12th Grade Suggested Sample Content Analysis of Student's Book Jordan Opportunities 3, 2007 MODULE 1 ON WHEELS Warm-up (p. 7) Speaking: personalization ( pair work)p.7 Speaking: role-plays (pair work) p.11 Speaking: preparing a solution: a discussion (pair work, group work) p. 16 Pronunciation: /ŋ / and/ ŋ/ p.9 Pronunciation: stress and meaning p.11 Listening: monologues p.7 Listening:/ Listening Strategies: focus on situations: airport announcements p.10 Reading: Text-types: On Your Bike (pp. 8-9) a newspaper article; dialogues Reading: Environment-Friendly Machines: a magazine article/ an interview p. 12 Reading: The Road to Destruction: a magazine article pp. 14-15 (Reading strategies: completing notes) Writing: a report p. 17 Rewrite and Linking: addition and contrast p.17 Vocabulary: S/ transport (p. 7) Vocabulary: S / airport and stations; multi-part verbs p. 11 Vocabulary: S / traffic words; collocations p. 15 Grammar: S and W/ Present Perfect Continuous pp. 8-9 Grammar: S /Present Perfect and Present Perfect Continuous (pp. 12-13) Function: L /Travel expressions /travel situations p. 11 Function: L /Expressions used in discussing suggestions p. 16 Review (p. 18) Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation ========================================== MODULE 2 THE MEDIA Warm-up (p. 19) Speaking: discussing reading and viewing habits ( pair work) p.19 Speaking: ( and Writing) an information gap p.21 Speaking: Oral reporting p.23 (pair work, group work) Speaking (and writing): a discussion p.25 Speaking: using the causative p. 27 Speaking : A discussion on adverts p. 29 Listening: from TV programmes p.19 Listening: a radio programme p. 24 (Listening Strategies: listening for specific information) Pronunciation: contractions and stressed words p.25 Pronunciation: word stress p. 30 Reading: Text-types: What's in the papers?: newspaper stories p.19 (Reading Strategies: dealing with cultural references) p.21 Reading: World News: Volcano Fears Mount: a newspaper story (p. 22) Reading: text-type: a magazine article: Ajyaluna Campaign Writing: (and Speaking) making notes p. 25 Writing: a formal letter p. 28 (using linking words to contrast ideas p.92) Rewrite: a report in the passive p. 23 Rewrite: sentences in the passive p. 30 Rewrite: (using the causative structure ) p. 27 Vocabulary: S and L/ TV programmes, magazines, newspapers (p. 19) Vocabulary: S /compound adjectives p.21 Vocabulary: S /media words; multi-part verbs p.25 Grammar: S / The Passive (all tenses) pp. 22-23 Grammar: S /to have/get something done p. 27 Function: S and L /Function: expressing opinions p.25 Function: S / expressions used in interrupting people p. 29 Review : Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation (p. 30) ======================================= MODULE 3 PEOPLE Warm-up (p.31) Speaking: describing physical appearance p. 31 pair work Speaking: (and writing) an information gap p.35 pair work Speaking: monologues (talking about a famous person) p. 39 Speaking: discussing a photo p. 40 (Speaking Strategies: communicating effectively) Speaking: Culture Corner 1: The Omayyad Caliphs p.45 (pair work) Pronunciation: expressions of showing interest (pp. 34-35) Pronunciation: difficult consonant sounds p. 44 Listening: ( a description) in a police appeal p.31 Listening: a radio chat; interviews p.34 (Listening strategies: identifying opinions) Listening: a dialogue p. 36 Reading: a magazine article: The Future and Us p.32 Reading: ( an article describing a personality): (A Born Champion pp. 38-39) (Reading Strategies: inference) Reading : A descriptive text: The Jordan Valley (pp. 42-43) Reading: Culture Corner 1 historical text: The Omayyad Caliphs (pp. 45) Writing: writing notes about a famous person p. 39 Writing: using Linking words of exemplification and emphasis p. 39 Writing: describing a person using concept maps p.41 Writing about an environmental problem pp. 42-43 Vocabulary: R and S /physical appearance p.31 Vocabulary: R and S /personality adjectives; multi-part verbs p.34 Vocabulary: R and S /chess; opposites p. 38 Grammar: S /The Future p. 32 Grammar: S, W and L /Modals for speculation p.36-37 Function: L /describing people p.35 Function: L and S /describing and speculating p.40 Review: Grammar, Vocabulary and Pronunciation p. 44 Language Problem-solving 1: The Article (p. 46) =================================== Sample Specific References Reading Comprehension Texts Student's Book Text-Types: a newspaper article; dialogues, a magazine article/ an interview, newspaper stories, article describing a personality, a descriptive text of a place, historical text Reading Standards - Obtain the general idea or gist
