New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen and number some photos about new prototype mobile phones.
  
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  Listen and repeat some sentences paying attention to the unstressed syllables.
  
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  Listen to two people discussing a gadget on a radio show and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to conversations and decide what decisions people are talking about.
  

Speaking

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  Look at some photos and discuss questions about mobile phones.
  
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  Discuss whether they think the future will lie on mobile phones or in another device.
  
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  Take turns to explain the meaning of some compound nouns.
  
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  Look at some photos about new prototype mobile phones and discuss what they are showing.
  
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  Discuss the most popular innovations regarding mobile phones.
  
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  Say a list of words from a box and classify them according to their pronunciation.
  
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  Talk with a partner about future scientific realities.
  
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  Make predictions about different topics using the expressions learnt.
  
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  Discuss questions about a new gadget.
  
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  Discuss the top five scientific breakthroughs of the last century and predict those of the present century.
  
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  Look at a list of decisions and discuss what the future implications might be.
  
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  Give examples of decisions they’ve had to take recently.
  
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  Look at some extracts of conversations and match them to the appropriate pictures.
  
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  Take it in turns to help a partner discuss a difficult decision using the useful phrases learnt.
  

Reading

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  Read an article about mobile phones in the future and complete some related activities.
  
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  Look at some compound nouns and match them to the appropriate patterns.
  
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  Match some definitions to the suitable compound nouns.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about complex sentences on page 140 of the SB.
  
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  Match some phenomena with the appropriate definitions.
  
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  Read an article about a physicist’s ideas and discuss some questions.
  
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  Match the verbs in some predictions with the appropriate categories.
  
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  Look at some phrases and use them to replace modals, adverbs and phrases speculating about the future.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about words used to speculate about the future on page 140 of the SB.
  
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  Look at some extracts from a radio show and discuss some expressions.
  
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  Look at some useful phrases for discussing implications and discuss their meanings.
  
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  Review acronyms and collocations by completing the exercises of the Vocabulary Extra section.
  

Writing

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  Fill in the gaps in a text about mobile phone sin the future with the appropriate sentences.
  
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  Complete the summaries of the main functions of some mobile phones with the correct words.
  
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  Break a complex sentence down into simple one-clause sentences.
  
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  Put some words in the correct order to form complex sentences.
  
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  Write a multi-clause sentence explaining what they would like from their mobile phone.
  
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  Complete a glossary with words from an article about scientific realities in the future.
  
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  Transform some sentences into negative ones and notice the position of the adverb.
  
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  Rewrite sentences using words to speculate about the future.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review C exercises for Units 7-9.