UNIT 1 NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER

VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance. Compound adjectives

GRAMMAR Defi ning and non-defi ning 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 Infi nitive 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 diff erently in Spanish/English