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Course material:
World Link Basic 9 Student Book, Workbook, Video Activity Workbook (Units 1 3 and the Review Unit)
Supplementary Learning Material / Resources:
World Link E-Workbook / E-Video: Basic 9 / Basic 8 / Basic 7
E-Exams: Basic 9 Units 1 3 / Basic 8 Units 1 3 / Basic 7 Units 1 3
World Link web site
Heinle Picture Dictionary CD-ROM Units 9 12
Audio CD (All course book audio samples, including listening, pronunciation and Language Summaries sections)
Course Themes:
Welcome Unit- Classroom Language, Conversational Strategies and follow-up questions
Unit 1 People in My Life
Unit 2 Food
Unit 3 Unsolved Mysteries
Learning Objectives:
Please refer to attached document.
Evaluation Criteria:
Speaking: Choose three of the learning objectives designated. They should all be of equal difficulty and require some form of
response / elaboration beyond the single statement level.
Writing: Have the students write in response to tasks that are similar to those presented for this skill in Units 1, 2, and 3.
Oral Evaluation
UNIT 1
1. Pretend you are a famous person. Introduce yourself to a classmate. Then have a third classmate introduce you to someone
else.
2. Using the pictures below, describe what the person or persons are doing and use adverbs to describe how they are doing
the actions.
3. Using the pictures above, tell what the person or persons do every day and how they do it.
UNIT 2
1. Using descriptive adjectives, talk about the foods below.
2. Using comparative adjectives, talk about the health advantages or disadvantages of the foods above.
3. With a partner, talk about your favorite restaurant and compare it to other restaurants in your area.
UNIT 3
1. With a partner, talk about a crime that happened recently and guess possible ways that the criminal carried out the crime.
2. Talk about a natural phenomena and provide some theories about how it occurs.
Teaching Tips: 1) Please remind your students to practice their listening skills with the audio CD. The final exam will have them
listen to several short conversations. They will need to associate pictures with the correct answer alternatives. Also, have them
practice question formulation and responses for the open-ended section of the final written exam.