Topic outline

  • 1.1

    Are you really my friend?

    • Present Simple, Continuous and Perfect
    • Friendship
    • Linking
    • Video Vox pops 1



  • 1.2

    Why spending's #trending

    • State verbs
    • Spending

  • 1.3

    Vocabulary and skills development

    • Noun suffixes
    • Listening 

  • 1.4

    Speaking and writing

    Speaking asking for and giving opinions

    Writing social media

  • 1.5

    Video Social media marketing

    Review

  • 2.1

    Ill never forget that day

    • Narrative forms
    • Describing past experiences
    • Auxiliary verbs: had + was/were
    • Video Vox pops 2


  • 2.2

    Unbelievable?

    • Sequencing events 
    • Communication 


  • 2.3

    Vocabulary and skills development 

    • Comment adverbs
    • Reading references

  • 2.4

    Speaking and writing

    • Intonation showing interest
    • Speaking showing interest 
    • Writing a narrative

  • 2.5

    Video Seven good stories 

    Review

  • 3.1

    Challenges

    • Ability
    • Challenges and success
    • Word stress

  • 3.2

    Faking it?

    • Obligation, permission and possibility
    • Work skills
    • Video Vox pops 3


  • 3.3

    Vocabulary and skills development

    • Compound adjectives
    • Reading complex noun phrases

  • 3.4

    Speaking and writing

    • Pauses in instructions 
    • Speaking practical instructions
    • Writing writing an opinion paragraph


  • 3.5

    Video A Womans life: 1914 vs 2014

    Review


  • 4.1

    Living on water

    • will/be going to for predictions and decisions
    • Living on water

  • 4.2

    Forest bathing

    • Probability
    • The natural world
    • Intonation – certainty
    • Video Vox pops 4

  • 4.3

    Vocabulary and skills development

    • Idiomatic phrases about places
    • Listening consonant-vowel linking


  • 4.4

    Speaking and writing

    • Writing avoiding repetition
    • Speaking enquiries

  • 4.5

    Video Songdo

    Review


  • 5.1

    Universally popular?

    • -ing form and infinitive with to
    • Going to the movies
    • Video Vox pops 5

  • 5.2

    Mosquito smasher!

    • Present perfect simple and past simple
    • Adjectives to describe a video game
    • Word stress in longer words


    Assignments: 2Quizzes: 2