MACMILLAN ENGLISH PRIMARY

MACMILLAN ENGLISH

PRIMARY

Level 1

Macmillan English 1, Unit 1

UNIT OBJECTIVES

• Introduce oneself

• Practise talking about and writing children’s ages

• Read and talk about families

• Identify members of a family

• Identify capital letters and use correct punctuation

• Practise saying words with ‘a’ sound

• Write sentences about children and their ages

• Draw and write about yourself and a friend

CONTENTS

Concepts

1.- Listening, speaking and interaction

• Listening for pronunciation and intonation

• Repeating and acting out a dialogue with expression

• Practising saying and asking about someone’s name and age

• Singing and learning a short song

• Listening to a dialogue and identifying family members

• Recognising and saying words with ‘a’ sound

2.- Reading and writing

• Following a text read out to them

• Reading a text aloud with accurate pronunciation and intonation

• Understanding the sense of a text as a whole

• Being able to answer simple comprehension questions both orally and in writing

• Writing their own age and the ages of other children

• Writing words from picture prompts

• Completing sentences using picture prompts

• Reading and completing sentence using given words

• Writing answers to simple comprehension questions

• Writing sentences about themselves and a friend

• Identifying capital letters

• Using correct punctuation: capital letter and full stop

3.- Language through use

Language knowledge

• This is …, He/She is …; They are …

• What’s your name?, My name is …, How old are you? I am …

• Identify capital letters

• Use correct punctuation: capital letters and full stops

Topics and vocabulary • Numbers: 1-10

• Family: mum, dad, sister, brother, grandma, grandpa, father, grandmother, grandfather, mother

• Funny / helpful / kind / little / tall / friend / big / helicopter / island

• Sam, cat, hat, mat, cap, map, tap

Phonetics

• Read, pronounce and spell words with short ‘a’

• Recognise and say the individual sounds that make up cvc (consonant-vowel-consonant) words

Learning to learn

• Matching words and pictures

• Memorising a dialogue and a song

• Identifying capital letters and correct use of punctuation

• Doing shared reading practice

4.- Sociocultural aspects

• Showing interest in listening to and understanding

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