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<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Using topic sentences to understand main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Scanning<br>&nbsp;- Predicting<br>&nbsp;- Identifying arguments and opinions<br>&nbsp;- Analyzing opinions&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Read topic sentences to understand main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Read texts to identify arguments and opinions&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type:<br>&nbsp;- Read and match the idea with the sentences paragraph<br>&nbsp;- Read and answer T (True), F (False), NG (Not Given) questions.<br>&nbsp;- Read and complete the sentence&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- What does polite mean to you?<br>&nbsp;- Social media society&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use words to give opinions&nbsp;</div>

Reading

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Writing a balanced opinion&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Write paragraphs that give balanced opinions<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, plan, and write a paragraph explaining and justifying your opinion about how polite young people are today&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Writing task 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use discourse markers of contrast and comparison</div>

Writing

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for examples<br>&nbsp;- Predicting<br>&nbsp;- Listening for details&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for examples<br>&nbsp;- Listen for details&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen for details&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Community service<br>&nbsp;- Can money buy happiness?&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use verb and noun collocations&nbsp;</div>

Listening

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Giving reasons and explanations&nbsp;<br>3. IELTS task type: How to give examples, provide reasons and add information&nbsp;<br>4. Grammar: Use discourse markers for adding reasons or details</div>

Speaking

Unit 1: Society

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Completing a summary of main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Previewing a text<br>&nbsp;- Scanning<br>&nbsp;- Skimming<br>&nbsp;- Understanding synonyms&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice summarizing main ideas you find in texts&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Look for synonyms in texts to help you identify repeated ideas and main topics of sections&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type:<br>&nbsp;- Read and match the idea with the paragraph&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- The food of Indonesia<br>&nbsp;- Farming in extremes&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use adjectives for describing food&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Writing compound sentences&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Write compound sentences to express more complex ideas<br>&nbsp;- Plan, write, and edit a paragraph describing food production in your country&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Writing task 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use relative clauses</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for emphasis of main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for additional information<br>&nbsp;- Predicting<br>&nbsp;- Listening for details&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for emphasis of main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Predicting&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Comprehension listening: Listen and fill in the blanks&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Food waste<br>&nbsp;- Brain food&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use phrasal verbs&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Offering advice and suggestions&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice consonant clusters&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Offer advice and suggestions<br>&nbsp;- Present ways to reduce food waste in your local town<br>4. IELTS task type: Speaking task 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use relative clauses to add further information</div>

Review 1

Unit 2: Food

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Identifying main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Identifying supporting details<br>&nbsp;- Signposting<br>&nbsp;- Scanning&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Read texts to identify examples, reasons, and explanations<br>&nbsp;- Look for signposting to help you identify main ideas and text organization&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Read and match the correct paragraph with it main idea&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- How much is it worth?<br>&nbsp;- Starting on the path to success?&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use business verbs&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Writing an introduction&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice writing essay introductions<br>&nbsp;- Prepare, write, and edit an introduction to an essay on the importance of customer service in business&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Write an introduction in Writing task 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use modals of obligation and necessity</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for subtopics<br>&nbsp;- Listening for reasons<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for contrasts&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for reasons<br>&nbsp;- Listen for contrasts&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Number the topics in the order in which you hear them&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Work space<br>&nbsp;- Big business&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use business vocabulary&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Turn-taking&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Turn-taking<br>&nbsp;- Present a business plan to turn a failing business around<br>&nbsp;- Chunking a presentation&nbsp;<br>4.&nbsp;Grammar: Use modal verbs for advice</div>

Unit 3: Business

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Understanding main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Understanding data<br>&nbsp;- Recognizing academic texts<br>&nbsp;- Completing a summary<br>&nbsp;- Understanding charts and graphs&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Read texts to understand different kinds of data<br>&nbsp;- Identify primary and secondary research to help you understand academic texts&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Complete the sentences with information from the text&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- The super consumer generation<br>&nbsp;- Changing shopping habits&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use words for comparing and contrasting&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Summarizing trends in graphs&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice summarizing trends in graphs<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, plan, and write a summary of trends in a graph&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS task 1&nbsp;<br>5. Grammar: Use irregular verbs in the simple past</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for key words<br>&nbsp;- Listening for dates<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for time signals&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for dates<br>&nbsp;- Listen for time signals&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listening for key words<br>Listening for main ideas&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Car safety<br>&nbsp;- Urban sprawl&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use synonyms and antonyms&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Asking for clarification and repetition&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice stress patterns in phrases connected with and&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Ask for clarification and repetition<br>&nbsp;- Present a timeline of your city&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Speaking part 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use the simple past to order historical events</div>

