PROGRAMACIÓN

Unit 1 Earth alert!

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary to describe problems on our planet

• Talk about problems on our planet

• Read an article about problems on our planet

• Practise the present perfect simple: affirmative and negative

• Listen to a program about an Amazon tribe

• Practise the present perfect: questions

• Practise ever and never with present perfect

• Practise pronunciation of regular past participle endings: /d/

• Role-play an interview with an explorer

• Read about a competition

• Practise learning irregular verbs

• Write a postcard; focus on punctuation rules

5.1. Grammar

5.1.1 Present perfect simple

5.1.2 Ever and Never

5.2 Vocabulary

5.2.1 Nouns, Adjectives and verbs

5.2.2 Irregular verbs

5.3 Reading and Listening

5.3.1 Progress?

5.3.2 The rainforests

5.4 Speaking and Functions

5.4.1 Discussing the earth´s problems

5.4.2 Asking about experiences

5.5 Writing

5.5.1 Punctuation rules

5.5.2 Writing a Postcard

5.6 Pronunciation and study skills

5.6.1 Past participle endings: /d/

5.6.2 Learning irregular verbs

Unit 2 Personality

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn adjectives describing personality.

• Talk about personalities.

• Read about handwriting and personality.

• Practise pronunciation of /IZ/, /S/, and /Z/.

• Practise the present simple: affirmative, negative and questions.

• Talk about your character.

• Learn adjectives for describing people.

• Describe and listen to two situations.

• Practise the present continuous.

• Compare the present continuous and the present simple.

• Talk and read about influences on your personality.

• Use a dictionary.

• Write about people using and and but.

1.1. Grammar

1.1.1 Present simple

1.1.2 Present continuous

1.1.3 Present simple and present continuous

1.2. Vocabulary

1.2.1 Personality: adjectives

1.2.2 Appearances: adjectives

1.3. Reading and Listening

1.3.1 Handwriting

1.3.2 Appearances

1.3.3 Chalk and Cheese

1.4 Speaking and Functions

1.4.1 Describing people

1.4.2 Asking about personality

1.5 Writing

1.5.1 Describing people: and and but

1.6 Pronunciation and study skills

1.6.1 Present simple endings: /IZ/

1.6.2 Using a dictionary

Unit 3 Days an dates

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn about times and seasons.

• Talk about seasons and dates.

• Read about some teenagers´memories.

• Look at was and were.

• Practise the past simple: affirmative and negative.

• Practise pronunciation of past simple endings: /Id/.

• Write and speak about some past memories.

• Listen to a dates quiz.

• Learn vocabulary to describe periods of time.

• Practise the past simple: questions.

• Talk about last weekend.

• Read about celebrations.

• Listen to the history of Thanksgiving.

• Revise subject and object pronouns.

• Write a letter to a friend.

2.1. Grammar

2.1.1 Past simple

2.1.2 Past simple: ago

2.1.3 Was / Were

2.2 Vocabulary

2.2.1 Times and seasons

2.2.2 Periods of time

2.3 Reading and Listening

2.2.1 Memories

2.2.2 The date game

2.2.3 Happy days

2.2.4 The Thanksgiving history

2.4 Speaking and Functions

2.4.1 Asking about times and seasons

2.4.2 Asking about memories

2.4.3 Asking about last weekend

2.4.4 Asking about celebrations

2.5 Writing

2.5.1 A letter: using pronouns

2.6 Pronunciation and study skills

2.6.1 Past simple endings: /Id/

Unit 4 Crime

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary about crime

• Decide which crimes are the most serious

• Read and listen to an interview with a robbery suspect

• Learn how to form and use the past continuous

• Practise pronunciation of the /ə/ sound

• Read and listen to some true crime stories

• Learn crime verbs

• Compare the past continuous and the past simple

• Ask and answer questions from a questionnaire

• Listen to a detective interviewing murder suspects

• Guess the meaning of unknown words

• Write a confession using so and because

3.1. Grammar

3.1.1 Past continuous

3.1.2 Past simple and past continuous

3.2 Vocabulary

3.2.1 Crimes

3.2.2 Verbs from crime stories

3.3 Reading and Listening

3.3.1 Robbery

3.3.2 Crazy criminals

3.3.3 Clues

3.4 Speaking and Functions

3.4.1 Doing a questionnaire

3.4.2 Talking about crime

3.5 Writing

3.5.1 A confession: so and because

3.6 Pronunciation and study skills

3.6.1 /ə/ and weak forms (1)

3.6.2 Guessing meaning from context

Unit 5 Delicious!

