Inglés - Nivel 6

BOOK USED: TOP NOTCH 3B

UNIT 6: Life Plans

Communication Goals:

• Explain a change in life and work plans
  
• Express regrets about past actions
  
• Discuss skills, abilities, and qualifications
  
• Discuss factors that promote success

Vocabulary:

• Reasons for changing plans
  
• Skills and abilities

Grammar:

• Future in the past: was / were going to and would
  
• Usage, form, and common errors
  
• Perfect modals
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Expressing the future (review)
  
• The future with will and be going to (review)
  
• Common errors
  
• Regret about the past:
  
• Wish + the past perfect
  
• Should have and ought to have

Conversation Strategies:

• Say No kidding! to indicate delight or surprise
  
• Say How come? To ask for a reason
  
• Express a regret with I should have?
  
• Use You never know? to reassure someone 
  
• Accept another?s reassurance with True

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen to infer a speaker?s motives
  
• Listen for details
  
• Listen to classify information
  

Pronunciation:

• Reduction of have in perfect modals

Reading:

Texts:

• Career and skills inventories
  
• A magazine article with tips for effective work habits
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/strategies:

• Understand from context
  
• Confirm content
  

Writing:

Task:

• Write a short autobiography
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Dividing an essay into topics
  

UNIT 7: Holidays and Traditions 

Communication Goals:

• Wish someone a good holiday
  
• Ask about local customs
  
• Exchange information about holidays
  
• Explain wedding traditions

Vocabulary:

• Types of holidays
  
• Ways to commemorate a holiday
  
• Ways to give a good wishes on holidays
  
• Getting married: events and people

Grammar:

• Adjective clauses with subject relative pronouns who and that 
  
• Adjective clauses with object relative pronouns who, whom, and that.
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Adjective clauses: common errors
  
• Reflexive pronouns
  
• Reciprocal pronouns
  
• Adjective clauses: who and whom in formal English

Conversation Strategies:

• Show friendliness by wishing someone a good holiday
  
• Reciprocate good wishes with Thanks! Same to you!
  
• Preface a potentially sensitive question with Do you mind if I ask you?
  
• Ask about socially appropriate behaviour in order to avoid embarrassment
  
• Express appreciation with Thanks. That´s really helpful

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening Skills:

• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen for details
  
• Infer information
  

Pronunciation:

• "Thought groups"

Reading:

Texts:

• A magazine article about holidays around the world
  
• Proverbs about weddings
  
• Factoids on holidays
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/strategies:

• Preview
  
• Scan for facts
  
• Compare and contrast
  
• Relate to personal experience

Writing:

Task:

• Write a detailed description of two holidays
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Descriptive details
  

UNIT 8: Inventions and Technology

Communication Goals:

• Describe technology
  
• Take responsibility for a mistake
  
• Describe how inventions solve problems
  
• ?Discuss the impact of inventions/discoveries

Vocabulary:

• Describing manufactured products
  
• Descriptive adjectives

Grammar:

• Conditional sentences (review and common errors)
  
• The past unreal conditional
  
• Usage, form, and common errors
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Real and Unreal conditionals (review)
  
• Clauses after wish
  
• Unless in conditional sentences
  
• The unreal conditional: variety of forms

Conversation Strategies:

• Congratulate someone for a major new purchase
  
• Apologize for lateness and provide an explanation
  
• Indicate regret for a mistake by beginning an explanation with I´m ashamed to say...
  
• Reduce another´s self-blame with That can happen to anyone and No harm done
  

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills:

• Infer the correct adjective
  
• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen to associate
  
• Listen to infer meaning
  

Pronunciation:

• Contractions with ´d in spoken English

Reading:

Texts:

• Case studies of poor purchasing decisions
  
• A book excerpt about the printing press
  
• Factoids on famous inventions
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/Strategies:

• Infer information
  
• Identify cause and effect

Writing:

Task:

• Write an essay about the historical impact of an important invention
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Summary statements
  

UNIT 9: Controversial issues

Communication Goals:

• Bring up a controversial subject
  
• Discuss controversial issues politely
  
• Propose solutions to global problems
  
• Debate the pros and cons of issues
  

Vocabulary:

• Political terminology
  
• A continuum of political and social beliefs
  
• Introducing sticky questions
  
• Controversial issues
  
• Ways to agree or disagree
  
• How to debate an issue politely

Grammar:

• Non-count nouns that represent abstract ideas
  
• Verbs followed by objects and infinitives
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Count and non-count nouns: review and extension
  
• Gerunds and infinitives
  
• Review of form and usage
  
• Review of usage after certain verbs

Conversation Strategies:

• Ask for permission when bringing up a sticky subject
  
• Politely indicate unwillingness with No offense, but...
  
• Apologize for refusing with I hope you don´t mind
  
• Use How do you feel about... to invite someone´s opinion
  
• Use Well, ... to introduce a different point of view
  
• Use So... to begin a question clarifying someone´s statement

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills

• Infer a speaker´s political and social beliefs
  
• Infer a speaker´s point of view
  
• Listen to summarize
  
• Auditory discrimination
  

Pronunciation:

• Stress to emphasize meaning

Reading:

Texts:

• A self-test of political literacy
  
• A textbook introduction to global problems
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/Strategies:

• Activate language from a text
  
• Understand from context
  
• Critical thinking
  

Writing:

Task:

• Write an essay presenting the two sides of a controversial issue
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Contrasting ideas

UNIT 10: Beautiful World

Communication Goals:

• ?Describe a geographical location
  
• ?Warn about a possible risk
  
• ?Describe a natural setting
  
• ?Discuss solutions to global warming

Vocabulary:

• Geographical features
  
• Geographical directions
  
• Ways to recommend or criticize a place
  
• Ways to describe possible risks
  
• Dangerous animals and insects
  
• Geographic nouns and adjectives
  
• Ways to talk about the environment

Grammar:

• Prepositions of geographical place
  
• Too + adjective and infinitive
  
• Usage, form, and common errors
  

GRAMMAR BOOSTER

• Prepositions of place: more usage
  
• Proper nouns
  
• Capitalization
  
• Use of the
  
• Infinitives with enough
  
• Usage and common errors

Conversation Strategies:

• Show interest in someone´s plans by asking follow-up questions
  
• Indicate possible intention with I´ve been thinking about you
  
• Qualify a positive response with Sure, but...
  
• Elaborate further information using Well, ...
  
• Express gratitude for a warming

Listening/ Pronunciation:

Listening skills

• Infer a speaker´s point of view
  
• Listen for main ideas
  
• Listen for details
  
• Listen to summarize
  

Pronunciation:

• Voiced and voiceless th

Reading:

Texts:

• Maps
  
• A magazine article about ways to curb global warming
  
• A photo story
  

Skills/Strategies:

• Interpret maps
  
• Understand from context
  
• Critical thinking
  
• Summarize

Writing:

Task:

• Write a geographic description of your country, state, or province
  

WRITING BOOSTER

• Organizing by spatial relations