Unit Goals Grammar Vocabulary

UNIT Discuss reasons for living Present perfect tense vs. present Migration
People and Places Page 2
1 where you do continuous tense Climate
Explain why you plan stay She has moved three times
or leave in her life.
Describe a new place Its been raining all day.
Describe the city where So + adjective + that
you live Its so dry here that water is
brought in on trucks.

UNIT The Mind Page 14

Talk about learning Gerunds as subjects and after Thought processes
2 strategies prepositions Scientific studies
Talk about your senses Learning English is important.
Talk about your fears We talked about studying together.
Describe an emotional May, might, and could for possibility
experience We may find dangerous animals in
the jungle.
UNIT
Changing Planet Page 26
Suggest solutions to The passiveall tenses Environmental changes
3 environmental problems Often, trees are removed to make Large numbers
Discuss causes and effects room for farming.
Talk about invasive species The past perfect
Discuss effects on the future By the time sea level had risen
ten feet

Video Page 38 Paul Nicklen: Tales of Ice-bound Wonderlands

UNIT
Money vs. Wealth Page 42 Describe your financial Gerund vs. infinitive Money transactions
4 habits I try to make a budget. / I enjoy Banking
Discuss things that people finding bargains.
value Review of the passive voice
Talk about banking
Coffee is grown in Brazil.
Talk about different types
That movie was made by
of wealth two teenagers.
UNIT Talk about emergency Unreal conditional in the present Survival skills
Survival Page 54
5 situations If they werent inside the shelter, Environmental
Evaluate survival methods they would quickly die. conservation
Describe how animals Wish in the present
survive I wish I had brought a good book
Write a Brochure to read in the shelter.

UNIT Art Page 66 Report what another person Reported speech Art
6 said She said she was tired and her Art materials
Express your opinions head hurt.
about a piece of art Subject adjective clauses
Describe your favorite
An artist who works with clay
artists and their art has strong hands.
Talk about public art

Video Page 78 Amit Sood: Building a Museum of Museums on the Web

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 Speaking and National Geographic
Listening Reading Writing Video Journal
Pronunciation Video Journal
Focused listening Discussing reasons for National Geographic: Writing a paragraph National Geographic:
Interviews about why staying or moving Pioneers of the Pacific about a city San Franciscos Mission
people live where Contractions with have District
they do and be

Listening for general Talking about sensations National Geographic: Writing about a National Geographic:
understanding and specific Th sounds In Your Face personal experience Memory Man
information
A radio program about
the unusual condition
of synesthesia

General and focused Discussing cause and Writing a news article National Geographic:
listening effect The Netherlands: Rising
Salvation (and Profit)
Climate change Linking words together in Greentech Water

General and focused Giving suggestions for how Writing a paragraph National Geographic:
listening to have fun for free about valued things Making a Deal
Music is Medicine, Music
Radio program: Reduction of to is Sanity
The history of money

Listening for general Simulation: National Geographic: Writing an advertising National Geographic:
understanding working with a team in a Survival School brochure Andean Weavers
A radio program survival situation
interviewing survivors Reduced sounds:
dya and didja

Listening for general Discussing personal National Geographic: Writing a detailed National Geographic:
understanding selections Saving a Citys description Faces of India
Conversations in a museum Thought groups Public Art

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 Unit Goals Grammar Vocabulary

UNIT
Getting Around Page 82
Talk about new Passive voice with the present Modern transportation
7 developments continuous and present perfect tenses Public transportation
Discuss choices in The new plane is being tested
transportation now. /Computers have been used
Use English to get around for more than 50 years.
Make recommendations for Indirect questions
improving transportation Do you know if the bus stops here?

UNIT Talk about sports Negative questions Sportsmanship

Competition Page 94
8 Explain which sport is best Dont you want to go downtown Sports
for you with us?
Talk about positive and Adjective clauses with object
negative aspects of pronouns
competition The medal that he won was made
Discuss competitive of gold.
advantages

UNIT
Danger Page 106
Discuss ways to stay safe Tag questions Dangerous things
9 Talk about dangerous work Those spiders are poisonous, Expressions for
Discuss personal arent they? emergencies
emergencies Adverbial clauses of time
Discuss dangerous I finished my project before
situations I went home.

Video Page 118 Mark Bezos: A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter

UNIT Speculate about mysteries Modals for speculating about the past Ancient mysteries
Mysteries Page 122

10 Discuss types of mysteries He might have seen a large fish Reactions to surprise
Talk about plans you used instead of a sea monster.
to have The future in the past
Explain a mysterious image The two sisters were going to have
a picnic by the lake.

UNIT Talk about educational Should have, Would have, Could have Education
Learning Page 134
11 choices I should have applied for a University majors
Discuss your learning style scholarship.
Talk about choosing a Noun clauses
university major I dont know when the
Propose a new approach to deadline is.
teaching

UNIT Space Page 146

Talk about the future Talking about the future Space exploration
12 Talk about life in space Space exploration will/is going to Future time expressions
Speculate about the future be even more international in
the future.
Summarize a sequence

of events Modals and modal-like phrases to talk

about the future
Well be able to see it from here.

Video Page 158 Bill Stone: I'm Going to the Moon. Who's with Me?

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 Speaking and National Geographic
Listening Reading Writing Video Journal
Pronunciation Video Journal
Focused listening Role-play: National Geographic: Writing a letter to the National Geographic:
A discussion: solving an airport problem The Rickshaws of Kolkata editor of a newspaper Big City Bicycle Messengers
Subway systems Reduced are

Listening for general Matching sports to National Geographic: Writing a list of National Geographic:
understanding and specific personalities In Sports, Red is the competition tips Women in The Rodeo
information Intonation to show surprise Winning Color
Sports interviews

Focused and general Role-play: Writing about National Geographic:

listening a newspaper interview emergency preparations Destroyers
Three Things I Learned
Radio program: Intonation of tag questions While My Plane Crashed
An unusual job

Listening for general Discussing different types National Geographic: Writing a comparison National Geographic:
understanding of mysteries Hands Across Time Crop Circles
Interview of sea monster Intonation: Finished and
expert unfinished ideas

Listening for general Discussing quiz results Writing about new National Geographic:
understanding Past modals approaches to teaching Butler School
Five Dangerous Things
Learning experiences (You Should Let Your
Children Do)

General and focused Role-play: National Geographic: Writing about space National Geographic:
listening Choosing a space The Hubble Space exploration Daring Mighty Things:
Interview of an astronaut experiment Telescope Curiosity Lands on Mars
Stress in compound nouns

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