Macmillan Practice Online 'Inside Out Advanced' Course

Macmillan Practice Online 'Inside Out Advanced' Course This course accompanies 'Inside Out Advanced'. It corresponds to CEF level C1 and Cambridge ESOL CAE. There are 14 Syllabus Items, including two ‘Review’ Syllabus Items, each matching a Student's Book unit. Within each Syllabus Item, resources are grouped into five categories – Grammar, Vocabulary, Pronunciation, Listening and Reading. Description 1 Identity

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about life and relationships and discuss books we have read. It covers meaning and position of adverbials, phrasal verbs and word formation.

Syllabus components

Syllabus component description

Grammar

Practising the word order of adverbs of frequency. Practising the word order of sentences that include adverbs. Practising expressions of time. Practising adverbs or adverbial phrases which comment on a whole sentence. Practising reflexive pronouns and 'each other' in a text about marriage and divorce. Practising word order with different types of phrasal verbs. Practising separable and non-separable phrasal verbs. Practising the use of phrasal verbs. Practising phrasal verbs with two prepositions. Practising forming adverbs from adjectives. Practising forming adjectives from nouns. Practising suffixes used to make adjectives into nouns. Practising forming verbs from nouns. Practising forming nouns from verbs. Practising forming new words by adding suffixes. Identifying attitude by listening to sentence intonation and stress. Listening to a private investigator talking about his life. Listening to a conversation about the book 'Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'. Listening to different people talking about a book they have read. Listening to someone from the Marriage Guidance Organization talking about the type of problems it helps couples with.

Vocabulary Pronunciation Listening

2 Taste

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about food and restaurants and give opinions. It covers modification of nouns, order of adjectives, past tenses and fronting.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising word order of adjectives. Practising modification of nouns. Practising concession clauses in a text about restaurants in Sydney. Practising fronting. Contrasting narrative tenses. Practising the past simple, past continuous and past perfect. Practising pronoun reference in three texts about eating out. Identifying speakers' attitudes in intonation. Identifying the speaker's feelings about accepting a job offer by listening to his intonation. Listening to a nutritionist talking about food and drink. Listening to people talking about restaurants. Listening to four stories about people's experiences in restaurants. Listening to five people talking about their experiences in different restaurants. Listening to eight different people being asked for their opinions about a proposal.

Pronunciation Listening

3 City

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to describe cities and places and talk about living in cities. It covers inversion after negative and limiting adverbials and adding emphasis with 'just', 'really' and 'actually'.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising the use of negative expressions that require inversion. Contrasting the positions of adverbial phrases with and without inversion. Practising inversion after negative and limiting adverbials. Practising the use of 'just', 'really' and 'actually'. Practising the uses of 'just'. Practising the connectors 'unless', 'as long as', 'in case' and 'although' in sentences giving advice to a London tourist. Practising a variety of quantifiers in a text about a London suburb. Listening to a radio programme about a quiz on cities around the world. Listening to somebody talking about a trip to Bermuda. Listening to five clips about American cities. Listening to someone discussing a different lifestyle. Listening to some colleagues talking about why they grow their own fruit and vegetables. Listening to a conversation between a shop owner and a security expert about preventing shoplifting.

Listening

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4 Talk

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about language, culture, conversations, tendencies and family members. It covers 'wh-' words and present and past tendencies with 'will' and 'would'.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising the use of negative question forms for beginning a conversation or part of one. Practising 'wh-' clauses. Practising the use of 'would' to talk about repeated actions in the past. Practising 'would' and 'used to' to talk about past habits and states. Practising words and phrases used metaphorically. Identifying the purpose and feeling of speakers. Listening to a TV interview about language and culture. Listening to an interview during a radio programme. Listening to several conversations that Judy has with people throughout the day. Listening to a woman talking about her annoying work-mate.


5 Luck

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about luck, wishes, regrets and science fiction. It covers unreal conditionals and statements with 'wish', 'if only' and 'regret'.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising the third conditional. Practising inversion in conditional sentences. Practising the mixed conditional. Practising 'wish' and 'if only'. Practising expressing regret with 'wish', 'if only' and some conditional clauses. Practising structures used after the verbs 'wish' and 'regret'. Practising verbs describing ways of moving. Practising verbs describing ways of speaking. Listening to a conversation about lucky charms. Listening to someone talking about two thieves who tried to steal a mobile phone. Listening to three conversations about regrets adults have about their schooldays. Listening to an account of a sighting of a possible UFO.

Vocabulary Listening

6 Mind

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the brain and intelligence. It covers stative verbs, participle clauses and expressions with 'mind'.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising stative verbs. Practising recognition of the verbs that are not normally used in the continuous forms. Practising the simple and continuous forms of the present, past and present perfect. Practising the use of 'can' and 'could' + verbs of perception. Practising the use of the participle in clauses. Practising verbs describing ways of looking. Practising words that are often confused. Practising expressions connected with making decisions. Practising listening for the vowel sounds which join words together in phrases. Practising identifying whether vowel sounds are linked together with /j/ or /w/. Listening to a talk about dolphins and their intelligence.


