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Syllabus HIGH FIVE!

HIGH FIVE! 2
Syllabus. Foreign Languages: English
Primary Education: 2nd year

STARTER UNIT: Lets go back to school!

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit
Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

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Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

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Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

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LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

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CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

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ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

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USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

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SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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EVALUATION RESOURCES

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The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.

The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name school subjects (L2) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Ask and answer questions about school subjects (L2) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Ask and answer questions about the weather (L4) CLC CMST SCC L2L SIE
Review vocabulary from Level 1 (L1) CLC CAE SIE
Say the alphabet in English (L3) CLC CAE SIE
Spell out words (L3) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Make a cut-out and review your learning (L4) CLC CAE SIE
Ask and answer questions about your name and your friends names (L1) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Sing two songs (L1 L3) CLC CAE SIE
Listen to, read and act out a story (L4) CLC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 3. Listen and point. Sing Weve got our school bags.
L1.CD1 Track 2 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Listen and act out. L1. CD1 Track4. CLC CAE SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review vocabulary from Level
1. Play Odd one out. Review shapes. L1. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and point. Say the School subjects chant. L2.
CD1 Track 5. CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and repeat. Act out. L2. CD1 Track 6 CLC DC
CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and point. L2. CD1 Track 7 CLC SIE
Cooperative learning. Friends as a resource. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer Whats this? L2. CLC SIE L2L
Extra activities. Make a Whats your favourite subject? living
graph. L2. CLC SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and point. Say the alphabet. L3. CD1 Track 8
CLC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and sing The alphabet.L3. CD1 Track 9 CLC
SIE
Activity 3. Listen and read. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L3.
CD1 Track 10. CLC SIE
Cooperative learning. Learning to learn. Talk Partners Practise
the alphabet and spelling. L3. Talk Partners Play Back writing.
L3. CLC L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review The alphabet song. L3.
CLC CAE SIE
Extra activities. Extension. Play The spelling game. L3. CLC SIE
Vocabulary review. Review Level 1 weather vocabulary. L4.
CLC L2L
Activity 1. Activity 1. Listen and read. L4. CD1 Track 12. Act
out. CLC CAE SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Question words (What, how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)

Adj) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two
digits ; Degree : very ) .

Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L4. CLC L2L

School matters.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Ask and answer questions about school subjects


Ask and answer questions about your name and your friends
names

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Whats your favourite subject? My favourite
subject is (English).
How do you spell (English)?

Other structures
Weve got Were ready (to)
We (read / listen /write / sing / speak English).
What colour (is / are)

Recycled structures
Whats his / her name? His / her name is
(Jake / Molly).
What colour is the ? What can you see?
Can you find ? I can see
Whats the weather like? Its very (sunny)
today. Is it (raining)? Yes, it is.

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- The school and class


- The weather

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
Arts and Crafts, English, ICT, Maths, Music, PE,
Science, Spanish language
cloudy, raining, stormy, sunny, windy
the alphabet
Other vocabulary
cold, cool, foggy, hot, warm
Recycled vocabulary
Level 1: classroom objects; clothes; family
members; farm animals; food; instructions;
numbers 120; places in town; shapes; toys;
transport
Practice listening to the pronunciation of the vocabulary of the
unit

BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Distinguish the main communicative
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and repeat, etc. L1-L4. CLC, SCC

2.1. Listens to and understands a simple


conversation reviewing how to spell words
related to school subjects in the Talk
Partners section. L3. CLC, L2L, SIE

3.1 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs: Weve got our school bags /
The School subjects chant / The alphabet.
L1, L2, L3. CLC, CAE, L2L

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


storm. L4. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Find and say. L1. CLC L2L


Activity 2. Find and say the numbers. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity 3. Listen and point. Sing Weve got our school bags.
L1.CD1 Track 2 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Listen and act out. L1. CD1 Track4. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Circle the odd one out. Write and say.
L1. CLC L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review vocabulary from Level
1. Play Odd one out. Review shapes. L1. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and point. Say the School subjects chant. L2.
CD1 Track 5. CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and repeat. Act out. L2. CD1 Track 6 CLC DC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Ask your classmates. Write. L2. CLC
SCC SIE L2L
Cooperative learning. Friends as a resource. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer Whats this? L2. CLC SIE L2L
Extra activities. Make a Whats your favourite subject? living
graph. L2. CLC SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and point. Say the alphabet. L3. CD1 Track 8
CLC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and sing The alphabet.L3. CD1 Track 9 CLC
SIE
Activity 3. Listen and read. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L3.
CD1 Track 10. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write and say the alphabet. Talk
Partners Play the game. L3. CLC L2L

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Question words (What, how... ) .

Cooperative learning. Learning to learn. Talk Partners Practise


the alphabet and spelling. L3. Talk Partners Play Back writing.
L3. CLC L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review The alphabet song. L3.
CLC CAE SIE
Extra activities. Extension. Play The spelling game. L3. CLC SIE
Vocabulary review. Review Level 1 weather vocabulary. L4.
CLC L2L
Activity 1. Activity 1. Listen and read. L4. CD1 Track 12. Act
out. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Go to page 103. Make
your traffic light. Listen to the teacher and point. L4. CLC CAE
L2L
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L4. CLC L2L

School matters

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Ask and answer questions about school subjects


Ask and answer questions about your name and your friends
names

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Whats your favourite subject? My favourite
subject is (English).
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CONTENTS
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)

Adj) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two
digits ; Degree : very ) .

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- The school and class


- The weather

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


How do you spell (English)?

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Other structures
Weve got Were ready (to)
We (read / listen /write / sing / speak English).
What colour (is / are)
Recycled structures
Whats his / her name? His / her name is
(Jake / Molly).
What colour is the ? What can you see?
Can you find ? I can see
Whats the weather like? Its very (sunny)
today. Is it (raining)? Yes, it is.

Core vocabulary
Arts and Crafts, English, ICT, Maths, Music, PE,
Science, Spanish language
cloudy, raining, stormy, sunny, windy
the alphabet
Other vocabulary
cold, cool, foggy, hot, warm
Recycled vocabulary
Level 1: classroom objects; clothes; family
members; farm animals; food; instructions;
numbers 120; places in town; shapes; toys;
transport

Practice pronouncing the vocabulary of the unit.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

1.1. Repeats the songs from the unit


reproducing new expressions: Weve got our
school bags / The School subjects chant /
The alphabet. L1, L2, L3. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.

3. Dramatizes simple everyday


situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The storm. L4. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation practising


presentations in the Talk Partners section.
L1. CLC, SCC, SIE

6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation


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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


reviewing how to spell words related to
school subjects in the Talk Partners section.
L3. CLC, L2L, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity 1. Find and say. L1. CLC L2L


Activity Book. Activity 1. Circle the odd one out. Write and say.
L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Follow and colour. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and point. Say the alphabet. L3. CD1 Track 8
CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Help Toby find his bone. Listen and
colour the words. Write. L3. CD1 Track 11 CLC CAE L2L
Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the
flashcards. L4. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Activity 1. Listen and read. L4. CD1 Track 12. Act
out. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Number and write. L4. CLC CMST CAE

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

School matters

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Ask and answer questions about school subjects


Ask and answer questions about your name and your friends
names

Practice reading activities with the following structures:


Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Question words (What, how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)
Adj) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two

digits ; Degree : very ) .

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- The school and class


- The weather

Core structures
Whats your favourite subject? My favourite
subject is (English).
How do you spell (English)?
Other structures
Weve got Were ready (to)
We (read / listen /write / sing / speak English).
What colour (is / are)
Recycled structures
Whats his / her name? His / her name is
(Jake / Molly).
What colour is the ? What can you see?
Can you find ? I can see
Whats the weather like? Its very (sunny)
today. Is it (raining)? Yes, it is.

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
Arts and Crafts, English, ICT, Maths, Music, PE,
Science, Spanish language
cloudy, raining, stormy, sunny, windy
the alphabet

Other vocabulary
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

cold, cool, foggy, hot, warm


Recycled vocabulary
Level 1: classroom objects; clothes; family
members; farm animals; food; instructions;
numbers 120; places in town; shapes; toys;
transport

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to Greeting people and saying
goodbye.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understand the information of some


posters related to school subjects. L6. CLC,
CMST, CAE.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The storm, with the help of
illustrations. L4. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

EVALUATION CRITERIA

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Circle the odd one out. Write and say.
L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Follow and colour. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Ask your classmates. Write. L2. CLC
SCC SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Help Toby find his bone. Listen and
colour the words. Write. L3. CD1 Track 11 CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write and say the alphabet. Talk
Partners Play the game. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Number and write. L4. CLC CMST CAE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats the weather like today? Write
and draw. L4. CLC CMST CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Go to page 103. Make
your traffic light. Listen to the teacher and point. L4. CLC CAE
L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L

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CONTENTS
Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:
Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Question words (What, how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)
Adj) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two
digits ; Degree : very ) .

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

School matters

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Ask and answer questions about school subjects


Ask and answer questions about your name and your friends
names

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Whats your favourite subject? My favourite
subject is (English).
How do you spell (English)?
Other structures
Weve got Were ready (to)
We (read / listen /write / sing / speak English).
What colour (is / are)
Recycled structures
Whats his / her name? His / her name is
(Jake / Molly).
What colour is the ? What can you see?
Can you find ? I can see
Whats the weather like? Its very (sunny)
today. Is it (raining)? Yes, it is.

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

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CONTENTS
- The school and class
- The weather

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
Arts and Crafts, English, ICT, Maths, Music, PE,
Science, Spanish language
cloudy, raining, stormy, sunny, windy
the alphabet
Other vocabulary
cold, cool, foggy, hot, warm
Recycled vocabulary
Level 1: classroom objects; clothes; family
members; farm animals; food; instructions;
numbers 120; places in town; shapes; toys;
transport
Show interest in learning, through written activities, the
spelling of words related to Greeting people and saying
goodbye.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes about the weather and draws a


picture. L4. (Activity Book). CLC, CMST,
CAE, SIE.

Write very short and simple texts, made


of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form with personal


information and indicating their favourite
subjects. L2. (Activity Book). CLC, SCC,
SIE.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for the Starter Unit: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 1. Reinforcement. Review shapes.
Lesson 2. Make a Whats your favourite subject? living graph.
Lesson 3. Extension. Play The spelling game
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.
Stories:
-

The storm

Songs:
-

Weve got our school bags


The School subjects chant
The alphabet

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts:
Arts and Crafts: Identifying and using art materials.

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning): Talk about the importance of organising your possessions
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to one another (Lesson 1)
- Friends as a resource (Lesson 2)
- Learning to learn (Lesson 3)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

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With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do communicative games
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read a story

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Diagnostic Test
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 1: Move your body


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

25

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

26

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

30

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

32

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

36

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

38

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

41

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

43

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

48

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

48

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

49

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

49

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

50

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

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EVALUATION RESOURCES

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The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name sports (L1) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE


Talk about the sports you play (L2) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use action verbs related to sports (L4) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC DC L2L SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (L1) CLC SIE
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the ai sound (L5) CLC CAE SIE
Review your own learning (L8) CLC L2L SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Understand the importance of organising your possessions (L3) CLC SCC SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Make a cut-out and play a communication game (L5) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Sing three songs (L1 L4 L8) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a story (L3) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Learn about Sports Day in Britain (L6) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Think about your own culture (L6) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Read, understand and write a poem (L7) CLC SCC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Learning strategies in oral texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD1 Track 13. CD1 Track 14
p245 (optional karaoke version). Sing Do you play any sports?
CLC CAE SIE
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p15). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement Play Which ones missing? L1.
CLC L2L
Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. The human body: joints that move when we
play sports. L1. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD1 Track 16. Talk Partners
Act out CLC DC CAE SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). L2. CD1 Track17 CLC L2L SIE
Encouraging participation. Play Class chain. L2. CLC SCC SIE
L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD1 Track 18. Talk Partners Act
out. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of organising your possessions. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. The human body: safety equipment for sports.
L3. CLC SCC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 19 CLC DC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing Hes a superstar! L4. CD1
Track 20 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD1 Track 21 CLC DC CAE SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and circle the actions. L4. CD1
Track 22 CLC SCC L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play a ball game. L4. CLC L2L
SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD1 Track 23 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and match. L5. CD1 Track 24 CLC SCC SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 105).
Talk Partners Play the game. CLC SCC L2L SIE
Cooperative Learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Make a pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Snap in pairs. L5.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 25 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. What sports do you play at school?
L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number. Write. L6. CD1
Track 26 CLC CMST L2L
Link to Science. The human body: muscles pull our bones to
help us move. L6. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review sports verbs. L6. CLC
SCC SIE
Extension. Play Sports Day games. L6. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the poem. L7. CD1 Track 27 CLC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write your own poem.
Talk Partners Act out. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD1 Track 28
CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Look at Activity 1. CD1 Track 29. Talk
Partners Ask and answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and tick (). (review) CD1 Track 31 CLC L2L
SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Ask and answer. (review)CD1
Track 32 CLC CAE SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners. Ask


and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Sports Day


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Talk about the sports you play

Practice listening activities with the following structures:


Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns );
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Core structures
Do you play any sports?
I play (tennis).
I go (swimming) (on Saturdays).
Do you (play football / go cycling)?
Yes, I do. / No, I dont.
He / She (plays) (tennis).
He / She (kicks / throws / hits).
Other structures
Whats your favourite sport?
My favourite sport is (football).
Recycled structures
I (like / love) I dont (like / love)
Do you like (hockey)? Yes, I do. / No, I dont.

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- Play;
- Sports;

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
baseball, basketball, cycling, football, hockey,
rollerblading, skateboarding, swimming, tennis,
volleyball
bounce, catch, hit, jump, kick, throw
Extension vocabulary (optional)
go) climbing, (go) fishing, (go) sailing, (play)
badminton, (play) golf, (play) table tennis
Other vocabulary
bat, boots, swimsuit, goggle, rollerblades, tennis
racket
days of the week
organise, sports, superstar, train
Recycled vocabulary
I like, I love, I dont like
run

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:

ai / ay (snails, play, rain, day)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.
Distinguish the main communicative

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about the sports children
practice in the Talk Partners sections. L2, L4,
L5, L8. CLC, CMST, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about their favourite sports in
the External Exams Practice section. CLC,
SCC, L2L

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about the sports
children play at school in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs: Do you play any sports? /
Hes a superstar! / Well done! L1, L4, L8.
CLC, CAE, L2L

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


very busy week. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD1 Track 13. CD1 Track 14
p245 (optional karaoke version). Sing Do you play any sports?
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD1 Track 15 CLC CAE SIE
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p15). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. Say. L1. CLC L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement Play Which ones missing? L1.
CLC L2L
Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. The human body: joints that move when we
play sports. L1. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD1 Track 16. Talk Partners
Act out CLC DC CAE SCC SIE
Encouraging participation. Play Class chain. L2. CLC SCC SIE
L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Talk Partners Act
out. L2. CLC SCC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD1 Track 18. Talk Partners Act
out. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of organising your possessions. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Cooperative Learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember ten sports
words. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Link to Science. The human body: safety equipment for sports.
L3. CLC SCC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 19 CLC DC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing Hes a superstar! L4. CD1
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Track 20 CLC CAE SIE


Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD1 Track 21 CLC DC CAE SCC SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play a ball game. L4. CLC L2L
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD1 Track 23 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 105).
Talk Partners Play the game. CLC SCC L2L SIE
Cooperative Learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Make a pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Snap in pairs. L5.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 25 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. What sports do you play at school?
L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick. Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Link to Science. The human body: muscles pull our bones to
help us move. L6. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review sports verbs. L6. CLC
SCC SIE
Extension. Play Sports Day games. L6. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. Talk about ball games. Which balls
do you think are in the poem? Circle. L7. CLC CAE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write your own poem.
Talk Partners Act out. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Look at Activity 1. CD1 Track 29. Talk
Partners Ask and answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3: Cooperative learning: Sing Well Done! CD1 Track
30. Stick the High Five! sticker. L8. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L


Cooperative Learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember the ten
sports words. L8. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Ask and answer. (review)CD1
Track 32 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Sports Day


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns );
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Talk about the sports you play

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Do you play any sports?
I play (tennis).
I go (swimming) (on Saturdays).
Do you (play football / go cycling)?
Yes, I do. / No, I dont.
He / She (plays) (tennis).
He / She (kicks / throws / hits).

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Play;
- Sports;

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Other structures
Whats your favourite sport?
My favourite sport is (football).
Recycled structures
I (like / love) I dont (like / love)
Do you like (hockey)? Yes, I do. / No, I dont.

Core vocabulary
baseball, basketball, cycling, football, hockey,
rollerblading, skateboarding, swimming, tennis,
volleyball
bounce, catch, hit, jump, kick, throw
Extension vocabulary (optional)
go) climbing, (go) fishing, (go) sailing, (play)
badminton, (play) golf, (play) table tennis
Other vocabulary
bat, boots, swimsuit, goggle, rollerblades, tennis
racket
days of the week
organise, sports, superstar, train
Recycled vocabulary
I like, I love, I dont like
run

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation

ai / ay (snails, play, rain, day)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about sports. L1. CLC, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: Do you play
any sports? / Hes a superstar! / Well done!
L1, L4, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The very busy week. L3.
CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 1: Pets. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about sports


in the Talk Partners section. L2. CLC, CMST,
SCC

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Respects rules that govern oral
interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about organising their things in the
High Five Values section. L3. CLC, CAE, SCC,
SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the sports practised by


children in the UK with his/her own
experience in the British Culture and Think
about your Culture sections. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD1 Track 15 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. Say. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Tick () and say the
sports you do. L1. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Grammar focus. go or play? L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write. Follow and circle. L2.
CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD1 Track 18. Talk Partners Act
out. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of organising your possessions. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Write and match. L3. CLC SCC L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 19 CLC DC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L4. CLC SCC L2L
Link to Science. The human body: when we exercise, our heart
beats faster. L4. CLC CMST L2L
Activity 2. Listen and match. L5. CD1 Track 24 CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ai words red and the ay
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 25 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What) .

Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and


tick. Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the poem. L7. CD1 Track 27 CLC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the poem.
Number. L7. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L8. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write the correct word.
There is one example. (review) CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Sports Day


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Talk about the sports you play

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Do you play any sports?
I play (tennis).
I go (swimming) (on Saturdays).
Do you (play football / go cycling)?
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CONTENTS
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns );
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Play;
- Sports;

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Yes, I do. / No, I dont.


He / She (plays) (tennis).
He / She (kicks / throws / hits).
Other structures
Whats your favourite sport?
My favourite sport is (football).
Recycled structures
I (like / love) I dont (like / love)
Do you like (hockey)? Yes, I do. / No, I dont.

