READINGLISTENINGSPEAKINGWRITING

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Module Reading Listening Speaking Writing

1
Myths Popular beliefs and Green solutions Global problems and News Sharing the news Friends Friends and
Is it really true? why they are wrong Global development green solutions Tell a news story Focus on verbs Describe a friend friendships
Asserting and Vocabulary for Linking words and Personality and
contradicting environmental sentence adverbs appearance
Reading for gist* problems and language
solutions Task
Reading for detail* Telling a news story Task
Listening for gist** Describing your
Discussion Discussion best friend
Things you believed Listening for detail** Reflecting on the task
and later discovered Discussion Discussion
were myths What could your city Important
do to be more green? characteristics of
friends

2
Travelling Travelling on a budget Introverts and Comparing introverts Presentations Talking about hobbies Privacy Online privacy
The budget traveller Money idioms extroverts and extroverts Give a presentation Giving advice and Write a for and Correct the spelling
Being an introvert Personality vocabulary recommendations against essay mistakes
Making suggestions
and recommendations, Evaluating advantages Structuring a Language for
evaluating advantages and disadvantages presentation presenting
and disadvantages Discussion Task arguments
Interview a friend Give a presentation on Task
about their personality a familiar topic Writing a
Discussion short essay on
Your experiences of government control
giving presentations of the internet
Quiz
How important is
privacy for you?
Module Reading Listening Speaking Writing

3
History A day in the life of a Polyglots How to become a Complaining Difficult situations Home House-swapping
A day in the life of... medieval peasant Becoming a multi- hyperpolyglot Make a complaint Vocabulary for urban Describe a house Phrases to describe
Past tenses linguist The biggest languages problems your house and
Vocabulary to describe in the world Making a complaint, neighbourhood
the Middle Ages Linguistics vocabulary giving examples, Task
Quiz making suggestions Writing a
Language learning Task description of your
Making a complaint house for a house-
about your town or swapping website
city Discussion
Discussion Your ideal home
Describing the last
complaint you made

4
Personalities Personalities in the Animals Animals behaving like Graphs Explaining data Personal stories Embarrassing and
Welcome to the jungle! workplace Animal behaviour humans Describe a graph Language to describe Tell a story funny experiences
Idioms to describe Vocabulary for graphs Past tenses
personality behaviours, emotions, Task Substitution
Discussion activities Describing graphs Task
Describing the about school student Blogging about
personalities in your numbers an embarrassing
social groups moment

5
Anonymous? Anonymous jobs Decisions Being a good decision- Decisions Making decisions, Music Music festival facts
Anonymous Inc. Vocabulary of work Making the right maker, problems and Describe an weighing up pros and Write an email of Making a complaint
and professions decision solutions important decision cons complaint and giving reasons
Advice and Past tenses Formal style
suggestions Task Task
Discussion Describing a big Writing an email of
How to make decisions decision complaint about a
Quiz music festival
How good are you at
making decisions?
Module Reading Listening Speaking Writing

6
Swapping Modern bartering What it takes… Skills and experience Changes How is your life going World Culture shock and
Modern barter Business and Grabbing your Jobs and abilities Talk about changes to change? Write an article etiquette
commerce vocabulary dream job with both vocabulary Future tenses Giving
hands recommendations
Evaluating advantages Advice and Expressing certainty
and disadvantages recommendations and generalizing
Task
Discussion Predicting a future Sentence structure
What it takes to do change and its impact Task
your job Discussion Write a magazine
Interview people article about your
about future changes country’s culture
Discussion
Cultures around the
world
*Reading for gist and reading for detail are practised in each Reading Module.
**Listening for gist and listening for detail are practised in each Listening Module.