ENGLISH PROGRAM

NorthStar: Listening and Speaking (High Intermediate)

Second Edition    Tess Ferree/Kim Sanabria          Longman

School year 2005-2006 11th Grade High School

Semester VI

 

Unit

Critical Thinking Skills

Listening Tasks

Speaking Tasks

Pronunciation

Vocabulary

Grammar

6

It’s Better to Give

Than to Receive

Theme: Philanthropy

Listening One: Oseola McCarty

   A report on the life

   of a philanthropist

Listening Two: Please Donate a Volunteer

   Two public service 

   Announcements

 

·        Make judgments

·        Identify personal assumptions about philanthropy

·        Correlate abstract principles with concrete examples

·        Hypothesize rationales for philanthropic actions

·        Critique public service announcements

·        Compare and contrast information

·        Rank desirable employee qualities

·        Identify main ideas

·        Listen for details

·        Listen and take notes using a graphic organizer

·        Synthesize information from both listenings

·        Interpret speakers´ intent by analyzing intonation

·        Listen to and evaluate student presentations

·        Research a charitable organization or philanthropist through telephone inquiries

·        Make predictions

·        Express and support opinions with examples

·        Construct and perform a dialogue

·        Use new vocabulary to discuss examples of charitable efforts

·        Ask for clarification using tag questions

·        Use gambits that indicate priorities

·        Develop and perform a public service announcement

·        Report research findings

Intonation of tag questions

·        Context clues

·        Word definitions

·        synonyms

Tag questions

7

Emotional

Intelligence  

Theme: Education

Listening One: Can You Learn EQ?

   A psychology radio

   program

Listening Two: Test Your EQ

   An emotional

   intelligence test 

·        Interpret a cartoon

·        Define notions of intelligence

·        Identify and evaluate assumptions about intelligence

·        Hypothesize another’s point of view

·        Connect principles of emotional intelligence to specific behaviors

·        Interpret quotations

·        Analyze past encounters according to principles of emotional intelligence

 

·        Preview a listening

·        Take notes while listening using a graphic organizer

·        Listen for details

·        Provide information from the listening to support answers

·        Relate listening to personal experiences

·        Integrate information from both listenings

·        Listen to classmates´ stories and take notes

·        Listen to an evaluate student responses

·        Watch and analyze student role plays

·        Make predictions

·        Support opinions with examples

·        Compose and perform a dialogue using new vocabulary

·        Recount an emotional experience

·        Use opening gambits to restate information fro clarification or emphasis

·        Restate quotations

·        Perform a role play

·        Conduct an interview

Unstressed vowels

·        Context clues

·        Synonyms

·        Idiomatic expressions

 

Direct and indirect speech

8

Goodbye to the Sit-

down Meal

Theme: Food

Listening One: French Sandwiches

   A radio news report

Listening Two: Food in a Bowl

   A conversation about

   food trends 

·        Identify and analyze food trends

·        Relate general factors to specific behaviors

·        Interpret meaning from context

·        Compare traditional and contemporary food practices

·        Infer word meaning from context

·        Compare and contrast two restaurants

·        Infer situational context

 

·        Summarize main ideas

·        Listen fro details

·        Interpret speaker’s tone and attitude

·        Relate listening to local food trends

·        Classify vowel sounds

·        Listen to student food shows and evaluate using a rubric

·        Listen to a food show on TV

·        Make predictions

·        Share ideas on food trends

·        Use tone of voice to indicate attitude in a role play

·        Use new vocabulary in free conversation

·        Compose and perform a dialogue

·        Practice gambits with call attention to a particular item

·        Explain how to use a tool

·        Develop and perform a food show

·        Report research on food trends

Spelling and sounds: oo and o

·        Context clues

·        Synonyms

·        Definitions

·        Figurative meanings of words

·        Vocabulary classification

·        Idiomatic expressions

 

Phrasal verbs

9

Finding a Niche: The Lives of Young

immigrants

Theme: Immigration

Listening One: A World within a School

   A radio news report

Listening Two: The Words Escape Me

   A song

·        Compare personal experiences

·        Recognize personal assumptions

·        Hypothesize scenarios

·        Infer word meaning from context

·        Analyze language use

·        Compare and contrast two immigrant experiences

·        Infer meaning not explicit in text

·        Propose solutions

 

·        Identify main ideas

·        Listen for supporting details

·        Interpret speaker’s tone and speech

·        Relate listening to personal values and interests

·        Take dictation

·        Identify points of view in two listenings

·        Classify sounds

·        Listen to and comment on student plans

·        Make predictions

·        Express opinions using new vocabulary

·        Restate themes of the unit in a guided conversation

·        Practice gambits to hesitate in response to a question

·        Ask and answer questions about a chart

·        Simulate a school board meeting

·        Collaborate to develop an education plan

·        Conduct an interview

·        Compare interview results

Discrimination between sh, z, ch and j

·        Context clues

·        Synonyms

·        Definitions

·        Idiomatic expressions

 

Present and past __ contrasting verb tenses

10

Technology: A

Blessing or a Curse?

Theme: Technology

Listening One: Noise in the City

   A radio news report

Listening Two: Technology Talk

   A talk radio show

 

·        Interpret a cartoon

·        Compare opinions about technology

·        Analyze paradox in a poem

·        Make judgments

·        Hypothesize scenarios

·        Draw conclusions

·        Define a problem and propose a solution

 

·        Infer situational context

·        Listen for main ideas

·        Listen for supporting details

·        Interpret speaker’s tone and word usage

·        Take notes while listening

·        Listen for specific information is student responses

·        Listen for emphasis in speech

·        Evaluate student commercials

·        Listen to classmates´ research findings and questions

·        Discuss opinions

·        Make predictions

·        Act out scripted dialogues

·        Discuss possible future outcomes

·        Practice gambits to express frustration

·        Role-play a conflict between neighbors

·        Develop and present a commercial for a gadget

·        Present findings on research for technology

Stressed adverbial particles

·        Synonyms

·        Word definitions

·        Context clues

·        Descriptive adjectives

 

Future perfect and future progressive