4th Grade CLC 2022-2023
First term
Topics Listening
Subprocesses
Familiar places and people: The city, Colombia, Listen for words, names, and detailed information.
Colombian cultures, and economic activities. Match pictures with an illustrated word or name
Countries and cultures: people’s lifestyles, ancient Understand enough to be able to meet needs of a
cultures, modern cultures. concrete type, provided people articulate clearly and
slowly.
Understand phrases and expressions related to areas
of most immediate priority (e.g., very basic personal
and family information, shopping, local geography,
employment), provided people articulate clearly and
slowly.
Identify the topic of discussion around them when it is
conducted slowly and clearly.
Recognize when people agree and disagree in a
conversation conducted slowly and clearly.
Follow the general outline of a demonstration or
presentation on a familiar or predictable topic, where
the message is expressed slowly and clearly in simple
language and there is visual support (e.g., slides,
handouts).
Follow a very simple, well-structured presentation or
demonstration, provided it is illustrated with slides,
concrete examples, or diagrams, it is delivered slowly
and clearly with repetition, and the topic is familiar.
Topics Listening
Subprocesses
Arts: Trendy music, galleries, media. Understand and follow a series of instructions for
familiar everyday activities such as sports, cooking,
etc., provided they are delivered slowly and clearly.
Realistic Fiction: The dinosaurs world, mummies, and Understand straightforward announcements (e.g., of a
pyramids. cinema clips or sports event, that a train has been
delayed), provided the delivery is slow and clear
Catch the main point in short, clear, simple messages
and announcements.
Understand basic instructions on times, dates, and
numbers, etc., and on routine tasks and assignments
to be carried out.
Understand and extract the essential information from
short, recorded passages dealing with predictable
everyday matters which are delivered slowly and
clearly.
Understand the important points of a story and
manage to follow the plot, provided the story is told
slowly and clearly.
Topics Listening
Subprocesses
Science Fiction: Exploring the space, fictional cities, Collaborate in simple, practical tasks, asking what
traveling in time. others think, making suggestions and understanding
responses, provided they can ask for repetition or
reformulation from time to time.
Understand simple instructions, wishes,
recommendations, etc.
Understand an introduction to a subject and reproduce Briefly describe what they plan to do at the weekend or
it in their own words.
Paraphrase portions of a text read aloud, or
information presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Speaking
Subprocesses
Give a simple description or presentation of people,
living or working conditions, daily routines. likes/
dislikes, etc. as a short series of simple phrases and
sentences linked into a list
Tell a story or describe something in a simple list of
points.
Describe everyday aspects of their environment, e.g.,
people, places, a job or study experience.
Give short, basic descriptions of events and activities
happened in the past.
Speaking
Subprocesses
Describe plans and arrangements, habits and routines,
past activities, and personal experiences.
Use simple descriptive language to make brief
statements about and compare objects and
possessions.
Explain what they like or dislike about something.
Describe their family, living conditions, educational
background, culture, or economic activity.
Speaking
Subprocesses
Describe people, places, and possessions in simple
terms.
Express what they are good at and not so good at (e.
g., sports, games, skills, subjects).
during the holidays.
explain what they like or dislike about something, why
they prefer one thing to another, making simple, direct
comparisons
Reading
Subprocesses
Use knowledge of punctuation and grammar to read
with fluency, understanding and expression
Refer to details and examples in a text when
explaining what the text says explicitly and when
drawing inferences from the text.
Understand short, simple texts on familiar matters of a
concrete type which consist of high frequency every
day or job-related language.
Understand short, simple texts containing the highest
frequency vocabulary, including a proportion of shared
international vocabulary items.
Note key words and phrases to identify the main points
in a passage
Understand a simple personal letter, e-mail or post in
which the person writing is talking about familiar
subjects (such as friends or family) or asking questions educational background, or present or most recent job.
on these subjects.
Understand short, simple personal letters.
Second term
Reading
Subprocesses
Retell or paraphrase events from the text in response
to questions
Find specific information in practical, concrete,
predictable texts (e.g. travel guidebooks, recipes),
provided they are produced in simple language.
