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Inside Out Student's Book Upper Intermediate

  


Author(s):  Vaughan Jones    Susan Kay  
Publisher:   Macmillan
ISBN: 9780333757604


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Unit 1 Images
 
Unit 2 Family
 
Unit 3 Money
 
Unit 4 Body
 
Unit 5 Ritual
 
Unit 6 Digital
 
Unit 7 Review 1
 
Unit 8 Escape
 
Unit 9 Attraction
 
Unit 10 Genius
 
Unit 11 Sell
 
Unit 12 Student
 
Unit 13 Home
 
Unit 14 Review 2
 

Unit 1 Images

Page 4 - 5
listening   speaking   

Speaking : images of the 20th century
Ss discuss four pics of epoch making events.

Listening : four individual speakers discuss one of the events each.

skills:
history - recent
 
Page 5

Gapped script (people talking about memorable images of the 20th C) + recording ; mulitple choice grammar exercise

grammar:
tenses - mixed
 
Page 6 - 7
individual / pairwork   speaking   listening   written exercise   

Short listening (T 02) + analysis; gap-type exercises.

grammar:
question tags
 
Page 6

Short listening (T02)to introduce the structure ; pairwork : Os and Xs game.

grammar:
auxiliary verbs - so / neither
 
Page 6 - 8
individual / pairwork   reference notes   

(6) Various sentences gapped for 'have', 'do' and 'be'. Can serve as part of an introduction to the uses of auxiliaries.

grammar:
auxiliary verbs
 
Page 7

Short listening (T04) for intonation. Pariwork practice with prompts.

grammar:
auxiliary verbs - sounding interested
 
Page 9 - 11

(9) Reading : 'Image queen. Madonna's changing images(challenging)

(11) Listening and speaking : men and self-image. Short interviews with 4 men in the street.

skills:
image and self-image
 
Page 9
reading   

'Image queen'. Reading passage (challenging) on Madonna's changing images.

skills:
celebrity
 
Page 11 - 12
individual / pairwork   listening   written exercise   

Listening : interviewing men about self-image and clothes. Bookwork : order words in interviewer's questions. Speaking practice ; error corrections exercise ; pairwork : info-gap type activity on the Beckhams

grammar:
indirect questions
 
Page 13
small groups   speaking   board game   

Board game with dice - general personal questions

skills:
getting to know you
 
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Unit 2 Family

Page 14 - 20
listening   reading   

(1) Reading : three young people talk about embarassing parents.

(2) Listening (i) Parents talk about meeting daughter's boyfriend for the first time.

(ii) Boyriend talks about meeting girlfriend's parents.

skills:
generation (gap)
 
Page 15 - 16
individual / pairwork   listening   written exercise   

Verb + infintive
Verb + object + infinitive
Verb + ing form
Verb + preposition

grammar:
verb patterns
 
Page 16

Bookwork : dividing verbs into verb + infitive vs verb + object + infinitive (help to do vs help smbdy to do) ; make and let ; pairwork : rules for children.

grammar:
verb + infinitive
 
Page 17

(1) Listening (Girl talking about staying with an English family.
(2) Ordering segments of tapescrips
(3) Ss write true sentences about themselves from prompts and discuss with partner

grammar:
dependent prepositions
grammar:
verb + ing
 
Page 18 - 143

Ss read and listen to sentences and match vowel sound with underlined sound in the sentence.

pronunciation:
vowel sounds - single
 
Page 21
individual / pairwork   mill-type activity   speaking   written exercise   reference notes   

Adjective + infinitive (difficult to do sthg etc.); adjectives + prepositions (interested in, allergic to etc.)

grammar:
adjective structures
 
Page 22

(1) Ss read and listen to 2 short dialogues with different register. (2) Compare words and phrases. (3) Role play (choice of two situations)

vocabulary:
register (spoken)
 
Page 23

(1) Ss read informal letter (letter to a penfriend) and replace inappropriate formal words and phrases with less formal ones from a given list.
(2) Write a letter to a penfriend.