- Identify the type of text
- Differentiate main idea from supporting details
- Extract specific information
- Infer the meaning of unfamiliar lexical items
- Recognize equivalence of meaning of textual
elements - Show understanding of text through the use of
cohesive devices and discourse markers - Distinguish facts from opinions
- Distinguish between the main writing styles
- Infer the writer's attitude using structural clues
- Sort out information according to given criteria
- Identify different relationships within a
text (cause & effect) Reading: Text-types: On Your Bike (pp. 8-9) a newspaper article; dialogues Reading: Environment-Friendly Machines: a magazine article/ an interview p. 12 Reading: The Road to Destruction: a magazine article pp. 14-15 (Reading strategies: completing notes) Reading: Text-types: What's in the papers?: newspaper stories p.19 (Reading Strategies: dealing with cultural references) p.21 Reading: World News: Volcano Fears Mount: a newspaper story (p. 22) Reading: text-type: a magazine article: Ajyaluna Campaign Reading: a magazine article: The Future and Us p.32 Reading: ( an article describing a personality): (A Born Champion pp. 38-39) (Reading Strategies: inference) Reading : A descriptive text of a place: The Jordan Valley (pp. 42-43) Reading: Culture Corner 1 historical text: The Omayyad Caliphs (pp. 45) Grammar/ Structures SB p 6 Present perfect continuous p 8 Present simple, Present continuous, Future forms, Present perfect, Past Simple, Past continuous, ==================================== SB Present perfect continuous p 8 Present perfect continuous , Present perfect, exe2 p12, exe3-8 p 13, Exe 1 p18 The future will+ infinitive, may/ might may not/ be going to exe from 4 to 12 pp 32-33 Activity Book Present perfect continuous p 2- 3 (For repeated actions, For an activity that has some consequences in the present, for a prolonged activity) Present perfect simple and continuous p 6 State and activity verbs (I feel unhappy..) p 25 Used to and would Present perfect Present perfect continuous Past perfect Future AB p 26 Will/ won't For sudden actions Will/won't or may/ might (not) for predictions Will and going to for prediction p 27 Will, going to or present continuous p 27 (For intention, sudden decision, prediction based on opinions and beliefs, personal arrangement, future fact, prediction based on the observation of the present situation) Present simple p 29 Present continuous Future forms ( present continuous, present simple, going to (intention), will (decision), going to (prediction), will (prediction) =============================== Structures SB p 8 Conditionals, Comparison of Adjectives, Quantity expressions (some, a lot,) Modals of obligation, the Passive ( present, past) Question forms Prepositions (of, to ,from, in) Countable/ uncountable Irregular verbs Passive ( present, past) Exe from 4 to 13 pp 23-24 Causative Exe from 5 to 10 p27 Causative and passive exe1- 2 p30 Activity Book Articles p 5 With countable and uncountable nouns (a, an, the , Zero, any, some, pieces of, ) Passive 16 Passive verb forms Rearrange words Passive questions Causative p 20 to have/ get something done Used to and would p 25 SB Modals of obligation Modals of Speculation (must, may, may not, might, can't, could) Exe 2-11 pp 36-37 A strong conviction that something is / was true A strong conviction that something is / was not true A possibility that something is/ was true A possibility that something is/ was not true Activity Book Modal Verbs for Advice p 19 Should, shouldn't Ought to, ought not to Modals for speculation p 30 Must and can't for a strong conviction that something is or is not true Must have and can't have for a strong conviction that something was or was not ture May, might and could for a possibility that something is or was true Linking SB Using linking Conjunctions/ adverbs; Exe 2 SB p17 Linking exe 5 p 39 Activity Book Linking words Linking words to list and contrast ideas p 9 (To list: also, and, in addition, too, as well as, plus, To Contrast: although, but, however, on the one hand) Linking words: Contrast p 15 ( although/ as well as/ suddenly In the end/ never the less/ Also Plus/ after/ Despite In spite of/ in addition to/ immediately Suddenly/ then/ however And/ but/ after that Although/ too/ one day ) Linking words: Giving examples p 33 ( especially/ for example, such as / particularly, for example/ like) =================================== Articles SB Articles Exe 2, 4 p 46 SB Prepositions ( for, in , off, on, out, through, to, up) exe3 p18 SB Classification Exe 1 p 7 Exercise 