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| 1 | Reading Skill: Identifying main ideas and supporting details
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to identify word forms
Listening Skill: Listening for main ideas, identifying key words
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing a paragraph
Speaking Skill: Checking for understanding
Grammar: Conditionals
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| 2 | Listening Skill: Identifying details, Taking notes
Reading Skill: Previewing a text
Vocabulary Skill: Use of context to understand words
Writing Skill: Using descriptive adjectives
Speaking Skill: Conforming understanding
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
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| 3 | Listening Skill: Making predictions
Reading Skill: Taking notes
Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms
Writing Skill: Writing a summary and a personal response
Speaking Skill: Giving a presentation
Grammar: Verbs & Verb Patterns
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| 4 | Listening Skill: Making inferences
Reading Skill: Distinguishing facts from opinions
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Writing Skill: Writing an informal email giving mews
Speaking Skill: Avoiding answering questions
Grammar: Present Perfect and present perfect continuous
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| 5 | Listening Skill: Understanding bias in a presentation
Reading Skill: Using referents to understand contrast
Vocabulary Skill: Using dictionary to find the correct meaning
Writing Skill: Writing an email of complaint
Speaking Skill: Expressing interest during a conversation
Grammar: Shifts between past and present time fames
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| 6 | Listening Skill: Listening for contrasting ideas
Reading Skill: Using a graphic organizer
Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal verbs
Writing Skill: Stating reasons and giving examples
Speaking Skill: Changing the topic
Grammar: Simple, compound, and complex structures
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| 7 | Listening Skill: Listening for signal words and phrases
Reading Skill: Using a timeline
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions and nouns
Writing Skill: Writing a summary
Speaking Skill: Using questions to maintain listener interest
Grammar: Indirect Speech
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| 8 | Listening Skill: Listening for causes and effects
Reading Skill: Scanning a text
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with adjectives + prepositions
Writing Skill: Writing an email of complaint
Speaking Skill: Adding to another speaker’s comments
Grammar: Sentence fragments
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| 9 | Listening Skill: Listening for causes and effects
Reading Skill: Skimming, separating fact and opinion
Vocabulary Skill: Words with different meanings
Writing Skill: Writing with unity
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving examples
Grammar: Modal verbs
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| 10 | Listening Skill: Listening for specific information
Reading Skill: Distinguishing main ideas from details
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
Writing Skill: Using evidence to support an argument
Speaking Skill: Giving advice and making recommendations
Grammar: Contrast and concession connectors
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| 11 | Listening Skill: Recognizing facts and opinions
Reading Skill: Making inferences
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary: verb complements
Writing Skill: Connecting information
Speaking Skill: Expressing opinions
Grammar: Subject-verb agreement
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| 12 | Listening Skill: Recognizing a speaker’s attitude
Reading Skill: Identifying reference words, inferring meaning
Vocabulary Skill: Guessing meaning from context
Writing Skill: Organizing supporting details
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving clarification
Grammar: Sentence fragments
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| 13 | Listening Skill: Listening for specific information
Reading Skill: Scanning a text
Vocabulary Skill: Words with different meanings
Writing Skill: Paraphrasing
Speaking Skill: Participating in a group discussion
Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives
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| 14 | Listening Skill: Listening for reasons and explanations
Reading Skill: Skimming, inferring meaning
Vocabulary Skill: Antonyms
Writing Skill: Writing with unity
Speaking Skill: Giving a persuasive presentation
Grammar: Adjective Clauses
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| 15 | Listening Skill: Predicting
Reading Skill: Following ideas
Vocabulary Skill: Word groups, synonyms, recognizing parts of speech
Writing Skill: Connecting information
Speaking Skill: Expressing opinions
Grammar: Adverbial Clauses
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| 16 | Listening Skill: Note-taking skill: Using a chart to organize notes about main ideas
Reading Skill: Previewing and predicting
Vocabulary Skill: Understanding meaning from context
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing an essay
Speaking Skill: Dealing with problems on the phone
Grammar: Restrictive relative clauses
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| 17 | Listening Skill: Understanding North American and British accents
Reading Skill: Highlighting and annotating
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Writing a three-paragraph analysis essay
Speaking Skill: Conforming understanding
Grammar: Talking about past events / Past perfect forms
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| 18 | Listening Skill: Identifying details
Reading Skill: Skimming a text using topic sentences
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with nouns
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay
Speaking Skill: Expressing opinions
Grammar: Talking about the future
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| 19 | Listening Skill: Taking notes using key words and phrases / Making predictions
Reading Skill: Making inferences
Vocabulary Skill: Noun suffixes / recognizing easily confused words
Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive essay
Speaking Skill: Giving a presentation
Grammar: Using the passive / Using causative have and get
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| 20 | Listening Skill: Making predictions
Reading Skill: Highlighting and annotating
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and suffixes
Writing Skill: Writing a narrative essay and varying sentence patterns
Speaking Skill: Language to give solutions
Grammar: Using verbs with –ing and infinitive
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| 21 | Listening Skill: Making inferences
Reading Skill: Understanding linkers
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Writing Skill: Writing an article giving advice
Speaking Skill: Language to give solutions
Grammar: Using determiners and quantifiers
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| 22 | Listening Skill: Listening for stressed words
Reading Skill: Understanding compare and contrast organization
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to distinguish between homonyms
Writing Skill: Writing a compare and contrast essay
Speaking Skill: Avoiding answering questions
Grammar: Subordinators and transitions to compare and contrast
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| 23 | Listening Skill: Editing notes after a lecture / Understanding bias in a presentation
Reading Skill: Recognizing bias
Vocabulary Skill: Cause and effect collocations
Writing Skill: Writing a cause and effect essay
Speaking Skill: Expressing interest during a conversation
Grammar: Comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs
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| 24 | Listening Skill: Comparing and contrasting notes on multiple topics / Listening for contrasting ideas
Reading Skill: Using an outline
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary: formal and informal words
Writing Skill: Writing a summary
Speaking Skill: Changing the topic
Grammar: Reported speech with the present tense and shifting tenses
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| 25 | Listening Skill: Understanding fluent speech
Reading Skill: Understanding reference
Vocabulary Skill: High-frequency verb collocations
Writing Skill: Describing data
Speaking Skill: Starting a conversation with a stranger
Grammar: Agents with the passive voice
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| 26 | Listening Skill: Listening for signal words and phrases
Reading Skill: Using an outline
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Writing Skill: Writing a summary
Speaking Skill: Using questions to maintain listener interest
Grammar: Adverb phrases of reason
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| 27 | Listening Skill: Listening for causes and effects
Reading Skill: Understanding the purpose of quoted speech
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay
Speaking Skill: Changing the topic
Grammar: Present modal verbs / Past modals of deduction
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| 28 | Listening Skill: Listening for stressed words
Reading Skill: Understanding ellipsis
Vocabulary Skill: Word roots
Writing Skill: Writing a persuasive letter / email
Speaking Skill: Agreeing and disagreeing
Grammar: Relative clauses / Participle clauses
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| 29 | Listening Skill: Listening for stressed words
Reading Skill: Understanding reference
Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms and antonyms
Writing Skill: Writing a review
Speaking Skill: Adding to another speaker’s comments
Grammar: Past and present habits
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| 30 | Listening Skill: Understanding assimilation
Reading Skill: Identifying counterarguments and refutations
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions
Writing Skill: Writing a persuasive essay
Speaking Skill: Retelling a news story
Grammar: Adverb clauses of concession
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