Objectives
Themes
Grammar
Media
Support:
Texts
Recordings
Films
Songs
Pictures
Internet
Stereotypes
(age, socio-professional categories, gender, physical traits,
national stereotypes)
(March and April)
Images
we have of other countries and people 
Comparing
British and American stereotypes to French
Brazilian
stereotypes and French
Forming
comparatives and superlatives
Nationalities
Adjectives
describing people
Describing
pictures, commenting.
Barbie
Picture
Stereotypes:
A European's Road Map
(newspaper article)
Listening:
from the unit
General
Rubrics for Class Performance
The Changing World of Work
(April and May)
Young
people looking for jobs
Visions of work
Modern
Slavery
Factory
work in Britain and USA in the 19th century.
Vocabulary
related to work and economy
Link words for comparison and contrast
(both, like, unlike,
just as, whereas, while, although, however, etc)
Giving
suggestions and advice
Formation
of Adjectives (derivation with suffixes, prefixes and composition)
Identifying
a document through peripheral information
comparing and contrasting
Writing
a letter of application for a job
Project on
Slavery
in the Past
(Brazilian History)
AND
Modern Slavery (English)
Leaflets
from Activist Organization Free the Slaves
Listening:
from
the unit
How
to write a formal letter of application (book)
Media
(June and August)
Defining
Media and Eight Concepts of Media Literacy
The
Press
Vocabulary
related to the press.
Link
Words (revise all categories)
Verbs+
prepositions (+noun or -ing form)
nouns
and adjectives + prepositions
Countables
and uncountables
Quantity
words
Difference
between fact and opinion
Comparing
and Contrasting (in a paragraph, in a text, orally)
Orals
Video Virtual and Real Newspapers (comparing and contrasting)
Write an article for The Classmate
Read
and report on an article
Reading
the News in the Inkless World of Cyberspace
Black
and White and Digitized All Over
Online
and printed versions of newspapers
Three
Thousand Years of World Trade
Ten
Preparation Steps to a Successful Group Presentation
(pdf file)
Informal Evaluation of Your Public Speaking Skills
Oral
Presentation Rubric
(language
and presentation skills)
Rebels, Heroes and role models
(September - October)
Fighting
for Sexual/
Racial Equality
Men and women who have changed society (apartheid, the suffragettes)
Expressing insatisfaction, bitterness, revolt, intentions, projects, aspirations.
Passive
Analyzing picture dynamics
Writing a letter of complaint, a petition, a report
Talking about a Revolution (Tracy Chapman),Imagine (John Lennon),
The United Kingdom
(November- December)
Who are the British?
The monarchy
An identity crisis
National symbols
Northern Ireland
articles
reported speech
In the Name of the Father
Michael Collins