7 Review 1

Syllabus components Grammar

Vocabulary Reading

This Syllabus Item provides further practice of the language points revised in the Student's Book unit. It also includes two games and a web project that provide supplementary material. Syllabus component description Practising relative pronouns. Practising defining and non-defining relative clauses. Practising participle clauses. Practising the past simple, past continuous and past perfect. Practising different verb forms. Practising negative inversion. Practising phrasal verbs. Practising a variety of grammar points by playing a game. Practising collocations by playing a game. Visiting external websites and answering questions about three cities around the world.

8 Cyberspace

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about the future, computers, video games and the Internet. It covers 'will' for predictions and assumptions and discourse markers.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Contrasting the future with 'will', the future continuous and the future perfect. Contrasting the future perfect simple and the future perfect continuous. Practising a variety of future tenses. Listening to a news story about future homes and completing sentences from the news story with future forms. Practising coordinating and balancing connectors. Practising connectors of contrast. Practising a variety of discourse markers for contrasting ideas, adding similar information and drawing conclusions. Practising the linkers 'although', 'however', 'furthermore', 'in spite of', 'because' and 'because of'. Listening to a news item about the possibility that there may be life on other planets. Listening to two people being interviewed about computer games. Listening to six people talking about what they do online. Listening to a radio debate concerning the greatest inventions of the past 200 years.

Listening

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9 Law

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about crime, legal cases and news stories. It covers the use of modals to talk about the present and the past and inversion after 'neither', 'nor', 'so' and 'such'.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising pronoun reference in a text about stealing. Practising 'can', 'could', 'may', and 'might' to talk about possibility. Practising 'must' and 'can't' to talk about things you are certain of and to make deductions. Practising 'should' and 'ought to to give advice and opinions. Practising a variety of modal verbs. Practising the use of inversion after 'so' and 'such'. Practising the use of 'so', 'neither' and 'nor' to agree with somebody. Practising result clauses. Practising the formation of negative words in a newspaper article about a sports star appearing in court. Identifying when to drop the /t/ and /d/ sounds in connected speech. Listening to people talking about crimes. Listening to a Question and Answer session after a presentation at a Law and Order conference. Listening to three radio news items. Listening to an account of a bank robbery.


10 Firsts

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about challenges and achievements. It covers connectors and active and passive verbs.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising connectors of contrast. Practising linking sentences with connectors. Practising countable and uncountable nouns in sentences about a radio interview with a bungee jumper. Practising compound nouns in a text about a general knowledge quiz. Contrasting active and passive verbs. Practising the passive. Practising impersonal statements. Practising verb collocations in a text about cycling. Practising word formation with suffixes in an article about mountaineering. Practising syllable stress. Listening to a radio programme about urban adventures. Listening to an interview with a young violinist.


11 Stories

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to tell stories and talk about urban myths. It covers compound adjectives andthe future in the past.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising compound adjectives and verbs. Practising compound adjectives used to describe people. Practising different ways of expressing the future in the past. Practising the use of 'would' to express future in the past. Practising pronoun reference in a text from Raymond Chandler's 'Playback'. Practising fixed phrases in a text about a strange creature. Practising idiomatic expressions in two short stories. Listening to an interview with a professional storyteller. Listening to a story about an urban myth. Visiting external websites and answering questions about two well-known series of children's books.

Vocabulary Listening Reading

12 Words

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about English and write letters, notes and invitations. It covers 'wh-' words ending in 'ever' and patterns with ‘have’.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising compounds with 'ever'. Practising 'have' followed by an object plus infinitive without 'to' or an '-ing' form. Practising linking words to complete sentences in a note. Practising the present simple, the present continuous and 'will' in a text about the English language. Practising mixed prepositions in a text about learning a language. Selecting words that have the same sound but different spelling. Practising combinations of verbs or nouns with prepositions in an application letter for a job at a summer school. Listening to different people talking about using English when travelling on business.

Vocabulary Listening 13 Conscience

This Syllabus Item provides practice of the kind of language we use to talk about ethical issues. It covers special uses of the past simple.

Syllabus components


Grammar

Practising unreal tenses after 'wish', 'if only', 'would rather', 'it's time' and 'hope'. Practising past tenses with various meanings. Practising discourse markers in a text about hosting the Olympic Games. Identifying the main stress in pairs of sentences with changing information. Practising word stress in answers to questions. Identifying the stressed word in a conversation where the first speaker is contradicted. Listening different people commenting on travel. Listening to a lecturer talking about ecotourism. theme as the Student's Book unit.

Pronunciation Listening

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14 Review 2

Syllabus components Grammar Vocabulary Listening Reading

This Syllabus Item provides further practice of the language points revised in the Student's Book unit. It also includes two games and a web project that provide supplementary material. Syllabus component description Practising linking words. Practising the future in the past. Practising 'have' followed by an object plus infinitive without 'to' or an '-ing' form. Practising modals of deduction, 'must' and 'can't', and of possibility, 'might' and 'could'. Practising a variety of grammar points by playing a game. Practising newspaper headlines by playing a game. Listening to an interview with an ecologist about protecting the environment. Visiting an external website and answer questions about a magazine.

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