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Course Name: Cambridge English Starters
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.
Leaflet: English version* / Chinese version
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Objectives
This course combines the Cambridge English: Starters syllabus, with Eureka’s communicative approach to teaching school programmes. With its age-appropriate activities, and child-friendly graphics, this programme introduces essential English used in every-day life. It also serves as a preparation tool for the Cambridge Starters exam.
Features
- Topic-based curriculum covering all 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 excercises
- Unit-by-unit vocabulary list
- Final mock test to evaluate learning
Outline
Unit 1: Myself
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- Warm-up: Simon says
- Writing: Body and face
- Writing: How many … do you have?
- Picture activity: What is missing?
- Picture activity: Opposites
- Speaking: Greetings
- Writing and drawing: About me
- Vocabulary
- Reading and writing: Barbara’s birthday
Unit 2: Family
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- Revision – Listening: who is this?
- Reading: Dorothy’s family
- Writing: Family tree
- Vocabulary
- Speaking: Interviews
Unit 3: Time
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- Revision – Poem: Magic show
- Reading and writing: What time of the day is it?
- Reading and writing: What food do they like?
- Listening and writing: What time is it?
- Listening and writing: How much is it?
- Vocabulary
- Reading and writing: Dorothy’s school day
Unit 4: Clothes
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- Revision – Speaking and writing: What’s in the box?
- Listening: Colour hunt
- Colouring: Colours
- Writing: Matching clothes
- Reading and writing: Learning about clothes
- Reading and writing: What are they wearing?
- Vocabulary
- Listening: A colourful birthday party
Unit 5: Food
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- Revision – Speaking and writing: Whose … is it?
- Writing: Name the food
- Reading and writing: Are there any pears?
- Determiners: This / that / these / those
- Speaking: Would you like…?
- Vocabulary
- Listening: What are they eating?
Unit 6: Animals
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- Revision – Listening: Going on a picnic
- Crossword puzzle
- Game: What animal am I?
- Matching: What animals are they?
- Writing: Do you like these animals?
- Vocabulary
- Reading and writing: Put a tick or a cross
Unit 7: Home
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- Revision – Stand up or sit down?
- Writing: Rooms in a house
- Writing: Furniture and things around the house
- Prepositions: Where is it?
- Vocabulary
- Reading and writing: Put a tick or a cross
Unit 8: Transport
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- Revision: Stand up or sit down?
- Writing: How do you go to school?
- Reading and writing: Getting around
- Speaking and writing: What are they doing?
- Vocabulary
- Listening: All about Anna
Unit 9: Hobbies
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- Revision: Find it!
- Writing: Let’s play!
- Reading and writing: How can we play?
- Reading and writing: A good day out
- Reading and writing: Fun at home
- Speaking: Our hobbies
- Vocabulary
- Listening: Who is in the park?
Unit 10: School
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- Revision: What ball games are they miming?
- Listening and speaking: I spy…
- Reading and writing: Dorothy’s school bag
- Reading, writing and speaking: Dorothy’s school day
- Listening: Classroom English 1 & 2
- Vocabulary
- Listening: A colourful classroom