A student’s experience of School Year Abroad, a student exchange program for high school students, provides the context to introduce the simple past of regular verbs. These are presented through a short picture story about a McKenzie Nagle, who went to Vietnam to study there for a semester. Sts then focus closely on the diffrent pronunciations of the -ed ending and go on to practice this in a speaking activity. In Vocabulary, Sts learn some more common verbs and the lesson fiishes with Sts reading about McKenzies’s time in Vietnam.

Workbook 44

In this Practical English lesson, Sts learn how to understand and give simple directions in the street. They begin by learning four new prepositions of place and then some very basic language for directions, which is practiced through a role play. The focus is more on asking for and understanding directions than giving directions, as the latter is quite
challenging for Sts at this level. Finally, in People on the Street, Sts watch or listen to fie people giving directions.

Workbook 42-43

What some well-known celebrities did before they were famous, provides the context to introduce and practice the simple past of the verb be (was / were). First, Sts try to guess the previous jobs of eight celebrities and then they listen to see if they were right. In Pronunciation, Sts practice the sound /ər/, which is used in were /wər/ and then practice the strong and weak forms ofwas and were.

Workbook 40-41

The topic of this lesson is travel and hotels. First, Sts learn vocabulary related to hotels and hotel rooms. The presentation ofthere is and there are is a dialogue between two people who are planning a trip and looking for a hotel online. They discuss the things that there are or aren’t in the hotel. In Pronunciation, Sts practice the sounds /ɛr/, /ɪr/, and /ɔɪ/. In the second half of the lesson, Sts read some authentic

Workbook 38-39

In this lesson, Sts fist learn weather vocabulary. Then the lesson uses the weather to help Sts understand the diffrence between the present continuous and the simple present. The context of the presentation is a snowy day in May, which is very unusual in the U.S. People talk about