Syllabus checklist

Grammar Vocabulary
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4 A Mood food present simple and continuous, food and cooking
action and non-action verbs

8 B Family life future forms: present continuous, family, adjectives of personality

going to, will / won’t
G each other

12 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 1 Meeting the parents

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14 A Spend or save? present perfect and past simple money

18 B Changing lives present perfect + for / since, strong adjectives: exhausted,

present perfect continuous amazed, etc.

22 REVISE AND CHECK 1&2 In the street; Short films Oxfam

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24 A Race across London comparatives and superlatives transport

28 B Stereotypes – or are they? articles: a / an, the, no article collocation: verbs / adjectives +
prepositions

32 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 2 A difficult celebrity

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34 A Failure and success can, could, be able to -ed / -ing adjectives
G reflexive pronouns

38 B Modern manners? modals of obligation: must, have to, phone language

should
G should have

42 REVISE AND CHECK 3&4 In the street; Short films Boris Bikes

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44 A Sporting superstitions past tenses: simple, continuous, sport
perfect

48 B Love at Exit 19 usually and used to relationships

52 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 3 Old friends

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 Pronunciation Speaking Listening Reading

short and long vowel Food & eating Food & eating Mood food
sounds Restaurants Steve Anderson interview
What do you think?

sentence stress, word Family Radio programme: Birth order Younger brother or only child?
stress, adjective endings Birth order

the letter o Are you a spender or a saver? Are you a spender or a saver? – Are you a spender or a saver?
Money and business six people answer The millionaire with a secret

sentence stress, stress How long have you… ? Jane’s trip TV presenter’s Amazon
on strong adjectives Helen’s challenge challenge

/ʃ/, /dʒ/, and /tʃ/, linking Transport – do you agree with Top Gear Challenge – The Stig Top Gear Challenge – boat, bike,
the statements? Dangerous driving – a safety expert and car

/ə/, sentence stress, /ðə/ Who’s the most talkative? Commando Dad – a discussion Men talk just as much as women
or /ðiː/? Talk for two minutes about… A gossip with the girls?
Men & women: stereotypes Commando Dad
or true?

sentence stress Topics to talk about Six advanced learners of English He’s English, but he can speak
Speaking other languages give tips eleven languages
Tips for learning English

silent consonants, linking You and your phone the difference between Russian Mother-in-law from hell…
questionnaire and British manners or daughter-in-law from hell?
Good manners? Bad manners?
Not important?

/ɔː/ and /ɜː/ Do you like sport? questionnaire Football referee interview If I bounce the ball five times…
Telling anecdotes

linking, the letter s Friends discussion Radio discussion about Facebook Love at Exit 19

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 Grammar Vocabulary
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54 A Shot on location passives (all tenses) cinema

58 B Judging by appearances modals of deduction: might, can’t, must the body

62 REVISE AND CHECK 5&6 In the street; Short films Iconic film locations

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64 A Extraordinary school for boys first conditional and future time education
clauses + when, until, etc.
G make and let

68 B Ideal home second conditional houses

72 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 4 Boys’ night out

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74 A Sell and tell reported speech: sentences and shopping, making nouns from verbs
questions

78 B What’s the right job for you? gerunds and infinitives work

82 REVISE AND CHECK 7&8 In the street; Short films Trinity College, Dublin

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84 A Lucky encounters third conditional making adjectives and adverbs

88 B Too much information! quantifiers electronic devices, phrasal verbs

G separable phrasal verbs

92 PRACTICAL ENGLISH Episode 5 Unexpected events

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94 A Modern icons relative clauses: defining and compound nouns
non-defining

98 B Two murder mysteries question tags crime

102 REVISE AND CHECK 9&10 In the street; Short films The Hound of the Baskervilles

104 Communication 132 Grammar Bank 165 Irregular verbs

113 Writing 152 Vocabulary Bank 166 Sound Bank

122 Listening

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sentence stress The Cinema interview Interview with Dagmara You are standing in the
place where…

diphthongs Social networking profile The man in the photograph What does your profile picture
pictures say about you?
Yes, appearance matters

the letter u Your education questionnaire Gareth Malone’s Extraordinary Do you want to practise for five
Debating education School for Boys hours or six?
Were (are) your parents strict?

sentence stress Your dream house Four American architecture Tchaikovsky’s house
students describe their
‘dream house’

the letters ai Shopping questionnaire Radio consumer programme The King of Complainers
When did you complain? about bad service

word stress Asking and answering Two special products from In the Dragons’ Den
questions about work Dragons’ Den
Present your product to
the Dragons

sentence stress The student and the angel A question of luck – The Beatles The ticket inspector
Lucky talk and Bill Gates A question of luck?

ough and augh, linking Do you suffer from information The winter of our disconnect Information overload
overload?

word stress Icons you admire Great British design icons Steve Jobs

intonation in question tags Interview with a Jack the Ripper The Case for the Defence,
expert parts 1 and 2
The Case for the Defence, part 3

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