Listening
Antarctica - (multiple matching)' *Predicting content using key words
Pop Idol (true/false)
♦Reading questions before listening Song: Anything is possible (Will Young)
About a boy (note taking) ♦Predicting missing information ■ People close to you (multiple choice: unrelated extracts)
Speaking
Working and non-working holidays ♦Organising your ideas ♦Ways of comparing
Talking about yourself (general conversation)
♦Making different types of questions
Ways of keeping in touch with people (discussion)
♦Ways of giving your opinion and asking for someone else's opinion
Writing
Article (1) What can tourists see and do in your town or area? ♦Features of a good article
Transactional letter (1)
Letter to a friend asking for information
♦Features of a transactional letter informal letter (T)
Letter to a friend telling recent news ♦Using informal language
Use of English
Word formation The Thames Barrier ♦Focusing on nouns and adjectives
Key word transformations .
♦Test yourself (similar or different pairs)
OpepKctoze Likeness of a person ♦Procedure for thinking of the correct word
Dreams (multiple matching)
♦Predicting content through pictures
Famous scientists (sentence completion) ♦Predicting missing words Your favourite things (muttiple matching)
♦Predicting content
Multiple choice: unrelated extracts ♦Justifying your answers Christopher Reeve (sentence completion)
♦Predicting missing information
Song: The Power of Goodbye
(Madonna)
Multiple choice (unrelated extracts) ♦Establishing context through key words
The curse of the Pharaohs (true/^aise) ♦Focusing on key information in the questions
Personal information (general conversation)
♦Asking for repetition/clarification
Things that are important to you (collaborative task) ♦Communicating interactively
Hospitals, first aid and wheelchair access (discussion)
♦Making extended responses
Saying goodbye (comparing photos) ♦Organising your comments (first general, then specific)
Personal conversation ♦Expressing doubt and uncertainty
Story (1)
♦Linking expressions of time (e.g. finally after that)
Article (2) / couldn't live without it! ♦Paragraphing
Report (1) Facilities for the disabled ♦Features of a good report
Transactional letter (2)
Letter to a friend
♦Paragraphing, letter layout and what to include
Story (2) Story from a title ♦Linking words of consequence (e.g. so, therefore)
Error correction Hothouse children ♦Focusing on type of words missing
Word formation Living the simple life ♦Focusing on nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs
Multiple-choice cloze French 'Spider-Man' reaches top of oil HQ ♦Choosing between options
Key word transformations ♦Working out which structure is being tested
Word formation
Stargate - a review
♦Endings for nouns and adjectives
Oprah Winfrey (note taking) ♦Predicting content from the notes
Article (3) Most people don't read enough
♦Introduction and conclusion paragraphs
Open cloze Interactive television ♦Focusing on what kind of word is missing
Mass media (discussion) ♦Ways of summarising and reporting a decision
Feng Shui (multiple matching) ♦Focusing on the main message
Water: fascinating facts (multiple
♦Listening for key words Water sports (multiple matching) ♦Predicting content
The life and death of Marilyn Monroe (note taking)
♦Predicting missing information
The most travelled man in history (true/false)
♦Making questions to help you listen Song: Proud (Heather Sma1!)
Two extracts from the play After Liverpool
Multiple choice (unrelated extracts) ♦Justifying your answers Bill Gates (sentence completion) ♦Predicting missing information
What makes you happy? (collaborative task)
♦Giving yourself time to think and reacting to your partner's ideas
People enjoying themselves in water (comparing photos)
♦Different types of specific comments
Witness to a crime (describing what you saw)
♦Noticing elements in a picture
Deciding what to put in a time capsule (collaborative task)
♦Sounding interested and involved
Dressing for a night out (comparing photos)
♦Ways of comparing and contrasting
Moral dilemmas (discussion)
♦Review of giving opinions, asking for opinions and expressing uncertainty
Discursive composition (1)
What is important for a happy life? ♦Linking phrases for organising your ideas (e.g. first of all, in conclusion)
Story ending with the words...
♦Time phrases (e.g. during his teenage years, only a year later)
Informal letter (2)
Describing an unusual event ♦Linking words (e.g. then, eventually) Multiple-choice cloze (vocabulary)
Transactional ietter (3)
Choosing a holiday with some friends ♦Focusing on appropriate content and style
Discursive composition (2) Cinema or video?
♦Linkers of contrast ♦Organising paragraphs
Report (2)
Recommending a charity ♦Ways of recommending
Multiple-choice cloze Name your price
♦Choosing between the four options
Error correction Five Olympic Golds!
♦Ordering stages for dealing with task type
Multiple-choice cloze Frozen in time
♦Choosing the correct alternative
Key word transformations ♦Following instructions correctly
Open cloze
Moulin Rouge - a review ♦Procedure for dealing with open
Word formation Something for everyone? ♦Focusing on what kind of word is missing