Unit Objectives
Literature

Students practice vocabulary related to the topic including types of literature, genres, formats, styles, etc..

Modal Auxiliary Verbs

Students review structure common to all modal verbs and explore the multiple meanings of several of them.

Necessity & Advice

Students practice the language used to ask for and give advice as well as to express obligations.

Requests

Students learn how to use certain modal verbs and phrases to make requests or offers.

Listening
Homework

Four people describe what they have for homework. The activity serves as a preview for Grammar - Expressing Necessity.

Online Reading

Listening activity based on different people’s experiences with reading online. The activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

Just a Novel

Listening activity based on a discussion about two people's interest in literature. 

Speaking
Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

What’s the Job?

Students guess jobs by asking each other about the job’s responsibilities.

Speaking Pairs

Students present sentences to each other so that their partners create a sentence with the same meaning using modal verbs of obligation.

Problems

Students act out situations in an effort to elicit sentences of advice from fellow group members.

Giving Advice

Students are presented with fictitious problems they are having in life. Other group members offer advice.

Had Better

Students discuss situations in which they can say the given sentences containing "had better."

Requests

Students are presented with prompts that they use with a partner to elicit requests in different grammatical forms.

Grammar
Expressing Necessity

Students review the basic form and structure of modal auxiliary verbs as well as focus on the different modal verbs and phrases used to describe obligation and necessity.

Advice & Suggestions

Students practice modals and other popular phrases used to give and ask for advice as well as suggestions.

Making Requests

Students learn the modal verbs and phrases commonly used when making requests and offers.

Reading
William Shakespeare

A reading activity about the biography of William Shakespeare.

Use of English
Can I Ask You a Favour?

Four short conversations that serve as a lead into Grammar - Making Requests.

Famous English Authors

Students research and present their findings of different English authors of popular fiction.

Writing
Capitalization & End Punctuation

Students learn when to use capital letters and how to punctuate the end of their sentences.

Proofreading

Students do a proofreading exercise, finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph.

Paragraph

Students write an opinion-based paragraph on whether it is important for children to read.

Vocabulary

advice

amount

author

category

century

chapter

character

communicate

completely

concerned

contact

describe

drama

draw

drawing

education

ending

enjoyable

environment

exact

express

favour

impact

line

literature

magazine

mayor

nap

necessary

novel

novelist

occasionally

pattern

perform

performance

play

poetry

population

print

process

publish

rarely

request

slightly

spare

stage

suggestion

technology

terrible

theatre

trouble

work

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