| Author(s): Sarah Cunningham Peter Moore Publisher: Longman ISBN: 9780582825093 Publisher's resources are available for this book. |
Statements about people, nationalities and other general statements. Language focus on use of articles, general plurals
Listening on Zurich as a place to live. There is / there are +
Simple quantity expressions: some, any, a few, a lot of, too much.
World geography quiz; crossword on geographic features
Listening and speaking: New Zealand multiple-choice quiz - listen for answers
Pairwork - ask / answer activity on New Zealand
Listening; matchiing phrases with diagrams;
Pairwork: asking for / giving directions using maps (back of book)
Invitation to a party with directions (gapped).
Match pictues with leisure activities.
Listen to survey of leisure activities and fill in table.
Classify activites according to collocating verbs: do go, play etc
Sports quiz: try and answer questions, listen to check results
Short text on the invention of TV.
Quiz questions on 'important firsts' for question formation
ago, last year, yesterday morning etc
pictures
listening - short dialogues
'wordspt' spidergraph for word 'feel'
Listening - anecdote: first day at school
Telling anecdotes
Short narrative text (the first time I went abroad)
gapped for linking phrases for sequencing, contrast, addition, reason and result
Text giving advice on falling asleep and waking up
Should for advice. Picture for presentation,
Short texts -> discussion of what the people in them should do
can can't have to don't have to
Gapped dialogues
Birthday traditions around the world
Pictures and texts showing people's lives contrasting the two tenses
Listening on New Year celebrations in Scotland and Hong Kong
Gap fill on three people's plans for New Year
Different uses of 'day': one day, a day off, the other day etc
People talk about dates that are important for them
phrases for special occasions
Email inviting friends to a wedding
Reading passage on different ideas of male and female beauty
Includes comprehension exercise on vocabulary for describing people
Various book exercises including listening
Listening and identifying pictures
Describing a suspect to the police
Wordspot: look. Spider graph for uses of 'look' + gap fill and sentence completion exercises
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(Students say what they would like or would rather do.)
Grammar analysis: be going to / planning to / would rather / would like
Listening: The holiday from hell - couple talk about a bad holiday. Ccomprehension questions + gap fill summary
Will and won't for predictions.
Students ask and answer questions about a future holiday: 'Will I have to book a seat?' etc
Matching sentence segments + listening
Students listen to people chatting in four situations: neighbours, in a shop, in a taxi, work colleagues.
Act out a similar conversation in pairs.
Listening: making enquiries at a travel agent
Speaking: travel agent role play. Travel agents have details of 8 holidays.
Gapped post card with choice of (suitable) informal and (unsuitable) formal phrases
Students talk about ambitions now and when they were young.
Listening: childhood ambitions of 8 celebrities
Short texts about people's careers.
Contrasts present perfect with 'for' , and past simple;
+ throws in other uses of the present perfect
Reading: interview with Ewan McGregor
Speaking: Write and act an interview with a famous person
Listening: five people talk about ambitions and achievements
Speaking: tell each other about amitions
Wordspot: for.
Sentence segment matching
Spidergraph.
Listening: Students write down the questions theyhear - then ask and answer in paris
Reading about a reality TV show in which people live as they would have done in 1900
May / might / will / definitely
Listening: people make predictions about life 100 years in the future
Students make prediction from skeleton sentences and prompts
Focus on present tense after 'if', 'when' and 'before' rather than on more standard 'first conditional'.
Listening and gap fill on building redevopment alternatives.
Students are given a budget and have to redesign a coffee bar (illustrated)
Wordpot: if
Sentence segment matching
Spidergraph
Pairwork
Health quiz - basic medical problems / first aid
Collocations for doctor / patient situation
Listening: Health helpline
Speaking: Health helpline / patient role plays
Reading: health care in the past - life expectancy, diseases, treatment etc.
Used to for talking about past states and jhabits
(follows on from reading about healthcare in the past)
Listening about a man with a lot of lucky escapes
Speaking: describing car accidents
Jigsaw reading - different rescue stories +
deciding which rescue story is most heroic.
Gapped summary of a rescue story
Gapped story
Students prepare a short conversation in pairs (choice of 5 social situations). Act out - others guess situation.
Reading: When an interest becomes an obsession.
People who take interests to extremes - collectors etc
Ways of expressing likes and dislikes.
Listening: five people talk about they feel about various common activities / experiences / objects
Match pictures with 'like -ing / would like to do' sentences
Multipe-choice exercise
Jumbled dialogue - listen to check
Survey on lifestyle preferences
Wordspot: like
Add word 'like' to sentences
Spidergraph
Making sentences from prompts
Reading: the world's most popular brands
Grammar: present simple passive and past simple passive.
Reality show role play - students select items to help them survive 24 hours on a jungle island.
Follow-up listening: survival expert talks about essential items
Real life section. Four conversations. Listen , complete sentences for key language. Prepare similar dialogues in pairs
Filling in a simple job application form.
Follow up: interview (pairwork)
Matching: jobs and personal qualities
- adjectives and nouns -
Listening: owner of employement agency
Present pefect continuous with how long / for / since
Present perfect simple contrasted with present perfect continuous.
Wordspot: how. Gaps, spidergraph and listening
Speaking task: choosing a manager for a pop group from a group of candidates
Pronuncation of various numbers
Tell a story from pictures, listen to story, find differences between listening and pictures
Wordspot make
Gap fill, spidergraph, listening, discuss statements
Song: Imagine (John Lennon)
Reading - timeline of the song
Listening: Imagine gap fill
Contrast of conditionals with will for real situations with would for unreal / imaginary situations
Read about plans for a future space colony and choose suitable candidates from a list
Tense identification exercise