Audio and video files for all levels are available on the companion website.

Unit 1 - COMMUNICATION GRAMMAR: The continuous aspect - The perfect aspect -- VOCABULARY: Phrasal verbs - Scientific Study - Idioms - Collocations -- READING: Article about six degrees of separation - Reacting to the text - Leaflet about communication course - Extract from You Just Don’t Understand - Identifying stylistic devices -- LISTENING: Five people talking about communication habits - Radio programme about gender conversation styles - Conversation between two student counsellors -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing communicating - Discussing non-verbal communication - Talking about current trends (considering consequences) - Thinking of advice for men/women -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing communicating - Discussing non-verbal communication - Talking about current trends (considering consequences) - Thinking of advice for men/women -- SCENARIO: Key language: outlining problems, offering solutions, reacting to suggestions -- Task: solving communication problems -- Scenario: flat sharing -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing a list of advice for communicating in your country -- Study skills: Note-taking from listening to a talk (structure of a talk, note-taking) -- Writing skills: Writing and checking written communication (register, peer-checking) -- VIDEO: Study Skills Video: James Hammond gives a lecture about public speaking

Unit 2 - TRAVEL GRAMMAR: Present perfect simple & continuous - Indirect questions -- VOCABULARY: Local environment collocations - Environment - Adverbs -- READING: Newspaper article about noisy neighbours - Identifying similarities and differences - Article about climate change - Identifying sources - Short extract from A Short History of Nearly Everything -- LISTENING: 3 people talking about their local area - Lecture about volcanoes - Phone conversation about a proposed wind farm - Conversation with a lecturer about questionnaires -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Collocations - Discussing solutions to problems - Discussing the environment - Talking about volcanoes - Making a short presentation; presenting -- SCENARIO: Key language: agreeing and disagreeing politely, polite questions -- Task: Attending a formal meeting -- Scenario: Sparrow Hill Wind Farm -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing a short summary to a solution -- Study skills: Designing a Questionnaire (question types) -- Writing skills: Writing a questionnaire -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Dr. Andrew McGonigle about active volcanoes

Unit 3 - SPORT GRAMMAR: Quantifiers - Definite and zero articles -- VOCABULARY: Idioms - Prefix self-, Abstract nouns -- READING: Article about Charles Miller - Justifying opinions - Leaflet about a karate club - Reacting to the topic - Article about being a top athlete - Inferring -- LISTENING: Interview with a karate teacher - Presentation about Yuna Kim - Lecturer answering questions about essay writing -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Weak forms of the - Using idioms to talk about experiences - Ranking characteristics -- SCENARIO: Key language: Using emphasis and comparison -- Task: giving a presentation -- Scenario: Who is the Greatest? -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Study skills: Understanding Essay Questions: understanding key words, essay writing -- Writing skills: A For and Against Essay: introductions, formal expressions -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Dr Elizabeth Pummell about the science of sports psychology

Unit 4 - MEDICINE GRAMMAR: Future continuous, going to, present continuous - Future perfect simple, future simple -- VOCABULARY: Personality adjectives - Medical terms - Illness and medicine - Dependent prepositions -- READING: Four articles about medical breakthrough (jigsaw) - Ranking by importance - Facts/news article about malaria - Reacting to the topic - News article about bionic eye - Retelling a story -- LISTENING: Doctor talking about her work - A professor talking about malaria - Six doctors talking about future medical developments - Business consultant talking about using the internet - Lecturer advising students about internet resources -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Stressed syllables - Discussing medicine and the medical profession - Planning a fund-raising day - Talking about hopes for the future -- SCENARIO: Key language: discussing implications -- Task: making difficult decisions -- Scenario: Medical dilemmas -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Study skills: Evaluating resources on the internet -- Writing skills: A short report; making recommendations -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: interview with Dr Tina Chowdhury, about medical bionics

Unit 5 - TRANSPORT GRAMMAR: Modal verbs and ways of expressing ability, possibility and obligation (past and future) -- VOCABULARY: Transport - Safety features - Collocations - Words from the text -- READING: Article about road safety (analysing arguments) - Article about future transport (jigsaw) - Evaluating projects, evaluating arguments - Article about great railway journeys - Identifying attitude -- LISTENING: People talking about transport - News report on transport of the future - Discussion on transport problems -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing road safety - Making future predictions - Describing a memorable journey -- SCENARIO: Key language: the language of meetings - Summarising -- Task: Evaluating proposals -- Scenario: Beauciel -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing a short report on road safety -- Study skills: Graphs, charts and tables -- Writing skills: Describing information in a table - Comparison and contrast -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: interview with Monisha Rajesh about her Indian train journey

