English 130

Contents

1-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

1-1Plight of the Outsider

1-2Teenage Cults

1-3The Secrets of Male Friendships

Writing

1-1Review: Four Types of Sentences

1-2Linking Devices

1-3Writing a Paragraph

1-4Descriptive Composition

Media

1-1Web Search: Bullying

1-2Actions Against Bullying

1-3It's a Girl's World

Use of English

1-1Friends & Peers

1-2Peer Pressure - Open Cloze

1-3Collocations

1-4Open Cloze: Adolescents and Parents

1-5Vocabulary Focus

1-6Phrasal Verbs

1-7Word Building - Suffixes

Contents

2-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

2-1How The Internet Is Changing The Way We Learn

2-2The Future of Education

2-3Testing Times

Writing

2-1In Your Own Words

2-2Writing a Summary

2-3Expressing and Supporting Opinion

Media

2-1TED: Salman Khan: Reinvent Education

2-2Steve Jobs: Stanford Commencement Speech

2-3TED: Sir Ken Robinson: Why Schools Kill Creativity

Use of English

2-1Words of Wisdom

2-2Clauses of Contrast or Concession

2-3Conditional Sentences

2-4Phrasal Verbs

2-5Similarities and Comparisons

Contents

3-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

3-1The Rise of Megacities

3-2Next Generation

Writing

3-1Punctuation: The Comma

3-2In Your Own Words - Formal and Informal Register

3-3Descriptive Composition

Media

3-1Monocle's Quality of Life Survey

3-2Trashopolis: Tokyo

Use of English

3-1Bright Lights

3-2Descriptive Vocabulary

3-3Word Building

3-4Causative Structures

3-5Causative Structures Picture Problems

3-6Phrasal Verbs

3-7Building Adjectives

3-8Oral Presentation

Contents

4-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

4-1The Curitiba Experience

4-2Taking the Power out of Wind

Writing

4-1The Opinion Essay

4-2Thesis Statements

4-3In Your Own Words

Media

4-1Force of Nature: David Suzuki

Use of English

4-1The Living Planet

4-2Defining and Non-Defining Relative Clauses

4-3Reduced / Participle Clauses

4-4Vocabulary Focus

4-5Word Building: Rainforest Concern

4-6Phrasal Verbs

4-7Word Study: Prefixes

Contents

5-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

5-1The Hockey Sweater

5-2English as a Global Language

5-3Will The Monoglot Ever Understand?

Writing

5-1Figurative Speech

5-2Linking Narratives

5-3Narrative Composition

Media

5-1Technology and Language

Use of English

5-1Language Matters

5-2Cleft Sentences

5-3Inversion

5-4Metaphor

5-5Word Building

5-6Narrative Tenses

5-7Word Building - The Number of Words in English

Contents

6-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

6-1Conduct Becoming

6-2The War on Civility

6-3The Argument Culture

Writing

6-1Linking Comparison/Contrast

6-2The Comparison/Contrast Essay

6-3In Your Own Words

Media

6-1: The Bookstore Debate

Use of English

6-1Is Culture Doomed?

6-2Noun Clauses

6-3Vocabulary Focus: Change

6-4Open Cloze: Art or Vandalism?

6-5Word Building: The Crystal

6-6Open Cloze: Two Works of Canadian Art

6-7Forming Nouns from Phrasal Verbs

6-8Comparisons and Preferences

Contents

7-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

7-1How Fair Trade Works

7-2Who Were The Hippies?

7-3The Feminist Movement

7-4Brandalism

Writing

7-1Process

7-2Punctuation: The Semi-Colon, Colon, Dash and Parentheses

Media

7-1A New Brand of Politics

7-2How to Start a Movement

7-3The Hippies

Use of English

7-1Social Movements

7-2'Wh' Clauses

7-3Open Cloze: How Pencils Are Made

7-4Phrasal Verbs

7-5Oral Presentation

Contents

8-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

8-1Frankenstein

8-2The Robot Industry In Japan

8-3High Tech Crime Of The Future

Writing

8-1Writing from Reading: Summary and Response

8-2In Your Own Words

Media

8-1Manufacturing Body Parts

8-2Poisoning of Paradise

Use of English

8-1Pandora's Box

8-2Multiple Choice Cloze: Robot Soccer

8-3The Future

8-4Multiple Choice Cloze: Believe The Eyes

8-5Open Cloze: Robot Room

8-6Word Building: Frankenstein's Creator

8-7Mixed Conditionals

8-8Phrasal Verbs

Contents

9-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

9-1Perfectionism

9-2You Are What You Keep

9-3The Cat Man

9-4Searching For Happiness

Writing

9-1Linking Cause and Effect

9-2Cause and Effect Verbs/Nouns

Media

9-1Hoarders

9-2The Power of Negativity

Use of English

9-1Mind Over Matter

9-2Vocabulary Focus

9-3Verb Patterns

9-4Stress Test

9-5Habits

9-6Phrasal Verbs

9-7The Subjunctive

9-8Multiple Choice Cloze: Temper

Contents

10-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

10-1Motivation

10-2Rich Kids

10-3Literary Text

Writing

10-1Writing Definitions

10-2In Your Own Words: Formal Register

10-3Punctuation: Run-On Sentences and Comma Splices

Media

10-1Amy Chua - Tiger Mother

10-2A Radical Millionaire

10-3Hyper-Parenting

Use of English

10-1Born to Conform

10-2Multiple Choice Cloze: Quality of Life

10-3Vocabulary Focus - Collocations

10-4Intensifying and Emphasis

10-5Editing Skills

10-6Multiple Choice Cloze: High Stakes

10-7Open Cloze: Success

Contents

11-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

11-1It�s Not Just What You Say, It�s How You Say It

11-2Handbags

11-3Supermarket Secrets

11-4Big Sell, Tiny Targets

11-5Fashion Trademarks

11-6Buying Fakes

Writing

11-1Parallelism

11-2Cause and Effect: Tattoos and Mainstream Culture

11-3The Cause and Effect Essay

Media

11-1Nike: Behind The Swoosh

11-2Advertising and Body Image

Use of English

11-1How Do I Look?

11-2Multiple Choice Cloze: Designer Labels

11-3Vocabulary Focus: Body Language

11-4Open Cloze: Big Business

11-5Cloze Exercises

11-6Relative Clauses in Formal English

Contents

12-0Objectives & Sequence

Reading

12-1Festivals

12-2Literary Text: The Lottery

12-3Charles Dickens

Writing

12-1Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

12-2Proofreading

12-3In Your Own Words

Media

12-1Superstition

Use of English

12-1Beliefs & Practices

12-2The Meaning of Gifts

12-3Words With Similar Meanings

12-4Open Cloze: Superstition

12-5Report Structures

12-6Describing Sounds & Movements

12-7Mythical Beasts

12-8Oral Presentation