FIRST PERIOD PLANNING

September-December
FIELD: Languages and Communication
Subject: English XI (FOCUS 3)
First period - 39 hours

Key Competences Learning Outcomes

The student:
 describes orally and in written form an event he/she has read or listened to, following the same logical flow
 takes part in conversations with his peers and adults about topics of educational and social interest asking and answering questions and
identifying the main information
 analyzes different pieces of work (articles, pictures etc,) , finding similarities and differences among them
 agrees or disagrees with opinion, attitude or behavior of a group of people in classroom/school or beyond
 utilizes various techniques and strategies to solve different assignments or tasks
 uses his/her portfolio as a tool to identify his/her strengths and weaknesses and also to set goals for the future learning and career
development
 uses materials, different sources of information or technological tools in school and everyday life as a support for the academic progress
or career orientation
 expresses his/her opinion, with the previous consent of the group members
 prepares a group activity at school or in the community using tolerance as a means of promoting cultural, ethnic, gender, social and
religious diversity.
 uses his/her IT skills to improve the learning process, and to cooperate with other people in order to learn effectively

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 Subject Competences Learning Outcomes
The student:
 describes people’s appearance and talks about their personality
 understands the main point of a short and clearly structured story
 understands the main points of an article about an unfamiliar topic
 describes clothes and speculates about people in photos
 understands specific detail in short talk about role model
 asks for, gives, agrees and disagrees with an opinion
 writes an article about past events
 gives detailed accounts of experiences, describing feelings and reactions
 enters unprepared into a conversation on familiar topics
 follows in outline straightforward short talks on familiar topics provided these are delivered in clearly articulated standard speech
 communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts
 produce continuous writing which is generally intelligible throughout
 initiate, maintain and close simple, face-to-face conversation on topics that are familiar or of personal interest
 uses the narrative tenses correctly
 understands the difference between dynamic and state verbs and uses correctly
 uses the Present Perfect Simple and Continuous correctly
 recognises and uses different verb patterns

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 Methodologies
Nr. Topics Topics per hour Learning situations and students Assessment Resources
activities

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1. Portfolio-Presenting 1. National dishes  group work  observation  studentbook
the ELP and  pair work  assessing  workbook
describing the B1+ Teacher invites students to  brainstorming answers  picture
level do research on different  questions and  assessing dictionary
STARTER 2. Home sweet home- cooking traditions in Europe answers group work  CD
UNIT grammar- present and beyond. Students bring to  gap filling  assessing  Internet
11 hours tenses class various recipes and  matching home work  Digital
3. National dishes discuss about eating habbits exercises  using platform
4. Flashmob and healthy diets. This
 games checklists  Posters,
5. Money, money, situation may last more than a
 questionnaire  self- photos
money class and students can even
 true and false assessment  ELP
6. At the movies organise a food fair pretending
7. My technology to represent different
8. Growing up nationalities.
9. Young entreprenuers
10. WB and grammar 2. The future of
exercises, extra technology
activities
11. Project ( deciding on The teacher creates
the groups and hypothetical situations and
topics) encourage students to discribe
them and make sentences
using conditional sentences.
They also are asked to imagine
how life/school etc would be
like if they had to use hi-tech
gadgets in everyday life.

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1. Appearance- 1. Famous people  group work  observation  studentbook
vocabulary and extra  pair work  assessing  workbook
activities Students play a game: they  brainstorming answers  picture
2. Grammar- dinamic describe famous people and  questions and  assessing dictionary
and state verbs, wb their friends guess who they answers group work  CD
exercises, extra are. Teacher helps with new  gap filling  assessing  Internet
activities vocabulary. This situation may  matching home work  Digital
3. Listening and go on the next class with exercises  using platform
LOOKS 12 speaking students describing the
 Quiz checklists  Posters,
hours 4. Teen science- facebook profile photo of these
 True/false  self- photos
reading famous people (if they have
sentences assessment  ELP
5. WB and grammar one) or of themselves and try  peer-
exercises, extra to reveal the personality of assessment
activities each person in the photo.
6. Grammar- present
perfect continuous, 2. Famous paintings
extra activities and
grammar focus Teacher brings to class
7. Speaking and WB paintings (mostly portraits) by
exercises famous painters. Students in
8. Writing- description groups describe the portraits
of a person describing not only on the
9. Focus review outer appearance but focucing
10. WB exercises on what the painting reveals.
11. Reinforcement- Next class students may write
Grammar & a paragraph about that
Vocabulary painting.
12. Project

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1. Sport- vocabulary 1. Sports  group work  observation  studentbook
2. Grammar-narrative  pair work  assessing  workbook
tenses, Wb exercises Students in groups prepare  brainstorming answers  picture
and extra activities quizes about sports. They  questions and  assessing dictionary
JUST DO IT! 3. Listening and exchange the quizes and do answers group work  CD
16 hours speaking them in groups. Teacher helps  gap filling  assessing  Internet
4. She was born this with vocabulary. Then they  matching home work  Digital
way-reading discuss about sports they like exercises  using platform
5. WB exercises, extra and why. Next class students
 games checklists  Posters,
activities, grammar that are fond of sports or  self- photos
exercises practice sports make assessment  ELP
6. Grammar-verb presentations about their  test
patterns, extra personla experiences.
activities
7. Speaking-agreeing / 2. The Paralympics
disagreeing
8. Writing an article Students do research at home
9. WB exercises and about the Paralympic games
extra and grammar and then bring to class facts
activities and figures about them. They
10. Focus review choose people with disabilities
11. Reinforcement – who have taken part in these
Vocabulary games and talk about these
12. Reinforcement- people .
Grammar
13. Test
14. Project
15. Portfolio
16. Portfolio