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UNIT 1: PEOPLE AND PLACES
- Discuss reasons for living where you do.
- Grammar: Present perfect vs present continuous. Structure: so+ adjective+ that
- Vocabulary: Migration, climate.
- Listening: Interviews about why people live where they do.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing reasons for staying or moving.
- Reading and writing: Writing a traveller’s journal.
UNIT 2: THE MIND
- Talk about remembering and forgetting.
- Grammar: Gerunds as subjects and after prepositions.
- Vocabulary: Thought processes, scientific investigations.
- Listening: A radio program about the unusual condition of synesthesia.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Talking about sensations, /th/ sounds.
- Reading and writing: Writing about a personal experience.
UNIT 3: CHANGING PLANET
- Discuss causes and effects.
- Grammar: Passive voice, past perfect tense.
- Vocabulary: Environmental changes.
- Listening: Climate change.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing cause and effect, linking words.
- Reading and writing: Writing a letter about life in the future.
UNIT 4: MONEY
- Describe your money habits.
- Grammar: Gerund vs infinitive, review of the passive.
- Vocabulary: Money transactions.
- Listening: Radio program: the history of money.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Giving suggestions for how to have fun.
- Reading and writing: Writing a personal opinion.
UNIT 5: SURVIVAL
- Talk about emergency situations.
- Grammar: Unreal conditional, wish.
- Vocabulary: survival skills.
- Listening: A radio program interviewing survivors.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Situation: working with a team in a survival situation.
- Reading and writing: Writing an advertisement brochure.
UNIT 6: ART
- Report what another person said.
- Grammar: Reported speech, subject adjective clauses.
- Vocabulary: Art terminology and materials.
- Listening: Conversations in a museum.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing personal selection.
- Reading and writing: writing a detailed description.
UNIT 7: TRANSPORTATION
- Talk about new developments in transportation.
- Grammar: Passive voice, indirect questions.
- Vocabulary: Modern transportation, public transportation.
- Listening: Subway systems.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: solving an airport problem.
- Reading and writing: Writing a letter to the editor.
UNIT 8: COMPETITION
- Give your opinion about sports.
- Grammar: Negative questions, object adjective clauses.
- Vocabulary: Sportmanship.
- Listening: Interviews.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Matching sports to personalities.
- Reading and writing: Writing a list of competition tips.
UNIT 9: DANGER
- Discuss ways to stay safe.
- Grammar: Tag questions, adverbial clauses.
- Vocabulary: Dangerous things.
- Listening: Radio program: an unusual job.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: a newspaper interview.
- Reading and writing: Writing about a risk situation.
UNIT 10: MYSTERIES
- Speculate about mysteries.
- Grammar: Modals, future in the past.
- Vocabulary: Reactions to surprise.
- Listening: Interviews of eye-witnesses.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: two sides of a mystery.
- Reading and writing: Writing about fauxtography.
UNIT 11: LEARNING
- Talk about educational plans and decisions.
- Grammar: Modals, noun clauses.
- Vocabulary: education, university majors.
- Listening: Personal experiences.
- Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing quiz results.
- Reading and writing: Writing about improving schools.
UNIT 12: SPACE
- Talk about the future.
- Grammar: Future tenses, future modals.
- Vocabulary: Space exploration.
- Listening: Interview of an astronaut.
- Speaking and pronunciation: role-play: choosing a space experiment.
- Reading and writing: Writing about orbiting telescopes.
Contenido del CD:
- 1 CD con audiciones del libro del alumno y ejercicios interactivos.
- 1 CD con solucionario del libro del alumno y solucionario del libro de ejercicio.