New Inside Out

Listening

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  Listen to a girl and her mother discussing eco-friendly lifestyle choices and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to an American hiker describing his experiences of barefoot hiking and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to a recording and underline the stressed words.
  
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  Listen to people talking about their shoes on a television style programme and match the descriptions to the appropriate pictures.
  
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  Listen to an interview with a psychologist and discuss which shoes are being described.
  
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  Listen to people trying to persuade someone to do something and answer some questions.
  
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  Listen to a conversation and guess what a woman is trying to persuade a friend to do.
  
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  Listen and correct some sentences so as to form useful phrases for persuasion.
  

Speaking

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  Look at some quotations about the Earth and discuss what they have in common.
  
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  Discuss some questions about carbon footprints and ecology with a partner.
  
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  Talk about their lifestyle and eco-friendly attitudes.
  
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  Discuss the meaning of some words from a text about footprints using a dictionary if necessary.
  
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  Talk with a partner about important historical sites they’ve visited.
  
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  Discuss questions about barefoot hiking with a partner.
  
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  Discuss some questions about reading aloud in English.
  
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  Practise reading aloud a passage paying attention to the pronunciation.
  
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  Tell a partner about a walk they’ve been on following some guidelines.
  
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  Discuss the meaning of some expressions with foot or feet and answer some questions.
  
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  Talk about buying shoes with a partner.
  
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  Tell a partner about shoes and personality.
  
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  Talk with a partner trying to persuade him to go out tonight.
  

Reading

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  Read the description of a carbon footprint and an ecological footprint and fill in the gaps with the correct words.
  
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  Read and answer to a lifestyle quiz.
  
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  Cross out the words in a column which don’t collocate with the words in another column.
  
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  Read an article about man’s earliest footprints and answer some questions.
  
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  Underline the correct alternative to complete some sentences related to a text.
  
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  Read an article about the prehistoric ruins of Shetland and answer some questions.
  
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  Look at some sentences and underline the relative clause and reduced passive clause.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about passive structures on page 142 of the SB.
  
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  Predict and mark where the pauses will occur in a passage.
  
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  Read two articles about men’s and women’s shoes and answer to true/false type questions.
  
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  Try to guess the meaning of some adjectives from an article.
  
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  Match some photos of shoes to the appropriate words.
  
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  Read sentences about shoes and replace some words with the ones given.
  
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  Read the Grammar Extra explanations about comparative structures on page 142 of the SB.
  

Writing

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  Rewrite an article about ancient ruins into the passive form.
  
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  Combine sentences to include reduced passive clauses.
  
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  Write a brief report and tell a partner about a site using passive structures.
  
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  Complete some sentences with foot or feet.
  
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  Write a description of the owner of some pairs of shoes.
  
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  Write three sentences about a famous person using comparative structures and adjectives.
  
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  Complete some extracts with useful phrases for persuasion.
  
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  Write a conversation for a given situation including useful phrases for persuasion.
  
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  Review how to write a report by completing the exercises of the Writing Extra section.
  
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  Revise all the grammar and vocabulary contents of the unit by completing the Review D exercises for Units 10-12.