This document provides an overview of the plan for a book on English grammar and communication skills. It outlines 16 units, each covering specific grammar topics, speaking skills, vocabulary, and sample activities. The units cover various themes such as relationships, careers, requests, stories, cultural differences, problems, the environment, education, services, history, life lessons, success, hypotheticals, media careers, social issues, challenges, and volunteering. Each unit is 3-4 pages and includes exercises for students to practice pronunciation, listening, writing, and conversation.

1. Plan of Book 3
Titles/Topics Speaking Grammar
UNIT 1 PAGES 2-7
That’s 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
What’s 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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2. 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 people’s 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 people’s
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 people’s rooms
people describe their jobs
Self-study: Listening to people’s
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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3. 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
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 70-71 future perfect
UNIT 11 PAGES 72-77
Life’s 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; interviewing for a job; for; giving reasons with because,
talking about ads and slogans since, because of, for, due to,
and the reason
PROGRESS CHECK PAGES 84-85
UNIT 13 PAGES 86-91
That’s 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 (not) have, might (not) have, could
advice 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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4. 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 of
self-improvement Your Life”: Reading about 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
Listening for opinions about public “The Global Village”: Reading history 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 people’s 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 features and slogans “The Wrong Stuff ”: Reading about business plan for a small business
Self-study: Listening for qualities that advertising failures
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
work; listening for personality traits about the kind of movies made a 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 people’s opinions about
about issues and problems its severity
Stress and rhythm Writing a personal statement for “Viewpoints”: Taking a survey
Listening to challenges and an application about volunteering
rewards of people’s work; listening “Young and Gifted”: Reading about
for people’s goals for the future exceptionally gifted young people
Self-study: Listening to a person’s
experience in the Peace Corps
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