Theme: Health, fitness, lifestyles
Lexical area: Sports, recreational activities, frequency adverbs
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education

Theme: Young people’s spending habits in the UK, teenagers working.
Lexical area: Money, earnings, saving, consumer goods, quantity and numbers.
Cross curricular links: Citizenship, economics, social science.

Theme: Computer games/gaming.
Lexical area: computers, types of game, numbers
Cross curricular links: social science, business studies, personal and social education, media studies.

Theme: Buildings and lifestyles, personal taste.
Lexical area: Buildings, features of buildings and decoration
Cross curricular links: History, Geography, Art.

Theme: Talking about healthy eating and eating habits. The poor dietary habits of children in the UK and recent reports on child obesity.
Lexical area: food and drink, nutritional content of foods
Cross curricular links: Personal and social education, biology and the science of nutrition.

Theme: Reality TV programmes, the types of TV programmes in the UK, Interactive TV
Lexical area:Television, Types of programmes, Tastes
Cross curricular links: Media Studies

Theme: Mobile phones
Lexical area: Phone language (text messages, to ring, ring tones etc)
Cross curricular links: Social studies

Theme: Computer games and their effects on young people
Lexical area: Computer language
Cross curricular links: Information technology, social studies, media studies

Theme: Cooking and food trends in the UK
Lexical area: Food and kitchen utensils
Cross curricular links: Media studies, home economics