LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Unit COMMUNICATION GOALS VOCABULARY GRAMMAR

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● Introduce people who ● Manners and etiquette ● Modals must, may, and might
may have something in ● Tag questions: use and form
common
● Make small talk GRAMMAR EXPANDER
Expressing possibility with maybe
Becoming
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● Develop cultural awareness
● Drawing conclusions with probably and most likely
● Discuss gender and culture
Culturally Literate ● Modals: common errors

● Can and be able to: present and past

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● Tag questions: short answers (expansion)

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● Ask for and offer to do ● Services ● The causatives have and get
favors ● Service businesses ● Passive causatives
● Arrange to get something
done GRAMMAR EXPANDER
The causative make to indicate obligation
Getting Help
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● Recommend service
● Let to indicate permission
providers
● The passive causative: by phrases (review)
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● Persuade someone to use
your services

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● Recommend a good book ● Genres of books ● Noun clauses that function as direct objects
● Talk about a newspaper or ● Ways to describe a book ● Noun clauses: embedded questions
magazine article ● Some formats for reading
GRAMMAR EXPANDER
● Describe tastes in leisure
Verbs followed by noun clauses (expansion)
What We Read
●
reading
● Adjective complements
● Discuss formats of
● Embedded questions with whether
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● Embedded questions: usage and common errors

● Embedded questions: punctuation

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● Explain why you can’t come ● Medical procedures ● The past perfect
to work or class ● Symptoms and conditions ● Wish to express regrets and desires
● Express wishes and regrets ● Types of medications
GRAMMAR EXPANDER
● Recommend treatments
Verb usage: present and past (overview)
Taking Care of
●
and medications
● Wish versus hope
● Compare approaches to
Yourself health care

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● Warn of a dangerous ● Emergency supplies ● Indirect speech: imperatives
situation ● Disasters ● Indirect speech: say and tell—tense changes
● Start a conversation about ● Natural disasters
a disaster in the news GRAMMAR EXPANDER
● Emergency readiness and
Direct speech: punctuation rules
Coping with
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● Discuss epidemics supplies
● Indirect speech: optional tense changes
● Prepare for an emergency
Disasters and
Emergencies
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CONVERSATION STRATEGIES LISTENING / PRONUNCIATION READING WRITING / SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER

● Express enthusiasm for a happy discovery Listening Skills Texts Task

● Write a formal and an
● Express pleasure to discover a connection with ● Listen for main ideas ● A questionnaire about

“What a coincidence!” ● Listen to summarize formality informal email message

● Acknowledge a minor error ● An illustrated conversation telling someone about your
country
● Politely introduce a correction to someone’s ● A questionnaire about your

assumption with “Actually, ...” culture WRITING HANDBOOK

● Ask about proper address ● Letters asking for advice ●Formal email etiquette
● Talk about the weather to begin a conversation ● A graph about paid and

with someone you don’t know Pronunciation unpaid work SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Use question tags to encourage someone to ● Rising intonation of tag ● Creativity: Provide a
make small talk questions Skills / Strategies
● Understand from context
hypothetical scenario to
● Answer a “Do you mind …?” question with ● Falling intonation of tag stimulate imagination
● Activate language from a
“Absolutely not” to indicate agreement questions
text
● Introduce a request for a favor with “I’m sorry to Listening Skills Texts Task
bother you” ● Listen to infer ● A questionnaire about ● Write recommendations for

● Politely turn down a request or favor ● Listen to summarize solving problems businesses and services
● Express gratitude for an offer to help with “I’d ● An illustrated conversation
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appreciate that” ● A section of an employee
●Supporting an opinion with
● Check if something’s possible with “I’m wondering training manual personal examples
if ...”
● Politely insist Pronunciation Skills / Strategies SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Identify main idea
● Make a tentative promise with “Let me see what I
● Emphatic stress to ● Communication: Use
express enthusiasm ● Understand from context
can do” verbal cues to focus
attention
● Express strong surprise by beginning a question Listening Skills Texts Task
with “You mean ...?” ● Listen for main ideas ● A self-test ● Write a review of something

