CONTENIDO:

UNIT 1: PEOPLE AND PLACES
Discuss reasons for living where you do.
Explain why you plan stay or leave.
Describe a new place.
Describe the city where you live.
Grammar: Present perfect tense vs present continuous tense. So + adjective + that.
Vocabulary: Migration; Climate.
Listening: Focused listening. Interviews about why people live where they do.
Speaking and pronunciation:  Discussing reasons for staying or moving. Contractions with have and be.
Reading: “Pioneers of the Pacific”.
Writing: Writing a paragraph about a city.
Video Journal: “San Francisco’s Mission District”.

UNIT 2: THE MIND
Talk about learning strategies.
Talk about your senses.
Talk about your fears.
Describe an emotional experience.
Grammar: Gerunds as subjects and after prepositions. May, might, and could for possibility.
Vocabulary: Thought processes; Scientific investigations.
Listening: Listening for general understanding and specific information. A radio program about the unusual condition of synesthesia.
Speaking and pronunciation: Talking about sensations, Th sounds.
Reading: “In your Face”.
Writing: Writing about a personal experience.
Video Journal: “Memory Man”.

UNIT 3: CHANGING PLANET
Suggest solutions to environmental problems.
Discuss causes and effects.
Talk about invasive species.
Discuss effects on the future.
Grammar: The passive – all tenses; The past perfect.
Vocabulary: Environmental changes; Large numbers.
Listening: general and focused listening. Climate change.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing cause and effect; Linking words together.
Reading: TED TALKS “Salvation (and profit) in Greentech”.
Writing: Writing a news article.
Video Journal: “The Netherlands: Rising Water”.

UNIT 4: MONEY vs. WEALTH
Describe your financial habits.
Discuss things that people value.
Talk about banking.
Talk about different types of wealth.
Grammar: Gerund vs infinitive; Review of the passive voice.
Vocabulary: Money transactions; Banking.
Listening: General and focused listening. Radio program: The history of money.
Speaking and pronunciation: Giving suggestions for how to have fun for free. Reduction of to.
Reading: TED TALKS “Music is Medicine, Music is Sanity”.
Writing: Writing a paragraph about valued things.
Video Journal: “Making a Deal”.

UNIT 5: SURVIVAL
Talk about emergency situations.
Evaluate survival methods.
Describe how animals survive.
Write a brochure.
Grammar: Unreal conditional in the present, Wish in the present.
Vocabulary: Survival skills. Environmental conservation.
Listening: Listening for general understanding. A radio program interviewing survivors.
Speaking and pronunciation: Simulation: working with a team in a survival situation. Reduce sounds d’ya and didja.
Reading: “Survival School”.
Writing: Writing an advertising brochure.
Video Journal: “Andean Weavers”.

UNIT 6: ART
Report what another person said.
Express your opinions about a piece of art.
Describe your favorite artists and their art.
Talk about public art.
Grammar: Reported speech; Subject adjective clauses.
Vocabulary: Art; Art materials.
Listening: Listening for general understanding. Conversations in a museum.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing personal selections. Thought groups.
Reading: “Saving a City’s Public art”.
Writing: Writing a detailed description.
Video Journal: “Faces of India”.

UNIT 7: GETTING AROUND
Talk about new developments.
Discuss choices in transportation.
Use English to get around.
Make recommendations for improving transportation.
Grammar: Passive voice with the present continuous and present perfect tenses; Indirect questions.
Vocabulary: Modern transportation; Public transportation.
Listening: Focused listening. A discussion: Subway systems.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: solving an airport problem. Reduced are.
Reading: “The Rickshaws of Kolkata”.
Writing: Writing a letter to the editor of a newspaper.
Video Journal: Big City Bicycle Messengers”.

UNIT 8: COMPETITION
Talk about sports.
Explain which sport is best for you.
Talk about positive and negative aspects of competition.
Discuss competitive advantages.
Grammar: Negative questions; Adjective clauses with object pronouns.
Vocabulary: Sportsmanship. Sports.
Listening: Listening for general understanding and specific information. Sports Interviews.
Speaking and pronunciation: Matching sports to personalities.
Reading: “In Sports Red is Winning Color”.
Writing: Writing a list of competition tips.
Video Journal: “Women in The Rodeo”.

UNIT 9: DANGER
Discuss ways to stay safe.
Talk about dangerous work.
Discuss personal emergencies.
Discuss dangerous situations.
Grammar: Tag questions; Adverbial clauses of time.
Vocabulary: Dangerous things. Expressions for emergencies.
Listening: Focused and general listening. Radio program: An unusual job.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: a newspaper interview. Intonation of tag questions.
Reading: TED TALKS “Three Things I Learned While My Plane Crashed”.
Writing: Writing about emergency preparations.
Video Journal: “Destroyers”.

UNIT 10: MYSTERIES
Speculate about mysteries.
Discuss types of mysteries.
Talk about plans you used to have.
Explain a mysterious image.
Grammar: Modals for speculating about the past; The future in the past.
Vocabulary: Ancient Mysteries; Reactions to surprise.
Listening: Listening for general understanding. Interview of sea monster expert.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing different types of mysteries. Intonation: Finished and unfinished ideas.
Reading: “Hands Across Time”.
Writing: Writing a comparison.
Video Journal: “Crops Circles”.

UNIT 11: LEARNING
Talk about educational choices.
Discuss your learning style.
Talk about choosing a university major.
Propose a new approach to teaching.
Grammar: Should have, Would have, Could have; Noun clauses.
Vocabulary: Education; University majors.
Listening: Listening for general understanding. Learning experiences.
Speaking and pronunciation: Discussing quiz results. Past modals.
Reading: TED TALKS “Five Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do)”.
Writing: Writing about new approaches to teaching.
Video Journal: “Butler school”.

UNIT 12: SPACE
Talk about the future.
Talk about life in space.
Speculate about the future.
Summarize a sequence of events.
Grammar: Talking about the future; Modals and modal-like phrases to talk about the future.
Vocabulary: Space exploration. Future time expressions.
Listening: General and focused listening. Interview of an astronaut.
Speaking and pronunciation: Role-play: Choosing a space experiment. Stress in compound nouns.
Reading: “The Hubble Space Telescope”.
Writing: Writing about space exploration.
Video Journal: “Daring Mighty things: Curiosity Lands on Mars”.

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