In this unit, students focus on medical achievements over the past 50 years. The first reading text looks at the development of one such achievement – heart transplants. The second reading text concerns the advances made in the development of a vaccine for smallpox. This leads on to work on how to summarize a text and devising research questions.
Skills focus
Reading using research questions to focus on relevant information in a text
using topic sentences to get an overview of the text
Writing writing topic sentences summarizing a text
Vocabulary focus English–English dictionaries: headwords definitions parts of speech phonemes stress markers countable/uncountable transitive/intransitive
