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THEME EPISODE
1 TECHNOLOGY/LAW Electronic crime 2 MEDICINE Vitamin D 3 BUSINESS Company growth 4 BUSINESS Rising dollar 5 ENVIRONMENT Global warming 6 ENVIRONMENT Greenhouse gases 7 ENVIRONMENT Enviro-loo 8 TOURISM Crocodile tourism 9 MEDICINE ADHD 10 ARCHITECTURE Solar house 11 MEDICINE Recounting the past 12 ENVIRONMENT Carbon cycle 13 SCIENCE Under the sea

GRAMMAR

WRITING

VOCABULARY

PUNCTUATION SPELLING
spelling rules

PRONUNCIATION

word building; formal/ informal; vocabulary strategies modals: opinion and attitude impersonal language; prepositions for describing data comparative adjectives referents and noun phrases cause and effect language; adjectival endings (nationalities) passive voice relative pronouns abbreviations; acronyms; Latin abbreviations conjunctions: coordinating, subordinating past tenses: simple vs perfect; sentences types: compound, complex phrasal verbs definite/indefinite articles connecting ideas describing past events describing a cycle; writing tips weather patterns describing data comparing data cause and effect relationships formal/informal adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs for describing data per cent vs percentage

syllable stress word stress; sentence rhythm

per cent vs percentage

per cent vs percentage

spelling of nationalities describing a process

pronunciation of nationalities

IELTS Speaking test assessment; linking: C+V or V+V abbreviations, acronyms complex sentences (commas)

articles

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14 MEDICINE Junk DNA 15 SCIENCE Sea floor 16 MEDICINE DVT 17 MEDICINE Water and aging 18 ENVIRONMENT Salinity 19 SCIENCE Weather report 20 GEOGRAPHY Torres strait 21 SCIENCE Watching birds 22 BUSINESS Finance report 23 SCIENCE &TECHNOLOGY Octopuses 24 SCIENCE PSYCHOLOGY Perfect Siesta 25 LAW Copyright 26 ARCHAEOLOGY Archaeology conditionals royal order of adjectives speculation using modals, adverbs, phrases phrasal verbs; contractions; coordinating conjunctions transition signals; Australian/British/American English participial adjectives prepositions of place continuous tenses describing numerical data describing appearance or character of people or animals comparatives: asas cardinal, ordinal, Arabic, Roman, decimals, fractions, currencies, dates, zones; prefixes (numbers) physical features, shapes, behaviour, character, body parts rules for writing numbers paragraph structure; definition informal spoken and formal written English; linking words; repetition describing a process prefixes (opposites); suffixes (forming adjectives) approximation

AusE, BE, AE; weights, measures

AusE, BE, AE numbers rules for capitalisation

stress: verb, noun stress; numbers

sentence stress patterns telephone numbers, fractions, decimals similar sounds

commas, apostrophe, hyphen, colon, semicolon writing a technical/ information report; writing definitions classifying & summarising technical vocabulary editing

intonation

present tense; editing its/its; subject-verb agreement

-ed endings s endings: plurals, 3 per. sg. present tense

rd