Grammar: 

• Conditionals (pp. 15-16)

• Inversion, in conditionals and after adverbial phrases (pp. 64, 66-69, 72) 

• Regrets and criticism structures (pp. 24-27)

Vocabulary:

• “Autobiography”

To retrain, an only child, close-knit family, siblings, step-sisters, strict/lenient upbringing, to take a gap year, to do research, to train as a nurse, to graduate from university, to leave school, to do a degree, to qualify as a solicitor, on the whole, to date

• Expressions with statistics (p. 7, 9)

• “Your body language shapes who you are” (pp. 57-60)

To make sweeping judgements, to stand in quicksand, to tweak/tweaks, a hunched position, an impostor syndrome, fake

• Journalism and media 

Bias, scoop, to miss a deadline, a public figure, to speak off the record, to doorstep, a soundbite, broadsheets, tabloids, chequebook journalism, circulation figures, viewing figures, media coverage, libel laws, ratings wars, spin, 

Sloppy, succinct, deplorable, to flounder, to shudder, ferocious, to extend far beyond, uninhibited (pp. 160-162)

A nursing home, a press kit, tax evasion, classified information (p. 163)

Headline English (pp. 159, 164-165)

• “Beowulf is lit - could ChatGPT really write good book blurbs?” 

blurb, disclaimer, to enrage, cutthroat, to backstab, backstabbing, to gasp, to be in awe, mind-blowing, soul-stirring, awestruck, enraptured, passable, stale, cringeworthy, to take for a test drive, to be under fire, to play around with, a wild ride, left and right, on point, to have sb shook, slap on

• “Adams” 

A smoldering look, to flip the bird

• "Blue 4eva” 

 To lay off, fit, to pipe up, to be lumbered with, ragged breaths 

• “At 102, I know the secrets of a well-lived life”

A general practitioner/ a GP, to blindside, immense, a bout of flu/ depression, to clutch, gross, to rejoice, to treasure, critical, turning point, constructive criticism/feedback, to reclaim, consultation, to practise/a practice, a prompt/delayed reply

• “A kinder, gentler philosophy of success” 

Crushing, to weep, meritocratic, to be the target of/to be fit for ridicule 

• Success and failure (p. 56)

Success: to go badly, to turn out well in the end, to achieve your aim, to give one an enormous sense of achievement, to do very well in, to stand a reasonable chance of, to further your career, to have a bright future ahead, to be an overnight success, to be riding high in the charts, a high-flier, to get on in life, thriving

Failure: to come to nothing, to fall through, (not) to make it, to work out, to go bankrupt, not to do any good, a flop, to make a real mess of, a lost cause, to come to grief