Hours
| Topic
| Pages
| Language point
| Vocabulary
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| Introductions
- Getting to know you
- Course Overview
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| Break the ice, warm up
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| What Motivates You?
- Discourse markers (1): linkers
- Work
- Word stress and rhythm
| P 4-7
| discourse markers 1: linkers of result, reason, purpose, contract
| work
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| Colloquial English
- Family Secrets
Writing
- Family secrets
| P
16 – 18
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| Who Am I?
- Have
- Personality
- Family
- Rhythm and Intonation
| P
8 – 11
| have: stative + dynamic; haveas auxiliary; obligation; have something done
| Personality; family
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| Whose Language Is It?
- Pronouns
- Language terminology
- Sound-spelling relationships
| P
12- 13
| pronouns: generic, reciprocal, possessive
| Language terminology
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| Once Upon A Time
- The Past – Narrative tenses
- Word building: abstract nouns
- Word stress with suffixes
| P
20 – 23
| the past: narrative tenses, used to and would
| Word building, abstract nouns
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| Are There Really 31 Hours In A Day?
- Distancing
- Time
- Linking
| P
24 - 27
| distancing: seem/ appear; passives with verbs of saying and reporting;
apparently/according to, etc.; may/ might
| time
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| Writing
- An article
Colloquial English
- Time and technology
| P
32 – 34
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| 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
- Phrases with get
- Words and phrases of French origin
| P
28 - 31
| get: as main verb; passive use; causative use – get something done
| Phrases with get
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| Breaking The Silence
- Speculation and deduction
- Sounds and the human voice
- Consonant clusters
| P
36 - 39
| speculation and deduction: might (have), could (have), etc.
adverbs and adjectives: bound to be, sure to be, etc.
| Sounds and the human voice
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| Lost In Translation
- Adding Emphasis: Inversion
- Describing books
- Words with ‘silent’ syllables
| P
40 – 43
| adding emphasis 1: inversion – Not only…, No sooner…, Only…, etc.
| Describing books
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| Are You Suffering From Affluenza?
- Unreal uses of past tenses
- money
- ea and ear
| P
44 – 47
| unreal uses of past tenses: I wish…, If only…, I’d rather…, It’s time…
| money
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| Colloquial English
- Time and Technology
Writing
- A Review
| P
48 – 51
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| History Goes To The Movies
- Discourse markers: adverbs and adverbials
- History and warfare
- Consonant Clusters
| P
52 – 55
| discourse markers 2: adverbs and adverbial expressions – All in all…, After all…, Besides…, Otherwise…, Basically…, Obviously…, etc.
| History nd warfare
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| Help Yourself
- Infinitive of gerund
- Compound adjectives
- Polite requests
| P
56 - 59
| conditionals: mixed conditionals; alternatives to if
| Compound adjectives
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| Can’t Live Without It
- Conditional sentences
- Phone language
- Adjectives + prepositions
- Sounds and spelling
| P
60 – 63
| verb + object + infinitive or gerund: expect, advise, wait, let, make, help, keep, mind, etc.
| Phone language, adjectives+ prepositions
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| Who’s In Control?
- Permission, obligation, and necessity
- Word formation: prefixes
- Intonation in exclamations
| P
68 - 71
| permission, obligation, and necessity: modals verbs and alternatives – can, must, should, need, etc.; be able to, be allowed to, be supposed to, etc.
| Word formation:
prefixes
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| Colloquial English
- Art and artists
Writing
- A report
| P
80 – 82
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| Just Any old bed?
- Verbs of the senses
- Place and movement
- Extra stress on important words
| P
72 – 75
| verbs of the senses: stative v dynamic; + infinitive or -ing form; + adjective or noun
| Place and movement
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| Trick or treatment
- Gerunds and infinitives
- Health and medicine
- Similes
- Word stress
| P
76 - 79
| gerunds and infinitives: complex forms, perfect and continuous;
expressions followed by the gerund – There’s no point, It’s no use…, etc.;
quantifiers + infinitive; indefinite pronoun + infinitive
| Health and medicine, similes
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| A Moving Experience
- Expressing future plans and arrangements
- Travel and tourism
- Homophones
| P
84 – 86
| expressing future arrangements: present and future forms; due to, about to, is to
| Travel and tourism
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| Pets and Pests
- Ellipsis and substation
- The natural world
- Weak and strong pronunciation
| P
88 – 91
| ellipsis and substitution: leaving out subjects or objects; leaving out verb
phrases and adjectives; so and not
| The natural world
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| Colloquial English
- Encounters with animals
Writing
- Discursive essays: taking sides
| P
96 – 98
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| The Promised Land
- Adding emphasis: cleft sentences
- Words that are often confused
- Intonation in cleft sentences
| P
92 – 94
| adding emphasis 2: cleft sentences – What…, All…, It…, etc.
The person…, The place…, The reason…, etc.
| Words that are often confused
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| A Recipe For Disaster
- Nouns
- Preparing food
- -ed adjective endings and linking
| P
100 - 103
| compound and possessive forms of nouns: possessive ’s– my father’s car;
using of: the name of the film; using compounds – the car door
| Preparing food
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| Sport On Trial
- So and such
- Word building: adjectives, nouns, and verbs
| P
104 - 107
| emphasis and result with so andsuch: so and such + (that) for
consequences; followed by adjective / adverb; so much, so many, such a lot; exclamations (without a that clause)
| Words building, adjectives, nouns, and verbs
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| The Funniest Joke In The World?
- Comparison
- Humour
- Augh and ough
| P
108 - 111
| comparison: modifiers with comparative and superlative structures –
nearly as big, almost as tall, far harder, by far the hardest, etc.; the…the…
| humor
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| Colloquial English
- Cooking round the world
Writing
- A complaint
| P
113 – 114
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| Grammar/Conversation/Vocab games
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Total 113
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