Units 1–2 High school music club
Grammar focus
Simple present / Present progressive
Adverbs of manner
Comprehension check
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be: Simple past
Pre-watching: Students focus on the questions:
1 What are the students doing at the start of the
video?
2 Why don’t some students like Music class?
3 What kinds of music do we see students play
at Pop Club?
Summary of video clip
The report is about an American high school. It gives
information about the subjects which the students
study. It also describes one of the most popular afterschool clubs, which is a music club called Pop Club.
Play the whole video clip. Students choose
the correct answers. Check their answers.
Preparation
Ask students: Which subjects do you study at
school? What is your favorite subject? Do you go to
any after-school clubs?
Check understanding of these words: high
school, uniform, Social Science, Home Economics,
obligatory, pot, cake, after-school club, bass,
trombone, trombonist.
Answers: 1 a
2
2 c
3 b
Watch again. Order the things you see.
Pre-watching: Ask students to order the classes
and clubs before watching the video again.
Play the video to check answers.
Answers: 1 Science class ​2 Social Science class​
3 Art class ​4 Home Economics class ​5 Music
class ​6 Pop Club
Background
Many students in the U.S. attend a high school from
grade nine (age 14 or 15) through grade twelve
(age 17 or 18). The school curriculum varies from
school to school. However, at most schools, students
typically study a number of obligatory subjects,
including Math, English, Science, and Social Science.
In some schools, other subjects are also obligatory,
such as Physical Science. Students can often choose
to study a number of non-obligatory subjects, often
called “electives”. These typically include Art, Music,
and Home Economics, and may also include other
subjects, such as Drama, or Spanish.
Watch the video clip. Choose the correct
answers.
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Watch again. Choose the correct words.
Pre-watching: Ask students to work in pairs and
try to choose the correct words from memory.
Play the video again and pause after each
answer.
Answers: 1 difficult 2
​ Social Science ​
3 having fun ​4 Art 5
​ Music ​6 after school ​
7 rock ​8 loud
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Before you watch
Read the questions with the class, and elicit answers
from individual students. Encourage students to
guess the answers they don’t know, and use their
suggestions to start a class discussion.
Watch again. Complete the sentences with
the words in the box.
Pre-watching: Ask students to complete as
many sentences as they can before watching the
video again. Explain that they will need to watch
and listen carefully to complete the gaps. Point
out that they will need to use Art class and Pop
Club twice.
Play the video again to check answers.
Answers: 1 Home Economics class ​2 Pop Club ​
3 Art class ​4 Science class ​5 Music class ​
6 Social Science class ​7 Pop Club ​8 Art class
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Watch again. Read the questions and
complete the answers.
Pre-watching: Ask students to read the
questions carefully before they complete the
answers. Explain that they will need to write one
word in each gap.
Play the video again to check answers if
necessary.
Answers: 1 Wednesday ​2 sweatshirts ​
3 every day ​4 nine ​5 No ... isn’t ​6 20 ​
7 a teacher ​8 two
an adverb). Ask them if they know any more
adverbs. Elicit or explain how we usually form
regular adverbs (adjective + -ly).
Review the simple past of the verb be by asking
students: What was the day yesterday? Where were
you yesterday at 9 o’clock? Remind students that the
affirmative form is was or were, and the negative
form is wasn’t or weren’t.
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Ask students to read the sentences carefully and
decide if they are talking about a habit, or an
action in progress now. Remind them that they
can look at any time expressions to help them.
Check answers with the class.
Optional activity
Students work in small groups. Ask them to
write down as many words for school subjects
as they can think of in one minute. Who has
written down the most? Ask some students to
write different subjects on the board. Students
vote for their two favorite subjects. Record
their votes next to the subjects on the board.
What is the most popular subject in the class?
Complete the sentences with the correct
simple present or present progressive form
of the verbs.
Answers: 1 are wearing ​2 study ​3 are doing ​
4 don’t study ​5 aren’t making ​6 helps
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Complete the sentences. Use the correct
adverb form of one of the adjectives.
They don’t wear a uniform at this school.
Explain that students should use information
from the video to help them complete the
sentences. Remind students that some adjectives
have irregular adverb forms. Check answers with
the class. Ask some students to write the adverbs
on the chalkboard so that you can check the
spelling.
These students are doing a science experiment
right now.
Answers: 1 well
5 happily
Language check
Simple present / Present progressive
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Adverbs of manner
This student can draw beautifully.
Most students are working quietly.
The atmosphere was great!
The trombonists were very good.
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Complete the summary of the last part
of the video. Use was, were, wasn’t, or
weren’t.
Students complete the summary with the simple
past form of be. Explain that the information to
complete the gaps was given in the video.
be: Simple past
Pre-watching: Review the grammar points by
asking the following questions: Which subjects do
you study every Monday? Which subject are you
studying right now? (English). Remind students
that we use the simple present to talk about habits
(things which we do regularly), and the present
progressive to talk about actions in progress now.
Ask students: What can you do well? (for example,
draw, play music, etc.). Ask students what kind of
word well is, for example, a noun, a verb (answer:
​2 badly
Play the last part of the video again if
necessary (from Luckily, there’s an after-school
club to the end). Check answers.
Answers: 1 were 2
​ weren’t 3
​ was ​
4 wasn’t ​5 were 6
​ weren’t 7
​ was ​
8 wasn’t
Extension
Ask students to read the questions carefully first.
Students then ask and answer the questions in pairs.
Monitor and help.
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