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GOALS

The main goals this handout tries to achieve are :

a) Develop confidence in students they can learn English language skills (listening , reading, writing and speaking ) through familiar current methodology;

b) Students can be exposed to a variety of teaching techniques revitalizing classical tasks , such as: task development, pair and group work , use of reference materials, repetition, lexical mapping, transferring, inferencing, among others.

c) Explore a variety of textbooks and determining how to best utilize them within a curricular framework;

d) Develop a variety of assessment instruments to support

teachers’ decisions upon students’ evolving performance.

CONTENTS MAP

Units Functions/situations Language topics

Unit 1 “ First contact “

Unit 2: “Abilities & skills”

Unit 3: “ My city “

Unit 4: “ Let’s read “

Unit 5: People and things. Introducing people

Greetings

Spelling words

Social expressions

Describing professions

Expressing quantities

Orders and requests

Asking for information

Describing people and

objects

Determining countries and

nationalities

Expressing abilities

Expressing habitual actions

Talking about people

Levels of frequency

Describing cities and local

environment

Facing an interview

Expressing likes and

dislikes

Having a pen-pal

Place description

Asking for prices

Expressing continuous

actions

Complementary Reading

“A lawn chair pilot “

“ The power of love “

“ No more housework “

Describing people

Learning computing

Expressing past actions

(aff – neg – int -)

Verb “ to be”

Contractions

Alphabet

W’s questions

Conditions (personal)

Numbers

Indefinite articles

Possessive adjectives and

“’s” possessive

Colors, clothes and

jewelry

“can “ and “ can’t “

Levels of ability

Question-word questions

Frequency adverbs

Common verbs

Simple adjectives

Vocabulary on

geography, weather

and tourism.

3rd. person singular

present

“there is” / “there are”

Vocabulary: home

cities

weather

tools

Present Progressive

(aff/neg/int)

ages, weights, measure

Adjectives (modifiers)

Regular and Irregular

Verbs

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UNIT ONE: “FIRST CONTACT “

PURPOSE: “Students will be able to interact in English at an elementary level

using questions-words questions, verb “to be”, and related

vocabulary.”

1. - Language assistant New expressions:

Nice to meet you. Fine, thanks.

I don’t remember I don’t understand.

Can you repeat that? How do you say........?

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