ENGLISH PROGRAM

NorthStar: Listening and Speaking (High Intermediate)

Second Edition    Tess Ferree/Kim Sanabria          Longman

 

School year 2005-2006 11th Grade High School

Semester V

 

Unit

Critical Thinking Skills

Listening Tasks

Speaking Tasks

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

Grammar

1

For New Resisters, No News is Good News

Theme: Media

Listening One: News Resisters

   A radio news 

   report

Listening Two: CornCam

   A report on an   

   unusual Web site

 

·        Compare sources of news

·        Recognize assumptions about media

·        Interpret graphs

·        Infer information not explicit in the interview

·        Hypothesize another’s point of view

·        Analyze goals pf news reporting

·        Listen for main ideas

·        Listen for details

·        Provide evidence to support answers

·        Relate listenings to personal values

·        Synthesize information from both listenings

·        Listen to students broadcasts and analyze them

·        Evaluate a TV news program

·        Make predictions

·        Summarize points

·        Act out a scripted conversation

·        Give a newscast

·        Express and defend opinions

·        Interview a news specialist

Redacting and contracting auxiliary verbs

·        Context clues

·        Synonyms

·        Idiomatic expression

·        Descriptive adjectives

·        Dictionary work

·        Word definitions

 

 

Passive voice

2

The Achilles Heel

Theme: Overcoming  

Obstacles

Listening One: Dreams of Flying and Overcoming Obstacles

   A college application    

   essay

Listening Two: The Achilles Track Club Climbs Mount Kimanjaro

   A television news  

   report

 

·        Identify personal obstacles

·        Rank the value of personal qualities

·        Analyze narrative techniques in a n essay

·        Hypothesize another’s point of view

·        Analyze sensitive language referring to disabilities

·        Infer meaning not explicit in the text

·        Compare and contrast two life stories

·        Frame contrasting points of view on disability issues

·        Summarize  main ideas

·        Listen for details

·        Relate listenings to knowledge of the world

·        Identifying connecting themes  between two listenings

·        Identify through groups of speech

·        Watch and analyze a movie

·        Listen to classmate’s reports and pose questions

·        Make predictions

·        Construct and perform a dialogue

·        Practice using synonyms, parallelism, and prepositional phrases to enrich a narrative

·        Plan and give a three-minute speech

·        Orally summarize research on overcoming obstacles

 

Thought groups

·        Context clues

·        Figurative language

·        Word definitions

 

 

Gerunds and infinitives

 

3

 

Early to Bed, Early to 

Rise…

Theme: Medicine

Listening One: Teen

Needs Sleep

   A radio news report

Listening Two: Get Back in Bed

   A conversation with 

   a doctor

 

 

·        Interpret a cartoon

·        Interpret a quotation

·        Compare and contrast sleep habits

·        Hypothesize scenarios

·        Draw conclusions about sleep depravation

·        Propose solutions to problems

·        Analyze a case of sleep deprivation and its consequences

·        Converse with a classmate and take notes

·        Summarize ideas

·        Listen for details

·        Interpret speaker’s tone and emotions

·        Relate listening to personal experiences

·        Compare information from two listenings

·        Identify emphasis in speech and its meanings

·        Make predictions

·        Use new vocabulary in a guided conversation

·        Make contrastive statements using appropriate intonation

·        Act out  scripted dialogues

·        Interrupt politely to clarify or confirm information

·        Role-play a meeting

·        Conduct a meeting and report results

·        Report survey results to the class

Contrastive stress

·        Context clues

·        Word definitions

 

 

Present unreal conditionals

4

The Eye of the Storm  

Theme: Natural

Disasters

Listening One: Preparing

for a Hurricane

   A radio news report

Listening Two: Hurricane Hunters

   A radio news report

  

·        Use context clues to guess meaning

·        Analyze a speaker’s emotions

·        Infer word meaning from context

·        Hypothesize another’s point of view

·        Make judgments

·        Support opinions with information from the reports

 

·        Listen to a report with static interference

·        Relate previous knowledge to listening

·        Identify chronology in  a report

·        Identify a speaker’s emotions

·        Summarize main ideas

·        Listen for specific information

·        Identify intonation patterns in speech

·        Listen to students reports and take notes

·        Watch a disaster movie and take notes

·        Make predictions

·        Share personal experiences and fears

·        Construct and perform a dialogue

·        Express surprise, shock, and interest in news

·        Present an emergency weather report

·        Conduct an interview

·        Present a movie review

Listing intonation

·        Context clues

·        Word definitions

·        Synonyms

·        Word forms

 

 

Adjective clauses

5

You Will Be This

Land

Theme: Conservation

Listening One: Interview with a Medicine Priest

   A conversation with

   a Cherokee spiritual 

   leader

Listening Two: “Ndakinna”—A poem

   An Abenaki poem

·        Interpret quotations

·        Draw conclusions

·        Support generalizations with examples

·        Evaluate situations according to criteria set forth in the listening

·        Infer information not explicit in the interview

·        Hypothesize another’s point of view

·        Evaluate personal conservation efforts

·        Analyze symbolism in a poem

 

·        Summarize main ideas

·        Listen for details

·        Relate personal experience and values to the listening

·        Take dictation

·        Compare and contrast view points in listening

·        Identify sounds

·        Listen for specific information

·        Listen to and ask questions about student research

·        Make predictions

·        Express opinions

·        Interview a classmate read aloud or recite a poem

·        Ask fro and give examples

·        Role-play a meeting

·        Use new vocabulary to asses personal conservation habits

·        Report research findings

th sound

·        Word definitions

·        synonyms

·        Context clues

·        Word forms

 

 

Advisability in the past—past modals