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REPUBLIC OF TUNISIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Writing Team Jawida Ben Afia , Inspector General of Education Jameledine Aichi , Teacher Trainer Fatma Bechoual , Teacher Rachid Najar , Inspector Evaluation Team Mohamed Ben Abdallah Inspector Abdennour Khemiri Inspector National Pedagogic Centre ©All rights reserved for National Pedagogic Centre PREFACE ' Skills for Life ' is a book for students in Year 4 Secondary Education. It addresses all students in various streams through a common core of lessons, with additional material for the Arts students to be covered in the two weekly extra hours. These are labelled : ForArts Students. The book is made up of an Introductory Unit, 4 nine-lesson Units and 3 Consolidation Units (Checking Year 3,Check your Language and Skills 1&2) with a last section entitled ADD-ONS including a Grammar Reference, Vocabulary strategies, Irregular Verbs and a Word List . The units are based on all four language skills which are developed in an integrated manner .This skills blend is reflected in the use ofINTO in the lesson titles which are labelled :Speaking INTO Reading , Listening INTO Writing, Reading INTO Writing, Speaking INTO Listening. This skill integration takes students from the construction of meaning through listening and reading passages to communicating in speech and writing. The listening and reading texts are exploited for information and linguistic content and serve as a springboard for production. They come from different sources: novels, magazines, newspapers, ads, leaflets, poems, songs, plays… to sensitize students to different genres. The learner is led to construct knowledge and learn how to reinvest it in a range of situations that relate to real life. Activities range from group work and pair work to webquests and projects.The integration of Information Communication Technology and the development of personal projects foster students' autonomy and creativity beyond the classroom . Students are also engaged in using various sources of information such as dictionaries of synonyms and antonyms, thesauruses and the Internet. Language is not only a means of communication to interact with others inside and outside the classroom but it is also handled as a system. Language components are presented in meaningful contexts and recycled at various levels of complexity. Grammar is dealt with inductively to get the students to reflect on language and how it works. Pronunciation is also given due importance through a variety of activities that allow further practice of sounds, word stress and intonation. Practice of linguistic items is catered for in the Grammar Focus ,Lexical Focus and Pronunciation Focus sections included within the lessons. Three permanent components are to be found at the end of each lesson : My New Words, My Grammar and WHAT I CAN DO NOW. 3 After completing two units, students are provided with a set of activities labelled as 'Check your Language and Skills' for further practice of the language acquired and a better skills development. Portfolios are used by students to keep track of their progress through creating vocabulary files, various pieces of writing , summaries of texts or stories , poems and a selection of information they get through Webquests. We hope the implementation of the official syllabus has been carried out successfully and that students will engage in enjoyable learning and acquire a better mastery of the language which will enable them to pursue learning for life using skills and strategies that shape the profile of the autonomous learner. The Textbook Writing Team 4 CONTENTS Preface CHECKING YEAR (cid:4) PROGRAMME (cid:2)(cid:6) INTRODUCTORY UNIT FIRST IMPRESSIONS (cid:2)(cid:3) Learning Quiz 18 Check some synonyms and antonyms 19 Digital Language Pal 20 Get to know your book 20 Check your definitions, collocations, idioms and phrasal verbs 21 Englishman in New York 27 Finding out about English(es) 29 Webquest 1 :American and British English 30 How good are you at Pronunciation? 30 Recognising text types 32 Cultures and Languages 34 UNIT (cid:2) ART SHOWS AND HOLIDAYING (cid:4)(cid:5) 1. Holidaying 37 Webquest 2 (The Seychelles) 2. Space Tourism 41 3.Art Shows, Strings 47 4. Exploring a Song: Immortality 54 5. Walking Tour 59 6.APackage Tour 64 Project Work 1 (My Festival) 67 7.At the Travel Agency 68 8. Put a little drama in your travel 74 9. The Winter's Tale (Part 1) 77 Arts Session 1. The Winter's Tale (Part 2) 82 Arts Session 2. Tale end...? 85 Webquest 3 : Shakespeare's Plays 5 UNIT (cid:7) EDUCATION MATTERS (cid:8)(cid:3) 1. School-related Words 88 2. Education for all 93 3. Virtual Schools 97 4. Online Learning 101 5. Comparing Educational Systems 103 6.Age or …? 107 7. Lifelong Learning 111 8. Reading the Back Cover of a Book 115 9.Alexander Graham Bell 118 Project Work 2 EXPOSITORYTEXTS 123 Webquest 4 : Text Structure-Expository Texts Arts Session 3 . Later 124 Arts Session 4 . Writing a Narrative 128 CHECK YOUR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS (cid:2) (cid:2)(cid:7)(cid:11) UNIT (cid:4) CREATIVE(cid:9) INVENTIVE MINDS (cid:2)(cid:4)(cid:10) 1. Inventions-related Words 136 Webquest 5 : Robots 138 2. Technology: ABlessing in Disguise? 142 3. The Father of Playstation 147 4. Prize Winners 151 5. Women choose to opt out 156 6. The Brain Drain 161 7. Scientists' Achievements 168 8. The Daffodils 174 9. Writing as a Process : Argumentative Text 180 Arts Session 5 : The Bard's Sonnet 18 182 Arts Session 6 : As You Like It 186 Arts Session 7 : Project Work 3(More on Text Structure) 189 6 UNIT (cid:10) LIFE ISSUES (cid:2)(cid:11)(cid:2) 1. Life Concerns 193 2.Attitudes 198 3. If …,a poem by Kipling 202 4. Consumerism 205 5. Ecodriving 211 6. Urban Exodus 218 7. A Newscast 222 8. Staff Management 227 9. Job Ads 232 Arts Session 8 : The Richer, The Poorer 235 Arts Session 9 : ASecret for Two 240 Arts Session 10 : What a Wonderful World! 245 CHECK YOUR LANGUAGE AND SKILLS (cid:7) (cid:7)(cid:10)(cid:8) BEFORE WE SAY 'GOOD BYE' (cid:7)(cid:5)(cid:10) The Road to Success 255 Organising your PORTFOLIO 257 How good are you at Skills and Strategies? 258 Feedback on the book 259 ADD(cid:12)ONS Grammar Reference 261 Irregular Verbs 272 Vocabulary Strategies and Affixation 275 Word List 276 7 FFAREWELL TO.., HELLO TO… HOW CREATIVE ARE YOU? Write your own poem. Follow the model. 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