What does the course cover? The programme of study

On the Wolsey Hall Year 9 English as a Second Language course you will work your way through nine modules which follow the Cambridge Lower Secondary Curriculum, using the Cambridge Global English 9 textbook as your core course book. You will develop your spelling, punctuation and grammar skills throughout the course.

The Wolsey Hall Year 9 English as Second Language course follows the Cambridge Lower Secondary English as a Second Language curriculum.

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and refer to it as you progress through the course.

Before the first module, Module One, there is a Welcome call with your tutor.

At the end of Module 9, there will be a final test.

Module One: Views and voices	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (1.1): What helps you to learn? Listen to students’ views on talking in class. Give your views on talking in class. Revise and use -ing forms.	Pages 12-13
Topic Two (1.2): Teenage psychology Read views on what it is like to be a teenager. Discuss what you would expect to find in a book about teenage psychology.	Pages 14-15
Topic Three (1.3): Role models Listen to students talking about role models and give your own views. Revise and use the present simple and continuous.	Pages 16-17
Topic Four (1.4): Teenage voices Listen to a conversation about stereotypes of teenagers and give your own views. Revise and use the present simple passive.	Pages 18-19
Topic Five (1.5): Facts and opinions Read two reports of the same event and compare them. Discuss how and why reports of the same event can be different.	Pages 20-21
Topic Six (1.6): From ideas into words Learn about and discuss what makes a good presentation. Revise and use the present continuous passive.	Pages 22-23
Topic Seven (1.7): Improve your writing Write an email to a friend.	Pages 24-25
Topic Eight (1.8): Autobiography	Pages 28-29
ASSIGNMENT 1A and ASSIGNMENT 1B

Module Two: Well-being	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (2.1): Food for health Learn and listen to vocabulary for talking about food and health. Listen to and discuss opinions about food and health.	Pages 34-35
Topic Two (2.2): Food for thought Read about the importance of diet and exercise. Use comparative adverbs and scientific vocabulary.	Pages 36-37
Topic Three (2.3): Are you getting enough sleep? Read and summarise a newspaper article about digital devices and sleep. Listen to and discuss opinions about sleep.	Pages 38-39
Topic Four (2.4): Moods and feelings Use words and phrases to talk about moods and feelings. Speculate about how people are feeling and why, using might have, must have, etc.	Pages 40-41
Topic Five (2.5): Keep a cool head Read and understand an article about emption and behaviour. Use intensifiers and strong adjectives.	Pages 42-43
Topic Six (2.6): How to be happy Listen to and express opinions about happiness.	Pages 44-45
Topic Seven (2.7): Improve your writing Write about a photo.	Pages 46-47
Topic Eight (2.8): Fiction	Pages 50-51
ASSIGNMENT 2

Module Three: Tourism	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (3.1): On holiday Talk about past and future holidays. Use compound nouns and multi-word verbs to describe a holiday.	Pages 56-57
Topic Two (3.2): A holiday to remember Read a teenager’s blog about a holiday in Italy. Think of and discuss a holiday for friends visiting your country.	Pages 58 -59
Topic Three (3.3): How was your holiday? Describe a holiday where not everything went well. Learn to use the past continuous passive.	Pages 60-61
Topic Four (3.4): Responsible tourism Explain what ‘reasonable tourism’ is, after listening to an interview about it. Use compound adjectives.	Pages 62-63
Topic Five (3.5): A different type of family holiday Compare two volunteer holidays. Choose a volunteer holiday that would suit you.	Pages 64-65
Topic Six (3.6): Is tourism a good thing? Prepare for a debate on tourism. Identify and use participle adjectives.	Pages 66-67
Topic Seven (3.7): Improve your writing Write a travel blog.	Pages 68-69
Topic Eight (3.8): Fiction	Pages 72-73
NO ASSIGNMENT – A LONGER QUIZ INSTEAD

Module Four: Science	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (4.1): The science of colour Learn about how we see colours. Describe colours and shades of colour.	Pages 78-79
Topic Two (4.2): Deadly diseases Learn about the history of diseases. Talk about developments in medical science.	Pages 80-81
Topic Three (4.3): What makes us the same? What makes us different? Listen to a conversation about DNA and genetics. Use the present perfect continuous to talk about what you’ve been learning in science.	Pages 82-83
Topic Four (4.4): Live and let live Read about a young Kenyan’s invention. Use the present perfect active and passive.	Pages 84-85
Topic Five (4.5): The circle of life Read two texts about endangered species and differentiate between fact and opinion.	Pages 86-87
Topic Six (4.6): Views on zoos Listen to, understand and exchange opinions about zoos. Use verbs followed by prepositions.	Pages 88-89
Topic Seven (4.7): Improve your writing Write an essay giving your views about zoos.	Pages 90-91
Topic Eight (4.8): Poetry	Pages 94-95
ASSIGNMENT 3A and ASSIGNMENT 3B

