Unit Objectives
Earth's Drivers

Students learn vocabulary and participate in activities about environmental issues. Topics include climate change, electric vehicles, energy conservation, etc..
The Past & Present

Students review and expand understanding of the Present Perfect.
Vocabulary Expansion: Participial Adjectives

Students are introduced to the form and use of adjectives that stem from verbs.
Listening Speaking Grammar
8-1 Rethinking Gasoline

Two people discuss how they feel about whether or not they believe that they should change cars to an earth friendly car or not. 

8-2 Environmentally-Friendly Changes

Listening activity based on recordings of what ten people do in their lives to help the environment. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary and acts as a review of Grammar 8-1 and preview of Grammar 8-2.

8-3 Saving Energy

Listening activity based on one man’s description of his experience growing up conscious of environmental issues. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary.
8-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

8-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

8-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

8-4 Speaking Pairs

Students practice describing present situations in both the Present and Present Perfect tenses.

8-5 News

Students announce fictional news to their group and further discuss the details in the past tense.

8-6 Describing Photos

Students describe what has been happening recently based on what they see in photos.

8-7 Present Perfect Conversation

Students practice different usages of the Present Perfect in a free discussion.

8-8 The Laptop's Charged

Students practice converting sentences that contain verbal phrases to adjectives.

8-9 Participle Discussion

Students discuss answers to conversation questions the employ participial adjectives used to describe feelings.
8-1 Connecting the Past & Present #1

Students expand their understanding of the Present Perfect Simple by learning that it is a way to focus on connecting finished past actions with the present.

8-2 Connecting the Past & Present #2

Students learn that the Present Perfect Continuous can also be used to describe present situations.

8-3 Participial Adjectives

Students learn that many adjectives come in the form of present or past participles.
Reading Use of English Writing
8-1 Four Green Cities

Reading activity about the  cities of Reykjavik, San Francisco, Vancouver and Curitiba. Activity also serves as a review of Grammar 8-1 and 8-2.
8-1 Have You Heard

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 8-3.
8-1 Proofreading

Students do a proofreading exercise, finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph.

8-2 Spacing

Proper spacing rules are introduced and practiced in an exercise.

8-3 Paragraph

Students write a paragraph describing the popularity of electric cars. 
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