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STAGE 1 :PREPARATION PHASE

LESSON FOCUS DESCRIPTION RESOURCES1 Taking the diagnostic exam How to read exam

instructions.

To determine the starting level of each student.

Module on exam administration

Diagnostic Exam Question PaperDiagnostic Exam Answer Sheet

Student Profile Recording Form

2 Listening and SpeakingPhonics and PhoneticsPreparation for Listening and Speaking Skills.

Preparation how to use an English dictionary to look up a word for the meaning and pronounce it .

Introduction to Phonics in the English language and phonetic symbols

Phonics Card Game

Dictionary TimeIntroduction to phonetic symbols.

Writing messages with phonetic symbols

Phonics card:Vowels/ConsonantsDiagraphs

Phonetic symbolsMessages in phonetic symbols

English Language Dictionary

3 Listening SkillFollow simle instructions for game VocabularyRecognition of words on the sight listGrammarCommon Nouns (Common Objects)Countable and Uncountable Nouns Singular and Plural Nouns

Play Word Bingo 1-25

Situational Contexts for nouns : Classroom, School, House.

SAL: Plural forms of nounsSAL: Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Instructions for playing Word Bingo.Word Bingo Card Sets 1-25

Grammar modules and SAL Worksheets for :Countable and Uncountable Nounsandplural nouns

4 Back to Basics:Greetings and Introductions

Introduction to Show and Tell(S&T)

GrammarQuantifiers and Articles Common and Proper Nouns

Listening and Speaking Learn to greet each otherIntroduce S&T formatGreet and speak 3-5 sentences about an objectSimple questions.

SAL: Quantifiers and articlesSAL: Common and Proper Nouns

List of greetings and introductions

Show and Tell Format

Grammar module on quantifiers and articles, common and proper nouns

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STAGE 1 :PREPARATION PHASE (continued)

LESSON FOCUS DESCRIPTION RESOURCES5 Start Show And Tell

GrammarRegular VerbsIrregular Verbs

Very brief introduction to Tenses: Changes to forms of Verbs

Basic Comprehension andIntroduction to Thinking Skills: Clouds and BranchesThe Fairy Tales

To give students an understanding of the effects of “tenses” on verbs

SAL: Plural forms of regular and Irregular verbs

Worksheet on The Fairy Tales

Teaching Module on Tenses on Verbs

SAL Worksheets for Regular andIrregular Verbs

6 Show And Tell

Sentence Structure in English language:S-VS-V-OS-V-AdjS-V-AdvS-V-N

Grammar:Introduction to Adjectives

Writing:Describing a person.

Listening and SpeakingOne person presents

Sentence Game

Song Comprehension: Green, Green Grass of Home (focus on Verbs and adjectives)

Grammar:Placement of adjectives in a sentence Writing:3-5 sentences with blanks for adjectives to describe a person

SAL: Sentence Structures

S&T format

Sentence Game Word cards for Subject, Verb, Adjectives, Adverbs, Nouns

Song Worksheet and module notes for Green Green Grass of Home

Grammar module on adjectives

SAL Worksheet for Sentence Structure

7 Show And Tell

Grammar: The Present Tense

Vocabulary and drill:Robotman and present tense

Comprehension Passage: Maria Goes To School

Listening and SpeakingOne person presents

Using the Present tense for everyday activities and habits using common basic verbs.

Robotman to practice singular and plural verbs of present tense Reading:Maria Goes To School(Focus on Present tense)

S&T format

Robotman and present tense cards

Reading Passage 1

Grammar module on present tense

SAL: Present Tense Picture Stimulus on everyday habits worksheet

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STAGE 1 :PREPARATION PHASE (continued)

LESSON FOCUS DESCRIPTION RESOURCES8 Show And Tell

Comprehension Passage:Trouble in School

Grammar:Present Continuous tense

Listening and SpeakingOne person presents

Reading:Trouble in School (Focus on present continuous tense)Grammar: Present Continuous tense to describe everyday activities)

Writing:Write 3-5 sentences with Present Continuous tense to show what you do everyday

S&T format

Reading Passage 2

Grammar module on present continuous tense

SAL Worksheets on present continuous tense for everyday activities.

9 Show And Tell

Listening and Reading:Don’t Cry Joni

Vocabulary: Homonyms words with similar sounds

Writing:Write a message and read to receiver

Listening and SpeakingOne person presents

Listening Comprehension:Song: Don’t Cry Joni(Focus on rhyming words and writing a message)

Dictionary TimeVerbalising words with almost similar sounds. Find out the meanings

Writing;Format for an informal message. Tense to use

S&T format

Songsheet

Module notes for teaching song

Homonyms listDictionary and phonetic symbols

Module notes for song lesson

10 Show And Tell

Edutainment:

Word Bingo Fox Game

Writing:A simple friendly letter

Listening and SpeakingOne person presents

Word Bingo with different set of Words A1-A25

Fox Game with Game Cards on present and present continuos tenses

Writing:Teach simple friendly letter format

S&T format

Word Bingo Cards A1-A25

Fox Game Boards, Dice, Counters, game Cards

Simple friendly letter format notes

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Learning Outcomes Expected After Stage One

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