Special focus
INTO Literature:
Cosmic by Frank
Cottrell Boyce
(p. 154/155)
INTO Music:
Road to Nowhere by
Talking Heads (p. 157)
(DVD)
Vocabulary:
Phrasal verbs (p. 151)
Phrasal verbs with up / into /
down (p. 159)
The Gift of the Magi +
Discussion box
(p. 160/161)
A synopsis of the film
The English Patient
(p. 164)
Wedding Ceremonies
(p. 168/169):
Five poems (p. 167)
T / F / NG
Romeo & Juliet – the
greatest love story of
all time (p. 170):
Describing a famous
person (p. 163)
Describing the
appearance and
personality of people
in your family (p. 164)
Essay: Write an essay
about a person who
has taught you a lot
(p. 166)
Multiple choice cloze
(p. 164)
Word formation
(p. 169)
Key word
transformation
(p. 172)
Reading aloud
(p. 167)
Text correction
(p. 172)
Multiple choice
Grammar:
Reported statements
(Review) (p. 162)
Reported questions (Review)
(p. 162)
Reporting verbs (p. 165)
Vocabulary:
Appearance (p. 163)
Personality (p. 163/164)
Relationships (p. 166, 173)
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INTO Culture:
Wedding Ceremonies
+ Discussion box
(p. 168/169)
INTO Film:
Love Actually
+ Film work: Editing –
cuts (p. 171) (DVD)
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