"Four-skills American English course with a communicative methodology, engaging texts, and a strong pronunciation syllabus - designed to get students speaking. With texts and topics that make learners want to speak, American English File is the course that gets students talking.

It gives you full skills coverage with a clear focus on pronunciation, plus wide-ranging support and resources too."(Publisher's website)

CONTENTS

UNIT 1:

a. Q and A Grammar: review question formation
Vocabulary : guessing meaning from context
Pronunciation : intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions

B. Do you believe it?
Grammar: auxiliary verbs; the...the...+ comparatives
Vocabulary: personality
Pronunciation: using a dictionary to check word stress; intonation and sentence rhythm

C. You`re the doctor!
Grammar: present perfect (simple and continuous)
Vocabulary : illness and treatment
Pronunciation : consonant and vowel sounds

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
What does the future hold?

WRITING
An informal e-mail/letter

REVIEW & CHECK
What do you remember? What can you do?

UNIT 2 :

A. National stereotype: truth or myth?
Grammar : adjective as nouns, adjective order
Vocabulary: clothes and fashion
Pronunciation : vowels sounds

B. Air travel : the inside story
Grammar: narrative tenses, past perfect continuous; so/such ...that
Vocabulary: air travel
Pronunciation: irregular past forms

C. Incredibly short stories
Grammar: adverbs and adverbial phrases
Vocabulary: confusing adverbs and adverbial phrases
Pronunciation: word and sentences stress

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Flying high

WRITING
A short story

REVIEW & CHECK
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UNIT 3:

A. The one place a burglar won`t look
Grammar: passive (all forms), it is said that he is thought to..., etc.
Vocabulary: crime and punishment
Pronunciation: the letter u

B. Stormy weather
Grammar: future perfect and future continuous
Vocabulary: weather
Pronunciation: vowel sounds

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH High risk?

WRITING
Expressing your opinion

REVIEW & CHECK
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UNIT 4:

A. Would you get out alive?
Grammar: unreal conditionals
Vocabulary: feelings
Pronunciation: sentences rhythm

B. How I trained my husband
Grammar: past modals; would rather, had better
Vocabulary: verbs often confused
Pronunciation: reduced form of have

C. Let your body do the talking
Grammar: verbs of the senses
Vocabulary: the body.
Pronunciation: silent letters

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Stage and screen

WRITING
An article

REVIEW & CHECK
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UNIT 5:

A. The psychology of music
Grammar : gerunds and infinitives
Vocabulary: music
Pronunciation: ch and y

B. Counting sheep
Grammar: used to, be used to, get used to
Vocabulary: sleep
Pronunciation: linking words

C. Breaking news
Grammar: reporting verbs; as
Vocabulary: the media
Pronunciation: word stress

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Music festivals

WRITING
A formal letter

REVIEW & CHECK
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UNIT 6:

A. Speaking to the world
Grammar: articles
Vocabulary: collocation: words pairs
Pronunciation: sentence stress

B. Bright lights, big city
Grammar: uncountable, plural, and collective nouns; have something done
Vocabulary: cities and towns
Pronunciation: word stress in multisyllable words

C. Eureka!
Grammar: quantifiers: all/every, etc
Vocabulary: science
Pronunciation: changing stress in word families

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Great cities

WRITING
A report

REVIEW & CHECK
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UNIT 7:

A. I wish you wouldn't...!
Grammar: structure after wish
Vocabulary: -ed/ -ing adjectives and related verbs; expressions with go
Pronunciation: sentence rhythm

B. A test of honesty
Grammar: clauses of contrast and purpose; whatever, whenever, etc.
Vocabulary: business and advertising
Pronunciation: changing stress in nouns and verbs

C. Tingo
Grammar: relative clauses
Vocabulary: prefixes
Pronunciation: word stress

COLLOQUIAL ENGLISH
Words

WRITING
"For and against"

REVIEW & CHECK
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Communication

Audioscripts

Grammar Bank

Vocabulary Bank

Phrasal verbs in context

Sound Bank

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