UNIT 1

Learn to:
Ask personal questions. Talk about the kind of people you get on with
Talk about experiences
Do a role play making phone enquiries. Manage enquiries.
Describe a first encounter.
PRACTICE
Listen to a radio programme about speed flat mating.
Listen to people describing how certain activities make them feel.
Listen to a phone enquiry about a language course.
Watch and listen to a drama about starting university: Off the Hook
(BBC)
Read descriptions of people on a flatmate finder site
Read an informal email
Read a review of the BBC programme Ive never seen Star Wars
Read and answer a personality quiz.
Read several short adverts.
Write an informal email. Learn to check your work for accuracy
Write a summary of a first encounter story
WEEK 1
GRAMMAR: direct and indirect questions (pg.5, ej.2 y 3A, pg.16,
ej.9)
Present perfect and past simple including time phrases (pg.7, ej.3 y
4)
VOCABULARY: personality (pg.5 ej.4A-B)
Feelings ed/-ing adjectives (pg.6, ej.1A-B)
PRONUNCIATION: sentence stress and intonation in question forms
(pg.5, ej.3B). Connected speech in the past simple and present
perfect
WEEK 2
GRAMMAR: present perfect/past simple revision (pg.14, ej.1 y 2)

USE of grammar: making polite phone enquiries (pg.8, ej.2 y 4A,

pg.16, ej.10A-B)
VOCABULARY: word formationnouns from adjectives (pg. 7, ej. 5A).
Modifiers with gradable and non-gradable adjectives (pg6, ej.1C)
Phrases used in adverts (pg.8, ej. 1) Phrases for telling a personal
story
PRONUNCIATION: intonation in polite enquiries (pg.8, ej. 3)
UNIT 2
Learn to:
Talk about charities and social issues
Discuss surveillance society; role play a meeting to discuss crimecutting plans
Discuss different issues; learn to support your viewpoint
Discuss ingredients of happiness; carry out a happiness survey
PRACTICE:
Listen to opinions about surveillance
Listen to informal discussions
Watch an extract from a documentary about happiness in the West
The Happiness Formula
Read two articles about a charity; read and answer a geography quiz
Read a letter of complaint and a series of newspaper extracts
Write a letter of complaint; learn to use formal written language
Write tips for being happy for a website
WEEK 3
GRAMMAR: present perfect simple and present perfect continuous
(pg. 9, ej. 1A)
The passive (pg.12, ej. 3A, y 4)
VOCABULARY: social issues (pg. 9, ej. 3A);
Verbs and nouns with the same form (pg. 10, ej. 5A-B).
Surveillance (pg. 11, ej. 2)
PRONUNCIATION: sentence stress and weak forms in the present
perfect. Sentences stress with the passive

WEEK 4
GRAMMAR: the passive, revision. (pg15, ej.5)
USE of grammar: giving and responding to opinions (pg. 13, ej. 1A y
2)
VOCABULARY: opinion adjectives (pg. 13, ej. 3A).
Consumer society; survey phrases (pg.16, ej.11A)
PRONUNCIATION: sentence stress in opinion phrases

UNIT 3
Learn to:
Talk about playing games and sports; discuss bad habits and how to
prevent them
Talk about holidays; plan and present a niche holiday
Talk about game shows; learn to use mirror questions; describe a
procedure
Recommend an experience you have had
PRACTICE:
Listen to a radio programme about niche travel
Listen to descriptions of two TV game shows
Watch an extract from a programme about great experiences 50
Things to Do Before You Die
Read an article about the effects of computer gaming on one
relationship; read an opinion essay.
Read an answer a travellers quiz
Write an opinion essay about leisure time; learn to use linkers in an
opinion essay.
Write a true story

WEEK 5
GRAMMAR: habit and routineused to, would, be/get used to (pg.18,
ej.3 y 5)
Future forms reviewgoing to, present continuous, present simple,
will, be likely to, might, could (pg.21, ej. 2 y 3)
VOCABULARY: good and bad behaviour (pg.18, ej.2A-B). Locations
(pg.21. ej. 4A-B); Uncountable and plural nouns (pg.21. ej.5)
PRONUNCIATION: connected speech in future forms
WEEK 6
USE of grammar: describing procedures (pg.22, ej.1A-B)
VOCABULARY: common actions in procedures (pg.22, ej.2 y 3).
Phrases for describing and recommending an activity
PRONUNCIATION: sentence stress in phrases to explain procedure
(pg.22, ej. 1B, repetition), and in mirror questions (pg.22, ej.4A-BC)

UNIT 4
Learn to:
Tell a personal anecdote
Talk about wishes and regrets
Talk about reading habits; learn to summarise a plot; talk about a
favourite book
Describe a favourite scene in a TV programme or film
PRACTICE:
Listen to a radio programme about very short stories
Listen to people recommending books
Watch an extract from a drama about a girl in 19th Century rural
England Tess of the DUrbervilles
Read stories with a moral
Read a biography of Sir David Attenborough
Read an article about a favourite film moment

Write a story; learn to use adverbs in stories

Write a description of a favourite scene
WEEK 7
GRAMMAR: narrative tenses (pg.23, ej.1A y 2).
VOCABULARY: sayings e.g. every cloud has a silver lining (pg.24, ej.5 y
6A-B)
PRONUNCIATION: weak forms in narrative tenses.
WEEK 8
GRAMMAR: revision of narrative tenses.
USE of grammar: expressing likes and dislikes (pg.27, ej.2A)
VOCABULARY: reading (pg27, ej.1).
PRONUNCIATION: sentence stress in phrases for likes and dislikes
(pg.27, 2B)
WEEK 9
GRAMMAR: Wishes and regretsI wish/If only/should have (pg25, ej.
1A y 3)
wishes and regrets, revision. (pg.30, ej.9)
VOCABULARY: Feeling adjectives; phrases for describing a favourite
scene (pg.27, ej.3)
PRONUNCIATION: Sentence stress and weak forms in regrets (pg.25,
ej.2A)

UNIT 5
Learn to:
Talk about the effects of inventions. Discuss advertising tactics
Brainstorm ideas on a how to topic; learn to show reservations
Present a genius business idea
PRACTICE:
Listen to a programme about advertising. Listen to people
brainstorming
Watch an extract from a programme about funny ideas Genius
Read an article about the worst inventions ever

Read and answer a questionnaire on advertising

Read about the five rules of brainstorming
Write a report; learn to make written comparisons
Write a product leaflet for a genius idea
WEEK 10
GRAMMAR: articles (pg.32, ej.2 y 3, pg.42, ej.2).
Conditionalsreview of zero, first and second conditionals;
VOCABULARY: change (pg.33, ej.4A);
Compound nouns (pg.33, ej.5). Advertising (pg.35, ej.5)
PRONUNCIATION: pronunciation of the; stress in compound nouns.
Sentence stress in conditional clauses
WEEK 11
GRAMMAR: as long as, unless, providing that (pg.34, ej.3 y 4)
VOCABULARY: adjectives to describe ideas (pg.35, ej.6A-B. Pg.36,
ej.3A). PRONUNCIATION: intonation in phrases for suggesting ideas
(pg.36, ej.3B)
WEEK 12
GRAMMAR: conditionals revision. (pg.44, ej.9)
USE of grammar: suggesting ideas (pg, 36, ej.2A, pg.43, ej.5)
VOCABULARY: Phrases for presenting a business idea
PRONUNCIATION: intonation in phrases for suggesting ideas (pg.36,
ej.3B)