Smart Choices

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This unit, titled 'Smart Choices,' focuses on decision-making and its consequences. It presents reading texts about a student named Youssef who must decide whether to let two classmates join his birthday party, and an interview with an athlete named Adam who chooses not to run a race due to an injury. The unit also includes a story about a team of children building a water-saving machine, emphasizing teamwork, fairness, and honesty. Listening exercises involve conversations about making smart choices and a blog post about a decision. Speaking activities encourage students to discuss personal daily choices and problems, while writing tasks guide them to produce a blog post about a personal problem, including advice. The unit integrates vocabulary related to decisions (e.g., decision, consequence, risk, responsible) and grammar points such as the first conditional and the use of 'should' and 'shouldn't' for advice. By the end, students should be able to identify main ideas and details in texts about choices, use context clues for vocabulary, talk about choices and give advice, form first conditional sentences, and write a blog post about a problem.