TY  - BOOK
AU  - White, N. M.
AU  - Ostrowska,Sabina
TI  - Unlock 1: Listening & Speaking Skills 
SN  - 9781107678101 (Student's book)
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - Spoken English
KW  - International English Language Testing System
KW  - Study guides
KW  - A1 (CEFR)
KW  - Beginner
N1  - "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)
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