Mrs.

Rania Kuraa English Department 2019-2020

4ème (THREE sessions/w) GRADE 8

Group 2 (Listening & Speaking)

Course Book: E for English
Graded reader Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens

Level A2>B1
CULTURAL NOTIONS 1. SCHOOL AND SOCIETY
2. LANGUAGES
3. ENCOUNTER WITH ANOTHER CULTURE
Project CULTURAL Page Skills Tasks
NOTIONS
Project 1 SCHOOL AND p. 10-26 Listening 1. Act out a scene from a comedy
Back to school! SOCIETY 2. Present the content of your locker or
1. I can listen to my personal space at school
your dream common room to the
LANGUAGES class.
Speaking 3. “It’s Spirit Week!” Have the class
2. I can present my personal space at school guess what “special day” you have in
ENCOUNTER
3. Act out a scene from a comedy mind
WITH ANOTHER
CULTURE

Mini Project:
Act out the scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Spot the odd one out
Final Task:
Organize Spirit Week at school

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Project CULTURAL Page Skills Tasks Materials

NOTIONS
Project 2 LANGUAGES p. 27-40 1. Present your family tree to a friend • Flash interview: “My
Listening/Speaking favourite Roald Dahl
Colourful Canada 2. Complete Roald Dahl’s draft
1. Understand someone who talks book”
ENCOUNTER about his favorite book • More about Charlie!
• More about the other
WITH ANOTHER 2. Understand someone who gives characters
CULTURE details about the life of the
heroes of Charlie and the
Chocolate Factory
3. Understand someone who
describes the characters in the
novel
4. Talk about your family, your
tastes and your favorite activities
5. Interact on the theme of family
and tastes through some fun
activities

Mini Projects:
1. Guess the picture!
2. Illustrate a young artist’s statement about Canada
Final Task:
Canada Day Challenge! Take part in the contest: choose a picture and write your statement

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Project CULTURAL Page Communication Skills Tasks Materials

NOTION(S)
Project 3 LANGUAGES p. 41-54 Discover a British school, then imagine the • Flash interview:
Listening/Speaking “What do you like
The Irish way best school ever!
1. Understand Brits who talk about about school?”
ENCOUNTER what they like at school • Create houses in your class • Will talks about his
• Design your school uniform school
WITH 2. Understand an English student who • Lucy talks about
talks about his school • Define the rules for your school
ANOTHER uniforms
3. Understand a girl who describes • Create your timetable • The rules in my
CULTURE
her school uniform • Create your own club school
• Invent a new subject! • My favourite day at
4. Understand someone who explains school
the rules of his school
5. Understand someone who talks
about their day at school
6. To participate in a discussion on
school rules
7. Talk about your schedule
8. Create an ideal school
9. Interact by studying another
subject in English. Discuss what you
have learned

Final Task:
1. Present your ideal school to the class
2. Study like a British pupil and imagine the best school ever!

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NOTION(S)
Project 4 LANGUAGES p. 69-82 Listening/Speaking  Guess what I am eating! • Flash interview:
Time capsule “Food in
1. Understand Brits who describe the  Describe your dream lunchbox Britain”
ENCOUNTER lunchbox of their dreams  Guess the ingredients in typical • Hannah and her dad
British desserts describe their
WITH 2. Understand someone who talks lunchboxes
ANOTHER about their favorite dessert  Talk about your food habits • Listen to Hannah’s
CULTURE 3. Talking about food, expressing your recipe!
tastes and preferences
4. Discuss the theme of food through
some fun activities

Mini Projects:
1. Describe your dream lunchbox
2. Talk about your food habits
Final Task:
1. Invent a bizarre dessert and present it to the class

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NOTION(S)
Project 5 LANGUAGES p. 77-90 Listening/Speaking  Ask a Londoner your way to a • Flash interview:
“Where do you live?”
1. Understand Brits who talk about monument • Guessing games
Amazing Australia!  Organise a Good Manners Day at
ENCOUNTER where they live about monuments
school • Good social manners
WITH 2. Understand people who play
ANOTHER riddles from a map of London, and
CULTURE play with them!
3. Understand an excerpt from
Paddington
4. Talk about good manners
5. Asking for directions.

Mini Tasks:
1. Lost in London
2. Organise a “Good Manners Day”

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Project CULTURAL Page Skills Tasks Materials

NOTION(S)
Project 6 SCHOOL AND p. 97-110 Listening/Speaking  Find the missing superhero and Audios
• Flash interview:
SOCIETY 1. Understand someone who talks describe him “Who is your favourite
Living together  Imagine new sidekicks for
about their favorite hero superhero?”
famous superheroes! • Guess the
2. Understand the description of a superheroes’ identities
LANGUAGES superhero  Listen and complete a page from • A famous
3. Understand the origin of a a comic book superhero’s “secret”
superhero origin
ENCOUNTER
4. Talk about sidekicks
WITH ANOTHER
5. Interview a superhero about his
CULTURE
secret origin

Mini Task:
Imagine new sidekicks for famous superheroes!
Final Task:
Create your own superhero

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Project CULTURAL Page Skills Tasks Materials

NOTION(S)
Project 7 LANGUAGES p. 111- Listening/Speaking  Draw Annie’s itinerary on a map Audios
124 • Flash interview:
To understand people who talk about  Play the road trip game “Across the USA”
Writing fiction
their future holidays • Annie talks about her
holidays
Understand excerpts from an audio- • Road trip game:
guide on Grand Central Station in New discover your starting
York point
Understand the rules of a game
Talk about your future holidays
Play “The Road Trip Game”
Present your own road trip
 .

Mini Task:
Play the road trip game
Final Task:
Create the ultimate road trip!

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