Tuesday (8.30pm – 10.30pm)
Commencement Date : 2 January 2024
Unit 1 |
Our People |
| Reading and use of English |
Part 8: My early career |
| Writing | Part 1: An essay on methods schools and universities use to help students find jobs |
| Listening | Part 4: Unusual occupations |
| Speaking | Part 1 |
| Vocabulary | Part 1: general conversation |
| Grammar | Verb forms to talk about the past |
Unit 2 |
Mastering languages |
| Reading and use of English |
Part 6: Endangered languages |
| Writing | Part 2: A report on English-language TV programmes |
| Listening | Part 1: Language learning, Spelling reform, Job interviews |
| Speaking | Part 2 |
| Vocabulary | Collocations with make, get and do |
| Grammar | Expressing purpose, reason and result |
Unit 3 |
All in the mind |
| Reading and Use of English |
Part 5: The next step in brain evolution |
| Writing | Part 1: An essay on methods schools and universities should use to help students with stress |
| Listening | Part 2: ‘Face-blindness’ – a psychological condition |
| Speaking | Part 3 |
| Vocabulary | Nouns which can be countable or uncountableFormal or informal? |
| Grammar | no, none, notThe passive |
Unit 4 |
Just the job! |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 8: Graduate jobs: advice from an expertPart 1: Friends benefit firms |
| Writing | Part 2: A report on a work experience programme |
| Listening | Part 2: The co-operative movement |
| Speaking | Part 4 |
| Vocabulary | Dependent prepositionsAdjective–noun collocations (1) |
| Grammar | Expressing possibility, probability and certainty |
Unit 5 |
Dramatic events |
| Reading and use of English | Part 7: A walk in the woodsPart 4: Key word transformation |
| Writing | Part 2: A proposal on honoring a local hero |
| Listening | Part 1: Dramatic past experiences |
| Speaking | Part 2 |
| Vocabulary | Idiomatic language |
| Grammar | Verbs followed by to + infinitive or the -ing form |
Unit 6 |
Picture yourself |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 5: Teenage self-portraitsPart 2: Art for offices; Graffiti: art or vandalism? |
| Writing | Part 2: A review of a book |
| Listening | Part 3: An interview with a portrait artist and his sitter |
| Speaking | Part 3 |
| Vocabulary | Adjective–noun collocations (2) |
| Grammar | Avoiding repetition |
Unit 7 |
Leisure and entertainment |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 7: Your guide to virtual worldsPart 1: The changing face of Bollywood |
| Writing | Part 2: An informal letter about free-time activities in your town |
| Listening | Part 4: Talking about music |
| Speaking | Part 4 |
| Vocabulary | Complex prepositions Money words |
| Grammar | Linking ideas: relative and participle clauses; apposition |
Unit 8 |
Media matters |
| Reading and Use of English |
Part 6: The ethics of reality TV |
| Writing | Part 2: A proposal for a series of television documentaries |
| Listening | Part 3: An interview about news reporting |
| Speaking | Part 3 |
| Vocabulary | ‘Talking’ verbs |
| Grammar | Reported speechTransitive verbs |
Unit 9 |
At top speed |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 7: Bugatti VeyronPart 4: Key word transformation |
| Writing | Part 1: An essay on technological progress |
| Listening | Part 1: Rail travel, Olympic records, Space travel |
| Speaking | Part 2 |
| Vocabulary | action, activity, event and programme |
| Grammar | Time clausesPrepositions in time expressions |
Unit 10 |
A lifelong process |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 8: Choosing a universityPart 1: Why do we need lifelong learning? |
| Writing | Part 2: A report on ways of attracting students to a language school |
| Listening | Part 2: Studying Arabic in Abu Dhabi |
| Speaking | Part 4 |
| Vocabulary | chance, occasion, opportunity and possibility |
| Grammar | Expressing ability, possibility and obligation |
Unit 11 |
Being somewhere else |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 5: Disappearing into AfricaPart 2: Island wanted; Paradise found |
| Writing | Part 2: A review of two hotels |
| Listening | Part 1: Travelling on a river, A sponsored walk, A conversation between two travelers |
| Speaking | Part 1 |
| Vocabulary | Phrasal verb sat, in and on to express location |
| Grammar | Conditionals |
Unit 12 |
The living world |
| Reading and Use of English | Part 7: Alex the African GreyPart 3: Species loss accelerating |
| Writing | Part 2: A proposal on ways of conserving resources and reducing waste |
| Listening | Part 2: Climate change and the Inuit |
| Speaking | Part 3 |
| Vocabulary |
Prepositions following verbs |
| Grammar | Nouns and articles |
Unit 13 |
Health and lifestyle |
| Reading and Use of English |
Part 8: Unusual national sports |
| Writing | Part 2: A letter of complaint about a sports club |
| Listening | Part 3: Allergies |
| Speaking | Part 2 |
| Vocabulary | Prepositions following adjectives |
| Grammar | Ways of contrasting ideasThe language of comparison |
Unit 14 |
Moving abroad |
| Reading and Use of English |
Part 6: Cities and immigration |
| Writing | Part 1: An essay on helping immigrants to integrate |
| Listening | Part 4: Migration |
| Speaking | Part 4 |
| Vocabulary | learn, find out and know; provide, offer and give |
| Grammar | Comment adverbials and intensifying adverbs Cleft sentences for emphasis |
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