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SECTION LANGUAGE: grammar, vocabulary & functions SKILLS: listening, speaking, reading, writing &
pronunciation
UNIT 1
Section 1 • vocabulary: hobbies, interests • speaking: talking about one’s interests and hobbies
• functions: talking about one’s hobbies • listening: a text about capoiera
• grammar: revision of Present
Simple vs. Present Continuous
Section 2 • vocabulary: adjectives describing one’s appearance and character • listening/speaking: dialogue at a party – describing people’s
• functions: asking about news; appearance and character
checking information; expressing surprise, ignorance • writing: a short paragraph about
what young people talk about when they meet
• pronunciation: word stress/classifying words
Section 3 • functions: talking about leisure time activities • reading: reading for gist – dialogues about hobbies and
• grammar: defining relative clauses-revision interests
• vocabulary: • writing: sentences with defining relative clauses
phrases with have, go, make, do, get • learning to … use phrases with have, go, make, do, get
Section 4 • vocabulary: text linkers • reading/speaking: a survey, discussing the results of the
• functions: interpreting pie charts survey
• learning to … interpret pie charts, write a report
Section 5 • functions: talking about famous people and places • reading: texts about interesting facts and places (history &
• grammar: non-defining relative clauses geography)
• learning to …look for information
Section 6 • vocabulary: related to party talk (informal/formal) • listening: a party talk, matching situations with the
• functions: introductions, offers, small talk; deciding conversations
which phrases are (in)formal • speaking: role play at a party
Round-Up • vocabulary: words connected with one’s personality; phrases with have, go, make, do, get; small talk • writing: completing sentences with non-defining relative
• grammar: non-defining relative clauses; verbs that do not take a continuous form clauses; gap filling; writing a paragraph about how one spends
weekends
Across • vocabulary: related to Balmoral and Windsor castles ACROSS CULTURES TOPIC:
Cultures • reading: texts describing famous castles in Britain
• speaking: discussing most famous castles
in Poland
• writing: comparing theses two castles; a short text about the
most beautiful/famous castle in Poland
UNIT 2
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to shopping; names of shops • listening: matching products with shops
• functions: making suggestions, agreeing, clarifying • speaking: role play; discussing what and where to buy
information, disagreeing • pronunciation: pronunciation of s at the end of a noun
• grammar: nouns ending in s
Section 2 • grammar: one/ones • listening/speaking: dialogue between two friends about going
• vocabulary: related to shopping shopping; a role play: a customer and a shop assistant
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• functions: expressing preferences and admiration • writing: sentences with one/ones
Section 3 • grammar: comparative and superlative forms of adjectives • listening: a dialogue in a shop: putting pictures in order
• vocabulary: related to shopping e.g. • writing: an e-mail to a friend about shopping
changing room, queue, to be on sale etc.
Section 4 • vocabulary: related to advertisements of e.g. MP3 players and digital cameras; adjectives • reading: an advertisement of a MP3 player and a digital
• functions: camera
learning to advertise a product • learning to … write an advertisement
Section 5 • vocabulary: describing foods, main dishes, salads, drinks etc. • listening/reading: a dialogue at a restaurant; listening to a
• functions: ordering food, asking about description of well-known Polish dishes
dishes, describing dishes, guessing • learning to …predict what the text is about
• grammar: (too) adjective+ verb • speaking: making descriptions of dishes, guessing
Section 6 • vocabulary: related to eating in a restaurant, a menu, ordering food • listening: a dialogue in a restaurant
• functions: ordering food, • speaking: role play in a restaurant (waiter/customer)
recommending food, asking for the bill etc.
