CENTRO COLOMBO AMERICANO

SATURDAY PROGRAM
PT7 SYLLABUS
CONNECT 4 PART A

Unit 1

General communicative objective: Students will be able to talk and

describe life experiences, events, situations and plans.
My Life
Specific
Time allotment: 6 hours
Target
Vocabulary
objectives
Talking about
Review:
E-mail culture
summer, vacations Contrast simple
Lesson 1
and adventures
past and past
activities
continuous
Telling plans,
Review :Be going Verbs related to school
Lesson 2
wishes and
to, Would like to,
hobbies
obligations
want to, have to
Taking about
When clause +
Life events vocabulary e.g.
Lesson 3
important life
simple past
Met my best friend, won an
events.
award, joined a club, etc..
Narrating past
Used to +verb
Habits.
Lesson 4
habits that have
infinitive. Not
changed.
anymore
GET CONNECTED
Practicing reading, writing and listening skills.
Task Suggested: Lesson 1 and 2 Ss have to write a post card to a friend, telling him/her about his/her last
vacations and also about the plans for the next school year. Lesson 3 and 4 Ss are asked to bring twho
pictures. One when they were 5 years old and a recent picture. They have to paste them to a cardboard and
write a comparison using the model: When I was 5 years old, I used to be small. Now Im 13 years old
and I am tall.

General communicative objective: Students will be able to predict

Unit 2
about certain and possible future situations
FUN TIMES
Time allotment: 8 hours
Specific
Target
Vocabulary
objectives
Making predictions Will and wont
Your future life
Lesson 5
about the future

Lesson 6
Lesson 7

Lesson 8

Making guesses
and possible
predictions about
the future
Expressing
possibility
Telling future plans

Will probably
Probably wont

Important life events

Might
Might not
Definite plans with
will, be going to,
probable plans
with will probably
and possible plans
with might

Activities at a teen center

Future plans and what to do
after graduating from high
school

GET CONNECTED
Practicing reading, writing and listening skills
Task suggested: Lesson 5 and 6: Ss will be given a specifc topic: the earth, fashion, education,
natality. They have to write predictions for the future (2050) regarding the real state of things and
how they see the future. Ss present to the class and all together they decide on the high or low
posibility that the predictions occur.
Lessons 7 and 8: Ss have to imagine that they are about to graduate from High School. They will
write an e-mail to her/his best friend in other city telling him/her about thir plans for next year:
Model: I will start a career. I might not go abroad yet, until I study English. Ss share their plans
in pairs and find the commonalities intheir plans.
General Communicative objective: Students will be able to talk about
future plans.
Unit 3
GOING PLACES
Time allotment: 7 hours
Specific
Target
Vocabulary
objectives
Talking about
Would you like
Come back, disappear,
Lesson 9
weekend invitations to? Accepting
escape, expect, explore,
and refusing
head for, rescue, take off
Asking for
Can/Could I?
Lesson 10
permission and
making requests
Talking about
If with will/will
Fly a kite. Have a barbecue,
possible and
probably,/
go biking, etc.
Lesson 11
probable future
wont/might
plans.
Making vacation
Clause s of time
Get a haircut, call someone,
Lesson 12
plans
with before/ while
a beach vacation , a cruise, a
and after
country tour, a ski vacation
GET CONNECTED
Practicing reading, writing and listening skills
Task suggested: Lesson 9 and 10 Ss will work in cuples to plan a crazy weekend. They haver to
write a plan list with suggested activities: We could go to the amazon forest, We can pack aur
cameras. They have to write a note to their parents asking for permisson to do these activities and
take some items: Could we go tho the Amazon all by ourselves?, Can I take my psp dad?
Lesson 11 and 12: T will write 4 different place: The Sahara-dessert, the Artic, New York city and
the amazon Rain Forets, Ss will be divided in groups and using the model from p. 39 have to rite a
Planner for each of the places. Then, they report to the class and choose the more doable plan.
General communicative objective: Students will be able to talk and
Unit 4
describe peoples personalities and their
COMPARISONS
Time allotment: 6 hours
Specific
Target
Vocabulary
objectives
Exchanging ideas Gerunds as subject
Lesson 13
about teenagers
and objects.
favorite activities.
Describing peoples Too
Bad-tempered, creative,
personalities.
either
forgetful, hardworking.
Lesson 14
Independent, organized
outgoing, thoughtful ,
trustworthy

Describing peoples Who clauses

Lesson 15
habits, talents or
collections
Asking questions to Tag questions and
Lesson 16
confirm beliefs.
answers with
be/simple present
GET CONNECTED
Practicing reading, writing and listening skills
Task suggested: Lesson 13 and 14: Individually Ss are going to create an avatar and they are
going ro describe it both, physically and his/her personality. Then Ss get in groups of 4, present
individually and choose one to represent them. When all groups present the chosen one, the whole
class votes for the most interesting. Groups cannot vote for their own.
Lesson 15 and 16: T will give each st an index card with a talent or quality. Ss have to create a
profile card describing themselves. Ex: using the information for lessons. Im tall, Im the yongest
in my family, I like to write poems but I dont like to read novels. They do not write their names
on the cards but have to remember the info, they wrote. Then T picks the cards and start giving
information: I know a person who is the yongest in his family. He is tall, he likes to read poems
but he doent like to read novels. Ss have to mingle and ask tag questions to find the person.
When one St finds him/her, he say it aloud and then T. gives another cards information. The person
who finds 5 people first wins and stops the game.