INSIDE OUT PRE-INTERMEDIATE

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1 Me

Talking about names
p. 4.
What’s in a name? p. 5. / Talking about names / A woman talking about her different names
The name game / Family words / Long vowel sounds
3-4. / 1/2 I never forget a face p. 6.
Meet ALICE
p. 7. / Talking about memory / Improve your memory for names
Meet ALICE / Describing people:
look+adj
looks like+ noun
5-6. / 1/3 Close up p. 8.
Stand By Me p. 9.
Anecdote
p. 9. / Talking about someone who is important to you
TEST /

Song: Stand By Me

A man talking about his best friend / Question forms: word order
Subject questions
7-8. /

2 Place

Places
p. 10.
Close up
p. 11. / Talking about places in your country / Four people talking about their home town / Countable/ uncountable nouns / City landmarks
Adjectives to describe places

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9-10. / 2/2 First impressions p. 12.
Dream holiday
p. 13. / Writing a letter: positive description of a city
Talking about products from different countries /

A letter from Rick

Win a dream holiday for two! / Countries and nationalities
Geographical location / Word stress: nationalities
11-12. / 2/3 Close up
p. 14.
Cities of the world p. 15.
Anecdote p. 15. / The best city you have ever visited
TEST / Everything’s wrong here! / Quantity expressions
13-14. /

3 Couples

What went wrong? p. 16.
Ross and Jane p. 17.
Irregular verb sound groups p.17 / Writing a narrative about the stages of a relationship / What went wrong? / Expressions to do with relationships / Irregular verb sound groups

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15-16. / 3/2 Let’s get personal p. 18.
Close up p. 19. / Talking about when you first met somebody / Game show: a couple talking about when they first met / Past simple
Past continous / Narrative linkers
17-18. / 3/3 True love p. 20.
Suspicious minds p. 21. / TEST /

Great love affairs

Song: Suspicious minds
19-20. /

4 Fit

Sports and personalities
p. 22–23.
Close up p.23. / Talking about sports personalities / Advertisers discussing which sports personality should advertise their isotonic drink / Comparatives
21-22. / 4/2 The schwa p. 24.
Fitness test
p. 24.
Sport p. 25.
Numbers p. 25. / Talking about fitness
Talking about attitudes to sport / Are you dangerously unfit? / Sport
Numbers / The schwa

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23-24. / 4/3 Tiger Woods p.26.
Close up p.26.
Anecdote p.27. / Your experiences of sport at school
TEST / Golfing genius
Interview with a fan of Tiger Woods / Superlatives
25-26. /

5 Review 1

Sophie and Paul p. 28. / Writing an advert / Paul’s and Sophie’s report
27-28. / 5/2 Vinnie and Tanya p. 32.
Anecdote
p. 31. / Talking about a character in a film /

Vinnie Jones

Love at first sight
29-30. / 5/3 Neighbours p. 32.
Gossip (sketch) p. 33. / Talking about neighbours and gossip
Comparing people
REVIEW 1 TEST /

Gossip

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31-32. /

6 Shop

What people really want for their birthday
p.34.
Close up p. 35. / Talking about presents / What people really want for their birthday / Verbs with two objects / Collocations to do with presents
33-34. / 6/2 Anecdote p.36.
Close up p. 36.
How much is she wearing?
p.37. / Talking about clothes / How much is she wearing? / Adverbs of frequency / Clothes and accessories
35-36. / 6/3 Close up
p. 38.
I’ll take it
p. 38. / Talking about attitudes to shopping
TEST / Three men talking about shopping
A man buying a woman’s top
A woman buying a mobile phone / Verb patterns: verb+ing form / Expressions to use in shops
37-38. /

7 Job

/ Talking about jobs and experiences
Talking about employment / Three people talking about their jobs
Nightmare jobs / Expressions with hand

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39-40. / 7/2 Close up
p. 42.
Class experience
p. 43. / Talking about experiences / At least once in their lifetime… / Present perfect simple / Time expressions
41-42. / 7/3 Youth versus experience
p. 44.
Anecdote
p. 44.
Presentation
p. 45. / Talking about a retired person you know well
Writing a letter of application for a job
TEST / Interview with the owner of a department store
Letter of application / Employment / Stress and intonations in formal presentations
43-44. / 8 Rich
Money p. 46.
Millionaires
p. 47. / Talking about money /

Song:Money

The good, the bad and the extremely generous / Money expressions

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45-46. / 8/2 Going solo
p.48.
Close up p. 49. / Talking about music / A hole in the Ozone
A pop star talks about his future
A pop star talks about his upcoming tour / Future forms: be going to / Words and expressions about music
47-48. / 8/3 Close up
p. 50.
Now give me money p. 51. / Writing an online application to get a grant
TEST / The Prince’s Trust / Future forms: present continous
49-50. / 9 Rules
Online bookshop: The Rules p. 52.
Close up p. 53. / Talking about books
Talking about dating / Must and should / Describing character / Linking
51-52. / 9/2 Barbara and The Rules
p. 54.
Close up
p. 54. / Talking about school days / A woman talking about her experience with The Rules
Schooldays of a rock star / Past modals: obligation and permission

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53-54. / 9/3 Geisha
p. 56.
Anecdote
p. 57. / Talking about your favourite subject at school
TEST / Training to be a geisha / Education / Word stress
55-56. /

10 Review 2

Fact or fiction?
p. 59. / Interview with a customs officer
57-58. / 10/2 Growing up p. 60.
Discussion
p. 61. / Comparing jobs / Three generations
59-60. / 10/3 The Revision Game
p. 62-63. / REVIEW 2 TEST / Reviewing all the main structures from Units 1-9
61-62. / 11 Smile
Smile and the world smiles with you
p. 64.
What’s in a smile?
p. 65. / Talking about smiling / Smile and the world smiles with you…
What’s in a smile?