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to shopping, restaurant - adjectives • writing: completing the sentences/dialogues; choosing the
• grammar: one/ones; too + adjective + verb correct form; matching words to make phrases; finding the odd
one out
Across • vocabulary: related to famous physicists and their discoveries CROSS CURRICULUM TOPIC: World famous physicists and
Cultures their discoveries
• reading: a text on Albert Einstein and Newton
• writing: a short paragraph about a famous Polish scientist
UNIT 3
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to theatre, museums, galleries; things to do in Zakopane; at a tourist information • listening: a dialogue about going to a theatre
• functions: suggesting, agreeing, giving a different opinion • speaking: responding to what people say
Section 2 • grammar: Present Perfect vs Present Simple-revision • writing: completing sentences with for and since
• functions: correcting and confirming facts • listening/speaking: interviewing street performers
Section 3 • functions: expressing opinions, agreeing, disagreeing, suggesting • listening: dialogues in a museum, a castle, a ticket office
• grammar: Present Perfect with already, yet • speaking: arranging the dialogue in the correct order; role
• vocabulary: related to visiting galleries, museums etc.; everyday English: Oh, come on!, You must be play: expressing opinions and suggesting to visit a
joking! place/agreeing and disagreeing
• learning to … make suggestions
Section 4 • vocabulary: adjectives describing artwork • reading: a text about Andy Warhol
• functions: asking for and expressing opinion; responding to opinions • listening: a dialogue between friends talking about an Andy
Warhol exhibition
• writing: a short paragraph about one’s favourite artist
• learning to … exchange opinions
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Section 5 • vocabulary: adjectives: incredible, unique, magnetic, successful, disappointed • reading: an e-mail about the Blue Cafe group and their
• functions: giving information about an event, recommending something concert in Słupsk
• learning to …write an e-mail about a concert (informal writing)
Section 6 • vocabulary: expressions related to asking for information • listening: a conversation between a tourist and an agent in a
• functions: asking for information tourist information center
• speaking: role play in a tourist information office
• pronunciation: intonation of questions
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to entertainment • writing: completing sentences/dialogues; choosing the right
• functions: responding to one’s statements form; writing sentences; responding to statements
• grammar: Present Perfect with for/since, already, yet
Across • vocabulary: related to classical music ACROSS CULTURES TOPIC: Classical music
Cultures • reading: a text about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Staś
Drzewiecki
UNIT 4
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to work; jobs and professions • reading: a text about different people and their occupations
• grammar: Present Perfect Continuous • writing: a paragraph about a job
• pronunciation: listening to the endings -er, -or
Section 2 • functions: asking questions about things that have been happening for some time • writing: questions in Present Perfect Continuous
• grammar: Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect Simple • pronunciation: intonation of sentences and questions in
Present Perfect Continuous
Section 3 • functions: exchanging opinions • listening: a radio interview with a DJ
• vocabulary: related to work e.g. to work long hours, the work the night shift, to be in charge of people, etc. • speaking: role play: interviewing someone who has got an
unusual job
Section 4 • vocabulary: adjectives describing one’s character • writing: a formal letter
• functions: giving arguments for and against • reading: Heath Secondary School home page
• learning to … start a discussion, add/contrast arguments,
express an opinion, finish a discussion
Section 5 • grammar: Present Perfect Continuous to express consequences of a recent activity • listening: people describing different jobs; guessing
• vocabulary: forming names of jobs ending in -ist, -er, -or professions
• pronunciation: pronunciation of nouns ending in -ist, -er, -or
Section 6 • vocabulary: phrases to express apologies, accepting apologies, explanations • listening: dialogues to be matched with the situations
• functions: apologies, accepting apologies, explanations (apologies, accepting apologies, explanations)
• speaking: role play: making dialogues to express an apology,
to accept an apology or to explain a situation
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to work; jobs and professions • writing: completing sentences; choosing the right expression;
• grammar: Present Perfect Continuous vs Present Perfect Simple transforming sentences; filling in the gaps
Across • vocabulary: related to national parks CROSS CURRICULUM TOPIC: National Parks in the US
Cultures • reading: a text about three national parks in the US
• writing: a text about a Polish national park
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UNIT 5
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to crime and punishment • reading: a story paragraph after paragraph and predicting the
• functions: expressing prediction plot
• grammar: Past Simple vs. Past Continuous – revision • speaking: comparing predictions
• writing: completing sentences in Past Simple tense and Past
Continuous
Section 2 • grammar: Past Perfect and Past Simple • reading: a text to identify time expressions
• vocabulary: more vocabulary related to crime e.g. burglar, shoplifter • speaking: talking about past events
• functions: discussing past events • writing: completing sentences with vocabulary items related to
crime
Section 3 • functions: telling a story using linkers • reading: a story about a robber (Past Continuous and Past
• grammar: Past Continuous and Past Simple Simple)
• vocabulary: matching words to make expressions related to crime • writing: completing sentences with linking words; learning how
to write a story
Section 4 • grammar: Reported Speech • pronunciation: pronunciation of u in words e.g. mum, push
• functions: reporting questions and commands • listening: an interview with a student who was bullied at
school
• speaking: reporting what people in the pictures said
• learning to … report events
Section 5 • functions: reporting events • reading: matching halves of sentences (verbs with no
