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Syllabus checklist Grammar Vocabulary

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4 A Who’s who? word order in questions common verb phrases, classroom language
6 B Who knows you better? present simple family, personality adjectives

8 C At the Moulin Rouge present continuous the body, prepositions of place

10 D The Devil’s Dictionary defining relative clauses (a person expressions for paraphrasing:
who…, a thing which…) like, for example, etc.
12 P RACTICAL E NGLISH At the airport
13 WRITING Describing yourself
14 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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16 A Right place, wrong time past simple regular and irregular verbs holidays

18 B A moment in time past continuous prepositions of time and place:

at, in, on
20 C Fifty years of pop questions with and without auxiliaries question words, pop music
22 D One October evening so, because, but, although verb phrases

24 P RACTICAL E NGLISH At the conference hotel

25 WRITING The story behind a photo
26 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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28 A Where are you going? going to, present continuous look (after, for, etc.)
(future arrangements)
30 B The pessimist’s phrase book will / won’t (predictions) opposite verbs

32 C I’ll always love you will / won’t (promises, offers, verb + back
decisions)
34 D I was only dreaming review of tenses: present, past, verbs + prepositions
and future
36 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Restaurant problems
37 WRITING An informal letter
38 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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40 A From rags to riches present perfect (experience) + ever, clothes
never; present perfect or past simple?
42 B Family conflicts present perfect simple + yet, just, verb phrases
already
44 C Faster, faster! comparatives, as…as / less… than… time expressions: spend time, waste time, etc.
46 D The world’s friendliest city superlatives (+ ever + present perfect) opposite adjectives
48 P RACTICAL E NGLISH Lost in San Francisco
49 WRITING Describing where you live
50 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?
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52 A Are you a party animal? uses of the infinitive (with to) verbs + infinitive

54 B What makes you feel good? verb + -ing verbs followed by -ing

56 C How much can you learn in a month? have to, don’t have to, must, mustn’t modifiers: a bit, really, etc.

58 D The name of the game expressing movement prepositions of movement, sport

60 P RACTICAL E NGLISH At a department store

61 WRITING A formal e-mail
62 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?
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Pronunciation Speaking Listening Reading

vowel sounds, the alphabet talking about dates and times dates and times
third person and plural -s describing a person you know well understanding an Who knows you better, your
anecdote family or your friends?
vowel sounds describing a painting understanding a guide
song: Aint got no – I got life
pronunciation in a dictionary giving definitions TV game show: What’s The Devil’s Dictionary
the word?

-ed endings, irregular verbs your last holiday an interview about a The Holiday Magazine
disastrous holiday
/@/ describing famous photos Lovers at the Bastille Famous photographs by
Harry Benson and Willy Ronis
/w/ and /h/ favourite music, music quiz song: Imagine Who wrote Imagine?
the letter a re-telling a story Hannah and Jamie: the end Hannah and Jamie: a short
of the story story

sentence stress talking about plans and an interview with Rima Airport stories
arrangements
contractions (will / won’t), /Q/ and /aU/ making positive predictions a radio programme about
positive thinking
word stress: two-syllable words I’ll / Shall I ? game song: White flag Promises, promises

sentence stress interpreting dreams psychoanalyst and patient book extract: Understanding
your dreams

vowel sounds interviewing a partner about street interviews: Zara Zara

clothes song: True blue
/h/, /j/ and /Ù/ Has he done it yet? Problems with your teenage
(information gap) children?
sentence stress questionnaire: Are you living faster? vox pops: living faster We’re living faster
word stress talking about experiences London The world’s friendliest city

word stress interview a partner about parties conversations at a party What to say (and what not to say)
to people at parties
-ing questionnaire radio programme: learning What makes you feel good?
to sing
sentence stress talking about language journalist talking about How much can you learn
learning learning Polish in a month?
prepositions telling an anecdote: most exciting song: We are the champions Your most exciting sporting
sporting event moments
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Grammar Vocabulary
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64 A If something bad can happen, it will if + present, will + infinitive confusing verbs
(first conditional)
66 B Never smile at a crocodile if + past, would + infinitive animals
(second conditional)
68 C Decisions, decisions may / might (possibility) word building: noun formation
70 D What should I do? should / shouldn’t get
72 P RACTICAL E NGLISH At the pharmacy
73 WRITING Writing to a friend
74 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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76 A Famous fears and phobias present perfect + for and since words related to fear

78 B Born to direct present perfect or past simple? biographies

80 C I used to be a rebel used to school subjects: history, geography, etc.

82 D The mothers of invention passive verbs: invent, discover, etc.

84 P RACTICAL E NGLISH A boat trip
85 WRITING Describing a building
86 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?
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88 A I hate weekends! something, anything, nothing, etc. adjectives ending in -ed and -ing
90 B How old is your body? quantifiers, too, not enough health and lifestyle: wear sunscreen, etc.
92 C Waking up is hard to do word order of phrasal verbs phrasal verbs

94 D ‘I’m Jim.’ ‘So am I.’ so / neither + auxiliaries similarities

96 P RACTICAL E NGLISH On the phone

97 WRITING Giving your opinion
98 R EVISE & C HECK What do you remember? What can you do?

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100 A What a week! past perfect adverbs: suddenly, immediately, etc.

102 B Then he kissed me reported speech say, tell, or ask?

104 R EVISE & C HECK Grammar
Quick grammar check for each File
106 R EVISE & C HECK Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Quick check of vocabulary, sounds, and word stress

108 Communication
118 Listening
126 Grammar Bank
144 Vocabulary Bank
156 Sound Bank
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Pronunciation Speaking Listening Reading

long and short vowels inventing some new Murphy’s Laws Murphy’s Law

stress and rhythm questionnaire: Would you survive? a survival expert Nature’s perfect killing machine
song: Wouldn’t it be nice?
sentence stress, -ion endings Are you indecisive? How to make decisions
/U/, sentence stress discussing advice radio phone-in What’s the problem?

/I/ and /aI/, sentence stress pairwork interview interview about a phobia We’re all afraid…

word stress talking about a member of your family radio programme: biographies: Hitchcock and
Sofia Coppola Tarantino
sentence stress, used to / didn’t use to talking about school days listening to Melissa A famous rebel–but was he really?
song: It’s all over now
sentence stress passives quiz things invented by women surprising facts

/e/, /@U/, and /V/ talking about weekends radio news The weekend
/V/, /u;/, /aI/, and /e/, linking What’s your body age? How old is your body?
/g/ and /Ù/ Are you a morning or evening Are you a morning or evening Are you allergic to mornings?
person? person?
song: I say a little prayer
vowel and consonant sounds, find someone like you completing a dialogue Reunited
sentence stress

revision of vowel sounds, re-telling stories Fact is always stranger than fiction.
sentence stress
rhyming verbs reporting information song: Then he kissed me