Maker 02 Teacher's Guide Unit 4

Texts on up-to-date topics offer opportunities to work with reading skills, focusing on the particular features of different text genres. This section focuses on using the scientific method to formulate a hypothesis, collect data and analyze it in order to evaluate the initial hypothesis, draw a conclusion and discuss its implications. This section explores the topic of the unit from an unexpected point of view, developing students’ critical thinking skills and openness to new ideas. The content is available through the RTV . This section is designed to expand students’ views on the topic of the unit to a global perspective, proposing a discussion concerning how certain issues are present in different countries and the role of English as a lingua franca in various contexts. This icon indicates that the activity deals with an aspect of social and emotional learning. Instructions on how to work with it in the classroom are available in the Teacher’s Guide. This box introduces a variety of phonological features: pronunciation of sounds, contrast between different sounds, intonation and connected speech, among others. This box focuses on instances of contemporary language from materials in the unit.