Core vocabulary
baseball, basketball, cycling, football, hockey,
rollerblading, skateboarding, swimming, tennis,
volleyball
bounce, catch, hit, jump, kick, throw
Extension vocabulary (optional)
go) climbing, (go) fishing, (go) sailing, (play)
badminton, (play) golf, (play) table tennis
Other vocabulary
bat, boots, swimsuit, goggle, rollerblades, tennis
racket
days of the week
organise, sports, superstar, train
Recycled vocabulary
I like, I love, I dont like
run
Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the
spelling of words related to sports.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understand the information of several


Sports Day posters. L6. (Activity Book).
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.
1.2. Understands the information of a
Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.
Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.
, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to sports
with the help of visual material. L1. CLC,
SCC, L2L
3.2. Reads and understands a poem with
the help of pictures. L7. CLC, SCC, CAE

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The very busy week, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

5.1. Reads and understands a text about


the sports practised by children in the UK
in the British Culture section. L6. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. Say. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Tick () and say the
sports you do. L1. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). L2. CD1 Track17 CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write. Follow and circle. L2.
CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Talk Partners Act
out. L2. CLC SCC SIE L2L
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of organising your possessions. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Write and match. L3. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. What sports do you play? Write and
draw. L3. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and circle the actions. L4. CD1
Track 22 CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L4. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Link to Science. The human body: when we exercise, our heart
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

beats faster. L4. CLC CMST L2L


Cooperative Learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Make a pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ai words red and the ay
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number. Write. L6. CD1
Track 26 CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick. Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. Talk about ball games. Which balls
do you think are in the poem? Circle. L7. CLC CAE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a class. Write a
class poem. L7. CLC CAE L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the poem.
Number. L7. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write your own poem.
Talk Partners Act out. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD1 Track 28
CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L8. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and tick (). (review) CD1 Track 31 CLC L2L
SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write the correct word.
There is one example. (review) CLC L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns );
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners. Ask


and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. (review) CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Sports Day


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Talk about the sports you play

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Do you play any sports?
I play (tennis).
I go (swimming) (on Saturdays).
Do you (play football / go cycling)?
Yes, I do. / No, I dont.
He / She (plays) (tennis).
He / She (kicks / throws / hits).
Other structures
Whats your favourite sport?
My favourite sport is (football).
Recycled structures
I (like / love) I dont (like / love)
Do you like (hockey)? Yes, I do. / No, I dont.

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

- Play;
- Sports

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
baseball, basketball, cycling, football, hockey,
rollerblading, skateboarding, swimming, tennis,
volleyball
bounce, catch, hit, jump, kick, throw
Extension vocabulary (optional)
go) climbing, (go) fishing, (go) sailing, (play)
badminton, (play) golf, (play) table tennis
Other vocabulary
bat, boots, swimsuit, goggle, rollerblades, tennis
racket
days of the week
organise, sports, superstar, train
Recycled vocabulary
I like, I love, I dont like
run
Show interest in learning, through written activities, the
spelling of words related to sports.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a dialogue about sports in the


Your Turn section. L2. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes and draws about the sports
he/she practices. L3. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

1.3. Writes a poem following a model. L7.


(Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the sports he


/she does and draws and writes about it.
L6. (Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 1: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 1. Reinforcement. Play Which ones missing?
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Play a ball game
Lesson 6. Reinforcement. Play Can you guess?
Lesson 6. Extension. Play Sports Day games.
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 1.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: A poem (text to express)
Reading skills: Predicting from Pictures; Scanning and sequencing; Reading a poem
Stories:
Songs:
-

The very busy week


Do you play any sports?
Hes a superstar!
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
The human body: Joints that move when we play different sports; Safety equipment for sports; When we
exercise, our heart beats faster; Muscles pull our bones to help us move
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using lines, shapes and colours; Creating a matching game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of organising your possessions
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Well done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Encouraging participation (Lesson 2)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lessons 3 and 8)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Working together as a class (Lesson 7)

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USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal
-

RESOURCES

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 2: Lets go shopping!


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

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Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

54

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

59

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

61

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

65

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

67

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

71

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

73

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

78

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

78

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

79

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

79

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

80

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

80

EVALUATION RESOURCES

81

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name different food (L1) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Ask and answer questions about food using a, an and some (L2) CLC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Ask about prices using How much (is this / are these)? (L4) CLC DC SCC L2L SIE
Count to fifty (L4) CLC DC L2L SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC DC L2L SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (L1) CLC SIE
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the ee sound (L5) CLC CAE SIE
Review your own learning (L8) CLC L2L SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Understand the importance of saying please when you ask for something (L3) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Make and play a communication game (L5) CLC CAE SIE
Sing four songs (L1 L4 L5 L8) CLC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a story (L3) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Learn about Pancake Day in Britain (L6) CLC SCC SIE
Think about your own culture (L6) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Read, understand and write a recipe (L7) CLC SCC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD1 Track 33. Sing Lets go
shopping! CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD1 Track 35. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Food: the five good groups. L1. CLC CMST SCC
SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Play Memory! L1. CLC L2L SIE
Vocabulary extension. Play The fruit and vegetable game. L1.
CLC L2L
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p25). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD1 Track 36. Talk Partners
Act out. CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and circle. L2. CD1 Track 37 CLC CMST SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Play Memory chain.
L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. 2. Activity 2. Choose and write a dialogue. Talk
Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD1 Track 38. Act out. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of saying please when you ask for something. L3.
CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. Food: balanced meals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 39 CLC DC
CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing How much is this? L4. CD1

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Track 40 CLC CMST CAE SIE


Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Act out. L4. CD1
Track 41 CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Do a team
dictation. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write the numbers. L4.
CD1 Track 42 CLC CMST L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD1 Track 43 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and write. L5. CD1 Track 44 CLC CMST
Activity 4. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 105).
L5. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Continue the pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 46 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Do you have a special food day in
your country? L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1. Listen and write. Match. L6. CD1
Track 47 CLC SCC L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement Pancake tossing game. L6. CLC
L2L SIE
Link to Science. Food: wheat, eggs and milk. L6. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the picture of the funny
face sandwich. What do you think you need to make it? L7.
CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the recipe. L7. CD1 Track 48 CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Extra activity. Extension. Play Hot Seat. L7. CLC SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Using
collaborative language. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD1 Track 49
CLC CMST SCC SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and write a name or a number. There is one
example. (review) CD1 Track 51 CLC CMST
Activity 2. Listen and point. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
(review)CD1 Track 52 CLC CAE SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Find and colour. Write. Talk Partners.
Point, ask and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Further number practice
(review) CLC CMST L2L SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Pancake Day


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Asking about prices using How much (is this / are these)?

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CONTENTS
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : imperative ); permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Can I have (a / an / some) , please?
Yes, of course. Here you are.
Thank you very much.
How much is this?
How much are these?

Other structures
Lets go (shopping).
Can I help you?
Put them in the bag.
Weve got (bread) for lunch.
I help / put
She puts in (flour). / She tosses (the pancake).
We have (pancake races).

Recycled structures
Its / Theyre (twenty) cents.
I like / I love / I dont like

demonstratives ); quality ( ( very +) Adj . ) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two


digits ; Quantity : some. Degree : very ) .

- Expression of space ( prepositions of location, position) in.


- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. slowly , well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- Food
- Shopping

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bread, carrots, green beans, ham, lemons,
peaches, potatoes, sweets, tomatoes, yoghurt
numbers 1 to 50

Extension vocabulary (optional)


coconut, lettuce, lime, mango, onion, peas

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CONTENTS

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
flour, food, pancake
first, then, now, finally
Be quiet! Yes, of course!

Recycled vocabulary
apples, cake, cheese, chicken, chips, eggs, fish,
fruit, grapes, ice cream, meat, milk, oranges,
pasta, pears, pineapple, rice, sandwich,
sausages, vegetables, water, watermelon
delicious
breakfast, lunch, dinner

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


ee / ea (Queen, Jean, eats, meat, green, sheep, cheese)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about food in the Talk Partners
sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CMST, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about numbers in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, CMST, L2L

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L
3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of
the unit songs: Lets go shopping! / How
much is this?/ What do I need to do? / Well
done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L
4.1. Listens to and understands the general
meaning of a narrative about Pancake Day in
the British Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE

Distinguish the main communicative


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function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


naughty parrot. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD1 Track 33. Sing Lets go
shopping! CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD1 Track 35. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats in the bag? Draw and write.
L1. CLC CMST CAE L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Play Memory! L1. CLC L2L SIE
Vocabulary extension. Play The fruit and vegetable game. L1.
CLC L2L
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p25). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD1 Track 36. Talk Partners
Act out. CLC DC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Play Memory chain.
L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. 2. Activity 2. Choose and write a dialogue. Talk
Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD1 Track 38. Act out. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of saying please when you ask for something. L3.
CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. Food: balanced meals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 39 CLC DC
CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing How much is this? L4. CD1

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Track 40 CLC CMST CAE SIE


Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Act out. L4. CD1
Track 41 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD1 Track 43 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3: Cooperative learning. Sing What do I need to do?
L5. CD1 Track 45 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 105).
L5. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Continue the pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ee words red and the ea
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 46 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Do you have a special food day in
your country? L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement Pancake tossing game. L6. CLC
L2L SIE
Link to Science. Food: wheat, eggs and milk. L6. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the picture of the funny
face sandwich. What do you think you need to make it? L7.
CLC CMST SIE
Extra activity. Extension. Play Hot Seat. L7. CLC SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Using
collaborative language. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD1 Track 49
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 3: Cooperative learning. Sing Well Done! CD1 Track
50. Stick the High Five! sticker. L8. CLC CAE SIE L2L
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Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Cooperative learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember the ten


food words. L8. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and point. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
(review)CD1 Track 52 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Find and colour. Write. Talk Partners.
Point, ask and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Further number practice
(review) CLC CMST L2L SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Pancake Day


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Asking about prices using How much (is this / are these)?

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Can I have (a / an / some) , please?
Yes, of course. Here you are.
Thank you very much.
How much is this?
How much are these?
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- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : imperative ); permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

demonstratives ); quality ( ( very +) Adj . ) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two


digits ; Quantity : some. Degree : very ) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions of location, position) in.
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. slowly , well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Food
- Shopping

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Other structures
Lets go (shopping).
Can I help you?
Put them in the bag.
Weve got (bread) for lunch.
I help / put
She puts in (flour). / She tosses (the pancake).
We have (pancake races).
Recycled structures
Its / Theyre (twenty) cents.
I like / I love / I dont like

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:


Core vocabulary
bread, carrots, green beans, ham, lemons,
peaches, potatoes, sweets, tomatoes, yoghurt
numbers 1 to 50
Extension vocabulary (optional)
coconut, lettuce, lime, mango, onion, peas
Other vocabulary
flour, food, pancake
first, then, now, finally
Be quiet! Yes, of course!
Recycled vocabulary
apples, cake, cheese, chicken, chips, eggs, fish,
fruit, grapes, ice cream, meat, milk, oranges,
pasta, pears, pineapple, rice, sandwich,
sausages, vegetables, water, watermelon
delicious
breakfast, lunch, dinner

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


ee / ea (Queen, Jean, eats, meat, green, sheep, cheese)

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about food. L1. CLC, CMST, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: Lets go
shopping! / How much is this?/ What do I
need to do? / Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CAE, L2L SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The naughty parrot. L3.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 1: Pets. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation buying food


in the Talk Partners section. L2. CLC, CMST,
SCC

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Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

4. Respects rules that govern oral


interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

4.1. Respects the rules when participating in


the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about the importance of saying
"please" in the High Five Values section. L3.
CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the special food days in the


UK with his/her own experience in the British
Culture and Think about your Culture
sections. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD1 Track 35. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats in the bag? Draw and write.
L1. CLC CMST CAE L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Grammar focus. a, an, some. L2. CLC L2L
Link to Science. Food: health, growth and energy. L2. CLC SCC
CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and write. L2. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD1 Track 38. Act out. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of saying please when you ask for something. L3.
CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Read and write true or
false. L3. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD1 Track 39 CLC DC
CMST SIE
Grammar focus. This or these? L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L4. CLC CMST L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD1 Track 43 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD1 Track 46 CLC SCC
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .

CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the recipe. L7. CD1 Track 48 CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number.
Match. L7. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Your turn. Choose and write your own
recipe. Draw. L7. CLC CMST L2L CAE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and write. L8. CLC CMST
L2L
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Pancake Day


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking about prices using How much (is this / are these)?

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Can I have (a / an / some) , please?
Yes, of course. Here you are.
Thank you very much.
How much is this?
How much are these?
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CONTENTS
- Expression of modality : imperative ); permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

demonstratives ); quality ( ( very +) Adj . ) .


- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two
digits ; Quantity : some. Degree : very ) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions of location, position) in.
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. slowly , well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Food
- Shopping

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other structures
Lets go (shopping).
Can I help you?
Put them in the bag.
Weve got (bread) for lunch.
I help / put
She puts in (flour). / She tosses (the pancake).
We have (pancake races).

Recycled structures
Its / Theyre (twenty) cents.
I like / I love / I dont like

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:


Core vocabulary
bread, carrots, green beans, ham, lemons,
peaches, potatoes, sweets, tomatoes, yoghurt
numbers 1 to 50
Extension vocabulary (optional)
coconut, lettuce, lime, mango, onion, peas
Other vocabulary
flour, food, pancake
first, then, now, finally
Be quiet! Yes, of course!
Recycled vocabulary
apples, cake, cheese, chicken, chips, eggs, fish,
fruit, grapes, ice cream, meat, milk, oranges,
pasta, pears, pineapple, rice, sandwich,
sausages, vegetables, water, watermelon
delicious
breakfast, lunch, dinner

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Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to food.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.


, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.
1.2. Reads and understands a poster with
instructions for preparing a sandwich
recipe. L7. CLC, CMST, SCC

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.
5. Understands written texts related to
words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to food
with the help of visual material. L1. CLC,
SCC, CMST

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The naughty parrot, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.
5.1. Reads and understands a text about
Pancake Day in the British Culture section.
L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

6.1. Practices word reading using the


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examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).

LEARNING OUTCOMES
6. Uses Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise the most usual meanings of


basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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CONTENTS
Production strategies for written texts:
Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats in the bag? Draw and write.
L1. CLC CMST CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and circle. L2. CD1 Track 37 CLC CMST SIE
Link to Science. Food: health, growth and energy. L2. CLC SCC
CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and write. L2. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. 2. Activity 2. Choose and write a dialogue. Talk
Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of saying please when you ask for something. L3.
CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Read and write true or
false. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. What do you have for breakfast,
lunch and dinner? Draw and write. L3 CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Do a team
dictation. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write the numbers. L4.
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CD1 Track 42 CLC CMST L2L


Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L4. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and write. L5. CD1 Track 44 CLC CMST
Activity 4. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 105).
L5. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ee words red and the ea
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book: Activity 1. Listen and write. Match. L6. CD1
Track 47 CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number.
Match. L7. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Your turn. Choose and write your own
recipe. Draw. L7. CLC CMST L2L CAE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD1 Track 49
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Write the food in the correct column. L8. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and write. L8. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. Ask and
answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look at the picture. Look at the
letters. Write the words. (review) CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Find and colour. Write. Talk Partners.
Point, ask and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : imperative ); permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

demonstratives ); quality ( ( very +) Adj . ) .


- Expressing quantity (singular / plural; cardinal numerals up to two
digits ; Quantity : some. Degree : very ) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions of location, position) in.
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .

Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write


the word. (review) CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Pancake Day


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking about prices using How much (is this / are these)?

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Can I have (a / an / some) , please?
Yes, of course. Here you are.
Thank you very much.
How much is this?
How much are these?
Other structures
Lets go (shopping).
Can I help you?
Put them in the bag.
Weve got (bread) for lunch.
I help / put
She puts in (flour). / She tosses (the pancake).
We have (pancake races).

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- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. slowly , well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- Food
- Shopping

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Recycled structures
Its / Theyre (twenty) cents.
I like / I love / I dont like

Core vocabulary
bread, carrots, green beans, ham, lemons,
peaches, potatoes, sweets, tomatoes, yoghurt
numbers 1 to 50
Extension vocabulary (optional)
coconut, lettuce, lime, mango, onion, peas
Other vocabulary
flour, food, pancake
first, then, now, finally
Be quiet! Yes, of course!
Recycled vocabulary
apples, cake, cheese, chicken, chips, eggs, fish,
fruit, grapes, ice cream, meat, milk, oranges,
pasta, pears, pineapple, rice, sandwich,
sausages, vegetables, water, watermelon
delicious
breakfast, lunch, dinner

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to food.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a dialogue about buying food in


the Your Turn section. L2. (Activity Book).
CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes and draws about what he/she
has for breakfast, lunch and dinner. L3.
(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

1.3. Writes a recipe following a model. L7.


(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the special


food in their country and draws and writes
about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 2: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 1. Reinforcement: Reinforcement. Play Memory! / Play The fruit and vegetable game
Lesson 6. Reinforcement. Pancake tossing game
Lesson 7. Extension. Play Hot Seat.
External exams practice. Reinforcement. Further numbers practice
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 2.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: A recipe (instructional text)
Reading skills: Predicting from Pictures; Reviewing information; Sequencing; Matching
Stories:
-

The naughty parrot

Songs:
-

Lets go shopping!
How much is this?
What do I need to do?
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Food: The five food groups; Health, growth and energy; Balanced meals; Wheat, eggs and milk
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using natural shapes and colours of food; Making and playing a shopping game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of saying please when you ask for something
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: What do I need to do? (Lesson 5); Well done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to others (Lesson 2)
- Working together as a team (Lessons 4, 5)
- Encouraging one another (Lesson 7)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

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USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal
-

RESOURCES

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 3: At the zoo

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

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Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

84

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

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Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit
Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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102

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

104

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

109

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

109

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

110

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

110

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

111

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

111

EVALUATION RESOURCES

112

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.

