Sky High 3A Practice Online

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1 Macmillan Practice Online is the easy way to get all the benefits of online learning and with over 100 courses to choose from, covering all competence levels and ranging from business English to exam practice and from academic to general English, you re sure to find the one that suits your needs. Take a look at the syllabus below for a complete list of the resources offered by this Macmillan Practice Online course. This course accompanies 'Sky High 3A'. There are 6 units, each matching a student's book unit. There is a review syllabus item every other unit to match the Checkpoint sections in the student's book. Resources are grouped into four categories: Building, Building Vocabulary, Listening Development and Pronunciation Practice. UNIT 1 Personal history This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about past events in people's lives. Listening to a woman talking about life with her twin, answering questions and deciding if statements are true or false. Practicing the past simple. Double trouble - twins! Simple past regular: use Simple past irregular: use Unforgettable memories This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to tell stories. It covers the past simple, the past progressive and 'so' and 'neither'. Swimming with a whale Listening to someone talking about swimming with a whale and deciding if statements are true or false. Contrasting the past simple and the past progressive. Practicing 'so' and 'neither'. 1

2 Past simple v. past progressive Past simple and past progressive A day at school Now and then This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about past habits. It covers the use of 'used to'. Practicing describing past habits and customs with 'used to'. Practicing 'used to' and the past simple. Habits Used to v. past simple Lifeline to scholarships and jobs This syllabus item provides practice of the language we use to write and talk about resumes and interviews. Listening to a conversation about a job applicant and filling in missing information. Practicing words and phrases used in letters and resumes when applying for a job. A job applicant Application letter extracts Vocabulary Activity UNIT 2 Modern careers This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about lifestyles and future plans. Listening to an interview about life in the 1920s and selecting the statements that match the speaker's opinions. Listening to an interview with a woman talking about her travel plans before going to college and deciding if statements are true or false. Generation gap Alison's trip to Australia Are you a workaholic? This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the future. It covers 'will', 'going to' and participial adjectives. Practicing the future with 'will' and 'won't'. Contrasting 'will' and 'going to'. Practicing adjectives ending '-ed' and '-ing'. A school trip Will v. going to Will v. going to Adjectives 2

3 Relaxation and play This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to make comparisons. It covers comparative and superlative adjectives. Practicing comparative adjectives. Practicing comparative and superlative adjectives. Practicing equivalents using 'as... as'. Practicing adjectives ending in '-ed' and '-ing'. Spot the difference Adjectives Comparative and superlative adjectives The trip Lifeline to psychology This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about stress and lowering our stress levels. Practicing the future simple in sentences about promises that a spa makes to its customers. Listening to a dialog about cycling and deciding if statements are true or false. Crazy about cycling! Spa promises Checkpoint 1 This syllabus item provides further practice of the language covered in Units 1 and 2. Contrasting the past simple and past progressive. Practicing 'used to' for past habits and states. Practicing the use of 'will', 'going to' and the present simple to talk about the future. Practicing the comparative and superlative form of adjectives. A funny thing happened Used to Just letting you know Young people now and then Who is the fittest? UNIT 3 Energy sources This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the environment. Listening to a passage about tourists polluting the environment and keying in the missing words to complete a text. Listening to a girl talking about her family and the environment and choosing the correct form of the present simple to complete sentences. Reading a text about the environment and choosing the correct tense to complete the text. 3

4 The environment Good for the environment Today I'm saving the world! Predicting the future This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to make predictions. It covers the use of 'will' and 'going to'. Practicing 'will' and 'won't'. Contrasting the use of 'will' and 'going to'. A future quiz Will and going to What if...? This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about conditions and results. It covers the first conditional. Practicing the first conditional. Home from the health farm If you walk under a ladder... What if...? Lifeline to health sciences This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about healthy food. Healthy food in our supermarkets Listening to two friends talking about what they do to keep in shape and deciding which person expresses each opinion. UNIT 4 Immigrants This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about places and their history. Practicing words to talk about buildings. Practicing words to talk about places. Listening to a conversation about Gibraltar and choosing the correct answers to complete sentences. Gibraltar What does it mean? Vocabulary Activity What happens where? Vocabulary Activity 4

