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Course Name: English Exploration Level 2
Level: Primary 1 – Primary 2
No. of Lessons: 10 (Suggested)
Lesson Duration: 1 hr 30 mins (Suggested)
Instructors: Native English teachers with a university degree ; related teaching experience, and/or teacher training such as TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, PGDE/PCEd, etc.
Objectives
This course is specially designed to support and enhance the English learning of a child. This programme introduces essential English vocabulary and phrases used in every-day life. It provides a platform for your child to better their English in the 4 important cornerstones of the language reading, writing, speaking and listening, through a range of age-appropriate activities, and child-friendly graphics. It can also help as a preparation tool for the Cambridge Starters exam. Cambridge Starters corresponds to the Pre-A1 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and are most suitable for students of Key Stage 1.
Features
- Topic-based curriculum covering the essential areas of the Starters level: listening, speaking, reading, writing and grammar
- Clearly defined learning objectives and meaningful tasks included in each unit
- Structured lesson plans for classroom delivery by native speaking English teachers
- Exam-format consolidation exercises
- Unit-by-unit vocabulary list
- A final mock test to evaluate student‛s progress
Outline
Unit 1: Learning in School
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- Warm-up: What do you like?
- Listening: The clock says
- Reading and writing: Dorothy goes shopping
- Reading and writing: What’s this?
- Grammar: There is / There are
- Reading and writing: What‛s in the library?
- Listening: My classroom
- Reading and writing: What‛s the word?
- Vocabulary
Unit 2: My Favourite Clothes
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- Warm-up: Upside down game
- Writing and speaking: About myself
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Listening: Listen and tick
- Grammar: Dorothy‛s learning pronouns
- Reading and writing: Picnic time
- Game: Clothes and seasons
- Listening: Dorothy‛s picking clothes
- Reading and writing: The missing letters
- Writing: What‛s the colour?
- Reading and writing: The opposite
- Vocabulary
Unit 3: Colors Everywhere
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- Warm-up: Key words
- Listening: Where‛s the scarf?
- Grammar: Present simple tense
- Writing: Number spelling
- Game: A colourful school
- Grammar: Determiners
- Reading and writing: My Favourite colour
- Reading: Sight reading
- Vocabulary
Unit 4: Getting Around Town
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- Warm-up: Guess the places in Hong Kong
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Listening: Places in my town
- Reading and matching: What transport?
- Grammar: Present continuous tense
- Reading and writing: At the zoo
- Grammar: Adverbs
- Listening: Giving directions
- Writing: Adverb word jumble
- Vocabulary
Unit 5: Playing with My Friends and Family
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- Warm-up: Family bingo
- Reading and writing: What‛s the word?
- Drawing and speaking: Meet my family
- Reading and writing: My friend
- Reading and writing: In the playroom
- Listening: At the toy shop
- Grammar: Conjunctions
- Grammar: Plural nouns
- Grammar: Gerunds
- Writing and speaking: Family activity
- Vocabulary
Unit 6: Doing Sport in the Snow
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- Warm-up: Let‛s match the pictures!
- Listening: Leisure time
- Grammar: Dorothy‛s learning gerunds
- Listening: A happy rainy day
- Structure: So do I!
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Structure: Let‛s play some sport!
- Structure: Me too!
- Reading and writing: A family outing
- Vocabulary
Unit 7: The World Around Us
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- Warm-up: Guess the animals
- Game: Visiting the farm
- Reading and writing: The world around us
- Listening: Beautiful scenery
- Writing and speaking: Let‛s write a story!
- Reading and writing: Minnie the squirrel
- Listening: On the farm
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Speaking: Talking about the world around us
- Vocabulary
Unit 8: I love my home!
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- Warm-up: Guess the object
- Listening: The home
- Grammar: Prepositions of place
- Grammar: Prepositions of time
- Listening: Where are they?
- Structure: Question words
- Structure: Impersonal you
- Structure: A horse to ride
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Vocabulary
Unit 9: My Face and My Body
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- Warm-up: What now?
- Game: Complete the baby‛s face
- Reading and writing: Crossword time!
- Listening: A lovely picnic spot
- Grammar: “Can” for ability
- Grammar: Adjectives
- Writing: I can do it!
- Song Appreciation: Head, shoulders, knees and toes
- Vocabulary
Unit 10: Food and Drinks
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- Warm-up: Let‛s make flash cards!
- Speaking: The odd one
- Reading and writing: What would you like?
- Listening: At a café
- Reading and writing: Tick or cross?
- Writing: Sentence construction
- Reading, writing, drawing and speaking: Let‛s cook!
- Vocabulary