Objectives
Celebrations

Students explore vocabulary and activities related to holidays and celebrations, including topics such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, April Fool’s Day, Super Bowl Sunday, etc..

Expressing Quantity

Students practice the many quantifiers in English as well as when and how they are to be used.

Determiners: Some, Any, and No

Students review basic rules as well as learn new ones exploring the complexities of these essential words.

Grammar
3-1 Quantifiers

Students learn which quantifiers can be used with both count and uncount nouns, count nouns only, uncount nouns only, singular count nouns only, and plural count nouns only.

3-2 Some / Any / No

Students learn how to use some, any, and no in affirmative and negative sentences, questions, requests, offers, affirmative sentences with negative meanings, and sentences that emphasize the negative.

3-3 Many / Few / All

Students learn higher-level rules for using many and much as well as both formal and informal alternatives, the different ways one can describe all or every, as well as the subtle differences expressions such as few and a few.

Reading
3-1 In The News

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about the Korean holiday, Black Day.

Writing
3-1 Linking - Cause and Effect

Students focus on how and where to use linking devices expressing a cause/effect relationship between ideas.

3-2 Sentence Fragments

Students learn how to identify, avoid, and correct problems with sentence fragments.

3-3 Organizing an Argument

Students examine the organization of an opinion-based paragraph, then arrange jumbled paragraphs in a logical order.

Media
3-1 Super Bowl Sunday

Listening activity based on a conversation about the American tradition of Super Bowl parties.

3-2 That ‘70s Show

Video-listening activity based on a Christmas episode of the comedy sitcom, That ‘70s Show.

3-3 April Fool’s Day

Listening activity about the history and tradition of April Fool’s Day.

Speaking
3-1 Unit Introduction

Unit introduction conversation activity. (group work)

3-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity. (group work)

3-3 Vocabulary Role Plays

Students use unit vocabulary and create role play dialogues to present to the class. (pair work)

3-4 Picture Predictions

Students describe photos using grammar of prediction. (pair work)

3-5 Prediction Discussion

Students discuss and create context for sentences that describe future predictions. (pair work)

Vocabulary

Adopt

Align

Announce

Aroma

Break up

Broadcast

Bum (Homeless)

Come up

Commercial

Counterpart

Craft

Crappy

Crop

Curfew

Declare

Decoration

Despise

Distribute

Dumb

Equinox

Evolve

Festivity

Float

Fulfill

Gauge

Gravity

Gripe

Haggle

Insane

Landmark

Livestock

Make out (kiss)

Obligatory

Ornament

Overly

Peer

Practical Joke

Prank

Punch (drink)

Purchase

Recall

Rotate

Sentimental

Spread

Status

Sympathize

To be into something

To count on somebody

To flunk out of school

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