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FUNCTIONS GRAMMAR VOCABULARY PRONUNCIATION WRITING / SPEAKING
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• It’s about (high) time
• Narrating
• Past tenses
• Expressing lack of
Unit Time preference
• Mediating to explain data
• Time clauses in the past
• Wh- ever words
• Expressions with time
• Different stages in life
• -ed endings
• Weak forms of was and were
• Writing a story
• Adapting information to recipient (mediation)
in charts • Adverbs, adjectives and -ing
forms
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• Expressing possession
• Making reference to known
Family and things • Possession: ‘s • /s/, /z/ and /ɪz/
• Interaction: expressing concern and
sympathy
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• Describing • Definite article • Relationships • Intonation for expressing
friends • Expressing concern and
sympathy
• Adjectives + to infinitive concern and sympathy
• Transferring concepts from source language
to target language (mediation)
• Mediating to give advice
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• Expressing quantity
• Describing
• Giving opinions • Quantifiers
Unit Taste • Expressing opinion and
surprise
• Relative sentences
• Order of adjectives
• Clothes and food
• Weak forms /ə/ and /əv/
• Vowels /eɪ/
• Interaction: describing taste
• Using background knowledge (mediation)
• Mediating to bridge the
culture gap
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• Comparatives
A place • Making comparisons
• Describing
• First and second conditionals • Towns and cities
• Word stress on compound
nouns • Writing a description of a place
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• Modification of adverbs and • City facilities
to live • Mediating to bridge the
culture gap
prepositions
• Contrasting connectors
• Quality of life
• Weak forms in comparatives
and superlatives
• Selecting relevant information (mediation)
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• Expressing possibility and
Language certainty
• Phrasal verbs
• Possibility and certainty: modal • Silent letters • Monologue: using formal and informal
• Greeting, saying goodbye • Body language
and
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verbs • Intonation for expressing language
and welcoming • Formal and informal language
• It for general reference interest and lack of interest • Summarising (mediation)
• Mediating to provide
communication solutions
• Formal and informal language
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• Giving compliments
Body and • Warnings, orders and • Imperative sentences • Writing a formal email
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advice • Modal verbs: advice • Body and health • Stress on emphatic auxiliary • Breaking down complicated information
health • Mediating to make
inquiries
• Purpose clauses (mediation)
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• Expressing cause and effect
• owing to, due to, because of, etc.
• Describing actions about to
•b e about to, be on the point of • Travel • Pronunciation of schwa
Unit Travel begin in the past
• Thanking and apologising
and be to
• Expressions for thanking and
• Expressions related to means of
transport
• Intonation for apologising and
thanking
• Writing a formal email of apology
• Using background knowledge (mediation)
• Mediating to make
apologising
suggestions
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• Talking about experiences • Present perfect and past simple
Living • Expressing objection • would • Extreme sports
• Risks
• Rising intonation in yes/no
questions
• Monologue: giving a presentation
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• Expressing interest and •o bject to, (dis)approve of and
dangerously disinterest
• Mediating to persuade
(dis)agree with
• Word formation: adjectives
• Dangerous jobs • Contractions with would
• Selecting relevant information (mediation)
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• Describing • Physical appearance and
Appearance • Expressing approval and
• Wish clauses
• Wh- questions with like
personality
• Intonation of wh- questions • Writing a profile
Unit and disapproval
• Expressing appreciation
• as though / as if
• Compound adjectives
• Parts of the body and collocations
for description
• Intonation for expressing
approval and disapproval
• Adapting information to recipient
(mediation)
personality • Mediating to make
suggestions
• Connectors of addition
• Colloquial names for kinds of
people
Unit 10 Exam
Strategies
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