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Have a closer look at each Lesson with its targets and outcomes. Remember that the new Student Guide has been thought up especially for you. You should use it to aid your learning process, your advances as well as your limitations. 

Read our targets before starting the lessons in Unit 1.

Objetivo

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Lesson 1: To infinity and beyond
Content Category

 Longevity, cloning, robotics, artificial intelligence, cryonics; phrasal nouns.

Vocabulary

Same-way question tags, (So, you're having a baby, are you? That's wonderful!).

Phrasal nouns.

Infinitives.

Grammar
Words with dropped syllables. Pronunciation

Expressing doubt and reservation. Checking that you have understood and have been understood. Asking for clarification. 

Functions in oral English.

Planning an Opinion Essay.

Functions

 A Space Odyssey.

Life on Mars.

Culture

Cheating Death.

'Mediterranean diet'.

9 unexpected outcomes of human cloning.

Silicon Valley has the squidgy world of biology in its sights.

March of the Machines.

Extract “Broken Circuit’ from 2001: A Space Odyssey. 

Reading

Labelled with love.

Radio phone-in about cloning.

BBC recording about cryonics.

Challenges facing would-be astronauts on Mars.

Will they eat Mars bars?

Listening

Write an opinion essay on “Government investment in space exploration is a waste of money” – do you agree?

Writing

Would you like to be cloned?

Talk about being cryonically preserved with your peers.

Discuss “humanity will find itself more and more redundant” with your peers.

Take part in a 3-person Oral Interaction on space exploration.

Speaking

Summarizing technical information. Sharing it with a partner. Transferring it to a person who does not speak English.

Mediation
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Lesson 2: The end of the world
Content Category

Vocabulary related to the military.

Idioms related to war.

Reduplication, i.e.: flip-flop, chit-chat.

Some distinctions among words i.e. catastrophe, cataclysm, disaster, calamity,

Common linking words.

Vocabulary

 Idioms and their meanings; 4 quizzes, choose the meanings related to war.

Exceptions to order of adjectives before nouns.

Common linking words from additions, contrast, reason, consequence, purpose, time sequence, examples/repetition/emphasis and summary/conclusions.

Grammar

Pronouncing the final unstressed "e".

Different pronunciation in General American /ˈmɪlɪˌteri/ and General British English /ˈmɪlɪt(ə)ri/.  

The Intrusive “r”

Pronunciation

Hypothesising and evaluating possibility/ potential.

Revision of common linking words.

Essay writing, the important elements of thesis or focus, audience and purpose, organization, and development.

Functions

Carl August Sandburg.

The Impossible. The 2004 Tsunami.

Culture

The Doomsday Clock.

The War of the Worlds: Orson Wells and Stephen Spielberg.

Sweden abolishes military draft.

Hurricane Katrina.

What should we think about death? 

The Church of England.

Religion must be a laughing matter.

Reading

The Grass is a poem from Cornhuskers (1918).

Cheryl Wagner's testimony.

The Believing Brain.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen go head to head.

The Simpson's take on Henry VIII.

I got caught.

Listening

Discuss your fears and beliefs about the end of the world.

Write an anecdote about the most embarrassing thing you have ever done.

Writing

Discuss points raised in "End of the World" with your tutor and peers.

Opinion on religious beliefs and practices in Spain.

Share a joke with your class mates and tutor.

Speaking

Give a short presentation on H.G. Wells and the War of the Worlds for your school's Culture Week using the information in the lesson.

Mediation
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Lesson 3: Youtubers and Online TV
Content Category

Vocabulary used in online social media: Biographies, Youtubers, Influencers.

Phrasal verbs. 

Vocabulary

Transforming phrasal verbs.

Brief view of subordinate clauses in chunking.

Grammar
Tone units and chunking. Pronunciation

Expressing knowledge or lack thereof.

Essay writing from notes taken from video recordings.

Functions
Stephen Hawking. Culture

What is YouTube?  

How to become a YouTube star.

Why are YouTube stars so popular? 

Most influential people on the Internet.

Annual report uncovers generation gap.

Technology integration “New 21st-century learner”.

Information about classroom apps.

Phrasal verbs that become nouns or adjectives.

Reading

DanTDM: World's Richest YouTuber.

How to Become a Social Influencer.

What is the future of social media?

Social media trends 2018?

Micro-influencers.

How Netflix Is Killing Traditional TV.

Streaming vs Cable: Who Wins?

Phrasal Verbs As Nouns.

Listening

Write your own expressions to say you don't know anything, other than using "I don't know”.

Write an opinion essay.

Writing

Discuss given quotes on aspects of social media.

Discuss how you would start your own YouTube channel with your partner.

Share your opinion on the character traits of a "microinfluencer".

Discuss with your partner how the teaching of English has changed since you started learning the language. 

Speaking

Review an infographic, understand what it is conveying, then explain its content to a student who doesn't know what an infographic is using your own words and without reading directly from it.

Mediation
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Lesson 4: Keep on truckin’

Content Category

Dedication and perseverance. Skiing and swimming idioms. Recent words added to English. 

Vocabulary

Formal language vs Informal language.

When to use and when not to use contractions / first person pronouns, etc.

Grammar

Intonation; looking at the rise and fall of pitch in a phrase or sentence

Pronunciation
I stand corrected. Functions

Mikaela Shiffrin, the best Slalom skier in the world.

Bill Gates. 

Chicago Tribune; Wear Sunscreen. 

Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well.

Culture

The Ever-Changing English Language; quiz Match the "swimming" idioms with their definitions.

Experiment and Innovate- William Shakespeare; quiz Match Shakespeare quotations with the play they come from.

Macbeth; a written summary

The sunscreen song; quiz Match the questions with the answers

Reading

Definition of success.

Mikaela Shiffrin, the best Slalom skier in the world.

Night-swimming by REM.

Bill Gates. 

Macbeth a video summary.

Compare Alan Rickman's and Daniel Radcliffe’s reading of Sonnet 130.

Benedict Cumberbatch reading “The Seven Ages of Man”.

Hopper, Nighthawks.

The Sunscreen Song.

Listening
Write a short story about the 1960 painting by Edward Hopper called “Second Story Sunlight” Writing

Choose a film or TV series you like and talk about it for 3 - 5 minutes.

Correcting someone when they have made a mistake. 

Speaking
Prepare a brief summary on Shakespeare's life and works. Choose one to focus on. You have to give a presentation on that piece with a partner. Your partner knows nothing about Shakespear. Brief him on Shakespeare, then on the work you have chosen. Give him/her enough information so that you can prepare the presentation together. Mediation
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