6-1: Optical Illusions

Materials
  • 6-1 Reading

    Optical Illusions

  • 6-1 Grammar

    Gerunds: An Introduction

  • 6-1 Speaking

    What Do You See?

  • 6-1 Media

    The McGurk Effect

  • 6-1 Vocabulary

    The Magical World
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about optical illusions.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about optical illusions.
  • Students will learn about gerunds.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    visible, accurate, mislead, idle, confounding, latter, optical, adamant, perceive, haggard, gaze, distinguished, impoverished, cognitive, sloped, parallel, cease, clockwise, counterclockwise, animation

  • Grammar

    Gerunds: 6-1 Grammar Gerunds: An Introduction

6-2: Can You Believe What You See?

Materials
  • 6-2 Reading

    Can You Believe What You See?

  • 6-2 Grammar

    Using Gerunds

  • 6-2 Speaking

    Tricks and Illusions

  • 6-3 Listening

    How Did They Do It?

  • 6-2 Vocabulary

    All In Your Mind
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the history of some popular magic tricks.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about the history of some popular magic tricks.
  • Students will learn more about gerunds.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    debunk, suspicion, veil, precede, hone, notorious, assistant, detached, intense, unsevered, miraculous, compartment, robotic, bullet, daring, shatter, impact, blank pane, remote

  • Grammar

    More about gerunds: 6-2 Grammar Using Gerunds

6-3: Magic on the Street

Materials
  • 6-3 Reading

    Magic on the Street

  • 6-3 Grammar

    Additional Ways To Use Gerunds

  • 6-3 Speaking

    Seeing Magic Close Up

  • 6-4 Media

    The Science of Illusion

  • 6-3 Vocabulary

    A Magician's Toolbox
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about street magic.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about street magic.
  • Students will learn additional ways to use gerunds.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    ruse, convince, intimate, spectator, scrutiny, sleight-of-hand, manipulate, encounter, unflustered, speechless, breakthrough, mind-boggling, dubious, astounded, innumerable, misdirection, intersect, intuitive, crystal ball, admittedly

  • Grammar

    Other uses of gerunds: 6-3 Grammar Additional Ways To Use Gerunds

6-4: Famous Illusionists

Materials
  • 6-4 Reading

    Famous Illusionists

  • 6-4 Grammar

    Infinitives: An Introduction

  • 6-4 Speaking

    Magicians

  • 6-2 Listening

    The Great Blackstone

  • 6-4 Vocabulary

    Seeing Is Not Believing
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about some famous magicians.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about some famous magicians.
  • Students will learn about infinitives.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    considerable, iconic, sensational, extricate, straitjacket, skepticism, despise, fraudulent, commercially, gross, solo, lucrative, nomination, stun, dominated, relegated, largely, exploit, prominence, surpass

  • Grammar

    Using infinitives: 6-4 Grammar Infinitives: An Introduction

6-5: The Magician's Oath

Materials
  • 6-5 Reading

    The Magician's Oath

  • 6-5 Grammar

    More Ways to Use Infinitives

  • 6-5 Speaking

    Keeping Secrets

  • 6-1 Listening

    Magic Tricks

  • 6-3 Media

    The Trust Game
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about the magician’s oath.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about the magician’s oath.
  • Students will learn more about infinitives.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    oath, vow, physician, swear, ethical, solemn, exception, exposure, apprentice, repertoire, disservice, devalue, cheapen, proficient, sabotage, mugged, generation, vivid, instantaneous, ignorance

  • Grammar

    Four more ways to use infinitives: 6-5 Grammar More Ways to Use Infinitives

6-6: Magic?

Materials
  • 6-6 Reading

    Magic?

  • 6-6 Grammar

    Parallelism of Gerunds and Infinitives

  • 6-6 Speaking

    Imagine This Illusion

  • 6-2 Media

    Collins Key
Objectives
  • Students will read and learn about divination traditions.
  • Students will be able to describe orally and in writing about some divination traditions.
  • Students will learn about using infinitives or gerunds in a series.
Content
  • Vocabulary

    earthbound, tarot cards, suit, ace, face of cards, trump, divination, desire, incapacity, balk, superficial, staunch, counsel, divulge, paranormal, astronomy, astrology, celestial, horoscope, zodiac

  • Grammar

    Using infinitives or gerunds in a series: 6-6 Grammar Parallelism of Gerunds and Infinitives
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