Free Outlook Common Core Lesson Plans: Unit 6 — How We Keep Healthy
Free downloadable Common Core lesson plans for Outlook Unit 6 — How We Keep Healthy. All 7 lessons: obligation and prohibition, reflexive pronouns, health vocabulary, reading, a letter of advice, and a review of Units 5 & 6.
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August 15, 2026
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3 min read
Unit 6 of Outlook covers How We Keep Healthy — a genuinely useful real-world topic, paired with modals of obligation and prohibition. Below are all 7 free, ready-to-teach lesson plans covering the full unit, ending with a review of Units 5 and 6 together.
All seven are free to download, aligned with the Common Core Standards-Based Approach.
What’s Included
Lesson 1: Conversation — What’s the Problem? (Health & Advice)
Students learn to describe a health problem and respond with basic advice.
Lesson 2: Grammar — Obligation & Prohibition (must, mustn’t, don’t have to)
A genuinely essential distinction — what’s required, what’s forbidden, and what’s simply optional.
Lesson 3: Grammar Extension — Reflexive Pronouns
Reinforces reflexive pronouns (myself, yourself, himself) in health and self-care contexts.
Lesson 4: Vocabulary — Health, Medical Care & Medicines
The vocabulary bank for describing symptoms, treatments, and medical care.
Lesson 5: Skills — Reading (“Asthma”) & Listening (“Unruly Patients”)
Two real health-related texts giving genuine reading and listening practice in context.
Lesson 6: Skills — Speaking & Writing (Letter of Advice)
Students move from spoken advice-giving to writing a structured letter of advice.
Lesson 7: Fun Page & Checkpoint — Song (“Health Will Fade”) & Review of Units 5 & 6
A song-based warm-up followed by a combined review of both Eating Habits and Keeping Healthy.
Must vs. mustn't vs. don't have to
This is one of the most commonly confused modal distinctions at this level — mustn’t means forbidden, while don’t have to simply means not required — worth explicit, contrasted practice rather than assuming it’s obvious.
How to Use These in Class
Contrast “mustn’t” and “don’t have to” directly
Write one example of each side by side on the board (“You mustn’t smoke here” vs. “You don’t have to wear a uniform”) — the direct contrast prevents students from treating them as interchangeable.
Use the letter of advice to consolidate the whole unit
Since Lesson 6’s letter can naturally include health vocabulary, modals, and reflexive pronouns all at once, it’s a genuinely good checkpoint for how much of the unit students can actually combine, not just recall separately.
Keep the health topic sensitive and general
Frame discussion and examples around general health advice rather than asking students to share personal medical details — keeps the lesson comfortable for everyone in the room.
Download the Lesson Plans
All seven files are free to download individually.
⬇ Lesson 1: Conversation — What’s the Problem?
⬇ Lesson 2: Grammar — Obligation & Prohibition
⬇ Lesson 3: Grammar Extension — Reflexive Pronouns
⬇ Lesson 4: Vocabulary — Health, Medical Care & Medicines
⬇ Lesson 5: Skills — Reading (“Asthma”) & Listening
Looking for lesson plans for the other 9 Outlook units? See the full Outlook Common Core index. Also teaching Middle School? The Focus 9th Grade Library covers Spotlight-level lesson plans too.
Yes — all seven lesson plans for Unit 6 are free to download individually.
A letter of advice, building on a speaking lesson where students first practice giving health-related advice out loud.
Yes — they follow the Outlook Unit 6 syllabus and the Moroccan Standards-Based Approach for Common Core.
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