• grammar: reporting verbs warn, offer, promise etc.; verbs with no object/verbs with objects object/verbs with objects)
• learning to … change sentences from reported speech to
direct speech
Section 6 • vocabulary: phrases to ask for help/agree/offer help • listening: dialogues presenting phrases used to ask for a
• functions: asking for help, agreeing, offering help favour/help; agreeing/offering help
• speaking: asking for information/help/offering help
• writing: dialogues between a foreign tourist and people he
meets
• pronunciation: pronunciation of -ing ending
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to crime • writing: completing sentences, matching definitions with the
• grammar: Past Perfect, Reported Speech – commands, requests, questions; verbs with no object/verbs with words; transforming sentences
objects
Across • vocabulary: related to text on ancient Greece ACROSS CULTURES TOPIC: Ancient Greece
Cultures • reading: a text about Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
• speaking: discussing the text, answering questions
• writing: matching words to make phrases
UNIT 6
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to TV, media, etc. • reading/listening: dialogue between two friends making,
• functions: small talk, talking about media; suggesting actions, agreeing, expressing pity plans for the evening
• speaking: presenting arguments for and against watching TV
• pronunciation: pronunciation of words: fortune, promotion,
watch, channel, commercial, dish, action
Section 2 • vocabulary: direct speech and reported speech in statements • writing: transforming sentences into direct/reported speech
• functions: reporting what had been said • speaking: changing direct speech to reported speech; role
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play: between two friends – clarifying what one of them had said
Section 3 • functions: reporting what question were actually asked • reading: an interview to find reported questions
• grammar: reported speech – questions • speaking: changing direct questions to reported ones
• listening: to a film script
Section 4 • vocabulary: adjectives describing one’s state: firm, furious, glad, miserable, nervous, serious and their • reading: the summaries of scenes from two films
adverbs • learning to … write a summary of a film scene
• writing: a summary of your favourite film scene
Section 5 • vocabulary: related to advertisements • listening: a talk about advertisements/expressing opinion
• functions: discussing advertisements, identifying the attitude of the speaker • writing: a short paragraph about one’s attitude to commercials
• grammar: verbs followed by to do and by -ing
Section 6 • vocabulary: related to doing shopping • listening: a dialogue between a shop assistant and a
• functions: dealing with complaints, making a complaint, explaining the problem customer
• speaking: role play: a shop assistant and a customer
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to media, TV • writing: transforming sentences; completing sentences/text;
• grammar: reported speech, direct speech , verbs followed by to do writing a dialogue at a shop to complain about a CD player
and by -ing, which was bought last week
Across • vocabulary: related to media, TV, Hollywood ACROSS CULTURES TOPIC: Media
Cultures • reading: text about Hollywood
• speaking: listing towns famous for making films; answering
questions about the text
• writing: matching words to make phrases
UNIT 7
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to city life and traffic • listening: a dialogue between two friends about their plans for
• functions: expressing predictions and promises; presenting near future
arguments • pronunciation: sentence intonation
• grammar: Will to express prediction and promises – revision • speaking: discussing the (dis)advantages of living in a city
Section 2 • grammar: 1st conditional-revision; reflexive pronouns • reading: next part of the dialogue between two friends
• functions: talking about things which are possible to happen • pronunciation: rising intonation in the “if clause” and falling
intonation in the “will clause”
• speaking: role play: making predictions about life in a village
• writing: completing sentences
with reflexive pronoun
Section 3 • grammar: passive voice • listening: a dialogue between two friends about why one of
• vocabulary: related to phone conversations and mobile phones e.g. to miss a call, to text somebody them cannot use his phone at the moment
• writing/speaking: preparing general knowledge questions and
answering them
Section 4 • vocabulary: related to films e.g. artificial audience, computer-generated characters, virtual reality • reading: a text about modern technology used in film making
• writing: collocations and sentences with them
• learning to… learn new phrases
Section 5 • functions: expressing a complaint in a letter, formal beginnings and endings • reading: a letter of complaint to shop manager about a faulty
computer
• learning to …write a letter of complaint
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• writing: a letter of complaint to a company
Section 6 • vocabulary: phrases to express preferences • listening: to dialogues to identify the main ideas
• functions: expressing preferences • speaking: in pairs discussing holiday plans and your
preferences
• pronunciation: rising and falling intonation of sentences
Round-Up • vocabulary: related to phone conversations and mobile phones; shopping • writing: completing sentences/dialogues; transforming
• grammar: 1st conditional, reflexive pronouns, passive voice sentences; finding definitions; writing a letter of complaint
Across • vocabulary: related to planning a healthy menu/diet CROSS CURRICULUM TOPIC: Healthy diet/food
Cultures • reading: a text about different food components e.g. protein,
minerals, fats
• speaking: preparing a healthy menu for a hotel you run
UNIT 8
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to text about strange phenomena e.g. evidence, hoax, theory • reading: a text about strange phenomena
• grammar: articles a/an, the, 0 article-revision • writing: a short newspaper article about unexplained events
• learning to… check new words in a dictionary
Section 2 • grammar: modal verbs could/may/might/can’t/must to speculate about things and events • listening: to an interview with an investigator of crop circles
• functions: speculating and other strange phenomena
• speaking/writing: speculating about places and phenomena
such as Bermuda triangle, Yeti etc.
