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Grammar and Expressions Vocabulary and Listening and Communicative tasks

Pronunciation Reading skills
Module 1 People and places

Unit 1 ● Describing the present and ● Verbs + prepositions ● Listen to biographies of ● Talk about a picture

R E V I S I ON
Getting the past ● Postcards famous people ● Write about famous people
together ● Verbs + prepositions in Wh- ● Words with some ● Read holiday postcards in the past
questions and every ● Skim and scan a text ● Make a conversation at
● Present continuous a café
● Pronunciation: stress ● Life and culture: Welcome to ● Write a postcard
● Expressions: contradictions and intonation Liverpool!

Unit 2 ● Relative clauses with who, that, ● Flats and houses ● Listen to a guessing game ● Talk about where you live
Friends and which ● Friendship ● Read a questionnaire about ● Tell the class about yourself
neighbours ● Present simple ● Nouns and adjectives friendship and your neighbourhood
● Pronoun one/ones describing personal ● Understand new words ● Play a guessing game
qualities ● Write about yourself and
● Expressions: asking for ● Life and culture: Poem friendships in your life
clarification ● Pronunciation: /ə/

Review Grammar check Study skills : Spelling How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework : Who’s who at Greenside?
Module 2 New horizons

Unit 3 ● Past continuous and past ● Fears and fantasies ● Listen to three conversations ● Talk and write about
All in the simple ● Dreams about coincidences coincidences in the past
mind ● used to ● Link words ● Read a magazine article ● Describe yourself when you
about dreams were younger and compare
● Expressions: expressing surprise ● Pronunciation: /j/ ● Identify the topic of a text with a friend
● Describe things that you
● Life and culture : Haunted imagine or worry about
Britain ● Write a description of a dream

Unit 4 ● must/mustn’t, have to/don’t ● On the road ● Listen to a song ● Write and act a
Journeys have to ● Travelling ● Read an account of a journey conversation at a travel
● Comparative adjectives ● Prepositions of around the world agent’s
● Passive (present simple and movement ● Scan a text for information ● Describe where things
past simple) are/were made or produced
● Pronunciation : ● Life and culture : Journey into ● Write a journal about
● Expressions: making travel stress in sentences slavery a journey
arrangements

Review Grammar check Study skills: Guessing what words mean How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Conversation with Grace Lawson
Module 3 Changes

Unit 5 ● Present perfect + just, yet, ● Topics in the news ● Listen to news headlines on ● Write an email to a friend
In the news already ● Yellowstone Park the radio or relative with your news
● been and gone ● Read a magazine article ● Discuss what you have and
● Present perfect and past simple ● Pronunciation: /s/ + about a volcano haven’t done
● its : possessive adjective consonant ● Understand the main idea of ● Write a radio report
● so ... that ... ; such a/an ... that ... a text ● Write about recent events
for a school newsletter
● Expressions: offers and ● Life and culture: Non-stop
suggestions news

Unit 6 ● Present perfect with for and ● Personal ● Listen to an interview with a ● Give details about your
Attachments since possessions surfing champion background
● Present perfect with superlative ● Living abroad ● Read an interview with a boy ● Talk about your favourite
adjective + ever ● still, any more who has lived all over the possessions
● Superlative adjectives world ● Describe important things
● give + direct and indirect ● Pronunciation: // ● Skim a text for the general and events
object /ɔ/ idea ● Write an account of
personal experiences
● Expressions: time expressions ● Life and culture : New Zealand

Review Grammar check Study skills: Homophones How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Reviews

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Grammar and Expressions Vocabulary and Listening and Communicative tasks

Pronunciation Reading skills
Module 4 Talking points

Unit 7 ● First conditional with if ● Special occasions ● Listen to a song ● Describe special occasions
Celebrations and unless ● Invitations and ● Read invitations and replies ● Talk about superstitions
● The future with will and replies ● Scan a text for information ● Write about and discuss
going to ● Verbs with look plans for a celebration
● Life and culture: The number ● Write and reply to an
● Expressions: I hope so/not. ● Pronunciation: final 13 invitation
I guess so/not. /s/ and /z/

Unit 8 ● might and may ● Verbs and nouns ● Listen to a discussion on ● Talk about events in the
Secrets ● when in future sentences that go together the radio future and when they might
and lies ● should/shouldn’t ● ‘Sales talk’ ● Read an article about a happen
● Second conditional ● because, so ‘con man’ ● Talk about what’s right
● Predict the topic of a text and wrong
● Expressions : responding to ● Pronunciation: /ai/ ● Write an imaginary
opinions /ei/ ● Life and culture: The code ‘sales talk’
talkers

Review Grammar check Study skills : Preparing for tests and exams How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework : Letters
Module 5 Living together