Unit 4: Trends

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Understanding main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Using pronoun reference<br>&nbsp;- Predicting<br>&nbsp;- Identifying opinions<br>&nbsp;- Identifying reasons&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Use pronoun reference when reading to understand how a text is organized<br>&nbsp;- Identify reasons that explain or support main ideas&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Complete the sentences with information from the text&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Failing to succeed<br>&nbsp;- Building a success&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use re- prefixes to describe change&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Describing locations and changes&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice describing locations and changes on maps and diagrams<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, plan, and write a description of changes and improvements to an area of farmland shown on two plans&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS Writing task 1&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use determiners of quantity</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for vocabulary in context<br>&nbsp;- Listening to summarize<br>&nbsp;- Listening for details&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for vocabulary in context<br>&nbsp;- Listen to summarize content&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and choose the best summary.&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Skill: effort or luck?<br>&nbsp;- What is success?&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use prefixes&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Using discourse markers to compare and contrast&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice stress in modifiers before data<br>&nbsp;- Use discourse markers to compare and contrast<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, prepare, and present a small talk about passing exams<br>4.&nbsp;Grammar: Use quantifiers to express approximate quantity</div>

Review 2

Unit 5: Success

Midterm: Written test

Midterm test

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Summarizing main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Identifying cause and effect<br>&nbsp;- Identifying tone<br>&nbsp;- Scanning&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice identifying cause and effect relationships<br>&nbsp;- Identify tone in an article to help you understand the author’s opinion&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Read and write T (True), F (False), or NG (Not Given) for each sentence.&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Pressure on parents<br>&nbsp;- Rich and famous&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use phrases for hedging and boosting&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Writing about cause and effect&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice writing paragraphs on causes and effects<br>&nbsp;- Plan, write, and edit two cause and effect paragraphs on the effects of pressure on children today&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS Writing task 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use present conditionals</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main idea<br>&nbsp;- Listening for how opinions are supported<br>&nbsp;- Listening for cause and effect<br>&nbsp;3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen for how opinions are supported<br>&nbsp;- Listen for cause and effect&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and complete the sentences&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Peer pressure<br>&nbsp;- Exam pressure&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use collocations with get</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Explaining something you don’t know the word for&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice consonant sounds at word boundaries<br>&nbsp;- Use different techniques to explain something you don’t know the word for<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm and discuss ways to reduce academic pressure<br>4.&nbsp;Grammar: Use modals in conditional sentences to give advice</div>

Unit 6: Pressure

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Using topic sentences<br>&nbsp;- Deducing meaning from context<br>&nbsp;- Skimming<br>&nbsp;- Understanding definitions&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice deducing the meaning of new words from context<br>&nbsp;- Practice identifying definitions in texts&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Read the text and identify in which paragraph you could find the information to answer the questions.&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Fears, learning, coping<br>&nbsp;- Fight or flight&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use verb and preposition collocations&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Essay structure: organizing notes into paragraphs&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice organizing your notes into essay paragraphs<br>&nbsp;- Compose, share, and edit two paragraphs about the pros and cons of fear&nbsp;<br>4. Grammar: Use present perfect simple</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Recognizing organizational phrases<br>&nbsp;- Listening for details<br>&nbsp;- Listening for key words<br>&nbsp;- Listening for problems and solutions&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen to recognize organizational phrases<br>&nbsp;- Listen to identify problems and solutions&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and match&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Fear of public speaking<br>&nbsp;- Phobias&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use the suffixes -ful and -less&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Managing questions&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice pausing and pacing speech<br>&nbsp;- Use key language to manage questions from the floor<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, prepare, and present a small talk about a problem you have had to solve&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS speaking part 2, talk in 2 minutes about a given topic.&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use the present perfect tense with adverbs to talk about experiences</div>

