Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 1 Our changing Planet

Unit 1 The Scientist’s View

Unit 2 Different Points of View

Unit 3 Searching for solutions

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• Understanding the main points of interviews, reports and monologues • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings • Understanding straightforward factual texts related to climate change • Recognizing the essential conclusions in argumentative texts

• simple, private correspondence, e.g. letters and emails (informal) • Summarizing the most important information in a text that deals with global warming

• Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about climate change • Talking about / interpreting statistics about CO2 emissions • Expressing one’s opinion about the destruction of ecosystems • Giving advice • Giving a presentation about the greenhouse effect

• a blog or diary entry about global warming (Creative Writing)

• Reporting on subject areas like climate change and describing one’s feelings or reactions • Explaining one’s opinions, plans, intentions and goals and giving reasons for them • Describing paintings and posters about global warming and interpreting them

• Will-Future / Conditional I

• Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings • Getting the essential information from a book about long-distance travel • Understanding straightforward factual texts related to food miles

• a report on food miles for a supermarket

• Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about food miles • Agreeing and disagreeing, making suggestions about the best way to travel • Acting out dialogues in a role-play or a simulated professional situation • Preparing and conducting a group discussion • Presenting a project about food sources

• Reported speech

• RC: multiple-Choice • LC: short answers

• an informal email

• Individual long turn

• Understanding the main points of poems, stories, songs • Understanding short poems that deal with climate change

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Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 2 The Web of communication

Unit 4 Connecting through the Internet

Unit 5 To Talk or Not to Talk?

Unit 6 Creative Communication

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Writing (Textsorten)

Speaking

• Understanding the main points of radio news bulletins concerning social networking sites • Understanding the main points in a text about communication models • Understanding the main points in short newspaper articles about the dangers of social networking sites

• Writing an email about online programs (formal) • Writing a weblog (blog) and expressing personal views and opinions about the use of digital media • Making posters about the dangers of social networking sites

• Describing and comparing photos about different forms of communication • Expressing and responding to feelings • Giving or seeking personal views and opinions in an informal discussion about online programs • Agreeing and disagreeing politely • Giving detailed accounts of experiences, describing feelings • Paraphrasing written passages

• Adverbs / The use of adverbs

• Understanding longer simple texts from websites, newspapers or magazines • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings • Understanding longer simple texts from websites, newspapers or magazines • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• simple, private correspondence, e.g. letters and emails (informal) • Summarizing the most important information in a text that deals with communication

• Asking and answering questions on communication between families • Giving information about oneself in an interview situation

• Adjective or Adverbs / verbs of state

• Understanding short, simple poems on feelings • Understanding the main points of anecdotes, stories, poems or songs • Understanding short, simple poems on feelings

• a short creative poem about oneself (Creative Writing) • an application (e.g. dossier)

• Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about creative communication • Agreeing and disagreeing politely • Describing oneself and one’s interests creatively • Presenting oneself and putting together an application

• LC: multiple matching

• a report

• Paired activity

• LiU: Editing

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Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 3 Migrants and Minorities

Unit 7 What is Migration?

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Unit 8 Migrants as Minority Groups

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Unit 9 The Downside of Migration

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Writing (Textsorten)

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• a diary entry or a weblog (blog) on migration

• Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about migration • Expressing one’s opinion in discussions about reasons for and problems of migration • Giving an oral summary • Giving a prepared presentation about the effects of migration • Describing pictures and telling stories

• an opinion essay about immigration (step by step)

• Comparing the two parts of an interview • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about the scale of migration to the UK • Agreeing and disagreeing politely about the integration of immigrants • Comparing and contrasting photos and cartoons about illegal immigrants • Acting out dialogues in a role-play or a simulated professional situation • Explaining one’s opinions, plans, intentions and goals

• an article on stereotypes

• Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about stereotypes • Agreeing and disagreeing politely • Acting out dialogues in a role-play about how to overcome prejudice

• Understanding the main points in interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings • Getting the essential information from magazine articles about Polish immigration to the British Isles • Understanding straightforward factual texts related to migration • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• Recognizing the essential conclusions in argumentative texts • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings

• Understanding longer simple texts from websites, newspapers or magazines • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• RC: short answers • LC: multiple-choice

Grammar

• Individual long turn

• Participle constructions

• LiU: banked gap-fill 3

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Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 4 Violence and Crime

