Unit Goals

Unit Goals

Grammar

Vocabulary

Listening

Speaking and Reading and

Pronunciation Writing

unit 2

unit 1

People and Places page 2

Discuss reasons for living
where you do
l E xplain why people stay or
leave where they live
l Describe a new place
l E xamine human migration
l

Present perfect tense vs. Climate

perfect continuous tense
Climatic change
She has moved three
times in her life.
Its been raining all day

Focused listening
A weather report

Simulation:
Planning
solutions to
extreme changes
in the weather

Pioneers of
the Pacific
Writing a
travelers journal

Contractions with
have and be

so
that
Its so dry here that water
is brought in on trucks.

The Mind page 14

Talk about remembering
and forgetting
l Talk about your senses
l Talk about things youre
afraid of
l Describe an emotional
experience
l

Gerunds as subjects and Thought processes

after prepositions
Scientific
Learning English is
investigations
important.
We talked about
studying together.
May, might, and could
for possibility
We may find dangerous
animals in the jungle.

Listening for general Talking about

understanding and sensations
specific information
Th sounds
A radio program
about the unusual
condition of
synesthesia

In Your Face
Writing about a
personal experience

unit 3

Changing Planet page 26

Give strength to statements Active vs. passive voice Large numbers
and opinions
The rainforest is being
Statistics
destroyed./ We are
l Distinguish between fact
destroying the
and bias
rainforest.
l E xplain cause and effects of
l

General and
focused listening
A documentary

natural phenomenon
Past perfect tense
l Share a personal opinion
By the time sea level
about an important cause had risen ten feet . . .

Reporting research Superstorms

and personal
Writing a blog to
opinion
influence public
Linking words
opinion
with the same
consonant sounds

unit 4

Money page 38
Describe your money habits
Talk about kinds of money
used in the past
l Use English for banking
l Talk about wealth
l

Verb + gerund,
Money transactions General and
Verb + infinitive
focused listening
Banking
I try to make a budget./
Radio program:
I enjoy finding bargains.
The history
Review of the passive
of money
voice: with and without
an agent
Coffee is grown in Brazil.
That movie was made
by two teenagers.

Giving suggestions Big Winners or

for how to have fun Big Losers?
for free
Writing a personal
Reduction of to
opinion

unit 6

unit 5

Survival page 50
Express possible cause
and effect
l Discuss probable personal
reactions in survival situations
l Talk about regrets
l Share your admiration for
rescue workers
l

Unreal conditional
Ecology
If they werent inside
Survival skills
the shelter, they would
quickly die.
Wish
I wish I had brought a
good book to read in
the shelter.

Listening for general Simulation:

New Zealand
understanding
working with a Coastal Reserves
team in a survival
A radio program
Writing about an
situation
interviewing
admired person or
survivors
Reduced sounds: group of people
didja and dya

Art page 62
Report what another
Reported speech:
Art
person said
statements
Materials
l E xplain your opinions
She said she was tired
about art
and her head hurt.
l Discuss favorite movies using
Subject adjective clauses
subject adjective clauses
An artist who works with
l Talk about public art
clay has strong hands.
l

Listening for general Discussing personal Saving a Citys

understanding
selections
Public Art
Conversations in Quoted and
a museum
indirect speech

Writing a detailed
description

unit 7

Unit Goals
Transportation page 74
l Talk about developments
in transportation
l Talk about choices in
transportation
l Use English to get around
l Make recommendations for
improving transportation

Grammar

Vocabulary

Passive voice:
Modern
present continuous transportation
tense and present
Future
perfect tense
transportation
The new plane is being
tested now./Computers
have been used for
more than 50 years.

Listening

Speaking and Reading and

Pronunciation Writing

Focused listening

Role-play:
solving an
A discussion:
airport problem
Subway systems
Reduced are

The Rickshaws
of Kolkata
Writing a letter to
the editor

Indirect questions
Do you know where
the bus stop is?

unit 10

unit 9

unit 8

Competition page 86
Give additional information
Understand and share
information on sports
l Discuss personal
competitive experiences
l Take sides in a sports match

Object adjective clauses Sports competitions Listening for general Role-play:

World Soccer
Its a competition that
understanding and Interview an
Sports terminology
Writing a sports
she often wins.
specific information athlete after a
commentary
competition
Negative questions
A sports
Isnt that dangerous?
commentary
Rising intonation
for surprise

Danger page 98
l Discuss which things are
really dangerous
l Talk about dangerous work
l Talk about emergencies
l Describe a situation when
you took a risk

Tag questions
Dangerous things
Those spiders are
Expressions for
poisonous, arent they?
emergencies
Adverbial time clause
I finished my project
before I went home.

Focused and
general listening

Past modals for

speculation
He might have seen a
large fish instead of a
sea monster.

Listening for general Role-play:

understanding
Two sides of a
mysterybelief
Interviews of
and disbelief
eye-witnesses
Intonation of finished
vs. unfinished ideas

Exploring the Rock

Art of Borneo

Listening for general Discussing

understanding
quiz results

Game-Filled Park
is School for South
African Kids

Mysteries page 110

l Give possible explanations
l Interpret first-hand accounts
l Express belief or disbelief
l Report on a local mystery

Reactions to
surprise
Expressions for
belief and disbelief

unit 12

unit 11

Future in the past

The two sisters were
going to have a picnic
by the lake.

Role-play:
A Delicacy to
A newspaper Die For
interview
Radio program:
Writing about a
An unusual job
Tag question
risk situation
intonation

Writing a report
on a contemporary
or local mystery

Learning page 122

Talk about educational
plans and decisions
l Talk about your learning style
l Discuss a favorite
university major
l Share personal suggestions
for improving schools
l

Should have, could have, Education

would have
University majors
I should have applied
for a scholarship.

Personal
experiences

Past modals

General and
focused listening

Role-play:
The Hubble Space
Preparations for a Telescope
space mission
Writing a
Stress in
report
compound nouns

Noun clauses
What you said was
very interesting.

Writing about
improving schools

Space page 134

Talk about the future
Consider the realities of
living in space
l Discuss the future of space
exploration
l Summarize a sequence
of events
l
l

Tense review:
Future time
future tenses with will expressions
and be going to, simple
Space exploration
present tense, present
continuous tense
Future modals
Well be able to see it
from here

Interview of an
astronaut