11-0 Objectives and Sequence

Preventative Care

Students explore vocabulary and activities related to preventative care. Topics include exercise, food choices, and ways that we can help our patients before it is too late.

Making Perfect Questions

Students practice making subject and object questions and build an advanced understanding of the different ways we can ask for information in English.

Noun Clauses and Their Importance in Indirect Questions

Students review forming indirect questions and build upon their knowledge by practicing other similar patterns that make use of noun clauses.

Negative Sentence Patterns

Students review what they know about making negative sentences and are introduced to further, more-complex sentence patterns.

11-1 Forming Questions

An in-depth lesson on making questions. Students practice inversion, subject questions, questions that require prepositions, the usage of different question words, asking for descriptions, and the different ways to ask why in English.

11-2 Indirect Questions and Noun Clauses

Students review using noun clauses and how to form indirect questions, as studied in Unit Seven.

11-3 Negatives

Students practice various negative forms in English, including auxiliary verbs, gerunds, and to + infinitive verb patterns. Also, students practice forming negative questions as well as which verbs should be formed in the negative in sentences that contain more than one verb.

11-1: Health In The News - Angelina Jolie

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about Angelina Jolie and the preventative care she is taking.

11-2 The Tarahumara

Vocabulary and reading comprehension activity about a group of people who have learned to live differently.

11-1 The Advantages/Disadvantages Essay Structure

Students examine the structure of an Advantages/Disadvantages essay, then read a sample essay and discuss its strengths and weaknesses.

11-2 The Advantages/Disadvantages Essay

Students write a 300-word essay examining the advantages and disadvantages of seeing a doctor before you are sick.

11-1 You Are What You Eat

A video-listening activity that discusses food choices and provides tips on how to eat healthier. 

11-2 PrevMed, Smart Medicine

A video-listening activity based on preventative medicine and its benefits.

11-1 Unit Introduction

Unit introduction conversation activity. (group work)

11-2: Vocabulary Roleplay

Groups discuss and roleplay a medical scenario in a variety of jobs.

11-3 Photo Discussion

Students generate photos to match unit vocabulary and discuss with the class.

11-4 Questions and Review

Students reflect on their understanding of the unit with a whole class Q&A.

11-5 Applied Learning

Students work together to master a certain grammatical aspect of the unit and teach to the rest of the class.