Understand everyday signs and notices, etc. in public
places, such as streets, restaurants, railway stations;
in workplaces, such as directions, instructions, hazard
warnings.
Identify specific information in simpler material they
encounter such as letters, brochures and short news
articles describing events.
pick out the main information in short news reports or
simple articles in which figures, names, illustrations,
and titles play a prominent role and support the
meaning of the text.
Understand the main points of short texts dealing with
everyday topics (e.g. lifestyle, hobbies, sports,
weather)
third term
Reading
Subprocesses
Understand texts describing people, places, everyday
life and culture, etc., provided they use simple
language.
Understand a short factual description or report within Can take simple notes at a presentation/demonstration
their own field, provided simple language is used and
that it does not contain unpredictable detail.
Exploit numbers, dates, names, proper nouns, etc. to
identify the topic of a text.
Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from
details in the text; summarize the text.
Writing Grammar Flyers
Subprocesses Subprocesses Subprocesses
Produce a series of simple phrases and sentences Use appropriately the “Verb to Be” to describe people, Identifies the different types of questions in the Flyers
linked with simple connectors like “and”, “but” and objects, and places of immediate surroundings. exam.
“because”.
Describe everyday aspects of their environment e.g. Identify and uses appropriately reflexive pronouns Understands and answers Flyers questions according
people, places, a job or study experience in linked (myself, yourself, herself, themselves etc) to each competence or skill (reading, writing, speaking,
sentences. and listening)
Can give very short, basic descriptions of events, past Recognize and explain the difference between
activities and personal experiences. countable and uncountable nouns and use them
correctly in a sentence.
Can tell a simple story (e.g. about events on a holiday
or about life in the distant future).
Provide reasons that are supported by facts and
details.
Can produce a series of simple phrases and
sentences about their family, living conditions,
Writing Grammar Flyers
Subprocesses Subprocesses Subprocesses
Can create short, simple imaginary biographies and Use appropriately the present simple form to describe Develop strategies for answering questions.
simple poems about people. everyday situations.
Can compose an introduction to a story or continue a Use adverbs of frequency to describe how often an
story, provided they can consult a dictionary and action happens. (Always, usually (or normally), often,
references (e.g. tables of verb tenses in a course sometimes, rarely, and never.)
book).
Can produce simple texts on familiar subjects of Use appropriately the auxiliary verbs have to, has to,
interest, linking sentences with connectors like “and”, should.
“because” or “then”.
Can give their impressions and opinions about topics
of personal interest (e.g. lifestyles and culture, stories),
using basic everyday vocabulary and expressions.
Can exchange information by text message, by e-mail
or in short letters, responding to questions from the
other person (e.g., about a new product or activity).
Writing Grammar Flyers
Subprocesses Subprocesses Subprocesses
Can ask basic questions about the availability of a Use accurately the past simple tense to describe past
product or feature. events.
Use the simple future tense and use verbs correctly
where the subject matter is familiar and predictable, and appropriately. Able to form simple sentences with
and the presenter allows for clarification and note- 'will' and 'will not.
taking.
Can tell a story or describe something in a simple list Understand and respond appropriately to question
of points. words (what, who, where, when, which, how)
Can express a non-causal sequence (e.g. <and then
…>, <and so …>, <next …>, <after that …>).
Follow agreed-upon rules for discussions and carry out
assigned roles.
Identify the reasons and evidence a speaker provides
to support points.
Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they
are used in a text, including those that allude to
significant characters found in mythology (e.g.,
Herculean).
Describe the overall structure (e.g., chronology,
comparison, cause/effect, problem/solution) of events,
ideas, concepts, or information in a text or part of a
text.
Can write a series of simple phrases and sentences
linked with simple connectors like “and”, “but” and
“because”. Longer texts may contain expressions and
show coherence problems that make the text hard to
understand.
Can identify and briefly describe, in basic formulaic
language, the key themes and characters in short,
simple narratives involving familiar situations that
contain only high frequency everyday language.