Home is the place we love best and grumble the most. (Billy Sunday)

Topic 6: Dwelling and residing

Reading	Smarthomes
Listening	Smart home technology
Grammar	Question tags
Speaking	Dialogue: buying or renting

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart. (Matthew Desmond)

 Topic 6: House and home

Reading	Living without energy
Listening	Accommodation
Writing	Housing shortages
Speaking	Homelessness

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course. (Jello Biafra)

 Topic 6 Home

Reading	Tree house
Listening	Accommodation
Grammar	too and enough
Speaking	Housing

Every man dies. Not every man really lives. (William Wallace)

Topic 6: A life

Reading	Sylvia Earle
Listening	Miley Cirus short biography
Grammar	Present perfect / past simple
Writing	A personal profile

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. (Ray Bradbury)

 2021

15 books you can read in under an hour

38 books to read in under 2 hours

18 classic books you can read in one day

Why you should read every day

12 great benefits of reading 30 minutes a day

Reading books is one of the best ways to learn a foreign language

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present. (Don Marquis)

 Topic 5: Free time & Christmas

Reading	A short story extract
Listening	Film reviews
Grammar	Narrative tenses
Speaking	Free time, leisure & hobbies

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don’t quite know how to put our love into words. (Harlan Miller)

 Topic 5: Free time & Christmas

Reading	Christmas in Spain
Listening	English pantomime
Grammar	Verbs with two objects
Speaking	Climate & weather

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together. (Garrison Keillor)

 Topic 5: Free time

Reading	Christmas in the UK
Listening	Christmas shopping
Vocabulary	Christmas activities
Speaking	Monologue: Christmas

If I have to climb to heaven on a ladder, I shall decline the invitation. (Mercedes McCambridge)

Topic 5: Christmas 

Reading	What's on?
Listening	Making plans
Grammar	Going to
Speaking	Making suggestions

It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. (Jodi Picoult)

Here is the worksheet for My Sister's Keeper; and here is the dilemma.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep. (Harold Wilson)

Topic 4: Hurting and healing 

Reading	Fit, happy and healthy
Listening	Health
Grammar	Inversion
Speaking	Health and healthcare

The French cook, we open tins. (John Galsworthy)

 Topic 4: Food and drink

Reading	Fit, happy and healthy
Listening	Nutrition advice - audio
Writing	Describing food
Speaking	Diet recommendations (WHO)

Health is not valued till sickness comes. (Thomas Fuller)

 Topic 4: Health

Reading	A long and healthy life
Listening	Amazing facts
Grammar	Present perfect
Writing	Being healthy

Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.

Topic 4: Health

Reading	What's wrong?
Listening	At the doctor's
Vocabulary	Health
Speaking	How to stay healthy

Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators. (Olin Miller)

Topic 3: Working and earning 

Reading	Job adverts
Listening	Training courses
Vocabulary	Working
Speaking	The world of work

A healthy outside starts from the inside. (Robert Urich)

 Topic 3: Health and welfare

Reading	Doctors of adventure
Listening	A broken body
Vocabulary	General health quiz
Speaking	Health and healthcare

One should eat to live, not live to eat. (Molière)

 Topic 3: Food

Reading	Tips related to food
Listening	Restaurant
Grammar	Quantifiers
Speaking	Food and eating

If you want the answer - ask the question. (Lorii Myers)

Topic 3: Questions

Listening	Interview
Grammar	Asking questions
Vocabulary	Daily Routines
Writing	Film review

When merely meeting someone is ridden with angst and open to misinterpretation, is it any wonder she is so hopeless at relationships. (Sarah Rayner)

Here is the worksheet for One Moment One Morning.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. (Joseph Addison)

Reading list end 2020
Book 6	One moment one morning
Book 7	My sister's keeper

Be stubborn about your goals and flexible about your methods. (Unknown)

Topic 2: Teaching & learning

Reading	Single or mixed sex schools
Listening	A study group
Writing	Substitution & ellipsis
Speaking	Language learning skills

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. (John Dewey)

 Topic 2: Education & work

Reading	Work-life balance
Listening	A job interview - audio
Grammar	Reported speech
Speaking	(Un)employment/retirement