Week Unit Title Aims Witajcie! 1 - The area you live in - Speaking about yourself - An account of someone s life - The infinitive - The present tense - Genders of nouns - Writing a brief description - Learning and recording vocabulary 2 Media - Talk about Polish television and press - The influence of television on young people - Advertising and its effects - Negatives - Adjectives, comparatives and superlatives - Questions - Expressing opinions - Agreement and disagreement 3 Nowe media i muzyka 4 rozdz 1-2 - The importance of music and downloads for young people - The popularity of blogs and wikis and role of the Internet - Issues relating to mobile phones - The perfect tense - Direct object pronouns - Possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns - Understanding statistics - Taking notes while listening - Making suggestions Revision of Units 1-2
5 Życie kulturalne w Polsce - Different types of music and film - The history of Polish cinema - The role of theatre and festivals - Prepositions - The relative pronouns - Adverbs - Demonstrative adjective and pronouns - Speaking from notes - Dealing with longer reading texts 6 Jesteśmy nastolatkami 7 rozdz 3-4 - Discuss attitudes to image - The cult of celebrity - The values of some youth culture groups - The imperfect tense - Indirect speech - Questions - Indirect object pronouns - Comparing and contrasting - Improving writing skills - Dealing with cloze texts Revision of Units 3-4 8 Polacy do boju! - The health benefits of sport - Polish sport stars - Fair play in professional sport - The future tense - Emphatic pronouns - Using synonyms and antonyms - Answering questions on a Polish text - Improving listening skills
9 Bądźmy w formie! - Discuss smoking and drinking - The health risks of taking drugs - Healthy lifestyles and eating - Impersonal verbs - The conditional - Present participle - Talking about your rights and duties - Writing an opinion piece - Making suggestions 10 rozdz 5-6 Revision of Units 5-6 11 Turystyka - Describe holiday experiences - Opinions about different types of holiday - The pros and cons of tourism - Transport - The imperative - The passive - Using words families - Improving listening skills 12 Wśród rodziny i przyjaciół - Family relationships - Friendships - The pros and the cons of marriage - Changes in family structure - Inversion - The perfect conditional - Using different registers when speaking - Answering questions on a Polish text - Structuring an argument for a debate
13 rozdz 7-8 Revision of Units 7-8 14 Kończysz szkołę i co dalej? 15 rozdz 9 16 Efekt cieplarniany; przyczyny i rozwiązania 17 Jak chronić naszą planetę? 18 rozdz 10-11 - Compare the Polish and British education system - Describe your own education - The challenges facing first-time job seekers - The future perfect tense - Writing a formal letter - Expressing and justifying a point of view - Structuring an argument for a debate Revision of Unit 9 - The greenhouse effect - Traditional and renewable energy sources - Revision of present tense - Revision of future tenses - Translating from Polish into English - Improving listening skills - Writing an opinion piece - Individual ways of helping to protect the environment - Environmental pressure groups - The passive - Choosing the correct tense - Convincing someone of your point of vie - Writing a formal letter Revision of Units 10-11
19 Polacy na świecie - The history and evolution of emigration - Polish emigration today - The present tense - Deciding when a subjunctive is needed - Improving listening skills 20 Tolerancja na codzień 21 Ubóstwo czy to nas dotyczy? 22 rozdz 12-13 23 Internetowi złodzieje i przestępstwa. - Integration and equal opportunities - Everyday racism and how to react - The perfect subjunctive - Deciding when a subjunctive is needed - Preparing an oral presentation - Poverty and unemployment - Marginalisation in Poland - The pitfalls of translating into Polish - Expressing and justifying a point of view - Discuss how to start a career - Making suggestions - Write an essay about their life in Poland Revision of Units 12-13 - Young people and crime - Internet crime - The past conditional - Understanding a text - Expressing and justifying a point of view - Improving reading skills
24 Więzienie czy może inne rozwiązania? - Punishing crime - Alternatives to prison sentences - Choosing which tense to use - Writing an article - Presenting a written text 25 Najnowsze technologie w życiu codziennym. 26 Żywność organiczna za czy przeciw? 27 rozdz 14-15 28 Adam Mickiewicz Pan Tadeusz - New technology in everyday life - Future tense - Using words families - Using specialised language - Improving writing skills - Ethical issues relating to advances in human genetics - For and against genetically modified organisms - The future perfect - Conjunctions - Making language more complex - Building up complex sentences Revision of Units 14-15 - The life, literature and philosophy of Adam Mickiewicz - Recognising the historic words - Improving reading skills - Discussing and writing about literature and philosophy - Expressing personal opinion
29 Twórczość Andrzeja Wajdy - The life and work of Andrzej Wajda - The history and characteristics of Polish film - Using the past tenses - Comparing and contrasting - Speaking from notes - Preparing an oral presentation 30 Chrońmy język polski. 31 Jesteśmy w Unii Europejskiej 32 rozdz 16-17 33 Polityka, to nie dla mnie. - The Polish speaking world - The influences of different languages in Polish - Revision of irregular forms of verbs in present tens - Improving geography knowledge - Reading world map - Poland s current role within the European Union - The values, traditions and beliefs of Polish people - Revision of past tenses - Revision of future tenses - Asking questions - Answering questions - Agreement and disagreement Revision of Units 16-17 - Politics in general and how to make your own voice heard - The imperative - Talking about your rights and duties - Writing an opinion piece
34 Wojna i terroryzm, zagrożenia współczesnego świata. - Politics in Poland and in Europe - War and terrorism - Recognising the imperfect subjunctive - Discussing about politics today problems - Expressing personal opinion - Writing an essay 35 rozdz 18 Revision of Unit 18