Unit 9 ● Verb/preposition + -ing form ● People in groups ● Listen to phone calls making ● Describe people’s likes and
Groups ● -ing form and to + verb ● A wildlife requests dislikes
● want/ask/tell someone to do commentary ● Read a commentary for a TV ● Interview a friend for a
something ● too and enough wildlife programme TV show
● Use pronouns and possessive ● Write and act a telephone
● Expressions: requests and ● Pronunciation: /ŋ/ adjectives conversation asking
responses /n/ someone to do something
● Life and culture : Romeo and ● Write a description of
Juliet teenagers in your country

Unit 10 ● Expressions of quantity ● Food ● Listen to a TV quiz ● Talk about things you’d like
Food for ● Question words ● The fast food programme to change
thought ● Subject and object questions industry ● Read a review of a book ● Prepare and ask questions
● Adjectives ending ● Recognise facts and opinions for a quiz
● Expressions: expressing in -ed/-ing ● Write a review for a school
preferences ● Life and culture: Make magazine
● Pronunciation: Poverty History
silent vowels

Review Grammar check Study skills: Preparing and giving a talk How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: The ads page
Module 6 Just imagine!

Unit 11 ● Past perfect ● Adjectives ● Listen to a story about a ● Describe a situation in the
Challenges ● must, can’t, might, could describing feelings terrible night past and how you felt
for speculation ● In the mountains ● Read a story about an ● Imagine what different
● Adverbs extraordinary experience situations are like
● Expressions: Neither do I. ● Guess meaning from context ● Write a short story
So am I. ● Pronunciation:
stress in sentences, ● Life and culture : Gandhi
weak forms

Unit 12 ● Reported speech ● Words connected ● Listen to a song ● Report what people say
Happy ● say and tell with money ● Read three jumbled stories ● Make a conversation at
endings ● whose ● Sending messages ● Follow the sequence of a a party
● Phrasal verbs story ● Write and reply to
● Expressions: everyday a message
expressions ● Pronunciation: ● Life and culture: Keeping
vowel sounds in touch

Review Grammar check Study skills: Learning English on your own How’s it going? : Progress check Coursework: Sports news

● Grammar index ● Communicative functions index ● Wordlist ● Phonetic symbols ● Verb forms and irregular verbs ● Songs

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People and places
In Module 1 Steps 1 and 2 you study
Grammar
● Describing the present and
the past
● Verbs + prepositions in
Wh- questions
● Present continuous
● Relative clauses with who,
that, which
● Present simple
● Pronoun one/ones
Vocabulary
● Verbs + prepositions
● Flats and houses
Expressions
● Contradictions: Yes, he is!
No, he hasn’t!
● Asking for clarification
In Step 3 you ...
read
● Three postcards
● A questionnaire about
friendship
study
● Words beginning with
some and every
● Nouns and adjectives
describing personal
qualities
● Skimming and scanning
a text
● Understanding new words
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so that you can
● Talk about a picture
● Write about famous
people in the past
● Contradict someone
● Make a conversation
about going out with
friends
● Talk about where you live
● Describe people and
things
● Ask for more information
● Play a guessing game
so that you can
● Write a postcard
● Express your opinions
about friendships
Life and culture
Welcome to Liverpool!
Poem
Coursework 1
Part 1 Who’s who at Greenside?
You write about people who
work at your school.
Find out more about the people who work at Greenside C
P erhaps you’re reading
this article in the
canteen, while you’re
eating your lunch.
This month we’d like
to introduce you to
the person who does
all the cooking. His
name’s Del Stanley. Del
trained to be a chef in London
and he came to Greenside College two years ago. He
says ‘I like using
fresh, local food
if I can. It isn’t A lot of p
always easy to most imp
find things that mends th
everyone likes – at the end
teenagers are very
unadventurous
are clean
to-five job
when they choose work in th
their meals!’ some free
got a blac
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What’s it about? Coursework

Our school magazine
What can you say about the pictures?
Now match the pictures with sentences 1–4. In Book 4 you study
1 The sun’s going down and everything looks beautiful. ● a magazine written by students
2 He works in a shop that sells newspapers and food. at Greenside Community College
3 He’s wearing a hat and coat. so that you can
4 We live in a flat on the first floor. ● make an English magazine for
people at your school
a

Your Coursework has got six parts:

Part 1 Who's who at Greenside?
You write about people who work
at your school.

b Part 2 In conversation with

Grace Lawson
You talk to an old person in your
neighbourhood and write a short
interview.
Part 3 Reviews
You write a review of a book, film
or TV programme.
Part 4 Letters to the editor
You write a letter for a magazine
c letters page.
Part 5 The ads page
You make adverts to put in your
school magazine.
Part 6 Sports news
You write a report about a sporting
event.
d

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In Step 1 you revise
STEP 1

● describing the present and the past

so that you can

● talk about a picture
● write about famous people in the past

Share your ideas

1 Describe the painting. What are the people doing?
What do you think of the painting?

The woman is laughing.

I like it, but I think

it’s a sad painting.

