Objectives
Family Life

Students explore vocabulary and topics related to marriage norms, dysfunctional families, parenting, immigrant families, etc..

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.

Grammar
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.

Reading
1-1 In The News

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about the topic of marriage.

1-2 In The News

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about the topic of unmarried households.

Writing
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.

1-4 Writing a Paragraph

Students prepare questions to interview a classmate and write a paragraph on the topic of family.

Media
1-1 Big Family

Listening activity based on one woman’s experience growing up with a large family.

1-2 Arrested Development

Video-listening activity based on the comedy sitcom, Arrested Development.

Speaking
1-1 Unit Introduction

Unit introduction conversation activity. (group work)

1-2: Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity. (group work)

1-3 Vocabulary Role Plays

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

1-4 Have and Have Got

Students practice using have got for possession and obligation. (pair work)

1-5 Question Tags

Students work together practicing making sentences containing question tags. (pair work)

1-6 Active and Passive

Students work together converting sentences from active to passive and vice-versa. (pair work)

Vocabulary

Advocate

Cast

Catastrophe

Contribute

Council

Delay

Diaper

Diligent

Dominate

Dust

Elder / Eldest

Establish

Evolution

Extended Family

Extremely

Favour (US - Favor)

Get-together / Get together

Head

Household

Housekeeper

Immediate Family

In-law

Income

Indicate

Individual

Mature

Optimistic

Outlook

Pessimistic

Pirate

Polish

Pursue

Rebel

Reflection

Reject

Related

Rely

Resource

Rough

Role

Rug

Ruin

Sedan

Sibling

Sigh

Significant

Sin

Spoiled

Sponsor

Stable

Stain

Stuffed

Sweep

Tie The Knot

To Bear Fruit

Tough

Trend

Tumour (US - Tumor)

Vacuum

Vase

Wealthy

Wedlock

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