Title: 1st Trimester
Course: 2024 Basic English 8

WEEK 1. From August 28 to September 1, 2023.

How is freedom of expression enforced around the world?

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SESSION 1 | Students must write the problem or question in the notebook. How is freedom of expression enforced around the world? What do you know about freedom of speech? What would you do if your right to express yourself was banned? Why is it a human right?Watch Video:1A. | Students must research the question or problem and answer to the best of their ability and present it to the class for discussion. ICE BREAKER: The Teacher hands out a worksheet and the students participate in the activity.  Discuss with three classmates and express your ideas. Go to your printed Awesome Reader and Writer and read “Wardrobe Malfunction!” Select three words that you do not understand. Then, look up their meanings in a dictionary. Work in pairs. Look at some pictures and discuss what aspects of freedom of speech they represent. Compare your answers with another pair. Work in pairs. Look at the pictures and discuss what aspects of freedom of speech they represent. Compare your answers with another pair. Listen to a lawyer giving a lecture about the First Amendment. Read the statements below and write “T” for true or “F” for false. The First Amendment. Read “The Pentagon Papers” and answer the questions. Read “Hate Speech” and answer the following questions using your own words. | Students will practice the previously learned theme in the class. Write a story (100 words max.) about a time when freedom of speech was restricted. Use the words you looked up in Exercise 2. Share your story with two classmates. Work in groups of three and follow the instructions. Look at the chart below. Copy it into your notebook and classify the sentences from Exercise 3 depending on whether they are in the Present or in the Past. Complete the message and compare your answers in pairs. The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, pages 24 to 28.
SESSION 2 | What do you do when you are bullied? How do you feel when a classmate gets bullied? What kind of language do you use online? Watch Video2B. | Read the Language Key and circle the most suitable option. Discuss your answers with a classmate. Go to your Photo Bank W1PB2. Work in pairs and follow the instructions. Listen to an activist giving a speech. Write down the keywords of her main idea. Then, check them with a classmate and include the missing ones. You Have to Fight. Read the definitions below and find the words in the word search. | Complete the questions with your own ideas and create two more questions of your own in your notebook. Then, work with a classmate to ask and answer each other’s questions. Complete the email using verbs in the correct form. Circle if the statements are True or False. The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, pages 29 to 33.
SESSION 3 | What Is the Best Way to Do Research? Why Are There So Many Languages in Europe? Watch Video 3c. | Read the following steps of the research. Put them in order according to your own research process. Then, compare your order with a classmate and discuss why your processes are different/similar. Read “Research Like a Pro."Look at the following questions. Discuss with two classmates. Read “European Invasions.” Does it mention any of your answers? Paste or draw a map of the world in your notebook. Then, follow the instructions below. Work in groups of four and choose a European country that was invaded in the past. Research the points below and prepare an infographic to present your conclusions. | Write “1” for the activities that happened first and “2” for those that happened after. Look at the example. Join the sentences from Exercise 5 to make a new one where the order of actions is clear by using “after,” “before,” “by the time,” “because,” “once,” or “when.” Look at the example. Write a short story describing what happened in your notebook. Support your story with the questions. The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, page 17. The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, pages 20 and 21.

Grammar Practice
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SESSION 1 | Why is it called the last day of summer? Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on the question about Labor Day. They compare the answers on the worksheets previously answered. |
SESSION 2 | Watch Video: 2B |  | The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, pages 29 to 33.
SESSION 3 | Watch Video: 3C |  | The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, page 27. The students answer the exercises in their Learning LOG, pages 30 and 31.

Grammar Practice
Classes week 3 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions-based Demonstrative Pronouns. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 19-20
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on verbs and linking verbs. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 23-26
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on Helping Verbs, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conclusions. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 29-35

Grammar Practice
Classes week4 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Direct Objects. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 38-39
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Indirect objects. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 40-41
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on a review of direct and Indirect Objects. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Liveworksheets

Grammar Practice
Classes week5 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Predicate Nominative. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook       pages 42-43
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Predicate Adjective. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 44-45
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on a review of Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjectives. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | live worksheets

Grammar Practice
Classes week 6 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Prepositional Phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook     pages 48-49
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Adjective Phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook      pages 50-51
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on Adverb phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook     pages 52-53

Grammar Practice
Classes week7 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Verb and Verb Phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook    pages 55-56
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Participles and Participle phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook    pages 57-58
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on Infinitive and Infinitive Phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook     pages 59-60

Grammar Practice
Classes week 8 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Independent and subordinate clauses. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 65-66
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on the Adjective Clause. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 67-68
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on The Adverb Clause. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 69-70

Grammar Practice
Classes week 9 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Simple Sentences. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook    pages 73-74
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Compound Sentences. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook    pages 75-76
During the week | During the week | Students share conclusions based on Complex Sentences. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook    pages 77-78

Grammar Practice
Classes week 10 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on Agreement of Subject and Verb. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 83-84
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Intervening Prepositional Phrases. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 85-86
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on Singular and Plural Indefinite Pronouns. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 87-88

Grammar Practice
Classes week 11 |  |  |
1st Class | Watch Video: 1A | Students share conclusions based on All, Any, Most, None, and some   Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages89-90
2nd Class | Watch Video: 2B | Students share conclusions based on Compound Subjects. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages90-91
During the week | Watch Video: 3C | Students share conclusions based on Collective Nouns and Inverted Sentences. Comparing ideas base on the video seen. | Workbook pages 91-92

Students will be asked to turn in assignments when the unit (chapter) is finished. Students are not asked to turn in assignments before. Students will send the unit first and will check with the teacher the following class to get a number grade.