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CONTENTS WEEK OF: 06/05/13

ACTIVITY Warmer (2 pages) Warmer (3 pages) Listening CD Track 1 (3 pages) Listening CD Track 2 (2 pages) Listening CD Track 3 (3 pages) Listening CD Track 3 (2 pages) Reading + Listening CD Track 4 (3 pages) Reading (5 pages) Reading (5 pages) Reading (3 pages) DESCRIPTION SIGN LANGUAGE: Students identify and correct errors on signs. MAY HOROSCOPES: An information gap exercise based on horoscopes for May. LIGHT NEWS: Listening practice based on light news stories. LANGUAGE FOCUS Oral skills LEVEL LowIntermediate+ (A2+) Intermediate+ (B1+) LowIntermediate+ (A2+) Intermediate+ (B1+) MidIntermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)

Oral skills

Listening skills

BBC NEWS: Listening practice based on news stories. CBS NEWS: Listening practice based on news stories. CBS NEWS: Listening practice based on news stories. EUROPEANS RADICALISED: A newspaper article and radio report about the radicalisation of Europeans. CRISIS FOR EUROPE: A newspaper article about the European Unions many problems. EUROPES ROYALS FEEL THE PINCH: A newspaper article about how Europes monarchs are faring during the recession.

Listening skills

Listening skills

Listening skills

A study of phrasal verbs with get A study of words imported from Russian A study of clothing idioms

Intermediate+ (B1+) MidIntermediate+ (B2+) Intermediate+ (B1+)

CHIVALROUS ACTS ARE SUSPICIOUS: LowA newspaper article about the decline in A study of the second Intermediate+ conditional good manners. (A2+)