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INTRODUCTION

UNIT 1: THE BANQUET
1.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
1.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
1.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
1.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
1.2.3. Antonyms
1.2.4. Polysemic terms: cheek; spring; stuff; tie; to care; to polish; tough
1.2.5. Homonyms: felt; left; to like/like
1.2.6. Lexical fields: a) types of chairs and seats; b) types of dwelling; c) shellfish/seafood; d) types of car; e) drugs and drug-related terms; f) death; g) crime/criminals
1.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) complaining; b) murmur; c) take hold of
1.2.8. Metonymy and metaphor
1.2.9. Grammatical collocations
1.2.10. Lexical collocations: to seize, to grab, to grasp, to grip, to clutch, to cling, to snatch, to clasp
1.2.11. Word-formation: borrowings from the French in the lexical field of food
1.2.12. Words easily confused: course/dish/plate
1.2.13. Idioms
1.2.14. Phrasal verbs
1.2.15. False friends
1.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
1.3.1. Homophones
1.3.2. Homographs
1.3.3. Silent letters: p, w
1.3.4. Graphemes: ,
1.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
1.4.1. Time subordinate clauses with as
1.4.2. that-nominal clauses with omission of that
1.4.3. accusative + infinitive equivalent to a Spanish subjunctive
1.4.4. subordinate clauses of result
1.4.5. conjuncts
1.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 2: THE PREGNANT WOMAN
2.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
2.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
2.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
2.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
2.2.3. Antonyms
2.2.4. Polysemic terms: fit; rash; shattered
2.2.5. Homonyms: bank; mine; well
2.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor
2.2.7. Lexical fields: a) illnesses; b) banking terms
2.2.8. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) looking; b) breaking
2.2.9. Grammatical collocations
2.2.10. Lexical collocations: to put/to set/to lay
2.2.11. Word-formation: a) suffixes used to form abstract nouns; b) eponyms
2.2.12. Idioms with the word point
2.2.13. Register: a) to die; b) not to care
2.2.14. Euphemism and dysphemism
2.2.15. Cultural notes
2.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
2.3.1. Homophones
2.3.2. Homographs
2.3.3. Silent letters: b, k
2.3.4. Graphemes: , , , , ,
2.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
2.4.1. complex transitive complementation
2.4.2. contact clauses
2.4.3. concessive clauses
2.4.4. cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences
2.4.5. would for habit
2.4.6. binomials
2.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 3: THE IDEAL COUPLE
3.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
3.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
3.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
3.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
3.2.3. Antonyms
3.2.4. Polysemic terms: to go by; trunk
3.2.5. Homonyms: bear; may
3.2.6. Lexical fields: a) underwear; b) musical instruments; c) cooking terms; d) parts of a car
3.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: enjoyment/happiness/pleasure
3.2.8. Metonymy and metaphor
3.2.9. Words easily confused: to earn/to win/ to gain/ to beat
3.2.10. Lexical collocations: to do/to make
3.2.11. Differences BrE and AmE
3.2.12. False friends
3.2.13. Word-formation: compound nouns/compound adjectives/compound verbs/reduplicatives; clippings
3.2.14. Idioms
3.2.15. Phrasal verbs
3.2.16. Cultural notes
3.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
3.3.1. Homophones
3.3.2. Homographs
3.3.3. Silent letters: n
3.3.4. Graphemes: , ,
3.3.5. Differences BrE/AmE
3.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
3.4.1. purpose infinitive
3.4.2. non-defining relative clauses
3.4.3. ing-clauses with concessive value
3.4.4. that-nominal clauses as subject
3.4.5. words that only occur in the plural
3.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 4: ALL IN A DAY’S WORK
4.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
4.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
4.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
4.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
4.2.3. Antonyms
4.2.4. Polysemic terms: book/to book; faint
4.2.5. Homonyms: seal; sole
4.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor
4.2.7. Lexical fields: a) birds; b) sports; c) internal organs
4.2.8. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) resulting linking verbs; b) ways of drinking; c) smiling; d) writing down; e) child
4.2.9. Grammatical collocations
4.2.10. Lexical collocations: resulting linking verbs
4.2.11. False friends
4.2.12. Differences BrE/AmE
4.2.13. Word formation: suffixes used to form abstract nouns: -al, -ment, -ation, -ness, -ance, -ity
4.2.14. Idioms
4.2.15. Phrasal verbs
4.2.16. Cultural notes
4.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
4.3.1. Homophones
4.3.2. Graphemes: , ,
4.3.3. gonna = going to
4.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
