WEEK

UNIT

GRAMMAR

VOCABULARY

LANGUAGE SKILLS

NOTES

Sept.

1^st week

Unit 1

Relationships

Present tenses review

Friends: nouns and phrasal verbs

Reading:an article about changing attitudes in China

Listening: three people talking about important relationships in their lives

Speaking: your friends

2^nd week

Unit 1

Relationships

Present tenses review

The Passive

Forming adjectives from nouns/

Word focus: get

Reading: an article about immigrant families in New York

Listening: a radio extract about animal friendships

Speaking: the generation gap

Oct.

3^rd week

Unit 1

Relationships

The Passive

Weak forms in passive verbs/ expressive intonation

Real life functions: meeting people you know/ identifying the main aspect

Speaking: family influences

Writing: an informal letter/ greetings and endings

4^th week

Unit 2

Storytelling

Past Simple Tense and Present Perfect Simple Tense

Books and films/ synonyms

Reading: a true story about dangerous animals

Listening: a conversation about different accounts of Ayrton Senna's life

Speaking: the film of the book

5^th week

Unit 2

Storytelling

Past tenses review: Past  Simple/ Past  Continuous

The letter/ Word focus: keep

Reading: an article about the brothers Grimm

Listening: an interview with a film critic

Speaking: a famous writer or filmmaker

6^th week

Unit 2

Storytelling

Past tenses review: Past Perfect Simple/ Past Perfect Continuous

contrasted negative forms linking and assimilation

Real life functions: reacting to stories/ close reading

Speaking: narrow escapes/ storytelling

Writing: a story/ using descriptive words

Nov.

7^th week

Unit 3

Science and technology

Future forms review: will/ going to/ about to

Wordbuilding: prefixes/ compound nouns (noun+noun)

Reading:an article about augmented reality

Listening: three people making productions about the future

Speaking: global problems/ overpopulation

8^th week

Unit 3

Science and technology

Future forms review:Present Continuous/ Present Simple

Useful devices/ word focus: out of

Reading: an article about appropriate technology

Listening: a presentation about overpopulation

Speaking: information age/ predictions

9^th week

Unit 3

Science and technology

Future forms review: Future Continuous/ Future Perfect Simple

/r/ and /t/ in American English/

stress in two-syllable verbs

Real life functions: asking for and offering technical help

Speaking: technical solutions/ balancing arguments

Writing: short email requests/ being polite

10^th week

Unit 4

Art and creativity

Expressions of quantity

Wordbuilding: suffixes

Reading:an article about unusual street art

Listening: a conversation about two people who do artistic things in their free time

Speaking: participation in the art

11^th week

Unit 4

Art and creativity

Expressions of quantity/ determiners

word focus:cool

Reading: an article about the origin of rap

Listening: An extract from a radio programme about what's in Melbourne

Speaking: an art competition/ analysing contrasts

Dec.

12^th week

Unit 4

Art and creativity

Determiners

Weak forms of disappearing sounds

Listening: an artist's opinion about what art is

Speaking: music and values/ describing likes and dislikes

Writing: an online review/ personalising your writing/

13^th week

Unit 5

Development

Verb + infinitive or

- ing

Features of the city redevelopment/ rhyming words

Reading: an article about urban development in Dubai

Listening: three people talking about different types of development

Speaking: changes in your town/ a happy society

14^th week

Unit 5

 Development

Verb + infinitive or

- ing

Wordbuilding: adverb+adjective/ re- adverbs

Reading: an article about a hydro power dam project in Laos

Listening: someone talking about redevelopment in their city

Speaking: sensitive development/ evaluating a development project

Jan.

15^th week

Unit 5

 Development

Verb + to +infinitive or  -ing

Wordbuilding: prefix re- with verbs and nouns

word: pick

Listening: an interview wit a journalist talking about social development in southern India

Speaking: reaching decisions/ fact or opinion

Writing: an opinion essay/ linking words

16^th week

Unit 6

Alternative travel

not

Phrasal verbs with in or out

Reading: a blog with holidays at home

Listening: someone describing their stay at an ice hotel

Speaking: local knowledge

17^th week

Unit 6

Alternative travel

negatives

Word focus: mind

Reading: an extract from a travel magazine about historical hotels

Listening: an interview about volunteer vacations

Speaking: planning a stay cation/ opinions about travel

Feb.

18^th week

Unit 6

Alternative travel

Tag questions

Intonation in questions and sentences with two clauses

Real life functions: getting around/ claims and justifications

Speaking: ideas for an unusual hotel

Writing: a letter of complains/ formal language

19^th week

Unit 7

Natural resources

Mixed conditional sentences

Conservation/ oil/

contractions in conditionals

Reading: an article about Ecuador's plan to protect resources

Listening: an ecologist describing how we can avoid wasting resources

Speaking: making your point

20^th week

Unit 7

Natural resources

Mixed conditional sentences

Collocations related to one word/

sentence stress

Reading: an article about Madagascar's unique ecology

Listening: four people talking about saving water

Speaking: how we use water conversation

21^st week

Unit 7

Natural resources

Wish/ would rather/ if only

Strong feelings/

word focus: better

Real life functions: emotive language

Speaking: how we use water / wishes

Writing: a letter to the press/ giving vivid examples

Mar.

22^nd week

Unit 8

The news

Reporting verbs