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UNIT Vocabulary* Strategies Grammar

• Terms for describing • Use By the way to • Tag questions: form • Tag questions: more
1 manners, etiquette, introduce or change a and social use practice
and culture topic • The past perfect: • Verb tense review:
Cultural • Use expressions such form and use simple present, present
Literacy as Do you mind if and continuous, present
Would it be rude to to perfect and present
avoid offending some perfect continuous,
Top Notch Song: • Use Actually to politely simple past and past
“It’s a Great Day correct someone continuous, used to,
for Love” • Begin a statement past perfect
with You know,... to
casually shift the focus
of a conversation

• Dental emergencies
2 • Symptoms
• Medical procedures
Health Matters • Types of treatments
and practitioners
• Medications
• Begin answers with • May, might, must, and • May, might, and must:
Well to announce a be able to: possibility, degrees of certainty
willingness to act conclusions, ability
• Say That’s right to
confirm
• Use Really? to
indicate interest

• Business and non- • Repeat part of a • The passive causative • The passive causative:
3 business services question to clarify • Causatives get, have, the by phrase
• Adjectives to describe before answering and make • Causatives get, have,
Getting Things services • Begin a sentence and make: more practice
Done • Social events with I’m sorry but to • Let followed by an
• Steps for planning a politely insist object and base form
social event • Use Sure to affirm • Causative have and
Top Notch Song: confidently past perfect auxiliary
“I’ll Get Back to You” have

• Fields for work
4 or study
• Reasons for changing
Life Choices your mind
• Skills and abilities
• Say Not bad to • Future in the past: • Review: future with will
respond casually to a was / were going to and be going to
question about and would • Review: future meaning
well-being • Perfect modals: with present continuous,
• Use No kidding to meaning and form simple present, and
convey pleasant modals
surprise • Regrets about the past:
• Say Could be to wish + the past perfect;
imply that you don’t should have and
completely agree ought to have

• Types of holidays • Use the expression • Adjective clauses • Adjective clauses: more
5 • Ways to Same to you to with subject relative practice
commemorate a acknowledge pronouns • Reciprocal pronouns:
Holidays and holiday well-wishes • Adjective clauses each other and one
Traditions • Wedding terminology • Preface a question with object relative another
with Do you mind if pronouns • Reflexive pronouns
I ask to make it less • By + reflexive pronouns
Top Notch Song: abrupt • Adjective clauses: who
“Endless Holiday” and whom for formal
English

iv *In Top Notch, the term vocabulary refers to individual words, phrases, and expressions.
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 Speaking Pronunciation Listening Reading Writing

• Make small talk with • Rising and • Radio call-in show on • Flyer for an • Advise visitors
a stranger falling etiquette international about culture and
• Ask how someone intonation for Task: identify the topics language school etiquette in your
prefers to be tag questions discussed • Newspaper country
addressed • People introducing article about • Express your
• Get to know someone themselves recent changes opinion on the
• Describe rules of Task: determine how people in Japanese importance of
etiquette prefer to be addressed culture etiquette
• Discuss cultural • Survey about
changes cultural changes

• Make an appointment • Intonation of • Descriptions of dental • Health advice • Create a checklist

• Describe dental lists emergencies for international for an international
problems and medical Task: identify problems travelers trip
symptoms • Describing symptoms • Overview of • Write about the
• Show concern and Task: check the symptoms conventional kinds of health
empathy described and care you use
• Explain preferences in • Conversations between nontraditional • Complete patient
medical treatments doctors and patients health information form
• Talk about Task: complete patient treatments
medications information forms

• Request express • Emphatic stress • Recommendations for service • Service • Create an ad for
service to express providers provider’s a local service
• Ask for and enthusiasm Task: identify the service website provider
recommend a service required • Tourist guide • Identify hard-to-
provider • Planning a social event entry on buying find services
• Describe quality of Task: order the steps and note custom-made • Write a story of a
service who will do each step clothing in man’s day, based
• Plan a social event • Requesting express service Hong Kong on a complex
Task: describe customer needs illustration

• Greet someone you • Reduction of • Conversations about changes • Work preference • Recount the work
haven’t seen for a have in perfect in life plans inventory and life decisions
while modals Task: listen for the reasons the • Skills inventory you have made
• Explain a change in people changed their minds • Magazine article and explain any
life and work choices • Interviews at a job fair on the lifework regrets
• Express regrets about Task: match interviewees and of Mahatma • Report on the
life decisions qualifications Gandhi life of a great
• Discuss skills, • Conversations about regrets and Albert humanitarian
abilities, and Task: infer whether there Schweitzer
qualifications were regrets

• Ask about and • Rhythm: • Descriptions of holidays • Magazine article • Describe in detail a
describe holiday “thought Task: identify the type of describing holiday tradition in
traditions groups” holiday and celebration three holiday your country
• Ask for and give • Lecture on traditional Indian traditions from
advice about customs wedding customs around the
• Describe holidays, Task: correct the false world
celebrations, and statements
wedding traditions • Conversations about weddings
Task: determine each topic

