Gathering UNIT 1
Contents
Listening texts
Page 7
UNIT 2
Games Page 17
UNIT 3
Nostalgia Page 27
UNIT 4
Risk
Page 37
UNIT 5
Urban Page 47
UNIT 6
Legacy
UNIT 7
Page 67
UNIT 8
Change Page 77
UNIT 9
Flow
UNIT 10
Language development
Inferring a speaker’s attitude
Binomials
2 Getting from you and me, to we
Applying a theory to other situations
Modal verbs and levels of directness
1 Video Games: Lessons for life
Identifying key information in an argument
Prepositional verbs
1 Three meetings
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2 Game Theory
Selecting information for notes and summaries
Phrasal verbs
1 How to deal with homesickness &
Understanding different perspectives
2 Memory and smell
Distinguishing argument from other content
1 The world’s most dangerous jobs
Using illustrative examples to support an argument
2 What is acceptable risk?
Anticipating a conclusion based on reasons and evidence
Possible, probable, and hypothetical future predictions
1 Cars and cities
Persuading through reasons
Connotation
2 Making cities more liveable
Synthesizing ideas to make judgements
Academic verbs
1 Family food legacies
Persuading through evidence
Inversion
2 Technology legacies
Identifying a causal link
Collocations: Way
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Approximation Particulizer and exclusive adverbs Nominalization
Page 57
Vast
Differentiating between fact and Attitude adverbials opinion Abstract nouns 2 Why do people climb mountains? Identifying statements that need justification 1 The Trans-Siberian railway
Conflict Page 97
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1 Metamorphosis – the secrets behind nature’s amazing change
Maximizing language
Expressing change
Recognizing implicit assumptions
Gradeable adjectives
1 Not worth a dam
Identifying counter- arguments
Irregular plurals
2 The concept of flow
Appreciating visual aids and diagrams
Words in context – working with concordance data
1 Conflict of interest
Identifying strengths in theories and arguments
Hedging and boosting
2 A global tax on changing money?
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Critical thinking skill
2 “The Sporting Spirit”
Consistency
Using the correct linkers
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