WEEK

UNIT

GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS

1

Unit 1

Beginnings

Review of tenses – past and present

Starting again

Reading: Humble beginnings

2

Unit 1

Beginnings

Word transformations

Key word: make

Listening: Short extracts

Speaking: New experiences

3

Unit 2

A child’s world

Passive forms

‘Parts of the body’ idioms

Reading: Gapped texts

4

Unit 2

A child’s world

Sentence development

Phrasal verb: pick up

Key word: run

Listening: Sentence completion

5

Unit 3

Are you game?

Modal auxiliaries in discussion

Phrases with up and down

Reading: A close encounter

6

Unit 3

Are you game?

Speculation/ suggestion/ deduction/ assumption

Key word : game

Phrasal verbs: Take

Listening: An interview with a mountaineer

7

Unit 4

Eureka!

The future

Colourful language

Reading: Dinosaur book

8

Unit 4

Eureka!

Prefixes – word formation

Key word: tell

Listening: getting the gist

9

Review 1

Writing 01

Writing 02

Revision units 1 – 4

Planning a descriptive or narrative piece of writing / A review

A formal letter/ A newspaper or magazine article

10

Unit 5

Safe and sound?

Verbs followed by infinitive

Phrasal verb: turn

Reading: The changing world of the virus-busters

Speaking: personal information

11

Unit 5

Safe and sound?

Verbs followed by

 Verb+ing

Key word: law

Listening: distinguishing key information

12

Unit 6

Hale and hearty

Conditionals and conditional forms

Healthy lifestyles/ nutrition/ alternative medicine

Reading: text analysis

Speaking: comparing pictures

13

Unit 6

Hale and hearty

Identifying collocations

Expressions with food

Key word: life

Listening: An interview with a food writer

14

Unit 7

Wish you were there

Using inversion

Travel/cities/ virtual worlds/ space tourism

Reading: I lost my heart in…Dublin/ St Petersburg…

15

Unit 7

Wish you were there

Contrast and negative ideas in the text

Phrases with look

Key word: read

Listening: Space travel

16

Unit 8

Making you mark

Relative pronouns

Architecture and Archaeology/ word building

Reading: Straw Bale Futures/

Reaching a decision through negotiation

17

Unit 8

Making you mark

defining and non-defining relative clauses

Phrases with bring

Key word: that

Listening: Interpreting context

18

Review 2

Writing 03

Writing 04

Revision -  units 5-8

A report/  development an argument in an essay/ A proposal

Contributing to a larger piece

19

Unit 9

Brushstrokes and blueprints

Changing sentence structure: a change in emphasis, or a different meaning?

Forms of art and craft/

Compound words

Reading:  Understanding tone and implication in a text

20

Unit 9

Brushstrokes and blueprints

Suggesting solutions/ justifying ideas

Key word: pay/

Key word transformations

Listening: Interview with an artist

21

Unit 10

The good life

Direct to reported speech

Family values/ ethnical living

Reading: Nice week at the office, darling?

22

Unit 10

The good life

Reported to direct speech

Key word: pull/

Fixed phrases

Listening: note-taking/

Lexical context

23

Unit 11

Making ends meet

Modal auxiliaries

Making a living, earning and borrowing money

Reading: The middleman/

Interpreting literature

24

Unit 11

Making ends meet

Plans / predictions/ criticism/annoyance/ resignation

Words of similar meanings, different uses

Listening for dates, statistics or figures

25

Unit 12

Behind the silver screen

Participle clauses – present and past participles

Films/ scripts/ Hollywood

Reading: understanding humour, irony, and sarcasm

26

Unit 12

Behind the silver screen

Participles as adjectives

Modifying and intensifying adjectives

Listening: understanding purposes and function

27

Review 3

Writing 05

Writing 06

Revision -  units 9-12

Competition entry/ An information sheet

A report – being concise/ A film review

28

Unit 13

Getting the message across

Text references (this/that/it/such/these/

those)

Nouns followed by particles

Reading: How to talk to aliens/ predicting information

29

Unit 13

Getting the message across

“it/there” as introductory pronouns

Sustaining interaction/ making educated guesses