Student's book accompanied by class DVD-ROM in pocket attached to inside back cover.

Unit 1: Creativity

TED TALK: Do schools kill creativity? / Ken Robinson

Authentic Listening Skill: Rhythm and stress

Critical Thinking: The speaker’s aims

Presentation Skill: Using humour

GRAMMAR: Definite and indefinite time

Language focus: Expressions with statistics

VOCABULARY: Creativity collocations

PRONUNCIATION: Emphasis and de-emphasis

READING: What I talk about when I talk about running; Sing while you work

LISTENING: A company choir

SPEAKING: Creativity survey -- Learning from experience -- Describing likes and talents

WRITING: A progress report -- Writing skill: Nominalization

Unit 2: Hopes and fears

TED TALK: Why I live in mortal dread of public speaking / Megan Washington

Authentic Listening Skill: Listening to songs

Critical Thinking: Winning your audience over

Presentation Skill: Being authentic

GRAMMAR: Future forms -- Language focus: Expressions of certainty

VOCABULARY: Hopes and fears

PRONUNCIATION: Consonant clusters

READING: Outside the comfort zone; Being prepared

LISTENING: Travel advice

SPEAKING: Attitudes towards the future -- Comfort zone -- Giving advice (Giving and justifying advice)

WRITING: An account of an incident -- Writing skill: Future in the past

REVIEW 1 (UNITS 1 AND 2) Pixar

Unit 3: Perception

TED TALK: The 4 ways sound affects us / Julian Treasure

Authentic Listening Skill: Understanding fast speech

Critical Thinking: Achieving aims

Presentation Skill: Giving shape to your talk

GRAMMAR: Stative and dynamic verbs -- Language focus: Emphatic focus

VOCABULARY: Feeling and emotions

PRONUNCIATION: Stress in contrasts

READING: Multi-sensory marketing; Not what they seem

LISTENING: The reality of the situation

SPEAKING: Impressions and judgements -- Impressions and judgements -- Creating attractive spaces -- Describing beliefs and facts

WRITING: A response to a proposal -- Writing skill: Describing different perspectives

Unit 4: Human interaction

TED TALK: Your body language shapes who you are / Amy Cuddy

Authentic Listening Skill: Linking: assimilation and reduction

Critical Thinking: Avoiding misinterpretation

Presentation Skill: Structuring a talk

GRAMMAR: Past forms -- Language focus: Inversion with adverbial phrases

VOCABULARY: Body language

PRONUNCIATION: Appropriate intonation

READING: Business and life lessons; Getting things wrong

LISTENING: Saying the right thing

SPEAKING: Being hyperconnected -- Can I have my money back? -- Everyday conversations (Everyday expressions)

WRITING: A formal letter or email -- Writing skill: Checking for errors

REVIEW 2 (UNITS 3 AND 4) Blindekuh

Unit 5: Economic resources

TED TALK: The magic washing machine / Hans Rosling

Authentic Listening Skill: Prediction

Critical Thinking: Reading between the lines

Presentation Skill: Presenting statistics

GRAMMAR: Passive forms -- Language focus: Nominalization in passive sentences

VOCABULARY: Economics

PRONUNCIATION: Silent letters

READING: Land – a fairer system; Fact or hearsay?

LISTENING: Discussing facts and beliefs

SPEAKING: Headline news -- Economic prospects -- Expressing belief and disbelief

WRITING: A newspaper report -- Writing skill: Passive reporting verbs

Unit 6: Practical design

TED TALK: Magical houses, made of bamboo / Elora Hardy

Authentic Listening Skill: Word boundaries

Critical Thinking: Testing arguments

Presentation Skill: Persuasive techniques

GRAMMAR: Causatives -- Language focus: Expressions with go and get

VOCABULARY: Describing objects: collocations

PRONUNCIATION: Word stress

READING: Object of desire; Tricky questions

LISTENING: An interview

SPEAKING: Hired help -- Classic objects -- Interview questions

WRITING: Posting advice -- Writing skill: Reported speech

REVIEW 3 (UNITS 5 AND 6) Broad Sustainable Building

Unit 7: Same but different

TED TALK: The danger of a single story / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Authentic Listening Skill: Weak forms

Critical Thinking: Objectivity and subjectivity

Presentation Skill: Using stories and anecdotes

GRAMMAR: Comparative forms -- Language focus: Expressing preferences

VOCABULARY: Idioms related to choice

PRONUNCIATION: Linking in discourse markers

READING: The paradox of choice; Reading habits

LISTENING: Different viewpoints

SPEAKING: Different approaches -- Criteria for choosing -- Constructing arguments (Using discourse markers)