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary about food

• Talk about food likes and dislikes

• Listen to people talking about a restaurant

• Practise a/ an, some and any with countable nouns

• Learn to recognize silent vowels in english

• Invent and talk about a theme restaurant

• Learn vocabulary for preparing food

• Read about healthy eating

• Look at countable and uncountable nouns

• Practise using a lot of, many and much

• Practise using enough, too much and too many

• Read about strange tastes

• Write cooking instructions for an exotic meal

4.1. Grammar

4.1.1 a / an, some and any

4.1.2 Countable and uncountable nouns

4.1.3 A lot of, many and much

4.1.4 (not) enough, too much and too many

4.2 Vocabulary

4.2.1 Food

4.2.2 Preparing food: verb and adjectives

4.3 Reading and Listening

4.3.1 Hard Rock Cafe

4.3.2 Food, fat and fibre

4.3.3 Strange tastes

4.4 Speaking and Functions

4.4.1 Talking about likes and dislikes

4.4.2 Asking about restaurants

4.5 Writing

4.5.1 Cooking instructions: first, then, after that and finally

4.6 Pronunciation and study skills

4.6.1 Silent vowels

Unit 6 Extreme

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary for dangerous sports

• Talk about dangerous sports

• Read about Mount Everest

• Compare present perfect and past simple tenses

• Practise recognising and pronouncing contracted forms

• Ask and answer about experiences

• Learn vocabulary for sports equipment

• Listen to a programme about skysurfing

• Practise using for and since

• Practise using just with the present perfect

• Read a quiz about avoiding risks

• Listen to advice from survival experts

• Practise some expressions for exchanging opinions

• Practise using sequencing words in written text

6.1. Grammar

6.1.1 Present perfect and past simple

6.1.2 Present perfect: for and since

6.1.3 Present perfect: just

6.2 Vocabulary

6.2.1 Sports

6.2.2 Sports equipment

6.3 Reading and Listening

6.3.1 The summit

6.3.2 Skysurfers

6.3.3 Risk

6.4 Speaking and Functions

6.4.1 Asking about sports

6.4.2 Discussing risky situations

6.5 Writing

6.5.1 A spots brochure: when, after, before, later and then

6.6 Pronunciation and study skills

6.6.1 Recognizing contractions

Unit 7 Microchip magic

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary about computers

• Practise saying the alphabet in english

• Talk about the future

• Listen to people talking about the future

• Practise using will and might

• Read how to play a computer game

• Look at imperatives

• Learn verbs and prepositions for movement

• Practise using

• Practise using the first conditional

• Read about websites

• Write a description of a website

• Discuss resources for learning english

7.1. Grammar

7.1.1 Will and Might

7.1.2 Imperatives

7.1.3 First conditional

7.2 Vocabulary

7.2.1 Computers

7.2.2 Movement: verbs + prepositions

7.3 Reading and Listening

7.3.1 Virtual world

7.3.2 Game over

7.3.3 Websites

7.4 Speaking and Functions

7.4.1 Spelling computer vocabulary

7.4.2 Giving opinions about the future

7.4.3 Discussing the future

7.5 Writing

7.5.1 Thinking of ideas: mind maps

7.5.2 Describing a website

7.6 Pronunciation and study skills

7.6.1 The alphabet: revision

7.6.2 Using English resources

Unit 8 Buy and sell

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary about shopping

• Talk about shops in your area

• Read a consumer quiz

• Practise comparative and superlative adjectives

• Learn adjectives for describing objects

• Write `puzzle sentences´

• Listen to people shopping at a market

• Practise using too and (not) enough

• Practise using positive and negative intonation

• Practise going to

• Read about adverts

• Listen to adverts

• Compare different things using like and as… as

• Write about advertising plans

8.1. Grammar

8.1.1 Comparative and superlative adjectives

8.1.2 Too and (not) enough

8.1.3 Going to

8.2 Vocabulary

8.2.1 Shopping

8.2.2 Adjectives

8.3 Reading and Listening

8.3.1 In the supermarket

8.3.2 Boots

8.3.3 Adverts

8.4 Speaking and Functions

8.4.1 Asking about shops and products

8.4.2 Discussing a present

8.5 Writing

8.5.1 Using comparisons

8.5.2 Planning an advert

8.6 Pronunciation and study skills

8.6.1 Intonation

Unit 9 Rules

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary for legal an illegal things

• Talk about legal an illegal things

• Read an article about changes in society´s rules

• Practise can, could and be allowed to for permission

• Practise pronunciation of /ə/ (2)

• Talk about things you are/were allowed to do

• Learn vocabulary for household tasks and objects

• Do a questionnaire about discipline

• Practise using have to and must for obligation

• Read an article about a teenager challenging a school rule

• Listen to teenagers talking about school rules

• Practise expressing contrast using however, although, but and on the other hand

9.1. Grammar

9.1.1 Can, could and be allowed to

9.1.2 Have to and must

9.2 Vocabulary

9.2.1 Legal and illegal

9.2.2 Household tasks and objects

9.3 Reading and Listening

9.3.1 Banned!

9.3.2 Strict or soft?

9.3.3 Rules

9.4 Speaking and Functions

9.4.1 Giving opinions about what should be legal or illegal

9.4.2 Asking about rules

9.4.3 Asking about jobs at home

9.5 Writing

9.1.2 Expressing contrast: however, although, but and on the other hand

9.1.3 Planning school rules

9.6 Pronunciation and study skills

9.6.1 /ə/ and weak forms (2)

9.6.2 Agreeing rules in class

Unit 10 Money

OBJECTIVES OF THE UNIT

• Learn vocabulary about money

• Talk about different currencies and other money issues

• Listen to information about making money

• Practise the passive (present simple) affirmative

• Learn vocabulary about production and consumption

• Practise pronunciation of /j/

• Do a money quiz

• Practise the passive (past simple) affirmative

• Talk about spending your country´s money

• Read about teenage millionaires

• Talk about being a millionaire

• Write about tour life as a millionaire

10.1. Grammar

10.1.1 The passive (present simple and past simple): affirmative

10.2 Vocabulary

10.2.1 Money

10.2.2 Production and consumption

10.3 Reading and Listening

10.3.1 Making money

10.3.2 The story of money

10.3.3 Teenage millionaires

10.4 Speaking and Functions

10.4.1 Talking about money

10.4.2 Doing a role play

10.5 Writing

10.5.3 An autobiography: organizing a paragraph

10.6 Pronunciation and study skills

10.6.1 /j/