Universidad Centroamericana UCA

Deparment of Education
Teaching English as Foreign Language
Lnaguage Program Design II
Course: B026
Prof. Ramón Bermúdez
Names:
Wilmer Moisés Rugáma Flores
María Belén Lacayo Ortega
 INTRODUCTION

English has become the universal language being the most widely spoken
language in the world becoming the lingua franca among many countries, learning
it has been essential for many people´s lives. Currently, English is a requirement to
speak English because of this growing importance as a plus for people who desire
to enter a global workforce and to improve their lifestyle getting a better paid job.
For this reason, thousands of people decide to study English as a second
language since having a good knowledge and understanding of English will only
bring you advantages both personally and professionally facilitating the
communication with a lot people from different countries and culture, braking
communicative boundaries.

In fact, this Communicative English program is aimed at designing a curriculum

proposal for students at Casita Azul Nuestra señora del Pilar School, which is a
Catholic school that has preschool, primary and secondary located in Altagracia,
Managua. In addition, we decided to create this, for helping this school´s students
to achieve their goal (A2 level according to the CEFR scale); based on the
adaptation of the didactic materials such as the compendium that the institute
currently has. this proposal curriculum, by following specific methodology, to
provide important tools to students and teachers that innovative and intended to
have a positive social and economic impact on the school to build better literate
professionals.

General Data

This course – is elaborated by Wilmer Rugáma & María Lacayo- we want to call it
as “Fresh English to Young Students” because it is created based on Casita Azul
Nuestra Señora del Pilar school’s young students (secondary students) learning
process perspective, but also on the course goal which is achieve A2 level.

On the other hand, to create a creative and interactional course where students
learn how to build their knowledge –while achieving A2 level- we want them to use
an adapted compendium, different from the one they have used in the last 6 years,
is what this course is all about. Also, to help the students achieve that level, we
want the course to be a 90 hrs one, where this is divided into 2 parts (A1.a and
A1.b). These two parts are 45 hrs each.

 Course code:
 Dates:
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I. Course Rationale
This course is designed for Casita Azul Nuestra Señora de Altagracia school’s
secondary students to improve their communication skills in English in order to get
an elementary English once they finish the course. It teaches the basic
communication skills needed to communicate in a variety of different social and
school settings (or even in the process of finding employment prospects). The
course seeks to enable secondary students to develop English communicative, A2
level according to the CEFR scale; which they can do so while using the new
material provided, and implementing new methodologies in the classroom.

II. Course Objectives

 Students will be able to speak English in a basic level where they can say
every day phrases, very basic phrases and expression which can be used in
their school and social life.
 Students will be able to introduce him/herself and others by asking and
answer questions about personal details.
 Students will be able to interact in a simple way speaking in English where
they have to hear and speak clearly and slowly.

III. Unit Distribution

A1.a
No. Name of the Unit #hours #self study hours Total
Classroom
1 Exchanging 20 hours 10 hours 30
information hours
 2 Appearance 10 hours 5 hours 15
hours
3 Daily routine 8 hours 2 hours 10
hours
total 45
hours

A1.b
No. Name of the Unit #hours #self study hours Total
Classroom
1 Events in time 15 hours 15 hours 20
hours
2 Abilities and request 9 hours 2 hours 11
hours
3 Places and how to 10 hours 4 hours 14
get there
hours
total 45
hours

IV. Detailed Plan

A1.a

Unit 1. Exchanging information

Objectives

 Students will be able to start a conversation in English in a formal and

informal way.
 Students will be able to going beyond “hello…” being able to introducing
themselves to others.
  Students will be able to ask polite questions (the basic ones) and answer
those politely as well.
 The student will be able to identify family members, and key family
composition vocabulary words.
 Students will describe their own family by drawing, and sharing with the
class.
 Students will be able to know each other better
 Students will be able to talk about his/her personal detailed information
 Students to ask questions about detailed information
 Students will be able to answer questions about detailed information

Content

Language function

 Introducing myself
 Greeting formal and informally
 Describing feeling and emotions
 Asking polite questions
 Answering polite answers
 Expressing abilities
 Talking possessions
 Sharing ideas about hobbies
 Asking about specific information
 Answering detailed information questions

Vocabulary

 Personal information
 Occupations
 Countries & Nationalities
 Numbers
 Emotions and feelings
  Family members
 Abilities
 Possessions
 Hobbies

