Unit Objectives
Work

Vocabulary and activities centered around work in the automotive industry. Topics include factory life, starting a business, robotics, workers' rights, Direct & Reported Speech.
Direct & Reported Speech

Students are introduced to the two main ways used in English to describe what people said or asked.
Phrasal Verbs

Unit 12 reviews and continues the lesson on phrasal verbs started in Unit 11.
Comma Rules

Students learn when to use a comma properly.
Proofreading

The topic of proofreading and its value when writing is explored.
 
Listening Speaking Grammar
12-1 On Strike

Activity based on an interview with a workers' rights activist regarding an automotive workers' strike. Activity serves as an introduction to the concept of reported speech.

12-2 Dream Job

Listening activity that provides practice reporting questions and statements.

 
12-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity. 

12-2 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

12-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

12-4 Speaking Dictation

Students dictate sentences for practice in spoken English fluency.

12-5 Partner Questionnaire

Students interview a partner and report their answers to other students.

12-6 Class Sentences #1

Sentences are said out loud to the class and written by the class in reported speech. 

12-7 Class Sentences #2

Students present sentences to the class and others report them in a document.

12-8 Different Ways of Reporting

Students practice different variations of reporting the same sentence.

12-9 Phrasal Verbs Discussion

Students ask and answer questions with phrasal verbs studied in Grammar 12-3.
12-1 Reported Speech #1

Students learn and practice the differences between direct and reported speech.

12-2 Reported Speech #2

Students expand on what they learned in Grammar 12-1 and practice the ways to report commands or requests in English.

12-3 Phrasal Verbs: In, On, Up & Down

Lesson resumes from Unit 11 and describes more kinds of phrasal verbs and how they can be used in English.
Reading Use of English Writing
12-1 Working Conditions

Students learn and practice vocabulary and grammar by reading about working conditions and what one laborer did to change the operations of a company.
12-1 Factory Robots

Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 12-3.

12-2 Finding Your Dream Job

Students research careers in the automotive industry using Vocabulary 12-1 to report on jobs of interest.
12-1 Using Commas

Students expand thier knowledge in comma usage.

12-2 Proofreading

Students practice finding and correcting errors in an example paragraph.

12-3 Paragraph

Students write a paragraph about working conditions.

 
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