Topic Title | | Theme 1: Identity and Culture | Theme 3: School | Theme 4: Future aspirations, study and work | Theme 2: Local area, holiday and travel | Theme 5: International and global dimension |
Key Skills and Content | | ● Considering personal identity, daily life, food and drink, shopping, role models, social media and technology and socialising with family and friends. | ● Discussing and writing about subjects, school activities and events, school types, rules and pressures, celebrating success and ambitions and further study. | ● Considering work, travel and employment, forming relationships. | ● Considering locations including the local area, towns, cities and countries. | ● Discussing and writing about local environmental issues. |
● Describing oneself giving physical and character descriptions | ● Expressing preferences for school subjects, giving reasons. | ● Becoming familiar with vocabulary and structures needed to comprehend and produce relevant content, in speech and in writing | ● Describing holiday experiences. | ● Finding solutions to protect the environment. |
● Describing own interests | ● Understanding/giving basic description of a school and basic school rules (uniform) | ● Understanding and producing content in relation to personal skills and qualifications in the form of C.V. or summary | ● Discussing problems in shops in present and past tenses | ● Practice giving opinions about global environmental issues (climate change, environmental damage, etc). |
● Expressing preference and describing favourite things to buy. | ● Talking about future academic plans. | ● Giving opinions on jobs and career options. | ● Seeking compensation/refunds orally and in writing | ● Translating relevant content, e.g. Blog entries promoting sustainable lifestyles or "eco-tips" for daily life |
● Practice giving opinion and justification regarding the topic, in speech and in writing | | | ● Describing rooms, demonstrating adjective agreement | |
| | | ● Expressing approval or displeasure in relation to accommodation | |
| | | ● Understanding and seeking directions | |
| | | ● Translating relevant content, e.g. a review of restaurants in a holiday destination | |
| | Grammar: articles (definite and indefinite), nouns, adjectives (regular and irregular), comparative and superlative degrees, adverbs, quantifiers, pronouns, verbs, prepositions, conjunctions, time references |
Summative Assessment | | Paper 3: Reading and understanding | Paper 1: Listening and understanding | Paper 2: Speaking | Paper 3: Reading and understanding | Paper 1: Listening and understanding |
Paper 4: Writing | Paper 4: Writing | Paper 4: Writing | Paper 4: Writing | Paper 4: Writing |