Syllabus Design. Unit 1

Unit 1: BASIC, PERSONAL AND FAMILY INFORMATION

Goal:

-Participate in short conversations providing information about him or herself as well as about familiar people.

-identify the main details about personal or family information through short audios.

Competence CEFR

Students understand audios related to personal information. In addition, learners are able to use short, clear sentences with understandable pronunciation, and finally the student must respect the different opinions and ideas of their classmates. 

Language functions

Give and request personal information.

-describes habits and routines about people.

Suggested objectives

-Exchanges information about daily topic through questions and answers.

-Makes a simple oral description and a previously rehearsed about personal information.

-Identifies expressions about personal information using short descriptive oral and written. 

Corresponding standards of competences in EFL.

LEVEL A2 GUIDE 22: PP. 22-23

Listening (A2.2)

(2) Understand questions and oral expressions about my family, my friends and my environment.

(5)  Understand an oral description of a situation, person place or object.

(7)  Understand the general idea in a description and a narrative.

Speaking (A2.2)

(1) Answer with short sentences to simple questions about familiar topics.

(2)  Ask for explanations about specific situations in my school, family and close environment.

(5)  Ask simple questions on subjects that are familiar to me, relying on gestures and repetition.

(7)  Start, hold and close a simple conversation on a familiar subject. 

Performance indicators

Knowing

-Identifies basic structures of present simple and future tenses

-Identifies expressions and words related to personal information

Doing

-complete a form with personal and family information based on a short audios or written texts according to the vocabulary and expression used in class.

Being

Values and respects the opinions of classmates. 

Suggested Content

Lexical

Hobbies

-          Play sports

-          Dance

-          Listen to music

-          Watch TV

-          Play videogames

-          Ride a bike

Relation of time                                     

-          Everyday

-          Always

-          Never

-          Recently

-          Once/twice a week/month, year

Personal care level: physical, intellectual, emotional, social and spiritual activities

-          Camping

Workout

Expression to describe habits

-          I always go to the church.

-          Juan reads every day.

Expression to show interest and tastes

-          My favorite activity is…

-          When do you..?

-          I like to…

Do you enjoy swimming?

Grammar

-          Present and future tense

-          Present of “like”

-          Adverbs of frequency

-          Yes/no questions

Discourse

-          Begin and maintain a simple conversation.

-          Justify decisions.

Sociolinguistic/intercultural

-          Ability to listen and speak

-          Learning through interaction

Adaptation to the different forms of communication and learning.