4-0 Objectives & Sequence

Unit Objectives
Literature Students practice vocabulary related to the topic including types of literature, genres, formats, styles, etc.. 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.

Unit Objectives

Literature

Students practice vocabulary related to the topic including types of literature, genres, formats, styles, etc..

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.

Listening 4-1

Homework

Grammar 4-1

Expressing Necessity

Speaking 4-4

What's the Job?

Speaking 4-5

Speaking Pairs

Grammar 4-2

Advice & Suggestions

Speaking 4-6

Problems

Speaking 4-7

Giving Advice

Speaking 4-8

Had Better

Use of English 4-1

Can You Do Me a Favour?

Grammar 4-3

Making Requests

Speaking 4-9

Requests

Listening 4-3

Just a Novel

Speaking 4-1

Unit Introduction Discussion

Use of English 4-2

Famous English Authors

Writing 4-1

Capitalization & End Punctuation

Speaking 4-2

Vocabulary Discussion

Listening 4-2

Online Reading

Writing 4-2

Proofreading

Speaking 4-3

Role-Plays

Reading 4-1

William Shakespeare

Writing 4-3

Paragraph

Listening
4-1 Homework Four people describe what they have for homework. Activity serves as a preview for Grammar 4-1. 4-2 Online Reading Listening activity based on different people’s experiences with reading online. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary. 4-3 Just a Novel Listening activity based on a discussion about two people's interest in literature.

Listening

4-1 Homework

Four people describe what they have for homework. Activity serves as a preview for Grammar 4-1.

4-2 Online Reading

Listening activity based on different people’s experiences with reading online. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

4-3 Just a Novel

Listening activity based on a discussion about two people's interest in literature.

Speaking
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 say 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.

Speaking

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 say 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.

Grammar
4-1 Expressing Necessity Students review 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.

Grammar

4-1 Expressing Necessity

Students review 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
Reading 4-1 William Shakespeare A reading activity about the biography of William Shakespeare.

Reading

Reading 4-1 William Shakespeare

A reading activity about the biography of William Shakespeare.

Use of English
4-1 Can I Ask You a Favour? Four short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 4-3. 4-2 Famous English Authors Students research and present their findings about different English authors of popular fiction.

Use of English

4-1 Can I Ask You a Favour?

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

4-2 Famous English Authors

Students research and present their findings about different English authors of popular fiction.

Writing
4-1 Capitalization & End Punctuation Students learn when to use capital letters and how to punctuate the end of their sentences. 4-2 Proofreading Students do a proofreading exercise, finding and correcting mistakes in a paragraph. 4-3 Paragraph Students write a opinion-based paragraph on whether it is important for children to read.

Writing

4-1 Capitalization & End Punctuation

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

4-2 Proofreading

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

4-3 Paragraph

Students write a opinion-based paragraph on whether it is important for children to read.

Vocabulary
advice amount author category century chapter character communicate completely concerned contact describe drama draw drawing education ending enjoyable environment exact express favour impact line literature magazine mayor nap necessary novel novelist occasionally pattern perform performance play poetry population print process publish rarely request slightly spare stage suggestion technology terrible theatre trouble work

Vocabulary

advice

amount

author