Author(s): Susan Kay Vaughan Jones Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780230009141 Publisher's resources are available for this book. |
Ss discuss four pics of important events from recent history
Listening : four individual speakers discuss one of the events each.
Follow-up - gapped script;
students talk about memorable events in their lives or country
Collocations for describing people
Short dialogue featuring 'so / neither + auxiliary'
Follow-up practice exerices
Intonation for question tags; practice
Students talk about a person who made a big impression on them
Longer article on Madonna. Comprehension questions and vocabulary work.
Four young men are interviewed about their image
Indirect question exercises following on from listening
Short dialogue featuring common informal expressions
Letter to a penfriend in formal, business style. Students substitute informal words and phrases.
Vocabulary: stages of life
Reading text on overseas exchange visits and how people grow apart.
Reading text: three young people talk about parents who have embarrassing jobs.
Analysis of sentences from reading text: + exercises
verb + to inf
verb + object + to inf
verb + gerund
verb + object + gerund
verb + object + bare inf
Listen and repeat. Match phonetic symbols to examples in sentences
Parents talk about the qualities they would like to see in their daughter's boyfriend
Boyfriend talks about meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time
- adjective + preposition
- easy / difficult for me to
Two dialogues in different register following on from previous material:
1 - boyfriend / girlfriend (informal)
2 - boyfriend / girlfriend's parents (more formal)
Listening - European girl talks about a homestay with an English family
Ordering task featuring verb / adjective + preposition structures:
- dream of
- insist on
Speaking: students talk about a time they have stayed in someone's house
Listening: woman shows au pair around house
Page about vocabulary study: word frequencies, using a dictionary, collocations
Reading and listening about the 1849 Gold Rush
News article on woman's car stolen by her son leads into reported speech.
Reading about a man who 'sold his life' on eBay.
Three people talk about treasured possessions; anecdote exercise on your most treasured possession.
Gap fill - time expressions.
Writing: cues for writing a fantasy piece: A day in my life as a... etc.
Reading about the youngest person to ski solo to the North Pole + vocab work focusing on prefixes and suffixes
Listening passage about an encounter with a polar bear following on from the reading
Follow-up grammar exercises
Students tell anecdote about a time they did something challenging. [Question prompts]
Reading about a woman who plans to raise money for charity by taking part in a power-walk.
Find examples of these tenses in previous text + practice book exercises.
Four people say why they don't do exercise
Passage about someone half-heartedly trying to give up smoking
Phrasal verb patters / position of object using examples from previous reading
Students identify phrasal verbs in statements and say whether they identify with them
Six conversations about minor health problems
(Revamp of previous edition unit 4, p34)
Follow up pairwork activity: A explains problem; B responds un/ sympathetically and gives advice
Exercises on common phrasal verbs: spider graphs, gap fill, dictionary work.
Reading text about the rituals practised by famous sports stars before matches.
Comprehension questions + vocabulary work
Students talk about personal rituals before taking exams etc.
Listening passage to woman talking about her dad's rituals involving his car. This leads into the language point 'will' for habits - typical behaviour.
Follow-up work on examples from the listening 'will' for habits.
Written and oral work on 'will', 'would' and 'used to'
Reading about a modern Las Vegas wedding ceremony conducted by an Elvis Presley impersonator
Follow-up comprehension and vocabulary work
Listening passage about wedding rituals in different countries
Vocab work on weddings
Students talk about a wedding they have been to
Students discuss quotes on marriage
Split reading / grammar exercise about a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary
Four people answer the question.
Listen / read to people talking about things that annoy them.
is always doing
will insist on doing
is forever doing
etc
Analysis of short essay giving an opinion on traditional weddings
Speaking with questions cues.
Magazine article: What a waste. Throwaway Britain wastes GBP 9bn of food every year.