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Sub-themes: mobile phones and their impact on health and social life; personal preferences for films and visual arts Target Vocabulary in Use (with revisional vocabulary): Vocabulary for mobile phones and their impact on health and social life: Nouns: Addiction, aid, assistance, bias, anger, anxiety, awareness, convenience, disconnection, disorientation, a follower, helpline, an inbox, necessity, panic, a password, majority, minority, podcasting, remote learning, service provider, privacy, relief, standard of living, surfing, a tension, tiredness, welfare. Verbs: To demonstrate, to friend, to preserve, to resist, to isolate, to overcome, to heal, to harm, to trace, to overuse, to regulate, to monitor, to restrict. Adjectives: Addicted, aggressive, anxious, biased, dependent, isolated, unconscious, significant. Adverbs: Increasingly, severely, securely. Vocabulary for personal preferences for films and visual arts: Nouns: Animation, cast, classic, genre, masterpiece, performing arts, preview, production, rehearsal, scenario, sci-fi, screening, sound effect, stunt, subtitle, tension, amazement, amusement, criterion, preference. Verbs: To adore, to edit, to appeal, to consult. Adjectives: Dramatic, emotional, aggressive, animated. Adverbs: Alternatively. Target Grammatical Structures in Use: -The Simple Past Tense versus the Past Progressive Tense: (I was surfing the web when my phone rang). -Question Tags with the Simple Past Tense and the Past Progressive Tense: (You enjoyed the film, didn’t you?). (They were coming back home when you saw them, weren’t they?). - “Could” for ability: (She could play the piano very well when she was younger). - “Used to”: (She used to rehearse with her cast every day last year). (She used to play football as a kid). -Wh- questions: How long ago etc. (How long ago did you watch that film?). -Prepositions: Among, until, on, at, in, in case, by, of, with, about, to, for, about, from, out of: (The film will start at 8 p.m). -Prepositional phrases with in, for, from, to, at, to, in, about, with, from, of, etc.: (He learned it from the podcast.) Functions of the Grammatical Structures in Use: -Use of the Simple Past Tense versus the Past Progressive Tense: Describing an action that was interrupted by another event (Past Progressive) or completed in the past (Simple Past). -Use of “Question Tags” with the Simple Past Tense and the Past Progressive Tense: Asking short questions to confirm or clarify information (in the past) in the sentence. -Use of “Could” for ability (I could ski before I could walk): Describing an ability in the past. -Use of “Used to”: Describing past habits or routines that do not occur in the present. -Use of “Wh- questions” e.g. “How long etc.”: Asking for specific information about a subject, an object, time, a place, manner and a reason. -Use of Prepositions: (among, until, on, at, in, in case, by, of, with, about, to, for, about, from, out of): Indicating relationship among the components of a sentence in terms of cause, direction, manner, time, and location. -Use of Prepositional Phrases with in, for, from, to, at, to, in, about, with, from, of, etc.: Clarifying the details in the sentence about the cause, direction, manner, time, and location. Target Social Language in Use: Write this down, it’s important! How do you feel? Is everything all right? She looks like a picture of health! Target Phonological Sounds in Use: -Intonation of questions and question tags. *No pronunciation symbols will be included in any material written for the pupils, (only) the sounds will be practised through pronunciation activities in the theme.
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