Unit Objectives
Celebrities

Vocabulary and activities centered around celebrities include topics such as living life in the public eye; being a politician, a movie star, etc..

Asking Questions

Students learn the difference between direct and indirect questions as well as how to form question tags.

Phrasal Verbs

Students learn the most common phrasal verbs that use the particles, in, out, away, and back.

Listening
Gossip Journalist

Activity-based on a fictional interview between a journalist and Brad Pitt. The activity serves as a preview to Grammar - Indirect Questions.

Celebrity Life

Activity-based on short recordings of people describing whether they would prefer to be a politician, musician, movie star, or athlete.

Politicians

Activity that reviews the use of question tags in a conversation about one person's desire to become a politician.

Speaking
Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

Speaking Pairs #1

Students convert direct questions to indirect ones.

Speaking Pairs #2

Students practice using noun clauses in sentences that begin with "I don't know".

Bag of Items

Students practice question tags in making assumptions about others in the class.

You Think Maybe...

Students practice using question tags in checking for information.

Assumptions

Students make assumptions about their partners using question tags.

Phrasal Verbs Discussion

Students discuss answers to questions that incorporate phrasal verbs studied in Grammar - Phrasal Verbs: In, Out, Away & Back.

Grammar
Indirect Questions

Students learn and practice the differences between direct and indirect questions.

Question Tags

Students learn the two kinds of questions tags and how they are formed.

Phrasal Verbs: In, Out, Away & Back

The most common phrasal verbs within, out, away and back as well as the basic rules for using phrasal verbs are described.

Reading
Three Celebrity Interviews

Reading activity based on three different interviews of celebrities. Activity previews the topic of question tags.

Use of English
The Paparazzi

Four short conversations that serve as a lead into Grammar - Phrasal Verbs: In, Out, Away & Back.

Celebrity Bios

Students research Wikipedia entries about different celebrities and then give a presentation about what they learned.

Writing
Subject Verb Agreement

Students review the subject-verb agreement and learn about collective nouns.

Contrast Linking Words

Students learn different ways of expressing contrasting ideas in their sentences.

Paragraph

Students write a paragraph on life as a celebrity.

Vocabulary

achievement

adopt

adoption

audience

career

celebrity

charity

consider

deal with

direct #1

direct #2

director

dishonest

divorce

dress up

familiar

fan

focus

gifted

glamorous

gossip

healthcare

honest

idolize

impress

impressed

impressive

improve

journalist

luxury

mansion

personal

plastic surgery

politician

politics

privacy

private

public

relationship

remain

respect

review

role

scene

similarity

star

suppose

survive

talent

tear

treat

view

wealthy

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