Unit 1: What Do You Like?

Aims and Approaches

The aims focus on the students’ lifestyle of what they like to do based on the students
likes and dislikes refer to their free time activities. For the activity in this textbook like
quizzes, which students have to listen and repeat the words that highlighted in blue. The
second activity, the students have to do the quiz and look up at their scores. Then, the third
activity is they have to match the adjectives to the adjectives opposite which is given in the
textbook’s first chapter.

Second part of this chapter is “express yourself” and students have to work in pairs to
complete the activity. There are also other activities in this unit like in dialogues forms, fill in
the correct answer after listening to the audio and interview questions. The content sequenced
by its unit, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and pronunciation, integrated skills,
writing, digital competence, and external exam trainer. For each of the content sequence has
its own usefulness and it is divided properly for the learning of the content.

The reading texts in this unit always comes with a picture so the students can imagine
and understand the texts from their point of view as the texts usually describes and would
help the students understand better. The layout is clear and easy to understand for the teachers
and students as it is equipped with vivid visual aids that help students become more involved
in learning and visualizing the information during the lesson.

Design and Organization

For the structure, the content is filled with activities based on the topic’s theme which
is integrated to the learning objectives which is based on the language skills. The learners
expectation can be seen in an English course. The organization is right for the learners and it
is designed to comprehend by teachers as all the learning objectives and materials are stated
beforehand.

The reading texts in this unit always comes with a picture so the students can imagine
and understand the texts from their point of view. The layout is clear and easy to understand
for the teachers and students as it is equipped with vivid visual aids that help students become
more involved in learning and visualizing the information during the lesson..
Language Content

The content in this topic is well organized and it is good for both students and
teachers. This topic will definitely help student to boost up their energy for the following
topics, it is a good start for students to have the interest in learning more. The tasks are
various and interesting for the students to learn it which are suitable for low to intermediate
students. The material covers the grammar item that intended to teach several grammar items.
The grammar items are easy to comprehend for the students to learn as the language used are
easy vocabularies.

The choices of words in this unit is appropriate to understand and apply for their daily
life activities. The language style matched to the situation as everything in this unit is
appropriate for a high school student. In this unit, the choices of words are the commonly
used by the society and the students will be able to grasp and comprehend it by themselves.

Skills and Recorded Materials

In this unit, it does provide particular micro skills comprehension that is intended to
teach like grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary and the materials has been laid out
properly for every skills. The materials laid out are non-authentic as it mostly supported with
visual support materials like pictures and prints, just like most of the activities provided in
this unit.

Topic

The topic would help to expand students’ knowledge and enrich their experience
because it gives them more information. It also shown in the integrated skills activity where it
test on the students’ integrated skills.

Teacher’s Guide

The teacher’s guide are provided for the teachers in the Teacher’s Guide book. Even
though the guidance as to how to conduct the activity is only provided in the Teacher’s Guide
book, it is very concise and complete with the steps on how to conduct the activities for the
classroom. Furthermore, the instructions very well organized for teachers to use it as
guidance for teaching. There are justification on the basic premises and principles underlying
the material as the materials given based on the topic’s theme with every material has its own
purposes and focuses.
 Unit 2: Fact or Fiction?

Aims and Approaches

The aims focus on literature, students have to look at literacy genre listen and repeat
the genre written. Then they will have to complete the comments with words from the first
exercise. They will have to again listen and check. For third exercise, students have to match
the definitions with words from exercise one. There are five questions which are definitions
of genres, after that students have to write which book they would like and why? This is
under the category of writing exercise for the students. After they write they will have to
make notes of the book they choose.
In this unit it is more to listening, reading, answering and writing. Since this unit is
more to facts and fiction, maybe not all the students will enjoy this chapter. The material
suited to the learning and teaching situation.

Design and Organization

The organization of this unit is organized according to the theme of the chapter. For
structure of the content, it is filled with activities based on the topic’s theme which is
integrated to the learning objectives which is based on the language skills. The organization
is right for the learners and designed to be comprehend by the teachers as all the learning
objectives and materials stated beforehand.

The content is sequenced by its unit, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and
pronunciation, integrated skills and writing. For each of the content sequence has its own
usefulness and it is divided properly.

The reading texts in this unit always comes with a picture so the students can imagine
and understand the texts from their point of view as the texts describes facts and scientific
values. The layout is clear and easy to understand for the teachers and students as it is
equipped with vivid visual aids that help students become more involved in learning and
visualizing the information during the lesson.

Language Content
 The content of this unit is covered with different activities in terms of speaking,
listening, reading and writing. The tasks are various and interesting for the students to learn it
which are suitable for low to intermediate students. The material covers the grammar item
that intended to teach which touches several grammar items. The grammar items are easy to
comprehend for the students to learn as the language used are easy vocabularies.

