4-0 Objectives & Sequence

Used Cars

Students practice vocabulary related to the topic including purchasing and repairing used cars. 

Modal Auxiliary Verbs

Students review structure common to all modal verbs and explore the multiple meanings of several of them.

Necessity & Advice

Students practice the language used to ask for and give advice as well as to express obligations.

Requests

Students learn how to use certain modal verbs and phrases to make requests or offers.

4-1 I Have a Few Questions

Conversation between a car dealer and a customer about two used cars for sale. 

4-2 Steve's Repairs

Listening activity based on a conversation between a repair man and a customer. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

4-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

4-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

4-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

4-4 What’s the Job?

Students guess jobs by asking each other about the job’s responsibilities.

4-5 Speaking Pairs

Students present sentences to each other so that their partners create a sentence with the same meaning using modal verbs of obligation.

4-6 Problems

Students act out situations in an effort to elicit sentences of advice from fellow group members.

4-7 Giving Advice

Students are presented with fictitious problems they are having in life. Other group members offer advice.

4-8 Had Better

Students discuss situations in which they can use the given sentences containing "had better."

4-9 Requests

Students are presented with prompts that they use with a partner to elicit requests in different grammatical forms.

4-1 Expressing Necessity

Students review the basic form and structure of modal auxiliary verbs as well as focus on the different modal verbs and phrases used to describe obligation and necessity.

4-2 Advice & Suggestions

Students practice modals and other popular phrases used to give and ask for advice as well as suggestions.

4-3 Making Requests

Students learn the modal verbs and phrases commonly used when making requests and offers.

Reading 4-1 Ken Block

A reading activity based on a biography of Ken Block.

4-1 Can I Ask You a Favour?

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 4-3.

4-2 Kicking Tires

Students research and present their findings about different used cars available. 

4-1 Capitalization & End Punctuation

Students learn when to use capital letters and how to punctuate the end of their sentences.

4-2 Paragraph

Students write a opinion-based paragraph on whether parents should purchase their children their first car.

4-3 Proofreading

Students do a proofreading exercise, finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph that is written by their peers from Writing 4-2.