This document provides an overview of the contents and structure of a student book titled Messages Student's Book 4. It includes a map of the book that outlines the 12 modules, including the grammar, vocabulary, listening, reading, and communicative tasks covered in each module. It also lists the coursework assignments, grammar checks, study skills lessons, and progress checks included in the book. The document contains sample excerpts from module activities that provide instructions and content for language learning exercises, including describing a painting, completing a fact file, and revising uses of present and past verbs.

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2. Module3ChangesModule2Newhorizons
REVISION
2 Map of the book
● Describing the present and
the past
● Verbs + prepositions in Wh-
questions
● Present continuous
● Expressions: contradictions
● Relative clauses with who, that,
which
● Present simple
● Pronoun one/ones
● Expressions: asking for
clarification
● Past continuous and past
simple
● used to
● Expressions: expressing surprise
● must/mustn’t, have to/don’t
have to
● Comparative adjectives
● Passive (present simple and
past simple)
● Expressions: making travel
arrangements
Unit 1
Getting
together
Unit 2
Friends and
neighbours
Review
Review
Unit 4
Journeys
Unit 3
All in the
mind
Unit 5
In the news
Unit 6
Attachments
Review Grammar check Study skills: Homophones How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Reviews
● Verbs + prepositions
● Postcards
● Words with some
and every
● Pronunciation: stress
and intonation
● Listen to biographies of
famous people
● Read holiday postcards
● Skim and scan a text
● Life and culture: Welcome to
Liverpool!
● Talk about a picture
● Write about famous people
in the past
● Make a conversation at
a café
● Write a postcard
● Flats and houses
● Friendship
● Nouns and adjectives
describing personal
qualities
● Pronunciation: /ə/
● Listen to a guessing game
● Read a questionnaire about
friendship
● Understand new words
● Life and culture: Poem
● Talk about where you live
● Tell the class about yourself
and your neighbourhood
● Play a guessing game
● Write about yourself and
friendships in your life
Grammar and Expressions Vocabulary and
Pronunciation
Listening and
Reading skills
Communicative tasks
Module1Peopleandplaces
● Fears and fantasies
● Dreams
● Link words
● Pronunciation: /j/
● Listen to three conversations
about coincidences
● Read a magazine article
about dreams
● Identify the topic of a text
● Life and culture: Haunted
Britain
● Talk and write about
coincidences in the past
● Describe yourself when you
were younger and compare
with a friend
● Describe things that you
imagine or worry about
● Write a description of a dream
● On the road
● Travelling
● Prepositions of
movement
● Pronunciation:
stress in sentences
● Listen to a song
● Read an account of a journey
around the world
● Scan a text for information
● Life and culture: Journey into
slavery
● Write and act a
conversation at a travel
agent’s
● Describe where things
are/were made or produced
● Write a journal about
a journey
● Present perfect + just, yet,
already
● been and gone
● Present perfect and past simple
● its: possessive adjective
● so ... that ... ; such a/an ... that ...
● Expressions: offers and
suggestions
● Topics in the news
● Yellowstone Park
● Pronunciation: /s/ +
consonant
● Write an email to a friend
or relative with your news
● Discuss what you have and
haven’t done
● Write a radio report
● Write about recent events
for a school newsletter
● Present perfect with for and
since
● Present perfect with superlative
adjective + ever
● Superlative adjectives
● give + direct and indirect
object
● Expressions: time expressions
● Personal
possessions
● Living abroad
● still, any more
● Pronunciation: / /
/ɔ /
● Give details about your
background
● Talk about your favourite
possessions
● Describe important things
and events
● Write an account of
personal experiences
● Listen to an interview with a
surfing champion
● Read an interview with a boy
who has lived all over the
world
● Skim a text for the general
idea
● Life and culture: New Zealand
● Listen to news headlines on
the radio
● Read a magazine article
about a volcano
● Understand the main idea of
a text
● Life and culture: Non-stop
news
Grammar check Study skills: Guessing what words mean How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Conversation with Grace Lawson
Grammar check Study skills: Spelling How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Who’s who at Greenside?
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3. 3
Module6Justimagine!Module5LivingtogetherModule4Talkingpoints
● Special occasions
● Invitations and
replies
● Verbs with look
● Pronunciation: final
/s/ and /z/
● Describe special occasions
● Talk about superstitions
● Write about and discuss
plans for a celebration
● Write and reply to an
invitation
Grammar and Expressions Vocabulary and
Pronunciation
Listening and
Reading skills
Communicative tasks
Unit 7
Celebrations
Unit 8
Secrets
and lies
● Verbs and nouns
that go together
● ‘Sales talk’
● because, so
● Pronunciation: /ai/
/ei/
● Listen to a discussion on
the radio
● Read an article about a
‘con man’
● Predict the topic of a text
● Life and culture: The code
talkers
● Talk about events in the
future and when they might
happen
● Talk about what’s right
and wrong
● Write an imaginary
‘sales talk’
Unit 11
Challenges
● Past perfect
● must, can’t, might, could
for speculation
● Expressions: Neither do I.
So am I.