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 Top Notch 3 Scope and Sequence OF CONTENT AND SKILLS ��
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• News sources • Say Will do to accede • Indirect speech: • Punctuation rules for
6 • Severe weather events to a request imperatives direct speech
and other disasters • Use What a shame to • Indirect speech: say • Indirect speech:
Disasters and • Emergency demonstrate empathy and tell; tense changes optional tense changes
Emergencies preparations and • Use It says...
supplies to indicate that
• Terminology for information comes
Top Notch Song: discussing disasters from a known source
“Lucky to Be • Use Thank goodness
Alive” to express relief

• Types of books • Preface a request with • Noun clauses: • Embedded questions:

7 • Ways to describe Do you mind if to be embedded questions usage and punctuation
reading material more polite • Noun clauses as direct • Embedded questions
Books and • Some ways to enjoy • Use Not at all to objects with infinitives
Magazines reading indicate that one • Noun clauses with that:
doesn’t mind after mental activity
• Say What (adjective verbs
+ noun)! to express a • Noun clauses with that:
compliment after other expressions

• Mechanical inventions • Use That depends to • Conditional sentences: • Unless in conditional

8 in history indicate one needs review sentences
• Ways to describe more information • The unreal conditional • Clauses after wish
Inventions and innovative products • Say It can happen • The unreal conditional:
Technology to anyone to show variety of forms
empathy when
responding to an
Top Notch Song: apology
“Reinvent the
Wheel”

• Political terms and • Use the expression • Non-count nouns for • Count and non-count
9 types of governments That’s a good abstract ideas nouns
• Political and social question to imply that • Verbs followed by • Gerunds and
Controversial beliefs you are not sure of the objects and infinitives infinitives: form
Issues • Controversial issues answer or you want • Review: gerunds and
• Ways to disagree to avoid answering infinitives after certain
politely • Say We’ll have to verbs
agree to disagree
to politely end a
disagreement with no
hard feelings

• Geographical features • Provide a reason • Infinitives with too + • Infinitives with too +
10 • Ways to describe to support and adjective adjective: more practice
possible risks strengthen a warning • Prepositions of place • Infinitives with enough
Enjoying the • Dangerous animals • Use Be sure to to to describe locations • Prepositions usage
World and insects make an enthusiastic • Proper nouns:
• Positive and negative suggestion capitalization
descriptions • Proper nouns: use of the
• Ways to describe the
natural world

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 Speaking Pronunciation Listening Reading Writing

• Convey a message for • Direct and • Weather reports • Historic news • Write about a
a third person indirect speech: Task: identify the weather headlines historic disaster
• Offer an excuse rhythm event • Magazine article • Provide
• Report what you • Emergency radio broadcast describing instructions on
heard on the news Task: correct incorrect variables preparing for a
• Respond to good and statements and report facts, that affect an disaster
bad news using indirect speech earthquake’s • Explain the factors
• Discuss plans for an • News report on natural severity that contribute to
emergency disasters the severity of an
• Describe natural Task: identify the types of earthquake
disasters disasters

• Recommend a book • Sentence stress • Descriptions of reading habits • Online • Write about your
• Give and accept a in short answers Task: choose each speaker’s bookstore reading habits
compliment with think, preferences website • Review a book
• Explain where you hope, guess, or • Conversations about books • Magazine or other material
learned something believe Task: identify the type of article about the you’ve read
• Evaluate types of book and infer if the speaker popularity of,
reading materials likes it and attitudes
• Describe your reading about, comic
habits books

• Discuss whether to • Contractions • People describing problems • Magazine article • Write about an
purchase a product with ‘d (would) Task: select a useful invention describing the invention that you
• Accept responsibility for each person importance of think had a great
for a mistake • Discussions of new products the invention impact
• Reassure someone Task: determine which of the printing
• Describe a new adjective best describes each press
invention product
• Compare important
inventions

• Ask for and • Stress to • Conversations about politics • Authentic • Describe a local
give advice emphasize and social beliefs dictionary or world problem
about acceptable meaning Task: determine each entries and offer possible
conversation topics person’s political orientation • Magazine article solutions
• State your opinion • Opinions about controversial defining global • Write the pros
• Express agreement or ideas problems and cons of a
disagree politely Task: infer the speaker’s controversial issue
• Suggest solutions to opinion
global problems • People arguing their views
• Debate pros and cons Task: summarize arguments
• Radio news program
Task: identify the problems

• Warn about risks or • Voiced and • People discussing risks • Authentic maps • Describe a
dangers voiceless th Task: infer if the place is safe • Magazine article spectacular natural
• Ask and explain where • Description of a trip describing the setting
a place is located Task: identify natural features pros and cons of • Plan an eco-friendly
• Describe a natural
setting • Conversations about tourist eco-tourism development
• Recommend a place destinations • Create a tourism
for its beauty Task: infer if the speaker advertisement
• Debate a plan for recommends going
economic development

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