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Unit Grammar Vocabulary Real life (functions) Pronunciation

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time phrases personality and identity getting to know people linking in word pairs
the continuous aspect wordbuilding: binomial pairs merged words in
word focus: life everyday phrases

Lessons for
life
pages 9–20

VIDEO: Arctic wisdom  page 18    REVIEW  page 20

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perfect forms wordbuilding: phrasal verb presenting yourself word stress
passive forms get
idioms: safety
word focus: foot/feet
personal qualities
More than a
job
pages 21–32

VIDEO: Climbing Yosemite  page 30    REVIEW  page 32

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qualifiers describing towns expressing opinions quite, fairly and
intensifying adverbs adverb + adjective pretty
collocations stress in intensifying
word focus: ground adverbs
linking vowel sounds
Design for life (intrusion)
pages 33–44

VIDEO: A story of solutions page 42    REVIEW  page 44

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future probability wordbuilding: -able making a short pitch weak forms in past
past modals phrasal verb come speaking skill: making key modals
word focus: give points word stress

Innovation
pages 45–56

VIDEO: This man risked it all  page 54    REVIEW  page 56

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emphatic structures repeated word pairs telling an anecdote do, does and did
avoiding repetition wordbuilding: synonyms speaking skill: linking stress in short
word focus: matter events responses
long sounds

The magic of
travel
pages 57–68

VIDEO: On the road: Andrew McCarthy  page 66    REVIEW  page 68

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phrasal verbs wordbuilding: compound discussing proposals stress in two-syllable
verb patterns words speaking skill: proposing verbs
injuries and conceding a point toning down
idioms: health negative
word focus: face statements
Body matters
pages 69–80

VIDEO: The art of parkour  page 78    REVIEW  page 80

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Listening Reading Critical thinking Speaking Writing
two speakers talk about an article about the purpose your favourite saying taking notes
important lessons in life lessons we learn from situations in your life writing skill: using
a talk by a sociologist about the past call my bluff abbreviations
understanding what makes an article about
people who they are the language of
Shakespeare

a talk about the livelihood of an article about the analysing language more than a job a covering letter or
Kazakh nomads Moken people of safety features email
an interview with a firefighter Myanmar your comfort zone writing skill: fixed
an article about rock expressions
climbing in Yosemite

a description of a photograph an article about two summarizing your home town an opinion essay
an interview with an architect towns with individual a bit of luxury writing skill: discourse
about small homes characters how spaces affect you markers
an article about the
architect Zaha Hadid

a news report about bionic an article about the finding counter future solutions a proposal
body parts future of bendable arguments how people managed writing skill: making
an interview about the technology in the past recommendations
inspiration for inventions an article about a social a social business
entrepreneur

an extract from a talk by a travel a travel blog about evaluating sources how you travel a review
writer different approaches to a mystery tour writing skill: using
a radio interview about holidays travelling knowing places descriptive words
to unknown places an article about travel in
graphic novels

a conversation between two an article about different author influence exercise trends a formal report
friends about health and exercise regimes describing an injury writing skill: avoiding
exercise an article about beauty does beauty sell? repetition
an interview with an ultrarunner
about sports injuries

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Unit Grammar Vocabulary Real life (functions) Pronunciation

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passive reporting verbs wordbuilding: verb prefix out making a podcast new words
nominalization idioms: business buzz words speaking skill: hedging
word focus: break language

Digital media
pages 81–92

VIDEO: Talking dictionaries  page 90    REVIEW  page 92

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the adverb just themes of songs your favourite music expressions with just
purpose and result idioms: music speaking skill: responding intonation to
word focus: hit to questions express uncertainty

The music in
us
pages 93–104

VIDEO: A biopic  page 102    REVIEW  page 104

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linking words wordbuilding: verb + checking, confirming and silent letters
present and perfect preposition clarifying
participles crime and punishment
word focus: board

Window on
the past
pages 105–116

VIDEO: Collecting the past  page 114    REVIEW  page 116

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adverbs and adverbial being a good member of making conversation sentence stress
phrases society speaking skill: showing intonation and
negative adverbials and having fun interest elision
inversion word focus: free

Social living
pages 117–128

VIDEO: Initiation with ants  page 126    REVIEW  page 128

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unreal past forms feelings recognizing feelings heteronyms
conditionals and inversion wordbuilding: heteronyms adjectives ending
word focus: beyond in -ed

Reason and
emotion
pages 129–140

VIDEO: Madeline the robot tamer page 138    REVIEW  page 140

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approximation and vague wordbuilding: adverb + a debate intonation in
language adjective collocations speaking skill: interrupting interruptions
would idioms: adjective collocations
word focus: move

Mother
nature
pages 141–152

VIDEO: Three years and 6,000 miles on a horse  page 150    REVIEW  page 152

COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES  page 153    GRAMMAR SUMMARY  page 156    AUDIOSCRIPTS  page 180

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Listening Reading Critical thinking Speaking Writing
a talk by a journalist about a study of global facts identifying personal the impact of digital a news report
digital technology about selfies opinion media writing skill: cautious
an interview about social media an article about a day at brands language
marketing a hackers’ conference attitudes to security

an interview with a busker an interview with a identifying key points themes of songs a description
a talk by a neuroscientist about musician about cultural how to relax writing skill: parallel
music therapy influences a charity concert structures
a review of a
documentary about
Bob Marley

a talk about the significance of an article about what unanswered questions an important past event describing a past
historical objects personal letters reveal a case of fraud event
a story about an unusual crime about our past historical irony writing skill:
a story about hidden sequencing events
treasure

an extract from a radio an article about ant reading between the being a good member a discursive essay
programme about ethnic society lines of society writing skill: referring
communities an article about the social games to evidence
a podcast about the importance Hadza of Tanzania feeling free
of play

a short talk by a photographer an article about analysing structure modern life an email message
about photographing people understanding mind games writing skill: avoiding
a lecture about irrational emotions technology and misunderstandings
thinking an article about artificial occupations
intelligence in the
future

three people describe the an article about the different perspectives natural and man-made a letter to a
landscape where they live importance of geo- features newspaper
an extract from a radio literacy events in nature writing skill:
interview about the Japanese an article about how the animal and human persuasive language
poet Basho wildlife are moving into worlds
our cities

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