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"OpenMind Level 3 is a ground-breaking general English course for adults that targets their language needs and provides them with the professional, academic, and personal skills they need for success in the 21st century.

The Key Features of the series are:
Life Skills: Higher-order skills such as critical thinking, organizational, and learning skills that students need in order to be successful in their professional, academic, and everyday lives.
Language sub-skills with tips to support the development of the four language skills.
Step-by-step approach to grammar with grammar sections that provide a clear focus on the meaning, form, and function of the language.
Focus on functional language that helps learners improve their fluency and speaking skills.
Independent learning features throughout the course such as Notice!, Reflect, and How are you doing? boxes that encourage learners to analyze their own progress.
A range of video material and related worksheets that support the themes and key language from the Student’s Book.

Student's Components: Student’s Book Pack: Print Student's Book + webcode access to Student's Resource Center including extra downloadable video worksheets, Class Audio MP3s + DVD with video.
Student's Book Premium Pack: Print Student's Book + webcode access to Student's Resource Center and Online Workbook
Print Workbook + Audio CD pack (available with or without key)
Online Workbook: Booklet with webcode access to the Online Workbook

Teacher's Components:
Teacher's Book Premium Pack: Print Teacher's Book with Class Audio CD + DVD + webcode access to Teacher's Resource Center, Online Workbook and Presentation Kit. (Book Cover)

CONTENTS

Unit 1 LIVE AND LEARN
READING: Reading for the main idea: an educational article
LISTENING: Listening to advice -- Function: talking about ways of learning
SPEAKING: Communication strategy: encouraging the speaker
WRITING: Writing a journal entry -- Function: expressing thoughts and feelings in writing
PRONUNCIATION: [j] vs. [dʒ] GRAMMAR: Present perfect + yet/already -- Function: talking about goals -- Present perfect progressive -- Function: talking about recent events in your life
VOCABULARY: Take, Make, Do -- Function: talking about life experiences -- The Learning Process -- Function: talking about the learning process
LIFESKILLS: Self & Society: setting goals -- Function: discussing personal action plans

Unit 2 THEN AND NOW
READING: Reading a magazine article -- Function: talking about memories
LISTENING: Identifying emotion and attitude: short conversations
SPEAKING: Talking about memories -- Function: sharing a remembered event
WRITING: Organizing a paragraph: paragraph structure
PRONUNCIATION: Sounds: contrastive stress
GRAMMAR: Used to -- Function: talking about past habits -- Past Perfect -- Function: talking about the past VOCABULARY: Personality types -- Function: using qualifying phrases -- Memory -- Function: remembering things LIFESKILLS: Study & Learning: preparing and giving a short presentation -- Function: giving feedback

Unit 3 BUYING POWER
READING: Reading for the main idea: an article
LISTENING: Listening to a complaint -- Function: talking about customer service
SPEAKING: Communication strategy: politely insisting
WRITING: Writing an opinion paragraph -- Functions: sequencing verbs; introducing a contrasting opinion; summarizing an opinion
PRONUNCIATION: Sounds: [ɪ] vs. [i]
GRAMMAR: Definite article The / Zero article -- Function: talking about advertising and ads -- Indirect questions -- Function: asking for help / information politely
VOCABULARY: Problems with products -- Function: talking about problems with products -- Solutions to problems with products -- Function: asking for solutions to problems politely
LIFESKILLS: Work & Career: persuading others -- Function: raising objections and making suggestions

Unit 4 TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS
READING: Reading an online guide -- Function: talking about small businesses
LISTENING: Identifying emotion and attitude: short conversations
SPEAKING: Talking about a business -- Function: asking for and giving explanations
WRITING: Organizing a paragraph: arguing for or against a point of view
PRONUNCIATION: Words: compound nouns vs. compound adjectives
GRAMMAR: Causative Have and Get -- Function: talking about getting things done -- Adjectives ending in -ed/-ing -- Function: expressing thoughts and feelings
VOCABULARY: Business -- Function: talking about setting up a business -- Describing products and services -- Function: agreeing and disagreeing
LIFESKILLS: Work & Career: turning problems into opportunities -- Function: presenting a business idea

Unit 5 THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE
READING: Distinguishing fact and opinion: a magazine article
LISTENING: Listening to phone messages -- Function: identifying and passing on key information
SPEAKING: Communication strategy: introducing a new topic
WRITING: Writing a short article -- Function: reporting on an interview
PRONUNCIATION: Words: say/says/said
GRAMMAR: Reported Speech -- Function: reporting what people said -- Reported Questions -- Function: reporting what people asked
VOCABULARY: Oral Communication -- Function: talking about oral communication -- Ask, Say, Tell -- Function: talking about oral communication with phrasal verbs
LIFESKILLS: Study & Learning: reporting information -- Function: reporting information about media