5 Cultural differences This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about actions that happened at definite and indefinite past times. It covers the present perfect and the past simple. Listening to a conversation between an immigration officer and two passengers and matching answers with the correct questions. Practicing the present perfect with 'for' and 'since'. Practicing word order with adverbs of time. Contrasting the past simple and the present perfect. New identity I've lived here for three years Present perfect with adverbs of time Paul's interview City versus country This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the city and the country. It covers the use of 'too' and 'enough'. Pronunciation practice Practicing the present simple and progressive in a text about life in cities. Practicing the use of 'too' and 'enough'. Practicing syllable stress in words used to describe places. Practicing words related to places. Life in the big city Places - town and country Vocabulary Activity Syllable count Pronunciation Activity Too and enough Lifeline to urban planning This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about different aspects of the places where people live. Listening to six people talking about different aspects of their town and identifying which aspects each speaker mentions. Listening to somebody talking about Bermuda and choosing the correct option to answer questions. The town where I live On business in Bermuda Checkpoint 2 This syllabus item provides further practice of the language covered in Units 3 and 4. Contrasting 'will', 'won't' and 'going to'. Practicing the present perfect with 'for' and 'since'. Practicing the use of the present perfect and past simple. Practicing the use of 'too' and 'enough'. Will, won't, going to A day at the office Present perfect with for and since The ideal venue 5

6 UNIT 5 The lottery of life This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about people's daily lives and future plans. Listening to someone talking about his life, deciding if sentences are true or false and matching sentence halves. Listening to someone talking about his trip to South America and listing the place names in the order he mentions them. Practicing words that are often confused. Mick Malone's life story Missed or lost? Vocabulary Activity Going places Born to shop? This syllabus item provides practice of the use of verb complementation. It covers the use of verbs followed by the infinitive, the infinitive without 'to' and '-ing' forms. Contrasting the '-ing' form and the 'to' + infinitive. Practicing the structure verb + object + infinitive without 'to'. Practicing the structure verb + object + infinitive. Practicing the use of the infinitive and '-ing' forms. Going out Verb + object + verb: object + infinitive without to Verb + object + verb: object + infinitive Infinitive v -ing form Money, money, money This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about money. It covers connectors that express reason and purpose. Visiting an external website and answering questions about the European Central Bank and the euro. Practicing the connectors 'so' and 'because'. Practicing connectors of reason and result. Practicing connectors of purpose. The European Central Bank Web Project Connectors: reason and result Plans for my party Connectors: purpose Lifeline to economics This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about business. Listening to a business report and deciding if each topic is up, down or stable. Practicing words related to business. 6

7 Business news UNIT 6 Entertainment at home This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about entertainment preferences and habits. Practicing words related to leisure time. Listening to a girl talking about an experiment her family had with TV and deciding whether statements are true or false. Are you a TV addict? Leisure time Vocabulary Activity Going out This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about places to go on vacation. It covers indefinite pronouns. Pronunciation practice Contrasting three different vowel sounds. Practicing indefinite pronouns. Vacations Indefinite pronouns: use Would you like anything to eat? Vowel sounds Pronunciation Activity Movie history This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about movie stars. It covers relative clauses. Listening to two teenagers talking about a movie star, identifying who they're talking about and what he's done recently. Practicing relative clauses. Practicing relative pronouns. Fan clubs Relative pronouns Relative clauses: structure 1 Lifeline to movie and TV shows This syllabus item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about movies. Practicing vocabulary to do with movies. Listening to five people talking about movies, choosing the movie each person is describing and deciding if statements are true or false. 7

8 Sylvester Stallone Vocabulary Activity The last movie I saw Checkpoint 3 This syllabus item provides further practice of the language covered in Units 5 and 6. Listening to a teenager asking for permission to go out and choosing the correct answer to questions. Practicing the use of '-ing' forms and infinitives. Practicing the use of infinitives with and without 'to'. Practicing the use of 'some' and 'any' and their compounds. The Big Squeeze Game Talking about a conference Aladdin Trouble Game Going out! 8