Grand Slam 1 - Scope and Sequence
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TITLE |
READING STRATEGY |
GRAMMAR |
VOCABULARY |
| 1 |
Adventures in Cyberspace |
Predicting topic from titles and illustrations |
Verb be |
Computers and information processing |
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Itīs Personal |
Using context to guess unknown words |
Possessives; whose |
Personal information |
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Star Quality |
Scanning for key words |
Adjectives with be and have;
Whatīs he like? / What are they like? |
Personality and appearance |
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Thatīs the One for Me! |
Scaning for images, numbers and universal symbols |
How much and how big with be;
demonstrative adjectives |
Sports equipment; buying things |
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Review and Consolidation 1 |
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Test Yourself! 1 |
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| 2š
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5 |
For the Love of Sports |
Skimming |
Simple Present: affirmative;
frequency adverbs |
Sports |
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Show Time! |
Scanning |
Simple Present: negative |
Cognates; program types |
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Itīs All in Your Head! |
Scanning for supporting examples |
Simple Present: Interrogative |
Body organs |
| 8 |
Amazing Animals |
Using punctuation to scan for additional information |
Can and Canīt for ability and permission |
Animals |
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Review and Consolidation 2 |
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Test Yourself! 2 |
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3š
Bim. |
9 |
Always in Fashion |
Predicting text type and topic |
Present Continuous |
Clothing and accessories |
| 10 |
Readers are Leaders |
Making personal connections with the text |
Simple Present and Present Continuous; imperative |
Book types |
| 11 |
What Happened Next? |
Identifying seguence markers and story patterns |
Simple Past |
Household furnishings and rooms |
| 12 |
Itīs a Gas! |
Identifying cause and effect statements |
Simple Past: negative and interrogative |
Chemistry and measurements |
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Review and Consolidation 3 |
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Test Yourself! 3 |
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4š
Bim. |
13 |
The Final Frontier |
Finding topic sentences and supporting ideas |
Past Continuous |
Space exploration |
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Going Digital |
Following instructions |
Future with going to |
Hobbies |
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Waste Not, Want Not |
Understanding process writing |
Future with will |
Ecology |
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The Silver Screen |
Predicting, skimming and scanning |
Comparatives and superlative of adjectives |
Cinematography |
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Review and Consolidation 4 |
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Test Yourself! 4 |
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Bonus Units |
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Appendix A - Grammar Reference
Appendix B - Sample Questions from Vestibular Exams
Appendix C - Expanded Glossary |
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