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GRAMMAR REVIEW page 6

READING LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING

Unit TEXT ORGANIsATION: Listening to a radio interview HEDGING: a university Writing offer and wanted adverts

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a feature article FUNCTION talking about campus survey on the use of FUNCTION describing items
bartering freecycling websites for sale
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Unit Reading an online article UNDERSTANDING NATIVE Talking about the possibility of OUTLINING: writing an essay

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innovation inspired by science monologues SPEAKING WORKSHOP
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Unit TEXT ORGANISATION: Listening to an interview PARTICIPATING IN A Writing a persuasive email

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an online article FUNCTION talking about GROUP DISCUSSION: FUNCTION persuading
identity theft a discussion about online privacy readers to share your view
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Unit Reading a statistics-based UNDERSTANDING Talking about educational SEntence variety:writing

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argument NON-NATIVE ENGLISH alternatives a personal essay for a university
FUNCTION talking about SPEAKERS:short SPEAKING WORKSHOP application
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FUNCTION expressing and
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Unit Understanding Listening to a story SUMMARISING: online Writing a letter to a newspaper

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definitions: a current FUNCTION talking about comments about keeping wild editor
affairs magazine article animal welfare and conservation animals as pets FUNCTION using arguments
to support an opinion
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Unit Reading an online news article INFERRING OPINIONS: Talking about automation SUMMARISING: writing a

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robots in the workplace intelligence
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 PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR VOCABULARY LIFESKILLS
WORDS: intonation and attitude ADVERB PHRASES consumerism and SELF AND SOCIETY:
FUNCTION giving additional sustainability Building communities
information FUNCTION discussing ways to reduce FUNCTION creating a new community
NEGATIVE QUESTIONS consumption
FUNCTION confirming an existing DESCRIBING USED ITEMS
belief FUNCTION posting adverts on a
website

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WORDS: contrastive stress FUTURE PASSIVE Business and innovation STUDY AND LEARNING:
FUNCTION talking about inventions of FUNCTION talking about how Evaluating explanations
the future companies launch innovations FUNCTION distinguishing between
COnditional conjunctions NEGATIVE PREFIXES: UN-, IN-, IM- correlation and causation
FUNCTION talking about space FUNCTION talking about space
programmes of the future exploration

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WORDS: connected speech final OBJECT COMPLEMENTS Digital PRIVACY SELF AND SOCIETY:
consonant sound to first vowel sound FUNCTION talking about data security FUNCTION talking about online Protecting digital privacy
Negative structures with privacy issues FUNCTION giving advice
think, suppose, etc PHRASAL VERBS
FUNCTION giving opinions on online FUNCTION talking about identity theft
privacy

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SOUNDS: vowel length before final RElative pronouns with VERB COLLOCATIONS STUDY AND LEARNING:
consonant sounds -ever FUNCTION talking about higher Anticipating cultural differences
FUNCTION talking about online study education FUNCTION finding information needed
MIXED CONDITIONALS words related to STAND in advance
FUNCTION talking about hypothetical FUNCTION talking about the job
situations in education market

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SOUNDS: final consonant clusters Impersonal passive Animal rescue SELF AND SOCIETY:
FUNCTION talking about beliefs FUNCTION talking about wildlife Understanding decision-making styles
PASSIVE MODALS conservation FUNCTION making decisions
adverbadjective as a group
FUNCTION giving opinions on wildlife
issues collocations
FUNCTION talking about wildlife
population issues

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SOUNDS: linking words with a /w/ FUTURE PERFECT PHRASES WITH ADJECTIVE + STUDY AND LEARNING:
or a /j/ sound FUNCTION making predictions for PREPOSITION Organising an argument
specific times in the future FUNCTION talking about automation FUNCTION selecting and organising
FUTURE PERFECT continuous in vehicles points to make
FUNCTION predicting ongoing events phrasal verbs
at specific times in the future FUNCTION talking about robots in the
workplace

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 READING LISTENING SPEAKING WRITING
Unit UNDERSTANDING Listening to a discussion MODIFYING A Offering advice

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EXPLANATIONS AND FUNCTION talking about STATEMENT: a discussion FUNCTION thinking of ways
EXAMPLES: a magazine article sustainable shopping about personal finances to reduce consumption
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Unit Reading an article about art INFERRING FACTUAL Talking about meaning in art WRITING A REVIEW:giving