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The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name wild animals (L1) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Ask and answer questions about animals (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use has got and hasnt got correctly to describe animals (L2 L4) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Describe animal features (L4) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use animal body parts vocabulary to compare animals (L4) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Read, understand and write an animal fact file (L7) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC DC L2L SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (L1) CLC SIE
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the oo sound (L5) CLC CAE SIE
Review your own learning (L8) CLC L2L SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Understand the importance of helping a friend (L3) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Make and play a communication game (L5) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Sing four songs (L1 L4 L5 L8) CLC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a story (L3) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Learn about garden wildlife in Britain (L6) CLC SCC SIE
Think about your own culture (L6) CLC SCC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Vocabulary presentation. Present the new vocabulary. L1. CLC


SIE
Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD2 Track 1. Sing Im a wild
animal. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track3 CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. Animal habitats. L1. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p35). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD2 Track 4. Talk Partners Act
out. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and number. L2. CD2 Track 5 CLC CMST
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Play At the zoo. L2.
CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Your turn. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Draw an
animal. Talk Partners
Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play The guessing game. L2.
CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD2 Track 6. Act out. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of helping your friends and family. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. Animals: classifying animals by their diet. L3.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Extra activity. Extension. Story extension. L3. CLC SCC SIE

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Vocabulary presentation. Present the new vocabulary. Play


Whats missing? L4. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD2 Track 7 CLC DC CMST
SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing The animal song. L4. CD2
Track 8 CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD2 Track 9 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Whats missing? Listen and number.
Write and draw. L4. CD2 Track 10 CLC CAE L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review animal body parts. L4.
CLC CMST L2L SIE
Extra activities. Extension. Play Disappearing words. L4. CLC
SCC SIE
Link to Science. Animals: the difference between mammals
and birds. L4. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 11 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and number. L5. CD2 Track 12 CLC CMST SIE
Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Lets take turns! L5.
CD2 Track 13 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 107).
L5. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Add to the pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 14 CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Are there wild animals near your
house? L6. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number. Write. L6. CD2
Track 15. CLC CMST L2L
Extra activities. Extension. Describing animals. L6. CLC CMST
SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. What do you know about gorillas
and polar bears? Think and say. L7. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the animal fact files. L7. CD2 Track
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

16 CLC CMST SCC SIE


Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Using positive
language. L7. CLC SIE L2L
Link to Science. Animals: describing mammals. L7. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 17
CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
L8. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Animal descriptions. L8. CLC
CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and draw lines. There is one example.
(review) CD2 Track 19 CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Ask and answer. (review) CD2
Track 20 CLC CAE SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write and draw. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Garden wildlife


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about animals

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CONTENTS
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words.
- Expression of time: present (present perfect );
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)
Adj . ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice listening activities with the following structures:

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- Pets and other animals;


- Body parts

Core structures
Its got (long hair).
Has it got (long hair)?
Yes, it has. / No, it hasnt.
Theyve got (four legs).
Have they got (four legs)?
Yes, they have. / No, they havent.
It hasnt got (a beak). They havent got (wings).
Other structures
I havent got
Have you got ?
I can / I cant Im
Theyve got They havent got
They live They eat
Recycled structures
Ive got

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, lizard,
monkey, penguin, snake, tiger; beak, body, face,
tail, teeth, wings
Extension vocabulary (optional)
bear, camel, dolphin, kangaroo, turtle, whale
Other vocabulary
fox, hedgehog, gorilla, polar bear, squirrel
feathers
garden, grasslands, ice, jungle, rainforest, snow,
water
dangerous, mysterious; night; hatch
dish, nuts, seeds
fish, insects, meat

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CONTENTS

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Recycled vocabulary
bird, cat, chicken, cow, dog, duck, goat, horse,
parrot, pig, sheep, zebra
arms, ears, face, fingers, hair, legs, mouth, neck,
toes
colour, trees, water
big, long
climb, fly

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


oo / ui (kangaroo, goose, swimsuit, fruit juice, pool)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.
Distinguish the main communicative

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about animals in the Talk
Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CMST,
SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about their favourite animal in
the External Exams Practice section. CLC,
CMST, SCC, L2L

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about wild animals in
the UK in the British Culture section. L6. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs: I'm a wild animal/ The animal
song/ Lets take turns! / Well done! L1, L4,
L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


mysterious egg. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD2 Track 1. Sing Im a wild
animal CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track3 CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. Animal habitats. L1. CLC CMST L2L SIE
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p35). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD2 Track 4. Talk Partners Act
out. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Play At the zoo L2.
CLC CMST SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play The guessing game. L2.
CLC L2L SIE
Before you read. Read and answer the question. L3. CLC SCC
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD2 Track 6. Act out. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of helping your friends and family. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. Animals: classifying animals by their diet. L3.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Extra activity. Extension. Story extension. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Vocabulary presentation. Present the new vocabulary. Play
Whats missing? L4. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD2 Track 7 CLC DC CMST
SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing The animal song. L4. CD2

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Track 8 CLC CMST CAE SIE


Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD2 Track 9 CLC CAE SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review animal body parts. L4.
CLC CMST L2L SIE
Extra activities. Extension. Play Disappearing words. L4. CLC
SCC SIE
Link to Science. Animals: the difference between mammals
and birds. L4. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 11 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Lets take turns! L5.
CD2 Track 13 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 107).
L5. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. Add to the pronunciation wall
display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 14 CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Are there wild animals near your
house? L6. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Extra activities. Extension. Describing animals. L6. CLC CMST
SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. What do you know about gorillas
and polar bears? Think and say. L7. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Using positive
language. L7. CLC SIE L2L
Link to Science. Animals: describing mammals. L7. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8.CD2 Track 17
CLC CMST L2L
Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Well Done! L8. CD2
Track 18
Stick the High Five! sticker. CLC CAE SIE L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Write. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.


L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
Cooperative learning. Think-Pair-Share. Activity 2. Remember
ten animal words. L8. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Animal descriptions. L8. CLC
CMST L2L SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Ask and answer. (review)CD2
Track 20 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write and draw. Talk Partners. Ask
and answer. (review) CLC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Garden wildlife


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words.
- Expression of time: present (present perfect );

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about animals

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Its got (long hair).
Has it got (long hair)?
Yes, it has. / No, it hasnt.
Theyve got (four legs).
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Have they got (four legs)?
Yes, they have. / No, they havent.
It hasnt got (a beak). They havent got (wings).

- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).


- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)
Adj . ) .

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Pets and other animals;


- Body parts

Other structures
I havent got
Have you got ?
I can / I cant Im
Theyve got They havent got
They live They eat
Recycled structures
Ive got

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, lizard,
monkey, penguin, snake, tiger; beak, body, face,
tail, teeth, wings
Extension vocabulary (optional)
bear, camel, dolphin, kangaroo, turtle, whale
Other vocabulary
fox, hedgehog, gorilla, polar bear, squirrel
feathers
garden, grasslands, ice, jungle, rainforest, snow,
water
dangerous, mysterious; night; hatch
dish, nuts, seeds
fish, insects, meat
Recycled vocabulary
bird, cat, chicken, cow, dog, duck, goat, horse,
parrot, pig, sheep, zebra
arms, ears, face, fingers, hair, legs, mouth, neck,
toes
colour, trees, water
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


big, long
climb, fly

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


oo / ui (kangaroo, goose, swimsuit, fruit juice, pool)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit animals. L1. CLC, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: I'm a wild
animal/ The animal song/ Lets take turns! /
Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The mysterious egg L3.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 1: Pets. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation describing an


animal in the Talk Partners section. L2. CLC,
CMST, SCC
4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Respects rules that govern oral
interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about helping their friends and
family in the High Five Values section. L3.
CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE,
L2L

7.1. Compares wild animals in the UK with


his/her own country in the British Culture and
Think about your Culture sections. L6. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the
flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track3 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and match. Write. L1. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and tick () or cross (). Write.
L2. CLC CMST L2L
Before you read. Read and answer the question. L3. CLC SCC
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD2 Track 6. Act out. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of helping your friends and family. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, write and circle. L3. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats wrong? Look and write. L4.
CLC CMST L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 11 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 14 CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words.
- Expression of time: present (present perfect );
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)

Activity 2. Listen and read the animal fact files. L7. CD2 Track
16 CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read again. Write
gorillas or polar bears. L7. CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2. Read and write the animals. L8. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. Find the secret
animals. L8. CLC CMST L2L
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write the correct words.
There is one example. (review) CLC CMST L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Garden wildlife


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about animals

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Its got (long hair).
Has it got (long hair)?
Yes, it has. / No, it hasnt.
Theyve got (four legs).
Have they got (four legs)?
Yes, they have. / No, they havent.
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Adj . ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

It hasnt got (a beak). They havent got (wings).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Pets and other animals;


- Body parts

Other structures
I havent got
Have you got ?
I can / I cant Im
Theyve got They havent got
They live They eat
Recycled structures
Ive got

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, lizard,
monkey, penguin, snake, tiger; beak, body, face,
tail, teeth, wings
Extension vocabulary (optional)
bear, camel, dolphin, kangaroo, turtle, whale
Other vocabulary
fox, hedgehog, gorilla, polar bear, squirrel
feathers
garden, grasslands, ice, jungle, rainforest, snow,
water
dangerous, mysterious; night; hatch
dish, nuts, seeds
fish, insects, meat
Recycled vocabulary
bird, cat, chicken, cow, dog, duck, goat, horse,
parrot, pig, sheep, zebra
arms, ears, face, fingers, hair, legs, mouth, neck,
toes
colour, trees, water
big, long
climb, fly
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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to animals.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understand the information of a sign


at a zoo in the unit story. L3. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE.
1.2. Understands the information of a
Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.
Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.
, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to animals
with the help of visual material. L1. CLC,
CMST, SCC, L2L
3.2. Reads some fact files about animals
with the help of photographs. L7. CLC,
CMST, SCC, L2L

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The mysterious egg, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.

5.1. Reads and understands a text about


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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)

LEARNING OUTCOMES
5. Understands written texts related to
words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


wild animals in the UK in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and match. Write. L1. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and number. L2. CD2 Track 5 CLC CMST
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and tick () or cross (). Write.
L2. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Your turn. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Draw an
animal. Talk Partners
Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of helping your friends and family. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, write and circle. L3. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Whats missing? Listen and number.
Write and draw. L4. CD2 Track 10 CLC CAE L2L

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Activity Book. Activity 2. Whats wrong? Look and write. L4.


CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and number. L5. CD2 Track 12 CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number. Write. L6. CD2
Track 15 CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read again. Write
gorillas or polar bears. L7. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Your turn. Draw your favourite wild
animal. Write a fact file. L7. CLC CMST CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Extra activity. Extension. Prepare an animal fact file. L7. CLC
CMST SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 17
CLC CMST L2L
Activity 2. Read and write the animals. L8. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. Find the secret
animals. L8. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and draw lines. There is one example.
(review) CD2 Track 19 CLC CMST SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write the correct words.
There is one example. (review) CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. (review) CLC L2L
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CONTENTS
Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:
Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words.
- Expression of time: present (present perfect );
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation (have ( got ) to).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality ( ( very +)

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

Asking and answering questions about animals

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Its got (long hair).
Has it got (long hair)?
Yes, it has. / No, it hasnt.
Theyve got (four legs).
Have they got (four legs)?
Yes, they have. / No, they havent.
It hasnt got (a beak). They havent got (wings).

Other structures
I havent got
Have you got ?
I can / I cant Im
Theyve got They havent got
They live They eat

Recycled structures
Ive got

Adj . ) .

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

British Culture: British Culture: Garden wildlife


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

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CONTENTS
- Pets and other animals;
- Body parts

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
crocodile, elephant, giraffe, hippo, lion, lizard,
monkey, penguin, snake, tiger; beak, body, face,
tail, teeth, wings
Extension vocabulary (optional)
bear, camel, dolphin, kangaroo, turtle, whale
Other vocabulary
fox, hedgehog, gorilla, polar bear, squirrel
feathers
garden, grasslands, ice, jungle, rainforest, snow,
water
dangerous, mysterious; night; hatch
dish, nuts, seeds
fish, insects, meat
Recycled vocabulary
bird, cat, chicken, cow, dog, duck, goat, horse,
parrot, pig, sheep, zebra
arms, ears, face, fingers, hair, legs, mouth, neck,
toes
colour, trees, water
big, long
climb, fly
Show interest in learning, through written activities, the
spelling of words related to animals.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a dialogue about favourite


animals in the Your Turn section. L2.
(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the animals


they can see near their house and draws
and writes about it. L6. (Activity Book).
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.

3.2. Fills out an animal fact file with basic


information and draws a picture. L7.
(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

Understand and use a limited selection of


high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 3: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Play The guessing game.
Lesson 3. Extension. Story extension
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Review animal body parts. / Extension. Play Disappearing words
Lesson 6. Extension. Describing animals
Lesson 7. Extension. Prepare an animal fact file
Lesson 8. Reinforcement. Animal descriptions
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 3.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: Fact files (informative text)
Reading skills: Remembering facts; Predicting from pictures; Using mind maps; Scanning; Reviewing
information; Matching
Stories:
-

The mysterious egg

Songs:
-

I'm a wild animal


The animal song
Lets take turns!
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/
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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Food: Animal habitats; Classifying animals by their diet; The difference between mammals and birds;
Describing mammals
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using primary and secondary colours to colour animals and their habitats; Making and
colouring an animal game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of helping your friends and family
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Lets take turns! (Lesson 5; )Well done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to others (Lesson 2)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Encouraging one another (Lesson 7)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

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USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):

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Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 4: The nature trail


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

114

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

115

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

119

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

121

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

125

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

127

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

130

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

132

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

136

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

137

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

137

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

138

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

138

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

139

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

139

EVALUATION RESOURCES

140

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name different features of a nature trail (L1) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Use present continuous verbs to describe actions (L2 L4) CLC CAE SIE
Ask and answer questions about activities (L2) CLC CMST SCC SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use prepositions of movement (L4) CLC CAE SIE
Learn about forest schools in Britain (L6) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC DC L2L SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (L1) CLC SIE
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the or sound(L5) CLC CAE SIE
Review your own learning (L8) CLC L2L SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Understand the importance of respecting nature (L3) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Make and play a communication game (L5) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Sing three songs (L1 L4 L8) CLC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a story (L3) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Think about your own culture (L6) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Read, understand and write an adventure story (L7) CLC SCC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD2 Track 26. Sing Im going
on a nature trail. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track 28 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. Talk Partners.
The pupils check their answers in pairs. L1. CLC SIE
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. Plant life: the characteristics of plants. L1. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD2 Track 29. Talk Partners
Act out. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). L2. CD2 Track 30 CLC L2L SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Talk Partners Play
Can you guess? L2. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Plant life: the features of trees, bushes and
grass. L2. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Draw. Talk Partners.
Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of not touching animals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Help Toby to cross the river. Talk
Partners. Join with different colours. Say. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Plant life: evergreen and deciduous trees. L3.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD2 Track 32 CLC CMST
DC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing. Whats he doing? L4. CD2
Track 33 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD2 Track 34 CLC SIE
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Activity 4. Cooperative learning: Sing Calm down. L4. CD2


Track 35 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write. Match. L4. CD2
Track 36 CLC SCC L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play Tobys actions. L4. CLC L2L
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 37 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and number. L5. CD2 Track 38 CLC SCC SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 107).
L5. CLC SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock.
Continue the pronunciation wall display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1: Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 39 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Whats your favourite outdoor
activity? L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and tick (). CD2 Track 40. L6.
CLC L2L
Extra activity. Extension. A forest trail. L6. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the adventure story. L7. CD2 Track
4 CLC CAE SCC
Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Talk Partners.
Using positive language. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 42
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Sing a song (optional). Talk Partners Act out. Ask
and answer. Listen. L8. CD2 Track 43 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Talk Partners. Play the game. Throw
the dice. Ask and answer. L8. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and write a name or a number. There is one
example. (review) CD2 Track 45 CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Look, ask and answer. (review)
CD2 CLC CAE SIE
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Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice


(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Forest schools


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Syntactical structures

Practice listening activities with the following structures:


Core structures
What are you doing? I am (walking) (on the
path).
Are you (swimming) (in the lake)? Yes, I am.
/ No, Im not. Whats he / she doing? Hes /
Shes (running) (up the hill). Is he / she running
up a hill? Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.
Other structures
Lets (go). Dont (run in the flowers).
I can Can you guess? I dont know.
Stop it! Come on! Good idea!
Look out! Come here! Go (across / along /
down / up)
Recycled structures
Is he / she (climbing)?
Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous.
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) on , in, etc.

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Ask and answer questions about activities

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High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- Nature
- Family and friends;

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
bridge, forest, grass, hill, lake, leaves, path, river,
road, sand
across, along, down, up
Extension vocabulary (optional)
field, mud, sea, stream, village, waterfall
Other vocabulary
cave, giant spiders, map, mummies, rope
bridge, secret passage, treasure
arrows, branches, den, minibeast, mud pies,
path, rolling, trail, twigs
Recycled vocabulary
big, blue, bushes, dark, flowers, green, lake,
long, river, tree
climb, jump, play, ride (a horse / a bike), run, sail
(a boat), swim, walk
in, on
Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:
or / al (horse, shorts, walks, talks, storm)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.
Distinguish the main communicative

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about outdoor activities in the
Talk Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CMST, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about sports and activities in
the External Exams Practice section. CLC,
SCC, L2L

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about school trips in
the UK in the British Culture section. L6. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs: Im going on a nature trail /
Whats he doing? / Calm down / Well done!
L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L

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function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit:


Whats Toby doing? L3. CLC, SCC, CMST

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS
Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD2 Track 26. Sing Im going
on a nature trail. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track 28 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. Talk Partners.
The pupils check their answers in pairs. L1. CLC SIE
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Link to Science. Plant life: the characteristics of plants. L1. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD2 Track 29. Talk Partners
Act out. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Talk Partners Play
Can you guess? L2. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Plant life: the features of trees, bushes and
grass. L2. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write a dialogue. Draw. Talk Partners.
Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of not touching animals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Help Toby to cross the river. Talk
Partners. Join with different colours. Say. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Plant life: evergreen and deciduous trees. L3.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD2 Track 32 CLC CMST
DC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing. Whats he doing? L4. CD2
Track 33 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD2 Track 34 CLC SIE
Activity 4. Cooperative learning: Sing Calm down. L4. CD2
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Track 35 CLC SCC CAE SIE


Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play Tobys actions. L4. CLC L2L
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 37 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 107).
L5. CLC SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock.
Continue the pronunciation wall display. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1: Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 39 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Whats your favourite outdoor
activity? L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Extra activity. Extension. A forest trail. L6. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. What can you see in an adventure
story? Circle and say. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Encouraging one another. Talk Partners.
Using positive language. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 42
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Sing a song (optional). Talk Partners Act out. Ask
and answer. Listen. L8. CD2 Track 43 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Well Done! CD2. Stick
the High Five! Sticker L8. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Cooperative learning. Sing a song (optional). Think-Pair-Share.
Remember ten nature trail words. L8. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Talk Partners. Play the game. Throw
the dice. Ask and answer. L8. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Look, ask and answer. (review)
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CD2 CLC CAE SIE

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Forest schools


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Syntactical structures

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous.
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) on , in, etc.

