Coursebook

Part 1 Leisure: sport, travel, pastimes

• Unit 1: Reading: skimming and scanning, selecting points for summary, making notes using your own words, looking at writers' language choices
• Unit 2: Directed writing: diaries, formal and informal letters, formal and informal letters, considering audience, choosing a style
• Unit 3: Composition: planning continuous writing, descriptive compositions, using adjectives and imagery
• Unit 4: Speaking and listening: preparing a talk, conversation skills

Part 2 Work: information, education, employment

• Unit 5: Reading: understanding, selecting and organising material for summary questions
• Unit 6: Directed writing: presenting and transforming information, news reports, format reports
• Unit 7: Composition: giving an account, organising information chronologically
• Unit 8: Speaking and listening: role-play dialogues, preparing an interview

Part 3 People: Society, lifestyles, relationships

• Unit 9: Reading: expanding notes, sentence structure, vocabulary building, summary style, collating texts, how writers achieve effects
• Unit 10: Directed writing: persuasive writing, analysing techniques, writing publicity material, drawing inferences, writing in role, targeting an audience
• Unit 11: Composition: composing narratives, engaging the reader, dialogue punctuation
• Unit 12: Speaking and listening: paired and group discussion, facts, opinions

Part 4 Ideas: art, science, technology

• Unit 13: Reading: collating texts, analysing style, vocabulary building, advanced punctuation
• Unit 14: Directed writing: expressing and supporting a view, collating and ordering information, reports and articles
• Unit 15: Composition making a case, constructing an argument, presenting a discussion, using rhetorical devices, improving spelling
• Unit 16: Speaking and listening: defending opinions, delivering a speech.