Unit 7: Fear

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Identifying main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Distinguishing between facts and assumptions<br>&nbsp;- Identifying bridge sentences<br>&nbsp;- Reading for detail&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice distinguishing between facts and assumptions<br>&nbsp;- Identify bridge sentences to better understand text organization&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Find the topic sentences and match the paragraphs with the main ideas&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- National hero<br>&nbsp;- The power of the written word&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use adverbs and adverbial phrases of time&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Linking paragraphs&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice using topic sentences, bridge sentences, and concluding sentences to improve essay structure<br>&nbsp;- Plan, write, and share two paragraphs on the story of an important invention or discovery&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS Writing task 2&nbsp;<br>5. Grammar: Use past perfect and simple past</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for the order of events<br>&nbsp;- Listening for key words<br>&nbsp;- Listening to add details to a diagram&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen to identify the order of events<br>&nbsp;- Listen for details to add to a diagram&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and number the events&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- A travel story<br>&nbsp;- Elements of a plot&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use descriptive adjectives&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Using sentence adverbs&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Identify, distinguish, and pronounce words beginning with /g/ and /k/<br>&nbsp;- Use words to express your attitude towards something<br>&nbsp;- Prepare and tell a factual or fictional story you know<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS speaking part 2&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use the past progressive to tell a story or experience</div>

Review 4

Unit 8: Stories

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Summarizing main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Scanning<br>&nbsp;3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Scan texts for examples that support the main idea<br>&nbsp;- Scan texts for examples listed in groups of three&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Read and match&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Rainforests of the sea<br>&nbsp;- Living together&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use words to describe environmental issues&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Summarizing arguments&nbsp;<br>in a conclusion&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice summarizing arguments in an essay conclusion<br>&nbsp;- Brainstorm, compose, and revise a conclusion to an essay about an environmental issue in your country&nbsp;<br>4.&nbsp;Grammar: Use present and past perfect passives</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for main ideas<br>&nbsp;- Listening for pros and cons<br>&nbsp;- Listening to order information<br>&nbsp;- Listening to a presenter interact with the audience<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen to recognize pros and cons of an argument<br>&nbsp;- Listen to a presenter interact with an audience&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and complete the sentences&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Solar power<br>&nbsp;- Eco-tourism&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use word families related to the environment&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: - Interacting with a presenter&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice stress with word suffixes&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Use different techniques to interact with a presenter<br>&nbsp;- Present a poster on the environment<br>4.&nbsp;Grammar: Use modal passives to describe processes and actions</div>

Unit 9: Environment

<div>1. Skills: Reading&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Previewing a text<br>&nbsp;- Taking notes: using your own words<br>&nbsp;- Scanning<br>&nbsp;- Summarizing information<br>&nbsp;- Researching informationto support your writing&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice taking notes in your own words when reading<br>&nbsp;- Form research questions to focus your reading&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Read the text. Write T (True), F (False), or NG (Not Given) for each sentence.&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Self-diagnosis&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- A good night’s sleep&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use words to describe medical symptoms&nbsp;</div>

<div>1. Skills: Writing&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Proofreading and editing your work&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Practice proofreading and editing your writing&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Plan, write, and edit an opinion essay on the merits of self-diagnosis&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: IELTS writing task 2: write an opinion essay&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use reported speech</div>

<div>1. Skills: Listening&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill:<br>&nbsp;- Listening for the order of events<br>&nbsp;- Listening to how an argument is supported<br>&nbsp;- Listening to order information<br>&nbsp;- Listening to determine the speaker’s attitude&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Listen to recognize how an argument is supported<br>&nbsp;- Listen to determine the speaker’s attitude&nbsp;<br>4. IELTS task type: Listen and Mark the statements T (True) or F (False).&nbsp;<br>5. Reading/ Listening texts:<br>&nbsp;- Face-to-face vs. online doctors<br>&nbsp;- Medical tourism&nbsp;<br>6. Vocabulary: Practice and use medical vocabulary</div>

<div>1. Skills: Speaking&nbsp;<br>2. Subskill: Refuting an argument&nbsp;<br>3. Objective:<br>&nbsp;- Notice and practice citation, contrastive, and emphatic stress<br>&nbsp;- Use different techniques to refute an argument&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;- Hold a debate on the impact technology has on patient care<br>4. IELTS task type: Debate the issue. Make and support your arguments.&nbsp;<br>5.&nbsp;Grammar: Use indirect questions to be polite</div>

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