Unit 10 Violence in Popular Culture

Unit 11 Crime and Prevention

Unit 12 Bullying and Conformism

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• a formal email on violent video games • an opinion essay on the role of violence in books for teenage readers

• Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about violence and crime • Analysing charts about convictions in Austria • Giving a prepared presentation about crime rates • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about violent video games • Describing and interpreting graphs

• a simple descriptive text on the anti-knife crime campaign’s effectiveness • a report on the fight against drugs

• Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about illegal graffiti • Agreeing and disagreeing politely • Acting out dialogues in a role-play about knife crime • Giving a prepared presentation • Describing pictures and telling stories

• Prepositions

• Understanding longer literary texts • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections • Understanding the main points in interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings • Understanding longer literary texts • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• a blog entry about bullying

• Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about violence • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion in conversations and discussions about bullying

• Conditional III

• RC: multiple-choice • LC: short answers

• an article

• Paired activity

• LiU: Editing

• Describing one’s personal impression of stories, books, films and plays • Getting the essential information from simple newspaper or magazine articles • Understanding longer literary texts • Recognizing the essential conclusions in argumentative texts • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections • Understanding the main points in interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers • Getting the essential information from simple newspaper or magazine articles • Understanding straightforward factual texts related to crime • Understanding the main points in interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers

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Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 5 Making a Difference

Unit 13 It’s Your Turn

Unit 14 Can I Help?

Unit 15 Applying for Volunteer Work

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Reading / Listening

Writing (Textsorten)

Speaking

• a report about extracurricular activities in class

• Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about young people’s worries • Analysing and talking about the effectiveness of posters • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion about Barack Obama’s speech on June 2, 2006 • Making and presenting a speech • Describing pictures and talking about social problems

• Understanding longer simple literary texts • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• a blog post on a short story

• Describing one’s personal impression of stories, books, films and plays • Describing one’s personal impression of stories, books, films and plays • Talking about a poem • Beginning, maintaining and ending a conversation about helping others • Asking and answering questions about the characters of a story • Describing pictures of a small-talk situation • Acting out dialogues in a role-play and trying to keep a conversation going • Reporting on events and describing one’s feelings

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• Getting the essential information from simple newspaper or magazine articles • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections

• a letter or a personal statement, introducing oneself (formal)

• Introducing oneself in a letter or in a personal statement • Giving information about oneself in an interview situation • Describing qualities and experience • Taking on a role in a simulated professional situation and improvise thereby • Describing pictures and telling stories

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• RC: short answers • LC: sentence completion

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• Recognizing the essential conclusions in argumentative texts • Finding information to solve a specific task in texts or text sections • Understanding the main points in interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings

Grammar

• Emphasis: Inversion • Conditionals I, II and III

• Simple present; present progressive, present perfect; to-infinitive / gerund

• LiU: Editing

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Contents – nach Vocabulary, Skills und Grammar Vocabulary TOPIC / Unit TOPIC 6 A good read

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Unit 16 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Unit 18 Looking for Alaska

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Reading / Listening

Writing (Textsorten)

Speaking

• a short blurb • a dialogue of a book (rewriting) • a diary entry about a book (Creative Writing)

• Discussing book covers and titles • Evaluating a chart about teenage reading habits • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion about reading habits of Austrian teenagers • Agreeing and disagreeing politely about important features which make for a good read • Speculating and reporting on books and describing one’s feelings about them

• a diary entry (Creative Writing) • an article about a book

• Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion about the characters of a book • Agreeing and disagreeing about encouraging young people to read more books • Giving a prepared presentation

• Understanding longer simple literary texts • Looking at a text and reading between the lines • Understanding the main points of anecdotes, stories, acted scenes or songs

• an email about an interview • a book review • a book report

• Describing one’s personal impression of stories, books, films and plays • Talking about audio books • Expressing and giving reasons for one’s opinion about eBooks • Agreeing and disagreeing politely • Describing the plot of a book or film

• RC: multiple matching • LC: short answers

• an opinion essay

• Individual long turn

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• Understanding longer simple literary texts • Understanding the main points of interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding, fundamentally, native speakers

• Understanding longer simple literary texts • Speculating about the narrator • Understanding the main points of interviews, reports and presentations • Understanding the most important elements of radio programmes and sound recordings

Grammar

• Reported Speech

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