Unit 6 DECISIONS, DECISIONS
READING: Reading an opinion webpage -- Function: discussing dilemmas
LISTENING: Predicting: short monologues
SPEAKING: Talking about hopes and wishes -- Function: expressing hopes and concerns
WRITING: Checking Your Work: writing an email
PRONUNCIATION: Words: past modals GRAMMAR: Third Conditional -- Function: talking about unreal situations -- Hope and Wish -- Function: talking about hopes and wishes
VOCABULARY: Dealing with Problems -- Function: discussing problems and solutions -- Decisions -- Function: talking about making decisions
LIFESKILLS: Self & Society: becoming more self-aware -- Function: responding to feedback

Unit 7 THINK AGAIN
READING: Distinguishing fact and opinion: an article
LISTENING: Listening to a short lecture -- Function: talking about child prodigies
SPEAKING: Communication Strategy: speculating
WRITING: Writing a for-and-against text -- Function: arguing opinions for and against
PRONUNCIATION: Words: tag questions
GRAMMAR: Modals of deduction: must, can't, might/may/could -- Function: making deductions -- Tag Questions -- Function: double-checking information
VOCABULARY: adjective suffixes -ful, -less -- Function: describing people and feelings -- Improving Your Brain -- Function: discussing how to improve learning
LIFESKILLS: Study & Learning: thinking logically -- Function: discussing logical thinking

Unit 8 STORIES WE TELL
READING: Reading a story -- Function: understanding a fictional narrative
LISTENING: Predicting: a traditional story
SPEAKING: Telling an anecdote -- Function: talking about an experience
WRITING: Checking your work: writing a story
PRONUNCIATION: Words: [ɔ] in multisyllable words
GRAMMAR: Relative clauses -- Function: giving information about people, places, and things -- Verb + Gerund/Infinitive -- Function: talking about experiences, habits, and opinions
VOCABULARY: Embarrassing events -- Function: talking about embarrassing events -- Adjectives for describing stories -- Function: talking about how stories make you feel
LIFESKILLS: Self & Society: learning from experience -- Function: discussing a past experience

Unit 9 BODY TALK
READING: Speed reading: a long text
LISTENING: Listening to a medical consultation -- Function: asking and answering questions about symptoms
SPEAKING: Communication strategy: asking for clarification WRITING: Writing a persuasive email -- Function: giving advice
PRONUNCIATION: Sounds: [əɾ]
GRAMMAR: Infinitive Clauses with Impersonal IT -- Function: giving advice for medical problems -- Wish and If only for regrets -- Function: expressing regrets
VOCABULARY: Injuries -- Function: talking about injuries -- Health Problems and Symptoms -- Function: describing health problems and symptoms
LIFESKILLS: Study & Learning: developing your memory -- Function: discussing memory tools

Unit 10 STAGE AND SCREEN
READING: Reading a magazine article -- Function: talking about entertainment
LISTENING: Taking notes: a lecture about television
SPEAKING: Talking about a live event -- Function: asking and answering questions about an event
WRITING: Writing descriptions: a descriptive paragraph
PRONUNCIATION: [æ] vs. [ʌ]
GRAMMAR: Non-defining relative clauses -- Function: writing a biographical paragraph -- Defining Relative Clauses -- Function: giving information about actors, actresses, and movies
VOCABULARY: At a live performance -- Function: talking about live performances -- At the Oscars -- Function: talking about movies
LIFESKILLS: Self & Society: understanding graphs -- Function: talking about graphs

Unit 11 BREAKING THE RULES
READING: Speed Reading: a review of a TV show
LISTENING: Listening to an argument -- Function: discussing people's behavior in the past
SPEAKING: Communication strategy: using softening language to give criticism
WRITING: Writing a short story -- Function: using description in writing a short story
PRONUNCIATION: Sounds: [tʃ] vs. [ʃ]
GRAMMAR: Should/Shouldn't have -- Function: relying on post situations -- Was/Were going to and Was/Were supposed to -- Function: talking about unfulfilled plans and intentions
VOCABULARY: Breaking the Rules -- Function: talking about minor offenses -- Good and Bad Behavior -- Function: talking about good and bad behavior
LIFESKILLS: Work & Career: understanding graphs -- Function: talking about graphs

Unit 12 JUST THE JOB!
READING: Reading job advertisements -- Function: talking about unusual jobs
LISTENING: Taking Notes: a lecture about theories of work
SPEAKING: Talking about ideal jobs -- Function: describing and answering questions about an ideal job
WRITING: Writing descriptions: describing the workplace
PRONUNCIATION: Words: stress patterns with phrasal verbs
GRAMMAR: So, such, too, enough -- Function: describing a degree or quality -- Separable and Non-Separable Phrasal Verbs -- Function: talking about setting up a business
VOCABULARY: The World of Work -- Function: talking about jobs -- Phrasal verbs for talking about work -- Function: talking about work and jobs
LIFESKILLS: Work & Career: preparing for a job interview -- Function: describing work experience

Irregular verbs & Pronunciation symbols

Communicative wrap-ups

Grammar reference