UNIT 3: NATURAL PHENOMENA

Lesson 1: Our surroundings

Listening to explanation monologs

Using expressions to show attitudes

Discovering how global warming happens

Learning to use process-writing explanations

Warm up (page 52):

Comment: This activity is good to warm up the students.

Between the lines (page 53):

A. match each word/phrase with its synonym.

1. average : regular

2. occur : happen

3. sustain : maintain

4. equipped : provided

5. emit : send out

6. visible : noticeable

7. absorb : take in

8. instead of : in place of

9. invented : created

10. rate : speed

11. effect : result

12. humid : moist

13. evaporate : change to vapor

14. incidence : occurence

15. respiratory : breathing

B. Read the text and then answer the questions.

1. sunlight >> passes through the atmosphere >> hits the earth >> infrared >>
trapped by greenhouse
sunlight >> passes through the atmosphere >> hits the earth >> emit some of
the energy

2. burning coal, oil, and other fossil fuels at faster and faster rates.

3. Planting new trees to replace the old one.

4. since about 1750.

5. Global warming is the measurable increase in the average temperature of

Earths atmosphere.

Comment: This activity is good to improve students writing skill and also enrich
they knowledge about global warming.

Hear this Out (page 55-56)

Comment: This activity is important to test the students listening skill.

Easy essay (page 57)

A. Rearranging jumbled sentences.

Text 1: (5) >> (3) >> (1) >> (2) >> (4)

Text 2: (3) >> (2) >> (5) >> (4) >> (1)

Speak up (page 59)

Comment: This activity is good to improve the students speaking skill.

Chat time (page 60-61)

Comment: This activity gives the students chance to discuss the explanation
given about natural phenomena.

Grammar focus: Simple present tense (page 62)

B. (page 63)

1. are

2. are

3. appear

4. last

5. split

6. produce

7. are

8. are
Lesson 2: Curiosity killed the cat

Listening to dialogs showing coriosity

Using expressions showing coriosity

Reading more explanation text

Writing an explanation

Warm up (page 64)

1. atom

2. acid

3. enzyme

4. molecule

5.

Collocation note (page 65)

Comment: This part is good to make the student understand about how to use
word curious.

Hear this out (page 66-67)

Comment: This activity is important to improve the students listening skill.

Chat time (page 69)

Between the lines (page 70-72)

A.

1. Petroleum is crude oil that occurs naturally in sedimentary rocks and consists
mainly of hidrocarbons.

2. About half of the worlds oil is found in the Middle East.

3. Most scientists believe that oil was formed from dead animals and plants that
lived in the seas a long time ago.

4. Oil and natural gas.

5. If the petroleum doesnt refined yet.

6. It must be refined.

7. Fractional distillation is something to separate petroleum into fractions.

8. Petroleum is heated in a furnace.

B.

1. distillation

2. bitumen

3. fractional

4. refine

5. extract

6. distill

7. miscible

8. sediment

9. crude

10. flask

Comment: This activity is good to enrich The students vocabulary.

1. T

2. F

3. F

4. T

5. T

Grammar focus: Adjective phrases

A.

1. Do you know the man reading the experiment a procedure?

2. be sure to follow the instructions given at the top of the page.

3. The students working in the laboratory are becoming more and more corious.

4. They study in a school estabilished 75 years ago.

5. the fence surounds the school made of antique iron.

6. The scientist researching the causes of cancer received the Noble Prize.

7. The food we eat depends on a large amount of chemical called fertilizers.

8. Use the data in the table to answer the following questions.

9. A pure substance is a single substance not mixed with anything else.

10. The juice obtained is a sollution of critic acid normally found in oranges.

UNIT 4: THE PROS AND CONS

Lesson 1: Social Networks

Listening to dialogs about giving a command and admitting a mistake.

Using expressions of giving a command, admitting a mistake, and making

a promise.

Reading a passage about pros and cons of facebook

Writing a discussion about twitter.

Are you pro or con for Facebook? (page 79)

1. a

2. b

3. b

4. a

5. d

6. b

7. a

8. d

Easy essay (page 82)

Comment: This part is good to improve students writing skill.

Hear this out (page 83)

Comment: This activity is important to improve the students listening skill.

Speak up (page 84)

Comment: This activity is good to improve the students speaking skill.

Grammar focus: Modals (page 85)

Comment: This activity is good to make the students understand about modal
auxilary verbs.

1. have to
2. dont have

3. have to

4. must

5. have to

6. have got to

7. must

8. must must

9. must must not

10. Do I have to

Collocation note: Order

Comment: This part is good to make the student understand about how to use
word order.

Lesson 2: which side are you on?

Listening to a monolog discussion

Talking about possibilities

Discovering the pro and con in a discussion

Writing a discussion

Warm up (page 88)

1. d

2. c

3. f.

4. j

5. h

6. e

7. a

8. b

9. j

10. i
Between the lines (page 89)

1. A scandal in Indonesias tax department involving a low-paid tax officer who

had more than $3 million in his bank account.

2. Many people are questioning citizens obligation of paying taxes.

3. They considered the facts that tens of millions of people living below the
poverty line, thousand of babies suffer from chronic malnutrition, people have to
deal with terrible transportation infrastructures, and many students study in
poorly-built shabby classroom.

4. Citizen should keep on paying taxes to pay for the infrastructures, social
welfare, and most importantly, the government officials to do their job properly.

5. Yes. Strict punishment must be imposed peoples image of tax official.

Collocation note: Possibility (page 91)

Comment: This part is good to make the student understand about how to use
word order.

Grammar focus: Possibilities (page 92)

Comment: This activity is good to make the students understand about the
words that express possibility. The teacher must give explanation about the
differences between may and might and can and could.

2. I might invite all classmates, but I might not invite Hengky

3. She may buy the latest tablet, but she may not like the size.

4. I might support demonstration, but my father might not allow.

5. I might go to the cinema, but my mother might not allow.

Hear this out (page 94)

Comment: This activity is important to improve the students listening skill.

Speak up (page 95)

Comment: This activity is good to improve the students speaking skill.

Chat time (page 97)

Comment: In this activity, the studens are asked to make a dialog. It is good to
improve their writing skill.