#UD1. NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
VOCABULARY Describing people: personality and appearance. Compound adjectives
GRAMMAR Defining and non-defining relative clauses. Modals for deduction (past and present). WRITING An informal email. PRONUNCIATION Compound adjectives
#UD2. DOWN-TO-EARTH
VOCABULARY Animal idioms. Animal collocations: animal sounds GRAMMAR Modals and expressions of probability. Conditionals. Alternatives to IF. WRITING An article. PRONUNCIATION Contractions. Linking
#UD3. HOME SWEET HOME
VOCABULARY Types of housing. Places in the home. Housework. Phrasal verbs connected to people relations
GRAMMAR Modals of obligation/absence of obligation/prohibition/advice. Have/Get something done
WRITING A report. PRONUNCIATION Consonant clusters
#UD4. A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
VOCABULARY Money. Jobs. GRAMMAR Infinitive versus -ing. Participle clauses. WRITING A covering letter. PRONUNCIATION Stress shift
#UD5. CAUGHT RED-HANDED
VOCABULARY Crime. Criminals. GRAMMAR Emphasis (do, so and indeed). Cleft sentences. Inversions. WRITING An opinion composition. PRONUNCIATION How to sound emphatic
#UD6. OUT AND ABOUT
VOCABULARY Leisure activities: Travelling. Extreme sports. GRAMMAR Used to, Would. Narrative tenses. WRITING A blog post. PRONUNCIATION-ED endings
#UD7. TV OR NOT TV?
VOCABULARY Headlines. Television (people, TV programmes and a TV guide). GRAMMAR Impersonal report structures. Contrast (despite, in spite of, although). WRITING for and against composition. PRONUNCIATION Contrastive intonation
#UD8. AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY
VOCABULARY Health and illness. Idioms related to the parts of the body. Food and Diet. GRAMMAR Reported speech. Reporting statements, commands and questions. WRITING a complaint email/letter. PRONUNCIATION Homographs. Homophones
#UD9. NO REGRETS JUST LESSONS LEARNED
VOCABULARY Feelings. GRAMMAR I wish/If only. Would rather, would sooner, had better. It´s time. WRITING a personal anecdote
PRONUNCIATION /s/ - /z/
#UD10. FACEBOOK = LANGUAGE FACELIFT
VOCABULARY Compounds with ever. The Internet. Fast Writing
GRAMMAR Future perfect and continuous. Use of the article for generalizing
WRITING a review
PRONUNCIATION Words pronounced differently in Spanish/English
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