Plan of Book 3

Titles/Topics Speaking Grammar

UNIT 1 PAGES 2-7
Thats what friends are for! Describing personalities; Relative pronouns as subjects and
Personality types and qualities; expressing likes and dislikes; objects; clauses with it + adverbial
relationships; turn ons and agreeing and disagreeing; clauses with when
turn offs complaining
UNIT 2 PAGES 8-13
Career moves Talking about unusual careers; Gerund phrases as subjects and
Jobs; unusual careers; job skills; describing jobs; discussing the pros objects; comparisons with adjectives,
summer jobs and cons of jobs verbs, nouns, and past participles

PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 14-15

UNIT 3 PAGES 16-21
Could you do me a favor? Making unusual requests; making Requests with modals, if clauses,
Favors; formal and informal indirect requests; accepting and and gerunds; indirect requests
requests; messages declining requests

UNIT 4 PAGES 22-27

What a story! Narrating a story; describing Past continuous vs. simple past;
The media; news stories; events in the past past perfect
exceptional events

PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 28-29

UNIT 5 PAGES 30-35
Crossing cultures Talking about moving abroad; Noun phrases containing relative
Cultural comparisons and culture expressing emotions; describing clauses; expectations: the custom to,
shock; moving abroad; emotions; cultural expectations; giving (not) supposed to, expected to, (not)
customs; tourism and travel abroad advice acceptable to

UNIT 6 PAGES 36-41

Whats wrong with it? Describing problems; making Describing problems with past
Consumer complaints; everyday complaints; explaining something participles as adjectives and with
problems; electronics; repairs that needs to be done nouns; describing problems with
keep + gerund, need + gerund, and
need + passive infinitive

PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 42-43

UNIT 7 PAGES 44-49
The world we live in Identifying and describing Passive in the present continuous
The environment; world problems; problems; coming up with solutions and present perfect; prepositions of
current issues cause; infinitive clauses and phrases

UNIT 8 PAGES 50-55

Lifelong learning Asking about preferences; Would rather and would prefer; by +
Education; learner choices; discussing pros and cons of gerund to describe how to do things
strategies for learning; personal different college majors; talking
qualities about learning methods; talking
about personal qualities
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 56-57

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Pronunciation/Listening Writing/Reading Interchange Activity

Linked sounds Writing a description of a best Personality types: Interviewing

Listening for opinions; listening friend a classmate to find out about
for descriptions of people You Have to Have Friends: personality characteristics
Self-study: Listening for likes Reading about making and
and dislikes about people keeping friends

Stress with compound nouns Writing about career advantages The dinner party: Comparing
Listening to descriptions of summer and disadvantages peoples careers and personalities
jobs; listening for likes and dislikes Strategies for Keeping Your Job: to make a seating chart for a
Reading advice about behavior in dinner party
Self-study: Listening to descriptions
of careers; listening for comparisons the workplace

Unreleased consonants Writing an informal e-mail request Borrowers and lenders: Asking
Listening to people making, Yes or No?: Reading about the classmates to borrow items; lending
accepting, and declining requests way people in different cultures or refusing to lend items
Self-study: Listening to people respond yes and no
making plans, asking for a favor,
and giving an excuse
Intonation in complex sentences Writing a newspaper article A double ending: Completing a
Listening to news broadcasts; Strange but True: Reading story with two different endings
listening to a narrative about a tabloid articles about sensational
past event events
Self-study: Listening to a news story

Word stress in sentences Writing a tourist pamphlet Culture check: Comparing

Listening for information about Culture Shock: Reading journal customs in different countries
living abroad; listening to opinions entries about moving to another
about customs country
Self-study: Listening to peoples
concerns about traveling abroad
Contrastive stress Writing a letter of complaint Fixer-upper: Comparing problems
Listening to people exchange Trading Spaces: Reading about in two pictures of an apartment
things in a store; listening to a TV show in which participants
complaints; listening to repair redecorate other peoples rooms
people describe their jobs
Self-study: Listening to peoples
problems with items they bought

Reduction of auxiliary verbs Writing a letter to the editor Make your voices heard!:
Listening to environmental The Threat to Kiribati: Reading Choosing an issue and deciding on
problems; listening for solutions about an island that is sinking an effective method of protest;
into the ocean devising a strategy
Self-study: Listening to people talk
about problems in their city
Intonation in questions of choice Writing a short speech Learning curves: Choosing
Listening to descriptions of courses; Learning Styles: Reading about between different things you want
listening for additional information different kinds of learning to learn
Self-study: Listening to a student
describe online classes

