1-0 Objectives and Sequence

Saving Lives

Students explore vocabulary and topics related medical professionals as they save lives. 

Auxiliary Verbs

Students review the role of auxiliary verbs in establishing time and aspect meaning within a sentence.

Time and Aspect

Students review the different aspects tenses convey in English sentences.

The Passive Voice

Students practice how to make a sentence in passive voice, but more importantly, when and why they should do so.

1-1 Auxiliary Verbs

Students practice using the auxiliary verbs, be, do, and have in making affirmative and negative sentences, questions, short answers, question tags, and reply questions.

1-2 Aspects

Students review the common meaning shared by all tenses used in the simple, continuous, and perfect aspects.

1-3 Active and Passive

Students practice why and how the passive is used in English as well as the use of impersonal subjects such as they in the active voice commonly used in casual language.

1-1 In The News

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about the topic of viruses.

1-2 In The News

Reading comprehension activity about the topic of battling HIV.

1-1 Writing a Paragraph - Topic Sentences

Students examine basic paragraph structure and focus on how to write an effective topic sentence

1-2 Writing a Paragraph - Support

Students examine the concept of unity within a paragraph and learn how to develop the main idea with relevant supporting points.

1-3 Writing a Paragraph - Concluding Sentences

Students continue their examination of paragraphs and how to write effective concluding sentences.

1-1 Organ Donation

Listening activity based on the possibilities of organ donations around the world. 

1-2 How do vaccines work?

TED ED video discussing how vaccines came to be and how they help us against disease. 

1-1 Unit Introduction

Unit introduction conversation activity. (group work)

1-2: Vocabulary Roleplay

Groups discuss and roleplay a medical scenario in a variety of jobs. 

1-3 Photo Discussion

Students generate photos to match unit vocabulary and discuss with the class.

1-4 Questions and Review

Students reflect on their understanding of the unit with a whole class Q&A.

1-5 Applied Learning

Students work together to master a certain grammatical aspect of the unit and teach to the rest of the class.