Tipo: A

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People and places
Discuss reasons for living where you do.
Grammar: Present perfect vs present continuous. Structure: so+ adjective+ that.
Vocabulary: Migration, climate.
Listening:  Interviews about why people live where they do.
Speaking and pronunciation:  Discussing reasons for staying or moving.
Reading and writing: Writing a traveller’s journal.

The mind
Talk about remembering and forgetting.
Grammar: Gerunds as subjects and after prepositions.
Vocabulary: Thought processes, scientific investigations.
Listening: A radio program about the unusual condition of synesthesia.
Speaking and pronunciation: Talking about sensations, /th/ sounds.
Reading and writing: Writing about a personal experience.

Changing planet
Discuss causes and effects.
Grammar: Passive voice, past perfect tense.
Vocabulary: Environmental changes.
Listening: Climate change.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing cause and effect, linking words.
Reading and writing: Writing a letter about life in the future.

Money
Describe your money habits.
Grammar: Gerund vs infinitive, review of the passive.
Vocabulary: Money transactions.
Listening: Radio program: the history of money.
Speaking and pronunciation: Giving suggestions for how to have fun.
Reading and writing: Writing a personal opinion.

Survival
Talk about emergency situations.
Grammar: Unreal conditional, wish.
Vocabulary: survival skills.
Listening: A radio program interviewing survivors.
Speaking and pronunciation: Situation: working with a team in a survival situation.
Reading and writing: Writing an advertisement brochure.

Art
Report what another person said.
Grammar: Reported speech, subject adjective clauses.
Vocabulary: Art terminology and materials.
Listening: Conversations in a museum.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing personal selection.
Reading and writing: writing a detailed description.

Transportation
Talk about new developments in transportation.
Grammar: Passive voice, indirect questions.
Vocabulary: Modern transportation, public transportation.
Listening: Subway systems.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: solving an airport problem.
Reading and writing: Writing a letter to the editor.

Competition
Give your opinion about sports.
Grammar: Negative questions, object adjective clauses.
Vocabulary: Sportmanship.
Listening: Interviews.
Speaking and pronunciation: Matching sports to personalities.
Reading and writing: Writing a list of competition tips.

Danger
Discuss ways to stay safe.
Grammar: Tag questions, adverbial clauses.
Vocabulary: Dangerous things.
Listening: Radio program: an unusual job.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: a newspaper interview.
Reading and writing: Writing about a risk situation.

Mysteries
Speculate about mysteries.
Grammar: Modals, future in the past.
Vocabulary: Reactions to surprise.
Listening: Interviews of eye-witnesses.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: two sides of a mystery.
Reading and writing: Writing about fauxtography.

Learning
Talk about educational plans and decisions.
Grammar: Modals, noun clauses.
Vocabulary: education, university majors.
Listening: Personal experiences.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing quiz results.
Reading and writing: Writing about improving schools.

Space
Talk about the future.
Grammar: Future tenses, future modals.
Vocabulary: Space exploration.
Listening: Interview of an astronaut.
Speaking and pronunciation: role-play: choosing a space experiment.
Reading and writing: Writing about orbiting telescopes.

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