"World Class is a new, two-level series from National Geographic Learning for high-intermediate and advanced English language learners. This integrated-skills program uses National Geographic content, images, and video to help learners expand their overall fluency while developing the tools and strategies necessary for effective, real-world communication." (Publisher's Website)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

UNIT 1: WHO ARE WE?
Vocabulary: Who is the world's most typical human?
Grammar: Review of past tense
Listening: New Family tree website
Pronunciation: Rising and falling intonation Reading: Cleopatra: The search for the last queen of Egypt
Writing: Write a personal statement as part of an application
Strategy: Writing a personal statement
Speaking: Interview to be a cultural ambassador
Strategy: Responding to questions Video: The human family tree

UNIT 2: THE WORLD AWAITS
Vocabulary: Popular vacation destinations
Pronunciation: Stress changes with prefixes and suffixes
Grammar: Uses of infinitives and gerunds
Listening: A waking tour of Beijing
Reading: Traveling Troubadour: An interview with singer Jason Mraz
Writing: Write a descriptive paragraph about a place
Strategy: Create a mental image
Speaking: Create a bucket list of things you want to do
Strategy: Making suggestions and giving advice
Video: Barcelona's Street Life

UNIT 3: THE GREAT ENERGY CHALLENGE
Vocabulary: An energy quiz
Pronunciation: Stress changes with prefixes and suffixes
Grammar: Review of Future Forms
Listening: The family energy challenge
Reading: Plugging into the Sun: Why don't we use solar energy more?
Strategy: Identifying key details
Writing: Write a persuasive paragraph that presents and justifies your point of view
Strategy: Being persuasive
Speaking: Persuade the audience to make change
Video: We need to be leaders ourselves

UNIT 4: THE WORLD'S A STAGE
Vocabulary: The story of Esmee Denters, Youtube sensation
Grammar: Infinitive complements (persuade verbs, want verbs, believe verbs, and make verbs)
Listening: Interview with a salsa band musician
Reading: Hip hop goes home: A struggling rapper in Africa
Writing: Write a profile of a person that you admire
Strategy: Paraphrasing
Speaking: Analysing a music contract
Strategy: Talking pros and cons
Video: Songs under a Big Sky (excerpt): Profile of Irish singer Larla O Lionaird

UNIT 5: NO NEED TO PANIC
Vocabulary: People who have beat the odds
Grammar: Adverbial clauses
Listening: There is no need to panic
Reading: Everest's deadliest day: Two teams compete to reach the summit first - with deadly results
Writing: Write a set of instructions describing how to do something
Strategy: Explaining the steps in a process
Speaking: Discuss a difficult environmental issue
Strategy: Reaching a compromise
Video: Surviving Deadly Everest

UNIT 6: IN STYLE
Vocabulary: The Dubai shopping festival
Grammar: Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns
Pronunciation: Intonation patterns in relative clauses
Listening: Conversations at a shopping mall
Reading: Every shoe tells a story: They say a lot about us, even when we're not wearing them
Writing: Present and defend and argument
Strategy: Making a successful argument
Speaking: Give your opinions in a shopping and fashion survey
Strategy: Reacting to someone else's point of view
Video: How to spot a fake Louis Vuitton bag

UNIT 7: ON THE MOVE Vocabulary: Advice on how to get around your city
Grammar: Comparative forms
Listening: A commuter's diary
Strategy: Listening for connections between ideas
Reading: One foot on the gas: Children of immigrants discover American car culture
Writing: Write a letter of complaint
Speaking: Consider the facts in an immigration case
Strategy: Present facts and announcing a decision
Video: Capital Bikeshare

UNIT 8: THINK TWICE Vocabulary: Text messaging during class
Grammar: Past modals
Listening: Problems with posting online
Strategy: Determining a speaker's attitude
Pronunciation: Reduction with past modals
Reading: Nowhere to hide: What happens when our private lives become public
Writing: Give an opinion on an event
Strategy: Writing an effective online post
Speaking: Evaluate different surveillance practices
Video: Protecting reputations online

UNIT 9: IN THE WILD
Vocabulary: Three of our favorite pets
Grammar: Review of passive voice
Listening: Bonobos: humans' closest relative
Strategy: Detecting uncertainty
Reading: Orphan Elephants: a center in Kenya rescues, rehabilitates and researches baby elephants
Writing: Write an informal brochure
Strategy: Getting the reader's attention
Speaking: Debate what to do about three animals at risk
Video: Great migrations (excerpt)

UNIT 10: DECISIONS, DECISIONS
Vocabulary: Brain teaser: what do you know about the brain and decision making
Grammar: The conditional
Listening: Three everyday decisions
Reading: The teenage brain: why teenagers act the way they do
Strategy: Recognizing cause and effect
Writing: Use cause and effect to explain a decision you'd make
Strategy: Showing cause and effect
Speaking: Analyse how you handle peer pressure
Video: Moral dilemma (excerpt)
Pronunciation: Thought groups

UNIT 11: RAIN OR SHINE
Vocabulary: Bad weather traps doctor on the South Pole
Grammar: Phrasal verbs
Listening: Reactions to the weather
Reading: Storm chasers: Scientists risk their lives to gather data about tornadoes
Making inferences
Writing: Describing the time weather impacted your life
Strategy: Include figurative language
Speaking: Which weather story is false?
Video: Sinking England

UNIT 12: WHAT'S YOUR GAME
Vocabulary: Favorite sports
Grammar: Reported speech
Listening: An interview with a professional athlete
Reading: The spirit of Kung fu: A Shaolin master faces the world of kung fu
Writing: Write about important qualities
Strategy: Writing a times essay
Speaking: Present activity
Strategy: Speaking from an outline
Video: Alain Robert, "The French Spiderman"

For high-intermediate (B2-C1 - CEFR) ESL learners.