ENGLISH WRITING CURRICULUM
GS/YEAR 1 – EMT
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
To be able to:
• Speak clearly in well-structured sentences
• Understand a text read by the adult (plot, characters, chronology)
• Understand instructions given collectively
• Ask relevant questions to extend understanding and knowledge
• Retell personal events, unfamiliar events, known stories using sequencing
• Understand, acquire and memorise new vocabulary
• Give descriptions, explanations and personal opinion
• Use appropriate tenses
• Memorise nursery rhymes, poems and songs
• Express themselves effectively, showing awareness of listeners’ needs.
• Use past, present and future forms accurately when talking about events that have happened or are to happen in the future.
• Develop their own narratives and explanations by connecting ideas or events.
• Answer ‘how’ and ‘why’ questions about their experiences and in response to stories or events.
• Listen to stories, accurately anticipating key events and respond to what they hear with relevant comments, questions or actions.
How to achieve these objectives:
The English mother tongue children’s language skills are developed and enriched through the study of various exciting topics by:
• Learning new, precise vocabulary
• Using more complex sentences to describe more complex facts and situations…
TOPIC WORK FOR WHOLE CLASS (EFL&EMT)
The children are taught in the same way they would be in an English-speaking Year One classroom, with the majority of the focus on speaking, acting, learning stories through full immersion and understanding how stories are structured.
A range of workshops (some independent and some adult-led), related to the topic, are provided daily for the children to explore the topic in a range of ways.
They extend their vocabulary, improve their language skills and widen their knowledge of the world around them through the study of topics.
Here are some example of topics that are covered using stories, story mapping, songs, poems, acting, and rhymes…
• All About Me
• Jack and the Beanstalk
• Nature/Growing/Water Cycle
• Mini-beasts
• Dinosaurs
• Pre-Historic Man
• Volcanos
• A Winter’s Tale (in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)
• Twelfth Night (in collaboration with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre)
ENGLISH CURRICULUM
GS/YEAR 1 – EFL
LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION
To be able to:
• Understand instructions
• Memorise longer songs, poems, rhymes and stories
• Start memorising more complex sentences using “and” and “because” (affirmative and negative forms)
• Start asking more complex questions using who, what, where, why, how many
• Memorise and act out short playlets
• Listen to others one to one or in small groups, when conversation interests them.
• Listen to stories with increasing attention and recall.
• Join in with repeated refrains and anticipates key events and phrases in rhymes and stories
• Follow directions (if not intently focused on own choice of activity).
• Show understanding of prepositions such as ‘under’, ‘on top’, ‘behind’ by carrying out an action or selecting correct picture.
• Respond to simple instructions, e.g. to get or put away an object.
• Begin to understand ‘why’ and ‘how’ questions.
• Begin to use more complex sentences to link thoughts (e.g. using and, because).
• Retell a simple past event in correct order (e.g. went down slide, hurt finger).
• Question why things happen and give explanations. Asks e.g. who, what, when, how.
• Use a range of tenses (e.g. play, playing, will play, played).
• Use vocabulary focused on objects and people that are of particular importance to them.
• Build up vocabulary that reflects the breadth of their experiences
KNOCK KNOCK 1
Material:
• 1 teacher’s guide
• Picture book (1 for each child to use in school)
• Teacher’s resource Folder Units 1 to 20
• Symbols worksheets for each child
Pupils will be asked to buy the CDs and the picture book to review units at home.
Symbol Cards
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