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Ask and answer questions about activities

Core structures
What are you doing? I am (walking) (on the
path).
Are you (swimming) (in the lake)? Yes, I am.
/ No, Im not. Whats he / she doing? Hes /
Shes (running) (up the hill). Is he / she running
up a hill? Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.
Other structures
Lets (go). Dont (run in the flowers).
I can Can you guess? I dont know.
Stop it! Come on! Good idea!
Look out! Come here! Go (across / along /
down / up)
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High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Nature
- Family and friends;

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Recycled structures
Is he / she (climbing)?
Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.

Core vocabulary
bridge, forest, grass, hill, lake, leaves, path, river,
road, sand
across, along, down, up
Extension vocabulary (optional)
field, mud, sea, stream, village, waterfall
Other vocabulary
cave, giant spiders, map, mummies, rope
bridge, secret passage, treasure
arrows, branches, den, minibeast, mud pies,
path, rolling, trail, twigs
Recycled vocabulary
big, blue, bushes, dark, flowers, green, lake,
long, river, tree
climb, jump, play, ride (a horse / a bike), run, sail
(a boat), swim, walk
in, on

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


or / al (horse, shorts, walks, talks, storm)

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about nature. L1. CLC, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: Im going on a
nature trail / Whats he doing? / Calm down /
Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: Whats Toby doing? L3.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 2: Jobs. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about


outdoor activities in the Talk Partners
section. L2. CLC, CMST, SCC
4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
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Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Respects rules that govern oral
interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about not touching wild animals in
the High Five Values section. L3. CLC, CMST,
SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the school trips in the UK with


his/her own experience in the British Culture
and Think about your Culture sections. L6.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track 28 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of not touching animals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD2 Track 32 CLC CMST
DC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read. Look and write. L4. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD2 Track 37 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the or words red and the al
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity 1: Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD2 Track 39 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the adventure story. L7. CD2 Track
4 CLC CAE SCC
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number. L7.
CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write an adventure story.
L7. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look at the game. Choose and write.
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Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

L8. CLC L2L


External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and read. Write yes or no.
(review) CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. (review) CLC SCC L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Forest schools


Read the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Syntactical structures

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous.
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,

position) on , in, etc.


- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Ask and answer questions about activities

Core structures
What are you doing? I am (walking) (on the
path).
Are you (swimming) (in the lake)? Yes, I am.
/ No, Im not. Whats he / she doing? Hes /
Shes (running) (up the hill). Is he / she running
up a hill? Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.
Other structures
Lets (go). Dont (run in the flowers).
I can Can you guess? I dont know.
Stop it! Come on! Good idea!
Look out! Come here! Go (across / along /
down / up)
Recycled structures
Is he / she (climbing)?
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Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Nature
- Family and friends;

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
bridge, forest, grass, hill, lake, leaves, path, river,
road, sand
across, along, down, up
Extension vocabulary (optional)
field, mud, sea, stream, village, waterfall
Other vocabulary
cave, giant spiders, map, mummies, rope
bridge, secret passage, treasure
arrows, branches, den, minibeast, mud pies,
path, rolling, trail, twigs
Recycled vocabulary
big, blue, bushes, dark, flowers, green, lake,
long, river, tree
climb, jump, play, ride (a horse / a bike), run, sail
(a boat), swim, walk
in, on
Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the
spelling of words related to activities.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.


, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.
1.2. Understands the information of a
poster about jobs. My Project 2. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to nature
with the help of visual material. L1. CLC,
CMST, SCC.
3.2. Reads and understands an adventure
story with the help pf pictures. L7. CLC,
CMST, CAE

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit Whats Toby doing? with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.

5.1. Reads and understands a text about


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examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

school trips in the UK in the British Culture


section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). L2. CD2 Track 30 CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of not touching animals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write. Match. L4. CD2
Track 36 CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read. Look and write. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and number. L5. CD2 Track 38 CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the or words red and the al
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L

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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and tick (). L6. CD2 Track 40
CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. What can you see in an adventure
story? Circle and say. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number. L7.
CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write an adventure story.
L7. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 42
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look at the game. Choose and write.
L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Forest schools


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Ask and answer questions about activities

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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Syntactical structures

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous.
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj) .
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,

position) on , in, etc.

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- Nature
- Family and friends;

Core structures
What are you doing? I am (walking) (on the
path).
Are you (swimming) (in the lake)? Yes, I am.
/ No, Im not. Whats he / she doing? Hes /
Shes (running) (up the hill). Is he / she running
up a hill? Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.
Other structures
Lets (go). Dont (run in the flowers).
I can Can you guess? I dont know.
Stop it! Come on! Good idea!
Look out! Come here! Go (across / along /
down / up)
Recycled structures
Is he / she (climbing)?
Yes, he / she is. / No, he / she isnt.

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bridge, forest, grass, hill, lake, leaves, path, river,
road, sand
across, along, down, up

Extension vocabulary (optional)


field, mud, sea, stream, village, waterfall

Other vocabulary
cave, giant spiders, map, mummies, rope
bridge, secret passage, treasure
arrows, branches, den, minibeast, mud pies,
path, rolling, trail, twigs

Recycled vocabulary
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


big, blue, bushes, dark, flowers, green, lake,
long, river, tree
climb, jump, play, ride (a horse / a bike), run, sail
(a boat), swim, walk
in, on

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to activities.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.
Know basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Writes a dialogue about outdoor


activities in the Your Turn section. L2.
(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes an adventure story following a
mkodel. L7. (Activity Book). CLC, SCC,
CAE, SIE

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the things


they can do in the forest and draws and
writes about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 4: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Play Tobys actions.
Lesson 6. Extension. A forest trail.
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 4.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: Adventure stories (text to entertain)
Reading skills: Remembering facts; Scanning; Relating pictures to new vocabulary; Sequencing
Stories:
-

Whats Toby doing?

Songs:
-

Im going on a nature trail.


Whats he doing?
Calm down
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Plant life: The characteristics of plants; The features of trees, bushes and grass; Evergreen and deciduous
trees
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using shapes and colours present in nature; Making and colouring a nature trail game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATIO
N TECHNOLOGY

Values:
High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of not touching animals
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Calm down (Lesson 4) Well Done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to others (Lesson 2)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Encouraging one another (Lesson 7)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):
High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources
High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

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With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
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Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 5: The frozen lake


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

142

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

143

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

147

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

149

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

153

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

155

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

159

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

161

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

166

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

167

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

167

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

168

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

168

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

168

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

169

EVALUATION RESOURCES

169

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name different action verbs (L1) CLC CAE SIE
Ask and answer about different actions (L2) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (L2) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Use adjectives and nouns correctly (L4) CLC CAE SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC DC L2L SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (L1) CLC SIE
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the oa sound (L5) CLC CAE SIE
Review your own learning (L8) CLC L2L SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Understand the importance of wearing warm clothes when its cold (L3) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Work with a Talk Partners to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Make and play a communication game (L5) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Sing four songs (L1 L4 L5 L8) CLC CAE SIE
Understand and act out a story (L3) CLC CAE L2L SIE
Learn about winter activities in Britain (L6) CLC SCC L2L SIE
Think about your own culture (L6) CLC SCC CAE SIE
Read and understand a fable and write a guided story (L7) CLC SCC CAE SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). L2. CD2 Track 30 CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! Values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of not touching animals. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write. Match. L4. CD2
Track 36 CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read. Look and write. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and number. L5. CD2 Track 38 CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the or words red and the al
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and tick (). L6. CD2 Track 40
CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. What can you see in an adventure
story? Circle and say. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number. L7.
CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write an adventure story.
L7. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD2 Track 42
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look at the game. Choose and write.
L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Winter activities


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:


Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.

Asking and answering about different actions

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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following structures:


Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What...) .
- Expression of time: duration (present continuous); Future (going
to).
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,
demonstratives ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural.
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- Play;
- The weather
- Clothing

Core structures
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are you (dancing)? Yes, we are. / No, we
arent.
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are they (skating)? Yes, they are. / No, they
arent.
Theyre (fat) snowmen. Hes got a (dirty) (hat).
Other structures
Thats nice!
Were going to (the lake).
Hes / Shes / Its got (a tall hat / thin arms).
Can I have ?
Recycled structures
This is These are
Hes (taking / moving)

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
dance, drink, eat, listen to music, make a
snowman, play, skate, smile, take a photo, wave
clean, dirty, fat, short, tall, thin
Extension vocabulary (optional)
cry, fall, laugh, move, shout, skip

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Other vocabulary
dry ski slope, ice rink, marshmallow, sledge,
snow angel, snowball fight, toboggan, tubing
autumn, collecting, dancing, hopping, singing,
summer, winter, working
ants, grass, grasshopper
cold, hungry
Recycled vocabulary
climb, fly, jump, ride (a horse / bike), run, sail (a
boat), swim, swing, throw
big, fast, new, old, orange, slow, small, white
carrot, eyes, hat, scarf, tummy
Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:
oa / ow (snowman, goat, coat, row, yellow, boat, rainbow)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC

2.1. Listens to and understands simple


conversations about actions in the Talk
Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation describing the things some
people are doing in the External Exams
Practice section. CLC, SCC, L2L

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L
3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of
the unit songs: Were going to the lake/
What are they doing?/ Sharing is a good
thing to do / Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CAE, L2L

Distinguish the main communicative


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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about winter
activities in the UK in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


snowman. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE

Discriminate between basic sound, stress,


rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. L1. CD2 Track 47. Sing Were
going to the lake.CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track 49 CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Vocabulary extension. L1. CLC L2L
Spelling. Practise spelling at any time during this unit (Activity
Book p57). L1. CLC L2L SIE
Link to Science. Water, land and air: identifying the different
forms of water. L1. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. L2. CD2 Track 50. Talk Partners
Act out. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Your Turn. Activity 2. Write about you and a
friend. Talk Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Play Can you guess? L2. CLC L2L
SIE
Link to Science. Water, land and air: the names of the different
forms of water. L2. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD2 Track 52. Act out. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of wearing warm clothes when its cold. L3. CLC
SCC SIE
Extra activity. Extension. Talk Partners Play Hot seat. L3. CLC
SCC SIE
Link to Science. Water, land and air: how water changes state.
L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. L4. CD3 Track 1 CLC SIE

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing What are they doing? L4. CD3
Track 2 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Play a game. L4.
CD3 Track 3 CLC CAE SIE
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review shapes. Talk Partners
Write a description and draw and decorate a snowman. L4.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD3 Track 5 CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Sharing is a good thing
to do. L5. CD3 Track 7 CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 4: Make and play the game (Activity
Book page 109). L5. CLC SIE L2L
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners Play Snap in pairs. L5.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1: Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD3 Track 5 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Think about your culture. What winter activities can you do
where you live? L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2 Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Sing What are they doing? L6.
CD3 Track 2 CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Link to Science. Water, land and air: different types of land. L7.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD3 Track 11
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen. L8. CD3 Track 12. Talk Partners. Act out. Ask
and answer. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Sing Well Done! L8. CD3 Track 13. Stick the High
Five! sticker. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3 My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
Extra activity. Extra activities. Reinforcement. Play Memory!
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

L8. CLC L2L SIE


Extra activity. Extension. Word search adjectives. L8. CLC SCC
SIE
Cooperative learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember ten action
words. L8. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Look, ask and answer. (review)
CD3 Track 15 CLC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Winter activities


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Syntactical structures

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What...) .
- Expression of time: duration (present continuous); Future (going

to).

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,
demonstratives ); quality (Adj . ) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural.

Asking and answering about different actions

Core structures
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are you (dancing)? Yes, we are. / No, we
arent.
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are they (skating)? Yes, they are. / No, they
arent.
Theyre (fat) snowmen. Hes got a (dirty) (hat).
Other structures
Thats nice!
Were going to (the lake).

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CONTENTS
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Play;
- The weather
- Clothing

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Hes / Shes / Its got (a tall hat / thin arms).


Can I have ?
Recycled structures
This is These are
Hes (taking / moving)

Core vocabulary
dance, drink, eat, listen to music, make a
snowman, play, skate, smile, take a photo, wave
clean, dirty, fat, short, tall, thin
Extension vocabulary (optional)
cry, fall, laugh, move, shout, skip
Other vocabulary
dry ski slope, ice rink, marshmallow, sledge,
snow angel, snowball fight, toboggan, tubing
autumn, collecting, dancing, hopping, singing,
summer, winter, working
ants, grass, grasshopper
cold, hungry
Recycled vocabulary
climb, fly, jump, ride (a horse / bike), run, sail (a
boat), swim, swing, throw
big, fast, new, old, orange, slow, small, white
carrot, eyes, hat, scarf, tummy

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


oa / ow (snowman, goat, coat, row, yellow, boat, rainbow)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about actions. L1. CLC, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: Were going to
the lake/ What are they doing?/ Sharing is a
good thing to do / Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8.
CLC, CAE, L2L SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The snowman.. L3. CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 2: Jobs. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about actions


in the Talk Partners section. L2. CLC, CMST,
SCC
4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Respects rules that govern oral
interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about wearing warm clothes when
its cold in the High Five Values section. L3.
CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares winter activities practised by


children in the UK with his/her own
experience in the British Culture and Think
about your Culture sections. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. Listen and say the
chant. L1. CD2 Track 49 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and circle. L1. CLC SCC
L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. L1. CLC SCC
L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and read. L3. CD2 Track 52. Act out. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of wearing warm clothes when its cold. L3. CLC
SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read.
Remember the story. Number and write. L3. CLC CMST CAE
Activity Book. Activity 2. What happens next in the story? Tick
() and draw. L3. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write. Draw a snowman.
L4. CLC CAE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD3 Track 5 CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ow words red and the
oa words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity 1: Listen and read. Answer. L6. CD3 Track 5 CLC SCC
CAE SIE

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Activity Book. Activity 2 Think about your culture. Read and


tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the fable quickly. Find and
circle the season words. L7. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the fable. L7. CD3 Track 10 CLC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read, number and
match. L7. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2 My progress. Write the dialogues.
Draw. L7. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Find, circle and write. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Order the sentences. L8. CLC L2L
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and read. Write yes or no.
(review) CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. (review) CLC SCC L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Winter activities


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about different actions

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CONTENTS
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What...) .
- Expression of time: duration (present continuous); Future (going

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice reading activities with the following structures:

to).

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

demonstratives ); quality (Adj . ) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural.


- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Play;
- The weather
- Clothing

Core structures
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are you (dancing)? Yes, we are. / No, we
arent.
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are they (skating)? Yes, they are. / No, they
arent.
Theyre (fat) snowmen. Hes got a (dirty) (hat).
Other structures
Thats nice!
Were going to (the lake).
Hes / Shes / Its got (a tall hat / thin arms).
Can I have ?
Recycled structures
This is These are
Hes (taking / moving)

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
dance, drink, eat, listen to music, make a
snowman, play, skate, smile, take a photo, wave
clean, dirty, fat, short, tall, thin
Extension vocabulary (optional)
cry, fall, laugh, move, shout, skip
Other vocabulary
dry ski slope, ice rink, marshmallow, sledge,
snow angel, snowball fight, toboggan, tubing
autumn, collecting, dancing, hopping, singing,
summer, winter, working
ants, grass, grasshopper
cold, hungry

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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Recycled vocabulary
climb, fly, jump, ride (a horse / bike), run, sail (a
boat), swim, swing, throw
big, fast, new, old, orange, slow, small, white
carrot, eyes, hat, scarf, tummy

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to actions.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.
1.2. Understands the information of a
poster about jobs. My Project 2. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to actions
with the help of visual material. L1. CLC,
SCC, L2L.

Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.


, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The snowman, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE.

Distinguish the main communicative


functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

5.1. Reads and understands a text about


winter activities in the UK in the British
Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2. Reads the fable The ants and the


grasshopper with the help of pictures.L 7
CLC, SCC, CAE.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).

LEARNING OUTCOMES
6. Uses Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


6.1. Practices word reading using the
Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise the most usual meanings of


basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and circle. L1. CLC SCC
L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look, read and write. L1. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and number. L2. CD2 Track 51 CLC CMST
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Your Turn. Activity 2. Write about you and a
friend. Talk Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. Talk about the
importance of wearing warm clothes when its cold. L3. CLC
SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read.
Remember the story. Number and write. L3. CLC CMST CAE
Activity Book. Activity 2. What happens next in the story? Tick
() and draw. L3. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and tick (). Write. L4. CD3
Track 4 CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Choose and write. Draw a snowman.

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

L4. CLC CAE L2L


Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Extra activities. Reinforcement. Review shapes. Talk Partners
Write a description and draw and decorate a snowman. L4.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and write T (true) or F (false). L5. CD3 Track 6
CLC SCC
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ow words red and the
oa words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write. L6. CD3 Track 9 CLC
CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2 Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the fable quickly. Find and
circle the season words. L7. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read, number and
match. L7. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2 My progress. Write the dialogues.
Draw. L7. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Extra activity. Reinforcement. Draw and write about animals.
L7. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. Write and say. L8. CD3 Track 11
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Find, circle and write. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Order the sentences. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Activity 1. Listen and tick (). (review) CD3 Track 14 CLC L2L
SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). (review) CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and read. Write yes or no.
(review) CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. (review) CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. (review) CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: British Culture: Winter activities


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about different actions

Practice writing activities with the following structures:


Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: (e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What...) .
- Expression of time: duration (present continuous); Future (going
to).

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : permission (can) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles,

Core structures
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are you (dancing)? Yes, we are. / No, we
arent.
What are you doing? Were (skating).
Are they (skating)? Yes, they are. / No, they
arent.
Theyre (fat) snowmen. Hes got a (dirty) (hat).

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CONTENTS
demonstratives ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural.
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- Play;
- The weather
- Clothing

Other structures
Thats nice!
Were going to (the lake).
Hes / Shes / Its got (a tall hat / thin arms).
Can I have ?
Recycled structures
This is These are
Hes (taking / moving)

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
dance, drink, eat, listen to music, make a
snowman, play, skate, smile, take a photo, wave
clean, dirty, fat, short, tall, thin
Extension vocabulary (optional)
cry, fall, laugh, move, shout, skip
Other vocabulary
dry ski slope, ice rink, marshmallow, sledge,
snow angel, snowball fight, toboggan, tubing
autumn, collecting, dancing, hopping, singing,
summer, winter, working
ants, grass, grasshopper
cold, hungry
Recycled vocabulary
climb, fly, jump, ride (a horse / bike), run, sail (a
boat), swim, swing, throw
big, fast, new, old, orange, slow, small, white
carrot, eyes, hat, scarf, tummy

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to actions.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a dialogue with a friend about


actions in the Your Turn section. L2.
(Activity Book). CLC, SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes a fable following a model. L7.
(Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the winter


activities he /she practices and draws and
writes about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 5: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Play Can you guess?
Lesson 3. Extension. Talk Partners Play Hot seat.
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Review shapes
Lesson 6. Reinforcement. Sing What are they doing?
Lesson 7. Reinforcement. Draw and write about animals
Lesson 8. Reinforcement. Play Memory! / Extension. Word search adjectives
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 5.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: A fable (text to entertain and educate)
Reading skills: Scanning for specific information; Sequencing; Reflecting on a moral
Stories:
-

The snowman
The ants and the grasshopper

Songs:
-

Were going to the lake


What are they doing?
Sharing is a good thing to do
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Water, land and air: Identifying the different forms of water; The names of the different forms of water; How
water changes state; Different types of land
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using different materials to represent winter; Making and playing a communication game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of wearing warm clothes when its cold.
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Sharing is a good thing to do (Lesson 5); Well done! (Lesson
8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

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With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
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Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.


Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.

Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 6: All year round


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

172

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

173

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

176

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

178

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

181

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

183

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

186

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

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Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

193

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

193

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

194

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

194

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

195

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

195

EVALUATION RESOURCES

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The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name activities associated with the seasons [Lesson 1] CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Ask and answer about what you do in different seasons (Lesson 2) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (Lesson 2) CLC, L2L, SIE
Ask and answer about dates (Lesson 4) CLC, CMST, SIE
Talk about activities and weather in different seasons (Lesson 2) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Use ordinal numbers correctly (Lesson 4) CLC, CMST,
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC, DC, SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (Lesson 1) CLC, L2L
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the ir sound (Lesson 5) CLC, CAE, SIE
Review your own learning (Lesson 8) CLC, L2L, SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC, L2L, SIE
Understand the importance of working together (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC, CAE
Ask and answer about your birthday (Lesson 4) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Work with a Talk Partner to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC, L2L, SIE
Do a class survey (Lesson 5) CLC, CMST, SIE
Sing four songs (Lessons 1, 4, 5 and 8) CLC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a story (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Learn about seasonal festivities in Britain (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Think about your own culture (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
Read, understand and complete a traditional rhyme (Lesson 7) CLC, CAE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. CD3 Track 16. Sing Whats your
favourite season? L1. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and say the chant. CD3 Track 18. L1. CLC
CMST CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. CD3. Talk Partners Act out. L2.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and tick (). CD3 Track 20. L2. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD3 Track 21. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. CD3 Track 22. L4. CLC CMST
SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. CD3 Track 23. L4. CLC CMST SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and circle. CD3 Track 25. L4.
CLC CMST L2L
Activity 1. Listen and say. L5. CD3 Track 26
Activity 3. Listen and write the names. CD3 Track 28. L5. CLC
CMST SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. CD3 Track 29. L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and read the rhyme. CD3 Track 30. L7. CLC
CAE
Activity 1. Listen and number. CD3 Track 31. L8. CLC CMST
CAE SIE
Activity 2. Talk Partners Ask and answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and write the date. CD3 Track
33. L8. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity 1. Listen and tick (). CD3 Track 34. Review. CLC L2L
SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners. CD3 Track. Review.CLC SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Seasonal festivals


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Expression of logical relationships: conjunction (and) .


- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )
- Exclamation ( e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative ) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (ordinal numerals up to two digits. ) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what you do in different seasons


Asking and answering about your birthday

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
What do you / they do (in summer)?
We (go to the beach). They (go to the beach).
Do they (celebrate Halloween)?
Yes, they do. / No, they dont.
Whens your birthday?
My birthday is on the (eighteenth of June).
Other structures
Do you (eat chestnuts in America), too? Yes, we do.
Youre pedalling backwards.
Lets go and make (a poster). Its amazing!
Recycled structures
Whats your favourite ?

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- Family and friends;


- The weather
- Celebrations

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
celebrate Halloween, eat chestnuts, finish
school, go to the beach, open presents, plant seeds, smell
flowers, wear warm clothes
first thirty-first
spring, summer, autumn, winter

Extension vocabulary (optional)


fountain spring: celebrate Easter, see baby animals;
summer: go on holiday, go to bed late; autumn:
play in the leaves; winter: send Christmas cards

Other vocabulary
April Fools Day, Bonfire Night, carnival,
Christmas, crackers, cousin, guy doll, paper
hats, parade, play drums, play jokes, turkey

Recycled vocabulary
cold, cool, hot, warm
climb, dance, drink, eat, fly, jump, listen (to
music), make (a snowman), play, ride (a horse
/ bike), run, sail (a boat), skate, smile, swim, swing, take a
photo, throw / catch / kick / bounce (a ball), wave

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


Alternative vowel spellings ir / ur (purple, turtle, birthday,
first, third)
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.
Distinguish the main communicative

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about the seasons in the Talk
Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CMST,
SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about dates in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, L2L
3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's
Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L
3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of
the unit songs: What's your facourite
season? / Whens your birthday?/ We can do
it!/ Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CMST,
CAE, L2L
4.1. Listens to and understands the general
meaning of a narrative about the festivals
that British people celebrate in each season
in the British Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES
5. Understands cartoons with simple
stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The
four seasons. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Think about your family. Talk Partners


Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Talk Partners Act out. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Talk about the importance of
working together. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. The Sun: characteristics of the seasons and
position of the Sun. L3. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Sing Whens your birthday? CD3 Track 23. L4. CLC
CMST SCC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Cooperative learning. Sing We can do it! CD3 Track
27. L5. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 4. Do a class survey (Activity Book page 109). L5. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Think about your culture. Do you have festivals in the four
seasons? What festivals do you celebrate? L6. CLC SCC CAE
SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the rhyme quickly. Find
and circle the months. L7. CLC CAE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Say the rhyme. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative learning. Learning strategies. Play The knuckle
game. L7. CLC SIE L2L
Link to Science. The Sun: the months in each season. L7. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Sing Well Done! CD3 Track 32. Stick the
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

High Five! sticker. CLC CAE SIE L2L


Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L8.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Talk Partners Ask and answer. CD3 Track.
Review.CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
Review. CLC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Seasonal festivals


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what you do in different seasons


Asking and answering about your birthday

Practice oral activities with the following structures:


Syntactical structures

- Expression of logical relationships: conjunction (and) .


- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )
- Exclamation ( e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative ) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (ordinal numerals up to two digits. ) .

Core structures
What do you / they do (in summer)?
We (go to the beach). They (go to the beach).
Do they (celebrate Halloween)?
Yes, they do. / No, they dont.
Whens your birthday?
My birthday is on the (eighteenth of June).
Other structures
Do you (eat chestnuts in America), too? Yes, we do.
Youre pedalling backwards.
Lets go and make (a poster). Its amazing!

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CONTENTS
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).
High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Family and friends;


- The weather
- Celebrations

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Recycled structures
Whats your favourite ?

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
celebrate Halloween, eat chestnuts, finish
school, go to the beach, open presents, plant seeds, smell
flowers, wear warm clothes
first thirty-first
spring, summer, autumn, winter

Extension vocabulary (optional)


fountain spring: celebrate Easter, see baby animals;
summer: go on holiday, go to bed late; autumn:
play in the leaves; winter: send Christmas cards

Other vocabulary
April Fools Day, Bonfire Night, carnival,
Christmas, crackers, cousin, guy doll, paper
hats, parade, play drums, play jokes, turkey

Recycled vocabulary
cold, cool, hot, warm
climb, dance, drink, eat, fly, jump, listen (to
music), make (a snowman), play, ride (a horse
/ bike), run, sail (a boat), skate, smile, swim, swing, take a
photo, throw / catch / kick / bounce (a ball), wave

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


Alternative vowel spellings ir / ur (purple, turtle, birthday,
first, third)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Produce very short, simple oral texts,


either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about the seasons. L1. CLC,
CMST, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: What's your
facourite season? / Whens your birthday?/
We can do it!/ Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8.
CLC, CMST, CAE, SIE

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the


Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The four seasons. L3. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 2: Jobs. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about


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EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

3. Dramatizes simple everyday


situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

seasons and celebrations in the Talk Partners


section. L2. CLC, CMST, SCC

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.

4. Respects rules that govern oral


interaction.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..

Know and use a limited selection of high


frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

4.1. Respects the rules when participating in


the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about working together in the High
Five Values section. L3. CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE

6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation


reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the festivals that British


people celebrate in each season with his/her
own country in the British Culture and Think
about your Culture sections. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the eight stickers. L1. CLC CMST CAE
SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and circle. L1. CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read and number. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Activity 2. Whens your birthday?
Read and write. L4. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book: Activity 1. Look, read and match. L6. CLC SCC
CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick. L6. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read and number. L7.
CLC CMST L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Seasonal festivals


Read the Think about your culture section.

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CONTENTS
Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Expression of logical relationships: conjunction (and) .


- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )
- Exclamation ( e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative ) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (ordinal numerals up to two digits. ) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Family and friends;


- The weather
- Celebrations

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what you do in different seasons


Asking and answering about your birthday

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
What do you / they do (in summer)?
We (go to the beach). They (go to the beach).
Do they (celebrate Halloween)?
Yes, they do. / No, they dont.
Whens your birthday?
My birthday is on the (eighteenth of June).
Other structures
Do you (eat chestnuts in America), too? Yes, we do.
Youre pedalling backwards.
Lets go and make (a poster). Its amazing!
Recycled structures
Whats your favourite ?

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
celebrate Halloween, eat chestnuts, finish
school, go to the beach, open presents, plant seeds, smell
flowers, wear warm clothes
first thirty-first
spring, summer, autumn, winter

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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Extension vocabulary (optional)


fountain spring: celebrate Easter, see baby animals;
summer: go on holiday, go to bed late; autumn:
play in the leaves; winter: send Christmas cards

Other vocabulary
April Fools Day, Bonfire Night, carnival,
Christmas, crackers, cousin, guy doll, paper
hats, parade, play drums, play jokes, turkey

Recycled vocabulary
cold, cool, hot, warm
climb, dance, drink, eat, fly, jump, listen (to
music), make (a snowman), play, ride (a horse
/ bike), run, sail (a boat), skate, smile, swim, swing, take a
photo, throw / catch / kick / bounce (a ball), wave

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to the seasons.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.


, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.
1.2. Understands the information of a
poster about jobs. My Project 2. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.3. Looks at a seasons' poster in the unit


story. L5. CLC, CMST, CAE
2. Understands short and simple
correspondence (postcards and cards)
that are about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, etc.

2.1. Reads a text with references to


postcards . L2. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to the
seasons with the help of visual material.
L1. CLC, CMST, L2L.
3.2. Reads a calendar and talks about
birthdays. L4. CLC, CMST, CAE.
3.3. Reads a rhyme about dates with the
help of pictures. L7. CLC, CMST, CAE
4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the
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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
4. Formulates hypotheses about the
content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.
5. Understands written texts related to
words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


unit The four seasons, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.
5.1. Reads and understands a text about
the festivals that British people celebrate
in each season in the UK in the British
Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
6.1. Practices word reading using the
Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.


full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L1. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Lets practise spelling! Use the Look-CopyCover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. What do Beth, Molly and Jake do?
Match and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Think about your family. Write and
draw. Talk Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write and draw. L3. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3. Find, circle and write. L4. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ur words red and the ir
words blue. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Draw, write
and say. L6. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Activity Book. Activity 2. Write the missing words. L7. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 1. Write and say. CD3 Track 31. L8. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Write. Talk Partners. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. L8. CLC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). Review. CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write the correct words.
Review. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
Review. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. Review. CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:


Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:
Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

British Culture: Seasonal festivals


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what you do in different seasons


Asking and answering about your birthday

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CONTENTS
Syntactical structures

- Expression of logical relationships: conjunction (and) .


- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )
- Exclamation ( e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ), No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words (What, how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative ) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (ordinal numerals up to two digits. ) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- Family and friends;


- The weather
- Celebrations

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
What do you / they do (in summer)?
We (go to the beach). They (go to the beach).
Do they (celebrate Halloween)?
Yes, they do. / No, they dont.
Whens your birthday?
My birthday is on the (eighteenth of June).

Other structures
Do you (eat chestnuts in America), too? Yes, we do.
Youre pedalling backwards.
Lets go and make (a poster). Its amazing!

Recycled structures
Whats your favourite ?

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
celebrate Halloween, eat chestnuts, finish
school, go to the beach, open presents, plant seeds, smell
flowers, wear warm clothes
first thirty-first
spring, summer, autumn, winter

Extension vocabulary (optional)


fountain spring: celebrate Easter, see baby animals;
summer: go on holiday, go to bed late; autumn:
play in the leaves; winter: send Christmas cards

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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
April Fools Day, Bonfire Night, carnival,
Christmas, crackers, cousin, guy doll, paper
hats, parade, play drums, play jokes, turkey

Recycled vocabulary
cold, cool, hot, warm
climb, dance, drink, eat, fly, jump, listen (to
music), make (a snowman), play, ride (a horse
/ bike), run, sail (a boat), skate, smile, swim, swing, take a
photo, throw / catch / kick / bounce (a ball), wave

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to the seasons.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a dialogue about the activities


his/her family does at each season in the
Your Turn section. L2. (Activity Book). CLC,
CMST, SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes and draws about what happens
in each season. L3. (Activity Book). CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.

1.3. Writes a rhyme about dates following a


model. L7. (Activity Book). CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the things he


/she does on festival days and draws and
writes about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Understand and use a limited selection of


high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 6: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Play Pick up two
Lesson 3. Extension. Make a seasons chart.
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Practise ordinal numbers
Lesson 6. Extension. Bonfire rhyme
Lesson 7. Reinforcement. Draw a Venn diagram of months
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 6.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: Instructions (instructional text)
Reading skills: Using visual clues; Relating new vocabulary to Pictures; Reading for specific information
Stories:
-

The four seasons

Songs:
-

What's your favourite season?


Whens your birthday?
We can do it!
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Seasons and the Sun: The position of the Sun in the different seasons / The Sun: Characteristics of the
seasons and position of the Sun
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Identifying and using different patterns, lines, spaces and colours to reflect things in nature / Making and
carrying out a survey

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

USE OF

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of working together
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: We can do it! (Lesson 5)/ Well Done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Learning strategies (Lesson 7)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

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INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal evaluation
199

Teachers evaluation of the unit


Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 7: My house
pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

198

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

199

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

202

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

204

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

207

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

209

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

212

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

214

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

218

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

219

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

219

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

220

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

220

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

221

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

221

EVALUATION RESOURCES

222

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name rooms in a house (Lesson 1) CLC, CMST


Describe what there is / are in a house (Lesson 2) CLC, CMST, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (Lesson 2) CLC, L2L, SIE
Talk about objects and who they belong to (Lesson 4) CLC, SCC
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC, DC, SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (Lesson 1) CLC, L2L
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the ou sound (Lesson 5) CLC, CAE, SIE
Review your own learning (Lesson 8) CLC, L2L, SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC, L2L, SIE
Understand the importance of being good to your friends (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC
Ask and answer about your possessions (Lesson 4) CLC, SCC, SIE
Work with a Talk Partner to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC, L2L, SIE
Make and play a communication game (Lesson 5) CLC, SIE
Sing three songs (Lessons 1, 4 and 8) CLC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a story (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Learn about childrens bedrooms in Britain (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Think about your own culture (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
Read and understand a play script (Lesson 7) CLC, CAE
Complete and act out a dialogue from a play (Lesson 7) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. CD3 Track 42. Sing Theres a
mouse in my house! L1. CLC CMST CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and say the chant. L1. CD3 Track 44. CLC
CAE SIE
Activity 1. Activity 1. Listen and repeat. CD3 Track 45. Talk
Partners Act out. L2. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Activity 2. Listen and number. CD3 Track 46. CLC
CMST L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD3 Track 47. Act out. L3. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Cooperative learning. Listening to others. Play a chain
memory game. L3. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. CD3 Track 48. L4. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. CD3 Track 49. L4. CLC CAE SCC
SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners Ask and answer.
CD3 Track 50. L4. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and check. CD3 Track 51. L4.
CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and match. CD3 Track 53. L5. CLC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. CD3 Track 54. L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and match. CD3 Track 55. CLC
L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the play script. CD4 Track 1. L7. CLC
CAE SCC
Activity 1. Listen and number. CD4 Track 2. L8. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3 My progress. Use your traffic light.

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences)


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ),.
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative )
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and
pronouns).

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions of location) in, under.

Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L


Activity 1. Listen and colour. There is one example. CD4 Track
4. Review. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners Ask and answer. CD4 Track 5.
Review. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
Review. CLC SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Bedrooms


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Describing what there is / are in a house


Talking about objects and who they belong to
Asking and answering about your possessions

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
There s / isnt a (garage).
There are / arent any (bedrooms).
Whose is this?
Its (mine / yours / his / hers).

Other structures
Lets go in!
Im not scared.
What fun!
What do you do in the (living room)?
I (watch TV) in the (living room).
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Come back!

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- The house, rooms and objects;

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Recycled structures
have a shower.

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bathroom, bedroom, dining room, flat, garage,
garden, hall, house, kitchen, living room
box, camera, clock, phone, radio, watch

Extension vocabulary (optional)


chimney, roof, wall, window
upstairs, downstairs

Other vocabulary
armchair, bath, ghosts, haunted house, mirror,
piano, scared, skeleton, sofa, witches
bookcase, drums, guitar, pop music, pyjama
party, sticker collection, upstairs
dragon, dress, fairy godmother, horse, mice,
midnight, pumpkin

Recycled vocabulary
bed, book, chair, door, floor, mouse, shoe, shower
eat, run, watch TV, water flowers
funfair

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


Alternative vowel spellings ou / ow (brown, cow, loud,
mouse, around, house)

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.
Distinguish the main communicative

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about rooms and things in a
house in the Talk Partners sections. L2, L4,
L5, L8. CLC, CMST, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about their favourite rooms in
the External Exams Practice section. CLC,
SCC, L2L

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about British
children's bedrooms in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs:
Theres a mouse in my
house! / What a mess! / Well done! L1, L4,
L8. CLC, CAE, L2L

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


haunted house. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the Look-Copy-CoverWrite technique. CLC L2L SIE
Link to Science. Materials: different materials. L1. CLC CMST
SCC SIE
Activity 1. Act out. L3. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 2 High Five! values. Talk about the importance of
being kind to your friends. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Link to Science. Materials: properties of materials. L3. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2 Sing What a mess! CD3 Track 49. L4. CLC CAE SCC
SIE
Activity 3. Talk Partners Ask and answer. CD3 Track 50. L4. CLC
CAE SIE
Link to Science. Materials: natural and manufactured
materials. CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. CD3 Track 52. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game. (Activity Book page 111).
L5. CLC SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Say the words. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Snap in pairs. L5.
CLC CAE SIE
Working together as a team. Talk Partners. Play Beat the
clock. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Think about your culture. What have you got in your bedroom?
L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Act out. L7. CLC CAE
SIE
Link to Science. Materials: the properties of glass. L7. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences)


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ),.
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative )
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Bedrooms


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Describing what there is / are in a house


Talking about objects and who they belong to
Asking and answering about your possessions

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
There s / isnt a (garage).
There are / arent any (bedrooms).
Whose is this?
Its (mine / yours / his / hers).

