MACMILLAN ENGLISH PRIMARY

MACMILLAN ENGLISH

PRIMARY

Level 1

Macmillan English 1, Unit 1

UNIT OBJECTIVES

• Introduce oneself

• Practise talking about and writing children’s ages

• Read and talk about families

• Identify members of a family

• Identify capital letters and use correct punctuation

• Practise saying words with ‘a’ sound

• Write sentences about children and their ages

• Draw and write about yourself and a friend

CONTENTS

Concepts

1.- Listening, speaking and interaction

• Listening for pronunciation and intonation

• Repeating and acting out a dialogue with expression

• Practising saying and asking about someone’s name and age

• Singing and learning a short song

• Listening to a dialogue and identifying family members

• Recognising and saying words with ‘a’ sound

2.- Reading and writing

• Following a text read out to them

• Reading a text aloud with accurate pronunciation and intonation

• Understanding the sense of a text as a whole

• Being able to answer simple comprehension questions both orally and in writing

• Writing their own age and the ages of other children

• Writing words from picture prompts

• Completing sentences using picture prompts

• Reading and completing sentence using given words

• Writing answers to simple comprehension questions

• Writing sentences about themselves and a friend

• Identifying capital letters

• Using correct punctuation: capital letter and full stop

3.- Language through use

Language knowledge

• This is …, He/She is …; They are …

• What’s your name?, My name is …, How old are you? I am …

• Identify capital letters

• Use correct punctuation: capital letters and full stops

Topics and vocabulary • Numbers: 1-10

• Family: mum, dad, sister, brother, grandma, grandpa, father, grandmother, grandfather, mother

• Funny / helpful / kind / little / tall / friend / big / helicopter / island

• Sam, cat, hat, mat, cap, map, tap

Phonetics

• Read, pronounce and spell words with short ‘a’

• Recognise and say the individual sounds that make up cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words

Learning to learn

• Matching words and pictures

• Memorising a dialogue and a song

• Identifying capital letters and correct use of punctuation

• Doing shared reading practice

4.- Sociocultural aspects

• Showing interest in listening to and understanding texts

• Enjoying introducing oneself and interacting with others

• Showing care when completing the activities in the book.

5.- Methodology

• Active involvement of the whole class to keep children focussed and motivated

• Fluency practice through listening and controlled dialogue practice

• Exposure to language through reading texts

• Focus on key grammatical structures and words

• Games and class activities to reinforce lesson work

• Vocabulary and structures are revised throughout the lessons

6.- Attitudes and values

• Respect for cultural differences.

• Interest in learning English

Development of basic competences

Page Activity

C1 Linguistic communicative All of the activities in the unit

C2 Mathematical

C3 Knowledge of and interaction with the physical world FB8-9 Talking

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