Six people talking

/ The face
Describing character / /s/, /z/ or /iz/?

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63-64. / 11/2 What are you like? p. 66.
Don’t Worry, Be Happy p.67.
Close up p. 67. / Talking about character / Optimist or pessimist – what are you?
Song: Don’t Worry, Be Happy / Imperatives / Verb patterns
65-66. / 11/3 Take it easy p. 68.
Close up p. 69.
Laughter clubs p. 69. / Talking about stress
TEST / 16 ways to de-stress
Laughter – the best medicine / Grammar of phrasal verbs / Phrasal verbs
67-68. / 12 Rebels
May Day
p. 70.
What are you doing here?
p. 71. / Talking about protests / Global May Day protest
People talking about why they are protesting / Protest
Word families / Stress in nouns ending in -ion
69-70. / 12/2 Close up p. 72.
Celebrity rebels p. 73.
Anecdote
p. 73. / Talking about things you did wrong as a child / Rebel rebel / Dynamic and stative meanings

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71-72. / 12/3 Close up
p. 74.
How green is the class?
p. 75. / Talking about how green you are
Writing a report
TEST / Image of a rebel / Passives
73-74. /

13 Dance

Disco diva
p. 76.
The clubbing capital of the world p. 77. / Talking about going out / Disco diva or two left feet?
Party island
The clubs / On and at
75-76. / 13/2 My Ibiza p. 78.
Anecdote
p. 78.
Close up p. 79. / Talking about the last time you went dancing / Three people talking about the clubs / For and since
Been / Informal language
77-78. / 13/3 Present perfect
p. 80.
Billy Elliot
p. 81. / Talking about conflict between parents and
teenage children
TEST / Billy Elliot / Informal language

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79-80. /

14 Call

Phone moans p. 82.
Domestic crisis
p. 83. / Talking about annoying phone habits / Domestic crisis: three phone conversations
81-82. / 14/2 Close up p. 84.
Telephone talk p. 85. / Talking about phone calls / Offers and requests / Telephone language
Social register
Telephone numbers
83-84. / 14/3The ’latest thing’ p. 86.
Who? What? Where? p. 86.
Close up p. 87. / Talking about appropriate toys for 12-year-olds
TEST / Why I bought my child a gun
Six short conversations / Indirect questions
85-86. /

15 Review 3

The waiting game p. 88. / Three interviews with people in a queue
How patient are you?
87-88. / 15/2 National sport p. 90.
Telephone language p. 91.
Phrasal verbs p. 91. / Similarities and differences
Talking about being late
Writing a conversation between two people / The noble art of queuing

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89-90. / 15/3 Night clubs p. 92.
The Door (sketch) p. 93. / Talking about clubs
REVIEW 3 TEST /

The Door

91-92. /

16 Lifestyle

How not to die before you get old p. 94.
Anecdote
p. 95.
Health farms
p. 95. / Talking about lifestyles
Talking about the healthiest person you know / How not to die before you get old
A telephone enquiry about health farms / Collocations
93-94. / 16/2 Close up p. 96.
Food glorious food p. 97. / Talking about food / Future time clauses
Will for prediction / Food
95-96. / 16/3 Sounds and spelling
p. 98.
Food idioms
p. 98.
How to eat a banana p. 99. / Talking about a meal you’ve eaten recently
TEST / Six short conversations
104 things to do with a banana / Food idioms
Food preparation / Sounds and spelling

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17 Animals

Animal facts
p. 100.
Homophones p. 100.
Close up
p. 101. / Talking about wild animals / Relative clauses / Animals / Homophones
99-100. / 17/2 Animal tales p. 102.
Clever dog
p. 103.
Special friends p. 103. / Talking about animals
Talking about animal characteristics / Six stories about animals

Clever dog

Three people talk about their pets
101-102. / 17/3 Close up p. 104.
Reptiles
p. 105.
Anecdote
p. 105. / Talking about a pet
TEST / King Jim
A woman talks about her friend’s pet iguana / Conditionals / Prepostions after verbs and adjectives
103-104. / 18 Weird
Crop circles
p. 106.
The mother of all circles
p. 107. / Talking about crop circles / Crop circle theories
Interview with an expert on crop circles / How + adjectives/ adverbs

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105-106. / 18/2 Incredible but true
p. 108.
Close up
p. 109. / Talking about strange coincidences / Strange coincidences
Reincarnation / Past perfect / have/make/take + noun structures
107-108. / 18/3 Anecdote p. 110.
We are not alone p. 111. / Talking about strange experiences that you have had
Writing a story
TEST / Two people talk about strange experiences they have had
Roswell, New Mexico
The night I met an alien
109-110. / 19 Wheels
My first car
p. 112.
Anecdote
p. 113.
Close up
p. 113. / Talking about your dream car / My first car / Used to + infinitive / Cars
111-112. / 19/2 For and against cars
p. 114.
Close up
p. 115. / Three people discuss the advantages and disadvantages of cars
Radio phone-in about driving problems / Opinions, advice and suggestions

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113-114. / 19/3 A family holiday p. 116.
24 Hours From Tulsa p. 117. / Talking about passing the time on car journeys
Talking about breaking up
TEST / A family holiday
Song:24 Hours From Tulsa / Adverbs of manner and attitude
115-116. /

20 Review 4

Big Game Lottery p. 118. / Colorado woman wins top prize
Radio phone-in program about a lottery win
117-118. / 20/2 It’s your lucky day
p. 120.
A lucky escape p. 121.
Anecdote
p. 121. / Talking about a lucky or unlucky experience you have had / Good luck messages
A lucky escape
119-120. / 20/3 Let’s talk about… / REVIEW 4 TEST