Other structures
Lets go in!
Im not scared.
What fun!
What do you do in the (living room)?
I (watch TV) in the (living room).
Come back!

Recycled structures
have a shower.

pronouns).

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions of location) in, under.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

Activity 3. Cooperative learning. Sing Well Done! CD4 Track 3.


Stick the High Five! sticker. L8. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Play the House game.
Throw the dice and say. L8. CLC CAE SIE

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

- The house, rooms and objects;

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Core vocabulary
bathroom, bedroom, dining room, flat, garage,
garden, hall, house, kitchen, living room
box, camera, clock, phone, radio, watch

Extension vocabulary (optional)


chimney, roof, wall, window
upstairs, downstairs

Other vocabulary
armchair, bath, ghosts, haunted house, mirror,
piano, scared, skeleton, sofa, witches
bookcase, drums, guitar, pop music, pyjama
party, sticker collection, upstairs
dragon, dress, fairy godmother, horse, mice,
midnight, pumpkin

Recycled vocabulary
bed, book, chair, door, floor, mouse, shoe, shower
eat, run, watch TV, water flowers
funfair

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


Alternative vowel spellings ou / ow (brown, cow, loud,
mouse, around, house)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about rooms in a house. L1. CLC,
SIE, L2L

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit


reproducing new expressions: Theres a
mouse in my house! / What a mess! / Well
done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The haunted house. L3.
CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 3: Time. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation describing a


house in the Talk Partners section. L2. CLC,
CMST, SCC, SIE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

4. Respects rules that govern oral


interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about being kind to your friends in
the High Five Values section. L3. CLC, CAE,
SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares British children's bedrooms


with his/her own one in the British Culture
and Think about your Culture sections. L6.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. L1. CD3 Track 44.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. Say. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book: Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. Whats in the play? Look and
circle. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read again and circle.
L7. CLC CAE SIE
External Exams DVD-ROM. Additional external exams practice
(optional). Review. CLC DC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look at the picture and read the
questions. Review.CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners.
Review. CLC SIE

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Bedrooms


Read the Think about your culture section.

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CONTENTS
Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences)


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ),.
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative )
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Practice reading activities with the following functions:
Describing what there is / are in a house
Talking about objects and who they belong to
Asking and answering about your possessions

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
There s / isnt a (garage).
There are / arent any (bedrooms).
Whose is this?
Its (mine / yours / his / hers).

Other structures
Lets go in!
Im not scared.
What fun!
What do you do in the (living room)?
I (watch TV) in the (living room).
Come back!

Recycled structures
have a shower.

pronouns).

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions of location) in, under.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- The house, rooms and objects;

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bathroom, bedroom, dining room, flat, garage,
garden, hall, house, kitchen, living room
box, camera, clock, phone, radio, watch

Extension vocabulary (optional)


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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


chimney, roof, wall, window
upstairs, downstairs

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Other vocabulary
armchair, bath, ghosts, haunted house, mirror,
piano, scared, skeleton, sofa, witches
bookcase, drums, guitar, pop music, pyjama
party, sticker collection, upstairs
dragon, dress, fairy godmother, horse, mice,
midnight, pumpkin

Recycled vocabulary
bed, book, chair, door, floor, mouse, shoe, shower
eat, run, watch TV, water flowers
funfair

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to the house.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to rooms in
a house with the help of visual material.
L1. CLC, CMST, L2L

Identify the topic and understand the


general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.

3.2. Reads and understand a play script


about Cinderella. L7. CLC, CAE, SCC

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.


, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

Distinguish the main communicative


functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The haunted house, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE.
5.1. Reads and understands a text about
British children's bedrooms in the British
Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
6.1. Practices word reading using the
Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

examples as well as basic discursive


patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Find the secret word.
L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and match. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Order and write. Number. L2. CLC
CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity 2 High Five! values. Read and write. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Read, look and write. L3. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Your Turn. Read and write. Draw a
haunted house. L3. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look, read and write. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Activity 2. Find and colour. Write. L4.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ow words red and the
ou words blue. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. CD3 Track 55. CLC

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences)


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation (negative sentences with not ),.

L2L
Activity Book: Activity 2: Think about your culture. Draw, write
and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write the dialogues. Talk Partners. L7.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Write and say. CD4 Track 2. L8. CLC CMST SIE
Activity 2. Look at Activity 1. Write true sentences. L8. CLC
CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Follow and write. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write one-word answers. Review.CLC
L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Bedrooms


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Describing what there is / are in a house


Talking about objects and who they belong to
Asking and answering about your possessions

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
There s / isnt a (garage).
There are / arent any (bedrooms).

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CONTENTS
- Question words ( how many ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : obligation (imperative )
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Whose is this?
Its (mine / yours / his / hers).

Other structures
Lets go in!
Im not scared.
What fun!
What do you do in the (living room)?
I (watch TV) in the (living room).
Come back!

Recycled structures
have a shower.

pronouns).

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions of location) in, under.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- The house, rooms and objects;

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bathroom, bedroom, dining room, flat, garage,
garden, hall, house, kitchen, living room
box, camera, clock, phone, radio, watch

Extension vocabulary (optional)


chimney, roof, wall, window
upstairs, downstairs

Other vocabulary
armchair, bath, ghosts, haunted house, mirror,
piano, scared, skeleton, sofa, witches
bookcase, drums, guitar, pop music, pyjama
party, sticker collection, upstairs
dragon, dress, fairy godmother, horse, mice,
midnight, pumpkin

Recycled vocabulary
bed, book, chair, door, floor, mouse, shoe, shower
eat, run, watch TV, water flowers
funfair

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CONTENTS
Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to the house.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes and draws about a haunted


house. L3. (Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE,
SIE.
1.2. Writes the dialogues of a play script
following a model. L7. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking what he /she


does in his/her bedroom and draws and
writes about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 7: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Describe your house or flat.
Lesson 3. Reinforcement. Haunted houses.
Lesson 5. Extension. Write a description of a house
Lesson 6. Reinforcement. Talk Partners: Compare your bedrooms. / Extension. Talk Partners Describe
bedrooms
Lesson 7. Extension. Act out a play script
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 7.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Literacy:
Text type: A fable (text to entertain and educate)
Reading skills: Using visual clues; Understanding the order of events; Extracting key information;
Understanding the moral of a story
Stories:
-

The haunted house


Cinderella

Songs:
-

Theres a mouse in my house!


What a mess!
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/
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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Materials: Different materials / Properties of materials / Natural and manufactured materials / The properties
of glass
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Observing and identifying lines, shapes, colours, patterns, textures and forms in art and the environment /
Making and playing a game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of being kind to your friends
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Well Done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Think-Pair-Share (Lessons 2 and 8)
- Listening to others (Lesson 3)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)

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USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):

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Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 8: All around the town


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

224

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

225

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

228

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

230

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

234

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

236

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

239

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

241

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

245

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

246

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

246

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

247

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

247

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

248

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

248

EVALUATION RESOURCES

249

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name different places in a town (Lesson 1) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Ask and answer questions about places in a town (Lesson 2) CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (Lesson 2) CLC, L2L, SIE
Identify and name directions (Lesson 4) CLC, CMST, SIE
Understand and give simple directions (Lesson 4) CLC, CMST, SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC, DC, SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (Lesson 1) CLC, L2L
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the igh sound (Lesson 5) CLC, CAE, SIE
Review your own learning (Lesson 8) CLC, L2L, SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC, L2L, SIE
Understand the importance of remembering where you put your things (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC
Work with a Talk Partner to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC, L2L, SIE
Make and play a communication game (Lesson 5) CLC, SIE
Sing three songs (Lessons 1, 4 and 8) CLC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a story (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Learn about the emergency services in Britain (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Think about your own culture (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Read, understand and write an invitation (Lesson 7) CLC, CAE, SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Listen and point. CD4 Track 6. L1. CLC CAE CMST
SIE
Activity 2. Listen and say the chant. CD4 Track 8. L1. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners. L2. CLC DC CAE
SIE
Activity 2. Listen and number. CD4 Track 10. CLC CMST SIE
Grammar focus. a and any
Talk Partners. Ask and answer questions. L2. CLC L2L SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD4 Track 11. L3. CLC CAE
SCC
SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. CD4 Track 12. L4. CLC SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. CD4 Track 13. L4. CLC DC CAE SCC
SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. Talk Partners. CD4 Track 14. L4.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number. CD4 Track 15. L4.
CLC CMST SCC L2L
Activity 1: Listen and say. CD4 Track 16. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2: Listen and draw lines. Use different colours. CD4
Track 17. L5. CLC CAE CMST SIE
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. CD4 Track 18. L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and check. CD4 Track 19. L6.
CLC L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the invitation. CD4 Track 20. L7.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and number. CD4 Track 21. L8. CLC CMST SIE

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Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity 2. Activity 2. Listen. Look at Activity 1. CD4 Track 22.


Talk Partners. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Listen and colour. There is one example. CD4 Track
4. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners. CD4 Track 4. Review. CLC SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: The emergency services


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Syntactical structures

Practice listening activities with the following structures:


Core structures
Is there a (bank)? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt.
Are there any (museums)? Yes, there are. / No, there arent.
Turn (right / left) here.
How do I get to the (post office)?
Go straight on.

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation, No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words ( how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and
pronouns)

Asking and answering questions about places in a town

Other structures
Its dark. Its almost night.
Is there a (bakers) down here?
Lets have dinner.
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Heres the cinema.
Call this number if you need
Its party time! I hope you can come!

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) Here, there, on , in.

- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- The city

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Recycled structures
Its (between / in front of / next to).
Remember!

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office,
train station
go straight on, turn (left / right), from, to

Extension vocabulary (optional)


airport, butchers, hotel, library, market, university

Other vocabulary
dinosaur, face painting, fire engine, firefighter,
games, helmet, police officer, safety uniform,
siren

Recycled vocabulary
bookshop, bike, caf, cinema, hospital, park,
restaurant, supermarket, sweet shop, swimming
pool, town, toyshop, zoo

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


Alternative vowel spellings igh / y (fly, light, night)

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC

2.1. Listens to and understands simple


conversations about places in a town in the
Talk Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CMST, SCC
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation giving directions to get to a
place in a town in the External Exams
Practice section. CLC, CMST, SCC, L2L

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L
3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of
the unit songs: All around the town / Which
way do I go?/ Well done! L1, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CAE, L2L

Distinguish the main communicative


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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about the emergency
services in the UK in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


dark night. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

Discriminate between basic sound, stress,


rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. CD4 Track 6. Sing All around the town. L1. CLC CAE
CMST SIE
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Cooperative Learning. Listening to others. Play Memory
chain.L1. CLC SIE L2L
Link to Science. Forces: sources of light and sound. L1. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Talk Partners Act out. CD4 Track 9. L2. CLC DC CAE
SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L2.
CLC SIE
Activity 1. CD4 Track 11. Act out. L3. CLC CAE SCC SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Talk about the importance of
remembering where you put your things. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book: Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L3.
CLC SIE
Link to Science. Forces: natural and artificial light sources. L3.
CLC CMST SCC SIE
Activity 2. Sing Which way do I go? CD4 Track 13. L4. CLC DC
CAE SCC SIE
Activity 3. Talk Partners. Act out. CD4 Track 14. L4. CLC CAE
SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Say. L4. CLC SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 111).
L5. CLC SCC L2L SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Memory chain in
pairs. L5. CLC L2L SIE
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Cooperative Learning. Working together as a team. Talk


Partners Play Beat the clock. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Link to Science. Forces: changing direction. L5. CLC CMST SIE
Think about your culture. Do you know the emergency
telephone number in your country? L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 1: Before you read. What can you see on the
invitation? Tick. L7. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L8. CLC
CAE SIE
Activity 3. Cooperative Learning. Sing Well Done! CD4 Track 2.
Stick the High Five! sticker. L8. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L8.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look at the map. Talk Partners Ask
and answer. L8. CLC CAE SIE
Cooperative Learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember the ten
places in the town. L8. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Activity 2. Listen. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. CD4 Track 4.
Review. CLC SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: The emergency services


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about places in a town

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Syntactical structures

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation, No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words ( how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

Core structures
Is there a (bank)? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt.
Are there any (museums)? Yes, there are. / No, there arent.
Turn (right / left) here.
How do I get to the (post office)?
Go straight on.

Other structures
Its dark. Its almost night.
Is there a (bakers) down here?
Lets have dinner.
Heres the cinema.
Call this number if you need
Its party time! I hope you can come!

Recycled structures
Its (between / in front of / next to).
Remember!

pronouns)
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) Here, there, on , in.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- The city

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office,
train station
go straight on, turn (left / right), from, to

Extension vocabulary (optional)


airport, butchers, hotel, library, market, university

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CONTENTS

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
dinosaur, face painting, fire engine, firefighter,
games, helmet, police officer, safety uniform,
siren

Recycled vocabulary
bookshop, bike, caf, cinema, hospital, park,
restaurant, supermarket, sweet shop, swimming
pool, town, toyshop, zoo

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


Alternative vowel spellings igh / y (fly, light, night)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about places in a town. L1. CLC,
CMST, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: All around the
town / Which way do I go?/ Well done! L1, L4,
L5, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The dark night. L3. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 3: Time. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about places


in a town in the Talk Partners section. L2.
CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

4. Respects rules that govern oral


interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about remembering where you put
your things in the High Five Values section.
L3. CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the emergency services in the


UK with the ones in his/her own country in
the British Culture and Think about your
Culture sections. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE,
SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. L1. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read, look and write. L1. CLC CMST
L2L
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. Listen and number.
CD4 Track 15. L4. CLC CMST SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and write. L6. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: The emergency services


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about places in a town

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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Syntactical structures

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation, No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words ( how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

Core structures
Is there a (bank)? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt.
Are there any (museums)? Yes, there are. / No, there arent.
Turn (right / left) here.
How do I get to the (post office)?
Go straight on.

Other structures
Its dark. Its almost night.
Is there a (bakers) down here?
Lets have dinner.
Heres the cinema.
Call this number if you need
Its party time! I hope you can come!

Recycled structures
Its (between / in front of / next to).
Remember!

pronouns)
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).
- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) Here, there, on , in.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- The city

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office,
train station
go straight on, turn (left / right), from, to

Extension vocabulary (optional)


airport, butchers, hotel, library, market, university

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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
dinosaur, face painting, fire engine, firefighter,
games, helmet, police officer, safety uniform,
siren

Recycled vocabulary
bookshop, bike, caf, cinema, hospital, park,
restaurant, supermarket, sweet shop, swimming
pool, town, toyshop, zoo

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to places in a town.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understand the information of several


traffic signs. L4. CLC, SCC, CAE.
1.2. Understands the information of a
Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Identify the topic and understand the
general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.
Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.
, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

2. Understands short and simple


correspondence (postcards and cards)
that are about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, etc.

2.1. Reads and understands an invitation to


a party. L7. CLC, CAE, SCC.

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to places
in a town with the help of visual material.
L1. CLC, CMST, L2L

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The dark night, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

5.1. Reads and understands a text about


the emergency services in the UK in the
British Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC,
CAE

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write


the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. Talk Partners. L2. CLC
SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Order. Think about your town and
write. L2. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Number and write. L3. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book: Activity 2. Think about the story and write. Talk
Partners. L3. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L3. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Talk Partners. L4. CLC
SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the y words blue and the
igh words red. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L6. CLC L2L

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Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences ; Yes (+ tag ) )

Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Read again. Write.L7.


CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Your turn. Write an invitation. Draw.
L7. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word L7. CLC L2L
Activity 1. Write and say. CD4 Track 21. L8. CLC CMST SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write about your street. Talk Partners.
L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look at the map. Write. Talk Partners
L8. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and read. Write yes or no.
Review. CLC CMST L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. Review. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. Review. CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: The emergency services


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about places in a town

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
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CONTENTS
- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Negation, No ( + negative tag ) ) .
- Question words ( how... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of existence ( there is / are) ; entity ( nouns and

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


Is there a (bank)? Yes, there is. / No, there isnt.
Are there any (museums)? Yes, there are. / No, there arent.
Turn (right / left) here.
How do I get to the (post office)?
Go straight on.

Other structures
Its dark. Its almost night.
Is there a (bakers) down here?
Lets have dinner.
Heres the cinema.
Call this number if you need
Its party time! I hope you can come!

Recycled structures
Its (between / in front of / next to).
Remember!

pronouns)

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural).


- Expression of space ( prepositions and adverbs of location,
position) Here, there, on , in.
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- The city

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office,
train station
go straight on, turn (left / right), from, to

Extension vocabulary (optional)


airport, butchers, hotel, library, market, university

Other vocabulary
dinosaur, face painting, fire engine, firefighter,
games, helmet, police officer, safety uniform,
siren

Recycled vocabulary
bookshop, bike, caf, cinema, hospital, park,
restaurant, supermarket, sweet shop, swimming
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


pool, town, toyshop, zoo

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to places in a town.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes about his/her own town in the


Your Turn section. L2. (Activity Book). CLC,
CMST, SCC, SIE.
1.2. Writes a Story Quiz. L3. (Activity Book).
CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.
Write very short and simple texts, made
of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.

1.3. Writes directions to get to a place. L4.


(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SIE

2. Writes postcards and other forms of


simple correspondence following a model
and uses some basic conventions to start
and close the text.

2.1. Writes an invitation to a party. L7.


(Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking the


characteristics of the emergency services
in his/her country and draws and writes
about it. L6. (Activity Book). CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE.

