Inglés - Nivel 6

BOOK USED: TOP NOTCH 3B

UNIT 6: Life Plans

Communication Goals:

  • Explain a change in life and work plans
  • Express regrets about past actions
  • Discuss skills, abilities, and qualifications
  • Discuss factors that promote success

Vocabulary:

  • Reasons for changing plans
  • Skills and abilities

Grammar:

  • Future in the past: was / were going to and would
  • Usage, form, and common errors
  • Perfect modals

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

  • Expressing the future (review)
  • The future with will and be going to (review)
  • Common errors
  • Regret about the past:
  • Wish + the past perfect
  • Should have and ought to have

Conversation Strategies:

  • Say No kidding! to indicate delight or surprise
  • Say How come? To ask for a reason
  • Express a regret with I should have?
  • Use You never know? to reassure someone 
  • Accept another?s reassurance with True

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

  • Listen to infer a speaker?s motives
  • Listen for details
  • Listen to classify information

Pronunciation:

  • Reduction of have in perfect modals

Reading:

Texts:

  • Career and skills inventories
  • A magazine article with tips for effective work habits
  • A photo story

Skills/strategies:

  • Understand from context
  • Confirm content

Writing:

Task:

  • Write a short autobiography

WRITING BOOSTER

  • Dividing an essay into topics

UNIT 7: Holidays and Traditions 

Communication Goals:

  • Wish someone a good holiday
  • Ask about local customs
  • Exchange information about holidays
  • Explain wedding traditions

Vocabulary:

  • Types of holidays
  • Ways to commemorate a holiday
  • Ways to give a good wishes on holidays
  • Getting married: events and people

Grammar:

  • Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns who and that 
  • Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns who, whom, and that.

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

  • Adjective clauses: common errors
  • Reflexive pronouns
  • Reciprocal pronouns
  • Adjective clauses: who and whom in formal English

Conversation Strategies:

  • Show friendliness by wishing someone a good holiday
  • Reciprocate good wishes with Thanks! Same to you!
  • Preface a potentially sensitive question with Do you mind if I ask you?
  • Ask about socially appropriate behaviour in order to avoid embarrassment
  • Express appreciation with Thanks. That´s really helpful

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

  • Listen for main ideas
  • Listen for details
  • Infer information

Pronunciation:

  • "Thought groups"

Reading:

Texts:

  • A magazine article about holidays around the world
  • Proverbs about weddings
  • Factoids on holidays
  • A photo story

Skills/strategies:

  • Preview
  • Scan for facts
  • Compare and contrast
  • Relate to personal experience

Writing:

Task:

  • Write a detailed description of two holidays

WRITING BOOSTER

  • Descriptive details

UNIT 8: Inventions and Technology

Communication Goals:

  • Describe technology
  • Take responsibility for a mistake
  • Describe how inventions solve problems
  • ?Discuss the impact of inventions/discoveries

Vocabulary:

  • Describing manufactured products
  • Descriptive adjectives

Grammar:

  • Conditional sentences (review and common errors)
  • The past unreal conditional
  • Usage, form, and common errors

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

  • Real and Unreal conditionals (review)
  • Clauses after wish
  • Unless in conditional sentences
  • The unreal conditional: variety of forms

Conversation Strategies:

  • Congratulate someone for a major new purchase
  • Apologize for lateness and provide an explanation
  • Indicate regret for a mistake by beginning an explanation with I´m ashamed to say...
  • Reduce another´s self-blame with That can happen to anyone and No harm done

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills:

  • Infer the correct adjective
  • Listen for main ideas
  • Listen to associate
  • Listen to infer meaning

Pronunciation:

  • Contractions with ´d in spoken English

Reading:

Texts:

  • Case studies of poor purchasing decisions
  • A book excerpt about the printing press
  • Factoids on famous inventions
  • A photo story

Skills/Strategies:

  • Infer information
  • Identify cause and effect

Writing:

Task:

  • Write an essay about the historical impact of an important invention

WRITING BOOSTER

  • Summary statements

UNIT 9: Controversial issues

Communication Goals:

  • Bring up a controversial subject
  • Discuss controversial issues politely
  • Propose solutions to global problems
  • Debate the pros and cons of issues

Vocabulary:

  • Political terminology
  • A continuum of political and social beliefs
  • Introducing sticky questions
  • Controversial issues
  • Ways to agree or disagree
  • How to debate an issue politely

Grammar:

  • Non-count nouns that represent abstract ideas
  • Verbs followed by objects and infinitives

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

  • Count and non-count nouns: review and extension
  • Gerunds and infinitives
  • Review of form and usage
  • Review of usage after certain verbs

Conversation Strategies:

  • Ask for permission when bringing up a sticky subject
  • Politely indicate unwillingness with No offense, but...
  • Apologize for refusing with I hope you don´t mind
  • Use How do you feel about... to invite someone´s opinion
  • Use Well, ... to introduce a different point of view
  • Use So... to begin a question clarifying someone´s statement

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills

  • Infer a speaker´s political and social beliefs
  • Infer a speaker´s point of view
  • Listen to summarize
  • Auditory discrimination

Pronunciation:

  • Stress to emphasize meaning

Reading:

Texts:

  • A self-test of political literacy
  • A textbook introduction to global problems
  • A photo story

Skills/Strategies:

  • Activate language from a text
  • Understand from context
  • Critical thinking

Writing:

Task:

  • Write an essay presenting the two sides of a controversial issue

WRITING BOOSTER

  • Contrasting ideas

UNIT 10: Beautiful World

Communication Goals:

  • ?Describe a geographical location
  • ?Warn about a possible risk
  • ?Describe a natural setting
  • ?Discuss solutions to global warming

Vocabulary:

  • Geographical features
  • Geographical directions
  • Ways to recommend or criticize a place
  • Ways to describe possible risks
  • Dangerous animals and insects
  • Geographic nouns and adjectives
  • Ways to talk about the environment

Grammar:

  • Prepositions of geographical place
  • Too + adjective and infinitive
  • Usage, form, and common errors

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

  • Prepositions of place: more usage
  • Proper nouns
  • Capitalization
  • Use of the
  • Infinitives with enough
  • Usage and common errors

Conversation Strategies:

  • Show interest in someone´s plans by asking follow-up questions
  • Indicate possible intention with I´ve been thinking about you
  • Qualify a positive response with Sure, but...
  • Elaborate further information using Well, ...
  • Express gratitude for a warming

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills

  • Infer a speaker´s point of view
  • Listen for main ideas
  • Listen for details
  • Listen to summarize

Pronunciation:

  • Voiced and voiceless th

Reading:

Texts:

  • Maps
  • A magazine article about ways to curb global warming
  • A photo story

Skills/Strategies:

  • Interpret maps
  • Understand from context
  • Critical thinking
  • Summarize

Writing:

Task:

  • Write a geographic description of your country, state, or province

WRITING BOOSTER

  • Organizing by spatial relations