Inglés - Nivel 7
BOOK USED: SUMMIT 1A
UNIT 1: New perspectives
Communication Goals:
- Suggest ways to enjoy life more
- Describe people´s personalities
- Compare perspectives on life
- Share a life-changing experience
Vocabulary:
- Personality types
Word skill:
- Classifying by positive and negative meaning
Grammar:
- Gerunds and infinitives: changes in meaning
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
- Gerunds and infinitives: summary
- Grammar for writing: parallelism with gerunds and infinitives
Conversation Strategies:
- Use Actually to soften a negative response
- Use I wonder to elicit an opinion politely
- Use You know to indicate that you are about to offer advice or a suggestion
Listening/ Pronunciation:
Listening Skills:
- Infer point of view
- Listen for main ideas
- Understand from context
Pronunciation booster:
- Content words and function words
Reading:
Texts:
- A magazine article about finding balance in life
- A magazine article about optimism vs. pessimism
- A survey about perspectives on life
Skills/strategies:
- Relate to personal experience
- Identify supporting details
Writing:
Task:
- Describe personality types
WRITING Skill
- Paragraph structure: review
UNIT 2: Musical moods
Communication Goals:
- Describe the music you listen to
- Explain the role of music in your life
- Describe a creative person
- Discuss the benefits of music
Vocabulary:
- Elements of music
- Describing creative personalities
Word skill:
- Using participial adjectives
Grammar:
- The present perfect and the present perfect continuous: finished and unfinished actions
- Noun clauses
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
- Finished and unfinished actions: summary
- The past perfect continuous
- Grammar for writing: noun clauses as adjective and noun complements
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
Listening/ Pronunciation:
Listening Skills:
- Listen to activate vocabulary
- Listen for main ideas
- Listen for supporting details
Pronunciation booster:
- Intonation patterns
Reading:
Texts:
- Brief CD reviews from a website
- Interviews: the role of music in one´s life
- A biography of Ludwig van Beethoven
Skills/strategies:
- Make personal comparisons
- Activate language from a text
Writing:
Task:
- Describe yourself
WRITING Skill
- Parallel structure
UNIT 3: Money matters
Communication Goals:
- Talk about your financial goals
- Express buyer´s remorse
- Describe your spending habits
- Discuss reasons for charitable giving
Vocabulary:
- Expressing buyer´s remorse
- Describing spending habits
- Charity and investment
Grammar:
- Future plans and finished future actions
- The past unreal conditional: inverted form
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
- The future continuous
- The future perfect continuous
Conversation Strategies:
- Use Hey to indicate enthusiasm
- Use to tell you the truth to introduce and unexpected assertion
- Ask What do you mean? to clarify
- Agree informally with You´re telling me
Listening/ Pronunciation:
Listening Skills:
- Infer reasons
- Listen for main ideas
- Listen for details
Pronunciation booster:
- Sentence rhythm
Reading:
Texts:
- Financial tips from a newspaper
- Interviews: financial goals
- A magazine article about Paul Newman´s philanthropy
Skills/strategies:
- Make personal comparisons
- Express and support an opinion
Writing:
Task:
- Explain your financial goals
WRITING Skill
- Sequencing events: review
UNIT 4: Looking good
Communication Goals:
- Discuss appropriate dress
- Comment on fashion and style
- Evaluate ways to change one´s appearance
- Discuss appearance and self-esteem
Vocabulary:
- Describing fashion and style
Word skill:
- Using the prefix self-
Grammar:
- Quantifiers
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
- Quantifiers: review
? A few and few, a little and little
? Using of
? Without referents
- Grammar for writing: subject-verb agreement with quantifiers with of
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
Listening/ Pronunciation:
Listening Skills:
- Infer information
- Listen to activate vocabulary
- Listen to summarize
- Express and support an opinion
Pronunciation booster:
- ?Linking sounds
Reading:
Texts:
- A newspaper article about casual dress at work
- A magazine article about how the media affects self-image
Skills/strategies:
- Examine cultural expectations
- Identify supporting details
- Apply ideas
Writing:
Task:
- Compare two people´s tastes in fashion
WRITING Skill
- Compare and contrast: review
UNIT 5: Community
Communication Goals:
- Politely ask someone not to do something
- Complain about public conduct
- Discuss social responsibility
- Identify urban problems
Vocabulary:
- Ways to soften an objection
- Ways to perform community service
Word skill:
- Using negative prefixes to form antonyms
Grammar:
- Possessives with gerunds
- Paired conjunctions
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
- Conjunctions with so, too, neither, or not either
- So, too, neither or not either: short responses
Conversation Strategies:
- Use Do you know 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 an objection
- Say Not at all to indicate willingness to comply
Listening/ Pronunciation:
Listening Skills:
- Listen to summarize
- Listen for details
- Critical thinking
Pronunciation booster:
- Unstressed syllables
Reading:
Texts:
- A graph depicting world population changes
- Interviews: pet peeves about public conducts
- An interview about "megacities"
Skills/strategies:
- Interpret data form a graph
- Express your ideas
- Confirm content
- Understand from context
- Infer information
Writing:
Task:
- Complain about a problem
WRITING Skill
- Formal letters: review