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Unit Vocabulary Grammar Reading Writing
Goals Strategies Pronunciation

1


Get reacquainted with someone
Greet a visitor to your country
Discuss gestures and customs
Tourist activities
Participial adjectives to describe
experiences
The present perfect
Statements and yes / no questions
Form and usage
Use I dont think so. to soften
a negative answer
Say I know! to exclaim that
Listening Skills:
Listen to associate
Listen for details
Texts:
A poster about customs
A magazine article about
Task:
Write a description of a
fascinating, strange, thrilling,
Greetings and Describe an interesting Past participles of irregular verbs youve discovered an answer Pronunciation: non-verbal communication or frightening experience
experience With already, yet, ever, and before Use Welcome to . to greet Sound reduction in the A geographical map
Small Talk Common errors someone to a new place present perfect A photo story WRITING BOOSTER
Say Thats great. to Avoiding run-on sentences
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acknowledge someones
Skills/Strategies:
The present perfect Identify supporting details
positive experience Personalize information
Past participles: regular and irregular
Questions with What or Which
Yet and already: expansion
Ever, never, and before
Common errors

2 Apologize for being late

Discuss preferences for movie
genres



Explanations for being late
Movie genres
Phrases to describe preferences
The present perfect
With for and since
Other uses
Apologize and provide a reason
when late
Say Thats ne. to reassure
Listening Skills:
Listen for main ideas
Listen to infer meaning
Texts:
A movie website
Movie reviews
Task:
Write an essay about violence
in movies and on TV
Movies and Describe and recommend Adjectives to describe movies Would rather + base form Offer to repay someone with Dictation A textbook excerpt about
movies Form and usage How much do I owe?
Pronunciation: violence in movies WRITING BOOSTER
Entertainment Discuss effects of movie violence Statements, questions, and answers Use What would you say
Reduction of h A photo story Paragraphs
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on viewers Common errors to ? to propose an idea Skills/Strategies: Topic sentences
GRAMMAR BOOSTER Soften a negative response with Conrm content
To tell you the truth, . . . Evaluate ideas
The present perfect continuous
The present participle: spelling
Expressing preferences: review

3 Check into a hotel

Leave and take a telephone
message
Hotel room types and features
Hotel services
Hotel room amenities and
Had better
Usage
Vs. should
Say Lets see. to indicate
youre checking information
Make a formal, polite request
Listening Skills:
Listen to take phone messages
Listen for main ideas
Texts:
A hotel website
Phone message slips
Task:
Write a paragraph explaining
the reasons for choosing a
Staying in Request hotel housekeeping services Contractions with May I ? Listen for details A hotel guide book hotel
services The future with will Say Here you go. when Pronunciation: A city map
Hotels Choose hotels and explain Form and usage handing someone something Contractions with will A photo story WRITING BOOSTER

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reasons for choices Contractions Use By the way, . . . to Skills/Strategies: Avoiding sentence fragments
GRAMMAR BOOSTER introduce new information Draw conclusions with because or since
Say Would you like to leave Identify supporting details
Obligation: have to / must a message? if someone isnt Interpret a map
Suggestions and advice: could / available
should / ought to / had better
Expectation: be supposed to
Will: other uses; vs. be going to

4


Describe a car accident
Report a problem with a car
Rent a car



Car types
Car parts
Ways to show concern
The past continuous
Form and usage
Vs. the simple past tense
Express concern about anothers
condition after an accident
Express relief when hearing all
Listening Skills:
Listen to summarize
Listen to infer outcomes
Texts:
A rental car brochure
Rental car case studies
Task:
Write a paragraph
comparing good and bad
Cars and Discuss good and bad driving Causes of car accidents Direct objects with phrasal verbs is OK Listen for main ideas A feature article about drivers
Phrasal verbs for talking GRAMMAR BOOSTER Use only to minimize the Pronunciation: defensive driving
Driving about cars seriousness of a situation Stress of particles in phrasal A driving behavior survey WRITING BOOSTER
Aggressive driving behavior The past continuous: other uses Use actually to soften A photo story
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Nouns and pronouns: review negative information Skills/Strategies: sentences: and, in addition,
Empathize with Im sorry to Understand from context furthermore, and therefore
hear that. Critical thinking

5 Ask for something in a store

Request salon services
Discuss ways to improve ones
Salon services
Personal care products
Ways to discuss beauty
Indenite quantities and amounts
Some and any
A lot of, many, and much
Use Excuse me. to initiate a
conversation with a salesperson
Conrm information by
Listening Skills:
Listen to summarize
Listen to take notes
Texts:
A hotel spa advertisement
A health advice column
Task:
Write a letter on how to
improve appearance
Personal appearance Indenite pronouns: someone / repeating it with rising Pronunciation: A photo story
Dene and discuss the meaning no one / anyone intonation Pronunciation of unstressed Skills/Strategies: WRITING BOOSTER
Care and of beauty
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Use Not at all. to show you vowels Predict Writing a formal letter
dont mind an inconvenience Conrm content
Appearance Some and any: indeniteness
Apply information
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Indenite pronouns: something,
anything, and nothing

