FIRST PERIOD PLANNING

September-December
FIELD: Languages and Communication
Subject: English XI (FOCUS 3)
First period - 39 hours

Key Competences Learning Outcomes

The student:
describes orally and in written form an event he/she has read or listened to, following the same logical flow
takes part in conversations with his peers and adults about topics of educational and social interest asking and answering questions and
identifying the main information
analyzes different pieces of work (articles, pictures etc,) , finding similarities and differences among them
agrees or disagrees with opinion, attitude or behavior of a group of people in classroom/school or beyond
utilizes various techniques and strategies to solve different assignments or tasks
uses his/her portfolio as a tool to identify his/her strengths and weaknesses and also to set goals for the future learning and career
development
uses materials, different sources of information or technological tools in school and everyday life as a support for the academic progress
or career orientation
expresses his/her opinion, with the previous consent of the group members
prepares a group activity at school or in the community using tolerance as a means of promoting cultural, ethnic, gender, social and
religious diversity.
uses his/her IT skills to improve the learning process, and to cooperate with other people in order to learn effectively

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 Subject Competences Learning Outcomes
The student:
describes peoples appearance and talks about their personality
understands the main point of a short and clearly structured story
understands the main points of an article about an unfamiliar topic
describes clothes and speculates about people in photos
understands specific detail in short talk about role model
asks for, gives, agrees and disagrees with an opinion
writes an article about past events
gives detailed accounts of experiences, describing feelings and reactions
enters unprepared into a conversation on familiar topics
follows in outline straightforward short talks on familiar topics provided these are delivered in clearly articulated standard speech
communicates with reasonable accuracy in familiar contexts
produce continuous writing which is generally intelligible throughout
initiate, maintain and close simple, face-to-face conversation on topics that are familiar or of personal interest
uses the narrative tenses correctly
understands the difference between dynamic and state verbs and uses correctly
uses the Present Perfect Simple and Continuous correctly
recognises and uses different verb patterns

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 Methodologies
Nr. Topics Topics per hour Learning situations and students Assessment Resources
activities

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1. Portfolio-Presenting 1. National dishes group work observation studentbook
the ELP and pair work assessing workbook
describing the B1+ Teacher invites students to brainstorming answers picture
level do research on different questions and assessing dictionary
STARTER 2. Home sweet home- cooking traditions in Europe answers group work CD
UNIT grammar- present and beyond. Students bring to gap filling assessing Internet
11 hours tenses class various recipes and matching home work Digital
3. National dishes discuss about eating habbits exercises using platform
4. Flashmob and healthy diets. This
games checklists Posters,
5. Money, money, situation may last more than a
questionnaire self- photos
money class and students can even
true and false assessment ELP
6. At the movies organise a food fair pretending
7. My technology to represent different
8. Growing up nationalities.
9. Young entreprenuers
10. WB and grammar 2. The future of
exercises, extra technology
activities
11. Project ( deciding on The teacher creates
the groups and hypothetical situations and
topics) encourage students to discribe
them and make sentences
using conditional sentences.
They also are asked to imagine
how life/school etc would be
like if they had to use hi-tech
gadgets in everyday life.

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1. Appearance- 1. Famous people group work observation studentbook
vocabulary and extra pair work assessing workbook
activities Students play a game: they brainstorming answers picture
2. Grammar- dinamic describe famous people and questions and assessing dictionary
and state verbs, wb their friends guess who they answers group work CD
exercises, extra are. Teacher helps with new gap filling assessing Internet
activities vocabulary. This situation may matching home work Digital
3. Listening and go on the next class with exercises using platform
LOOKS 12 speaking students describing the
Quiz checklists Posters,
hours 4. Teen science- facebook profile photo of these
True/false self- photos
reading famous people (if they have
sentences assessment ELP
5. WB and grammar one) or of themselves and try peer-
exercises, extra to reveal the personality of assessment
activities each person in the photo.
6. Grammar- present
perfect continuous, 2. Famous paintings
extra activities and
grammar focus Teacher brings to class
7. Speaking and WB paintings (mostly portraits) by
exercises famous painters. Students in
8. Writing- description groups describe the portraits
of a person describing not only on the
9. Focus review outer appearance but focucing
10. WB exercises on what the painting reveals.
11. Reinforcement- Next class students may write
Grammar & a paragraph about that
Vocabulary painting.
12. Project

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1. Sport- vocabulary 1. Sports group work observation studentbook
2. Grammar-narrative pair work assessing workbook
tenses, Wb exercises Students in groups prepare brainstorming answers picture
and extra activities quizes about sports. They questions and assessing dictionary
JUST DO IT! 3. Listening and exchange the quizes and do answers group work CD
16 hours speaking them in groups. Teacher helps gap filling assessing Internet
4. She was born this with vocabulary. Then they matching home work Digital
way-reading discuss about sports they like exercises using platform
5. WB exercises, extra and why. Next class students
games checklists Posters,
activities, grammar that are fond of sports or self- photos
exercises practice sports make assessment ELP
6. Grammar-verb presentations about their test
patterns, extra personla experiences.
activities
7. Speaking-agreeing / 2. The Paralympics
disagreeing
8. Writing an article Students do research at home
9. WB exercises and about the Paralympic games
extra and grammar and then bring to class facts
activities and figures about them. They
10. Focus review choose people with disabilities
11. Reinforcement who have taken part in these
Vocabulary games and talk about these
12. Reinforcement- people .
Grammar
13. Test
14. Project
15. Portfolio
16. Portfolio