TELL ME MORE Scopes and Sequences

ENGLISH

BEGINNER

SEMANA 5

649 Hours

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TABLE OF CONTENTS How to Use This Document...................................................................................................................................................................3  Complete Beginner ................................................................................................................................................................................4  

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How to Use This Document The goal of this document is to help you find your way around the TELL ME MORE content and to give you the information you need to direct Learners to the appropriate lesson.

1. Here you’ll find the Language Program’s title, length, and description.

2. Each Language Program contains several lessons. The title and length of each lesson can be found here.

3. A variety of information is available for each lesson, such as: - the lesson objectives - the targeted skills (listening, writing, etc.) - the language functions that will be covered - the lexical groups - the grammar, phonetics, or cultural concepts Note: The amount of information available may vary depending on the type and level of the lesson.

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Complete Beginner The Complete Beginner Lessons are intended for students whose knowledge of the language is very basic. It allows students to acquire the basics in vocabulary and grammar and to approach the language in context, through texts and dialogues. The communicative approach is focused on, with the aim of teaching the students how to communicate in the foreign language and how to understand and produce meaningful discourse. The texts and dialogues immerse the student in the target language and constitute a medium from which to learn the basic structures and words essential to using the language correctly.

9. A city tour (UK) - 02:05

Lesson Objectives You visit a British city. Find your way round the city and ask questions.

Vocabulary Themes Defining space - Indicating a location

Cities and towns - Places and buildings - Streets

Holidays and travel - Places

Games, leisure and entertainment - Places

Grammar Here - There Demonstratives Interrogative words How much - How many

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Beginner Overall objective for the Beginner level is to understand and to use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Introduce him/herself and others and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. 1. Introducing Oneself - 02:29

Lesson Objectives Learn how to greet people and how to introduce yourself and your family in a few words: give your name and nationality, where you are living and what you are doing.

Vocabulary Themes

Communication and Intellect - Greetings, being polite

Family, Identity, Social Life - Family life - Age, stages of life - Identity

Grammar The simple present The verb “to be” Subject pronouns Placing the adjective Contraction of “to be” Questions without interrogative pronouns The difference between “a” and “an”

2. Descriptions - 01:43

Lesson Objectives Learn how to describe your appearance using some simple adjectives and the names of parts of the body and of clothes. Find out about a few verbs to describe actions.

Vocabulary Themes

Communication and Intellect - Comparison

The Human Body - Physical description - Head and face

Objects - Colors - Descriptive terms - Size

Family, Identity, Social Life - Age, stages of life - Personal details

Vacations and Traveling - Hotels

Grammar The negative form “Can:” perception and knowledge Object pronouns Definite and indefinite articles Time Prepositions of time

3. Numbers & Letters - 02:07

Lesson Objectives Learn how to describe where you are, to describe the positions of the body (to sit, to stand, to kneel). Learn numbers and how to formulate a simple arithmetical problem and its solution. Learn the alphabet and how to spell words.

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Vocabulary Themes

Communication and Intellect - Comparison - Awareness, memories, forgetting - Thinking, debating, explaining - Oral communication

Education - Learning and knowledge - Language, reading and writing

Defining Space - Indicating a place

Measurements and Quantities - Figures and numbers

Science and Industry - Mathematics

Grammar The verb “to have” Interrogative pronouns, adjectives and adverbs Tags - Short answers The plural Prepositions of place Comparing equals Exclamations with “what a”

4. Dates & Times - 02:25

Lesson Objectives Learn the names of seasons, months, the days of the week and how to tell time. Learn to say what time it is and indicate duration (the current time and how long things take).

Vocabulary Themes

Time - Schedule - Instruments for measuring time - Dates - Telling time - Months - Times of day - Seasons - Days of the week - The present - Time indicators

Grammar Age Reflexive pronouns The present continuous Nationalities: capital letters The possessive Possessive adjectives Demonstratives The future