Understand and use a limited selection of


high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 8: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Talk Partners Ask and answer about their town or neighbourhood.
Lesson 3. Extension. Role play.
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Play Directions./ Put the places on the map.
Lesson 6. Extension. Compare Spanish and British fire-fighters. / Compare and contrast fire-fighters
and police officers.
Lesson 7. Reinforcement. Make an invitation
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 8.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.
Literacy:
Text type: A postcard (text to express)
Reading skills: Using visual clues; Reading for specific information
Stories:
-

The dark night

Songs:
-

All around the town


Which way do I go?
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Forces: Sources of natural light and sound / Natural and artificial light sources / Changing direction
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Observing and identifying movement in sculptures / Making and playing a game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of remembering where you put your things
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: Well done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to others (Lesson 1)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):
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USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
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Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.
Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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UNIT 9: Holiday fun


pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

251

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

252

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

256

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

258

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

261

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

263

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

266

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

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Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

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REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

273

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

273

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

274

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

274

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

274

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

275

EVALUATION RESOURCES

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The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify and name places to go on holiday (Lesson 1) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Understand and act out a grammar dialogue (Lesson 2) CLC, L2L, SIE
Ask and answer questions about where you were yesterday (Lesson 2) CLC, SCC, SIE
Use irregular plural nouns correctly (Lesson 4) CLC, L2L
Ask and answer questions about groups of people (Lesson 4) CLC, SCC, SIE
Use the Pupils Digital Resources at school or at home CLC, DC, SIE
Use a strategy to practise spelling key words (Lesson 1) CLC, L2L
Say a tongue twister and practise alternative spellings for the air sound (Lesson 5) CLC, CAE, SIE
Review your own learning (Lesson 8) CLC, L2L, SIE
Practise activity types found in the Trinity and Cambridge exams (External exams practice) CLC, L2L, SIE
Understand the importance of playing outside with your friends (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC
Work with a Talk Partner to practise and reinforce learning (all lessons) CLC, L2L, SIE
Make and play a communication game (Lesson 5) CLC, SIE
Sing three songs (Lessons 1, 4 and 8) CLC, CAE, SIE
Understand and act out a story (Lesson 3) CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE
Learn about summer holidays in Britain (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Read, understand and write a diary extract (Lesson 7) CLC, CAE, SIE
Think about your own culture (Lesson 6) CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS
Learning strategies in oral texts:
Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and point. CD4 Track 26. L1. CLC CAE SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and say the chant. CD4 Track 28. L1. CLC
CAE SIE
Cooperative Learning. Listening to others. Play Memory chain.
L1. CLC SIE L2L
Activity 1. Listen and repeat. CD4 Track 29. Talk Partners. L2.
CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and match. CD4 Track 30. L1. CLC CMST
Activity 1. Listen and read. CD4 Track 31. Act out. L3. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 1. Listen, point and say. CD4 Track 32, L4. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Listen and point. Sing Whos that? CD4 Track 33. L4.
CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Listen and repeat. CD4 Track 34. L4. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 1. Listen and say. CD4 Track 36. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen and match. CD4 Track 37. L5. CLC CMST SCC
Activity 1. Listen and read. Answer. CD4 Track 38. L6. CLC SCC
CAE SIE
Activity Book: Activity Book. Activity 1. Listen and number.
Write. CD4 Track 39. L6. CLC CMST L2L
Activity 2. Listen and read the diary. CD4 Track 40. L7. CLC
SCC CAE
Activity 1. Listen and number. CD4 Track 41. Write and say. L8.
CLC SCC CAE SIE
Activity 2. Listen. Make a fun holiday diary. CD4 Track 42. L8.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. My progress. Use your traffic light.
Listen to the teacher and point. L8. CLC L2L

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words (What, who, where... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous );

quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

British Culture: Summer holidays


Listen to their classmates when discussing the Think about
your culture section.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about where you were


yesterday
Asking and answering questions about groups of people

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Where were you (yesterday?).
I was at the (circus).
Whos that (man)?
Hes my (uncle).
Who are those men?
Theyre my (uncles).

Other structures
Im bored.
Lets go to the (castle).
Where can we go now?

past (past simple )

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , demonstratives );

Activity 1. Listen and draw lines. There is one example. CD4


Track 44. Review. CLC CAE L2L
Activity 2. Listen. CD4 Track 45. Talk Partners. Review. CLC SIE

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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

- Family and friends;


- Play;
- The weather

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Recycled structures
Were playing (hide and seek).
Im (painting) a cup.
We can (play / see / do).

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
aquarium, castle, chocolate factory, circus,
funfair, safari park, science museum, sports
centre, theatre, water park
child, children, man, men, woman, women

Extension vocabulary (optional)


amusement arcade, art gallery, ice rink, royal
palace, skateboard park

Other vocabulary
arts and crafts studio, badge, butterfly, clown,
cup, funfair, giant chess, hide and seek, maze,
palace, plate, ride, roller coaster, stilts

Recycled vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office, train station
days of the week, yesterday
cold, cloudy, hot, sunny;
aunt, brother, cousin, family, father, grandfather,
grandmother, mother, sister, uncle

Practice listening to words with the following pronunciation:


Alternative vowel spellings air / ear (bear, pear, stairs,
funfair)
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies in order to understand
the general sense, the essential
information or the main points of the text.
Identify basic and specific cultural and
social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.
Identify the general meaning and a
limited selection of vocabulary and
expressions, in very short, simple oral
texts with a high proportion of simple
structures and very high frequency
vocabulary, which is clearly and slowly
expressed and transmitted either orally or
through the use of technical resources.
The oral texts are on topics related to
their own experiences, needs and
interests in predictable everyday contexts
and have visual support provided, the
opportunity to listening again and clear
contextual information.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Understands what is said in simple


familiar transactions (daily routines,
requests, etc.).

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Listens to and understands the routines


and requests from the teacher: Listen and
point, Listen and tick, Listen and repeat, etc.
L1-L8. CLC, SCC
2.1. Listens to and understands simple
conversations about holiday activities in the
Talk Partners sections. L2, L4, L5, L8. CLC,
CMST, SCC, CAE
2.2. Listens to and reviews the contents
learnt in the unit by practising a
conversation about dates and weather in the
External Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC,
L2L

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Learns about pronunciation in the Toby's


Tongue Twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about the summer
holidays in the UK in the British Culture
section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

3.2 Recognises the correct pronunciation of


the unit songs: Were on holiday / Whos
that?/ Well done!L1, L4, L8. CLC, CAE, L2L

Distinguish the main communicative


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EVALUATION CRITERIA
function of a text (e.g. a request for
information, a command, or an offer), as
well as basic discursive patterns (e.g.
starting and ending a conversation, or the
points of a schematic narration).

LEARNING OUTCOMES

5. Understands cartoons with simple


stories by their context.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

5.1. Understands the story of the unit: The


magic trip. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.
Discriminate between basic sound, stress,
rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.
Activity 1. Sing Were on holiday! L1. CLC CAE SCC SIE
Activity Book. Spelling. Lets practise spelling! Use the LookCopy-Cover-Write technique. L1. CLC L2L SIE
Link to Science. Electricity: machines that use electricity. CLC
CMST SCC SIE
Activity 1. Talk Partners. Act out. L2. CLC DC CAE SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Talk about the importance of
playing outside with your friends. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity 3. Talk Partners Ask and answer. L4. CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Make and play the game (Activity Book page 113).
L5. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 3. Talk Partners. Play Snap in pairs. L5.
CLC SIE
Cooperative learning. Working together as a team. Talk
Partners Play Beat the clock. L5. CLC CAE SIE
Think about your culture. What do you do in the summer
holidays? L6. CLC SCC CAE SIE
Cooperative Learning. Sing We can do it! CD3 Track 27. L7.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 2. CD4 Track 42. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. L8.
CLC CAE SIE
Activity 3. Sing Well Done! CD4 Track 43. Stick the High Five!
sticker. CLC CAE SIE L2L
Cooperative Learning. Think-Pair-Share. Remember ten
holiday places words. L8. CLC CMST SIE L2L
Activity 2. CD4 Track 45. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
Review. CLC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer.
Review CLC SIE
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SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words (What, who, where... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous );

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

Asking and answering questions about where you were


yesterday
Asking and answering questions about groups of people

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Where were you (yesterday?).
I was at the (circus).
Whos that (man)?
Hes my (uncle).
Who are those men?
Theyre my (uncles).

Other structures
Im bored.
Lets go to the (castle).
Where can we go now?

Recycled structures
Were playing (hide and seek).
Im (painting) a cup.
We can (play / see / do).

past (past simple )

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , demonstratives );

British Culture: Summer holidays


Discuss the Think about your culture section.

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

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CONTENTS
- Family and friends;
- Play;
- The weather

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Core vocabulary
aquarium, castle, chocolate factory, circus,
funfair, safari park, science museum, sports
centre, theatre, water park
child, children, man, men, woman, women

Extension vocabulary (optional)


amusement arcade, art gallery, ice rink, royal
palace, skateboard park

Other vocabulary
arts and crafts studio, badge, butterfly, clown,
cup, funfair, giant chess, hide and seek, maze,
palace, plate, ride, roller coaster, stilts

Recycled vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office, train station
days of the week, yesterday
cold, cloudy, hot, sunny;
aunt, brother, cousin, family, father, grandfather,
grandmother, mother, sister, uncle

Practice saying words with the following pronunciation


Alternative vowel spellings air / ear (bear, pear, stairs,
funfair)

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BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies to produce short, simple
oral texts, either monologues or
dialogues, using, for example,
prefabricated language or memorized
expressions or supporting what they want
to express with gestures.

1. Reproduces the expressions used by


the teacher or from a recording used in
class.

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.
Interact in a basic way, using simple
techniques, linguistic and non-verbal (e.g.
gestures and physical contact) to initiate,
maintain, or conclude a short
conversation fulfilling the main
communicative function of the text, (for
example, a greeting, congratulating, an
information exchange).
Produce very short, simple oral texts,
either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Says a chant practicing the vocabulary


of the unit about holiday activities. L1. CLC,
SCC, SIE, L2L
1.2. Repeats the songs from the unit
reproducing new expressions: Were on
holiday / Whos that?/ Well done!L1, L4, L8.
CLC, CAE, SIE
1.3. Reproduces the pronunciation from the
Tobys tongue twister section. L5. CLC, L2L

2. Gives short and simple presentations,


that have been previously prepared and
rehearsed, about everyday topic or
subjects in which they are interested
(introduce themselves or other people;
give basic information about themselves,
their family and their class; describe in a
short a simple manner the appearance of
an object, say what they like and dont like)
using basic structures.
3. Dramatizes simple everyday
situations using simple expressions (e.g.
a shop role-play).

2.1. Prepares, rehearses and role-plays the


story of the unit: The magic trip. L3. CLC,
SCC, CAE, SIE
2.2. Presents his/her cooperative Project for
the first term in the Show and tell section.
My Project 3:Time. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

3.1. Dramatizes a conversation about holiday


activities in the Talk Partners section. L2.
CLC, CMST, SCC, SIE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

Participate in a basic way in very short


and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.
Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking
words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Know and use a limited selection of high
frequency oral lexis related to everyday
situations and familiar and specific topics
to do with their own interests,
experiences and needs.
Articulate a limited selection of basic
sound, stress, rhythm and intonation
patterns.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

4. Respects rules that govern oral


interaction.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.)..
6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye,
introducing themselves, congratulating
someone, thanking someone) and personal
information is exchanged (name, age,
etc.).
7. Knows and uses expressions related to
family or cultural celebrations

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


4.1. Respects the rules when participating in
the unit games in the Talk Partners sections:
L4, L5. CLC, SCC, SIE
5.1. Answers questions about the story of the
unit and about playing outside with your
friends in the High Five Values section. L3.
CLC, CAE, SCC, SIE
6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation
reviewing the contents learnt in the External
Exams Practice section. CLC, SCC, SIE, L2L

7.1. Compares the summer holidays of


children in the UK with his/her own
experience in the British Culture and Think
about your Culture sections. L6. CLC, CMST,
SCC, CAE, SIE

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Word cards. Read the word cards. Match them to the


flashcards. L1. CLC SIE
Activity 2. Read and stick the ten stickers. L1. CLC CAE SIE
Activity Book. Activity 1. Read and match. L1. CLC SCC
Before you read. Read and answer the question. L3. CLC SCC
SIE
Activity 2: High Five! values. Read and write. L3. CLC SCC SIE
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and listen. Match. CD4 Track 35.
L4. CLC L2L
Activity 1: Before you read. Look at the diary quickly. Find and
circle the days. L7. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1: After you read. Think about the diary.
Read and write. L7. CLC L2L

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

British Culture: Summer holidays


Read the Think about your culture section.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:


Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Asking and answering questions about where you were


yesterday
Asking and answering questions about groups of people

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CONTENTS

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words (What, who, where... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous );

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Where were you (yesterday?).
I was at the (circus).
Whos that (man)?
Hes my (uncle).
Who are those men?
Theyre my (uncles).

Other structures
Im bored.
Lets go to the (castle).
Where can we go now?

Recycled structures
Were playing (hide and seek).
Im (painting) a cup.
We can (play / see / do).

past (past simple )

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , demonstratives );
quality (Adj . ) .

- Expressing quantity (singular / plural) .


- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

- Family and friends;


- Play;
- The weather

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
aquarium, castle, chocolate factory, circus,
funfair, safari park, science museum, sports
centre, theatre, water park
child, children, man, men, woman, women

Extension vocabulary (optional)


amusement arcade, art gallery, ice rink, royal
palace, skateboard park
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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
arts and crafts studio, badge, butterfly, clown,
cup, funfair, giant chess, hide and seek, maze,
palace, plate, ride, roller coaster, stilts

Recycled vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office, train station
days of the week, yesterday
cold, cloudy, hot, sunny;
aunt, brother, cousin, family, father, grandfather,
grandmother, mother, sister, uncle

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to holidays.

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BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply the most appropriate


basic strategies for understanding the
general sense, specific information and
the main points of the text.

1. Understands indications and basic


information in familiar signs and posters
in the class and the school.

1.1. Understands the information of a


Pronunciation Wall Display done by the
whole class. L5. CLC, CAE, L2L.

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.

2. Understands short and simple


correspondence (postcards and cards)
that are about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, etc.

2.1 Reads and understands a diary entry


about summer holidays. L7. CLC, SCC, CAE,

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

3.1. Reads and sticks the ten photographic


stickers at the beginning of the unit, so as
to learn new vocabulary related to holiday
activities with the help of visual material.
L1. CLC, SCC, CAE, L2L

Identify the topic and understand the


general sense, the main ideas and specific
information in very short and simple texts,
either in digital form or on paper, with a
high proportion of simple structures and
high frequency vocabulary, about familiar
or everyday topics, as long as they can
reread the text, clarify what they didnt
understand and count on visual and
contextual support.
Recognize frequently used symbols (e.g.
, @, , etc.) and identify the general
communicative meanings and intentions
related to them.
Distinguish the main communicative
functions of a text (e.g. a greeting, a
request for information, or an offer) and a
limited selection of their most common

4. Formulates hypotheses about the


content using the illustrations, the title and
other graphic elements.
5. Understands written texts related to
words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

4.1. Predicts the content of the story of the


unit The magic trip, with the help of
illustrations. L3. CLC, SCC, CAE.
5.1. Reads and understands a text about
the summer holidays in the UK in the
British Culture section. L6. CLC, CMST, SCC,
CAE

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EVALUATION CRITERIA
examples as well as basic discursive
patterns (e.g. starting and closing a letter,
or the points of a schematic description).

LEARNING OUTCOMES
6. Uses Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT


6.1. Practices word reading using the
Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

Recognise the most usual meanings of


basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.
Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.
full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity Book. Activity 2. Look and write. L1. CLC SCC CMST
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L1. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Where were they yesterday? Look
and write. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Where were you yesterday? Write and
draw. L2. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L2. CLC L2L
Activity Book: Activity 1: After you read. Remember the story.
Write true or false. CLC SCC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Remember the story. Look and write.
CLC CAE SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look and write. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled: vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L4. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Write and say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Colour the ear words blue and the
air words red. Say. L5. CLC CAE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L5. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2: Think about your culture. Read and
tick (). Draw, write and say. L6. CLC SCC CAE L2L

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write


the word. L6. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Write your own diary and draw. L7.
CLC CAE SCC SIE L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L7. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Find, circle and write. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. L8. CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 1. Look at the picture and read the
questions. Write one-word answers. Review CLC L2L
Activity Book. Activity 2. Read and write. Talk Partners. Review
CLC SIE
Activity Book. Recycled vocabulary. Look, remember and write
the word. CLC L2L

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:


Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:
Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

British Culture: Summer holidays


Write about the Think about your culture section.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering questions about where you were


yesterday
Asking and answering questions about groups of people

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Syntactical structures

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Exclamation: e.g . I love salad! ) .
- Question words (What, who, where... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple and continuous );

Core structures
Where were you (yesterday?).
I was at the (circus).
Whos that (man)?
Hes my (uncle).
Who are those men?
Theyre my (uncles).

Other structures
Im bored.
Lets go to the (castle).
Where can we go now?

Recycled structures
Were playing (hide and seek).
Im (painting) a cup.
We can (play / see / do).

past (past simple )

- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .


- Expression of modality : ability (can) ; obligation ( imperative ).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , demonstratives );
quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (singular / plural) .
- Expression of time divisions (e. g . , Summer ) .
- Expression of manner ( Adv. of manner , e.g. well ).

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

- Family and friends;


- Play;
- The weather

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
aquarium, castle, chocolate factory, circus,
funfair, safari park, science museum, sports
centre, theatre, water park
child, children, man, men, woman, women

Extension vocabulary (optional)


amusement arcade, art gallery, ice rink, royal
palace, skateboard park

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CONTENTS

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Other vocabulary
arts and crafts studio, badge, butterfly, clown,
cup, funfair, giant chess, hide and seek, maze,
palace, plate, ride, roller coaster, stilts

Recycled vocabulary
bakers, bank, bus station, car park, chemists,
fire station, museum, police station, post office, train station
days of the week, yesterday
cold, cloudy, hot, sunny;
aunt, brother, cousin, family, father, grandfather,
grandmother, mother, sister, uncle

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to holidays.

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BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes and draws about where they


were yesterday in the Your Turn section. L2.
(Activity Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.

2. Writes postcards and other forms of


simple correspondence following a model
and uses some basic conventions to start
and close the text.

2.1. Writes a diary entry following a model.


L7. (Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

Write very short and simple texts, made


of simple isolated sentences to talk about
themselves or their immediate
environment, using a selection of
punctuation marks to express their
communicative function.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form ticking what he/she


does during the summer holidays and
draws and writes about it. L6. (Activity
Book). CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE.

Use basic syntactic structures (e.g. linking


words or groups of words with basic
connectors such as "and") although basic
systematic errors may still occur.
Understand and use a limited selection of
high frequency written vocabulary related
to everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

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REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities for Unit 9: Reinforcement and Extension activities:
Lesson 2. Reinforcement. Play Friend match.
Lesson 3. Extension. Role play.
Lesson 4. Reinforcement. Singular or plural? Play One or two?
Lesson 5. Reinforcement. Family photos. Talk Partners Ask and answer questions about your family.
Lesson 6. Extension. Summer holiday activities in Britain.
Lesson 7. Reinforcement. Keep a diary.
Lesson 9. Reinforcement. Play Disappearing words / Play Which ones missing
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8. Unit 9.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.
Standard and a Higher level version for the Unit, Term and End-of-Year Tests.
With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.
Literacy:
Text type: A poem (text to express)
Reading skills: Using visual clues; Reading for specific information; Using rhyme when reading
Stories:
-

The magic trip

Songs:
-

Were on holiday
Whos that?
Well done!

