An English unit built on a theme of current interest to high school students--such as cars, motorcycles, and snowmobiles--may involve several classroom activities: (1) a general discussion prompted by relevant newspaper and magazine articles, films, popular songs, and poems; (2) individual and group projects--reports or panel discussions--derived from books, magazines, or automobile association booklets; (3) class participation in film viewing and article or poem reading; and (4) individual reading of pertinent fiction. (A list of suggested materials concerning motor vehicles includes articles, non-fiction, poems and songs, fiction, and films.) (JM)