1.1 Personality description of someone you know.

Unit 1

COURSEBOOK

1.1 Personality description of someone you know.

1.2 p.9 ex.10

Brief profile of a famous person.

1.3 Write a short paragraph about any student in your class or Write a paragraph about one of the charismatic people using the Internet (better a living person).

1.4 p.13 ex.6

Write short notes on two of the candidates to send to Ben & Sylvia at Pacific Television.

1.5 p.15 ex.8

Write an essay using the notes you took in ex. 9a

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

Unit 2

COURSEBOOK

2.1 p.17 ex.6, p.17 ex.8 (concerning Russia and some other country)

2.2 Questions you would like to ask using past simple and phrasal verbs to interview one of the 3 explorers (M. Polo, J. Cousteau, & V.Tereshkova)

2.3 Write a summary of why you think your partner would be/wouldn’t be suitable for the jobs.

2.4 p.23 ex.6, 7a, 7b

Write an e-mail to the Head of the History Department at Arcadia University summarizing the 5 best suggestions from ex.7 &using some of the KEY & USEFUL LANGUAGE from page 23.

2.5 p.25 ex.7

Listen to some text in English (radio, TV...) & practice taking notes. Then write what you heard about using your notes.

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

Unit 3

COURSEBOOK

3.1 p.27 ex.7&8b

Look at some job advertisements in a newspaper or on the Internet and choose one you would like to do. Write why you chose it.

3.2 Write a letter or an email to a friend/family member to tell them your news. Include information about activities you described in ex.9 on page 29

3.3 p.31 ex.9 (Write killer questions)

Describe the situation where you might be interviewed and write a list of your own tips for doing a good interview in the context you have chosen.

3.4 Write a paragraph explaining why you would/wouldn’t offer the job to the person you interviewed in ex.8b, or why you would/wouldn’t accept the job.

3.5 p.35 ex.10

Choose another job from a newspaper and write a covering letter.

Write a compare and contrast essay on the title ‘When travelling, what is best, trains or planes?’ Use at least three of the following issues in your essay. You can add any other you can think of.

· Speed

· Price / value for money

· Which is better for short or long distances

· What you need to do before or after the journey (e.g. check-in)

· Safety

· Service on the journey

· Comfort

· Phobias (e.g. fear of flying)

(100-130 words)

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

Unit 4

COURSEBOOK

4.1 Write a list of tips for learning English.

4.2 Choose one of the statements from ex.8 p.41. Decide if you agree/disagree and why. Write your own comment for posting on the website.

4.3 Write a paragraph summarizing the arguments you used in the debate (ex.8 p.43)

Use the Internet to research and write a paragraph about minority language or write about a minority language you already know of in Russia.

4.4 Write an email to the Director of the IMA head office giving the suggestions you decided on in ec.5a p.45. You can use the email on page 44 as a model.

4.5 p.47 ex.9

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

Unit 5

COURSEBOOK

5.2 p. 51. ex.8, Name an advert you really hate or like, and say why.

5.3 Think of two places to take a friend or a family member on holiday. Then write a paragraph describing and comparing the places and saying why you would choose one over the other for your friend/family member.

5.4 p. 55 ex.5

5.5 p. 57 ex.8

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

Unit 6

COURSEBOOK

6.1 p. 59 ex. 8

Write a brief business plan summarizing the ideas you had in ex.8

6.2 p. 61 ex. 9

Write a short paragraph to describe the situation and difficult ethical decision in ex. 4b

6.3 p. 63 ex8

Research one of the people you learned about in ex. 7 and write a short biography using the past perfect and past simple.

6.4 p. 65 ex 6b

6.5 p. 67 ex.7

Write an email about your day/week/weekend.

VOCABULARY!!!!!!

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