English Unlimited B1

• introduce and talk about yourself
• talk about needs, wants and reasons

Vocabulary
• Your life
• Needs, wants and reasons

Listening
• Kate talks about her life
• Learning a language

Speaking
• Talk about your life
• Give reasons

• talk about music
• talk about what to do in your free time
• talk about past events and present activities
• talk about sport and exercise
• talk about your interests and how they started
 Target activity Talk about an interest
Vocabulary
• Talking about music
• Deciding what to do
• Sports and exercise
• Talking about interests

Grammar
• Present simple, past simple, present progressive

Pronunciation
• Word stress

Listening
• Music in Trinidad and Tobago
• Li talks about motorbikes

 
Reading
• Interview with Ruben Gonzalez
Reading and listening
• WOMADelaide

Speaking
• Music and you
• Choose an event to attend
• Michelle Sung Wie, Vincent Mantsoe
• Sports and exercise

Keyword
• so

Across cultures
• Culture shock

EXPLORE Writing
• write messages of request and information to different people

Look again
• Spelling and sounds or, wor-

• talk about personal experience
• talk about your studies
• talk about your work
• Join a job agency
 Target activity: Have an interview
Vocabulary
• Studying
• Working conditions
• Presenting yourself

Grammar
• Present perfect 1 – for experience
• Present perfect 2 – with for and since

Pronunciation
• Sentence stress

Listening
• Lifelong learning
• Interview at a job agency

Reading
• The Workplace > chat

Speaking
• Past and present studies
• Educational experiences
• The work quiz
• Working conditions
• Life experiences
Keyword
• for
Independent learning
• Noticing and recording
• collocations

EXPLORE Speaking
• ask people to repeat, spell things and slow down
• show you understand
• take a phone message

Look again
• Spelling and sounds Words with -er, -or, -ar, -our

• give opinions
• talk about food and eating
• order a meal in a restaurant
• make suggestions
 Target activity: Plan a meal
Vocabulary
• Giving opinions
• Food and meals
• Ordering a meal
• Making suggestions

Grammar
• Nouns with prepositional phrases

Pronunciation
• Schwa /ə/ sound

Listening
• Planning a barbecue

Reading
• In defence of supermarkets

Reading and listening
• Eating out

Speaking
• Where you buy food
• Food and food shopping
• Order a meal
• Describe a recent meal

Keyword
• with

Across cultures
• Mealtimes

EXPLORE Writing
• give and understand written
• instructions

Look again
• Spelling and sounds oi, oy

• use a taxi
• describe past events
• tell a story
• tell a travel anecdote
 Target activity: Tell stories about memorable meetings
Vocabulary
• Taxis
• Getting a taxi
• Linking a story
• Starting a story

Grammar
• Past progressive

Pronunciation
• Sentence stress and schwa /ə/

Listening
• Two journeys by taxi
• Memorable meetings

Reading
• Hack: a taxi driver’s blog

Speaking
• Taxis
• Get a taxi
• Tell a story: the ten-dollar bill

Keyword
• back

Independent learning
• English outside the classroom

EXPLORE Speaking
• show interest in a conversation
• develop a conversation by asking questions and giving longer answers

Look again
• Spelling and sounds gh

• change money
• understand instructions on a cash machine
• pay for things in different places
• talk about rules and obligations
• give advice
 Target activity: Give advice to a visitor
Vocabulary
• Money
• Paying for things
• Giving advice

Grammar
• have to, can

Pronunciation
• Linking consonants and vowels 1

Listening
• At a bureau, de change
• Thiago in Scotland
• Advice for visitors

Reading
• Cash machine
• A new kind of banking?
• Borrower success stories

Speaking
• Change money
• Buy things
• Grameen Bank
• Success stories
• Laws in your country

Keyword
• it

Across cultures
• Money

EXPLORE Writing
• write an email or letter giving advice to a visitor

Look again
• Spelling and sounds -tion, -ssion, -cian

• talk about present habits
• talk about weather
• make comparisons
• express preferences
 Target activity: Do a survey
Vocabulary
• Household chores
• Talking about habits
• Weather
• Expressing preferences

Grammar
• Comparing things

Pronunciation
• Words with -er and -est
Listening
• Weather: Moscow, Kolkata
• Fitness centre survey

Reading
• The treadmill, The cycle washer

Speaking
• Who does the chores?
• Your habits
• Comparing regions

Keyword
• do

Independent learning
• Reading the phonemic script

EXPLORE Speaking
• speak more politely by being less direct

Look again
• Spelling and sounds -able and -ible

• ask about and buy things
• describe objects
• talk about possessions
 Target activity Talk about a favourite possession
Vocabulary
• Buying things
• Describing objects
• Talking about a possession

