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Unlock Listening and Speaking Skills Level 4 provides 60-90 hours of classroom material. Access to the Online Workbook is provided via a code packaged with the Student's Book.

Critical Thinking sections give students frameworks to formulate their own opinions and express themselves effectively in the end-of-unit academic tasks.

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CONTENTS

Map of the book / Your guide to Unlock

Your guide to Unlock / Teaching tips

UNIT 1 - Globalization
Listening 1: A radio programme about how food travels around the world (Environment)
Listening 2: A presentation on energy use in food production (Environment)

VIDEO: The globalization of food

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Predicting content
Using your knowledge
Listening for gist
Listening for detail
Listening for opinion
Listening for main ideas
Pronunciation for listening: Consonant clusters

VOCABULARY: Globalization and environment (e.g. carbon footprint, processing, imported)

GRAMMAR: The active and passive voice

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand and use pie charts

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Describe charts and data
Speaking task: Give a presentation using data from a pie chart

UNIT 2 - Education
Listening 1: A careers advice meeting (Education)
Listening 2: A careers advice meeting (Education)

VIDEO: Astronaut training

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for advice and suggestions
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Listening for gist
Listening for opinion
Pronunciation for listening: Certain and uncertain tones

VOCABULARY: Academic adjectives to describe professions (e.g. manual, medical, technical)

GRAMMAR: Stating preferences with would

CRITICAL THINKING: Prioritize criteria

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Negotiate prioritize and make decisions
Pronunciation for speaking: Certain and uncertain intonation
Speaking task: Decide as a group which candidate should receive a scholarship

UNIT 3 - Medicine
Listening 1: A student seminar on paramedics (Medicine)
Listening 2: A debate on the flu vaccination (Medicine)

VIDEO: Anthrax

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Identifying viewpoints
Using your knowledge
Listening for gist
Listening for main ideas
Listening for opinion
Listening for attitude
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Intonation in question tags

VOCABULARY: Scientific research (e.g. researcher, controlled, proven)

GRAMMAR: Connection actions with time expressions

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand background and motivation

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Persuade someone to agree with your point of view
Speaking task: Debate whether healthcare should be free

UNIT 4 - Risk
Listening 1: A safety presentation (Sport)
Listening 2: A risk-assessment meeting (Occupational health)

VIDEO: Andes mountain trek

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for clarification
Predicting content using visuals
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for gist
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Stress for emphasis

VOCABULARY: Adjectives to describe risk (e.g. major, minor, potential)

GRAMMAR: Expressing certainty about future events

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand statistics

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Discuss risk
Speaking task: Discuss and complete a risk-assessment form

UNIT 5 - Manufacturing
Listening 1: A lecture on the history of clothes manufacturing (History)
Listening 2: A tour of a car manufacturing plant (Manufacturing)

VIDEO: Making a running shoe

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Signposting
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for gist
Listening for detail
Predicting content using visuals
Pronunciation for listening: Pauses in prepared speech

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary for production and processes (e.g. method, management, production)

GRAMMAR: Modals for necessity and obligation

CRITICAL THINKING: Use dependency diagrams

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Explain the order of steps in a process
Pronunciation for speaking: Stress words that indicate order
Speaking task: Explain a process

UNIT 6 - Environment
Listening 1: A lecture about environmental change (Environment)
Listening 2: A talk about the destruction of deserts (Environment)

VIDEO: Orangutan conservation

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Distinguishing main ideas from details
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Listening for opinion
Listen for text organization features
Pronunciation for listening: Sentence stress

VOCABULARY: Verbs to describe environmental change (e.g. adapt, decline, survive)

GRAMMAR: Complex prepositions

CRITICAL THINKING: Organize a presentation

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Explain a problem and offer a solution
Speaking task: Give a presentation on the destruction of the Saharan desert

UNIT 7 - Architecture
Listening 1: A conversation between two property developers (Urban planning)
Listening 2: A housing development meeting (Urban planning)

VIDEO: Changing China

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Understanding analogies
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Listening for opinion
Listening for gist
Listening for attitude
Pronunciation for listening: Emphasis in contrasting opinions

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary for architecture and transformation (e.g. transform, anticipate, maintain)

GRAMMAR: Verbs with future meaning

CRITICAL THINKING: Compare requirements to solutions

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Explain a problem and offer a solution
Speaking task: Give a presentation on the destruction of the Saharan desert

UNIT 8 - Energy
Listening 1: A radio show on the island of El Hierro (Culture/Environment)
Listening 2: A chaired meeting about energy saving in an office (Environment)

VIDEO: Water power

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Understanding digressions
Using your knowledge
Listening for gist
Listening for detail
Listening for opinion
Pronunciation for listening: Intonation related to emotion

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary for networks and systems (e.g. generation, capacity, volume)

GRAMMAR: Connecting ideas between sentences

CRITICAL THINKING: Identify pros and cons

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Keep a discussion moving
Pronunciation for speaking: Use a neutral tone of voice
Speaking task: Participate in a chaired discussion on saving energy

UNIT 9 - Art and Design
Listening 1: A radio news show about graffiti (Art/Culture)
Listening 2: An informal debate about public art (Art)

VIDEO: Sculpture

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Inferring opinions
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Listening for gist
Listening for opinion
Making inferences
Listening for main ideas
Listening for text organisation features
Pronunciation for listening: Stress in word families

VOCABULARY: Academic vocabulary related to art (e.g. appreciate, interpret, analyze)

GRAMMAR: Expressing contrasting opinions

CRITICAL THINKING: Support arguments

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Express opinions in a debate
Pronunciation for speaking: Stress in hedging language
Speaking task: Participate in an informal debate on public art

UNIT 10 - Ageing
Listening 1: A radio interview about retirement (Economics)
Listening 2: Presentations on ageing in different countries (Social anthropology)

VIDEO: Taking care of the family

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Understanding specific observations and generalizations
Using your knowledge
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for gist
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Elision and intrusion

VOCABULARY: Academic verbs for support and assistance (e.g. permit, devote, contribute)

GRAMMAR: Verbs followed by to + infinitive

CRITICAL THINKING: Understand data in a line graph

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Reference data in a presentation, make comparisons
Pronunciation for speaking: Contrastive stress in comparisons
Speaking task: Give a presentation on ageing

Pairwork exercises / Review test answer key

Glossary / Review tests

Video and audio scripts / Additional speaking tasks and model language

Acknowledgements

High-intermediate (B2 - CEFR)