Vocabulary describing people: personality and appearance.
Compound adjectives
Grammar defining and non-defining relative clauses.
Modals for deduction (past and present)
Writing an informal email
Pronunciation compound adjectives
Unit 2 down-to-earth
Vocabulary animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds
Grammar modals and expressions of probability.
Conditionals. Alternatives to if
Writing an article
Pronunciation contractions. Linking
Unit 3 home sweet home
Vocabulary types of housing. Places in the home. Housework.
Phrasal verbs connected to people relations
Grammar modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice. Have/get something done
Writing a report
Pronunciation consonant clusters
Unit 4 a penny for your thoughts
Vocabulary money. Jobs
Grammar infinitive versus -ing. Participle clauses
Writing a covering letter
Pronunciation stress shift
Unit 5 caught red-handed
Vocabulary crime. Criminals
Grammar emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions
Writing an opinion composition
Pronunciation how to sound emphatic
Unit 6 out and about
Vocabulary leisure activities: travelling. Extreme sports
Grammar used to, would. Narrative tenses
Writing a blog post
Pronunciation-ed endings
Unit 7 tv or not tv?
Vocabulary headlines.
Television (people, tv programmes and a tv guide)
Grammar impersonal report structures.
Contrast (despite, in spite of, although.)
Writing a "for and against" composition
Pronunciation contrastive intonation
Unit 8 an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Vocabulary health and illness.
Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and diet
Grammar reported speech.
Reporting statements, commands and questions.
Writing a complaint email/letter
Pronunciation homographs. Homophones
Unit 9 no regrets just lessons learned
Vocabulary feelings
Grammar i wish/if only.
Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time
Writing a personal anecdote
Pronunciation /s/ - /z/ - /?/
Unit 10 facebook = language facelift?
Vocabulary compounds with -ever. The internet. Fast writing
Grammar future perfect and continuous.
Use of the article for generalizing
Writing a review
Pronunciation words pronounced differently in spanish/english
Listening transcripts per unit
Exercise key