● Adjectives
describing feelings
● In the mountains
● Adverbs
● Pronunciation:
stress in sentences,
weak forms
● Describe a situation in the
past and how you felt
● Imagine what different
situations are like
● Write a short story
Unit 12
Happy
endings
● Reported speech
● say and tell
● whose
● Expressions: everyday
expressions
● Words connected
with money
● Sending messages
● Phrasal verbs
● Pronunciation:
vowel sounds
● Report what people say
● Make a conversation at
a party
● Write and reply to
a message
● Food
● The fast food
industry
● Adjectives ending
in -ed/-ing
● Pronunciation:
silent vowels
● Listen to a TV quiz
programme
● Read a review of a book
● Recognise facts and opinions
● Life and culture: Make
Poverty History
● Talk about things you’d like
to change
● Prepare and ask questions
for a quiz
● Write a review for a school
magazine
● Verb/preposition + -ing form
● -ing form and to + verb
● want/ask/tell someone to do
something
● Expressions: requests and
responses
● People in groups
● A wildlife
commentary
● too and enough
● Pronunciation: /ŋ/
/n/
● Listen to phone calls making
requests
● Read a commentary for a TV
wildlife programme
● Use pronouns and possessive
adjectives
● Life and culture: Romeo and
Juliet
● Describe people’s likes and
dislikes
● Interview a friend for a
TV show
● Write and act a telephone
conversation asking
someone to do something
● Write a description of
teenagers in your country
Review Grammar check Study skills: Preparing for tests and exams How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Letters
Unit 9
Groups
Unit 10
Food for
thought
Review Grammar check Study skills: Preparing and giving a talk How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: The ads page
● Listen to a story about a
terrible night
● Read a story about an
extraordinary experience
● Guess meaning from context
● Life and culture: Gandhi
Review Grammar check Study skills: Learning English on your own How’s it going?: Progress check Coursework: Sports news
● Listen to a song
● Read three jumbled stories
● Follow the sequence of a
story
● Life and culture: Keeping
in touch
● Listen to a song
● Read invitations and replies
● Scan a text for information
● Life and culture: The number
13
● First conditional with if
and unless
● The future with will and
going to
● Expressions: I hope so/not.
I guess so/not.
● might and may
● when in future sentences
● should/shouldn’t
● Second conditional
● Expressions: responding to
opinions
Map of the book
● Grammar index ● Communicative functions index ● Wordlist ● Phonetic symbols ● Verb forms and irregular verbs ● Songs
● Expressions of quantity
● Question words
● Subject and object questions
● Expressions: expressing
preferences
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4. 4
Grammar
● Describing the present and
the past
● Verbs + prepositions in
Wh- questions
● Present continuous
● Relative clauses with who,
that, which
● Present simple
● Pronoun one/ones
Vocabulary
● Verbs + prepositions
● Flats and houses
Expressions
● Contradictions: Yes, he is!
No, he hasn’t!
● Asking for clarification
People and places
In Module 1 Steps 1 and 2 you study
so that you can
● Write a postcard
● Express your opinions
about friendships
In Step 3 you ...
read
● Three postcards
● A questionnaire about
friendship
study
● Words beginning with
some and every
● Nouns and adjectives
describing personal
qualities
● Skimming and scanning
a text
● Understanding new words
so that you can
● Talk about a picture
● Write about famous
people in the past
● Contradict someone
● Make a conversation
about going out with
friends
● Talk about where you live
● Describe people and
things
● Ask for more information
● Play a guessing game
Life and culture
Welcome to Liverpool!
Poem
Find out more about the people who work at Greenside C
Perhaps you’re reading
this article in the
canteen, while you’re
eating your lunch.
This month we’d like
to introduce you to
the person who does
all the cooking. His
name’s Del Stanley. Del
trained to be a chef in London
and he came to Greenside College two years ago. He
says ‘I like using
fresh, local food
if I can. It isn’t
always easy to
find things that
everyone likes –
teenagers are very
unadventurous
when they choose
their meals!’
A lot of p
most imp
mends th
at the end
are clean
to-five job
work in th
some free
got a blac
Coursework 1
Part 1 Who’s who at Greenside?
You write about people who
work at your school.
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5. 5
d
What’s it about?
What can you say about the pictures?
Now match the pictures with sentences 1–4.
1 The sun’s going down and everything looks beautiful.
2 He works in a shop that sells newspapers and food.
3 He’s wearing a hat and coat.
4 We live in a flat on the first floor.
a
b
c
Coursework
Our school magazine
In Book 4 you study
● a magazine written by students
at Greenside Community College
so that you can
● make an English magazine for
people at your school
Your Coursework has got six parts:
Part 1 Who's who at Greenside?
You write about people who work
at your school.
Part 2 In conversation with
Grace Lawson
You talk to an old person in your
neighbourhood and write a short
interview.
Part 3 Reviews
You write a review of a book, film
or TV programme.
Part 4 Letters to the editor
You write a letter for a magazine
letters page.
Part 5 The ads page
You make adverts to put in your
school magazine.
Part 6 Sports news
You write a report about a sporting
event.
