- Reading A: Learning Is Everywhere
- Reading A: Learning Is Everywhere(Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Tenses (past perfect, present perfect continuous, future continuous)
- Listening: Try Something New for 30 Days, Viewing: 93-year-old Piano Man and Speaking: Conducting an interview about learning experiences outside the classroom
- Reading B: Excerpts from “Encouraging Learning”Cultural Link: Ancient Greek Philosophers’ Views on Learning
- Critical Thinking: Ranking factors in order of importance
- Writing: Writing a short website article about “learning by doing”
- Further Exploration: Making learning plansSelf-assessment
- Reading A: Growing Up While Making a Difference
- Reading A: Growing Up While Making a Difference (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Object clauses (review)
- Listening: Should We All Volunteer? Viewing: RussellSpeaking: Reporting a mini-survey about volunteering
- Reading B: What I Learned from a Volunteering Trip to Tanzania
- Critical Thinking: Identifying priorities in order to make a decisionCulture Link: International Volunteer Day
- Writing: Writing an essay for a special column “Voices of Volunteers”
- Further Exploration: Designing a “volunteers needed” advertisement
- Reading A: Endurance The Story of Ernest Shackleton, Hero of the Antarctic
- Reading A: Endurance The Story of Ernest Shackleton, Hero of the Antarctic (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Passives (Past Perfect Passive and Past Continuous Passive)
- Listening: Why Do We Explore?Viewing: What It Takes to Be an Adventurer? Speaking: Performing A Class Live Show: How adventurous are you?
- Reading B: My First Sea Voyage
- Critical Thinking: Comparing and ContrastingCulture Link: How Do Different Cultures Deal with Failure
- Further Exploration: Planning an imaginary “space adventure”Self-assessment
- Reading A: Dome, Sweet Dome!
- Reading A: Dome, Sweet Dome!(Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Non-defining relative clauses
- Listening: What Human Beings Will Be LikeViewing: Artificial IntelligenceSpeaking: Debating how AI impacts on human intelligence
- Reading B: 2050
- Critical Thinking: Commenting on ideas and proposing new ideas
- Writing: Writing a letter to your future self
- Further Exploration: Creating a daily routine in 2050Self-assessment
- Reading A: Saving Tibet One Seed at a Time
- Reading A: Saving Tibet One Seed at a Time (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: -ing/-ed forms 4 – used as predicatives
- Listening: Stephen HawkingViewing: Do You Know These Female Scientists?Speaking: Recommending stories of scientists
- Reading B: Rosalind Franklin
- Critical Thinking: Analysing and evaluating people’s attitudes
- Writing: Writing a descriptive essay to share your experience of exploring science
- Further Exploration: Creating a full-colour booklet of a group of Chinese scientists
- Reading A: How Language Shapes the Way We Think
- Reading A: How Language Shapes the Way We Think (Vocabulary Focus)
- Grammar in Use: Subject clauses and predicative clauses
- Listening: Saving Critically Endangered Languages in Australiaand Viewing: Why Should Students Learn Foreign Languages?
- Reading B: For a Better Brain, Learn a New Language
- Critical Thinking: Analysing cause-effect relationshipsSpeaking: Giving a presentation on the possible effects of learning a foreign language
- Speaking: Performing A Class Live Show: How adventurous are you?Writing: Writing a brief report on people’s beliefs about adventure