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English Lab Class – Topic Based Syllabus for Developing English Based Skills

Unit 1 - Learning English

Lesson Topic Skills New Language Grammar Practiced

1) Welcome to English

Conversation Class

- Listening for details - Superlatives

2) Adventures of a Cardboard

Box

- Divergent, critical & creative thinking - Divergent thinking

- Creative thinking

- Critical thinking

3) The Importance of Learning a

Language

(two periods)

- Listening for general understanding

- Group work

- Intelligibility

- Questions words

- Vocabulary related to language learning

- Forming questions (simple past)

4) Motivation - Listening for details.

- Reading for general understanding.

- Idioms contained in authentic materials.

Unit 2 - Life

Lesson Skills New Language Grammar Practiced

1) Caine’s Arcade 

(two periods)

- Story summarising

- Listening for general understanding

- Creative thinking (comic making)

- Group work (comic making)

- Expressions featured in video - Past simple tense

- Present progressive tense

2) Discussing Movies - Creative thinking (making new movie)

- Group work (making new movie)

- Vocabulary related to movies - Forming questions (simple present)

3) Future Jobs - Listening for details

- Asking and answering interview type

questions

- Types of jobs

- Personality traits

- Forming questions (conditional)

- Use of should, must & have to

4) One Life

(two periods)

- Creative thinking (creating proverbs)

- Group work (creating proverbs)- Listening for general understanding

- Negotiation of meaning

- Famous proverbs about life - Use of 2nd

conditional

- Structure of proverbs

5) Wrong Side of Bed - Critical thinking (survival game)

- Group work (survival game)

- Verbs associated with morning routines

- Idioms

- Use of 1st

conditional Vs. 2nd

 

conditional

Unit 3 – The World

Lesson Skills New Language Grammar Practiced

1) Best Job in the World - Listening for general understanding - Vocabulary related living locations - Comparative sentences

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- Critical thinking (choosing best person for

 job)

- Adjectives to describe a person’s 

character

2) Tourist Attractions

(three periods)

- Listening for details

- Presentation skills (creative thinking)

- Poster making ( creative & group work

skills )

- Reading for details- Pronunciation adaptation

- Summarising written sources

- Language used to discuss tourists

attractions

- Advice words

- Strong Vs. Weak Advice

3) Climate Change - Critical Thinking (ordering importance of 

world problems)

- Note taking from audio

- Note taking from text

- Listening for general understanding

- Vocabulary associated with climate

change

- Various world issues

- Present perfect simple tense

4) World Festivals - Listening for general understanding

- Creative thinking (creating new festival)

- Group work skills (creating new festival)

- Note taking from written sources- Accommodation

- Vocabulary needed to discuss festivals

Unit 4 – Social Issues

Lesson Skills New Language Grammar Practiced

1) Blind (disabilities) - Listening for details

- Critical thinking and decision making

- Accommodation skills

- Idioms using ’blind’ - Imperatives

2) Cultural Misunderstandings - Listening for general understanding

- Inter-cultural awareness

- Critical thinking

- Advice words

3) Racism - Critical thinking (analysing the message

contained in anti-racism posters)

- Adjectives to describe appearance - Future simple tense

- Modal auxiliary verbs

4) Human Trafficking - Listening for details - Vocabulary contained in authentic text

5) An Open Letter to the World - Critical thinking

- Group negotiation

- Vocabulary contained in authentic text