TEACHER’S GUIDE/GUÍA DIDÁCTICA Pronunciation note:

The schwa ​/Ə/ sound appears in all -ion words!

MODULE 2
It is pronounced with the mouth slightly open
Página 1 and relaxed. The mouth is not as open as with
Area: Foreign Language/Lengua extranjera the Spanish sound /a/.
Subject:​ English/Inglés
Grade:​ 7 Exercise 1.
Answers:​ (all of these should be underlined)
Lesson Title: Future Transportation
a. instruction
Grammar and vocabulary content c. problem
● Means of transportation d. listen
● Future tense with “will” e. person
● Pronunciation of schwa /∂/
f. reason
● Transportation and pollution
g. permission
Interdisciplinary h. question
● Mathematics: ​Survey
● Science: ​Experiment:What makes things Exercise 2.
float?
Teacher tip: ​This activity can be turned into a
● Literature: ​The Orient Express story
fun team-building exercise. The groups that are
Values
● Road safety education formed can do different activities and compete
● Environmental care against each other.

Page 2: Communication and Cultural Exercise 3.

Awareness Teacher Tip: ​Show the students the vocabulary
Transportation in Rural and Urban Areas they need for this before doing the exercise and
Teacher tip: ​Before you read the text with the motivate them to include alternative modes of
class, ask the students about the means of transportation like bicycles, skateboards,
transportation they use. Give them a few mototaxis, canoes, horse, etc.
examples.
E.g.: ​I walk to school. / I ride the bus to school. Page 4: Reading
Priority Vehicles
Exercise 1. Exercise 1.
Answers: ​(as they appear from left to right and Answers: ​Answers can vary but can include the
top to bottom) following:
Bike, taxi, canoe, bus, boat, trolley, motorbike, ● Because they have something important to
metro. do/get somewhere quickly.
● Not always, in emergencies they have less
Exercise 2. restrictions.
Answers: ​Answers can vary. ● To alert people that something is
happening.
Page 3: Oral Communication
Getting Around
Exercise 2. Page 8: Communication and Cultural
Teacher Tip: Ask the students to give sample Awareness
questions they could ask before they start Land and Water Transportation
working. Write the questions on the board, and Exercise 1.
have the whole class practice them. Then, Answers: ​Answers can vary, they can also use
divide the class in pairs to work. examples from the text.

Sample questions: What kinds of priority Page 9:

vehicles do we have in our city?/What is their Teacher tip: For this listening activity, there
function?/What should people do when they should be a pause after each sentence so students
hear a priority vehicle? have time to write it.
Script:
Page 5: Writing Train Facts
A Survey a. Trains transport passengers or cargo.
Exercise 1. b. There are different kinds of trains.
Answers: c. In the past, trains used ropes or horses to
There are 3 pumpkins, 3 lemons, 3 bananas, 4 move.
radishes, and 4 carrots. d. In the 19th century trains moved by burning
Exercise 2. wood..
e. Some trains have two locomotives.
Teacher tip: ​Surveys are great research tools f. Many people around the world love trains.
and are used in nearly every field of science,
therefore, students can give any answer. Step 2:
Motivate them to think of topics in fields which Answers: ​They are the same answers from the
they have interest in to guide them towards their script.
future careers. Step 3:
Teacher tip: ​Help the students check their
Page 6: Language Through the Arts sentences and correct any mistakes they might
Leonardo Da Vinci have made. You can also repeat the script to the
Exercise 1. students so that they can correct their sentences.
Teacher tip: ​Motivate students to think about
eco-friendly and practical means of Page 10: Language Through the Arts
transportation. Creativity and target consumers The Orient Express
are key for this activity. They can also present a Exercise 1.
model of their invention in class. Answers:
a. A famous British writer.
Page 7: Oral Communication b. A modern train.
Experiment: Sink or Float c. From Paris to Istanbul/Constantinople.
Teacher tip: ​The specific scientific term in play d. A famous French detective.
here is buoyancy, mention this to students and e. Answers can vary.
that this applies to all fluids, including air, which
is why helium balloons float.
Exercise 2.
Teacher tip: ​Students can also switch places in
this conversation. This activity can also be
turned into a play where the students recreate a
murder case on the Orient Express.
Page 11: Oral Communication
The Biggest Trucks of All
Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Script:
Big tires, big tires
I got some big tires, coming down the road
Hear my truck roar
Miles away, down the highway.
Come out and wave.
You gotta have a big truck, big tires
Lookout! It’s my monster truck
Brrrroooommmmm, we get the crowd up
We take it serious; this ain’t a game
These trucks are crazy; they’re insane
This is what we do; you can’t stop us
Here we come, tooting our horns.
Why do we do this?
Big tires, sunny morn.
Teacher Tip: ​Crazy can be a synonym for how
amazing, awesome or cool something is, or even
for surprising depending on the context.
Emphasize that words can carry meanings
wildly different from their original ones.
Exercise 3.
Answers: ​(as they appear in the text)
Road, roar, highway, wave, crowd, ain’t, horns.
Exercise 4:
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: Ask if any students know anyone
who drives a truck and what they think about
their line of work.
Page 12: Reading
New Giant Truck
Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary, have the students
justify their reasons for writing what they did on
their list.
Exercise 3.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Page 13: Writing
Train accommodation Form
Exercise 1.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher tip: ​Mention to students that this is a
very common method of transportation for the
U.S. and Europe especially. Drawing a
comparison between trains in Ecuador and in
other countries is a nice simple topic to discuss.
Exercise 3.
Teacher tip: ​You can ask the students about
some places they would like to travel to in
Ecuador or mention a few places to give them
some ideas.
Page 14: Assessment
Listening
Script:
Cities are places with many people and a lot of
traffic. Public transport reduces pollution.
If a person takes the trolley, only 0.8 g of carbon
dioxide is generated for each passenger
for each kilometer. If a person takes the bus,
each bus emits 21 g of carbon dioxide per
kilometer.
Finally, if a person uses a car, the level of
pollution increases up to 230 g of carbon
dioxide per kilometer.
So if we want to avoid or reduce pollution we
need to use public transport.
Exercise 1. b. She will see you tomorrow.
Answers: c. He will send you an email.
Trolley - 0.8 g d. She will call you later.
Bus - 21g e. They will go to the doctor.
Car - 230 g
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2. Answers: Awareness
a. There is a lot of traffic in cities. Under the Ocean
b. Cars pollute the most. Exercise 1.
c. We need to take public transportation. Answers:
a. During the First World War.
Writing b. To study maritime life, for wars and for
Exercise 1. tourism.
Answers: c. They have a large container that fills and
a. That’s all right, I will (I’ll) turn it off/the empties water depending on if they want to
volume down. submerge or float.
b. Answers can vary. d. Answers can vary.
c. Answers can vary. e. Answers can vary.

