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This Year's ModelStudents explore the theme of new car models and the launch that goes with new car releases. |
RacingStudents 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 PatternsStudents 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 |
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6-1 Favourite SportsSeveral 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 RacerActivity 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 MaintenanceActivity based on a listening about a relationship between a father and his son. Activity reinforces comprehension of Unit Six grammar. |
6-1 Unit Introduction DiscussionUnit introduction conversation activity. 6-2 Vocabulary DiscussionVocabulary discussion activity. 6-3 Role-PlaysStudents 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 SentenceStudents practice rephrasing partner's sentences using verbs studied in Grammar 6-1. 6-7 Infinitive DiscussionStudents work with a group and discuss answers to questions that feature the verb pattern studied in Grammar 6-2. 6-8 Sentence CuesStudents make sentences using infinitives. 6-9 Speaking PairsStudents ask and answer questions using infinitives with objects. |
6-1 Verb Patterns #1Students 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 #2Students practice using infinitives. 6-3 Verb Patterns #3Students practice using infinitives with and without objects. |
Reading | Use of English | Writing |
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6-1 Travis PastranaReading activity based on a biography of Travis Pastrana. Activity serves as a review of Grammar 6-1 & 6-2. |
6-1 Doctor's OrdersFour short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 6-3. 6-2 Extreme Sports PresentationStudents research exreme sports using Simple English Wikipedia and prepare a presentation for the class. |
6-1 Sentence FragmentsStudents learn how to identify and avoid sentence fragments in their writing. 6-2 Sentence OrderStudents learn the different ways to logically organize sentences within a paragraph. 6-3 ParagraphStudents write an opinion-based paragraph about children and extreme sports. |