Unit 1

• Focus: sports

• Vocabulary: soccer terms

• Grammar: comparative and superlative

• Reading: Pele

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Vocabulary:modern, version, pick up, allow, disaster, prefer, organization, club, competition, compete, competitive, popular, popularity, stadium, referee, changing room, pitch, pitcher, amazing, amaze, profession, professional, politician, salary, career

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• Grammar: comparative and superlative

Go to Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary to check the inflected forms of adjective.

Gradable adjectives: adjectives that are gradable can have comparative and superlative

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• Reading text: Pele

• Ask students to google Pele

• Provide students with information about Pele

• Discuss questions on p.11 and 12

Unit 2

• Focus: sports and the Paralympics

• Vocabulary

• Grammar: Comparative and past tense

• Reading: articles on the Paralympics and PowerFoot One

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• Vocabulary:

Disable, disabled, disability, athlete, patient, enormous, train, training, medal, natural, powerful, artificial, powerless, terrible, bounce, accident, temperature, equipment, painful, professor, ankle, innovation, invention, get used to, thanks to, quality, battery, recharge, rechargeable, sprinter, unfair, fair, argue, crier, mixed-race

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• Vocabulary: background, heritage, tournament, prize, prize money, advertise, advertisement,

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• Grammar: past tense

Form of past tense: V.-ed

question: Did +S. + v.+… ?

negative: S. + did not + V.+…

Discuss questions on p. 19

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• Reading text: Bouncing back

• Ask student to google Time magazine 2007 inventions of the year

• Discuss questions on p.17