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Video Listening Vocabulary

What makes a Recognize main ideas in Change nouns into
UNIT 1    Character hero? longer texts adjectives with the
suffix -al
Page 7 Listen for words and phrases
Psychology that introduce reasons

l  Interview: Birth order and personality

Child development
l  Class discussion: Temperament

Time flies as you Notice words and phrases Use roots to better
UNIT 2     Time get older introducing results understand the
meaning of words
Page 17 Use questions to predict main
Biology ideas of longer texts

l  Conversation: Circadian rhythm

Popular science
l  Radio show: Investigating the effects of the moon

How our homes Practice listening for definitions Learn compound

UNIT 3    Home have changed of special terms nouns and
collocations with
Page 27 Predict the key parts of house and home
Urban planning listening texts from context

l  Radio show: Multi-generational homes

Architecture
l  Interview: Less is more

Reaching for the Use interview questions to Use the prefixes

UNIT 4    Size skies identify main ideas and topics mini- and micro- to
describe sizes of
Page 37 Determine advantages and objects
Media studies disadvantages by listening for
key words
l  Radio report: Wallscapes
Medicine
l  Podcast: Miniature medical devices

Spots and stripes Identify explanations and Describe disciplines

UNIT 5     Patterns examples to understand texts
better
and roles using the
suffixes -ology and
Page 47 -ologist
Forensic science Use signal words to identify the
main ideas of a lecture
l  Interview: Graphology
Zoology
l  Lecture: Flocks, schools, and swarms

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Grammar Speaking Study skills Unit outcomes
Review and Notice and practice word stress in Read about and plan Listen for main ideas in the context of
practice questions sentences strategies for taking good interviews and class discussions
and sentences in notes
the simple present Make formal and informal Listen for reasons and the phrases to
introductions introduce them

Brainstorm and take part in an Ask and answer interview questions

interview about simple personal information

Notice and Recognize and use intonation Learn more effectively with Listen for language introducing
practice using patterns in questions ten time-saving suggestions results
verbs followed
by infinitives or Practice getting attention and Predict the content of listening texts
gerunds asking for permission using questions

Plan and conduct a survey about Ask, answer, and discuss survey
sleep habits questions

Use quantifiers (a Link consonants and vowels in Listen and speak well by Predict the content of texts before
few, not enough, connected speech noticing good communication listening
etc.) to give more skills
information Make and respond to suggestions Recognize and notice special terms
when listening
Plan and give a presentation about
your ideal home Prepare and share a short
presentation

Discuss changes Pronounce present progressive Use graphic organizers Use interview questions to predict the
over time using the forms to learn and remember contents of a talk
present progressive information
Give clear reasons for or against Practice listening for advantages
an idea and disadvantages in the context of
reports and podcasts
Plan, practice, and deliver a
persuasive presentation for or Prepare and deliver a persuasive
against a trend presentation expressing opinions

Use modal verbs Notice and practice common Benefit from study support Practice listening for explanations
and imperatives to syllable stress patterns in 3-syllable networks and examples in the context of an
give advice words interview

Ask for ideas and examples to Listen for main ideas of a lecture to
elicit information from other people follow its organization

Brainstorm, prepare, and present a Prepare and deliver a brief

podcast about a country’s customs descriptive report

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Video Listening Vocabulary
A need for speed Listen for tone of voice to Discuss attitudes
UNIT 6    Speed understand how speakers feel and effects using the
suffixes -ed and -ing
Page 57 Notice transitions that signal
Psychology block organization to organize
information
l  Travel show: It’s fun to be scared
Urban studies
l  Report: The race to be the slowest

Learning to see Understand different types and Change adjectives

UNIT 7     Vision forms of numbers to recognize
details in texts
into nouns using a
range of suffixes
Page 67
Biology Notice and listen to transition
questions to follow changes of
l  Interview: Our world, our senses topic
Culinary arts
l  Review: Dans le Noir

Pushing the limits Organize information while Figure out the

UNIT 8    Extremes listening by noticing words
used to classify items
meaning of words
beginning with ex-
Page 77
Neuroscience Prepare for listening by
making a list of questions
l  Interview: Ultimate memory
Environmental skills
l  Class discussion: Extreme environments

Saving the bees Notice typical stages in a story Use word families
UNIT 9    Life to follow narratives to organize and
remember new
Page 87 Listen for time signals that vocabulary
Literary studies identify when speakers
describe past and present
l  Story: A life lesson events
Anthropology
l  Talk: Heifer International

Work and Use words that introduce lists Use time markers to
UNIT 10     Work motivation to follow details of talks discuss future events

Page 97 Recognize words and

Human behavior expressions that introduce the
structure of a talk
l  Discussion panel: Love your job
Economics
l  Talk: Job skills for the future

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Grammar Speaking Study skills Unit outcomes
Compare objects Pronounce reduced forms of Use appropriate classroom Listen for tone of voice to infer
using superlative unstressed syllables or words language to communicate speakers’ attitudes
forms of adjectives with your teacher
Talk about similarities and Practice listening for block
differences organization in the context of a report

Plan and share a presentation Plan and deliver a presentation about

about a holiday destination a place

Use articles Pronounce the final consonant /t/ Understand your memory Practice listening for numbers in the
correctly with correctly in different positions in a style to improve how you context of an interview
concrete and sentence learn and remember new
abstract nouns things Practice recognizing and following
Ask for repetition and clarification transition questions
to manage your discussions
Prepare and take part in a quiz
Brainstorm, compile, and take a
quiz

Use patterns and Recognize and pronounce can and Use notes from your listening Listen for words used to classify
structures to talk can’t in affirmative, negative, and to prepare for tests items in the context of an interview
about ability and interrogative sentences
possibility Make a list of questions to prepare
Use phrases and words to give you for listening to a text
time to think before speaking
Brainstorm and conduct a brief
Plan and conduct an interview research interview
about someone’s memory

Use simple past Pronounce the past -ed ending of Read about and discuss Notice typical parts of a story
questions to discuss different words different ways to remember
narratives vocabulary Follow a sequence in a talk by
Use phrases and structures to ask listening for past and present time
for more information signals

Brainstorm, plan, and share a story Prepare and share a personal story
with your group

Use future grammar Use pauses to separate thought Read and discuss setting Listen to lists and list structure in the
structures to groups learning goals context of a discussion panel
discuss plans and
probability Introduce and outline your talk with Listen for the overall structure of a
signal terms and phrases talk or lecture

Brainstorm, plan, and give a talk Plan and deliver a brief descriptive
about a job talk about a career

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