Along with that, the vocabularies level suits to the students’ ability for low to
intermediate students. The choices of words in this unit is appropriate to understand and
apply for their daily life activities. The language style matched to the social situation as
everything in this unit is appropriate for a high school student. In this unit, the choices of
words are the commonly used by the society and the students will be able to grasp and
comprehend it by themselves.

Skills and Recorded Materials

In this unit, it does provide particular micro skills comprehension that is intended to
teach like grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary and the materials has been laid out
properly for every macro skills and micro skills. The materials laid out are non-authentic as
it mostly refers to articles which is supported with visual support materials like pictures and
prints, just like most of the activities provided in this unit.

Topic

. The topic is good for students who likes facts and fiction but if teachers can make
this chapter interesting to learn, it can attracts more students that are not enjoying this topic to
have interest in it. It is very familiar topic for the students to comprehend as the topic’s theme
is a very familiar theme and also corresponds to the topic. The topic would help to expand
students’ knowledge and enrich their experience.

Teacher’s Guide

The teacher’s guide are provided for the teachers in the Teacher’s Guide book. Even
though the guidance as to how to conduct the activity is only provided in the Teacher’s Guide
book, it is very concise and complete with the steps on how to conduct the activities for the
classroom. In addition, the instructions very well organized for teachers to use it as guidance
in teaching. There are justification on the basic premises and principles underlying the
material as the materials given are based on the topic’s theme with every material has its own
purposes and focuses.
 Unit 3: Wild Weather

Aims and Approaches

The aims focus on weather. Students have to listen and repeat different kinds of
weather. Then in the second activity, students have to look at the picture and tell what the
weather is like. Next, activity three they have to explain what the weather is like in which
city, moving on to the fourth activity students have to read about the weather in the countries
and change the highlighted words to make the sentences true for their country (Malaysia).

Later, they will have to write down the kind of activities to do according to the weather this
activity is in pairs. There are also activities like news report, grammar, natural disaster
vocabulary and many other activities related to weathers.

Design and Organization

The organization of this unit is organized according to the theme of the chapter that is
a good way to portray the theme. For the structure, the content filled with activities based on
the topic’s theme that integrated to the learning objectives that based on the language skills.
The organization is right for the learners, it designed to be modelled and comprehended by
the teachers as all the learning objectives, and materials are stated beforehand.

The content is sequenced by its unit, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening and
pronunciation, integrated skills, writing, digital competence, and external exam trainer. For
each of the content sequence has its own usefulness and it is divided properly for the
learnability of the content.

The layout is clear and easy to understand for the teachers and students as it is
equipped with vivid visual aids that help students become more involved in learning and
visualizing the information during the lesson.

Language Content

The content of this unit covered with different activities in terms of speaking,
listening, reading and writing. The tasks are various and interesting for the students to learn it
which are suitable for low to intermediate students. The material covers the grammar item
that is intended to teach which touches several grammar items. The grammar items are easy
to comprehend for the students to learn as the language used are easy vocabularies.

Furthermore, the vocabularies level suits to the students’ ability for low to
intermediate students. The choices of words in this unit is appropriate to understand and
apply for their daily life activities. The language style matched to the social situation as
everything in this unit is appropriate for a high school student. In this unit, the choices of
words are the commonly used by the society and the students will be able to grasp and
comprehend it by themselves

Skills and Recorded Materials

In this unit, it does provide particular micro skills comprehension that is intended to
teach like grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary and the materials has been laid out
properly for every skills. The materials laid out are non-authentic as it mostly refers to
articles like the article from the integrated skills section that supported with visual support
materials like pictures and prints, just like most of the activities provided in this unit.

Topic

The topic of this is unit very familiar topic for the students to comprehend. The topic
would help to expand students’ knowledge and enrich their experience. The students will
learn about weather in different countries and get the knowledge of what kind of activities
there are according to different weathers around the world. It is a good topic for students to
gain interest in school and in English. The students will learn while having some fun knowing
and describing about weathers across the globe.

Teacher’s Guide

The teacher’s guide are provided for the teachers in the Teacher’s Guide book. Even
though the guidance as to how to conduct the activity is only provided in the Teacher’s Guide
book, it is very concise and complete with the steps on how to conduct the activities for the
classroom. In addition, the instructions well organized for teachers to use it as guidance for
teaching.
 There are justification on the basic premises and principles underlying the material as
the materials given are based on the topic’s theme with every material has its own purposes
and focuses(macro skills and micro skills).