Unit Objectives
World Sports

Students learn sports-related vocabulary and participate in activities about such topics as competition, the Olympics, sports equipment, verbs used with certain sports, etc..

Verbs And Their Patterns

Students learn a large number of verbs as well as the patterns they can be used with.

Basic Parallel Structure

Students learn and practice basic patterns used when two or more nouns, verbs, adjectives, or adverbs are used in a sentence.

Listening
Favourite Sports

Several people describe their favourite sports and reasons for liking them. This activity reinforces comprehension of unit vocabulary and sets up the idea of verb patterns.

The Sports Guy

Activity is based on a conversation between two people about a man's love for sports. Activity previews Grammar - Verb Patterns #2.

Athlete Interviews

Activity-based on several video clips of famous athletes speaking during interviews. This activity reinforces comprehension of the grammar from this unit.

Speaking
Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

What Makes You...

Conversation questions meant to elicit answers that contain gerunds as sentence subjects.

Tell Me About...

Students present sentences to their partners in order to elicit answers that require preposition object gerunds.

Rephrase My Sentence

Students practice rephrasing partner's sentences using verbs studied in Grammar - Verb Patterns #1.

Infinitive Discussion

Students work with a group and discuss answers to questions that feature the verb pattern studied in Grammar - Verb Patterns #2.

Sentence Cues

Students make sentences using infinitives.

Speaking Pairs

Students ask and answer questions using infinitives with objects.

Grammar
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.

Verb Patterns #2

Students practice using infinitives.

Verb Patterns #3

Students practice using infinitives with and without objects.

Reading
The Sedin Twins

Reading activity based on a biography of the twin hockey players, Daniel and Henrik Sedin. This activity serves as a review of the Grammar lessons.

Use of English
Soccer Practice

Four short conversations that serve as a lead into Grammar - Verb Patterns #3.

Four Most Popular Sports

Students research football, baseball, basketball, and hockey using Simple English Wikipedia.

Writing
Sentence Fragments

Students learn how to identify and avoid sentence fragments in their writing.

Sentence Order

Students learn different ways to logically organize sentences within a paragraph.

Paragraph

Students write an opinion-based paragraph about children and competitive sports.

Vocabulary

admit

advise

agree

assist

athlete

autograph

avoid

beg

break

can't stand

champion

championship

compete

competition

competitive

complete

court

cricket

delay

deny

dunk

equipment

exactly

expect

fail

fan

individual

instead

intend

league

medal

mind

movement

net

organize

pace

position

postpone

professional

raise

recognize

record

refuse

regret

remind

retire

rugby

rumour

score

season

sense

snooker

successful

support

talented

title

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