"Unlock is a five-level academic skills course that combines carefully scaffolded exercises, a comprehensive approach to critical thinking and motivating video.

Unlock Listening and Speaking Skills Level 1 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.

Unique research into common learner errors (using the Cambridge English Corpus) focuses the language used in Unlock on those areas learners find most challenging.

Videos from Discovery Education™ (accessible via the Cambridge Learning Management System and supplied on the Teacher's Book DVD) provide new angles on a range of academic subjects." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS

Map of the book / Your guide to Unlock

Your guide to Unlock / Teaching tips

UNIT 1 - People
Listening 1: Introductions (Communication studies)
Listening 2: Presentations about famous people (Celebrity studies)

VIDEO: The film makers

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Syllable stress

VOCABULARY: Family; Jobs; Countries and nationalities

GRAMMAR: Personal pronouns; Possesive adjectives; The verb be

CRITICAL THINKING: Use idea maps

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Introducing and starting a talk
Pronunciation for speaking: Sayings words and sentences in syllables
Speaking task: Tell your group about two famous people from your country.

UNIT 2 - Seasons
Listening 1: A talk about three different places (Landscape architecture)
Listening 2: Presentations about landscapes (Meteorology)

VIDEO: Seasons in North America

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Using visuals to predict content
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Sentence stress

VOCABULARY: Months and seasons; Weather; Colours

GRAMMAR: There is and There are; Adjectives

CRITICAL THINKING: Choose visuals for a talk

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Describing photographs
Pronunciation for speaking: Word stress
Speaking task: Describe photographs of a landscape

UNIT 3 - Lifestyle
Listening 1: Three conversations about different lifestyles (Sociology)
Listening 2: An interview (Anthropology)

VIDEO: The Bedouin

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for main ideas
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Intonation

VOCABULARY:
Days of the week Time expressions
Collocations for lifestyle (e.g. download apps, go to the gym, have dinner with friends)

GRAMMAR: The present simple

CRITICAL THINKING: Use surveys

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Asking and answering questions
Pronunciation for speaking: Intonation in questions
Speaking task: Interview students for a survey

UNIT 4 - Places
Listening 1: Part of a geography seminar (Urban geography)
Listening 2: A guided tour (Tourism geography)

VIDEO: The Great Barrier Reef

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for detail
Understanding key vocabulary
Using your knowledge
Listening for main ideas Pronunciation for listening: Stress in determiners (this, that)

VOCABULARY:
Vocabulary for places (e.g. bank, bridge, library, mosque)
Prepositions of place

GRAMMAR: The imperative

CRITICAL THINKING: Interpret maps and give directions

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Asking for and giving directions
Pronunciation for speaking: Pronunciation of phrases
Speaking task: Ask for and give directions

UNIT 5 - Sport
Listening 1: A University lecture about sport (Sports science)
Listening 2: A student presentation about sport and exercise (Health sciences)

VIDEO: Free diving

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Using your knowledge
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Pronouncing clusters of consonants (e.g. -gh, -ing, ph, ck)

VOCABULARY:
Vocabulary for sport Sports collocations (e.g. play tennis, go swimming, do karate)

GRAMMAR: Comparative adjectives

CRITICAL THINKING: Use a table to make notes

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Making comparisons and introducing a talk
Pronunciation for speaking: Weak vowel sounds
Speaking task: Compare different kinds of sport and exercise

UNIT 6 - Jobs
Listening 1: A formal conversation asking for advice (Careers guidance)
Listening 2: A job interview (Human resource management)

VIDEO: Fire rangers

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for opinion
Predicting content
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Word stress

VOCABULARY:
Vocabulary for jobs: suffixes
Adjectives for people (e.g. good-looking, kind, polite, slim)
Collocations for jobs (e.g. build houses, do experiments, serve food)

GRAMMAR: have/has to

CRITICAL THINKING: Choose criteria

SPEAKING
Preparation for speaking: Asking for and giving reasons
Pronunciation for speaking: Pronouncing consonants in have to, has to, has (e.g. /f/, /v/, /z/, /s/)
Speaking task: Choose a person for a job

UNIT 7 - Homes and buildings
Listening 1: A radio interview (Demography)
Listening 2: A discussion: ideas for a new building (Architecture)

VIDEO: Homes in Dharavi, India

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for reasons
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Linking words

VOCABULARY:
Vocabulary for rooms
Adjectives for furniture (e.g. comfortable, wooden, glass)

GRAMMAR: should

CRITICAL THINKING: Find reasons for and against

SPEAKING - Preparation for speaking:
Asking for and giving opinions
Agreeing and disagreeing
Speaking task: Discuss ideas for a new building

UNIT 8 - Food and culture
Listening 1: A University lecture about food in cities (Food studies)
Listening 2: A survey (Gastronomy)

VIDEO: Chinese food

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for numbers
Predicting content using visuals
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for detail
Listening for main ideas
Pronunciation for listening: Pronunciation of -teen and -ty numbers

VOCABULARY: Vocabulary for food

GRAMMAR: Countable and uncountable nouns (with some, any, much, many)

CRITICAL THINKING: Use pie charts

SPEAKING - Preparation for speaking:
Introducing a report
Talking about the results
Pronunciation for speaking: Sentence stress: emphasis
Speaking task: Report the results of a survey

UNIT 9 - Animals
Listening 1: A talk about orangutans (Animal behaviour)
Listening 2: A student talk about an animal from their country (Zoology)

VIDEO: Animals and people

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Listening for definitions
Using your knowledge
Understanding key vocabulary
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail
Pronunciation for listening: Silent consonants

VOCABULARY: Vocabulary for animals

GRAMMAR: Definitions (e.g. a kind of, that means, is the name for)

CRITICAL THINKING: Use online translation tools and dictionaries

SPEAKING - Preparation for speaking:
Introducing a topic
Using questions in a talk
Pronunciation for speaking: Pauses
Speaking task: Describe an animal

UNIT 10 - Transport
Listening 1: A discussion about transport for London (Transport and logistics)

Listening 2: A debate about a transport problem (Urban planning)

VIDEO: Alaskan transport

LISTENING - Key listening skill:
Taking notes
Using your knowledge
Understanding key vocabulary
Predicting content using visuals
Listening for main ideas
Listening for detail Pronunciation for listening: Pronouncing years (e.g. 1994, nineteen ninety-four)

VOCABULARY: Vocabulary for transport

GRAMMAR: The past simple

CRITICAL THINKING: Use flow charts

SPEAKING - Preparation for speaking:
Describing a topic
Describing a problem
Describing a solution
Describing results
Pronunciation for speaking: Past simple endings: /t/, /d/, / d/
Speaking task: Describe a solution to a transport problem

Pairwork exercises / Review test answer key

Glossary / Review tests

Video and audio scripts / Additional speaking tasks and model language

Acknowledgements

Beginner (A1)