● Introduce statements of common belief ● Listen to take notes ● An illustrated conversation you’ve read
● Say “I actually don’t know” to admit that perhaps ● Paraphrase ● A questionnaire about
WRITING HANDBOOK
you should reading tastes ●Summarizing
● Use actually to express a surprising fact ● An article about the formats

● Say “Duh” to admit you should have thought of Pronunciation of educational materials SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Sentence stress in short
something earlier ● Active listening: Encourage
● Acknowledge someone’s good idea with “Why answers with so and not Skills / Strategies others to elaborate
● Understand main idea
didn’t I think of that?”
● Understand details

● Agree to do what someone suggests with “Will do” Listening Skills Texts Task
● Write a comparison of two
● State your willingness to help with “Don’t hesitate ● Listen for main ideas ● A questionnaire about

to ask” ● Listen for details medical procedures approaches to health care

● Express remorse for an error with “I could kick ● An illustrated conversation
WRITING HANDBOOK
myself” ● An article about alternative
●Comparisons and
● Reassure someone who regrets a mistake options for health care contrasts
● Encourage someone to look on the bright side
with “It’s not the end of the world” Pronunciation Skills / Strategies SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Find supporting details
● Intonation of lists ● Teamwork: Be supportive
● Apply real-world knowledge
while politely offering
alternatives
● Introduce shocking information with “You won’t Listening Skills Texts Task
believe ...” ● Listen to infer ● An emergency checklist ● Write about how to prepare

● Ask someone to wait ● Listen for details ● An illustrated conversation for an emergency
● Express shock with “Oh, wow!” ● Listen for main ideas ● An article about deadly
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● Express disbelief with “No way!” ● Listen for instructions outbreaks ●Organizing detail
● Begin a conversation about something ● Paraphrase statements by order of
Skills / Strategies
● Express extreme dismay with “What a horror!” ● Understand from context
importance
● Ask for confirmation of someone’s shocking Pronunciation ● Confirm facts SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
information with “You’re kidding” ● Direct and indirect ● Decision-making: Politely
● Ask to see something with “Let me have a look” speech: rhythm ask others to explain their
● Say “Here you go” to indicate you’re handing reasoning
something to someone

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● Express resolutions for ● Making resolutions ● The future as seen from the past: was / were going to
creating a better life ● Employment qualifications and would
● Examine past actions ● Perfect modals
● Discuss factors that
GRAMMAR EXPANDER
Plans and promote success
● Expressing the future (review)
● Prepare for a job interview
Choices ● The future with will and be going to (review)

● Regrets about the past: should have,

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● Exchange holiday ● Types of holidays ● Adjective clauses with relative pronouns who and that
greetings ● Ways to celebrate or ● Adjective clauses: subject and object relative
● Ask about local traditions commemorate a holiday pronouns
● Compare holidays ● Describing the purpose of
GRAMMAR EXPANDER
Holidays and ● Describe wedding customs an event
● Adjective clauses: common errors
Traditions ● Reflexive pronouns

● By + reflexive pronouns

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● Adjective clauses: whom in formal English

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● Describe new kinds of ● Adjectives for describing ● The unreal conditional (review and expansion)
products products, processes, or ● The past unreal conditional
● Imagine a different past ideas
outcome ● Archaeology GRAMMAR EXPANDER
Real and unreal conditionals (review)
Innovations
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● Describe inventors and
● Unless in conditional sentences
their inventions
● The unreal conditional: variety of forms
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● Consider the impact of
historical inventions

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● Agree and disagree politely ● Controversial issues ● Verbs followed by an object + an infinitive
● Ask about political views ● Stating a position on an ● Non-count nouns that represent abstract ideas
● Debate different sides of issue
GRAMMAR EXPANDER
an issue ● Political points of view
Infinitives and gerunds (review)
Discussing Global
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● Discuss solutions to global ● Political and governmental
● Infinitives: passive forms
and local problems systems
and Local Issues ● Count and non-count nouns (review and expansion)

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● Ask about a location on a ● Adjectives for warnings ● Some geographical features
map ● Compass directions ● Warnings with had better
● Warn about possible ● Dangers in the outdoors
dangers in the outdoors GRAMMAR EXPANDER
● Geographical features
Prepositions of place (expansion)
The Natural World
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● Recommend a destination
● Proper nouns: capitalization
of natural beauty
● Proper nouns: use of the
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● Describe a country’s
geography ● Suggestions and advice with could, should, ought to,

and had better

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CONVERSATION STRATEGIES LISTENING / PRONUNCIATION READING WRITING / SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER

