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SOCIETY AND CULTURE: building communities

Unit

Into the Great Unknown

Reading

LANGUAGE USE: reading a magazine feature article

Listening

UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENT VARIETIES OF ENGLISH

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about space exploration

Writing

OUTLINING

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CRITICAL THINKING: evaluating explanations

Unit

Private Matters

Page 27

Reading

UNDERSTANDING TEXT ORGANIZATION

Listening

LANGUAGE USE: listening to an interview

4
Unit

5
Unit

Recycle use of articles

Count/noncount nouns

Future passive

Space

Predicting developments
in space exploration

Conditional conjunctions

Negative prefixes in and im

Recycle modals of prediction

Phrases of correlation and causation

Making a case for

or against space exploration

Discussing different
ideas of privacy
Giving opinions
on privacy and surveillance

Object complements

Privacy

Transferred negation
and negative short answers

Phrasal verbs

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INFORMATION LITERACY: protecting personal privacy

Talking about privacy issues

in the use of social media

Verbs with no transferred negation

(hope, wish)

Talking about changes

and alternatives in education

Reflexive pronouns

Verb collocations

Mixed conditionals

Words related to stand

Listening

UNDERSTANDING NON-NATIVE ENGLISH SPEAKERS

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about educational alternatives

Writing

PUNCTUATION WITH CONNECTORS

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE: maximizing your potential

Page 47

Assessing individual study styles

Word order with reflexives

Education and learning

Recycle modals of possibility

Soft skills

Talking about the role of soft skills

Recycle complete vs. run-on sentences

Talking about the

responsibilities of having a pet

Indefinite pronouns

Animal rescue

Passive modals

Adverbadjective collocations

Recycle previously learned

indefinite pronouns

Animals and species

DEFINITIONS, EXPLANATIONS, AND EXAMPLES

Listening

LANGUAGE USE: listening to a story

Talking about animal

protection and rescue

Speaking

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: summarizing

Writing

LANGUAGE USE: writing a letter to the editor

Discussing aspects
of endangered species

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE: understanding decision-making styles

Page 57

Recycle modals of obligation

Future perfect
Future perfect progressive

INFERRING OPINIONS

Talking about automation

Future time expressions

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about automation

Talking about pros, cons,

and uses of robots

Writing

SUMMARIZING AN ARTICLE

be + adjective +
preposition + noun phrase/clause

Defending a point of view

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CRITICAL THINKING: organizing an argument

LANGUAGE USE: reading an online news article

Listening

WORDS: vowel length before

final consonants

SOUNDS: final consonant clusters

Animal behavior
Habitats

Giving opinions
on wild animals in captivity

Making predictions
about the future

Reading

of //, //, and //

Personal information sources

Discussing the effects

of technology on education

Reading

SOUNDS: sounds and spelling

Verbs used with object complements

LANGUAGE USE: writing a persuasive e-mail

LANGUAGE USE: reading a statistics-based argument

of //, /i /, and /e/

Position of conditional clauses

Writing

Reading

SOUNDS: sounds and spelling

Time expressions with by

(by the time, etc.)

Talking about identity theft

Page 37

Apologies and excuses

Talking about life in space

Debating the existence

of life on other planets

/g/ and //

Expressions with free

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: managing and participating in a group discussion

More Than Machines?

Negotiating appointments

Recycle types of adverbs

Speaking

Just Animals?

Unit

Bartering for an item you want

Structures with as
(She described him as a tall man.)

A New Look at Learning

ii

Page 17

Describing used items

Unit

LANGUAGE USE: writing an ad for an item

Count/noncount nouns
with a change in meaning

Writing

Talking about bartering and donating

Unit

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: making and changing appointments

SOUNDS: hard and soft g sounds:

Speaking

Marketing

Unit

LANGUAGE USE: listening to a radio interview

Adverb phrases

Listening

Talking about marketing strategies

Unit

UNDERSTANDING TEXT ORGANIZATION

Pronunciation

Reading

Vocabulary

Unit

Page 7

Grammar

Phrases with
adjective + preposition
Collocations

SOUNDS: linking words with

a w or a y sound

Money-free

Functions

Types of robots and machines

Unit

Unit

Contents

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Writing

LANGUAGE USE: writing advice

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INFORMATION LITERACY: evaluating claims

8
Unit

Reading

LANGUAGE USE: reading an article about art

Listening

INFERRING FACTUAL INFORMATION

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about meaning in art

Writing

WRITING A REVIEW

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE: developing curiosity

Just Playing?

