CONTENTS Welcome p 4 A A lucky pilot; Descriptive verbs; Phrasal verbs; Childhood memories; Elements of a story; Talking about past routines B Future plans; Life plans; Future continuous; Future perfect; Being emphatic: so and such; Extreme adjectives C Conversations; Personality; Using should; Career paths; Decisions; Permission D A change of lifestyle?; Reporting verbs; Negative adjectives; Another country; Changes; Regrets: I wish … / If only …
FUNCTIONS & SPEAKING GRAMMAR Unit 1 Survival p 12
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Verbs followed by infinitive or gerund Verbs which take gerund and infinitive with different meanings: remember, try, stop, regret, forget
Verbs of movement Adjectives to describe uncomfortable feelings Wordwise: Expressions with right
Expressing surprise Discussing nomadic peoples
Relative clauses (review) which to refer to a whole clause Omitting relative pronouns Reduced relative clauses
Groups of people Phrasal verbs (1)
Quantifiers so and such (review) do and did for emphasis
Costumes and uniforms Bringing up children
be / get used to (doing) vs. used to (do) Adverbs and adverbial phrases
Personality adjectives Common adverbial phrases Wordwise: Expressions with good
p 20
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Expressing frustration Guessing game to practise personality adjectives
p 38
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Unit 4 Thinking outside the box
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Review Units 1 & 2 pages 28–29 Emphasising Unit 3 Discussing the Tiger mum style of The next parenting generation p 30
Review Units 3 & 4 pages 46–47 Advice and obligation Unit 5 Talking about technology Screen time
Unit 6 Bringing people together p 56
Review Units 5 & 6 Unit 7 Always look on the bright side
Obligation, permission and prohibition (review) Necessity: didn’t need to / needn’t have Ability in the past (could, was / were able to, managed to, succeeded in)
Technology (nouns) Technology (verbs)
Comparatives Linkers of contrast
Ways of speaking Love and relationships
Cheering someone up Silver linings game: – thinking of optimistic solutions
Ways of referring to the future (review) Future continuous Future perfect
Phrases to talk about the future: about to, off to, on the point of Feelings about future events Wordwise: Expressions with so
Saying ‘Yes’ and adding conditions Discussing wonders of the world
Conditionals (review) Mixed conditionals
Phrasal verbs (2) Alternatives to if: suppose, provided, as long as, otherwise, unless
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Using intensifying comparatives Discussing the use of the Internet for doing good Role play: Stuck in a lift
pages 64–65
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Unit 8 Making lists p 74
experience
Making a point Introducing news Interviewing a well-known person Discussing the ethics of journalism
p 102
Unit 12 More to explore p 110
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Discussing life in space
Speaking persuasively Giving a presentation about human activity and the natural world
Sharing news Reporting verbs Wordwise: Expressions with way
Speculating (past, present and future) Cause and effect linkers
Space idioms Adjectives commonly used to describe films
Passive report structures The passive: verbs with two objects
Geographical features Verb + noun collocations
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Review Units 9 & 10 pages 100–101 Sympathising about past situations Unit 11 Space and beyond Discussing the greatest films
Reported speech (review) Reported questions and requests
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Life’s ups and downs Work and education
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Unit 10 Spreading the news
I wish and If only I would prefer to / it if, It’s time, I’d rather / sooner
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Review Units 7 & 8 pages 82–83 Asking someone politely to change their Unit 9 behaviour Be your own life Discussing further education and work coach p 84
VOCABULARY
Issuing and accepting a challenge Discussing situations and your emotional reactions to them
Review Units 11 & 12 pages 118–119 Pronunciation pages 120–121 Get it right! pages 122–126
Speaking activities pages 127–128