● Start a new topic of conversation asking a Listening Skills Texts Task

question with “So, ...?” ● Listen to infer ● A job aptitude test ● Write a profile of yourself

● Encourage someone’s effort with “I wish you luck” ● An illustrated conversation

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● Express empathy that someone didn’t reach a ● An article about factors
●Dividing an essay into topics
goal with “I’m sorry” that promote success
● Encourage someone to persevere Pronunciation SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Introduce a statement of regret with “I should ● Reduction of have in Skills / Strategies ● Enthusiasm: Validate others’
● Understand from context
have ...” perfect modals contributions
● Activate language from a
● Suggest someone isn’t to blame with “You
couldn’t have known that” text
● Summarize
● Say “Maybe so” to gently acknowledge someone’s
regret about an action
● Agree to consider a suggestion with “I’ll give that
some thought”
● Exchange holiday greetings Listening Skills Texts Task
● Describe two holidays that
● Say “I wonder if I could ask you ...” to introduce a ● Listen for main idea ● A self-test about holidays

question that might be sensitive ● Listen to compare and ● An illustrated conversation are celebrated in your
● Respond warmly to a request with “Of course” contrast ● An article about wedding
country
● Acknowledge the value of information with “That’s customs WRITING HANDBOOK
really helpful” ●Descriptive details
● Reassure someone that it’s OK not to know about Skills / Strategies
local customs Pronunciation ● Understand from context
SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Thought groups ● Relate to personal ● Leadership: Suggest
experience a new perspective for
consideration
● Change an opinion after giving it more thought Listening Skills Texts Task
with “Now that I think about it, …” ● Listen for main idea ● A survey about new ● Write about the

● Admit you’re having a change of heart about a ● Listen for details inventions advantages,
decision with “I guess not” ● Summarize ● An illustrated conversation disadvantages, and
● Introduce a new possibility or idea with “So what ● An article about a famous
historical impact of an
about this?” invention or discovery
inventor
● Introduce an interesting fact with a question WRITING HANDBOOK
beginning with “You know what ...?” Skills / Strategies
● Understand from context
●Summary statements
● Introduce a probable cause with “Apparently, …”
Pronunciation ● Find supporting details SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Contractions with ’d in ● Collaboration: Express
spoken English strong agreement with
others’ opinions
● Buy time to construct an answer to a personal Listening Skills Texts Task
question with “Me?” ● Understand point of ● A survey about controversial ● Write about the pros

● Reveal a personal view with “To be honest, ...” view issues and cons of a suggested
● Soften a statement of strong opinion with “I have ● Listen to summarize ● An illustrated conversation solution to a global or local
to disagree” or “I’m not sure I agree” ● A quiz about political
problem
● Soften a statement of disagreement with “Do you literacy WRITING HANDBOOK
think so?” ● On-the-street interviews ●Contrasting ideas
● Begin a statement of strong opinion with “In my
view, ...” Pronunciation Skills / Strategies SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
● Respond willingly to “Would you mind” or “I hope
● Emphatic stress ● Understand from context ● Problem-solving: Confirm
you don’t mind” with “Not at all” ● Paraphrase the value of someone’s idea
● Critical thinking
● Soften a refusal with “Actually, as a general
rule, ...”
● Say “I hope you don’t mind” when refusing to
answer a question
● Recommend enthusiastically Listening Skills Texts Task
● Write a description of your
● Express disappointment ● Listen for details ● A self-test about warnings

● End a request informally with “OK?” ● Listen to classify ● An illustrated conversation country
● Begin a conversation with someone you don’t ● An article about different
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know with “Excuse me” environments ●Organizing by spatial
● Express shock with “Are you serious?” relations
Skills / Strategies
● Show appreciation for a warning with “Thanks for
Pronunciation ● Classify
SOFT SKILLS BOOSTER
the heads-up!”
● Voiced and voiceless th ● Understand details ● Communication: Lend
● Understand from context support by sharing what you
have in common

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