UNIT
IELTS Paper
Focus
Vocabulary
Focus
Skills
Focus
Grammar
Focus
Exam
Focus
9 Free time and
entertainment
(pp. 104-113)
Speaking
• Words/Phrases for
free time and
entertainment
• Collocations
• Expanding
on ideas
• Second
Conditional
• Present
wishes and
regrets
• Speaking Test Part 3
• Discussion
10 Jobs
(pp. 114-123)
Listening
• Words/Phrases for
jobs
• Collocations
• Word stress
• Listening for
attitude
• Listening for
detail
• The gerund • Listening Paper
Section 3
• Sentence completion
• Summary completion
11 Working in
business
(pp. 124-135)
Reading
(Academic)
• Words/Phrases for
working in
business
• Collocations
• Word stress
• Prefixes
• Reading for
main ideas
•
May, Might,
Could,
Should,
Ought to
• Reading Paper
(Academic)
Passages 2 & 3
• Matching headings
• Matching sentence
endings
12 Transport
(pp. 136-147)
Writing
(Academic)
• Words/Phrases
about transport
• Collocations
• Prepositions
• Frequently
confused words
• Linking ideas:
addition and
contrast
• Planning
your writing
• Past Simple
and Past
Perfect
Simple
• Writing Paper
(Academic)
Task 1
• Describing facts and
figures in graphs,
tables, etc
Revision and Exam Practice: Units 9-12
(pp. 148-151)
13 Modern living
(pp. 152-163)
Speaking
• Words/Phrases
about modern
living
• Collocations
• Prepositional
phrases
• Developing
answers
• Review of
Past and
Perfect
tenses
• Speaking Test Parts 1,
2 & 3
• Introduction and
Interview
• Long turn
• Discussion
14 Talks,
presentations
and lectures
(pp. 164-173)
Listening
• Words/Phrases
about talks,
presentations and
lectures
• Expressions
• Collocations
• Listening for
signal words
• Listening for
detail
• The future • Listening Paper
Section 4
• Form, note, table,
flow-chart, summary
completion tasks
15 The natural
world
(pp. 174-185)
Reading
(Academic)
• Words/Phrases
about the natural
world
• Collocations
• Suffixes
• Reading for
specific
information/
scanning to
check
information/
opinions
• Past tense
of modals
would/
should/
might
• Reading Paper
(Academic)
Passages 2 & 3
• Identifying information
• Identifying writer’s
views/claims
• Summary completion
16 Global issues
(pp. 186-195)
Writing
(Academic)
• Words/Phrases
about global
issues
• Collocations
• Adjective suffixes
• Developing
paragraphs
• Defining
and non-
defining
relative
clauses
• Writing Paper
(Academic) Task 2
• Discursive essay
Revision and Exam Practice: Units 13-16
(pp. 196-199)
Grammar Reference
(pp. 200-209)
Irregular Verbs
(p. 210)
Tapescript
(pp. 211-222)
Sample Answer Sheets
(pp. 223-224)
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