Introduction; Unit 1. Rocket science - vocabulary, parts of speech, passive voice, reading an encyclopedia entry, writing a magazine article and a summary; Unit 2. Bears and apes - vocabulary, parenthesis, writer's effects, reading a story and an article, writing an article, a speech and a summary; Unit 3. Simply flying - vocabulary, spelling, prefixes, dashes and hyphens, reading an article and a recruitment advertisement, writing a dialogue, a job application letter and a summary; Unit 4. On the ball - apostrophes, semicolons, vocabulary, spelling, speech punctuation, prefixes, reading articles, writing a dialogue, a persuasive letter and a summary; Unit 5. Great rivers - parts of speech, commas, sentence structures, fact and opinion, writers' effects, reading articles and an extract, writing a dialogue, a complaint letter and a summary; Unit 6. Trunk tales - prefixes, vocabulary, synonyms, punctuation, reading an article and a story, writing a news report, a letter/email and a plot summary; Unit 7. Bricks and stones - vocabulary, synonyms, past tenses, relative clauses, prepositions, sentence punctuation, writer's effects, reading articles, writing a summary, a dialogue, a news report and an informative letter; Unit 8. Medical records - punctuation, homophones, spelling, writers' effects, reading an article and a news report, writing a summary, an appeal letter, and a journal entry; Unit 9. In a tight spot - vocabulary, writer's effects, narrative devices, speech punctuation, reading an article and a story, writing a summary, an encyclopedia entry and a diary entry; Unit 10. Losing sleep - writers' effects, raise/rise/arise, prepositions, conditionals, grammatical structures, reading an article and a story, writing an informative leaflet; Unit 11. Sub-zero - vocabulary, synonyms, sentence structures, writers' effects, paraphrase, reading an article and journal entries, writing an advertisement, a letter/email and a magazine article; Unit 12. The miracle of DNA - vocabulary, writers' effects, identifying bias, sentence structure, reading an article and a factsheet, writing a summary and a letter; Acknowledgements; Answers.