8 FUNCTION talking about INFORMATION: a lecture SPEAKING WORKSHOP information and opinions on an
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Unit UNDERSTANDING INTENT: Listening to a radio talk show MAKING AND Writing a short article

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a magazine article FUNCTION talking about how RESPONDING TO FUNCTION giving an opinion
childrens play has changed INVITATIONS: formal and on a controversial issue
informal conversations inviting
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Unit Reading a wiki entry DIFFICULT SITUATIONS: Talking about popular beliefs WRITING A WIKI ENTRY:

10 FUNCTION talking about a conversation about viral loops SPEAKING WORKSHOP writing in collaboration with
popular beliefs on social media others
FUNCTION responding with
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Unit UNDERSTANDING Listening to an informal SOFTENING LANGUAGE Posting an opinion

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INTENT: a magazine article discussion FOR REFUSALS: an informal FUNCTION writing a response
FUNCTION talking about discussion about downloading to someone elses opinion
musical intelligence music
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Unit Reading a feature article DIFFICULT SITUATIONS: Talking about a mysterious WRITING AN EDITORIAL:

12 FUNCTIONS talking about a conversation about geology phenomenon giving an opinion on a current
man-made environmental SPEAKING WORKSHOP affairs issue
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 PRONUNCIATION GRAMMAR VOCABULARY LIFESKILLS
SOUNDS: //, // and /u/ REDUCED ADVERB time CLAUSES ADJECTIVES ENDING IN work and career:
FUNCTION talking about food labelling -ABLE/-IBLE Evaluating claims
and health FUNCTION talking about sustainable FUNCTION identifying and testing
REDUCED ADVERB CAUSE-EFFECT shopping and consumption claims
clauses MONEY AND FINANCES
FUNCTION talking about consumption FUNCTION talking about personal
and the environment finance

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words: words ending in -ical inverted conditionals DESCRIBING ART self AND society:
FUNCTION talking about hypothetical FUNCTION talking about meaning and Developing curiosity
situations in a formal context influences in art FUNCTION learning about the
ADJECTIVE PHRASE + INDIRECT negative prefixes: UN-, NON-, importance of curiosity
QUESTION MIS-, IM-, IN-
FUNCTION talking about FUNCTION talking about opinions
non-permanent art on art

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SOUNDS: assimilation the subjunctive CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT Work and career:

FUNCTION talking about requests, FUNCTION talking about how children Recognising contradiction
orders and recommendations in the learn and develop FUNCTION identifying points in an
workplace MAKING AND RESPONDING TO argument that contradict each other
alternatives to the INVITATIONS
SUBJUNCTIVE FUNCTION making, accepting and
FUNCTION talking about brain training declining invitations

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WORDS: thought groups INVERSION with negative FALSEHOOD STUDY AND LEARNING:
expressions FUNCTION talking about things that Evaluating internet source reliability
FUNCTION talking about conspiracy arent true or real FUNCTION checking the reliability
theories WORD FORMS (PROVING AND ofwebsites
ELLIPSIS AND SUBSTITUTION DISPROVING)
FUNCTION talking about internet FUNCTION talking about proving and
scams disproving claims

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SOUNDS: intonation in cleft sentences past tense for unreal IDIOMATIC EXPRESSIONS WITH Self AND society:
situations TAKE Identifying bias
FUNCTION talking about hypothetical FUNCTION talking about perceptions FUNCTION recognising views that are
situations related to music of famous musicians not balanced or fair
CLEFT SENTENCES SHARING MUSIC
FUNCTION talking about musicians FUNCTION talking about ways of
sharing music electronically

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SOUNDS: stress shifts in parts of participle CLAUSES ADVERBIAL MODIFIERS Work and career:
speech FUNCTION talking about travel FUNCTION describing an unusual place Maximising your potential
destinations GEOLOGY FUNCTION assessing and developing
impersonal passive in the past hard and soft skills
FUNCTION talking about geological
FUNCTION talking about natural phenomena
disasters

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GRAMMAR REFERENCE: page 152 IRREGULAR VERBS AND PRONUNCIATION: page179

AUDIOSCRIPT: page 166 ANSWER KEYs: page 180

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