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.
Vocabulary 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.
Pronunciation Identifying attitude by listening to sentence intonation and stress.
Listening 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.

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 Syllabus component description

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.
Pronunciation Identifying speakers' attitudes in intonation. Identifying the speaker's feelings about
accepting a job offer by listening to his intonation.
Listening 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.

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 Syllabus component description

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 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.

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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 Syllabus component description

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.
Vocabulary Practising words and phrases used metaphorically.
Pronunciation Identifying the purpose and feeling of speakers.
Listening 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 Syllabus component description

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'.
Vocabulary Practising verbs describing ways of moving. Practising verbs describing ways of speaking.
Listening 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.

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 Syllabus component description

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.
Vocabulary Practising verbs describing ways of looking. Practising words that are often confused.
Practising expressions connected with making decisions.
Pronunciation 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 Listening to a talk about dolphins and their intelligence.

7 Review 1 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 components Syllabus component description

Grammar 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.
Vocabulary Practising collocations by playing a game.
Reading 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 Syllabus component description

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 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.

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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 Syllabus component description

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.
Vocabulary Practising the formation of negative words in a newspaper article about a sports star appearing
in court.
Pronunciation Identifying when to drop the /t/ and /d/ sounds in connected speech.
Listening 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 Syllabus component description

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.
Vocabulary Practising verb collocations in a text about cycling. Practising word formation with suffixes
in an article about mountaineering.
Pronunciation Practising syllable stress.
Listening 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 Syllabus component description

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'.
Vocabulary Practising fixed phrases in a text about a strange creature. Practising idiomatic expressions in two
short stories.
Listening Listening to an interview with a professional storyteller. Listening to a story about an urban
myth.
Reading Visiting external websites and answering questions about two well-known series of
children's books.

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 Syllabus component description

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.
Vocabulary Practising combinations of verbs or nouns with prepositions in an application letter for a job at a
summer school.
Listening Listening to different people talking about using English when travelling on business.

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 Syllabus component description

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.
Pronunciation 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 Listening different people commenting on travel. Listening to a lecturer talking about ecotourism.
theme as the Student's Book unit.

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14 Review 2 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 components Syllabus component description

Grammar 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.
Vocabulary Practising newspaper headlines by playing a game.
Listening Listening to an interview with an ecologist about protecting the environment.
Reading Visiting an external website and answer questions about a magazine.

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