Topic outline
Unit One: The environment
Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. In the beginning, you will listen to a person talking about climate change. You will also have texts related to the problems and prospects of our planet.
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
1. apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader about climate change,
2. apply the skills and strategies of a good listener and speaker,
3. use tenses correctly,
4. express offers, make requests, express agreement.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
• understand a short listening text about climate change,
• understand a reading text about climate change,
• use key terms in a scientific context,
• use tenses correctly,
• write a critical essay about the future surrounding global warming and climate change.
Unit Two: Arts
Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. By the end of each part, you will have an assignment that you must do with your group. In this unit, you will learn about famous people like Naguib Mahfouz and Mozart, and you will also learn about Palestinian folk dance
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
apply the skills and strategies of a successful listener,
apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader,
apply the skills and strategies of a successful speaker,
understand and apply the conventions of academic writing in English,
demonstrate positive behavior and attitudes.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
complete a listening text about Naguib Mahfouz, Mozart and Palestinian folk dance,
use key vocabulary in context and describe autobiographies,
learn about Palestinian culture,
use passive voice correctly,
construct an essay about famous people,
discuss literary figures and folk dances through speaking fluently and spontaneously, without much obvious searching for expressions.
Unit Three
Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. In the beginning, students will listen to materials connected with traditions all over the world, marriage traditions, and Palestinian wedding traditions.
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
1. apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader about international traditions,
2. apply the skills and strategies of a good listener and speaker,
3. use quantifiers (few/ a few, little/ a little),
4. express denying and refusing Politely, expressing disappointment,
5. write a comparative essay on the traditions.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
• understand a short listening text about an introduction at a wedding and the Palestinian wedding ceremonies,
• understand a reading text about traditions around the world, traditional marriage ceremonies all over the world, and some Palestinian wedding ceremonies,
• use key terms in an informative context,
• use quantifiers (few / a few, little / a little),
• express denying and refusing politely, expressing disappointment,
• write a comparative essay about traditions around the world and a Palestinian one, and write a comparative paragraph on wedding ceremonies in the past and the present in Palestine.
Unit Five: Transportation
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. In the beginning, you will listen to materials connected to the future of modern transportation technology. You will also have texts related to the history of transport. You will write an essay about modern means of transport.Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:1. apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader about transportation,2. apply the skills and strategies of a good listener and speaker,3. use the conditionals properly,4. summarize a text.Intended Learning Outcomes
• understand a short listening text about the future of transport,
• understand a reading text about the history of transportation,
• use key terms in a scientific context,
• use conditionals correctly,
• write a summary about the Hyperloop
Unit Six: Modern Education
Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: Listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. You will have lessons about Artificial Intelligence for education, learning outside the classroom and two systems of education. The grammar part will be about reported speech. The section on language use includes persuading other people, expressing regret and showing importance and recommendations. You will be writing essays about different topics in technology and education.
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
apply the skills and strategies of a successful listener,
apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader,
apply the skills and strategies of a successful speaker,
understand and apply the conventions of academic writing in English,
demonstrate positive behaviour and attitudes.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
take notes and make use of them in answering questions about the listening or a video.
distinguish relevant from irrelevant information.
comprehend relationships between concepts.
make inferences and predictions about spoken discourse.
produce a well-organized academic essay.
use a variety of reported speech structures.
make inferences and predictions based on information in the text.
summarize or paraphrase information in a text.
Unit Seven
Preview
This unit consists of the following parts: listening, reading, grammar, language use and writing. You will have a lesson about the Nobel Prize Foundation, the types of the Prize, and Nobel Prize winners. The grammar part will deal with the embedded questions and future tenses. Language use includes obligation, asking for clarification, and criticizing. In this unit, you will be writing essays about different topics.
Unit Objectives
Upon completing this unit, students will be able to:
1. apply the skills and strategies of a successful reader about international Prizes,
2. apply the skills and strategies of a good listener and speaker,
3. use future tenses and embedded questions,
4. express obligation, criticizing, asking for clarification,
5. write a well-organized essay.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this unit, learners will be able to:
understand a short listening text about the Nobel Prize,
understand a reading text about the Nobel Prize Foundation, the types of the Prize, and some winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace,
use key terms in an informative context,
use future tenses and embedded questions,
express obligation, criticizing, and asking for clarification,
write a summary about the Nobel Prize Foundation, describe the process of selecting a winner, and write an essay on Yasser Arafat as a Nobel Prize winner.
