1 Making changes

• New Year customs in different countries
• Making and keeping resolutions
• Dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary
• Question words with the suffix -ever
• Compound adjectives and verbs

1 King Lear

• King Lear

2 Fitting in

• The importance of belonging and fitting in (or not fitting in)
• Online communities
• Fixed phrases
• ‘Black sheep’
• Understanding idioms and proverbs
• Sentence linking phrases

3 The global village

• The history and effects of globalisation
• Arguments for and against globalisation
• Positive and negative connotations and opinions
• Combining opposite ideas
• The use of topic sentences in paragraphs
• Joining sentences into paragraphs

4 Progress test 1

• Progress test 1

5 Money talks

• The positives and negatives of money
• Headlines
• Synonyms
• Rich/poor divide
• A history of money
• Noun phrases with the + adjective

6 Winners and losers

• Attitudes to winning and losing
• Comparing texts and opinions
• Reading and discussing a poem

7 ?Past history

• Different views of history
• The Palestinian Nakba and Diaspora
• The work of President Yasser Arafat and Palestinian intellectuals
• Non-literal or figurative language

8 Progress test 2

• Progress test 2

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