UNIT 1. Houses and Homes
Unit 2-3.Education. Self-education
- School life ( Vocabulary)
- Schools in Britain (Reading)
- Eton school (Listening)
- How can we make education better? ( Speaking)
- Modal Verbs (A rule)
- Modal Verbs ( Practice)
- If I were Prime Minister... (What's the one thing you would do if you were Prime Minister?)
- Girls get higher marks than boys at school because they are better-behaved
In class we were talking about education and especially about home education compared to our traditional system of attending a school. Why don't you give your point of view on the following?
- What do you think of home education?
- Would have it worked for you?
- Are parents good teachers?
- What do you think Mark Twain meant when he said, “never let school interfere with your education”?
- There is an African proverb which says: "It takes a village to educate a child". Do you agree?
Unit 6. SCIENCE
- Answering machine (Listening)
- Telephones ( Listening)
- Addicted to technology? ( watch the video and answer the questions in quiz)
- ESLvideo.com (Quiz: addicted to technology? )
- TECHNOLOGICALLY SPEAKING (Speaking)
SPEAKING
Do you know a lot of different appliances, devices and gadgets? Think about the questions given, think about what you want to say.!
Questions:
1. What springs to mind when you hear the word ‘technology’?
2. Is technology a good or a bad thing?
3. What new technology could you not live without?
4. How has technology changed society?
5. Has technology made us more impatient?
6. Alan M. Eddison said: "Modern technology... Owes ecology... An apology." What does this mean? Do you agree?
UNIT 7. Great people
Unit 8. News (Mass Media)
- Mass Media (Vocabulary)
- Mass media (Reading)
- Media effects (Listening)
- News (Speaking)
- Infinitive/gerund ( a rule)
- Infinitive/gerund (Practice)
- Infinitive/gerund (Test yourself)
