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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