4.4.1. conditional sentences: type 3
4.4.2. verbs of perception + infinitive without to
4.4.3. contact clauses
4.4.4. to + -ing form
4.4.5. what-nominal clauses
4.4.6. collective nouns
4.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 5: INVITATION TO MURDER
5.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
5.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
5.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
5.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
5.2.3. Antonyms
5.2.4. Polysemic terms
5.2.5. Homonyms: race, fair
5.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor
5.2.7. Lexical fields: a) containers; b) cutlery and tableware; c) legal terms
5.2.8. Grammatical collocations
5.2.9. Lexical collocations: to drop
5.2.10. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: killing
5.2.11. Words easily confused: classic/classical; economic/economical; historic/historical
5.2.12. Word-formation: the prefix out-; the suffix -less
5.2.13. Idioms
5.2.14. Phrasal verbs
5.2.15. Cultural notes
5.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
5.3.1. Homophones
5.3.2. Homographs
5.3.3. Silent letters: b
5.3.4. Graphemes:
5.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
5.4.1. conditional sentences with unless
5.4.2. adjective post-modifiers
5.4.3. causative have
5.4.4. di-transitive complementation
5.4.5. partitives
5.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 6: HIS ONLY TRUE LOVE
6.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
6.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
6.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
6.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
6.2.3. Antonyms
6.2.4. Polysemic terms: brief, slip, smart, sound
6.2.5. Homonyms: date; must; saw; to mean/mean
6.2.6. Metonymy and metaphor
6.2.7. Lexical fields: a) hairstyle; b) clothes; c) describing clothes; d) colours
6.2.8. Grammatical collocations
6.2.9. Lexical collocations: to throw, to cast
6.2.10. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: throwing
6.2.11. Words easily confused: to miss/to lose/to waste
6.2.12. Word-formation: suffixes used to form adjectives expressing quality: -al, -ic, -ive, -ous, etc.; -hood
6.2.13. Idioms with the word way
6.2.14. Phrasal verbs
6.2.15. Cultural notes
6.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
6.3.1. Homophones
6.3.2. Homographs
6.3.3. Silent letters: h, s
6.3.4. Graphemes: <-gh/ght>
6.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
6.4.1. that in adverbial subordinates of reason
6.4.2. noun phrase post-modifiers
6.4.3. contact clauses
6.4.4. make + infinitive without to
6.4.5. let + infinitive without to
6.4.6. one as a prop word
6.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 7: THE MAN WHO COULD GET NO SLEEP
7.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
7.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
7.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
7.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
7.2.3. Antonyms
7.2.4. Lexical fields: a) the weather; b) (minor) health problems
7.2.5. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: a) hurting and damaging; b) sleeping
7.2.6. Polysemic terms: to take
7.2.7. Lexical collocations: to take
7.2.8. Grammatical collocations
7.2.9. False friends
7.2.10. Word-formation: out-, over-; under-
7.2.11. Idioms
7.2.12. Phrasal verbs
7.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
7.3.1. Homophones
7.3.2. Pronunciation of the plural -s
7.3.3. Graphemes: , ,
7.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
7.4.1. inversion of as in concessive clauses
7.4.2. that-nominal clauses
7.4.3. that-relative clauses
7.4.4. conjuncts
7.4.5. purpose infinitive
7.4.6. to-infinitive as nominal clause
7.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 8: INSPECTOR CAULDER’S LAST CASE
8.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
8.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
8.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
8.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
8.2.3. Antonyms
8.2.4. Homonyms: kind, mole
8.2.5. Polysemic terms: spot, stroke
8.2.6. Lexical fields: a) the language of airports; b) flowers and plants; c) trees and shrubs; d) fish; e) breeds of dog
8.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shining
8.2.8. Grammatical collocations
8.2.9. Lexical collocations: shining; issue; headlines; to visit
8.2.10. Word-formation: -ful/-less; conversion; negative prefixes; French borrowings
8.2.11. Idioms
8.2.12. Register: to kill
8.2.13. Phrasal verbs
8.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
8.3.1. Graphemes: ,
8.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
8.4.1. non-defining relative clauses
8.4.2. concessive clauses
8.4.3. by-agent in passive clauses
8.4.4. -ing-participle clauses
8.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 9: THE FAMOUS PSYCHIATRIST
9.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
9.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
9.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
9.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
9.2.3. Antonyms
9.2.4. Homonyms: arm; lay/to lay; to lie; low/to low; match; temple
