UNIT LESSONS
Students will complete the last ten units of
Prepare
Level
2 by the end of grade 8. Unlike the
Guess What
! series,
the
Prepare
series does not have the same order of skills
or activities for each unit. Each unit in
Prepare
Level 2
begins with an
About You
speaking activity, but the order
of the activities for grammar,
vocabulary, and other skills
is different in each unit. In addition, some activities will
take more time than others to complete. You will need
to determine how much time will be needed in class to
complete each activity. This will ensure you have enough
class time to work on speaking, listening, and project
work. These activities need teacher support and are
often designed for pair or group work. To get a better
understanding of the activities, review the Student’s Book
Overview
in this Teacher’s Book.
As you can see in the timetable, some of the lessons
focus on listening. Audio is available in many formats;
it is important to check with your colleagues to find out
how your school is accessing the audio. If you have any
difficulty using audio in your classroom, you will find the
audio scripts in the Teacher’s Book.
The last column of the timetable shows the skills focused
on in the lesson. These skills correspond to the activity
headings in the Student’s Book and Workbook. However,
there is often more than one activity for each of these
skills, so it is important to plan your lessons in advance.
CULTURE LESSONS
There are four Culture
pages spread throughout the
year. These lessons give students information about life
in an English-speaking country. They have some new
language, but this language is at the same level as the
regular lessons. These lessons also contain projects.
Project work is an important part of Communicative
Language Teaching. It gives students the opportunity to
work together to complete a task. There are lessons in
the timetable that give time for students to present their
projects. If you have time, it is important that students
present their work to the class. This will help them to
develop speaking and presentation skills.
LIFE SKILLS LESSONS
There are four Life Skills pages spread throughout the
year. These lessons give students skills for everyday life
in an English-speaking country. These lessons also have
projects. Students can present their projects on the days
designated in the timetable for project presentations.
REVIEWS
There are review lessons before each exam. Where
possible, the review pages from the Student’s Book
are used for these review lessons. However, because
the
Prepare
series was not written specifically for the
Uzbekistan academic year, not all review lessons have
review material from the Student’s Book. For these
lessons, there is no page number. The unit number is
given so that you can choose appropriate material from
the Cambridge
Supplementary Materials, to which you
will be given access.
The Workbook also contains plenty of additional practice
in all skills. You may want to use the listening activities
from the Workbook for review lessons that do not have a
corresponding page in the Student’s Book.
Prepare
Level 2 for grade 8 also has an unusual review.
The first review includes material from Units 9 and
10, which are part of the grade 7 Student’s Book. This
happened because of the printing requirements of the
textbook. You can use this opportunity to review key
vocabulary and grammatical structures from the end of
grade 7.
ASSESSMENTS
The first two exams of each quarter focus on material
only from the new unit. The third exam of each quarter
is cumulative. This means it covers material from
all
the
units of that quarter.
At the end of this addendum, is a sample exam that
have been compiled in accordance with the Uzbekistan
timetable. These exams have been compiled using the
Test Generator for the
Prepare
series. All teachers using
Prepare
in Uzbekistan have access to this Test Generator.
You can make your own tests using the Test Generator, so
it is important that you speak with your colleagues about
how your school can access it.
The timetable includes a time for feedback after most
exams. You may not have time to provide feedback the
next day. That is fine! You can continue with the new
lessons and give feedback when you are ready. You should
take time to review the exams with students and give
additional practice or homework
if most of the class had
difficulty with something.
HOMEWORK
The timetable shows the homework from the Workbook
that you can assign. However, if you are not able to
complete all the activities in the Student’s Book page in
x
class, it is important that listening and speaking activities
be done in class. Students can complete activities from
the grammar, vocabulary, reading, and writing sections of
their Student’s Book at home.
Some pages in the Student’s Book do not have a
corresponding page in the Workbook, so there is a gap. In
the timetable, the homework for these lessons is called
Teacher’s Choice.
For homework on these days, you will
have to plan what the students will do. You can choose
what you think is best for your students. You can use the
Supplementary Materials available with the
Prepare
series.
The last column of the timetable shows which skills are
focused on in the homework. These skills correspond to
the activity headings in the Workbook. However, there is
often more than one activity for each of these skills, so it is
important to plan students’ homework in advance so that
it is manageable for them. On some days,
the homework is
Projects, which may involve more than one skill.
SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS
There are many supplemental resources for
Prepare
Level 2. They are online. All are available to teachers in
Uzbekistan. To learn more about them, read the section on
the course components in this Teacher’s Book. You should
check with your colleagues to find out how your school is
accessing these online supplementary resources.
CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS
Prepare
was written for an international audience.
Wherever possible, it is important to personalize and
localize the content. This will make the lessons more
interesting and relevant to students. Doing this is more
likely to motivate students, which will help their language
learning.
PREPARE
LEVEL 2 FOR GRADE 8:
BRITISH ENGLISH AND AMERICAN
ENGLISH SPELLING DIFFERENCES
