Activities:

Concepts:

• Unit 2: (Module 5) Celebrations
  • Vocabulary
  • General ideas
  • Modals
  • Weddings

• Warm-up:
  • Module 5 Introduction-Celebrations
  • Students talk about different celebrations like: Carnival, birthdays etc…
• Teacher input
  • Use key words to form sentences related to the topic
• Guided Practice
  • Student´s book: Page 41 Ex. 1-4
  • Page 42 Wacky Weddings. com Exercises
  • Page 43 Exercises 5-11
• Wrap-up
  • Students talk about weddings in Spain and other countries.

Activities:

Concepts:

• Verbs: Past Simple, Past Continuous and Present Perfect
• Adjectives
• Multi part verbs
• Reading Comprehension
• Writing and Ad

• Assessment: Modules 3 and 4 Test

Activities:

Concepts:

• The locked room assessment

• Assessment
• The locked room Teaching Notes

Activities:

Concepts:

• Writing
  • 5 Paragraph Essay
    

• Independent Practice
  • Students continue writing their essays according to the 5 paragraph essay rules
• Wrap-up
  • Read outlines and answer questions about the due date and details of the essays

Internet Links:

Activities:

Concepts:

• 5 paragraph essay
• Outlines
  

• Warm-up
  • Introduction of the topic: Why is honesty important in friendship
  • Brainstorm
• Teacher input
  • The teacher introduces the 5 paragraph essay format
  • Read and discuss how to write an essay and its parts
• Guided Practice
  • Draft an essay
• Independent Practice
  • Students start writing their outlines for their essays
• Wrap-up
  • Summarize idea and answer questions

Internet Links:

Write a composition to explain why honesty is important in a friendship.

(Due on Thursday, 11th February 2010)

Sample Essay Outline

5-Paragraph Essay Outline

Guidelines:

The Five Paragraphs of a Basic Essay

It is important to learn the components of each paragraph in the standard essay.

Expository

Paragraph #1

This is your introduction. Begin with a good “grabber.” Restate the topic and define it. State three explanations or examples. Conclude with a transition sentence that leads into the next paragraph.

Paragraph #2, Paragraph #3, and Paragraph #4

These paragraphs are the body of your essay. Use a transition at the beginning of each paragraph. Try to be different. In each paragraph you develop one of your arguments, points, or explanations as fully as you can, restating the explanation and then expanding on it with examples or evidence that supports it. These are the most important paragraphs in the grading of the State Assessment Test. The judges are looking at how you support the broad statements you make. Each of these paragraphs (as well as the body of the essay) needs an introductory sentence and a concluding sentence. These are the paragraphs where it is important to use spectacular vocabulary to show a good knowledge of words. A little well placed humor and creativity definitely add to the quality of the paper.

Paragraph #5

This is your conclusion. Restate your topic in words that are different from those in paragraph 1. Summarize paragraphs 2, 3 and 4. Draw a one sentence conclusion. End with a “zinger” that makes the reader think or smile.

Expository Tips!

• Keep to the topic. Do not stray or go off on a tangent.
• Use great vocabulary. You want to show that you have a good command of words that is above and beyond what the average student your age knows.
• Organize yourself well. Never make a statement that you do not back up or support. Develop that support well.
• Use transitions such as first, second, third, next, before or after, and finally.

Concepts

• Careers
• Jobs
• Long text

Activities

• Warm-up
  • Introduction to long text and its characteristics
• Independent Practice
  • Power Book: Page 28 Ex. 2
• Independent Practice
  • Carrer Research Project Parts 2 and 3

Concepts

• Word power
  • Verb tenses
• Time adverbs
• Spelling

Activities

• Warm-up
  • Explain the purpose of the review activities
• Independent Practice
  • Powerbook Pages 20 and 21 Ex 1-2, 1-4
• Wrap-up
  • Clarify doubts and check answers

Activities:

Concepts:

• Challenges
  • Vocabulary: Jobs
  • Project: Research professions

• Warm-up: What is the difference between a career and a profession?
• Teacher input:
  • Opinion adjectives: aggressive, calm, fast, intelligent, skillful, strong, awful, boring, overrated, slow, useless, weak
• Guided Practice:
  • Read article about the William sisters and answer reading comprehension questions
• Independent Practice
  • Page 34, Exercises 2-11
• Wrap-up
  • Introduction to Career Project

Internet Links:

Here you will find all the required documents for the Careers Project.  Make sure you download them all before Wednesday, 13 January 2010. Save them in a Careers Project Folder.

1.  My Future Career: Project Instructions

2.  Portfolio Checklist: List of tasks to be done

3.  Business Letters and Personal Business Letters: Sample of how to write a business letter

4.  Unbound Report: How to write an Unbound Report

5.  Career Budget: How to make a budget

Concepts

• Present Perfect: yet and already
• Past Simple

Activities

• Warm-up
  • Present Perfect and Past Simple, when to use each of them
• Independent Practice
  • Powerbook Page 19 Ex 1-6
• Wrap-up
  • Clarify doubts and check answers

Concepts

• Verbs: Present Perfect
• Main facts

Activities

• Warm-up
  • Use positive and negative opinion adjectives
  • Brainstorm
• Teacher input
  • Read article and observe verbs and tenses
• Independent Practice
  • Powerbook Page 18 Ex. 1 and 2 (Grammar)
• Wrap-up
  • Read answers and check for understanding