Reading Idols of the 20th century

2 a Look at the painting and read the description.
Find at least:
1 three verbs in the present.
2 three verbs in the past.
The name of the painting is Nighthawks: Boulevard
of Broken Dreams. It’s by an Austrian painter
called Gottfried Helnwein. It shows a scene in a
diner in the USA during the 1950s. Outside, the b Listen to the first paragraph and
street is dark and empty. Inside, three people are follow in your book. Then find these things.
sitting at the counter, a woman and two men. 1 a nationality 2 a country 3 two jobs
A waiter is standing behind the counter. The man 4 two things that people wear
in the middle of the picture is wearing a blue suit
and tie. He doesn’t look very happy. The woman on c Listen to the second paragraph
the right is laughing and talking to the man next and follow in your book. Then copy and
to her, but he isn’t listening. complete the fact file.
The four people in the picture are all famous
American stars from the 20th century. The man in
the blue suit is the actor Humphrey Bogart. Bogart Fact File
was born in New York. At first, he acted in the
theatre, but for many years he wasn’t successful. Humphrey Bogart, actor, 1899 – 1
Revision

Then he started working for the Warner film studio Born in: 2

and, at the age of 40, he finally became a star. He Worked for: 3

made more than thirty films. Two of his most
famous films were The African Queen and Most famous films: 4

Casablanca. Bogart died in his sleep at his home

in Hollywood in 1957.

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Listening Biographies
4 Read the two fact files. Then listen
to the biographies of Marilyn Monroe and
Elvis Presley. Write the missing
information in your notebook.

Fact File
Marilyn Monroe, actress, 1926 – 1
Born in: Los Angeles
2
name: Norma Jean Baker
Worked for: 3 Century Fox
Most famous film: Some Like It 4

Fact File

Revision Describing the present and the past Elvis Presley, singer, 195 –1977

3 Look at the painting and complete the description of

James Dean.
Born in: Tupelo, Mississippi
Played the
7
6
from the age of
On the left, there 1 (be ) a tall, good-looking young man.
He 2 (wear ) a dark coat and a scarf. He looks sad and Worked for: RCA 8

lonely. He 3 (not talk ) to anyone. He 4 (be ) the Most famous hits: 9

Be Cruel,
famous American actor James Dean. Jailhouse Rock, 10 Suede Shoes
James Dean 5 (be ) born in Indiana in 1931. At first, he
6
(act ) on television and, four years later, he 7
(become ) a film star. But Dean only 8 (make ) three
Writing Elvis or Marilyn
films. He 9 (die ) in a car accident in September 1955.
5 Use what you know
Revision

Try this! Choose either Elvis Presley or

How many words for clothes Marilyn Monroe. Describe what
do you know? he/she is doing in the picture. Then
scarf, ... use the notes in your fact file and
describe his/her real life.

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Presentation Who are we waiting for?

In Step 2 you study
● verbs + prepositions in Wh- questions
2 a What can you say about the photos?
STEP 2

● present continuous

● contradictions: Yes, he is! No, he hasn’t!

so that you can

● contradict someone

● make a conversation about going out

with friends

Key vocabulary
1 Verbs + prepositions
a S Complete the sentences with
the prepositions in the box. You’ve
got three minutes!
about at for from to

b Close your book and listen to the conversation.

1 I’m often late in the morning because What are Danny and his friends doing this evening?
I have to look for my things. Danny and Nadia live in Liverpool. They’re in a café and
2 I like looking my friends’ they’re waiting for their friends.
photos. DANNY: What’s the time, Nadia?
3 I don’t often think the future. NADIA: It’s nearly half past seven.
4 I don’t come this country. I DANNY: So who are we waiting for?
was born abroad. NADIA: Clare and Luke. Luke’s always late.
5 When I’m with my friends, we often DANNY: No, he isn’t!
talk films and music.
NADIA: Yes, he is! I’ll phone him. ... Luke, where are you?
6 I don’t like waiting people We’re waiting for you.
when they’re late.
DANNY: Here’s Clare! Hi, Clare.
7 In class, I usually talk my
CLARE: Hi! Sorry I’m late. Who’s Nadia talking to?
English teacher in English.
DANNY: Luke. He’s late too. And he’s got the tickets.
8 My father and I argue
football. CLARE: No, he hasn’t! I’ve got them. They’re in my bag.
NADIA: Hi, Clare. We must go. It’s half past seven.
Listen and check. DANNY: What about Luke?
b What about you? Which of the NADIA: He’s meeting us outside the cinema in ten
sentences in 1a are true for you? minutes.
Work with a friend and tell him/her DANNY: OK.
at least three things about yourself. NADIA: What are you looking for, Clare?
CLARE: The tickets. I can’t find them.
I don’t come from this DANNY: You’re joking!
country. I was born in ...
CLARE: Hang on! No, we’re OK. They’re here, in my pocket.

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