Unit Objectives
This Year's Model

Students explore the theme of new car models and the launch that goes with new car releases.
Racing

Students learn racing-related vocabulary and participate in activities about such topics as favourite sports, competition, equipment, X-Games, verbs used with certain sports, and so on.
Verbs and Their Patterns

Students study the Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect Simple tenses in the context of narrating both simple past events and longer, detailed stories.
Listening Speaking Grammar
6-1 Favourite Sports

Several people describe their favourite sports and reasons for liking them. Activity reinforces comprehension of unit vocabulary and sets up the idea of verb patterns.

6-2 Interview With A Racer

Activity is based on a conversation between two people about a man's career in racing. Activity previews Grammar 6-2.

6-3 Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Activity based on a listening about a relationship between a father and his son. Activity reinforces comprehension of Unit Six grammar.
6-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

6-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

6-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

6-4 What Makes You...

Conversation questions meant to elicit answers that contain gerunds as sentence subjects.

6-5 Tell Me About...

Students present sentences to their partners in order to elicit answers that require gerunds as objects of prepositions.

6-6 Rephrase My Sentence

Students practice rephrasing partner's sentences using verbs studied in Grammar 6-1.

6-7 Infinitive Discussion

Students work with a group and discuss answers to questions that feature the verb pattern studied in Grammar 6-2.

6-8 Sentence Cues

Students make sentences using infinitives.

6-9 Speaking Pairs

Students ask and answer questions using infinitives with objects.
6-1 Verb Patterns #1

Students study the three most popular ways gerunds are used in sentences: as subjects, as objects of certain verbs, and objects of prepositions.

6-2 Verb Patterns #2

Students practice using infinitives.

6-3 Verb Patterns #3

Students practice using infinitives with and without objects.
Reading Use of English Writing
6-1 Travis Pastrana

Reading activity based on a biography of Travis Pastrana. Activity serves as a review of Grammar 6-1 & 6-2.

 
6-1 Doctor's Orders

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 6-3.

6-2 Extreme Sports Presentation

Students research exreme sports using Simple English Wikipedia and prepare a presentation for the class.
6-1 Sentence Fragments

Students learn how to identify and avoid sentence fragments in their writing.

6-2 Sentence Order

Students learn the different ways to logically organize sentences within a paragraph.

6-3 Paragraph

Students write an opinion-based paragraph about children and extreme sports.
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