Module Five: Technology	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (5.1): Social media and you Listen to people talking about social media and discuss how you use it. Use relative clauses with which.	Pages 100-101
Topic Two (5.2): The home of the future Read about the technology in homes of the future. Revise how to express the future and the use of future passive.	Pages 102-103
Topic Three (5.3): Digital media: good or bad? Listen to a discussion about social media and digital media generally. Take part in a discussion about social media and digital media.	Pages 104-105
Topic Four (5.4): Have a story personalised Listen to a conversation about a present for a younger member of the family. Use the structure have something done.	Pages 106 -107
Topic Five (5.5): Technology meets archaeology Learn about how archaeologists used technology to make a remarkable discovery. Discuss what should happen to important discoveries.	Pages 108 -109
Topic Six (5.6): In 10 years’ time Make predictions of what life will be like in 10 years’ time. Use the future continuous.	Pages 110 -111
Topic Seven (5.7): Improve your writing Write a report about technology in your school.	Pages 112 -113
Topic Eight (5.8): Non-fiction	Pages 116 -117
NO ASSIGNMENT – A LONGER QUIZ INSTEAD

Module Six: Rules and laws	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (6.1): School rules Listen to and discuss opinions about school rules.	Pages 122-123
Topic Two (6.2): Family life Read a newspaper article about a business strategy and family life. Discuss how and why a particular management practice can be useful in family life and in business.	Pages 124-125
Topic Three (6.3): House rules Talk about rules at home. Report questions and statements.	Pages 126-127
Topic Four (6.4): Doing the right thing Use if/if only in third conditionals. Discuss moral dilemmas.	Pages 128-129
Topic Five (6.5): Rights and responsibilities Read about and discuss rights and responsibilities for teenagers.	Pages 130-131
Topic Six (6.6): What happened? Compare two accounts of the same incident and identify inconsistencies. Revise and extend the use of the past continuous.	Pages 132-133
Topic Seven (6.7): Improve your writing Reply to an email about rules in your school.	Pages 134-135
Topic Eight (6.8): Non-fiction	Pages 138-139
ASSIGNMENT 4

Module Seven: Competition	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (7.1): Team sports or individual sports? Summarise what people say about sports and activities, and the effect they have on them. Use the past perfect simple and the past perfect continuous.	Pages 144-145
Topic Two (7.2): Try this Read about two sports. Describe what happens in each of the sports and give your opinions about them.	Pages 146-147
Topic Three (7.3): To compete or not to compete? Listen to a radio interview and use it as the basis of a discussion on competitive and non-competitive sport. Use comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.	Pages 148-149
Topic Four (7.4): Two competitions Listen to descriptions of two non-sporting competitions and give a description of a similar competition of your choice. Use the past perfect simple, active and passive.	Pages 150-151
Topic Five (7.5): The art of photography Learn about a ‘Young Photographer’s competition. Describe photos of the natural world.	Pages 152-153
Topic Six (7.6): A towering achievement Listen to a description of a competition and then give your own description. Use connectives such as so that, however and finally.	Pages 154-155
Topic Seven (7.7): Improve your writing Write a ‘for and against’ essay about competitive sport.	Pages 156-157
Topic Eight (7.8): Non-fiction	Pages 160-161
NO ASSIGNMENT – A LONGER QUIZ INSTEAD

Module Eight: The environment	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (8.1): Let’s talk about the weather Learn and use collocations for describing weather conditions. Use comparative and superlative adverbs of frequency.	Pages 166-167
Topic Two (8.2): Global warming and climate change Read about the causes and effects of global warming. Learn and use vocabulary for extreme weather conditions.	Pages 168-169
Topic Three (8.3): I’m very concerned about… Understand and express opinions about global environmental issues. Learn and use multi-word verbs connected with the environment.	Pages 170-171
Topic Four (8.4): Zero waste Listen to suggestions for reducing waste. Use verbs followed by –ing.	Pages 172-173
Topic Five (8.5): Living and growing Read about growing food in cities. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of urban farming.	Pages 174-175
Topic Six (8.6): The air we breathe Understand and discuss ideas about making cities sustainable for the future. Identify and use complex noun phrases.	Pages 176-177
Topic Seven (8.7): Improve your writing Write a report about extreme weather conditions.	Pages 178-179
Topic Eight (8.8): Poetry	Pages 182-183
ASSIGNMENT 5A and ASSIGNMENT 5B

Module Nine: Achievements and ambitions	Coursebook Pages
Topic One (9.1): I’d like to be… Listen to a conversation about a survey of the kinds of jobs teenagers would like to do, and do your own survey. Revise the use of relative clauses.	Pages 188-189
Topic Two (9.2): I’m over the moon Find out about how a celebrity helped a young person achieve her dream. Discuss other stories of how well-known people have helped others.	Pages 190-191
Topic Three (9.3): Would you be good at …? Learn about what you need to be good at for certain jobs. Learn to detect bias in what people write or say.	Pages 192-193
Topic Four (9.4): Achieving your dreams Listen to and read accounts of inspirational athletes. Use reported speech.	Pages 194-195
Topic Five (9.5): The power of the mind Read and discuss an article about the science behind positive thinking. Talk about your own plans and ambitions for the future.	Pages 196-197
Topic Six (9.6): Young achievers Discuss the achievements of young people. Learn and use adjectives with dependent prepositions.	Pages 198-199
Topic Seven (9.7): Improve your writing Write an informal letter.	Pages 200-201
Topic Eight (9.8): Fiction	Pages 204-205
ASSIGNMENT 6