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