writing:
formal vs informal letters
writing:
penpal - introduction
 
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Unit 3 Money

Page 24 - 25
Gold Fever

(1) Reading : California Gold Rush
(2) Listening : Sam Brannan (Gold Rush millionaire)

skills:
money
 
Page 27

Short section following from reading Gold Fever (p24) dealing with metaphorical use of :

deluge, drift, flood, stream, trickle

vocabulary:
metaphor
 
Page 27 - 28
Close up

(1) Bookwork : gap filled passages with listening to check answers :(1) funny story (2) limerick
(2) Rules for use of articles : mulitiple choice exercise
(3) Practice : Ss make statement from prompts

grammar:
articles
 
Page 28

Read money sayings, underlined schwas, listen and check.

vocabulary:
personality adjectives
pronunciation:
schwa
 
Page 29

Money Talks

Mulitple-choice exercise with pairwork follow up.

breadwinner, rainy day, broke, blow money, splash out, worth a fortune

vocabulary:
money expressions
 
Page 30 - 31

(Second and third contionals)

(1) Short listening (money)

(2) Matching : if clauses to result clauses

(3) Analysis of sentences.

(4) Discussion in groups (if you goverened your country...)

(5)Sentence comletion

(6) Grammar reference notes

grammar:
second conditional
grammar:
third conditional
 
Page 32

(1) Listening: four people talk about treasured possessions.

(2) Anecdote - talk about a treasured possession (prompts)

skills:
anecdotes - treasured possessions
 
Page 33
individual / pairwork   written exercise   

A day in my very wealthy life
Gap fill using : as soon as, while, by the time, then, when, as, during, until, after, just as.

grammar:
time expressions - past
 
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Unit 4 Body

Page 34
listening   

Listening (with script) : six health-related problems - hay fever, cold etc.

vocabulary:
health problems
 
Page 34 - 35
individual / pairwork   listening   pronunciation   

(1) Listening : five dialogues with problems (health related) and sympathetic (or not) responses.
(2) Listening focusing on stress (to convey feeling).

functions:
sympathy
 
Page 34 - 36
quiz   

illness / injury / remedies; healthy lifestyle quiz;

skills:
health - physical
 
Page 35 - 36

(1) Listening (advice about healthy lifestyles)

(2) Gap fill focusing on key phrases

(3) Write reply letter to someone wanting to be more healthy

functions:
advice / suggestions
 
Page 35

Ss mark word stress on sentences sounding either sympathetic or unsympathetic.

pronunciation:
stress - word
 
Page 36

Write a reply as a health expert to someone who wants to lose weight.

Language reference box.

writing:
giving advice
 
Page 37
individual / pairwork   listening   written exercise   

Listening (dialogue) containing:
put my foot in it; a shoulder to cry on; neck of the woods;
fingers in a lot of pies; up to my eyes; make my mind up;
get it off your chest; play it by ear

vocabulary:
idioms
 
Page 38

different diets - reading and listening

skills:
dieting
 
Page 39

reading : I know it's bad for me but I still can't stop
(giving up smoking)

skills:
smoking
 
Page 40 - 41
grammar   answer sheet / solution   

Eleven phrasal verbs in reading text (I know it's bad for me but I can't stop - smoking) + subsitution type exercises.

vocabulary:
phrasal verbs
 
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Unit 5 Ritual

Page 0

skills:
football
 
Page 42 - 44
reading   

Extract from Nick Hornby The sugar mouse ritual ; football vocab (see vocab) ; 2 short listenings (memories of particular football occasions - personal)

skills:
ritual
 
Page 44 - 46

(1) Two short listening passages, one with gaps, one with multiple choice selection to introudce target language.
(2) Grammar notes etc on verbs that change meaning when followed by gerund or infintive: remember / forget; stop; try; like; love; hate
(3) Gapped text for consolidation.

grammar:
gerund / infinitive
 
Page 47 - 48

'Will and would" in follow-up analyis to Listening A Man and his Car

grammar:
will - typical behaviour
 
Page 47 - 49
reference notes   

'Used to' compared with 'would'

