Module 1
Vocabulary:Phrasal verbs to talk about your life map
Reading
Grammar check-up: Verb forms
Present Perfect or Past Simple
Present Perfect or Past Perfect
Past Simple, Present Perfect or Past Perfect
Future forms
Auxiliary verbs: Adding emphasis
Sounding interested
Tag questions
Avoiding repetition
Pronunciation: Weak forms
Improve your writing:
Linking phrases for a personal profile
Module 2
Vocabulary: Word building with abstract nouns,verbs and adjectives
Pronunciation: Nouns and verbs
Improve your writing: Spelling
Listen and read: What makes you anxious?
Abstract and general ideas: Gerunds (-ing forms)
Grammar snack: be I get used to + noun or gerund
Prefixes
Responding sympathetically in writing
Module 3
Vocabulary: Verb and adverb combinations
Reading: A short break in Copenhagen
Grammar check-up: Past Simple, Past Continuous and Past Perfect in narratives
The Present Participle
Verb forms in narrative: Past Simple / Continuous, Past Perfect Simple / Continuous, Present Participle
Continuous aspect in other tenses
Pronunciation: Contractions and weak forms
Grammar snack: so I such
Improve your writing: Avoiding repetition
Module 4
Vocabulary: Qualities of mind
Pronunciation: Stress patterns with suffixes
Grammar check-up: Passives quiz
Passives
Choosing active or passive
Improve your writing: Describing a traditional dish
Listen and read: How to do magic tricks
Grammar snack: to hove / get something done
Module 5
Jazz chant: Verb noun word combinations
Dictionary work: Verb noun combinations
Future Perfect or Future Simple
Perfect tenses in the past, present and future
Pronunciation: Contractions and weak forms
Present Perfect Simple or Continuous
Grammar snack: just, still, by, so far and perfect tenses
Reading: Books
Improve your writing: Describing a book you have enjoyed
Module 6
Vocabulary
Use and non-use of articles
Reading: Self-help books
Improve your writing: Taking notes: abbreviations
Writing notes
Different ways of emphasising things
Emphatic constructions with what and it (cleft sentences)
Pronunciation: Cleft sentences
Module 7
Vocabulary: Word building
Pronunciation: Adverbs
Grammar check-up: Relative pronouns
Listen and read
Non-defining relative clauses
Participle relative clauses
Relative clauses: All types
Improve your writing: Punctuation
Quantifiers
Grammar snack: used to I would + verb
Module 8
Dictionary work: Word combinations: politics
Vocabulary: Word building
Pronunciation: Word stress and reading aloud
Grammar check-up: Infinitive of purpose
Infinitive forms
Patterns using infinitives with to
Infinitive or gerund (-lng form)
Reading: Tipping
Grammar snack:
Plural nouns and collective nouns
Improve your writing:
Writing an argument for and against
Module 9
Vocabulary:
Describing things that are odd or unusual
Pronunciation: Consonant clusters
Modal verbs: Revision
Past modals
Past modals in everyday conversations
Listen and read: Coincidences
Grammar snack: need
Improve your writing: Formal and informal letters rearranging plans
Module 10
Vocabulary: Organising an international event
Basic future forms: will and going to
Going to and Present Continuous for intentions and arrangements
Phrases to express future ideas
Grammar snack: in case and if
Future Simple, Future Perfect or Future Continuous
Pronunciation: Reading aloud: linking
Reading: Fit for Life sports centre
Improve your writing: Inviting a speaker
Vocabulary: Sport and physical activities
Module 11
Vocabulary: Medicine and science
Talking about hypothetical situations (using if, supposing, imagine)
Talking about hypothetical situations (using I wish and if only)
It's time
Talking about hypothetical situations in the past (using if)
Talking about hypothetical situations in the past (using I wish and if only)
Talking about hypothetical situations in the present and past (using I wish and if only)
Reading: The science of chronobiology
Improve your writing: Reporting opinions
Module 12
Vocabulary: Prefixes and suffixes
Pronunciation: Word stress
Listen and read: Attitudes towards television
Vocabulary: The media
Reporting people's exact words
Verbs that summarise what people say
Grammar snack: Passive reporting verbs
Improve your writing: Correcting written information
Answer key
Acknowledgements
