Issue 1 : Who Are You? (page 3) // Language Areas Topics Structures and Vocabulary Sets Functions Project Task: Your Magazine // Revision Identifying and describing people 1 The team What’s your name? How old are you? When’s your birthday? Where do you live? What do you do? Asking about and giving personal details Interview a partner. Make an identity card. // 2 What do you look like? What colour eyes/hair have you got? Do you wear glasses? What are you wearing today? Asking about and giving physical descriptions Describe yourself. // 3 Hot Dog and Cool Cat can/can’t good at... Asking about and describing abilities Interview a partner about his/her abilities. // 4 Roots Genitives X married Y. X and Y and .. . children. Asking about and giving family details Make a family tree. // 5 Alex Haley’s family 6 Kunta Kinte’s master Simple past tense Asking about and giving biographical details Describe an incident in the life of someone in the family tree. // Issue 2: Accidents Will Happen (page 15) // Past time 1 Children of courage Past continuous 1 Past simple Describing actions in the past - Write about a rescue. // 2 Justin’s chips Past continuous 2 Explaining how something happened // 3 Fire is dangerous Imperatives Giving warnings and advice Make a set of safety rules for the home. // 4 Hot Dog and Cool Cat Past continuous questions Past simple questions Finding out what happened Make a ‘Whodunit’. // 5 The Mary Rose Past continuous negative Time prepositions in/on/at
Describing a historical event Giving dates and times Write and act a play about the Mary Rose. // 6 Lifting the Mary Rose It was raining. It was cloudy. It was windy. Describing the weather Write a newspaper story about a disaster at sea. // Issue 3: Do You Know? (page 29) // Language Areas Topics Structures and Vocabulary Sets Functions Project Task: Your Magazine // Comparing • 1 Temperatures Comparatives than Comparing physical properties Explain why the seasons change. // 2 A quiz Superlatives the... est X in the world Describing records Make your own quiz. // 3 Hot Dog and Cool Cat good, better, best bad, worse, worst Comparing quality Hold a Look-alike Competition. // 4 The tallest man Numbers 100-999 Comparatives with more Superlatives with most Describing problems Do a classroom survey on heights. // 5 School subjects Comparatives with less Superlatives with least Expressing preferences Making judgements Do a Classroom survey on subject preferences. // 6 Valentine’s Day as... as Expressing equivalence Make a Valentine’s card. // Issue 4: Eating (page 39) // Quantity 1 Come to our party Prepositions of time and place Giving details of time and place Write an invitation to your party. // 2 At the supermarket a bottle of two loaves of Expressing units of food Make a shopping list for your party. // How much is...? How much are...? Prices 13pa... // 3 Fast food There aren’t any... There are no... Present simple Irregular plurals Describing a procedure Explain where
and how to get a meal in your country. // 4 Stone soup some/any a bit of... a few... a lot of... Expressing quantity Do a classroom survey on food: likes and dislikes. // 5 Phil’s potato cakes Imperatives Prepositions of place and manner 100 g... Explaining recipes Write instructions for your favourite recipe. // Issue 5: Progress And Change (page 5i) // Present and past time 1 Hot Dog and Cool Cat Present perfect affirmative Describing recent actions A new invention. Write a play on the testing of a new invention. // 2 Times have changed Present perfect contrasted with Past simple showing completed action Present perfect interrogative have become + comparative Describing changes Telling a life-story Write a biography of two old people. Interview them. // Make a collage of things to show how times have changed. // 3 Problems with Justin Present perfect negative Present perfect contrasted with past simple, showing point of time Saying what you have or haven’t done A class survey on what people have done this week. // 4 Save the whales since/for Explaining changes in the past and present Make a poster about animals in danger of extinction. // Issue 6: London (page 65) // Language Areas Topics Structures and Vocabulary Sets Functions Project Task: Your Magazine // Location 1 Snapshots Prepositions: in, on, at, by, in front of Describing position Our city. Make a picture scrap- book about your town. Write some facts about the town. // 2 A sightseeing tour on the left/right straight
ahead Prepositions of movement: towards, along, over, away from Describing direction and position Plan a sightseeing tour round your town. // 3 The Fire of London Past tense revision Describing when, where and how some- thing happened Write about a disaster in your town: fire, earthquake, flood. // 4 Where shall we go today? Let’s go to the... How much is it to...? How does it open/close? Asking for and giving information about places to visit Make a guide to places of interest in your town. // 5 Transport can have/has to don’t/doesn’t have to Explaining advantages and disadvantages Describing a procedure Explain how to use the transport system in your town. // 6 Visitors Take the first turning on the left. Where’s the nearest...? Go down here. Asking for and giving directions Describe your route to school. // Issue 7: Reader’s Issue (page 81) // Going modals It’s up to you (page 79) going to Talking about future intentions // 1 Record breakers and with large numbers decimal numbers Describing achievements Giving specific facts Find out and write about a record breaker from your country. // 2 Hot Dog and Cool Cat must, needn’t, mustn’t Giving advice Make a list of your school rules. // 3 Wheels of Fortune will/won’t have to had to Saying what someone will have to or had to do Make your own ‘Wheels of Fortune’ TV show. // 4 My broken arm could/couldn’t Describing abilities and disabilities in the past // 5 The Mysterious Planet will/won’t be able to Describing abilities
and disabilities in the future Write an ending for the story and act it. // Issue 8: Newspapers (page 93) // Process and procedure 1 Newspapers Passive voice, present tense Describing a system Find out and write about news- papers in your country. // 2 A newspaper office Passive voice, interrogative Describing what happens in a system Our newspaper office. Imagine your school is a newspaper office. Make a guided tour round it. // 3 The team Active contrasted with passive voice by + agent Passive voice, past tense Describing someone’s job Make a flow chart to explain how a story was written. // 4 Amazing arm operation Passive voice, past tense 2 Describing what happened Find an interesting story in your newspapers or on TV and write it in English. // 5 Front page Passive voice, future and present perfect tenses Describing events related to the present Foreign correspondent. Make a list of the ten most important stories in the news today.