Unit Objectives
Health & Body

Students explore vocabulary and activities related to body parts, sickness, health care, and exercise.

Making Questions

Students study the when and when not to use inversion word order in questions.

The Different Kinds of Verbs in English

Students practice identifying and distinguishing between main verbs, auxiliary verbs, and modal auxiliary verbs.

Understanding "Have"

Students learn the many ways to use the verb, have along with the meanings that can be communicated using the phrase, "have got".

Auxiliary Verbs and Their Relationship with Tense and Aspect

Students practice choosing between be, do, and have based on the time and aspect of a sentence they wish to create.

The Paragraph

Students learn the different elements needed to structure an academic paragraph.

Grammar 1-1

Three Kinds of Verbs

Speaking 1-4

Positives & Negatives

Speaking 1-5

Change the Tense

Reading 1-1

A Journal

Grammar 1-2

Questions

Speaking 1-6

Three Question Discussion

Speaking 1-7

What's the Question?

Speaking 1-8

Negative Question Discussion

Listening 1-2

A Sore Throat

Use of English 1-1

Let's Take a Look

Grammar 1-3

Have & Have Got

Speaking 1-9

What Have You Got to Say?

Speaking 1-1

Unit Introduction Discussion

Use of English 1-2

Diets for Losing Weight

Writing 1-1

Topic Sentences

Speaking 1-2

Vocabulary Discussion

Listening 1-1

Stay in Shape

Writing 1-2

Supporting & Concluding Sentences

Speaking 1-3

Role-Plays

Listening 1-2

Fit Kids Have Better Test Scores

Writing 1-3

Paragraph

Listening
1-1 Stay in Shape

Listening activity based on six people’s opinions of the best way to stay in shape. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary.

1-2 A Sore Throat

Listening activity based on a patient and doctor discussing a medical problem. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary, Grammar 1-1, and Grammar 1-2.

1-3 Fit Kids Have Better Test Scores

Listening activity based on a news article about the effect health has on childrens' academic performance. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.
Speaking
1-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity. 

1-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

1-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

1-4 Positives & Negatives

Students take turns convering sentences from positive to negative and vice-versa. Activity reinfores student comprehension of the role of English's auxiliary verbs in forming negative sentences.

1-5 Change the Tense

Students familiarize themselves with the concept of different tenses by changing the time meaning of sentences.

1-6 Three Question Discussion

Group speaking activity for students to practice making questions.

1-7 What's the Question?

Students formulate questions based on clues provided by their partners.

1-8 Negative Question Discussion

Students work with a partner and discuss situations in which they need to ask each other negative questions.

1-9 What Have You Got to Say?

Students discuss in groups answers to questions that focus on the different uses of "have" and "have got."
Grammar
1-1 Three Kinds of Verbs

Lesson about auxiliary verbs, modal auxiliary verbs, and main verbs.

1-2 Questions

Students practicing making yes/no and wh-questions. Questions about both the subject and the object are studied.

1-3 Have & Have Got

Students practice the different meanings of the verb have and have got.
Reading
Reading 1-1 A Journal

Fictitious journal entries describing health issues. Reading activity contains several words from unit vocabulary list.
Use of English
1-1 Let's Take a Look

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 1-3.

1-2 Diets for Losing Weight

Students research popular diets that people go on to lose weight and make presentations to give to the class.
Writing
1-1 Topic Sentences

Students learn how to write a strong topic sentence.

1-2 Supporting & Concluding Sentences

Students focus on writing sentences to support the main idea of a paragraph, practice identifying unrelated sentences and learn how to effectively conclude a paragraph.

1-3 Paragraph

Students write a paragraph about health and lifestyle in their country.
Vocabulary

ache

active

affect

allergic

allergy

aspirin

backache

band-aid

bandage

bleed

catch

cough

cycle

diet

disease

exercise

fit

fitness

gain

headache

hurt

in / out of shape

itch

itchy

junk food

lazy

lose

medicine

on a diet

overweight

pain

physical activity

pill

push-up

quite

reduce

scar

sore

stomach

stomachache

surgery

swollen

temperature

throat

treadmill

unfit

unhealthy

vitamin

water

weight

weight-training

work out

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