New Inside Out

Accumulative evaluation

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  Review C. (SB Units 7-9)
  
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  Test CD. Unit 7
  

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  Self evaluation
  
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    TB: Students are encouraged to check their work by completing the Checklist for Unit 7, where they must give a score to each one of the competences seen in the unit.
    

2. EVALUATION CRITERIA

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  Understand the general message of texts about technology and science, and identify relevant details in oral messages related with them. C1, C3, C6, C8.
  
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  Express himself/herself with fluency and using the right pronunciation - intonation in conversations about mobile phones and scientific breakthroughs. C1, C3, C5, C8.
  
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  Write texts in different supports, using the appropriate structures, functions and vocabulary, such as writing a discursive essay. C1, C6, C8
  
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  Use consciously his/her linguistic knowledge in order to listen to a radio show about a new gadget. C1, C3, C8
  
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  Use information and communication technologies in a guided way in order to look for information by using the CD-Rom and the websites www.insideout.net / www.macmillanpracticeonline.com. C1, C4, C6, C8
  
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  Analyze social aspects of the Anglo-Saxon countries, by comparing the use of new technologies in those countries with their own experience. C1, C3, C6, C8
  
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  Identify learning strategies used to progress in the learning process by completing the Review C for Units 7-9. C1, C7, C8
  

UNIT 8
LAW


OBJECTIVES

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  Identifying lawyers’ blunders and deciding what they meant to say.
  
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  Listening and identifying what crimes people are talking about.
  
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  Paraphrasing what people say.
  
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  Rewriting sentences about a court case and writing an account of it.
  
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  Listening to people talking about crime and punishments.
  
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  Talking about punishment and deterrents and discussing their own experiences of crime.
  
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  Listening to a woman talking about a crime and answering questions.
  
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  Identifying silent and pronounced consonants in elided speech.
  
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  Studying the rules for elision and silent letters.
  
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  Studying modal verbs to talk about the past.
  
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  Matching collocations with law to their meanings.
  
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  Talking about the use of metaphor.
  
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  Discussing proposals for new laws.
  
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  Discussing laws in their own country that they’d change or introduce.
  
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  Reading a legal anecdote and completing a glossary of words in the story.
  
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  Examining the position of the verb and subject after nor, neither, so and such.
  
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  Completing newspaper headlines.
  
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  Learning useful conversational expressions for expressing surprise or disbelief.
  
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  Examining the different treatments of a story by the press.
  
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  Rewriting a text in the style of a popular newspaper.
  
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  Writing a short report.
  

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