Inglés - Nivel 7

Book Used: Summit 1A

Unit 1: New perspective

• Vocabulary:
  • Personality types
  • Word skill: classifying by positive and negative meaning
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Ask a question to buy time
  • Use Actually to soften a negative response
  • Answer a question and then ask a similar one to show interest· Use I wonder to elicit an
  • opinion politely· Use You know to indicate that you are about to offer advice or a suggestion
  • Discussion topics
  • Finding balance in life
  • Different personality types
  • Optism vs. Pessimism
  • Perspectives on life
  • Life-changing experiences
    
• Grammar:
  • Gerunds and infinitives: changes in meaning
  • Grammar and pronunciation boosters
    
• Grammar booster:
  • Gerunds and infinitives: summaryGrammar for writing: parallelism with gerunds and infinitives
  • Pronunciation booster
  • Content words and function words
    
• Listening tasks:
  • Rephrase descriptions of people
  • Identify main ideas
  • Infer what people mean
  • Categorize people by personality type
    
• Readings:
  • A magazine article about finding balance in life
  • A magazine article about optism vs. Pessimism
    
• Writing:
  • Describe personality types
  • Writing skill: The paragraph

Unit 2: Musical moods

• Vocabulary:
  • Elements of music
  • Describing creative personalities
  • Word skill: using participal adjectives
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use So to indicate a desire to begin a conversation
  • Confirm information with right?
  • Use You know to introduce information and be less abrupt
  • Begin answers with Well to introduce an opinion
  • Discussion topics
  • Musical tastes
  • The role of music in your life· Creative personalities
  • The benefits of music
  • The uses of music therapy
    
• Grammar
  • The present perfect and the present perfect continuous: finished and unfinished actions
  • Noun clauses
  • Grammar and pronunciation boosters
    
• Grammar booster:
  • Finished and unfinished actions: summary
  • The past perfect continuous Grammar for writing: noun clauses as adjective and noun complements
  • Pronunciation booster
  • Intonation patterns
    
• Listening tasks:
  • Evaluate three pieces of music
  • Recognize gist before details
  • Determine benefits and provide examples
  • Identify points of view
    
• Readings:
  • Brief CD reviews from a website
  • Interviews: the role of music in one´s life
  • A biography of Ludwing van Beethoven
    
• Writing:
  • Describe yourself
  • Writing skill: Parallel structure

Unit 3: Money Matters

• Vocabulary:
  • Expressing buyer´s remorse
  • Describing spending habits
  • Charity and investment
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Hey to indicate enthusiasm
  • Use To tell you the truth to introduce an unexpected assertion
  • Ask What do you mean? to clarify
  • Provide an example to back up statement or opinion
  • Discussion topics
  • Your financial IQ
  • Your short-term and long-term financial goals
  • Buyer´s remorse
  • Spending habits
  • Charitable giving
    
• Grammar:
  • Future plans and finished future actions
  • The past unreal conditional: inverted form
  • Grammar and pronunciation boosters
    
• Grammar booster:
  • The future continuous
  • The future perfect continuous
    
• Pronunciation booster:
  • Sentence rhythm: thought groups
    
• Listening tasks:
  • Infer what people mean· Focus on main ideas
  • Distinguish advice from other information
  • Summarize problems
    
• Readings:
  • Financial tips from a newspaper
  • Interviews: financial goals
  • A magazine article about Paul Newman´s philanthropy
    
• Writing:
  • Explain your financial goals
  • Writing skill: Sequencing events

Unit 4: Looking good

• Vocabulary:
  • Describing fashion and style
  • Word skill: using the prefix self-
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Can you believe to indicate disapproval
  • Use Don´t you think to promote consensus
  • Begin a response with Well to convey polite disagreement or reservation· Stress the main verb to acknowledge only partial agreement
  • Discussion topics
  • Appropriate dress
  • How clothing affects the way others perceive you· Fashions and hairstyles· How men and women change their appearances· The media´s influence on body image· Beauty on the outside vs. Beauty on the inside
    
• Grammar:
  • Quatifiers
  • Grammar and pronunciation boosters
  • Grammar booster:
  • Quantifiers: a few and few, a little and little
  • Quantifiers: using of
  • Quantifiers: used without referents
  • Grammar for writing: subject-verb agreement with quantifiers with of Pronunciation booster
  • Linking sounds
    
• Listening tasks:
  • Identify points of view
  • Rephrase information
  • Summarize information
  • Infer what people mean
    
• Readings:
  • A newspaper article about casual dress at work
  • A magazine article about how the media affects self-image
    
• Writing:
  • Compare two people´s taste in fashion
  • Writing skill: Compare and contrast

Unit 5: Community

• Vocabulary:
  • Ways to soften an objection· Ways to perform community service Word skill: using negative prefixes to form antonyms
    
• Conversation Strategies:
  • Use Do you mind to express concern that an intended action may offend· Use Actually to object politely· Use expressions such as I hope that´s not a problem to soften objection· Sya
  • Not at all to indicate a willingness to comply
  • Discussion topics
  • Urban life vs. Rural life
  • Behavior in public places
  • Social responsability
  • Urban problems
    
• Grammar:
  • Possessives with gerunds
  • Paired conjunctions
  • Grammar and pronunciation boosters
    
• Grammar booster:
  • Conjunctions with so, too, neither, or not either: usage, form, and short responses
  • Pronunciation booster
  • Unstressed syllables: vowel reduction to / /
    
• Listening tasks:
  • Summarize a detailed story
  • Collaborate to understand details
  • Infer what people mean
    
• Readings:
  • A graph depicting world population changes
  • Interviews: pet peeves about public conduct
  • An interview with Dr. Janice Perlman about “megacities”
    
• Writing:
  • Complain about a problem
  • Writing skill: Formal letters