9.2.5. Polysemic terms: match/to match; to pick up; sharp
9.2.6. Lexical fields: a) medical specialists; b) parts of the head; c) house furniture; d) other objects and things in the house; e) in the kitchen; f) in the bathroom
9.2.7. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: walking
9.2.8. Word-formation: over-; -en; -ed-compound adjectives
9.2.9. Idioms
9.2.10. Phrasal verbs
9.2.11. Cultural notes
9.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
9.3.1. Silent letters: p; t; d
9.3.2. Graphemes: <-ed> in verbs and in adjectives
9.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
9.4.1. for as a conjunction of reason
9.4.2. enough with adjectives and other adverbs
9.4.3. optional use of if and whether
9.4.4. obligatory use of whether
9.4.5. if-nominal clauses
9.4.6. anaphoric use of to
9.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 10: THE CANDIDATE
10.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
10.2. Semantic analysis
10.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
10.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
10.2.3. Antonyms
10.2.4. Polysemic terms: concern; to deliver; issue
10.2.5. Lexical fields: a) rooms and parts of the house; b) footwear
10.2.6. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shouting
10.2.7. Words easily confused: to expect/to wait/to hope
10.2.8. Grammatical collocations
10.2.9. Lexical collocations: to run; to tackle; to raise; to rise
10.2.10. Word-formation: adjectives ending in -ous; conversion
10.2.11. Idioms
10.2.12. Phrasal verbs
10.2.13. Differences BrE/AmE
10.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
10.3.1. Silent letters: l, g
10.3.2. Graphemes: ,
10.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
10.4.1. may used to indicate possibility or probability
10.4.2. must used to indicate necessity
10.4.3. -ing-participle clauses
10.4.4. nominalized adjectives
10.4.5. conditional sentences: type 2
10.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 11: JOHN FAT
11.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
11.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
11.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
11.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
11.2.3. Antonyms
11.2.4. Polysemic terms: case; patient; tyre
11.2.5. Lexical fields: a) the human body; b) shops; c) alcoholic drinks
11.2.6. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: laughing
11.2.7. Words easily confused: to argue/to discuss; to remember/to remind; to fit/to suit
11.2.8. Grammatical collocations
11.2.9. Lexical collocations: to watch
11.2.10. Word-formation: negative prefixes; conversion
11.2.11. Register
11.2.12. Euphemisms and dysphemisms
11.2.13. Idioms
11.2.14. Phrasal verbs
11.2.15. Cultural notes
11.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
11.3.1. Homophones
11.3.2. Graphemes: ,
11.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
11.4.1. disjuncts
11.4.2. inversion of as in concessive clauses
11.4.3. inversion of as in clauses of reason
11.4.4. as in adverbial clauses of manner
11.4.5. as in adverbial clauses of reason
11.4.6. as in adverbial clauses of time
11.4.7. nominal clauses in apposition
11.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 12: THE SAPIENT FOOL
12.1. READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS
12.2. SEMANTIC ANALYSIS
12.2.1. Learning new words and phrases
12.2.2. Synonyms and near-synonyms
12.2.3. Antonyms
12.2.4. Homonyms: grave; pupil
12.2.5. Analysis by distinctive semantic features: shaking
12.2.6. Lexical fields: terms used to describe people’s character
12.2.7. Grammatical collocations
12.2.8. Lexical collocations: to summon
12.2.9. Words easily confused: sympathetic/likeable
12.2.10. Word-formation: French borrowings; blends/portmanteau words; eponyms; conversion; -dom
12.2.11. Idioms
12.2.12. Phrasal verbs
12.2.13. Cultural notes
12.3. PHONOLOGICAL STUDY
12.3.1. Graphemes:
12.4. GRAMMAR REVISION
12.4.1. where as a relative pronoun
12.4.2. order of adjectives in attributive position
12.4.3. whose
12.4.4. the royal we
12.4.5. special uses of shall
12.4.6. here, there and where compound adverbs
12.5. EXERCISES

UNIT 13: TRAIN STORIES
13.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS

UNIT 14: ANIMAL SCHOOL
14.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS
14.2. IDIOMS USED IN THE STORY
14.3. ANIMALS (SUGGESTED LEXICAL FIELD)
14.4. ANIMALS’ CRIES

UNIT 15: THE GREAT EVENT
15.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS

UNIT 16: BRUSHING UP PHRASAL VERBS
16.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS
16.2. PHRASAL VERBS AND PHRASAL NOUNS USED IN THE STORY

UNIT 17: THE JOURNALIST
17.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS

UNIT 18: ENGLISH FROM THE STICK OR A CURIOUS CASE OF SPANGLISH
18.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS
18.2. ENGLISH IDIOMS ALLUDED TO IN THE STORY

UNIT 19: HIS LAST LESSON
19.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS

UNIT 20: LANGUAGE’S LAST POEM
20.1. SUGGESTED READING COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS WITH THEIR ANSWERS

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