Unit Objectives
Types of Aircraft and Flying

Students learn about aircraft and flying and it’s related vocabulary.
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 and detailed stories.

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Listening Speaking Grammar
6-1 Types of Flying and Aircraft

Several people describe their favourite types of flying and aircraft. Activity reinforces comprehension of unit vocabulary and sets up the idea of verb patterns.

6-2 Aviation Sports

Activity is based on a conversation between two people about aviation sports and events. Activity previews Grammar 6-2.

6-3 Aircraft & Pilots

Activity based on several video clips of famous aircraft and pilots. 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 preposition object gerunds.

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 the 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 The Aircraft Design Process

Reading activity based on the aircraft design process. Activity serves as a review of Grammar 6-1 & 6-2.

 
6-1 Flight School

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

6-2 Four Most Popular Types of Flying

Students research formation flying, recreational flying, float flying and gliding using Simple English Wikipedia.
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 competitive sports.
Vocabulary

aerobatic

air race

Airbus

airshow

airworthiness

autopilot

barnstorming

Beechcraft

biplane

Boeing

Cessna

checklist

club

compass rose

compensate

concept of flying

crop duster

cross-country flying

de-ice

demonstration

Embraer

emergency locator transmitter (ELT)

field

float

formation flying

gliding

gear up landing

gyrocopter

heliport

high wing

manouever

Piper

precision flying

radial engine

recreational flying

Red Bull

Robinson

short-field landing

solo

stall

tow

vertical take off and landing (VTOL)

vorticies

V-tail

wake turbulence

water landing

weight
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