Local, national and international lifestyles and issues

Practise your listening and reading skills and revise key phrases and vocabulary used to discuss different types of home and home life.

Practise your language skills and learn how to give directions, describe the weather and talk about different places in towns or neighbourhoods.

Poverty, homelessness, unemployment, crime and discrimination are examples of social and global issues. Develop your understanding of these issues and practise translation, reading and listening skills.

Healthy and unhealthy living covers broad health issues. Practise listening, writing and reading skills to talk about health and lifestyle.

It is important to be able to understand written and spoken passages about the environment and to be able to discuss environmental problems and what you and others do to help, for example by recycling or volunteering.

Holidays and tourism is a broad topic. It is important to know the basic vocabulary, to understand written and spoken information and to be able to talk and write about your own holiday experiences.

Learn key phrases and vocabulary about travel to understand texts on the topic and use spoken language in everyday practical situations.