Map of the units

Unit title Reading and Use of English Writing Listening

People like us Part 8: ʻYou can choose your friendsʼ Part 1: An essay: Methods schools use to Part 4: Five people talking about a close
1 Part 4: Key word transformation help students find jobs friend

More than words Part 3: ʻYou’ll always have your accent – or Part 2: A report: Foreign language learning Part 1: Three short conversations about
2 will you?ʼ
Part 6: ʻUsing movies to help learn a
in your country language and communication

languageʼ
Vocabulary and grammar review Units 1 and 2
Mind, body and soul Part 5: ʻLiving with synaesthesiaʼ Part 1: An essay: How schools can ensure Part 2: Personality quiz
3 Part 2: ʻThe importance of musicʼ
‘Forest bathing’
students don’t suffer too much stress

Career paths Part 1: ʻZero-hours contractsʼ Part 2: An email: Young people, migration Part 3: An interview with two business
4 Part 8: ʻWhat do you bring to the table?ʼ and opportunities leaders about an open salary policy

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 3 and 4

Events to remember Part 4: Key word transformation Part 2: A proposal: Identifying someone Part 1: Three short conversations about
5 Part 7: ʻA cycle rideʼ who should be honoured dramatic past experiences

Creative pursuits Part 5: ʻThe camera never liesʼ Part 2: A review: A film you didn’t expect Part 2: A talk offering career advice by a
6 Part 2: ʻLive or recorded?ʼ
ʻThe timeless appeal of the selfieʼ
to like but did professional artist

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 5 and 6

In your free time Part 7: ʻYoung film actorsʼ Part 2: An informal letter: Replying to a Part 4: Five people talking about the
7 Part 1: ʻThe power of art galleriesʼ friend’s dilemma experience of going to a concert to listen
to a band

Sound and vision Part 3: ʻThe future of TVʼ Part 2: A proposal: Identifying what Part 3: An interview about student media
8 Part 6: ʻBring a social media influencerʼ should be included in a TV programme organisations

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 7 and 8

Invention and Part 7: ʻA welcome/unwelcome visitʼ Part 1: An essay: Online safety Part 1: Three short conversations about
9 innovation Part 4: Key word transformation An essay: How technology has benefited
society
technology

Learning for life Part 1: ʻThe candle problemʼ Part 2: A report: Improving an education Part 2: A presentation on 21st century
10 Part 8: ʻA first time for everythingʼ establishment skills

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 9 and 10

Globetrotters Part 5: ʻInto the desertʼ Part 2: A review: Two hotels in your area Part 1: Three short conversations about
11 Part 2: ʻCaretakers wantedʼ
ʻLiving in a castleʼ
travel

Our planet Part 7: ʻThe dramatic life – so far – of Part 2: A proposal: An environmental Part 2: A podcast about living and working
12 Birdgirlʼ
Part 3: ʻWhat drives an eco-warrior?ʼ
campaign in Antarctica

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 11 and 12

A healthy lifestyle Part 8: ʻSports and me!ʼ Part 2: A letter: Suggesting how council Part 3: A radio interview about sleep
Part 3: ʻThe joy of a warm bathʼ funds should be best spent

A new land Part 6: ʻThe psychology of emigrationʼ Part 1: An essay: Problems arising from Part 4: Five people talking about their
Part 4: Key word transformation large-scale migration from the countryside reasons for moving to another country
to cities

Vocabulary and grammar review Units 13 and 14

4
Speaking Vocabulary Grammar
Part 1: Responding to questions about yourself, Collocations with give and make Verb forms to talk about the past
your friends and family

Part 2: Talking about how people explain things Collocations with make, get and do Expressing purpose, reason and result
Talking about intergenerational conversations

Part 3: Discussing actions that help people prevent Multi-word verbs no, none, not
or cope with stress Verb collocations The passive

Part 4: Talking about people’s opinion regarding Dependant prepositions Expressing possibility, probability and certainty
satisfaction at work Adjective-noun collocations (1)

Part 2: Talking about people doing dangerous Idiomatic language Verbs followed by to + infinitive or the -ing form
activities

Part 3: Discussing factors that affect people’s Adjective-noun collocations (2) Avoiding repetition
enjoyment of a movie
Discussing what motivates a person to take a
course in a creative activity

Part 4: Discussing ways to get to know other people Complex prepositions Linking ideas: relative and participle clauses
Money words and idioms Linking ideas: apposition

Part 3: Discussing how people’s ideas are affected Prefixes and suffixes Reported speech
by media influence Reporting verbs Transitive and intransitive verbs

Part 2: Talking about how people use technology Multi-word verbs Future perfect and continuous
action, activity, event and programme be + to infinitive
Objects, reflexives and reciprocals

Part 4: Discussing opinions on different styles of chance, occasion, opportunity and possibility Expressing ability, possibility and obligation
learning

Part 1: Responding to questions about travel Fixed phrases Conditionals

at, in and on to express location wish and if only

Part 3: Discussing how environmental issues affect Prepositions following verbs Countable and uncountable nouns
people’s lives Word formation Articles

Part 2: Discussing the effectiveness of and qualities Prepositions following adjectives Ways of contrasting ideas
needed for different physical activities The language of comparison

Part 4: Discussing issues regarding moving to Comment adverbials and intensifying adverbs Emphasis
another country learn, find out and know
provide, offer and give