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6 Talk about food passions

Make an excuse to decline food
Discuss lifestyle changes you
Nutrition terminology
Food passions
Excuses for not eating
Use to / used to
Negative yes / no questions
Offers and suggestions with
Provide an emphatic afrmative
response with Denitely.
Offer food with Please help
Listening Skills:
Listen for details
Listen to personalize
Texts:
A healthy eating pyramid
Descriptions of types of diets
Task:
Write a persuasive paragraph
about the differences in
have made something Why dont . . . ? yourself. A magazine article about
Eating Well Describe local dishes Food descriptions Acknowledge someones efforts
Pronunciation:
eating habits
present-day and past diets
Sound reduction:
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Use to / used to: expansion Soften the rejection of an offer Menu ingredients
Connecting ideas:
with Ill pass on the . A photo story
Be used to vs. get used to subordinating conjunctions
Use a negative question to
Would + base form Skills/Strategies:
More about negative yes / no express surprise Understand from context
questions; Why dont . . . ? Use Its not a problem. to Summarize
downplay inconvenience Compare and contrast

7 Get to know someones likes

and dislikes
Cheer someone up
Positive and negative adjectives
Terms to discuss psychology and
personality
Gerunds and innitives as direct
objects
Gerunds as objects of prepositions
Clarify an earlier question with
Well, for example, . . .
Buy time to think with Lets
Listening Skills:
Listen for main ideas
Listen for specic information
Texts:
A pop psychology website
A textbook excerpt about the
Task:
Write an essay describing
someones personality
see. Synthesize information nature / nurture controversy
About Discuss personality and its origin GRAMMAR BOOSTER Use auxiliary do to emphasize a Infer information Personality surveys WRITING BOOSTER
Examine the impact of birth
Personality order on personality Gerunds and innitives: other verb Pronunciation: A photo story
Parallel structure
functions Thank someone for showing Reduction of to in innitives Skills/Strategies:
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Negative gerunds Support reasoning with details
Offer empathy with I know Understand from context
what you mean. Make personal comparisons

8 Recommend a museum
Ask about and describe art
objects
Talk about artistic talent and
The Arts where it comes from
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the reasons you like them
Kinds of art
Positive adjectives
Materials and objects
The passive voice
Form, meaning, and usage
Statements and questions
Describing how art affects us
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Transitive and intransitive verbs
The passive voice: form in all tenses
Say Be sure not to miss
to emphasize the importance of
an action
. Listening Skills:
Introduce the rst aspect of an
opinion with For one thing, . . .
Express enthusiasm for what
someone has said with No
kidding!
Invite someones opinion with
What do you think of ? Paraphrase
Understand from context
Listen to take notes
Infer point of view
Pronunciation:
Emphatic stress
Texts:
Museum descriptions
A book excerpt about the
Task:
Write a detailed description
of a decorative object
origin of artistic talent
An artistic survey WRITING BOOSTER
A photo story
Providing supporting details
Skills/Strategies:
Recognize the main idea
Identify supporting details

9 Troubleshoot computer
problems
Recommend a better deal



Computer parts
Ways to reassure someone
Computer terms and commands
The innitive of purpose
Comparisons with as . . . as
Meaning and usage
Ask for assistance with Could
you take a look at ?
Introduce an explanation with
Listening Skills:
Infer meaning
Listen for the main idea
Texts:
A computer troubleshooting
website
Task:
Write an essay evaluating the
benets and problems of the
Describe how you use Internet activities Just, almost, quite, nearly Well, . . . Listen for details A computer user survey
Living with computers Make a suggestion with Why Newspaper clippings about
Internet
Pronunciation:
Computers Discuss the social impact of the GRAMMAR BOOSTER dont you try ing? Stress in as . . . as phrases the Internet WRITING BOOSTER
Internet Expressing purpose with Express interest informally with A photo story
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in order to and for Oh, yeah? Skills/Strategies:
As . . . as to compare adverbs Use Everyone says . . . to Understand from context
Comparatives / superlatives: review introduce a popular opinion Relate to personal experience
Say Well, Ive heard . to
support a point of view

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Discuss ethical choices
Return someone elses property
Express personal values



Ways to conrm a response
Ethical choices
Ways to acknowledge thanks
The real and unreal conditional
Form, usage, common errors
Possessive pronouns / Whose
Say You think so? to
reconrm someones opinion
Provide an emphatic afrmative
Listening Skills:
Listen to infer information
Listen for main ideas
Texts:
A personal values self-test
Print and online news stories
Task:
Write an essay about
someones personal choice
Discuss acts of kindness and Personal values Form, usage, common errors response with Absolutely. Understand vocabulary from about kindness and honesty
Ethics and honesty Acknowledge thanks with context A photo story WRITING BOOSTER
Values GRAMMAR BOOSTER Dont mention it. Listen to apply new vocabulary Skills/Strategies: Introducing conicting
Present and future factual Support reasoning with details Predict
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conditionals: usage and common Pronunciation: Infer meaning
errors Assimilation of d + y in Summarize
Order of clauses: punctuation would you Interpret information
Possessive nouns: review and Relate to personal experience
expansion
Pronouns: summary

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