WRITING: Describing and interpreting data -- Writing skill: Describing graphs

Unit 8: Food and sustainability

TED TALK: How I fell in love with a fish / Dan Barber

Authentic Listening Skill: Word recognition

Critical Thinking: Supporting evidence

Presentation Skill: Varying the pace

GRAMMAR: Modal verbs -- Language focus: Expressions with modal verbs

VOCABULARY: Synonyms: -able and -ible

PRONUNCIATION: Assimilation and elision

READING: Can business be sustainable?; Today’s foodies

LISTENING: Talking about food

SPEAKING: Discussing the news -- Encouraging good practice -- Attitude to food (Describing customs and convention)

WRITING: An online guide -- Writing skill: Participles

REVIEW 4 (UNITS 7 AND 8) WD-40 Company

Unit 9: Internet sensation

TED TALK: Why videos go viral / Kevin Allocca

Authentic Listening Skill: Dealing with accents: British and American

Critical Thinking: Making assumptions

Presentation Skill: Being clear and to the point

GRAMMAR: Gradability -- Language focus: Collocations with intensifying adverbs

VOCABULARY: New Internet words

PRONUNCIATION: Stress in opinion giving

READING: The medium is the message; Your online identity

LISTENING: Is it ethical?

SPEAKING: Life without the Internet -- Creating a sharing website -- Giving and explaining opinions

WRITING: An online professional profile -- Writing skill: Compound nouns: adjective + noun and noun + noun collocations

Unit 10: The meaning of success

TED TALK: A kinder, gentles philosophy of success / Alain de Botton

Authentic Listening Skill: Hedging

Critical Thinking: The message you take away

Presentation Skill: Remembering what you want to say

GRAMMAR: Verb and adjective patterns

Language focus: Patterns using adjective + that

VOCABULARY: Success and failure

PRONUNCIATION: Prepositions as weak forms; Elision

READING: Success across generations; Age no barrier

LISTENING: Looking for a job

SPEAKING: Self-help advice -- Generation Z -- Talking about success

WRITING: A formal report -- Writing skill: Phrases in report writing

REVIEW 5 (UNITS 9 AND 10) Kickstarter

Unit 11: Learning and memory

TED TALK: Build a school in the cloud / Sugata Mitra

Authentic Listening Skill: Understanding mid-sentence changes

Critical Thinking: Bold statements

Presentation Skill: Body movement and gesture

GRAMMAR: Conditionals -- Language focus: Conditional conjunctions

VOCABULARY: Learning and memory

PRONUNCIATION: Linking vowel sounds

READING: The memory palace; Thrown in at the deep end

LISTENING: Starting a new job

SPEAKING: The great education debate -- Memory tips -- In at the deep end (Describing capabilities)

WRITING: A formal letter -- Writing skill: Preposition + participle

Unit 12: Invention or innovation

TED TALK: Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits / Navi Radjou

Authentic Listening Skill: Discourse markers

Critical Thinking: Summarizing an argument

Presentation Skill: Giving examples

GRAMMAR: Adverbs and word order -- Language focus: Adverbial phrases

VOCABULARY: Phrasal verbs: innovation

PRONUNCIATION: Word endings

READING: The innovation that never was; Life hacks

LISTENING: Getting good results

SPEAKING: Granting patents -- Pitching a new invention -- Handy tips (Giving advice)

WRITING: A review of a product -- Writing skill: Reporting verbs

REVIEW 6 (UNITS 11 AND 12) OneLeap

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TED Talk transcripts

"Featuring remarkable people communicating passionately and persuasively, TED Talks provide the ELT classroom with inspiring ideas and an unparalleled source of authentic language input. Keynote invites students to explore these life-changing stories and develop a deeper understanding of our world. Underpinned by a carefully designed language syllabus, Keynote enables students to express themselves powerfully and proficiently in English - in their professional and personal lives. Twelve TED Talks provide a springboard for students to develop their authentic listening, critical thinking and presentation skills; Clear communicative aims of each lesson are linked to 21st century outcomes and encourage students to respond to ideas and find their own voice; Language is presented using real-world input, including infographics, varied text types and profiles of exciting innovators, companies and organizations making a difference." (Book Cover)

Keynote Proficient is for students who have achieved level C1 and want to achieve C2.