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Titles/Topics Speaking Grammar
UNIT 9 PAGES 58-63
At your service Talking about things you need to Have or get something done (active
Everyday services; have done; asking for and giving and passive); making suggestions
recommendations; advice or suggestions with gerunds, infinitives, modals +
self-improvement verbs, and negative questions
UNIT 10 PAGES 64-69
The past and the future Talking about the future; talking Referring to time in the past with
Historic events and people; about things to be accomplished adverbs and prepositions: during,
biography; the future in the future in, ago, from . . . to, for, since;
predicting the future with will,
future continuous, and future
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 70-71 perfect

UNIT 11 PAGES 72-77

Lifes little lessons Describing rites of passage; Time clauses: before, after, once,
Milestones and turning points; describing turning points; the moment, as soon as, until, by
behavior and personality; regrets describing regrets and the time; describing regrets and
hypothetical situations hypothetical situations with
should not have + past participle
and if clauses + past perfect
UNIT 12 PAGES 78-83
The right stuff Describing qualities for success; Describing purpose with infinitive
Qualities for success; successful describing features; giving reasons clauses and infinitive clauses with
businesses; advertising for success; talking about ads and for; giving reasons with because,
slogans since, because of, for, due to,
and the reason
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 84-85
UNIT 13 PAGES 86-91
Thats a possibility. Making conclusions; offering Past modals for degrees of
Pet peeves; unexplained events; explanations; describing certainty: must (not) have, may
reactions; predicaments and advice hypothetical events; giving advice (not) have, might (not) have, could
for predicaments (not) have; past modals for opinions
and advice: should (not) have,
UNIT 14 PAGES 92-97 could (not) have, would (not) have
Behind the scenes Describing how something is done The passive to describe process with
How a movie is made; media or made; describing careers in is/are + past participle and modal +
professions; processes; the the media be + past participle; defining and
entertainment industry nondefining relative clauses
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 98-99
UNIT 15 PAGES 100-105
There should be a law! Giving opinions for and against Giving recommendations and
Recommendations; opinions; social controversial issues; offering a opinions with passive modals:
issues; controversial issues different opinion; agreeing and should be, ought to be, must be,
disagreeing has to be, has got to be; tag
questions for opinions
UNIT 16 PAGES 106-111
Challenges and accomplishments Describing challenges, frustrations, Complex noun phrases containing
Challenges; accomplishments; and rewards; discussing traits gerunds; accomplishments with
goals; volunteering needed for meeting challenges; the present perfect and simple
talking about the past and the past; goals with the future perfect
future and would like to have + past
participle
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 112-113
SELF-STUDY

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Pronunciation/Listening Writing/Reading Interchange Activity

Sentence stress Writing a letter of advice Because I said so!: Discussing

Listening to suggestions for Improve Your Memory, Improve different points of view
self-improvement Your Life: Reading about of parents and their children
Self-study: Listening for what techniques to improve memory
people need to have done
Syllable stress Writing a biography History buff : Taking a history
Listening for opinions about public The Global Village: Reading quiz
figures; listening to predictions about political and technological
Self-study: Listening to past changes that bring people closer
events; making predictions together

Reduction of have and been Writing a letter of apology If things were different:
Listening to descriptions of If You Could Do It All Again: Imagining different possibilities
important events; listening to Reading about peoples life choices for the way things have turned out
regrets and explanations and regrets
Self-study: Listening to people
describe changes in themselves
Reduced words Writing a TV commercial Entrepreneurs: Designing a
Listening for reasons for success; The Wrong Stuff : Reading about business plan for a small business
listening for features and slogans advertising failures
Self-study: Listening for qualities that
help people make friends more easily

Reduction in past modals Writing about a predicament Photo plays: Drawing possible
Listening to explanations; The Blue Lights of Silver Cliff : conclusions about situations
listening for the best solution Reading a story about an
Self-study: Listening to situations unexplained phenomenon
and reacting

Stress in compound nouns Writing about a process Who makes it happen?: Putting
Listening to a producer describe his Hooray for Bollywood!: Reading together a crew for making a
work; listening for personality traits about the kind of movies made movie
Self-study: Listening to an interview; in India
listening for steps in a process

Intonation in tag questions Writing a letter to a community You be the judge!: Setting rules
Listening for solutions to leader for common offenses
everyday annoyances; listening How Serious Is Plagiarism?:
to issues and opinions Reading about plagiarism
Self-study: Listening to concerns and peoples opinions about its
about issues and problems severity

Stress and rhythm Writing a personal statement for Viewpoints: Taking a survey
Listening to challenges and an application about volunteering
rewards of peoples work; listening Young and Gifted: Reading about
for peoples goals for the future exceptionally gifted young people
Self-study: Listening to a persons
experience in the Peace Corps

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