Grammar notes + making sentences from prompts (short exercise)

grammar:
used to / get used to
 
Page 47
listening   

Woman talks about her father's rituals relating to his car

skills:
ritual
 
Page 48 - 49

'Will and would" in follow-up analyis to Listening A Man and his Car

grammar:
would - typical behaviour
 
Page 48

Short listening (woman complaining about colleagues) with various ways of expressing annoyance

functions:
annoying behaviour
grammar:
present continuous for frequent behaviour
pronunciation:
stress - word
 
Page 49 - 50

(1) Listening ; wedding rituals in different countries;
(2) Speaking : Ss prepare and tell wedding anecdote;
(3) Ss make statements beginning Marriage is... Page of words as prompts.

skills:
marriage / weddings
 
Page 51
listening   

Listening : lovers parting after an evening together + gapped script.
(Contains a very long list of leave taking comments)

functions:
saying goodbye - leave taking
 
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Unit 6 Digital

Page 52 - 53
individual / pairwork   listening   reading   written exercise   

(1) Text messaging - short reading
(2) Reading : Online (Interview with Jessica Adams, author of Single White E-mail)
(3) Listening - interview with Lara Croft (fictional character from the computer game Tomb Raider)
(4) Reading - Has technology ruined childhood?

skills:
information technology
 
Page 54 - 55

(1) Analysis using examples from reading : (Online - Jessica Adams page 53)

(2) Listening : six dialogues. Ss decide if verbs are dynamic or stative.

(3) Short error correction exercise (individual sentences)

grammar:
stative and dynamic verbs
 
Page 57
written exercise   reference notes   

Present perfect simple vs continuous
Analysis of sentences from the Lara Croft listening (page 56).

Focuses on dynamic vs stative verbs, incomplete vs incomplete / ongoing actions.

grammar:
present perfect continuous
grammar:
present perfect for present relevance
grammar:
present perfect for unfinished time periods
grammar:
present perfect with for / since
 
Page 60 - 51
individual / pairwork   writing   written exercise   

(1) Exercise : ,matching two sentences or segments containing linkers.
(2) Classifying linkers : addition, contrast, cause and effect (reason and result.
(3) Adding linkers to short news paragraphs.
(4) Essay writing: mobile phones, for and against.

grammar:
linkers - addition
grammar:
linkers - cause and effect
grammar:
linkers - contrast
 
Page 61

Plan and write an essay on the advantages and disadvantages of mobile phones. Basic planning advice. No specific language taught beyond the work on linkers (see grammar section for this unit)

writing:
essay - for and against
 
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Unit 7 Review 1

Page 62
individual / pairwork   written exercise   

Bookwork : make indirect questions from direct questions (Interview with Madonna) ; match questions and replies.

grammar:
indirect questions
grammar:
tenses - mixed
 
Page 63

Board-type game for 3s testing ajective and verb + prepositions. Students have to make sentences from an adective or verb prompt.

grammar:
adjective structures
grammar:
articles
grammar:
dependent prepositions
 
Page 64

Speaking : what would you take with you on a five-year space mission (+ prompts)

functions:
advice / suggestions
grammar:
second conditional
 
Page 65

Substitution exercise

vocabulary:
phrasal verbs
grammar:
used to / get used to
grammar:
would - typical behaviour
 
Page 66
board game   

Gerund / infinitive maze - (no dice needed)

grammar:
gerund / infinitive
 
Page 67

Gapped sentences (decide whether stative or dynamic and choose simple or continuous aspect; match with responses.

grammar:
present perfect continuous
grammar:
stative and dynamic verbs
 
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Unit 8 Escape

Page 68 - 77

(1) Reading textA day at the seaside
Adapted from Notes from a big country
(humorous) by Bill Bryson

(2)Listening : I'll never forget you. Woman talks about a holiday romance.

(3) Follow up work on discourse markers
(Let's get back to the subject ; to put it simply etc.)
Includes a gapped text and another listening on the same topic to check the answers.

(4) Reading: Every postcard tells a story - analysis of types of postcard.

(5) Reading and speaking: Insider's guide. Ss read guide book extracts and guess cities. Then discuss their favourite citie.

