Unit 7 – Getting along
Grammar
- Use phrasal verbs
- Use infinitives and –ing forms after adjectives, nouns and pronouns
- Objects with separable phrasal verbs
- Phrasal verbs followed by the –ing form of the verb
- More patterns with infinitives and it clauses
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Phrasal verbs on the topic of house rules (have friends over)
- Idiomatic expressions (drive your friends away, tag along with someone)
- Use what clauses to give the most important information
- Avoid errors with subjects
- Use modal verbs with adverbs
Unit 8 – Food Science
Grammar
- Use the passive to focus on information in the present, past and future
- Use complements of verbs that describe causes and effects
- Question forms in the passive
- Verb + object + infinitive
- Other verb patterns
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Talk about farming, food and nutrition
- Share ideas for eating a healthy diet
- React to statistics
- Use Rhetorical questions to make a point
Human body parts and processes (heart, metabolism)
Unit 9 – Success and happiness
Grammar
- Use the determiners all, both, each, every, either, none of, no
- Use –ing forms as reduced relative clauses, to describe simultaneous events and as subjects and objects
- Singular or plural verbs with determiners
- Determiners with and without of
- Verbs followed by an –ing form or and infinitive
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Expressions with get (get off the ground, get under way, get off to a good start)
- Synonyms (study = analyse)
- Use expressions like As far as (success) is concerned to focus in on a topic
- Use expressions like As far as I am concerned / can tell to give and soften opinions
- Use expressions to add ideas
- Avoid errors with in addition to, etc.
Unit 10 – Going places
Grammar
- Use reported speech to report statements
- Use reported speech to report questions and instructions
- Reported speech: verbs and pronouns
- Reported speech: time and place expressions
- Other reporting verbs and forms
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Describe travel and vacation experiences
- Report conversations
- Share views on what to take on trips
- Discuss the effects of tourism
- Synonyms (industries, businesses)
- Making word forks with words belonging to the same word family
Unit 11 – Culture
Grammar
- Use relative clauses with when, where and whose
- Use verbs with direct and indirect objects
- Prepositions in relative clauses
- Passive sentences
- Verb + direct object + prepositional phrase
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Expressions to describe wedding customs (bride, walk down the aisle)
- Opposites (loss <> preservation)
- Write new vocabulary on word verbs
- Wedding bells!
Unit 12 – Ability
Grammar
- Use adverbs before adjectives and verbs
- Use as … as and comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs
- Well + adjective
- Adverb and adjective collocations
- Patterns with comparatives
Vocabulary and communications skills
- Expressions to describe types of intelligence and abilities (articulate, linguistic)
- Collocations (raise awareness)
Find out how to express the opposite meaning when you learn a new adjective or descriptive expression