Grammar
• some, any
• Passives

Pronunciation
• Contrastive stress

Listening
• At Portobello Market
• Favourite possessions

Reading
• Mysteries.com

Speaking
• At a market stall
• Classroom objects
• Mysterious objects

Keyword
• by

Independent learning
• Ways of reading

EXPLORE Speaking
• explain words you don’t know

Look again
• Spelling and sounds ow

• say how you feel
• give and respond to different kinds of news
• thank people and apologise
• ask for news
 Target activity: Catch up with friends
Vocabulary
• yawn, laugh …
• Extreme adjectives
• Reacting to news, thanking, apologising
• Asking for news

Grammar
• Present perfect 3 – giving news

Pronunciation
• Intonation – speaking with emotion

Listening
• Just good friends
• Two friends catch up

Reading
• Why do people laugh? yawn? cry?

Speaking
• How did you feel?
• Role play: Jean-Paul and Rachel
• What’s happened?

Keyword
• just

Across cultures
• Gestures

EXPLORE Writing
• write an email or note of apology

Look again
• Spelling and sounds -ge, -dge, -age

• book a room and check into a hotel
• talk about plans and arrangements
• make and change arrangements
 Target activity: Arrange to meet up
Vocabulary
• Hotel facilities
• Staying in a hotel
• Arranging to meet up

Grammar
• Future plans and arrangements
Pronunciation
• Intonation in questions

Listening
• A room in Kuala Lumpur
• Leonardo and Min’s plans
• A change of plan

Reading
• Remember me?

Speaking
• Book a room, check in
• Plans and arrangements

Keyword
• make

Independent learning
• Improve your listening

EXPLORE Speaking
• use questions to preface invitations and requests

Look again
• Spelling and sounds au, aw

• talk about homes and housing
• describe imaginary situations
• discuss pros and cons
• talk about ways to solve problems
 Target activity: Talk about a problem
Vocabulary
• Describing homes
• Talk about pros and cons
• Solving problems

Grammar
• would

Pronunciation
• Groups of words 1

Listening
• Moving home
• Eva’s problem

Reading
• Architect of the future?

Speaking
• Describe your home
• Your ideal home
• Le Corbusier’s ideas
• Your area: pros and cons

Keyword
• there

Across cultures
• Neighbours

EXPLORE Writing
• write a letter or email of complaint

Look again
• Spelling and sounds ck, k, ch, qu

• say where places are
• describe countries
• talk about people’s lives and achievements
 Target activity: Talk about people and places in your country
Vocabulary
• Location
• Describing a country
• Life and achievements
• Expressions with know

Grammar
• Infinitives and gerunds

Pronunciation
• Stress in verbs

Listening
• Akebono, sumo wrestler
• Lech Wał¸esa, Kraków

Reading
• The Vatican City, Tuval

Speaking
• Describe where places are
• Three small countries
• Talk about your life
• Hopes and plans

Keyword
• to

Independent learning
• Guessing what words mean

EXPLORE Speaking
• use vague language

Look again
• Spelling and sounds -ent, -ant

• talk about electronic gadgets you use
• use the phone in different situations
• talk about past habits and states
 Target activity: Talk about technology and change
Vocabulary
• How I feel about gadgets
• Telephone expressions
• Comparing past and present

Grammar
• used to, would

Pronunciation
• Groups of words 2

Listening
• Electronic gadgets
• Christine’s phone calls

Reading
• childhoodbeliefs.com
• Living your life online

Speaking
• Gadgets you use
• Role play: phone calls
• Childhood memories

Keyword
• time

Across cultures
• Time

EXPLORE Writing
• write about a memory

Look again
• Spelling and sounds ei, ey

• express and respond to opinions
• have a discussion
• discuss imaginary situations
• take part in a meeting
 Target activity: Have a debate
Vocabulary
• Expressing opinions
• Responding to opinions

Grammar
• Real and unreal conditionals

Pronunciation
• Groups of words 3

Listening
• Argument about boxing

Reading
• Ways to reduce your kitchen’s carbon footprint
• A new airport

Speaking
• Give opinions
• Agree and disagree
• Nandita’s blog
• Our carbon footprint

Keyword
• would

Independent learning
• Improve your speaking

EXPLORE Speaking
• use expressions to soften opinions and disagreements

Look again
• Spelling and sounds
• -le, -el, -al, -ul