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Straightforward Advanced Student's Book

  


Author(s):  Roy Norris
Publisher:   Macmillan
ISBN: 9780230021471


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1A A fresh start
 
1B First day
 
1C Growing Up
 
1D The quarterlife crisis
 
2A Memory
 
2B Memory Man
 
2C Bicycle history
 
2D Memory stores
 
3A Consumer society
 
3B Rubbish!
 
3C Competitive eating
 
3D A cautionary tale
 
4A Voicing complaints
 
4B Voice complaints
 
4C In the limelight
 
4D Speech!
 
5A Entrepreneurs
 
5B A new business
 
5C Women's work
 
5D Sexual discrimination
 
6A Body care
 
6B Medical care
 
6C Childcare
 
6D Babysitting
 
7A Behaving badly
 
7B Rudeness
 
7C Whodunnit?
 
7D Crime reports
 
8A It takes all sorts
 
8B Birth order
 
8C A close bond
 
8D Singles
 
9A A place called home
 
9B Squatters
 
9C A place in the sun
 
9D Experimental travel
 
10A Turning out well
 
10B What is success?
 
10C Going wrong?
 
10D A stabbing incident
 
11A A sight for sore eyes
 
11B Affordable art
 
11C The sound of silence
 
11D The New Music Award
 
12A Science fact
 
12B Wearable technology
 
12C Sport technology
 
12D The end?
 

1A A fresh start

Page 6 - 7
Reading: change

Four short texts dealing with different kinds of change.

vocabulary:
change
skills:
change
skills:
politics
skills:
travel / holidays
 
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1B First day

Page 8
Listening: starting at a new school

skills:
children / childhood
skills:
education
skills:
schooldays
 
Page 8
Speech feature: approximation
vocabulary   

functions:
approximation
 
Page 9
Simple and continuous verb forms
grammar   

grammar:
perfect and continuous tenses
 
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1C Growing Up

Page 10
Expressing age
speaking   vocabulary   

skills:
age
vocabulary:
age
 
Page 10 - 11
Growing up on television

Longer piece on Granada Television's 7-up programme following the lives of 14 seven-year-olds from 1964 to the present.

skills:
age
skills:
biography
skills:
television
 
Page 11
Reference and substitution
grammar   

grammar:
substitution
 
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1D The quarterlife crisis

Page 12
The quarterlife crisis
speaking   listening   

skills:
age
skills:
growing up
 
Page 12 - 13
Noun suffixes
vocabulary   

grammar:
prefixes and suffixes
 
Page 13
Speaking
individual / pairwork   speaking   role-play   

functions:
decision making
functions:
persuading
 
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2A Memory

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2B Memory Man

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2C Bicycle history

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2D Memory stores

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3A Consumer society

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3B Rubbish!

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3C Competitive eating

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3D A cautionary tale

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4A Voicing complaints

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4B Voice complaints

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4C In the limelight

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4D Speech!

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5A Entrepreneurs

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5B A new business

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5C Women's work

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5D Sexual discrimination

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6A Body care

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6B Medical care

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6C Childcare

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6D Babysitting

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7A Behaving badly

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7B Rudeness

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7C Whodunnit?

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7D Crime reports

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8A It takes all sorts

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8B Birth order

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8C A close bond

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8D Singles

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9A A place called home

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9B Squatters

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9C A place in the sun

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9D Experimental travel

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10A Turning out well

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10B What is success?

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10C Going wrong?

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10D A stabbing incident

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11A A sight for sore eyes

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11B Affordable art

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11C The sound of silence

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11D The New Music Award

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12A Science fact

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12B Wearable technology

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12C Sport technology

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12D The end?

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