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FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION LEARNING TO LEARN
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• Narrating
• Past perfect simple and continuous
Life • Talking about habits
•o n / before / after + -ing • Turning points in life • /w/ vs /g/
• Interaction: describing a bad habit
Unit
• Expressing advice and • Transferring concepts from source language
changes reassurance
• Mediating to give advice
• used to / would • Bad habits • Stressed words
to target language (mediation)
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• Giving instructions • Word formation
Business • Identifying • Imperatives and modal verbs
• Phrasal verbs • Writing a report
Unit
• Expressing contrast • Reduced relative clauses • /b/ vs /v/
success • Mediating to explain data
in charts
• despite and in spite of
• Connectors
• Business • Adapting information to recipient (mediation)
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• Expressing doubt and
• Question tags
belief
• Adverbs • Spellings of /eɪ/: ai, ay, a…e, ei • Writing a for and against essay
Unit Faith • Affirming
• Expressing contrast
• Connectors: yet, still and even so
• Contrast clauses
• Religions
• Disbelief and faith
and ey
• Intonation in question tags
• Using background knowledge (mediation)
• Mediating to bridge the
cultural gap
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• Getting things done • Passive voice
At your • Describing a process
• Praising and criticising
• t o have / get something done
• k eep + -ing / present continuous • The services • Praising and criticising:
• Writing a formal email of complaint
Unit
• Transferring concepts from source language
service • Sounding formal and polite
• Mediating to make a
+ always
• Singular and plural collective
• Complaints and problems intonation and main stress
to target language (mediation)
complaint nouns
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• Expressing obligation and
permission •m ake, let, be allowed to
Unit Competition • Expressing ability in the
past
• Modals for ability in the past
• Limiting and intensifying adverbs
• Competition: school, studies,
work, sport…
• Encouraging expressions:
intonation and stress
• Monologue: telling an anecdote
• Selecting relevant information (mediation)
• Mediating to persuade
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• Future tenses
Hopes and • Expressing hope
• Talking about the future
• Reflexive pronouns
• Hopes and expectations • Contractions of will • Writing an article
Unit
• hope (not) to, hope that
dreams • Mediating to encourage
and persuade
• Connectors of opinion, attitude
and emphasis
• Hopes and ageing • Vowel sounds /əʊ/ and /ɔ:/ • Summarising (mediation)
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• Expressing wishes and
• I wish / If only
regret
Unit Regrets • Offering condolence
• Mediating to make up an
• I regret / I am sorry
• Omitting the subject pronoun
• Regrets and condolences
• Mourning rituals
• Intonation: expressing
condolence
• Writing an informal email of apology
• Selecting relevant information (mediation)
• Connectors of contrast
apology
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• Expressing hypothesis
• Agreeing and disagreeing • Conditional sentences
• Modifiers with comparative • Spaces: houses, offices, cities… • Interaction: holding a debate
Unit My space • Recommending and
suggesting structures • Personal space
• Emphatic stress
• Using background knowledge (mediation)
• Mediating to help make a • r ecommend, suggest
decision
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• Speculating
Crime • Narrating • Modals for speculation in the past
• Pronunciation of have • Writing a book or film review
Unit
• Fiction and narrative • Intonation to express degrees of • Adapting information to recipient (mediation)
fiction • Mediating to make a
suggestion
• Past tenses
certainty
Unit 10 Exam
Strategies
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