Exercise 2. Page 16: Oral Communication

Teacher Tip: ​Remind students about having a Yellow Submarine - The Beatles
topic sentence and adding supporting ideas (two Exercise 1.
or more). Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Teacher Tip: ​If you have access to the internet
Page 15: Assessment then play the original song to the students.
Vocabulary
Exercise 1. Exercise 2.
Answers: ​(as they appear from left to right) Answers:
d. Helicopter; b. Taxi; e. Truck; a. Car; a. In a town where the singer was born.
f. Submarine; c. Bike. b. The Beatles
c. Answers may vary.
Exercise 2. d. Answers can vary.
Answers: ​(as they appear in the module)
got in; rode the; drove; got out of Page 18: Reading
Spaceships to the Moon
Grammar Exercise 1.
Teacher Tip: Answers can vary, but only as Teacher Tip: ​Motivate students to also talk
long as they use ​will correctly and maintain the about space and space travel. This activity can
basic structure of the sentence. Motivate even be turned into an exposition.
students to write longer answers to practice.
Exercise 2.
Possible Answers: Teacher Tip: Students can write a list of
a. I will help you with those bags. fun-facts about the moon.
Page 19: Writing changing the flight. We will land in
Mars 2020 Guayaquil.
Exercise 2. Over and out.
Answers: Exercise 1.
(5.) I’m looking forward to hearing from you Answers:
(4.) Could you please tell me...? a. In Quito.
(1.) Mission to Mars b. There is too much wind and it is dangerous.
(6.) Regards
c. To ​go to the airport in Guayaquil to land.
(3.) I’m writing to show my interest in
d. It is a way to say goodbye.
(2.) Dear Sir/Madam

Teacher Tip: ​You can mention to the students

Exercise 3.
that a typical way to say goodbye over a radio is
Answers:
to say: ​“Over and out.”
1. Madam; 2. show; 3. name; 4. would; 5.
could; 6. forward
Exercise 2.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Exercise 4.
Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Page 22: Assessment
Listening
Page 20: Language Through the Arts
Script:
Flying People
Exercise 1.
The largest airplane in the world is the
Answers: ​(b and c are true) Airbus. It is made in France, has two
a. Ornithopters did not work. floors, and can carry more than 600
d. Leonardo created two models of ornithopters passengers. If you want to eat, you can visit
(one large and one small). the restaurant or the bar to eat delicious
international food. It is one of the most
Exercise 2. ecological airplanes ever built. The noise it
Answers: ​Answers can vary. makes is less than other planes.
Answers:
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a. The Airbus.
Captain Marchan
b. It carries 600 passengers.
Script
Pilot: Pilot Marchan here. I need to land in c. ​The restaurant or the bar.
Quito in ten minutes. Do I have permission? d. Yes.
Tower: What is your plane number?
Pilot: Copa Airlines, Flight Number 6-6-7 Speaking
Tower: You cannot land at this moment. Answers: ​Answers can vary.
We have too much wind. It is dangerous. I
repeat. You cannot land. Go to the airport in Page 23:
Guayaquil to land.
Grammar
Pilot: I understand. There is too much wind.
I need to go to Guayaquil to land. Copa Answers: ​Answers can vary.
Airlines, Flight Number 6-6-7 is now
Writing
Answers: ​Answers can vary.

Page 24: Project

Teacher Tip: ​Have the students also present the
benefits and drawbacks of each of the different
modes of transportation.