Adventure

Completing the current unit, we are going to achieve such Bloom Taxonomy Learning Objectives:

- Vocabulary (Landscapes)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• name landscapes and features of nature;
• understand descriptions of holiday adverts;
• describe a landscape;
• discuss different types of activities;
• name adjectives to describe sport activities and sportspeople;
• describe a sport and people who practice it;
• learn phrases for emails and phrases for making suggestions.

- Grammar (Past Continuous; Past Simple VS Past Continuous)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• learn past Continuous formation;
• differentiate Past Simple and Past Continuous tenses;
• use Past Continuous to describe a scene of a story and Past Simple to describe sequence of events;
• understand a text about the past;
• describe past events using a variety of tenses;

- Listening (Listening for key words and antonyms)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• identify synonyms in a listening text;
• understand people talking about activities and sports;
• predict the use of synonyms and synonymous grammar structures in a listening text;
• discuss extreme sports and activities, people who practice them and locations where it takes place;

- Word Skills (Word-building: Related verbs and nouns)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• learn the suffixes to form nouns;
• identify  and differentiate parts of speech using suffixes;
• understand and use dictionary entries to find related words;
• discuss teen exploration.

- Reading ('Lost at Sea')

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• read and understand a survival story;
• learn and understand extreme adjectives;
• use extreme adjectives appropriately

- Speaking (Photo Description)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• learn and follow a structure to describe and speculate about a photo;
• describe background, objects and people on a photo and speculate about people’s feelings using vocabulary of the unit;
• conduct an interview.

- Writing (An Invitation)

By the end of this lesson, the student will be able to:

• learn phrases to sequence events;
• use vocabulary to write a description of an activity;
• learn and use abbreviations and short forms for informal emails;
• create an invitation and a reply to it using unit vocabulary and grammar.

- Unit 2: Test