1. Animal instincts                   

Grammar: Past perfect continuous, past perfect simple and past perfect passive review

Vocabulary: Animal sounds

Writing: Animal story

2. Snap decisions                 

Grammar: Future in the past

Vocabulary: Making decisions

Writing: Letter of complaint

3. Advertising                         

Grammar: Position of adverbs. Adjective order

Vocabulary: Advertising

Writing: Covering letter of application

4. Fight or flight?                     

Grammar: Talking about tendencies

Vocabulary: Feeling stressed. Coping with stress

Writing: Report and proposal

5. Double lives                        

Grammar: Reporting verb patterns review

Vocabulary: Crime. War and peace

Writing: A biography

6. Legend or truth?                 

Grammar: Deduction and probability

Vocabulary: Expressions with story

Writing: Newspaper article

7. Inspiration and creation       

Grammar: Causative have review. Modal passives, past and present

Vocabulary: Metaphors to describe emotions

Writing: Poem with metaphors and similes

8. Virtual worlds                 

Grammar: Cleft sentences review

Vocabulary: Money. Word building

Writing: Informal letter or e-mail; turning down an invitation

9. Understanding others

Grammar: Hedging and boosting

Vocabulary: Habits and gestures 

Writing: Discursive composition

10. The sporting spirit         

Grammar: Ability: could / be able to / manage to

Vocabulary: Success and failure

Writing: Description of a sporting event (magazine)

11. Superheroes         

Grammar: Negative inversions

Vocabulary: From human to hero

Writing: Film review

12. On your own    

Grammar: Mixed conditionals review; alternatives to if

Vocabulary: Expressions with time  

Writing: A leaflet

13. The age wars                    

Grammar: Future perfect / future continuous review. Alternative ways of referring to the future

Vocabulary: Life choices

Writing: Formal letter to a magazine editor

14. The beauty hunters            

Grammar: Past tenses with hypothetical meaning

Vocabulary: Commonly confused words

Writing: Report and article

15. Days gone by                    

Grammar: Substitution; ellipsis

Vocabulary: Old and new

Writing: A note

16. Swapping places               

Grammar: Revision

Vocabulary: Teenspeak

Writing: Meaningless proverbs and cinquains