Grammar

 To be in present
 Questions with: how, what, where
 Simple present
 Possessive nouns and adjectives
 Articles a/an
 Can/can’t for ability
 Possessive pronoun
 Adverbs of Frequency

Unit 2. Appaerance

Chothes, food, health

Objectives:

 Students will be able to describe appearance

 Students will be able suggest a remedy
 Students will be able to discuss ingredients for a recipe
 Students will be able to offer and ask for a food
 Students will be able to invite someone to join them at the table
 Students will be able to give and accept a compliment
 Students will be able ask for color and sizes
 Students will be able to describe clothes

Content

Language Function
  Describe appearance
 Discuss ingredients
 Invite someone to join at the table
 Give and accept compliment
 Describe clothes

Vocabulary

 Clothes
 Colors and sizes
 Opposite adjectives to describe clothes
 Food and drinks
 Places to keep food in kitchen
 Countainers and quantities
 Cooking verbs
 Parts of the body
 Aliments, remedies

Grammar

 Demonstratives
 Simple present tense (like, want, need and have)
 Affirmative and negative statements
 Adjective placement and common errors
 One and ones
 Describing people with be and have
 Should + be form for suggestion
 How much/ are there any
 Count nouns and non-count nouns

Unit 3. Daily routine

Objectives

 Students will be to share what they do everyday

 Students will be able to ask and answer questions about daily routines
 Students will be able describe what their classmates do every day.
 Students will be able to describe what they do in their free time.

Content
Language function
 Sharing their everyday activities
 Asking about others’ daily routines
 Answers questions about my daily routines
 Describing habits and routines
 Asking about specific information

Vocabulary

 Daily activities at home

 Habits
 Leisure activities
 Household chores

Grammar

 Simple present
 WH question
 Frequency adverbs and time expressions
 Articles
 I’d like

A1.b
Unit 1. Events in Life

Objectives
 Students will be able to confirm that they are on time
 Students will be able to talk about the time of an event
 Students will be able to ask about birthday
 Tell about someone about an event
 Describe their past activities
 Talk about their weekend
 Discuss plans
 Ask about people’s activities
 Describe today’s weather

Content

Language function

 Confirm time
 Time of an event
 Talk about weather
 Talk about birthday

Vocabulary

 What time Is it?

 Early, on time, late
 Events
 Days of the week
 Ordinal numbers
 Months of the year
 Weather expressions
 Present and future expressions
 Weather (seasons)
 Past-time expressions
 Outdoor activities
 Grammar

 Verb be: questions abut time

 Preposition in, on, and at for dates and times
 Contractions and common errors
 The past tense of be; there was/ there were: statements, questions, and
contractions
 The past tense: regular verbs, irregular verbs. Statements, questions,
and short answers.
 The present continuous: statements: form and usage, yes/no questions,
information questions, for future plans

Unit 2. Abilities & Request

Objectives

 Students will be able to discuss their abilities

 Politely decline an invitation
 Ask for and agree to a favor

Content
Language function
 Expressing abilities
 Possessions adjectives

Vocabulary

 Adverbs well and badly

 Reasons for no doing something
 Favors
 Musical instruments

Grammar

 Can/can’t for ability

 Polite request with could you + based form
  Too + Adjectives common errors
 Abilities
 Possessions
 Possessive pronoun
 Adverbs of Frequency
 Articles

Unit 3. Places and how to get there

Objectives

 Students will be able to talk about location

 Discuss to how to get places
 Discuss transportation
 Asking about specific information

Content

Language Function
 Directions
 Location
 transportation

Vocabulary

 Things in the town

 Buildings
 Places in the neighborhood
 Rooms
 Furniture and application
 More home and office vocabulary

Grammar
 Possessive nouns
 Prepositions of place

V. Suggested teaching methodology

VI. Learning Materials

a) Book
b) Compendium
c) Wallcharts
d) Internet resources
e) Flash cards
f)
VII. Assessment

Assessment Type of Date Score

Activities assessment
Roleplay Formative April 15th -
Presentation Summative April 30th 20 pts
infographic Summative 10pts
Letter Formative 5
test Summative 10
Mind map Summative 5
Role play Formative
Exam
Presentation 10
Classroom 10
discussion
roleplay Formative
 Infographic 10
test 20
portafolio 10

Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic
phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can
introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions
about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she
knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided
the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.