Unit 6 – LITERATURE AND FILM GRAMMAR: Narrative tenses - Used to, would, get used to -- VOCABULARY: Genres - Literature and film - Adjectives - Idiomatic expressions - Words from the text -- READING: Article about books and films - Inferring opinion - Extract from The Great Gatsby referencing - Online report on gender and reading - Identifying facts and opinions -- LISTENING: Discussion about a book - Four people talking about books - Five people talking about reading habits - Conversation about a film proposal - Five people describing a memorable presentation -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Used to - Describing a book or film - Discussing influential books - Talking about childhood -- SCENARIO: Key language: persuading -- Task: making a persuasive presentation -- Scenario: the new film project -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Study skills: making an effective presentation, rhetorical techniques -- Writing skills: An online review; adjectives, adverbs -- VIDEO: Study Skills Video: a presentation about The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Unit 7 - ARCHITECTURE GRAMMAR: The Passive -- VOCABULARY: Describing buildings - Idioms - Prefixes -- READING: Article about 3 famous buildings (interpreting ideas) - Article about unusual buildings (evaluating) - Article about famous bridges (comparing features) -- LISTENING: Architect answering questions - Three architects discussing a hotel design -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Word stress - Describing a building - Discussing the issue of young people living at home - Sharing information on bridges -- SCENARIO: Key language: talking about requirements -- Task: deciding on facilities in a hotel -- Scenario: on the horizon -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Describing a well-known building -- Study skills: identifying fact and opinion -- Writing skills: an opinion-led essay; avoiding repetition -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Laura Mark about innovative design

Unit 8 - GLOBALISATION GRAMMAR : Verb patterns - Causatives -- VOCABULARY: Globalisation - Collocations - Abstract nouns -- READING: Online discussion about globalisation - Article about culture mistakes - Drawing conclusions - Article about international cooperation - Summarising -- LISTENING: Five people talking about globalisation - Radio programme about working internationally - Radio interview about supermarket expansion -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing globalisation - Assessing results and consequences - Sharing information about global projects -- SCENARIO: Key language: clarifying -- Task: taking part in a debate -- Scenario: supermarket superpower -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing your opinion on globalisation -- Study skills: Summarising, topic sentences, paraphrasing -- Writing skills: a summary -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Richard Cook about working in a global workplace

Unit 9 - ART GRAMMAR: Ungradable adjectives - Position of adverbs -- VOCABULARY: Art and artists - Adverb-adjective collocations - Order of adjectives -- READING: Online discussion about art - Justifying opinions - Article about photography (identifying arguments) - Article about three contemporary sculptors -- LISTENING: Three people talking about art - Conversation about an art gallery - Lecture about writing a blog -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing what is art - Justifying opinions - Describing a work of art - Discussing public art -- SCENARIO: Key language: discussing implications, offering counter-arguments -- Task: deciding on an action plan -- Scenario: The Russell Drake Gallery -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Study skills: Expanding your vocabulary - Collocations -- Writing skills: An online review -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Yulia Podolskaya about her work as a sculptor

Unit 10 - PSYCHOLOGY GRAMMAR: Relative clauses - Reduced relative clauses -- VOCABULARY: Personality adjectives - Phrasal verbs - Word formation - Idioms with mind - Words from the text -- READING: Webpage about the Belbin model - Evaluating ideas - Webpage about peer pressure - Evaluating effectiveness - Article about criminal profiling - Summarising -- LISTENING: Lecture about group dynamics - Radio advice phone-in -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Stress patterns - Planning a newspaper - Discussing peer pressure - Talking about famous criminals -- SCENARIO: Key language: giving and reacting to advice -- Task: an advice phone-in -- Scenario: What’s on your mind? -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Summarising an article -- Study skills: writing a bibliography, referencing -- Writing skills: An advantages and disadvantages essay - Complex sentences, conclusions -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Dr. Jack Lewis, a neuroscientist, about psychological profiling

Unit 11 - CULTURES GRAMMAR: Reported speech - Reporting verbs -- VOCABULARY: Culture - Adjectives -- READING: University webpage on what is culture - Reflecting on the topic - Article about culture shock - Two articles about cultural difference - Recognising features of register -- LISTENING: Six people talking about what they miss about their culture - Radio discussion about culture shock - Two people talking about cultural mistakes - Presentation about Toronto - Radio lecture about reading -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Deciding what to put in a time capsule - Discussing culture shock; justifying answers - Describing a person - Discussing cultural issues -- SCENARIO: Key language: creating impact in a presentation -- Task: giving a formal presentation -- Scenario: Kaleidoscope World -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Describing a person in culture shock -- Study skills: Improving reading skills: reading and chunking, guessing unknown words, reading linkers --- Writing skills: Formal correspondence: letter layout, formulaic language -- VIDEO: Meet the Expert: an interview with Anna Colquhoun, about the cultural importance of food

Unit 12 - TECHNOLOGY GRAMMAR: Conditionals: first and second - Conditionals: third and mixed -- VOCABULARY: Technology - Opposites (prefixes) - Words from the text -- READING: Article about failed inventors - Reflecting on the topic - Webpage about the Amish - Summarising - Article about GM food - Identifying arguments -- LISTENING: Three people talking about gadgets - Conversation between two workers - Conversation between two managers -- SPEAKING/PRONUNCIATION: Discussing technology - Discussing living without technology - Debating technology -- SCENARIO: Key language: persuading, making a case for something -- Task: conducting a problem-solving meeting -- Scenario: conducting a problem-solving meeting -- STUDY SKILLS/WRITING: Writing your opinion -- Study skills: Plagiarism – what it is and how to avoid it -- Writing skills: An opinion article - Stylistic features -- VIDEO: Study Skills Video: a lecture about plagiarism

Language reference -- Meet the Expert -- Communication Activities -- Audioscripts -- Irregular Verb List -- Phonetic Charts

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Level: Intermediate / Upper Intermediate (B1+-B2+)