Unit

Page 77

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Unit 10

Recycle adverb time clauses

Nutrition and ingredients

Recycle adverb causeeffect clauses

Consumer information

Giving advice about

money management
Making recommendations about
how to be a more critical consumer

Dangling participles

Talking about different genres of art

so/such/too/enough

Describing art

Giving opinions about art

Adjective phrase + indirect question

Adjective opposites

Describing works of art

Recycle too and enough

Art genres

Evaluating art events

too/enough + infinitive phrase

Adjective phrases

Recycle indirect questions

Discussing the role

of play in peoples lives

LANGUAGE USE: listening to a radio show

Talking about how forms

of play have changed

Speaking

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: making and responding to invitations

Writing

LANGUAGE USE: writing a short article

Discussing pros and cons

of different types of play

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CRITICAL THINKING: recognizing contradiction

Reading

LANGUAGE USE: reading a wiki article

Listening

UNDERSTANDING RAPID SPEECH

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about popular beliefs

Writing

WRITING A WIKI ARTICLE

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INFORMATION LITERACY: evaluating internet source reliability

Page 107

Reading

UNDERSTANDING INTENT

Listening

LANGUAGE USE: listening to an informal discussion

Speaking

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: using softening language for refusals

Writing

LANGUAGE USE: writing to a magazine

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CRITICAL THINKING: identifying bias

The Face of the Earth

Reading
Listening

Page 117

LANGUAGE USE: reading a travel memoir

UNDERSTANDING LANGUAGE IN NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS

SENTENCE RHYTHM: contrastive

stress with so/such/too/enough

so/such + that clause

Listening

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Money and finances

UNDERSTANDING INTENT

Music to my Ears

Unit 11

Reduced adverb causeeffect clauses

Evaluating food shopping habits

Reading

Word Spreads Fast

Unit 12

SOUNDS: //, //, and /u/

Unit

COMMUNICATION STRATEGY: modifying a statement

Adjectives ending in able

Speaking

Reduced adverb time clauses

Unit

LANGUAGE USE: listening to a discussion

Discussing issues
in consumer societies

Making and responding to invitations

Talking about popular beliefs

Talking about health facts and myths
Discussing internet hoaxes
Analyzing the validity of information

Verb patterns followed by ing

Childhood development

Comparative and superlative adverbs

Making and responding to invitations

Verbs of perception +
noun/pronoun + gerund

Verb phrase + gerund collocations

Recycle comparative
and superlative adjectives

Restrictive and non-restrictive

relative clauses
Participial adjectives
Recycle relative pronouns
Omission of pronouns
in restrictive clauses

SOUNDS: sounds and spelling

of /e/, /a/, and /o/

Listening

Pronunciation

Games and play

Falsehood
Word forms (proving and disproving)

Unit

DEFINITIONS, EXPLANATIONS, AND EXAMPLES

Vocabulary

SENTENCE RHYTHM:

thought groups

Unit 10

Reading

A Critical Eye

iv

Page 67

Grammar

Internet terms
Collocations with participial adjectives

Recycle ing and ed participles

Unreal time

Idiomatic expressions with take

Discussing human behavior

and ethics

Cleft sentences

Sharing music

Recycle 2nd conditional

Ways of listening to music

Speculating about hypothetical

situations and conditions

Recycle rule for omission

of relative pronoun

Musical abilities

Infinitive clauses

Adverbial modifiers

The passive with

gerunds and infinitives

Geology

Talking about music and

the music industry

SOUNDS: sounds and spelling

of // and //

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Unit

The Critical Consumer

Functions

Refusing politely

Analyzing theories
about natural phenomena
Talking about geological
forces and events

Speaking

LANGUAGE USE: talking about a mysterious phenomenon

Describing geographical features

Writing

WRITING AN EDITORIAL

Discussing the pros and cons

of manmade changes to the Earth

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INFORMATION LITERACY: studying for tests

Irregular verbs list, Pronunciation symbols, Communicative Wrap-ups, and Grammar Reference Pages 127143

Recycle verbs followed by an infinitive

Adverbial phrases

Geographical features
Manmade changes to the Earth

WORDS: stress shifts

in parts of speech

Unit 12

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