2 SB p10 Exe 1 p31 Activity Book Classification p 7 ( Trains, Cars, Aircraft/ Airports) Classification p 17 ============================= Functions SB Travel expressions: Exe 5 SB p 11 Discussing plans: Exe 3 SB ( using function expressions) Opinions, agreement and disagreement function expressions exe 6 p 25 Interrupting people function expressions exe3 p29 Describing people function expressions ( appearance, interests, personality)exe 7 p35 Expressions used in describing and speculating function EXE 2 p 40 Activity Book Functions p 4 Asking for and giving travel information Functions p18 Agreeing and disagreeing Expressing opinions Polite interruptions Functions p 28 Describing people Describing personalities Function of Structure SB Differentiating / paraphrasing : Exe 7 p 37 ( I' sure that they forget about our wedding. a. They can't have forgotten about our wedding. b. They must have forgotten about our wedding.) ================================= Vocabulary SB Multi-part verbs exe 10 p 11 Compound Adjectives exe 6-7 p 21 Phrasal Verbs exe 10 p2 5 Multi-part verbs: get-down, give up, gets on with, get together, take up, getting at, put ---down, puts up with Opposites (pre-fixes) Exe 6 p 39 Activity Book Vocabulary /Derivation Vocabulary p 4 Airport vocabulary Vocabulary p 8 Compound nouns (traffic accidents) Words that go together Word Bank p 10 Dictionary work p 11 Item extract: meaning and analysis Dictionary work AB p 22 and pronunciation Compound Adjectives Derivation (advert/ advertisement popular/ popularity celebrate/ celebrity music/ musician photograph/ photographer organize/ organization publish/ publicity Vocabulary p 32 Opposites with prefixes ( un-, in-, ir-, il-, im-, dis- ) Verbs as vocabulary Multi-part verbs p 4 Pulled up Pulled out Pulled in Pull through Pulled (it) down Multi-part verbs p 18 Turn ( up) -- Turn (to) come (round) Turn the TV (down) Go ( after) Go (round) - come (back) Come (from) Go (to) Turn (round)-- Look (at)-- Go (with) Multi-part verbs p 28 Get ( someone down, at, on with, together) Give (up) Take (up) Put (up with, down) ================================== Writing Rewrite SB Rewrite the sentences using modal verbs Exe 9 p 37 Composition SB 1.Writing notes: ( imagine you have lost something on a flight write notes about: your flight number, what you have lost and the color rand the size, the contents of your luggage) exe 8 p 11 2. Write a report for your school magazine about the transport situation where you live. Use the Steps of the Writing process. Exe 2 p 17 3. Writing notes ( imaginary news stories) sports- a local match personal- a local boy won a national chess competition good news- new family planning clinic opened bad news- a minor accident exe 8 p 21 4. Writing notes (the quality of TV programmes, control of TV programmes, celebrities, privacy and the media)exe 8 p 25 5. Writing a formal Letter to a newspaper giving your opinion about a local problem. Use the steps of the writing process. Exe 1 - 3 p 28 Look at these advertisements. Write an essay discussing magazine adverts and advertising in general and express your opinion. Exe1-3 p 29 6. Describe yourself exe3 p34 7. Write about someone you know appearance, interests, likes, dislikes, personality, relationships ( Who are you going to describe, How long have you known him/her?, What does he look like?, What is he like?( personality) EXE 9 p 35 Write notes about a famous person you admire: (Who he is, What has he achieved, What he looks like, What kind of personality she has got.) Exe 9 p 39 8. Describe and write about a geographical area of Jordan that you know well, What problems are there that have to do with the environment and water in Jordan? How can they be solved? 9. Write a report about an environmental problem. Exe 5-7 p 43 Activity Book Guided writing: Writing a report p 9 Guided Writing: A formal letter p 15 Guided Writing: Describing a person p 33 Punctuation: commas for linking, Spelling p 9 Punctuation: Names and titles, Spelling p 15 Punctuation: commas in lists, Spelling p 33 ============================== Listening SB Pronunciation p 9 Exe 2 Looking vs wrong p 9 Exe 6 Stress and meaning p 11 Same sound different spelling exe 5 p 18 Word Stress exe 6 p30 Using the Phonetic chart in the dictionary exe 6 p 18 Which words in the following sentences have these sounds: /u/ Exe 7 p 44 Activity Book Listening Word Bank p 10 Pronunciation (Underline the stress in these words) AB p 10 Dictionary work (Sample entries) Word Bank p 22 Dictionary work and pronunciation Key word Bank p 34 Dictionary work (Sample entries) Pronunciation ( Having similar sounds) |