Spectrum

Downloadable Teaching Tips and Student Worksheets
(Materials for more units will be added each month.)


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BOOK 1

Unit 1
Alphabet Pronunciation Game (student worksheets)
Vocabulary Card Games (instructions for teacher and vocabulary cards)

Unit 2
Money in the United States (student worksheet, with answer key)
Numbers Games (instructions for teacher and number cards)

Unit 3
Number Pronunciation: Practice of Minimal Pairs (instructions for teacher and chart)
Contractions, Plural Names, and Possessives: An Editing Exercise (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 4
Missing Numbers: A Speaking and Listening Activity (instructions for teacher and student worksheets)
Guided Walk: A Speaking Activity Using Imperatives (instructions for teacher)

Unit 5
The Most Important Word: A Pronunciation Activity (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)
Occupations: A Vocabulary Exercise (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 6
Language, Country, and Nationality: A Vocabulary Puzzle (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)
Logic Problem: A Vocabulary Activity (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 7
Leisure Time Group Survey: A Speaking Activity (instructions for teacher and leisure time activities survey)
Object Pronouns: Grammar Activities (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 8
Lost and Found: A Speaking and Listening Activity (instructions for teacher)
Questions with the Past of Be: A Reading and Writing Activity (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)



BOOK 2

Unit 1
Bingo! (student worksheet)
Jigsaw Pre-Reading Activity (instructions for teacher and conversation cards)
Leisure Time: A Vocabulary and Speaking Game (instructions for teacher and vocabulary cards)

Unit 2
Talking About Abilities: A Writing and Speaking Activity Using Can/Can't (instructions for teacher and student worksheet)
At the Doctor's Office: A Role-Playing Activity (instructions for teacher, situation cards, and patient information form)


Unit 3
Charades and the Present Continuous: An Acting and Speaking Activity (instructions for teacher and charades cue cards)
Matching Problems and Solutions (instructions for teacher and problem and solution cards)

Unit 4
Adding Letters: A Spelling Game (instructions for teacher and set of letters)
Drawing with Prepositions: A Listening Exercise (instructions for teacher and student worksheet)

Unit 5
The Future with Going To: A Role-Playing Activity (instructions for teacher and student worksheets)
Weather Forecast: A Reading Comprehension Activity (instructions for teacher and student worksheet)

Unit 6
A, Some, Any: A Survey and Grammar Activity (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)
Mass Nouns Word Search (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 7
Dinner for Seven?!: A Speaking Activity (instructions for teacher and student worksheet)
Measures: A Matching Activity (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)

Unit 8
Pronunciation Puzzle: An Exercise in Past Tense Forms (instructions for teacher, student worksheet, and answer key)
Remembering. . . : A Speaking Activity (instructions for teacher and list of topics)