Scope and Sequence Ac Ademic Skill S

Unit Title & Theme Listenings & Video Listening & Note Taking Speaking & Presentation Vocabulary Grammar & Pronunciation Critical Thinking

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HealtHy lives
Lesson A
A Talk about Preventing Heart
disease (with slide show)
• Listening for main ideas
• Writing key Words and
Phrases
• keeping a Conversation Going
• Practicing Your Presentation
Lesson Task
Understanding
meaning from
Context
• expressions of
Frequency
• Final -s sounds
Focus
interpreting Visuals

page 1 video Presenting Healthy Habits Analyzing, Applying, Organizing

Bee Therapy ideas, Personalizing, Predicting,
ACAdemiC TrACk: Final Task
Lesson B Participating in a discussion about Prior knowledge, reflecting
Health Science
A Conversation about Allergies Health

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tecHnology
Lesson A
A radio Show about Ai
video
• identifying important
details
• Using Abbreviations
• Giving reasons
• making eye Contact
Lesson Task
Using
Collocations
• Action and Nonaction
Verbs
• Stressed Content Words
Focus
Synthesizing

Can robots Learn to Be more

today and discussing Self-driving Cars Analyzing, Brainstorming,
Human? evaluating, interpreting a
tomorrow Final Task
page 21 Lesson B Presenting a New Technology Bar Graph, Organizing ideas,
A Conversation about Product Personalizing, Prior knowledge,
ACAdemiC TrACk: Technology reflecting
Technology

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culture and
Lesson A
A Lecture about Cowboys
(with slide show)
• Asking Questions While
Listening
• Using a Numbered List
• Asking for and Giving Clarification
• Using Good Posture
Lesson Task
keeping a
Vocabulary
Journal
• The Past Continuous
• reduced Function
Words
Focus
Activating Prior knowledge

tradition video exchanging information about Analyzing, Brainstorming,

Faces of india Cowboys making inferences, Organizing
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Lesson B Final Task ideas, Personalizing, reflecting
ACAdemiC TrACk: An Assignment about music Presenting a kind of music
Sociology

4
a tHirsty world
Lesson A
A Talk about the itaipu dam
(with slide show)
• Listening for Problems
and Solutions
• Using a T-Chart
• Asking for and Giving Opinions
• Speaking at the right Volume
Lesson Task
recognizing
Suffixes
• Active and Passive Voice
• Suffixes and Syllable
Stress
Focus
Prioritizing

page 61 video Presenting a Clean Water device Analyzing, Applying, evaluating,

dam-release rafting interpreting a map, Organizing
ACAdemiC TrACk:
Final Task
Lesson B role-Playing a meeting ideas, Personalizing, Predicting,
environmental Science A discussion about the Ogallala Prior knowledge
Aquifer

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inside tHe Brain
Lesson A
A Podcast about exercise and
the Brain (with slide show)
• Listening for reasons and
explanations
• recording the Steps in a
• making Suggestions
• Pausing to Check Understanding
Lesson Task
Using Context
Clues
• infinitives after Verbs
• Linking
Focus
identifying Solutions

page 81 video Process discussing Problems and Solutions Analyzing, Applying, evaluating,

3-d Brain Scans Organizing ideas, Personalizing,
ACAdemiC TrACk:
Final Task
Lesson B Planning a Presentation about the Predicting, reflecting
Psychology A discussion about memory, Human Brain
Learning, and emotions

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 Scope and Sequence Ac Ademic Skill S
Unit Title & Theme Listenings & Video Listening & Note Taking Speaking & Presentation Vocabulary Grammar & Pronunciation Critical Thinking

6
let’s eat!
Lesson A
A Presentation about the
korean diet (with slide show)
• Listening for Numerical
data
• Using a Split Page to
• interrupting and returning to 
a Topic
• Starting Strong
recognizing
Parts of Speech
• The real Conditional:
Present and Future
• intonation: Finished and
Focus
evaluating

page 101 video Take Notes Lesson Task Unfinished Sentences Analyzing, Brainstorming,
The Food and Culture of Oaxaca Participating in a Group discussion evaluating, Organizing ideas,
ACAdemiC TrACk:
Lesson B Final Task Personalizing, Predicting, Prior
Health & Nutrition A discussion about Food knowledge
Presenting a marketing Plan
Psychology

7
our active eartH
Lesson A
An earth Science Lecture
(with slide show)
• Listening for Transitions
• Using a Chart to Take
Notes
• Using Transitions
• Speaking at the right Pace
Lesson Task
Using Affect and
Effect
• Gerunds as Subjects
and Objects
• Syllable Number and
Focus
Predicting exam Questions

Syllable Stress review Analyzing, Applying, evaluating,

page 121 video interviewing a Partner about an
Volcano Trek interpreting a diagram,
experience
ACAdemiC TrACk: interpreting a map, making
Lesson B Final Task
earth Science inferences, Organizing ideas, Prior
A discussion about Volcanoes Giving a Presentation about a knowledge, reflecting
Natural disaster

8
wonders from
Lesson A
A Guided Tour of Uxmal
video
• Listening for examples
• recording examples
• Summarizing
• Using index Cards
Lesson Task
Using
Antonyms
• The Passive Voice with
the Past
• Question intonation
Focus
Applying knowledge

Sarah Parcak: Space

tHe Past Presenting Ancient Artifacts Analyzing, Applying,
Archaeologist and egyptologist Brainstorming, evaluating, making
page 141 Final Task
Lesson B Giving a Presentation about a inferences, Organizing ideas, Prior
ACAdemiC TrACk: A Conversation about an knowledge, reflecting
Historical Site
Archaeology/Anthropology Assignment

9
sPecies survival
Lesson A
A Talk about Birds (with slide show)
video
• Listening for repeated
Words
• re-Writing Your Notes
• Talking about Causes and effects
• Timing Your Presentation
Lesson Task
identifying
the Correct
definition
• Phrasal Verbs
• Stress in multi-Syllable
Words
Focus
Personalizing

page 161 Amazing Chameleons Presenting a Life Lesson Analyzing, Organizing ideas, Prior
Lesson B Final Task knowledge
ACAdemiC TrACk:
A Conversation about a Photo Presenting a research Proposal
Life Science Project

10
entrePreneurs
Lesson A
A Presentation about a Success
Story (with slide show)
• distinguishing Facts and
Opinions
• reviewing and editing
• rephrasing
• Thinking about Your Audience
Lesson Task
recognizing
Adjectives and
Adverbs
• The Present Perfect and
Signal Words
• infinitives to Show
Focus
interpreting data

Your Notes Purpose

and innovators video interpreting Quotations Analyzing, Brainstorming,
eco-Fuel Africa • Thought Groups interpreting Quotations,
page 181 Final Task
Lesson B Presenting a New Product Organizing ideas, Personalizing,
ACAdemiC TrACk: A Conversation about Jack Prior knowledge, ranking,
Business Andraka reflecting

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