1-1: Staying Alive!

Materials
  • 1-1 Reading

    Staying Alive!

  • 1-1 Grammar

    The Present Continuous

  • 1-1 Speaking

    Buying a Plant

  • 1-4 Media

    The Evolution of Plants

  • 1-1 Vocabulary

    All About Flowers
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the different environmental requirements and resources that plants need in order to stay alive and reproduce.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about plants stay alive and reproduce.
  • Students will learn how to construct and use the Present Continuous in both the positive and negative forms.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    species, longevity, extraordinary, adaptations, obtain, remote, hostile, filter, filter, dense, nutrients, ingenious, lacking, effective, reproduce, investigate

  • Grammar

    Using the Present Continuous in both positive and negative forms: 1-1 Grammar The Present Continuous

1-2: Plants and Animals

Materials
  • 1-2 Reading

    Plants and Animals

  • 1-2 Grammar

    The Present Perfect

  • 1-2 Speaking

    A Cactus and a Pine Tree

  • 1-2 Media

    Kelp Forests

  • 1-2 Vocabulary

    Life Cycle of a Plant
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the mutually beneficial relationship between plants and animals.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about how plants and animals rely on one another and how this relationship is key to sustaining all ecosystems on Earth.
  • Students will learn how to construct and use the Present Perfect in both the positive and negative forms.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    depend, evolve, impressive, consider, technique, produce, paralyze, lure, nectar, droplet, absorb, devious, mutually beneficial, irresistible, threaten

  • Grammar

    Using the Present Continuous in both positive and negative forms: 1-2 Grammar The Present Perfect

1-3: Amazing Trees!

Materials
  • 1-3 Reading

    Amazing Trees!

  • 1-3 Grammar

    The Present Perfect Progressive

  • 1-3 Speaking

    Cutting Down the Forest

  • 1-3 Media

    The Strangler Fig

  • 1-3 Vocabulary

    Plants and Their Environments
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the unique and amazing trees in different parts of the world.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about what makes these trees unique and amazing.
  • Students will learn how to construct and use the Present Perfect Progressive in both the positive and negative forms.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    organism, provide, quality, secretive, method, spy, military, location, damage, delicate, base, demonstrate, abandon, reclaim, majesty

  • Grammar

    Using the Present Continuous in both positive and negative forms: 1-3 Grammar The Present Perfect Continuous

1-4: Poisonous Plants

Materials
  • 1-4 Reading

    Poisonous Plants

  • 1-4 Grammar

    Uses of the Present Tense

  • 1-4 Speaking

    The Tastiest Plant

  • 1-1 Media

    Carnivorous Plants

  • 1-4 Vocabulary

    All About Trees
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about a variety of poisonous plants and their features.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about various poisonous plants and their unique features.
  • Students will learn all the different uses of present tenses (simple present, present continuous, and present perfect continuous).
Content
  • Vocabulary

    toxic, surface, inhale, rash, swelling, tempting, blood vessels, immune, barrier, ingest, severe, vomit, hollow, embedded, incident

  • Grammar

    Using the Present Continuous in both positive and negative forms: 1-4 Grammar Uses of the Present Tense

1-5: Strange and Weird Plants!

Materials
  • 1-5 Reading

    Strange and Weird Plants!

  • 1-5 Grammar

    The Past Perfect

  • 1-5 Speaking

    Picking Flowers

  • 1-2 Listening

    Be a Good Plant Parent

  • 1-1 Writing

    New Plant Report
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about a variety of strange and “weird” plants.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about various strange plants and what exactly makes them so unique.
  • Students will learn how to construct the Past Perfect. Students will also learn when and how to use this tense (an action or event that happened before another action or event in the past).
Content
  • Vocabulary

    resemble, bizarre, fungus, decipher, gruesome, age, sphere, corpse, odour, distinctive, detect, individual, decay, estimate, bouquet

  • Grammar

    Using the Past Perfect in both positive and negative forms: 1-5 Grammar The Past Perfect

1-6: The Wonderful Rainforest

Materials
  • 1-6 Reading

    The Wonderful Rainforest

  • 1-6 Grammar

    The Past Perfect Continuous

  • 1-6 Speaking

    Imagine this Plant

  • 1-3 Listening

    A Walk in the Orchard

  • 1-3 Writing

    The Alien Forest
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the different layers of the Rainforest, as well as different animals and plants found in the Rainforest.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing the different layers of the Rainforest, as well as different animals and plants found in the Rainforest.
  • Students will learn how to construct and when to use the Past Perfect Continuous.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    biome, ecosystem, forest floor, humid, generate, understory, mammal, reptile, canopy, majority, biodiversity, arthropod, emergent, isolated, withstand

  • Grammar

    Constructing and using the Past Perfect Continuous: 1-6 Grammar The Past Perfect Continuous
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