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Course Name: English Exploration Level 4
Level: Primary 3 – Primary 4
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.
Leaflet: English version* / Chinese version
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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 Movers exam. Cambridge Movers corresponds to the A1 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) and are most suitable for students of Key Stage 2.
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 (school programmes only)
- Exam-format consolidation exercises
- Unit-by-unit vocabulary list
- A final mock test to evaluate student‛s progress
Outline
Unit 1: The Animal Kingdom
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- Warm-up: Animal riddles
- Writing: Where can you find me?
- Reading and writing: Paul and the hen
- Reading and writing: Comparing animals
- Listening: A visit to the zoo
- Song: Animals song
- Vocabulary
Unit 2: The Body and the Face
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- Warm-up: Name the cards
- Matching: What can we do?
- Reading and writing: Who is the best?
- Reading and writing: Relative clauses
- Reading: The girl who prayed
- Drawing and speaking: An alien
- Song: Head, shoulders, knees and toes
- Vocabulary
Unit 3: Clothes
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- Warm-up: Clothes and weather
- Writing: When it is…
- Reading: Teddy wears clothes
- Writing and speaking: My favourite outfit
- Speaking and writing: Spot the difference
- Listening: Let‛s colour, draw and write!
- Song: Where are the clothes?
- Vocabulary
Unit 4: Colours
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- Warm-up: Bingo!
- Crossword puzzle
- Reading and writing: Happy picnic
- Listening: Who‛s at school?
- Writing: Colours in nature
- Reading and writing: What‛s the best colour?
- Song: The colour song
- Vocabulary
Unit 5: Family and Friends
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- Warm-up: Family members
- Reading and writing: Prepositions of time
- Reading and writing: The silly needle
- Speaking: Picture story
- Song: The family song
- Listening: An eventful week
- Vocabulary
Unit 6: Food and Drink
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- Warm-up: Group them!
- Reading and writing: Eating together
- Reading and writing: ‘One’ as a pronoun
- Listening: Restaurant review
- Reading and writing: One summer day
- Writing: Fun with words
- Song: On top of spaghetti
- Vocabulary
Unit 7: Health
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- Reading and writing: What‛s the matter?
- Reading and writing: You must…
- Reading and writing: Taking a rest
- Speaking: Picture story
- Speaking: Odd-one-out
- Reading and writing: Health is wealth
- Song: Get well soon
- Vocabulary
Unit 8: The Home
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- Warm-up: Parts of a house
- Reading and writing: Paul‛s home
- Writing and game: Things in a building
- Listening: The magical house
- Reading and writing: Verb tense practice
- Reading and writing: ‘When’ clauses
- Song: This is my house
- Vocabulary
Unit 9: The World Around Us
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- Warm-up: City or country
- Reading and writing: How often?
- Reading and writing: The strange object
- Reading and writing: Adventures
- Speaking: Odd-one-out
- Reading and writing: Can you…?
- Song: Green grass grows around
- Vocabulary
Unit 10: Places and Directions
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- Warm-up: Places in my town
- Reading and writing: Asking for directions
- Listening: Label the map
- Writing: Number spelling
- Listening: Listening for numbers
- Listening: Car race
- Grammar: The infinitive of purpose
- Story listening: A Tale of Long Tail
- Song: In the city
- Vocabulary