| Goals | Grammar | Vocabulary | Listening | Speaking & Pronunciation | Reading & Writing |
| · Explain how we get luxury items | Passive voice (present tense) | Luxury items | Focused listening | Discussing luxuries and necessities | ‘Perfume: The essence of Illusion” |
| · Talk about needs and wants | | Import/ export items | Discussions: The world flower market | Talking about improving your life | Writing a magazine ad. |
| · Discuss what makes people’s lives better | | Past participles of irregular verbs | | Sentence stress: content vs. function words | |
| · Evaluate the way advertising creates desire for products | | | | | |
- Check Goals
- Definition Luxury, why are luxuries expensive? What is really necessary and what is a luxury? Why do luxury items give us pleasure (connected to emotion and culture)?
- Vocabulary exercise
- Grammar: Passive voice (present tense) and exercises
- Conversation – Otavalo co-op
- Listening : where do flowers come from? - Ecuador
- Workbook – mini-quiz: pages 43 to 44
- Choose topic to write about – go through blogging and vlogging
- Assign homework
I'm including some pages for you to work on:
Irregular verbs: http://www.englishpage.com/irregularverbs/irregularverbs.html
Passive voice: http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/passive/exercises?simple-present-2
Remember that we will do short quizzes at the end of every unit, so start reviewing and practicing.
Homework:
Workbook - Unit seven, parts A and B.
Blog or Vlogs - Brainstorm process, outline and at least half of your writing or speaking project. Please send me the link to your blog, if you can't open one, please see me in class to help you.