(6) Speaking : the travel talk game.
Board game needing dice and counters. Each square has a travel-related speaking topic, e.g. 'the qualities of an ideal travelling companion'.

skills:
travel / holidays
 
Page 70 - 71

(1) Ss order sentences in a summary of the reading A day at the seaside (Bill Bryson)

(2) Focus on reporting verbs in the above exercise. Ss divide these into two lists: 'say' type and 'tell' type i.e. those that do and do not take a direct object.

(3) Dictionary reading exercise as follow up (dictionary extracts are printed on the page)

(4) Reading passage Where's my car : son steal's mum's car with multiple choice exercise focusing on reporting verbs.

grammar:
reporting verbs
 
Page 75

adjective building

(1) Compound adjectives with 'well-' or '-conscious' (Uses examples from reading Every postcard tells a story, page 74.)

(2) Adjectives with prefixes:
un in ir im il

+ suffixes less ful ish (Matching exercises)

(3) Gapped text with root adjective prompts.

grammar:
prefixes and suffixes
 
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Unit 9 Attraction

Page 78

(1) pics of faces - male and female

(2) Collocations matching exercise (10 examples)
smooth skin sparkling eyes high cheekbones etc.

(3) Listening to consolidate - five people say what they think makes a face
attractive

vocabulary:
facial features
 
Page 78 - 79

(1) Reading: Is beauty in the eye of the beholder?
(2) Reading & speaking: speed dating (3) Listening : Blind Date (Cilla Black)

skills:
sexual attraction
 
Page 80

It is thought / considered / reckoned etc.
(1) Word ordering exercise
(2) Matching + discuss statements with partner.

grammar:
passive - report structures
 
Page 80 - 81
individual / pairwork   listening   reading   written exercise   discussion   

Rights and wrongs of.. (listening) ; Cindy Jackson (reading / gap fill)

skills:
cosmetic surgery
 
Page 81

(1) Examples and analysis

(2) Short gapped article on Cindy Jackson (woman who has changed her appearance through cosmetic surgery)

(3) Word ordering exercise

(4) Speaking - 'Where's the best place in town to get (your hair etc) done?'

grammar:
have sthg done
 
Page 84

(1) Adding suffixes to adjectives escribing personality to make other memebers of word family;
(2) Matching prefixes with stems (personality adjectives)
absent + minded etc.

vocabulary:
personality adjectives
pronunciation:
stress - syllable
pronunciation:
stress - word
grammar:
word families
 
Page 86

Unreal conditionals - alternatives to if

(1) Gap fill exercise (individual sentences - dating related) using just imagine    supposing   assuming etc. instead of 'if'

(2) Pairwork - speaking using sentences in (1)

(3)Grammar reference box

grammar:
second conditional
 
Page 87
small groups   speaking   listening   written exercise   song   

Song Never Ever by the All Saints.
Gap fill + discussion.

skills:
romance / relationships
 
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Unit 10 Genius

Page 88 - 92

(1) Discussion / reading on the Guggenheim museum in Bilbao.
(2) Describing paintings.
(3) Reading and listening : Frida Kalho.

skills:
art
 
Page 90

Describing paintings.

vocabulary:
look - look like - look as if
 
Page 92 - 93

Modals of deduction in present and past: describing and nterpreting paintings.

grammar:
modals of deduction
 
Page 92

Link words in extracts from a conversation:
Can't have been
must have been

etc

pronunciation:
word linking
 
Page 93 - 94

(1) Ss guess when various objects were invented.
(2) Listening, speaking and reading: Trevor Bayliss and the clockwork radion (project to build radios for rural areas of Africa)
(3) Paragraphs about inventions gapped for time expressions.

skills:
inventions / discoveries
 
Page 95

Ss complete grid: nouns, adjectives and example collocations.
science, scientist, scientific, scientific research

grammar:
word families
 
Page 97

Trivial Pursuits board game

skills:
general knowledge
 
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Unit 11 Sell

Page 0

grammar:
relative clauses
 
Page 98 - 99

Listening : 'The Playground Pound' -advertising to children - moral issues

skills:
advertising
skills:
children / childhood
 
Page 99

Collocations relating to sales and advertising:
sales force / figures / pitch
etc.

