UNIT 1 NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance.
Compound adjectives
GRAMMAR Defi ning and non-defi ning relative clauses.
Modals for deduction (past and present)
WRITING An informal email
PRONUNCIATION Compound adjectives
UNIT 2 DOWN-TO-EARTH
VOCABULARY Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds
GRAMMAR Modals and expressions of probability.
Conditionals. Alternatives to IF
WRITING An article
PRONUNCIATION Contractions. Linking
UNIT 3 HOME SWEET HOME
VOCABULARY Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework.
Phrasal verbs connected to people relations
GRAMMAR Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice.
Have/Get something done
WRITING A report
PRONUNCIATION Consonant clusters
UNIT 4 A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
VOCABULARY Money. Jobs
GRAMMAR Infi nitive versus –ing. Participle clauses
WRITING A covering letter
PRONUNCIATION Stress shift
UNIT 5 CAUGHT RED-HANDED
VOCABULARY Crime. Criminals
GRAMMAR Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions
WRITING An opinion composition
PRONUNCIATION How to sound emphatic
UNIT 6 OUT AND ABOUT
VOCABULARY Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports
GRAMMAR Used to, Would. Narrative tenses
WRITING A blog post
PRONUNCIATION-ED endings
UNIT 7 TV OR NOT TV?
VOCABULARY Headlines.
Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide)
GRAMMAR Impersonal report structures.
Contrast (despite, in spite of, although…)
WRITING A “for and against” composition
PRONUNCIATION Contrastive intonation
UNIT 8 AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
VOCABULARY Health and illness.
Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet
GRAMMAR Reported speech.
Reporting statements, commands and questions.
WRITING A complaint email/letter
PRONUNCIATION Homographs. Homophones
UNIT 9 NO REGRETS JUST LESSONS LEARNED
VOCABULARY Feelings
GRAMMAR I wish/If only.
Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time
WRITING A personal anecdote
PRONUNCIATION /s/ – /z/ – /?/
UNIT 10 FACEBOOK = LANGUAGE FACELIFT?
VOCABULARY Compounds with –ever. The Internet. Fast Writing
GRAMMAR Future perfect and continuous.
Use of the article for generalizing
WRITING A review
PRONUNCIATION Words pronounced diff erently in Spanish/English
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