UNIT 1. Health & Fitness
Pumping iron
Sleeping orders
Review of Present and Past Tenses
Future Forms
The price of pain
Complex Passive Tenses
UNIT 2. Food
Food, glorious food
How other countries are faring
Where curry rules the roast
Expressions of time and duration
Food for thought
Couscous is easy to make and delightful to eat
Word order
UNIT 3. Communications
The conventions of letter-writing
Review of Possessives
Jail for net pirates who saw themselves as Robin Hoods
Whose internet is it anyway?
Relative clauses
Inversion
UNIT 4. Language and Education
Wanna speak English?
Desperate lengths to learn English
Elephants who never forget
Prepositional and phrasal verbs (1)
Language and class
Do and make
UNIT 5. Science and Technology
A shot across earths bow
Word-formation
Human modem points to the demise of the car key
Infinitive or Gerund
The case of the Inca maid
Games species play
UNIT 6. Grammar Revision (Units 1-5)
UNIT 7. Travel and Tourism
Comedy of hotel errors provokes axe by top guide
Reported speech
Da Vinci mystery tour piques Paris
The article
Whale of a time
The sun also sets
UNIT 8. Crime and the Law
Murder in six easy steps
Conditional sentences
The case of the vicarage vampire
Not so innocent donkeys
Phrasal verbs (2)
UNIT 9. Work
Guilt complex
American lifestyle survey finds new men thin on the ground
Compound words
The software industrys new man
Modal verbs
UNIT 10. Lifestyles
Brand it like Beckham
Mayor starts party purge of night-time madness in Madrid
Comparison
Up to nothing
UNIT 11. British Society
Short passages
How to get on in society
The subjunctive
How to pass for British
What England means to the English
On being English
UNIT 12. Grammar Revision (Units 7-11)
CHECKLIST OF WORDS FROM THE THRESHOLD LEVEL
GLOSSARY