Section 3 • functions: guessing the meaning of words • reading: a text about Easter Island
• grammar: someone, nowhere, anything etc. • writing: completing the text with missing parts of sentences
• vocabulary: statue, inhabitant, paradise, tribe, sacred, to enchant, to attract, extraterrestrial • learning to … guess the meaning of words from the context
Section 4 • vocabulary: adjectives e.g. sleepy, queer, rural, urban, deserted, crowded, ordinary • reading: a text about the town of Roswell associated with a
• functions: describing a place mystery
• writing: a description of a place one lives in with the
use of adjectives from New Vocabulary
Section 5 • functions: expressing obligation and lack of obligation • writing: a set of rules on how to behave on a plane
• grammar: modal verbs to express (lack of) obligation e.g. must, have to, needn’t, etc. • speaking: pair work – discussing the rules at school, home,
holiday camp
Section 6 • vocabulary: related to Functions • writing: completing dialogues with phrases used for asking
• functions: asking for permission, giving/refusing permission, for, giving/refusing permission
• listening: dialogues in which people ask for permission to do things • pronunciation: practising rising and falling intonation
• speaking: role play: an exchange student and an Irish family –
asking for permission to do things
Round-Up • vocabulary: from the New Vocabulary sections in the unit • writing: completing sentences/dialogues; paraphrasing
• grammar: modal verbs could/may/might/can’t/must; someone, nowhere, anything etc.; modal verbs to sentences; finding odd one out
express (lack of) obligation
Across • vocabulary: related to Mayan civilisation ACROSS CULTURES TOPIC: Ancient civilisation
Cultures • reading: a text about Mayan civilisation
• speaking: role play – pretending that one student has just
spent his holidays in Mexico and now is presenting to his friend
what he had learnt about Mayan civilisation (changing roles)
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UNIT 9
Section 1 • vocabulary: related to going to/being on a desert island e.g. survival, a shelter, to escape etc. • listening: three people speculating about their life on a desert
• functions: speculating, talking about unreal situations island
• grammar: modal verb would • speaking: imagine you’re on a desert island and answer the
questions
• writing: a short description of one’s life on a desert island
Section 2 • vocabulary: 2nd conditional • reading: a text about someone speculating about what he
• functions: talking about unreal/unlikely to happen situations would do if he were Bill Gates
• writing: completing sentences with 2nd conditional; writing
questions to answers
• speaking: pairwork: imagining that you are a celebrity;
speculating about his/her responsibilities
Section 3 • vocabulary: phrasal verbs e.g. run out of, put up with, give up etc. • listening: to people speculating about what would they do if
• functions: speculating they won some money…
• speaking: talking about what one would do if he won some
money
Section 4 • vocabulary: related to writing a letter of application; formal language • reading: a letter of application; job advertisement
• functions: applying for a job • learning to … write a letter of application (formal letter)
Section 5 • functions: expressing wishes • reading: a joke/story that has to be finished by students
• grammar: I wish/If only • speaking: pair work – interpreting pictures to express one’s
wishes
• learning to …finish a story
Section 6 • vocabulary: related to asking for/giving advice • reading/ listening: to dialogues in which people ask for and
• functions: asking for/giving advice receive advice
• speaking: role play: one student presents a problem the other
one advises him on how to solve it, then they change roles
Round-Up • vocabulary: phrasal verbs, related to asking for/giving advice • writing: completing the sentences/text; writing sentences;
• grammar: 2nd conditional, I wish/If only transforming sentences
Across • vocabulary: related to the topic of the text: pregnancy CROSS CURRICULUM TOPIC: New life
Cultures • reading: a text about pregnancy and newly born babies
• speaking: exchanging information about pregnancy
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