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6. Revision
Module 1
1
In Step 1 you revise
● describing the present and the past
so that you can
● talk about a picture
● write about famous people in the past
STEP1
6
1Share your ideas
Describe the painting. What are the people doing?
What do you think of the painting?
The woman is laughing.
Fact File
Humphrey Bogart, actor, 1899–1
Born in: 2
Worked for: 3
Most famous films: 4
2Reading Idols of the 20th century
a Look at the painting and read the description.
Find at least:
1 three verbs in the present.
2 three verbs in the past.
The name of the painting is Nighthawks: Boulevard
of Broken Dreams. It’s by an Austrian painter
called Gottfried Helnwein. It shows a scene in a
diner in the USA during the 1950s. Outside, the
street is dark and empty. Inside, three people are
sitting at the counter, a woman and two men.
A waiter is standing behind the counter. The man
in the middle of the picture is wearing a blue suit
and tie. He doesn’t look very happy. The woman on
the right is laughing and talking to the man next
to her, but he isn’t listening.
The four people in the picture are all famous
American stars from the 20th century. The man in
the blue suit is the actor Humphrey Bogart. Bogart
was born in New York. At first, he acted in the
theatre, but for many years he wasn’t successful.
Then he started working for the Warner film studio
and, at the age of 40, he finally became a star. He
made more than thirty films. Two of his most
famous films were The African Queen and
Casablanca. Bogart died in his sleep at his home
in Hollywood in 1957.
b Listen to the first paragraph and
follow in your book. Then find these things.
1 a nationality 2 a country 3 two jobs
4 two things that people wear
c Listen to the second paragraph
and follow in your book. Then copy and
complete the fact file.
I like it, but I think
it’s a sad painting.
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7. Revision
7Unit 1
Fact File
Marilyn Monroe, actress, 1926–1
Born in: Los Angeles
2
name: Norma Jean Baker
Worked for: 3
Century Fox
Most famous film: Some Like It 4
4Listening Biographies
Read the two fact files. Then listen
to the biographies of Marilyn Monroe and
Elvis Presley. Write the missing
information in your notebook.
Choose either Elvis Presley or
Marilyn Monroe. Describe what
he/she is doing in the picture. Then
use the notes in your fact file and
describe his/her real life.
3Revision Describing the present and the past
Look at the painting and complete the description of
James Dean.
On the left, there 1
(be) a tall, good-looking young man.
He 2
(wear) a dark coat and a scarf. He looks sad and
lonely. He 3
(not talk) to anyone. He 4
(be) the
famous American actor James Dean.
James Dean 5
(be) born in Indiana in 1931. At first, he
6
(act ) on television and, four years later, he 7
(become) a film star. But Dean only 8
(make) three
films. He 9
(die) in a car accident in September 1955.
Try this!
How many words for clothes
do you know?
scarf, ...
Fact File
Elvis Presley, singer, 195
–1977
Born in: Tupelo, Mississippi
Played the 6
from the age of
7
Worked for: RCA 8
Most famous hits: 9
Be Cruel,
Jailhouse Rock, 10
Suede Shoes
5Writing Elvis or Marilyn
Use what you know
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8. 8 Module 1
In Step 2 you study
● verbs + prepositions in Wh- questions
● present continuous
● contradictions: Yes, he is! No, he hasn’t!
so that you can
● contradict someone
● make a conversation about going out
with friends
STEP2
1 I’m often late in the morning because
I have to look my things.
2 I like looking my friends’
photos.
3 I don’t often think the future.
4 I don’t come this country. I
was born abroad.
5 When I’m with my friends, we often
talk films and music.
6 I don’t like waiting people
when they’re late.
7 In class, I usually talk my
English teacher in English.
8 My father and I argue
football.
Listen and check.
b What about you? Which of the
sentences in 1a are true for you?
Work with a friend and tell him/her
at least three things about yourself.
for
2Presentation Who are we waiting for?
a What can you say about the photos?
b Close your book and listen to the conversation.
What are Danny and his friends doing this evening?
Danny and Nadia live in Liverpool. They’re in a café and
they’re waiting for their friends.
DANNY: What’s the time, Nadia?
NADIA: It’s nearly half past seven.
DANNY: So who are we waiting for?
NADIA: Clare and Luke. Luke’s always late.
DANNY: No, he isn’t!
NADIA: Yes, he is! I’ll phone him. ... Luke, where are you?
We’re waiting for you.
DANNY: Here’s Clare! Hi, Clare.
CLARE: Hi! Sorry I’m late. Who’s Nadia talking to?
DANNY: Luke. He’s late too. And he’s got the tickets.
CLARE: No, he hasn’t! I’ve got them. They’re in my bag.
NADIA: Hi, Clare. We must go. It’s half past seven.
DANNY: What about Luke?
NADIA: He’s meeting us outside the cinema in ten
minutes.
DANNY: OK.
NADIA: What are you looking for, Clare?
CLARE: The tickets. I can’t find them.
DANNY: You’re joking!
CLARE: Hang on! No, we’re OK. They’re here, in my pocket.
I don’t come from this
country. I was born in ...
1Key vocabulary
Verbs + prepositions
a S Complete the sentences with
the prepositions in the box. You’ve
got three minutes!
about at for from to
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