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ENGLISH 1 BATX
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WHY IS IT USEFUL TO STUDY ENGLISH?

now vs. in the future

TO MAKE FRIENDS
TO TRAVEL
TO WATCH FILMS AND SERIES
TO LEARN NEW THINGS
TO PASS EXAMS
ANYTHING ELSE?
ENGLISH AS A VEHICLE FOR COMMUNICATION

Reading + Writing + Listening + Speaking

Grammar + Vocabulary
 EVALUATION

40% GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY

35% READING, WRITING, LISTENING (like in PAU)
+ READER EXAM (only 1st and 2nd term)
25% SPEAKING:
- mid-term: piece of news
- end of term
+10% Extra reader → writing activity

Retake: September (whole course)

 EVALUATION TERM 1

GRAMMAR & VOCABULARY → 21st NOV

READING, WRITING→ 15th OCT
LISTENING→ 16th OCT
Paul has a summer job→ 7th NOV
SPEAKING
- mid-term → Thursdays 26th SEP; 3rd, 10th, 24th 31st OCT;
14th NOV (4/day)
- end of term→ 26th, 27th, 28th NOV
 MATERIALS

Key to Batxillerat (Oxford). Student’s book + Workbook

Notebook + Folder for photocopies
Readers: Paul has a summer job
Paul goes fishing?
Dictionary. Oxford Pocket, WordReference or others
 EXTRA READER
Evaluation: opinion article on a topic in the book
2 options: graded reader: highest level, i.e. Oxford Bookworms level 6
or original version
● Angelou, Maya: I know why the caged bird sings ● Orwell, George: Nineteen Eighty-Four /
● Atwood, Margaret:The Blind Assassin / The Handmaid's Tale Animal Farm
● Auster, Paul: The Brooklyn Follies/ The New York Trilogy ● Salinger J.D.: The Catcher in the Rye
● Bradbury, Ray: Fahrenheit 451 ● Satrape, Marjani: Persepolis
● Boyne, John The boy in the Striped Pyjamas ● Shelley, Mary: Frankenstein
● Conrad, Joseph: Heart of Darkness ● Stevenson, Robert Louis: Dr Jekyll and
● Chevalier, Tracy: Girl with a Pearl Earring Hyde
● Golding William The Lord of the Flies ● Wilde, Oscar: The picture of Dorian Gray /
● Highsmith, Patricia: The Talented Mr Riply The Importance of Being Earnest
● Huxley, Aldous: Brave New World
● Lee, Harper: To kill a Mockingbird ● Book series like Harry Potter, The Hunger
● McCarthy, Cormac :The Road Games, Game of.Thrones…
● Noah, Trevor: Born a Crime
● Suggest yourselves !
Exchange with a German High school

• Leibniz Gymnasium (Dormagen)

• They come here: January?
• We go there: 21st-27th March
 Mid-term
Mid-term Presentation: Article
Mid-term Presentation:Article
Presentation: Article
Prepare:
Prepare:
Prepare:
• Presentation (5 min)
• Presentation (5 min)
• •Link
Presentation (5 min)
to the article
• Link to the article
• •Key
Link to the article
Words
• Key Words
• •Discussion
Key Words question (5-10 min)
• Discussion question (5-10 min)
• Discussion question (5-10 min)
 Mid-term Presentation: Article

Example:
Standardized Testing: Is it Hurting or Helping Our Students?

• Introduction: topic and key words

– Score, prep, skillsets, assessment, tester
• Article
• Discussion question: Are the PAU tests useful?
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