Vue d’ensemble get up 6
VERS LE HAUT
Unit 1 - Buying
1 Shopping around
- Understanding pros and cons
- Understanding an informative video
2 Complaining
- Dealing with an oral complaint
- Writing an email of complaint
- Present perfect simple or continuous
- Present perfect simple or past simple
Going further…
- Primark – Taking care from sourcing to store / Money talks / What’s Buying Nothing Day all about?
- The origins of the name ‘Black Friday’
- Can fashion be fair? / The Secret Dreamworld of a shopaholic / Buy Nothing Day
Unit 2 - Fairy tales
1 Once upon a time
- Comparing films
- Telling a fairy tale
2 Off with her nut!
- Understanding a poem
- Rewriting a fairy tale
Linking words
Adjectives and adverbs
Narrative tenses
Going further…
- The princess rap battle / The Princess and the Pea: Fixed Fairy Tales / Stereotypes in fairy tales
- King Frost by Andrew Lang
- The Lion King and Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Similarities and Differences / The Magician and the Sultan’s Son /
Review: The Nutcracker and the four Realms
Unit 3 - And then...
1 The world is your oyster
- Understanding an informative text
- Talking about future possibilities and plans
2 Go get it!
- Talking about skills and character
- Writing a formal email of application
- Future tenses
Going further…
- Exchange students in Peru / Thiel Fellowship
- Bored with the UK? Put your laptop in your rucksack and go study abroad / Ten reasons to go on a student exchange /
WikiHow - How to make an exchange student feel welcome / Jobs of the future / Character Traits Employers Want
to See at Work
Unit 4 - Health matters
1 Fake health news
- Recognising facts and health ‘myths’
- Assessing your source critically
2 Public health issues
- Understanding articles from news websites
- Summarising an article in one sentence
- Had better / ought to
- Articles
Going further…
- 2019 Breakthrough of the year / Victor Frankenstein
- Fight or flight / Section from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein / Frankenstein – graphic novel / Frying oil consumption
Unit 5 - From rags to riches
1 In business we trust
- Understanding a cartoon / a video about business
- Talking about money and business
2 Where there’s a will there’s a way
- Analysing a pie chart
- Giving a presentation
- The third conditional
- Used to
Going further…
- Summer jobs for this summer
- An interview
- Strength in numbers / Buy! Buy! Bye Bye money / The four business model / Goods versus Services
Unit 6 - Green is the colour
1 Youth for climate
- Understanding informative resources
- Analysing a speech
2 Plastic is not fantastic!
- Defining ‘Zero Waste’
- Producing a tutorial
- Comparatives and superlatives
Going further…
- No waste like home / A plastic Revolution
- Climate Action / Zero waste lifestyle: time and money consuming? / From heatwaves to hurricanes, floods to
famines: mapping the hotspots
Unit 7 - It takes all sorts ( to make a world)
1 All equal in the face of fear!
- Talking about fears and phobias
- Comparing information from a text and a video
2 Is this a man’s world?
- Talking about gender stereotypes
- Taking part in a debate
- Pronouns
Going further…
- Living Fearlessly / Virtual Reality as a Treatment of Mental Health Problems
- Interview with Mia Hamm
- How 14 Year Old, Lydia Novak, Created An Online Business / The Men who do ‘Women’s Work’ / Living Fearlessly
/ Top 10 Most Bizarre Phobias / Science Figures Out How to Overcome Your Fear of Spiders
Unit 8 - And there was English...
1 The history of English
- Understanding a satirical video
- Writing a summary
2 Rule Britannia
- Reading a historical text
- Creating and presenting a visual support
- Verb patterns
- Numbers
- Passive
Going further…
- The Crown / The Globe Theatre
- Any last words? Our dying languages / What is global language? / The Commonwealth today / Shakespeare’s
biography / The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe