November 20th 2020

Family and Friends 2: Review unit1-3 + Fluency Time

  • Conversation
    • What’s this in English?
    • Speak more slowly, please.
    • Can you spell it, please?
  • Review Vocabulary
    • Behind, next to, in front of, between
    • Objects in the class
    • Reviewed 1-3 vocabulary.
  • Create a word wheel
    • Learning vocabulary through crafts

Prepare 2: Unit 3 (Great Sounds)

  • Topic – Music
    • Grammar:
      • Like, don’t like, hate, love
    • Pronunciation:
      • Email addresses, phone numbers and names
    • Listening
      • A conversation about a music school
    • Speaking
      • Giving opinions about music and musical instruments.
    • Exam Tasks
      • Speaking Parts 1 and 2

Prepare 1: Unit 4 (My Things)

  • Topic – The things I’ve got
    • Grammar:
      • have got
    • Pronunciation:
      • Syllables
    • Listening
      • Descriptions of things
    • Reading
      • What have you got in your school back today?
    • Writing
      • A questionnaire asking have you got questions.

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First Friends Group (Monday): 
  • revision of movement words:  throw, catch, climb, draw, jump, kick, run, sing
  • New vocabulary: Numbers 10-20 
  • conversation practice: Are you happy / are you tired ?  – Yes I am happy / No, I am happy. 
  • Listening Practice. 
First Friends Group (Friday): 
– Revision of movement words: throw, catch, climb, draw, jump, kick, run, sing
– vocabulary: tired, cold, happy, sad, hot, hungry, scared, thirsty, scared, shy 
  • conversation practice: Are you happy / tired / cold ? Yes I am happy / No, I am sad. 
  • Listening Practice. 
Family and Friends 1 (Wednesday): 
  • Vocabulary: parts of the body – nose, face, legs, ears, fingers, hands, eyes, eyebrows, shoulders
  • Grammar: This is my / These are my 
  • Alphabet letters / sounds – I J K L
  • Listening Practice / Reading 
  • Video 

November 19th 2020

Prepare 4: Unit 1-4 review + Test

Family and Friends 4: Unit 4 (Whose Jacket is this)

Ysee needs to finish her project and turn in her review work.

  • Identify sports vocabulary
    •  Team, jacket, trainers, trophy, player, kick, score a goal, racket, rucksack, win (won)
  • Learn and complete sentences with
    • Possessive Pronouns
    • Regular/Irregular adverbs
    • Possessive adjective

November 13th 2020

First Friends 2
  • Revised greetings with a song: Hello, how are you? I’m good / I’m great.
  • Alphabet names, sounds and vocabulary for the letters: A-H, apple, bird, cat etc..
  • Revision of vocabulary: cold, happy, sad, hot, hungry ,thirsty, tired.
  • Theatre – acting exercise.
  • Grammar: are you cold ?Yes, I’m cold.
  • Homework: Alphabet worksheet, practice writing and sounds.
Family and Friends 1 
  • No English class this week.
Family and Friends 2, group 1:
  • Spoken revision of This is / That is / These are / Those are with school items.
  • Revision of the structure: Are you happy ? Yes, I am /  No I’m tired with emotions/feelings.
  • Vocabulary: hot, cold, hungry, thirsty, happy, sad, tired, angry, scared, brave, nervous.
  • Grammar: The contraction: I am – I’m  / He is – He’s.
  • Listening practice.
  • Homework: writing worksheets.

November 12th 2020

Prepare 2: Unit 2 (Catch up day)

Finished up Culture – The paralympic games

*He needs more time to finish his homework Unit 2.*

  • Project – An interview
    • Imagine you work for a radio station, write interview questions to ask a Paralympic athlete.

 

Prepare 4: Unit 4 (Champions)

  • Topic: Sports and sporting events
  • Vocabulary: Sports
  • Grammar: Past continuous
  • Reading: Meet the new BMXers
  • Speaking: Describing a past event
  • Exam tasks: Reading Part 4
  • Listening: A programme about Sports

November 12th 2020

Prepare 1: (Catch up day)

  • Late work
    • *Mathys, Alexis, Sara, Eva – Did not finish their unit 3 work for the week* (Please catch up)
    • *Mathys, Sara, Theophile – Did not finish and present their big project* (2 weeks late)

We were unable to continue to Unit 4 (My Things).

November 6th 2020

First Friends Group 2: 
– Revision of numbers 1-15
– revision of th sound: three, thumb, bath 
– Vocabulary: catch, climb, draw, jump, kick, run, sing, throw
– Homework: pp. minimum : 25,26,27 of WorkBook – or finish Unit 4 if they can manage. 
Family and Friends 1: 
– revision of this is / these are (with school items)
– Vocab: teacher, pupil, housewife, fireman, pilot, doctor, policeman, farmer, postman, zookeeper 
– question and answer form: Is he a teacher? He is a policeman / She is a doctor.
– Contraction of He is = He’s / She is = She’s
– Homework: pp. minimum: 30-32 of Workbook or finish Unit 4 pages if they can manage. 
Family and Friends 2: 
– Vocabulary: ride a bike, ride a horse, skate, skateboard, play tennis, play football
– she can / can’t ride a bike. Can he play tennis? Yes, he can / No, he can’t / Yes, they can. 
– Propositions: behind, in front of, next to, between
– Listening / Reading activity  
– Homework: minimum: pp. 20 – 25 of Workbook, finish Unit 3 if they can manage. Extra page of homework given to those who have already finished. 
Family and Friends 4: (The dinosaur museum)
  • Vocabulary – Dinosaur, museum, model, skeleton, scary, scream, roar, alive, dead, robot.
  • Past Simple: Irregular Verbs
  • Writing Preparation – Exclamation marks, Strong feelings/instructions

Family and Friends 3: (My Things)

  • Vocabulary – Computer, TV, DVD Player, CD Player, MP3 Player, Camera, Turn on, Turn off. Identifying the sound in (Car, Park, Shark, Star, Scarf)
  • Identify and understand different possessions and verbs to do with using them
    • Possessive adjectives
      • Your, our, and their

Prepare 1 (Unit 3 – My Home)

  • Vocabulary: Rooms – Things in my room.
  • Grammar: There is / There are; in / on
    • Have got …
  • Listening: A conversation about the rooms in a house and a flat.
  • Speaking: Giving a list of what you have in your bedroom.

Prepare 2 (This is my day)

  • Vocabulary: Daily Routines, Food.
  • Grammar: Present continuous and present simple.
  • Reading: Tell us about your day …
  • Listening: Interviews about getting up in the morning.
  • Writing: A paragraph about your routine.

Prepare 4 (My Way of Life)

  • Vocabulary: Life events. too, enough, not enough.
  • Grammar: Comparatives and superlatives; not as … as
  • Reading: Is a teenage life better now than in the past?
  • Writing: An informal email
  • Exam tasks: Writing Part 1

 

October 15th 2020

First Friends Group 1 (Tuesday 2.30-3.30) 

– Revision of the Seasons and Days of the Week – with songs and flashcard
– Introduced feelings: happy, sad, scared, shy, cold, hot, thirsty, tired, sleepy
– Introducing the conversation: Are you (cold)? / Yes, I am. No I’m not.
– Practicing sounds ‘sh’ and ‘ch’

October 10th 2020

First Friends 2: (Monday/Friday) 
– Revision of alphabet with song and flashcards
– Revision of days of the week with a song
– Started a year long project to learn about the seasons; we went through the vocabulary of seasons and talked about leaves falling from the trees. Started an arts/crafts book to visually represent each season that we will go back to throughout the year as the seasons change.
– Homework: As we started a project this week, there were no pages given from the Workbook but to finish writing the seasons in their Season notebook and decorate Autumn pages.
Family and Friends 1: Wednesday 
– Revision of the Alphabet with a song
– Unit 2 of Classbook, learned the vocabulary for the toys; doll, ball, teddy, puzzle, car  / kite, bike, train, game, scooter
– Learned the grammar This is my bag / This is your bag
– Homework: p. 14/15 of Workbook
Family and Friends 2: Friday 
– Revison of vocab from last week
– Unit 2 of Classbook: hot, cold, happy, sad, thirsty, hungry / tired, angry, scared, brave, nervous
– Learned the grammar We’re happy / They’re happy
– Homework: Unit 2, pages 14-19

 

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October 9th 2020

 

Prepare 4 – Unit 2 In Fashion
  • Vocabulary: Clothes: Adjectives
  • Grammar: Past Simple
  • Reading: Fashion and Music
  • Listening: Fashion and music in the past
  • Speaking: Talking about yourself
  • Writing: Write about yourself (name, age, nationality)

Prepare 2 – Unit 2

  • Vocabulary: Cooking and Ingredients
  • Listening: A boy demonstrates how to make a pancake.
  • Grammar: Present continuous and Present simple
  • Speaking: Talk about Shrove Tuesday or another festival in your country
  • Reading: Tell us what you eat

Prepare 1 – Unit 2

  • Students learn about different aspects of the United Kingdom: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
  • In the project stage, students make a poster about their own country.

Family and Friends 4 – Unit 2

  • Lesson:
    • To identify concert vocabulary
    • To understand a short story
    • To revise the past simple with have and be
    • To revise the past simple with regular verbs
  • Language:
    • Concert, drums, instruments, violin, audience, recorder, cheer, stage, program, trumpet.
    • We had a concert at our house. All our friends were there. Everyone was brilliant. Mum played the piano. The audience clapped and cheered.

 

Family and Friends 3 – Unit 2

  • Lesson:
    • To identify different hobbies
    • To understand a short story
    • To identify affirmative, negative and question forms of the present simple: like + -ing
    • To complete sentences with the third person singular and plural form of like
  • Language:
    • Read comics, skateboard, do gymnastics, play chess, fish, play basketball, take photos, play volleyball.
    • I like reading. I don’t like fishing. Do you like playing chess? Yes, I do./No, I don’t. He doesn’t like skateboarding. Does he like playing chess? Yes, he does./No, he doesn’t.
    • Happy, Play tennis, hip, hooray!, picture, have fun, all day, lots to do.

 

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Monday 28th / Tuesday 29th (First Friends 2) 
– We learned vocabulary of the classroom; classroom, friend, music room, playground, sandbox, school bus, seesaw, teacher.
– We learned ‘What’s this’ / ‘It’s…’
– Revision of Days of the Week
Wednesday 30th (Family Friends 1) 
– We learned the vocabulary of the classroom: pen, pencil, rubber, pencil, ruler, book
– We listened and read a story in English
– We had conversations in pairs: ‘What is this?’ ‘This is a…’
Friday 2nd (Family Friends 2) 
– We learned the vocabulary: classroom, table, computer, peg, pencil case, board
– We learned the grammar: This is, That is, These are, Those are 
– We listened to a story and a song
– We went over the alphabet and sounds of each letter

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Group F & F 3 – They’re from Australia – Unit 1

Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Shams, Lou
    • Learning:
      • To identify different countries
      • To understand a short story
      • Egypt, the UK, Russia, Spain, Thailand, Australia, the USA, Brazil
      • Language: I’m from Egypt. Where are you from? He’s from Brazil. Where is he from? They’re from Russia. Where are they from? It’s nice to meet you. How are you?
      • To write sentences with be

Listen and read page 8 (In the color pages)

Listen and sing page 10 (in the color pages)

Listen and read page 12 (in the color pages)

 

 

Group Prepare 1 – Unit 1

Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Mathys VK, Eva, Theophile, Alexis, Sara
    • Vocabulary: Camera, phone, photo, friend, name, teacher, Countries and Nationalities
    • Grammar: Determiners: my, your, his, her; present simple be – affirmative singular
    • Pronunciation: From
    • Speaking: Draw a picture and talk about yourself; play a game
    • Writing: Write about yourself (name, age, nationality)

Homework:

Listening page 9 (Black and White pages)

 

Group Prepare 2 

Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Yael
    • Speaking: Ask and answer questions in the role of a young sports star.
    • Listening: Two more descriptions of a sport and a game
    • Reading: Two young sports stars; Descriptions of unusual sports and games.
    • Vocabulary: Sports with play and go
    • Grammar: Present simple and adverbs of frequency: always, often, often, sometimes, never.
    • Writing: Write about a sport or a game

Homework:

Listening for #8 and #9 page 9 (Black and White pages)

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Friday 25th September

Group F & F 3 – My Family

Please review the family member names, comparative (grammer), months in a year and numbers 10-100. Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Shams, Lou
    • Learning:
      • The names of the story characters
      • To review family words
      • To revisit comparative and past simple of be
      • To Identify the months of the year
      • To review the numbers 10-100

 

Group Prepare 1 – In the classroom

Please practice writing the days of the week, writing numbers and the months. Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Mathys VK, Eva, Theophile, Alexis, Sara
    • Vocabulary – The alphabet; numbers 1-20; days of the week; things in the classroom; colors; months
    • Grammar – What’s your name? How old are you? How do you spell it? c / year; singular and plural nouns; this / that is …, These / Those are …; What color is …?
    • Pronunciation – The alphabet
    • Spelling – Numbers, Days of the week

Workbook # 1 – The Alphabet

Workbook # 7 – Listening

 

Group Prepare 2 – Get Started

Please finish this chapter for next week. Thank you.

  • Yael
    • Things in the classroom
    • There is / There are
    • Have got
    • The alphabet
    • Speaking: Questions in the classroom
    • Simple present
    • dates