Food provides the context for looking at the grammar of countable and uncountable nouns and the related use of some and any. The lesson begins by getting Sts to brainstorm any food word they may already know in English, and then going to the Vocabulary Bank to learn many of the most common words. Sts then read an article from New York Magazine where three people, a model, a sportsman, and an actress, describe w hat they ate yesterday. The reading leads into the grammar focus, and Sts go on to practice the new' grammar and also review there is / there are.

Workbook page 54-55

This lesson is based on real information about hotels in Britain that advertise themselves as being haunted. A Sunday Times journalist was sent to stay at one, called Gosforth Hall Inn, and report on what happened during the night. This provides a context to r Sts to practice there was I there were and prepositions of place and movement. Make sure Sts realize that this is real information and that these are real hotels where they could go and spend the night!

Workbook page 52-53

This lesson links back to the murder story in 8 A. Many years later, a couple who are looking for a house to rent are shown around Jeremy Travers’s house by Barbara, his daughter, now quite elderly. It is only after they have decided to rent it that they discover that the house has a dark secret and that someone was murdered there. The lesson begins with a vocabulary focus on house and furniture lexis. Sts then listen to a conversation between Barbara and the young couple as she shows them around the Travers family’s old house, now for rent.

Workbook page 50-51

The goal of this lesson is to review all forms of the simple past, regular and irregular, through the context of a murder story. The lesson begins with the back cover information and extract from the story, which introduces the characters and several new past forms of irregular verbs. Sts then hear more of the story, this time on audio as the detective interviews the suspects. Sts then decide who they think the murderer was before hearing what actually happened.