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Unit 1: Outlook and Behavior

This document provides an overview of Unit 1 which focuses on outlook, behavior, personality, and creative goal achievement. It outlines communication goals, vocabulary, grammar, conversation strategies, listening, reading and writing activities. Key areas covered include using adjectives to describe personality; gerunds and infinitives; listening to understand meaning; reading to determine main ideas and summarize. The unit aims to have students write about their outlook on a world problem using paragraph structure.

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Unit 1: Outlook and Behavior

This document provides an overview of Unit 1 which focuses on outlook, behavior, personality, and creative goal achievement. It outlines communication goals, vocabulary, grammar, conversation strategies, listening, reading and writing activities. Key areas covered include using adjectives to describe personality; gerunds and infinitives; listening to understand meaning; reading to determine main ideas and summarize. The unit aims to have students write about their outlook on a world problem using paragraph structure.

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UNIT 1

OUTLOOK AND BEHAVIOR


Communication goal

 Describe your personality


 Discuss someone's behavior
 Compare perspectives on world problems
 Discuss creative ways to achieve a goal
Vocabulary

 Adjectives to describe personality traits


 Word Study:
Adjective suffixes
full and less
GRAMMAR

• Gerunds and infinitives: review and expansion : review and expansion


GRAMMAR BOOSTER
• Infinitives: review, expansion, and common errors
• Grammar for writing: parallelism with gerunds and infinitives
Conversation Strategies

 Use l'd say to soften an assertive opinion


 Use I don't see [myself] that way to politely contradict another's
statement
 Say I see [you] as to explain your own point of view
 Use tend to and seem to to make generalizations
LISTENING

• Listen to activate grammar


• Listen to classify
• Listen for main ideas
• Listen for details
• Understand meaning from context
PRONUNCIATION BOOSTER
• Content words and function words
READING

Texts:
• A survey about positive and negative outlooks Descriptions of other people's
behavior
• A newspaper article about a creative solution to a problem Skills /
strategies:
• Understand idioms and expressions
• Determine the main idea
• Understand meaning from context
• Summarize
WRITING

 Task:
• Write about your outlook on a world problem
Skill:
• Paragraph structure: Review
UNIT 2

 MUSIC AND
 ORTHER ARTS
Communication
goal
• Describe how you've been enjoying the arts
• Express a negative opinion politely
• Describe a creative personality
• Discuss the benefits of the arts
VOCABULARY

 • Elements of music
 • Negative descriptions of music
 • Describing creative personalities
 Word Study:
 •Using participial adjectives
GRAMMAR

• The present perfect continuous


• Cleft sentences with What
GRAMMAR BOOSTER
• Finished and unfinished actions: summary
• Noun clauses: review and expansion
• Grammar for Writing: noun clauses as adjective and noun complements
Conversation Strategies

 • Use To tell the truth, To be honest, and I hate to say it. but to politely
introduce a contrary opinion
LISTENING

 • Listen to activate vocabulary • Listen for main ideas


 • Listen for supporting information
 • Listen to take notes
 • Listen for details PRONUNCIATION BOOSTER
 • Intonation patterns
READING

Texts:
• A survey about musical memories
• Commentaries about enjoying the arts
A short biography
Skills / strategies
• Understand idioms and expressions
• Infer information
• Identify supporting details
• Express and support an opinion
WRITING

Task:
• Describe your interests and personality

Skill:
•Parallel structure

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