Unit 2 Team Power Lesson A

Unit 2 Team Power Lesson A

by Kru Bank

Open Ended

THINK AND DISCUSS

1. Where can you find people working as part of a team?

Open Ended

THINK AND DISCUSS

2. Some teams work better than other teams.

Why do you think that is?

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PRE-READING

A. Look at the pictures on pages 26 and 27. Write answers to the questions below.

1. What are the people doing?

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PRE-READING

A. Look at the pictures on pages 26 and 27. Write answers to the questions below.

What materials are they using?

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PRE-READING

A. Look at the pictures on pages 26 and 27. Write answers to the questions below.

2. What do you think the Marshmallow Challenge is?

Multiple Choice

GETTING THE MAIN IDEAS

Use information from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each statement.

1. When people do the Marshmallow Challenge, they learn how to .

• a. plan a large project

• b. work as a team

• c. design a real building

Multiple Choice

PRE-READING

B. Read the first sentence of each paragraph on page 26. Choose the best answer to the question below. Then read the whole passage to check your ideas.

What is the passage about?

• How business people play a team game.

• How a man designed a team game.

• How people work together in a team game.

Multiple Choice

GETTING THE MAIN IDEAS

Use information from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each statement.

2. Tom Wujec learned that the best teams.

• have people with different skills

• plan only one tower

• have business people in them

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IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS IN PARAGRAPHS

Read the last two paragraphs of the passage

again, and find the sentence with the main

idea in each. Write them below.

Paragraph 3:                 

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IDENTIFYING MAIN IDEAS IN PARAGRAPHS

Read the last two paragraphs of the passage

again, and find the sentence with the main

idea in each. Write them below.

Paragraph 4:                         

Multiple Choice

B. The paragraph below describes the Marshmallow Challenge. The sentences are not in the correct order. First, find and underline the topic sentence. Then put the sentences in order by numbering them 1–4.

----. They have to finish in 18 minutes. ----. The Marshmallow Challenge is a great activity for teaching teams to work together. ----. People can then use their new collaboration skills in their real job. ----. In the activity, teams work to build a tower with unusual materials.

• 1, 2, 3, 4

• 3, 1, 4, 2

• 2, 4, 3, 1

• 4, 2, 1, 3

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

1. Experts build-----

• makes products

• strong structures

• more than 70

• try different

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

2. Organizers -----

• makes products

• strong structures

• more than 70

• plan projects

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

3. Experimenters -------- solutions

• makes products

• provide better services

• plan projects

• try different

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

4. ----------- Challenges-many with business people

• provide better services

• more than 70

• plan projects

• try different

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

5. Every business -------------or provides services

• makes products

• strong structures

• plan projects

• try different

Multiple Choice

IDENTIFYING SUPPORTING DETAILS

6. Strong teams make better products or ------------

• strong structures

• more than 70

• plan projects

• provide better services

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BUILDING VOCABULARY

A. Use bold words from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each definition.

1. ----- are people who have special knowledge.

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BUILDING VOCABULARY

A. Use bold words from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each definition.

2. ----- are buildings of any kind.

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BUILDING VOCABULARY

A. Use bold words from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each definition.

3. If an object is -----, it is strong and steady.

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BUILDING VOCABULARY

A. Use bold words from the passage on pages 25–26 to complete each definition.

4. If you are -----, you reach your goal or get a good result.

Multiple Choice

BUILDING VOCABULARY

B. Choose the best option for each statement or question.

1. A tower is normally .

• tall and thin

• short and round

Multiple Choice

BUILDING VOCABULARY

B. Choose the best option for each statement or question.

2. A designer might work on a new .

• text message

• cell phone

Multiple Choice

BUILDING VOCABULARY

B. Choose the best option for each statement or question.

3. An example of a product is .

• a box of spaghetti

• a trip to Italy

Multiple Choice

BUILDING VOCABULARY

B. Choose the best option for each statement or question.

4. Which of these are you more likely to plan?

• A weekend activity

• A yard of tape

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GETTING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

Refer to the passage on pages 25–26 to answer the questions below.

1. What does by itself mean in paragraph 1? Write another way to say it.

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GETTING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

Refer to the passage on pages 25–26 to answer the questions below.

2. What synonym is given for collaborate in the passage?

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GETTING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

Refer to the passage on pages 25–26 to answer the questions below.

3. How could you define prototype? Scan the passage and note a definition.

Open Ended

CRITICAL THINKING

1. Reflecting. Think about a team you

are part of. Are you usually the expert,

organizer, or experimenter?

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CRITICAL THINKING

2. Interpreting. What do you think Wujec

means when he says, “Every project has

its own marshmallow”?