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

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With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

Links to Science
Electricity: Machines that use electricity
Suggested Arts and Crafts concepts
Observing and identifying the effect of colour and light and dark in art / Making and playing a game

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

Values:
High Five! Values section: Talk about the importance of playing outside with your friends
Attitudes (Cooperative Learning):
Interest in working in groups singing the songs: We can do it! (Lesson 7)/ Well Done! (Lesson 8)
Fostering the following Cooperative skills:
- Listening to others (Lesson 1)
- Working together as a team (Lesson 5)
- Think-Pair-Share (Lesson 8)

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

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With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Sing songs and chants
- Practise pronunciation through the Tobys Tongue Twister
- Talk about a cross-curricular topic.
- Learn cultural topics in the British culture section.
- Do a Cooperative Project
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do a communicative game using a cut-out
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Read stories and texts
- Do artistic works and crafts
- Do personalisation activities in the Your turn sections and through the Me icons.
- Review and self evaluate the contents learnt.

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
Informal
-

evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Review and External exams practice activities in Lesson 8.
Activity Book Review at the end of every unit of the Activity Book

Formal evaluation
Unit Test (both standard and a higher level version)
Term Test (both standard and a higher level version)
End-of-Year Test (both standard and a higher level version)
External Exams Practice Pack: practice tests to prepare for the Trinity Graded Exam in Spoken
English, (Grades 2 and 3) or the Cambridge English Young Learners Starters Test
Self-evaluation
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Self-evaluation traffic light cut-out in Lesson 8.


Look-Copy-Cover-Write strategy to practise spelling ten core vocabulary words.
Self-assessment activity by singing a Well done! cooperative learning song and sticking the High
Five! sticker.

Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

Evaluation of the teaching practice


Reflective Teacher section.

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Festivals: Halloween
pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

278

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

279

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

281

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

282

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

284

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

285

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

287

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

288

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

290

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

291

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

291

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

291

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

292

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

292

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

292

EVALUATION RESOURCES

293

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

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UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identifying items relating to Halloween CLC, SCC, CAE


Read and match CLC, CAE
Listen for specific information CLC, CAE
Learn about traditional Halloween activities in Britain CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE
Read and write a magic spell and make a cauldron CLC, CAE, SIE
Think about your own culture and identity. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS

Learning strategies in oral texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity 1. Listen and read. CD4 Track 53. CLC CAE SCC SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Describing items relating to Halloween

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality :; obligation (imperative).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (some) .

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Take (a pumpkin), cut out (eyes), make (a
mask), put (some apples in a bowl)

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
candle, ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, rat, spell,
sweets, trick or treat, witch

Recycled vocabulary
apple, bat, big, black, candle, cat, dad, fat,
ghost, Halloween, hat, mouth, mum, nose,
please, run, tail, thank you

Practice listening to the pronunciation of the vocabulary of the


unit

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BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

3.1 Recognises the correct pronunciation of a


magic spell. CLC, CAE, SCC

Recognise a limited selection of high


frequency oral vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their
experiences, needs and interests.

4. Understands the general meaning and


substance of oral narratives suitable to
their level.

4.1. Listens to and understands the general


meaning of a narrative about Halloween
celebrations. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE

Discriminate between basic sound, stress,


rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

284

BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Say the magic spell. CLC CAE SCC SIE


Think about your culture. What do you do at Halloween? CLC
SCC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Describing items relating to Halloween

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality :; obligation (imperative).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (some) .

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Take (a pumpkin), cut out (eyes), make (a
mask), put (some apples in a bowl)

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CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

Core vocabulary
candle, ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, rat, spell,
sweets, trick or treat, witch

Recycled vocabulary
apple, bat, big, black, candle, cat, dad, fat,
ghost, Halloween, hat, mouth, mum, nose,
please, run, tail, thank you

Practice the pronunciation of the vocabulary of the unit

286

BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.).

5.1. Talks about Halloween celebrations in


their country in the Think about your culture
section. CLC, CMST, CAE, SCC, SIE

7. Knows and uses expressions related to


family or cultural celebrations

7.1. Says a magic spell related to Halloween.


CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

Produce very short, simple oral texts,


either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.

287

BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Read and match. CLC CAE SCC SIE

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Describing items relating to Halloween

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality :; obligation (imperative).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (some) .

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Take (a pumpkin), cut out (eyes), make (a
mask), put (some apples in a bowl)

288

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
candle, ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, rat, spell,
sweets, trick or treat, witch

Recycled vocabulary
apple, bat, big, black, candle, cat, dad, fat,
ghost, Halloween, hat, mouth, mum, nose,
please, run, tail, thank you

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to Halloween.

289

BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.
Recognise the most usual meanings of
basic syntactical structures in written
communication (e.g. a question mark to
ask for information)
Recognise a limited selection of high
frequency written vocabulary related to
everyday situations and familiar and
specific topics to do with their own
interests, experiences and needs.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

3. Reads familiar words in the visual


material used for routines (calendar,
expressions about the weather) or in the
class books.

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.
6. Uses Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT) to read.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

3.1. Reads a text related to Halloween


celebrations with the help of visual
material. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE.

5.1. Reads and understands a magic spell.


CLC, SCC, CAE

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

290

BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions.
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Activity 3. Make a cauldron. Write the spell and decorate. CLC


CAE SIE
Activity Book cut-outs. Make a cauldron. Cut and stick. Write
the spell and decorate. CLC CAE SIE

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Describing items relating to Halloween

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of modality :; obligation (imperative).
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns ); quality (Adj . ) .
- Expressing quantity (some) .

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
Take (a pumpkin), cut out (eyes), make (a
mask), put (some apples in a bowl)

291

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
candle, ghost, Halloween, pumpkin, rat, spell,
sweets, trick or treat, witch

Recycled vocabulary
apple, bat, big, black, candle, cat, dad, fat,
ghost, Halloween, hat, mouth, mum, nose,
please, run, tail, thank you

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to Halloween.

292

BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Know and apply basic strategies to


produce very short and simple texts, for
example, copying common words and
sentences to achieve the aimed
communicative functions.

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

1.1. Writes a magic spell in a cauldron.


(Activity Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.

3. Fills out forms marking options and


completing data or other types of personal
information (e.g. likes, title of a story that
has been read, etc.).

3.1. Completes a form in a cauldron craft,


including personal information. (Activity
Book). CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE.

293

REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities: Reinforcement and Extension activities:


Reinforcement. Halloween party.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.
MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Social Science: Halloween celebrations

294

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:
Education for Peace: the importance of respecting celebrations from other cultures.

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Learn cultural topics related to the celebration.
- Work in pairs.
- Do communicative games
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Make a craft work: Make a cauldron

295

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):

EVALUATION
RESOURCES

Informal evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

296

Festivals: Christmas
pp
UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES

295

Block 1: Understanding oral texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

296

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

298

Block 2: Production of oral texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

299

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

301

Block 3: Understanding of written texts


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

302

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

304

Block 4: Production of written texts: Expression and Interaction


Contents and Specific contents of the unit

305

Evaluation Criteria, Learning outcomes and Specific activities of the unit

307

REINFORCEMENT AND EXTENSION PROGRAMMES (MIXED-ABILITY ACTIVITIES)

308

LITERARY EDUCATION / READING PROMOTION

308

CROSS-CURRICULAR CONTENTS

308

ATTITUDES AND VALUES(CROSS-CUTTING ISSUES)

309

USE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY

309

SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP

309

EVALUATION RESOURCES

310

The "Contents' Sequence and Timing" are included in the "Programme of Classroom Activities" of this title.
The "Methodological and Didactic decisions", the "Programme of extracurricular and complementary activities", the "Teaching resources"
and the "Student's materials" are included in the "Project" for this title.

297

UNIT OBJECTIVES AND KEY COMPETENCES 1


Throughout the unit, the student will be able to:

Identify items relating to Christmas CLC, SCC, CAE


Ask and answer about what things are for CLC, SIE
Say a Christmas rhyme CLC, CAE, SIE
Make a Christmas decoration CLC, CAE, SIE
Think about your own culture and identity. CLC, CMST, SCC, CAE, SIE

Key Competences: Basic competences : CLC -Competence in linguistic communication; CMST- Competence in mathematics, science and technology;
Transversal competences: DC-Digital competence; L2L-Learning to learn; SCC-Social and civic competences; SIE-Sense of initiative and entrepreneurship;
CAE-Cultural awareness and expression
298

BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS


CONTENTS

Learning strategies in oral texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT


With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition
of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Activity 1. Listen and read. CD4 Track 54. CLC CAE SCC SIE
Activity 2. Listen. CD4 Track 55. Talk Partners. CLC SIE

Listen to texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressing agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice listening activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what things are for

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Question words (What ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles);

Practice listening activities with the following structures:

Core structures
(C) is for (Christmas), (I) is for (ice cream on a cake)

299

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency oral vocabulary (reception):

Practice listening activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations.

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns.

Core vocabulary
angel, apple pie, Christmas day, cry, holly, New
Year, reindeer, Santa, stocking

Recycled vocabulary
games, happy, ice cream, mother, paper, presents, tree

Practice listening to the pronunciation of the vocabulary of the


unit

300

BLOCK 1: UNDERSTANDING ORAL TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life (habits, schedules, activities,
celebrations) and social conventions
(rules of courtesy), and apply the
knowledge gained to a proper
understanding of the text.

2. Understands the essential information in


short, simple conversations in which they
participate about familiar topics such as
themselves, the family, the school, pets,
and very basic descriptions of objects.

Discriminate between basic sound, stress,


rhythm and intonation patterns and
recognize the general meanings and
communicative intentions related to
them.

3. Recognises basic sounds, rhythms


and intonation in different
communicative contexts.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

2.1. Listens to and understands a


conversation describing Christmas words. C
CLC, CAE, SCC

3.1 Recognises the correct pronunciation of a


Christmas rhyme. CLC, CAE, SCC

301

BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies:
Planning, carrying out and checking oral texts through the use of
linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


rules of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Before you read. Talk about the Christmas rhyme. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 1. Say the Christmas rhyme. CD4 Track 54. CLC CAE
SCC SIE
Activity 2. Talk Partners. Ask and answer. CLC SIE
Think about your culture. What do you see at Christmas in
your town? CLC SCC CAE SIE

Discuss and talk about the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice oral activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what things are for

302

CONTENTS
Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Question words (What ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles);
High frequency oral vocabulary (production)

- Celebrations.

Sound, stress, rhythm and intonation patterns

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Practice oral activities with the following structures:

Core structures
(C) is for (Christmas), (I) is for (ice cream on a cake)

Practice oral activities with the following vocabulary:

Core vocabulary
angel, apple pie, Christmas day, cry, holly, New
Year, reindeer, Santa, stocking

Recycled vocabulary
games, happy, ice cream, mother, paper, presents, tree

Practice the pronunciation of the vocabulary of the unit

BLOCK 2: PRODUCTION OF ORAL TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


303

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Learn about basic and important cultural


and socio linguistic aspects, and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce oral texts relevant to the context,
respecting the most basic communicative
conventions.

5. Responds appropriately in
communicative situations (greetings,
very simple questions about themselves,
requesting or offering objects, expressing
what they like or dont like, etc.).

5.1. Talks about Christmas celebrations in


their country in the Think about your culture
section. CLC, CMST, CAE, SCC, SIE

Produce very short, simple oral texts,


either monologues or dialogues, using, for
example, memorised expressions o
gestures to support what they want to
express.
Participate in a basic way in very short
and simple conversations requiring an
exchange of information on familiar
topics, mostly using expressions and
simple high frequency isolated sentences,
repetition and speaking partners
cooperation being essential in order to
maintain the conversation.

6. Participates in face-to-face
conversations or by technical means that
allow them to see the face and gestures of
the speaker in which social contact is
established (hello and goodbye, introducing
themselves, congratulating someone,
thanking someone) and personal information
is exchanged (name, age, etc.)

6.1. Practises a face-to-face conversation


asking questions about Christmas words.
CLC, SCC, CAE, SIE

7. Knows and uses expressions related to


family or cultural celebrations

7.1. Says a Christmas rhyme. CLC, SCC,


CAE, SIE

304

BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN TEXTS


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Comprehension strategies with written texts:


Activating previous knowledge, identifying cues and inference,
testing hypotheses and reformulation of hypothesis.

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic aspects: social conventions,


norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Communicative functions:
- Greetings and introductions
- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Question words (What ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles);

Activity 1. Listen and read. CD4 Track 54. CLC CAE SCC SIE

Read texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Practice reading activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what things are for

Practice reading activities with the following structures:

Core structures
(C) is for (Christmas), (I) is for (ice cream on a cake)

305

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (reception):

Practice reading activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations.

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
angel, apple pie, Christmas day, cry, holly, New
Year, reindeer, Santa, stocking

Recycled vocabulary
games, happy, ice cream, mother, paper, presents, tree

Show interest in learning, through reading activities, the


spelling of words related to Christmas.

306

BLOCK 3: UNDERSTANDING OF WRITTEN TEXTS

EVALUATION CRITERIA

LEARNING OUTCOMES

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

Identify basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements related to
everyday life and apply the knowledge to
a proper understanding of the text.

5. Understands written texts related to


words and expressions that have been
covered previously.

5.1. Reads and understands a Christmas


rhyme. CLC, SCC, CAE

Recognise basic punctuation marks (e.g.


full stop, comma, question mark,
exclamation mark).

6. Uses Information and Communication


Technologies (ICT) to read.

6.1. Practices word reading using the


Pupils Digital Resources. CLC, DC, SIE

307

BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION


CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

Production strategies for written texts:


Planning, carrying out and checking written texts through the use
of linguistic, paralinguistic and paratextual procedures

With these activities the students develop essentially the acquisition


of the COMPETENCE IN LINGUISTIC COMMUNICATION (CLC),
although they also deal with the rest of basic and crosscutting
competences, as indicated below.

Sociocultural and sociolinguistic:


Social conventions, norms of courtesy; nonverbal language.

Activity 3. Make a Christmas bell. Cut. Write the rhyme and


decorate. (Activity Book pages 117 and 118). CLC CAE SIE

Write texts related to the following socio-cultural topic:

Celebrations.

Communicative functions:

- Greetings and introductions.


- Expressions of agreement or disagreement.
- Descriptions of people and objects.
- Asking for and offering information, help, objects, permission.
- Establishing and maintaining communication.

Practice writing activities with the following functions:

Asking and answering about what things are for

Syntactical structures

- Affirmation (affirmative sentences )


- Question words (What ... ) .
- Expression of time: present (present simple );
- Expression of aspect: punctual (simple tenses) .
- Expression of entity ( nouns and pronouns , articles);

Practice writing activities with the following structures:

Core structures
(C) is for (Christmas), (I) is for (ice cream on a cake)

308

CONTENTS

SPECIFIC CONTENTS OF THE UNIT

High frequency written vocabulary (production)

Practice writing activities with the following vocabulary:

- Celebrations.

Graphic patterns and spelling conventions

Core vocabulary
angel, apple pie, Christmas day, cry, holly, New
Year, reindeer, Santa, stocking

Recycled vocabulary
games, happy, ice cream, mother, paper, presents, tree

Show interest in learning, through written activities, the


spelling of words related to Christmas.

309

BLOCK 4: PRODUCTION OF WRITTEN TEXTS: EXPRESSION AND INTERACTION

EVALUATION CRITERIA

Know basic and specific cultural and


social linguistic elements and apply the
knowledge acquired about these to
produce a written text adapted to the
context, respecting the basic norms of
courtesy.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

1. Is able to construct simple texts from


structured models.

SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES OF THE UNIT

1.1. Writes a Christmas rhyme in a


Christmas bell . (Activity Book). CLC, SCC,
CAE, SIE

310

REINFORCEMENT
AND EXTENSION
PROGRAMMES
(Mixed-ability
activities)

Pupil's Book. Extra activities: Reinforcement and Extension activities:


Extension. Act out the Christmas rhyme.
Pupils Digital Resources provide the pupils with the opportunity to review and reinforce the contents learnt.

With these activities the students develop their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):

LITERARY
EDUCATION /
READING
PROMOTION

Reading is not only a basic tool for the development of children's personality, but it's also a way to socialize as an
essential element to live in democracy and get involved in the information society. For that purpose it's necessary
for students to acquire certain abilities which allow them to:
Understand simple literary works adapted to the students age and interests (narrative and poetic texts).
Get introduced to the use of the school library
Take part in dramatisations, memorisation, poem recitation, singing songs, telling stories, etc.
Songs:
-

Christmas rhyme

MacMillan offers a wide range of English readers adapted to the age of the children. For further information,
please go to the Macmillan Children's Readers site: http://www.macmillanenglish.com/courses/macmillanchildrens-readers/

CROSSCURRICULAR
CONTENTS

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE IN MATHEMATICS, SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY (CMST) as well as their CULTURAL AWARENESS AND EXPRESSION (CAE):
Social Science: Halloween celebrations

311

ATTITUDES AND
VALUES
(Cross-cutting
issues)

Throughout the teaching-learning process of these values students develop the SOCIAL AND CIVIC
COMPETENCES (SCC):
Values:
Education for Peace: the importance of respecting celebrations for other cultures.

USE OF
INFORMATION
AND
COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY

With the use of these tools the students develop the DIGITAL COMPETENCE (DC):

High Five! 1 Pupils Digital Resources


High Five! 1 Teachers Digital Resources
High Five! Digital Pupils Book
External Exams DVD-ROM.

With these activities the students develop their SENSE OF INITIATIVE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (SIE):

SENSE OF
INITIATIVE AND
ENTREPRENEURS
HIP

EVALUATION

Initiative to participate in group activities.


- Learn cultural topics related to the celebration.
- Work in pairs in the Talk Partners activities.
- Do communicative games
Entrepreneurship to do the individual tasks by themselves:
- Complete grammar and vocabulary exercises.
- Make a craft work: a Christmas bell

With these activities the students develop their COMPETENCE FOR LEARNING TO LEARN (L2L):
312

RESOURCES

Informal evaluation
Teachers evaluation of the unit
Rubrics
-

Macmillan Rubrics Generator

313

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