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Scope & Sequence

Guide on
Writing Tasks ESSAY & ARTICLE LETTER & EMAIL REVIEW REPORT STORY
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Unit Vocabulary Writing Tasks Language in Use

• Entertainment email: Making and asking for suggestions • Using the 3rd Conditional
Unit 1 Listening - taking notes
• Describing what people are doing • Linking Words & Phrases
and wearing story: Describing an audition
Entertainment Writing full sentences using prompts
- Phrases to say where things are
essay: TV vs Internet Mind Map • Derivatives
in a picture
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review: Film review Listening for gap filling & Writing Plan
• Describing a play/film/book
• Education email: Giving advice Writing Plan
Unit 2 • The Passive Voice
• Describing personal feelings story: Describing changes at school
- Phrases to show assumption / Writing full sentences using prompts & Listening
Education • Checking for mistakes
probability / likelihood essay: Higher Education vs Work Mind Map & Essay Plan
(Spelling, Use of English,
Page 28 • Giving advice / words of reassurance review: University / College Grammar)
• Describing a university/college Listening for gap filling & Writing Plan
• Holidays email: Inviting a friend to a trip • Reported Speech
Unit 3 story: Talking about a difficult day while travelling
Getting away • Describing a place Writing full sentences • Linking Words & Phrases:
from it all – Describing what you can see essay: Camping vs Staying in a Hotel Mind Map Giving Examples &
Contrasting
report: Describing a summer camp and making
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Suggested Structure & Writing Plan
Unit 4 • Art & Culture email: about a weekend away Writing Plan Past Perfect Simple &
• Describing what people are doing story: a bad day Writing a story based on a conversation Past Perfect Continuous
Art & Culture
• Useful phrases for Formal & Informal article: Graffiti: form of art or vandalism? Organising an article
emails and letters
Page 48 review: Art review based on a Writing Plan & a Model Answer
• Describing art
• The Environment letter/essay: Environmental Pollution Relative Clauses
Unit 5 • Talking about traffic congestion & Reading a news item
its problems – Different ways of article: Paper Recycling Multi-text Reading
The
expressing possibility / certainty
Environment story: Describing a flood
• For & Against Letter or Essay
report: Making suggestions on making your
Page 58 • Collocations & Making Suggestions school/college environmentally-friendly
and Giving Recommendations
Listening for gap filling & Writing Plan
• Health Wishes: Forming sentences
Unit 6 • Describing people in a gym: email: Making suggestions for a charity event with wish and if only
Phrases about feelings or thoughts story: Describing an argument with your partner
Health • Making a suggestion
• Vocabulary about an argument with article: Changes in children’s eating and exercise habits
Page 70 your partner - giving advice, talking letter: Giving advice to your friend on how to become fit
about compromise
Unit 7 • Work email: Suggesting a summer job to a friend Future Continuous &
• Describing people at work: Future Perfect Simple
Work Phrases to describe a workplace story: Writing about a career decision
report: Describing a work situation & suggesting improvements
• Phrases about Career Decisions
Page 80 and Work article: Are teenagers mature enough to make career decisions?
Unit 8 • Relationships letter: Giving advice to a mother Gerunds and Infinitives
• Describing a photo of a family - story: Describing a story about a friend moving away
Relationships different ways of saying ‘wearing’ -
describing ways of looking at essay: Effects of social media on human relationships
Page 90 something formal letter: Letter of complaint to the school’s headteacher
• Present Continuous & Present Simple p.101 • Expressing futurity p.106 • Wishes - Direct and Indirect Speech p.109
• Past Continuous & Present Simple p.102 • Past Perfect Simple p.106 • Indirect Statements/Imperatives/Questions p.110
Grammar • Past Simple p.103 • Past Perfect Continuous p.107 • Expressing Possibility & Deduction p.111
Reference • used to / would / be/get used to p.104 • Gerund & Infinitive p.107 • Expressing Necessity & Obligation p.111
• Present Perfect Simple p.104 • Passive Voice p.108 • Expressing Prohibition & Lack of Necessity p.111-112
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• Present Perfect Continuous / Past Simple p.105 • Causative Form p.108 • Advisability / Mild Obligation / Preference p.112
• Future Continuous & Future Perfect p.106 • Conditionals p.108 - 109 • Time clauses p.112

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