Inglés - Nivel 6

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Unit 6: Disasters and emergencies

• Vocabulary:
  • News sources
  • Severe weather events and other disasters
  • Emergency preparations and supplies
  • Terminology for discussing disasters
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Say Will do to accede to a request
  • Use What a shame to demonstrate empathy
  • Use It says... to indicate that information comes from a known source
  • Use Thank goodness to express relief
    
• Grammar:
  • Indirect speech: imperatives
  • Indirective speech: say, and tell; tense changes
  • Punctuation rules for direct speech
  • Indirect speech: optional tense changes
    
• Speaking:
  • Convey a message for a third person
  • Offer an excuse
  • Report what you heard on the news
  • Respond to good and bad news
  • Discuss plans for an emergency
  • Describe natural disasters
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Direct and indirect speech: rhythm
    
• Listening:
  • Weather reports / Task: identify the weather event
  • Emergency radio broadcast / Task: correct incorrect statements and report facts, using indirect speech
  • News report on natural disasters / Task: identify the types of disasters
    
• Reading:
  • Historic news headlines
  • Magazine article describing variables that affect an earthquakes´s severity
    
• Writing:
  • Write about a historic disaster
  • Provide instructions on preparing for a disaster
  • Explain the factors that contribute to the severity of an earthquake

Unit 7: Books and magazines

• Vocabulary:
  • Types of books
  • Ways to describe reading material
  • Some ways to enjoy reading
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Preface a request with Do you mind if to be more polite
  • Use Not at all to indicate that one doesn´t mind
  • Say What (adjective + noun)! to express a compliment
    
• Grammar:
  • Noun clauses: Embedded questions
  • Noun clauses as direct objects
  • Embedded questions: usage and punctuation
  • Embedded questions with infinitives
  • Noun clauses with that: after mental activity verbs
  • Noun clauses with that: after other expressions
    
• Speaking:
  • Recommend a book
  • Give and accept a compliment
  • Explain where you learned something
  • Evaluate types of reading materials
  • Describe your reading habits
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Sentence stress in short answers with think, hope, guess, or believe
    
• Listening:
  • Descriptions of reading habits / Task: choose each speaker´s preferences
  • Conversations about books / Task: identify the type of book and infer if the speaker likes it.
    
• Reading:
  • Online bookstore website
  • Magazine article about the popularity of, and attitudes about, comic books
    
• Writing:
  • Write about your reading habits
  • Review a book or other material you´ve read

Unit 8: Inventions and Technology

• Vocabulary:
  • Mechanical inventions in history
  • Ways to describe innovative products
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use That depends to indicate one needs more information
  • So It can happen to anyone to show empathy when responding to an apology
    
• Grammar:
  • Conditional sentences review
  • The past unreal conditional
  • Unless in conditional sentences
  • Clauses after wish
  • The unreal conditional: variety of forms
    
• Speaking:
  • Discuss wheter to purchase a product
  • Accept responsibility for a mistake
  • Reassure someone
  • Describe a new invention
  • Compare important inventions
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Contractions with ´d (would)
    
• Listening:
  • People describing problems / Task: select a useful invention for each person.
  • Discussions of new products / Task: determine which adjective best describes each product
    
• Reading:
  • Magazine article describing the importance of the invention of the printing press
    
• Writing:
  • Write about an invention that you think had a great impact

UNIT 9: Controversial issues

• Vocabulary:
  • Political terms and types of governments
  • Political and social beliefs
  • Controversial issues
  • Ways to disagree politely
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use the expression That´s a good question to imply that you are not sure of the answer or you want to avoid answering
  • Say Well´ll have to agree to disagreee to politely end a disagreement with no hard feelings
    
• Grammar:
  • Non-count nouns for abstract ideas
  • Verbs followed by objects and infinitives
  • Count and non-count nouns
  • Gerunds and infinitives: form
  • Review: gerunds and infinitives after certain verbs
    
• Speaking:
  • Ask for and give advice about acceptable conversation topics
  • Satate your opinion
  • Express agreement or disagree politely
  • Suggest solutions to global problems
  • Debate pros and cons
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Stress to emphasize meaning
    
• Listening:
  • Conversations about politics and social beliefs / Task: determine each person´s political orientation
  • Opinions about controversial ideas / Task: infer the speaker´s opinion
  • People arguing their views / Task: summarize arguments
  • Radio news program / Task: identify the problems
    
• Reading:
  • Authentic dictionary entries
  • Magazine article defining global problems
    
• Writing:
  • Describe a local or world problem and offer possible solutions· Write the pros and cons of a controversial issue

Unit 10: Enjoying the world

• Vocabulary:
  • Geographical features
  • Ways to describe possible risks
  • Dangerous animals and insects
  • Positive and negative descriptions
  • Ways to describe the natural world
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Provide a reason to support and strenghten a warning
  • Use Be sure to to make an enthusiastic suggestion
    
• Grammar:
  • Infinitives with too + adjective
  • Prepositions of place to describe locations
  • Infinitives with too+ adjective: more practice
  • Infinitives with enough
  • Prepositions usage
  • Proper nouns: capitalization
  • Proper nouns use of the
    
• Speaking:
  • Warn about risks or dangers
  • Ask and explain where a place is located
  • Describe a natural setting
  • Recommend a place for its beauty
  • Debate a plan for economic development
    
• Pronunciation:
  • Voiced and voiceless th
    
• Listening:
  • People discussing risks / Task: infer if the place is safe
  • Description of a trip / Task: identify natural features
  • Conversations about tourist destinations / Task: infer if the speaker recommends going
    
• Reading:
  • Authentic maps
  • Magazine article describing the pros and cons of eco-tourism
    
• Writing:
  • Describe a spectacular natural setting· Plan an eco-friendly development
  • Create a tourism advertisement