MAP OF THE BOOK

READING WRITING LISTENING SPEAKING GRAMMAR VOCABULARY

• A day in the life • Describing a daily routine • Spending a year abroad • Talking about your day • Present simple • Everyday activities
UNIT 1 (Dealing with Multiple Choice) • Using visuals to write about daily (True / False activities; (Using prompts to prepare and structure a • Adverbs of frequency • Verbs of routine
DAILY LIFE • The life of a student in the UK routines Matching activities) talk for two minutes) • Numbers and time
(Sentence completion)

• Looking for somewhere to live • An email to a friend about • Describing a room • Choosing accommodation • Present simple • Rooms and objects in a house
UNIT 2 (Note taking) accommodation (Matching pictures; Short answer questions) (Choosing from information and (Negative and questions) • Different types of accommodation
HOUSE AND HOME • My house and day • Listening to a conversation expressing an opinion) • Sentence order
(Sentence completion) (Short answers; Matching and Multiple choice)

UNIT 3 • Snowboarding star

(Use of distraction in Multiple Choice
• Responding to messages • Adventure holidays
(Multiple choice)
• Describing activities
• Describing what is happening in a scene
• Present simple and Present continuous • Leisure activities
• Adjectives of feelings
HOBBIES, LEISURE AND
Questions)
ENTERTAINMENT

• Different types of holidays • An email Using prompts to cover all • Interview task • Talking about holidays • Past simple and Present simple • Holiday activities
UNIT 4 (Reading for specific information and points, style and structure (Multiple choice) (Adding more detail; Giving reasons) • Different types of holidays
TRAVEL AND detailed meaning; Matching tasks) • Speaking about experiences • Adjectives to describe places
HOLIDAYS (Using written prompts to give a
two-minute speech)

• A food festival • Describing a process • A cooking demonstration • Discussion about different types of food • Countable and uncountable • Different types of food
(Skimming and scanning skills; Choosing • An essay about food in your country (Sentence completion; • Giving a talk about a meal you enjoy • Different types of dishes
the correct answer) Diagram completion) (Using written prompts to give a • Verbs for preparing food

UNIT 5 • A recipe
(Sentence completion without a choice
two-minute speech) • Vocabulary for opinions

FOOD of words)
• A special meal
(Sentence completion with words to
choose from)

UNIT 6 • Getting information from signs, notices,

letters and emails
• Giving information about your country
(Using linkers in longer pieces of writing)
• Information about a shopping centre
(Short answer questions; Gap fill)
• Talking about transport and towns • Comparatives and Superlatives • Buildings and features of towns
• Travel and transport vocabulary
TRANSPORT AND
• Map completion
PLACES IN TOWN

UNIT 7 • Getting a summer job

(True / False / Not Given)
• An email applying for a summer job
(Skills for writing emails and job
• A radio programme
(Note completion)
• Describing skills and abilities
(Extending the answers you give)
• Can / Can't / Could / Couldn't
• Present and past ability
• Vocabulary of skills and abilities
• Jobs and work experience vocabulary
JOBS, WORK
applications)
AND STUDY

• An opinion based essay • An email to a friend giving advice • A conversation about keeping healthy • Discussion about healthy lifestyles • Should and Shouldn't • Healthy activities
UNIT 8 (Using strategies to answer questions on (Matching people to statements) • Describing a picture • Have to and Don't have to • How to relax
HEALTH AND the essay) • Short exerpts on how to relax
MEDICINE (Multiple choice)

• What it takes to speak any language • Short essay on the advantages and • Discussing a language project • Speaking about language study • Going to for future plans • Ways of learning
UNIT 9 (Sentence completion) disadvantages of online dictionaries (Listen to students planning a project) (Using written prompts to give a • Usage of causative verbs
LANGUAGE (Signposting language and organising your two-minute speech) • Prepositions after verbs
essay into paragraphs)

• An article on the internet • Describing a graph • A lecture about smart phones • Describing a gadget • Will and Won't • Vocabulary for describing technology

UNIT 10 (Matching information to paragraphs;

Sentence completion)
(Table completion)
• A student describing a gadget
• Verb +infinitive (without to)
• Grammar to describe trends
• Vocabulary for when technology
goes wrong
SCIENCE AND (General comprehension) • Verbs for what technology does
TECHNOLOGY • Vocabulary for describing information
in a graph