vocabulary:
business / economics
 
Page 100 - 101

(1) Listening : commercials;
(2) Reading : Levi 501s ad (launderette)

skills:
advertising
 
Page 102 - 103

grammar:
defining relative clauses
grammar:
non-defining relative clauses
 
Page 104 - 105
reading   

Reading : the truth about life with Sharon Stone;

skills:
celebrity
 
Page 105 - 106

(cleft sentences)

functions:
emphasizing
 
Page 105
listening   speaking   discussion   

Listening and discussion : truth in the tabloids

skills:
media
 
Page 106

Identifying important words in cleft sentences, then listening for stress.

pronunciation:
stress - cleft sentences
 
Page 107 - 108
listening   reading   speaking   written exercise   

Reading / listening : The Blair Witch Project.
Speaking : an anecdote about watching a film.

skills:
films
 
Page 108
listening   written exercise   

very, quite, absolutely, totally etc + adjectives.
Listening: people's reaction to a film.

grammar:
gradable and ungradable adjectives
 
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Unit 12 Student

Page 109 - 114

(1) Reading : Robbie Williams
(2) Listening : memorable teachers
(3) Speaking : anecdote - favourite teacher
(4) Reading : Look at us now -people who proved their teachers wrong

skills:
education
 
Page 109 - 111

(109) Education related vocab from Robbie Williams reading
(111) Collocations with education vocabulary:
fail + an exam; learn + by heart and others

vocabulary:
education
 
Page 112
listening   

Parents talk about teenage daughter's ambition to be a singer.

skills:
generation (gap)
 
Page 113 - 114

grammar:
future continuous
grammar:
future perfect
grammar:
going to - future intentions
grammar:
present continuous for future arrangements
grammar:
present simple - timetabled future
grammar:
will - future uses
 
Page 115 - 116

student travel

skills:
travel / holidays
 
Page 117

writing:
cv / resume
 
Page 118

writing:
character reference
 
Page 119
song   

Song: Angels - Robbie Williams

skills:
romance / relationships
 
Page 133 - 134
listening   written exercise   reference notes   

Review of all main future forms and uses based around a tapescript of an interview with a teenage girl about her plans to make it as a signer.
Listening, multiple-choice activity, fill in grammar analysis table

grammar:
future
 
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Unit 13 Home

Page 120 - 122

(120) Discussion : quotes beginning, 'home is...'
(121) Speaking and listening : Pictures of three rooms differently furnished. Pyschologist talks about the person who lives there.
(122) Speaking : describe your favourite room.
(126 - 7) Reading: The Freedom Ship
(project to build luxury floating community)

skills:
homes
 
Page 120

Types of homes and rooms in a home.

vocabulary:
homes / houses
 
Page 120 - 121

Arranging furnishings into logical lists; describing pictures of furnished rooms.

vocabulary:
furniture / furnishings
 
Page 122 - 123

General review of quantity expressions including
few vs a few etc.
Language reference notes.

grammar:
quantifiers
 
Page 124

Speaking : morning routines; breakfast
Listening : different breakfasts from various countries.

skills:
food and drink
 
Page 125

Reading on a feng shui lifestyle / routine

skills:
Chinese topics - feng shui
 
Page 128

grammar:
passive voice
 
Page 130

Ss contibute texts to headings suggested on a roughed out webpage.

writing:
making a class webpage
 
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Unit 14 Review 2

Page 122 - 123

grammar:
quantifiers
 
Page 131

grammar:
reporting verbs
grammar:
second conditional
 
Page 132

grammar:
modals of deduction
 
Page 133

grammar:
defining relative clauses
functions:
emphasizing
grammar:
narrative tenses
grammar:
non-defining relative clauses
 
Page 134

grammar:
future perfect
grammar:
going to - future intentions
grammar:
passive voice
grammar:
present continuous for future arrangements
grammar:
present simple - timetabled future
grammar:
quantifiers
grammar:
will - future uses
 
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