Introduction to the Course
Features
Unit Overview At the beginning of each unit, you will find a Unit Overview with useful information for the teacher: the social practices of the language, the environment, and the expected achievements. It also suggests what resources you need and the language that is covered in the unit. Finally, it contains references to the Reader story and the Evaluation Tool you can use in each unit.
Unit Question Each Unit Opener includes a question that arises students’ interest and curiosity toward the theme of the unit. You will return to this question at the end of the unit, as a part of the self-evaluation process. Always try to make your students reflect upon the way their answers to this question had changed after working on the activities of the unit. Lesson Questions Each lesson will start with a question that is focused on the skills and abilities that students will develop while working on the activities of each specific lesson. You will ask this question at the beginning of the lesson; at this moment, you may accept inferences, opinions, answers expressed through body language and gestures, or even Spanish in case it involves vocabulary. Leave the answer opened until the end of the lesson when you will have the opportunity to ask the question again; this time, your students will surely surprise you with the expected answer.
What Do You Want to Do Together?
Unit Overview
Family and Community Environment Communicative Activity Exchanges associated with specific purposes
Reader “Let’s Do Something!” pp. 5-16, Track 38
Social Practice of the Language To exchange expressions to arrange meetings.
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Achievements • Explore and listen to conversations where people arrange meetings. • Interpret expressions used by speakers. • Assume the role of a speaker in a conversation.
A story about a family spending time together 38
Written by John Jackson
Audio Tracks 2-7
Vocabulary • I’m afraid • appointment • eat out • going hiking • going • mall • practicing • What a pity!
Social Practice of the Language To exchange expressions to arrange meetings
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Product A Plan to Meet
Learning to Learn Your voice: intonation
Evaluation tool Observation Guide
Learning to Know Present continuous to talk about plans and arrangements
Photocopy the observation guide provided on page 30 and use it to evaluate a group of four students at a time. Worksheet As an extra activity, you can use the Worksheet on page 146.
Learning to Do Friendly invitations
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