CONTENIDOS Unidad 1 Grammar: conditionals (zero, first, second and third). Vocabulary: numbers. Story telling devices.

Reading: If we were animalsA day in the life of Cheetah (gapped text: sentences). Listening: extracts about incidents with animals (multiple matching) Oral Production: making a decision and giving reasons. Writing: a report: popular pets. Organising a report. Linkers of consequence. Unidad 2 Grammar: making comparisons. Giving advice: should, ought to. Vocabulary: jobs and qualities needed for jobs. Survival. Reading: Review of book Fighting Fire (multiple choice) Listening: discussion of a newspaper article (true or false). Oral Production: giving advice Writing: an informal letter about a frightening or dramatic experience. Organising paragraphs. Style: informal language. Unidad 3 Grammar: passives (past and present). Causative. Vocabulary: buying and selling food. Reading: Sticky business: the story of chewing gum (multiple matching headings). Listening: food and drink: short extracts. Oral Production: discussing about food and eating habits. Writing: a report: food preferences. Organising a report. Style: formal language. Unidad 4 Grammar: present simple and present continuous. Future forms. Reported statements, questions and commands. So, neither, nor. Vocabulary: word families (nouns/ adjectives).The environment (e.g. recycling bank, ozone layer). Oral Production: advantages and disadvantages of working and non-working holidays. Organizing your ideas. Ways of comparing Writing: an article: What can tourists see and do in your town or area? Features of a good article. Unidad 5 Grammar: expressing purpose (e.g. in order to, so that). Questions (subject/ object and direct/ indirect). Vocabulary: music. Expressions with bring and take.

Oral Production: talking about yourself (general conversation). Making different types of questions. Writing: a transactional letter: letter to a friend asking for information. Features of a transactional letter. Unidad 6 Grammar: present perfect simple (for, since, ever, just, yet, already). So and such. Vocabulary: relationships. Describing personality. Oral Production: ways of keeping in touch with people (discussion). Ways of giving your opinion and asking for someone elses opinions. Writing: an informal letter: letter to a friend telling recent news. Using informal language. Unidad 7 Grammar: Like and as. Narrative tenses Vocabulary: adjective forms (e.g. hopeful, useless). Interesting vocabulary (e.g. to glance, to wander). Oral Production: personal information (general conversation). Asking for repetition/ clarification. Writing: a story: I had the strangest dream last night. Linking expressions of time. (e.g. finally, after that). Unidad 8 Grammar: time expressions (e.g. during, while, by the time). Ability (can, could, be able to, manage to). Vocabulary: word families (e.g. invent, invention, inventor). Materials (e.g. leather, wool). Oral Production: Things that are important to you (collaborative task). Communicating interactively. Writing: an article: I couldnt live without it! Paragraphing.

Bibliografa

Acklam, R. & Crace, A. (2003) Going for Gold Intermediate - Coursebook and Language Maximiser. England: Pearson Education. Acklam, R. & Crace, A. (2003) Going for Gold Upper-Intermediate - Coursebook and Language Maximiser. England: Pearson Education. Christie A. (2008) Death on the Nile -Upper Intermediate. England: Pearson Education.