Stage: Secondary Education - Macmillan

LASER A1+

SYLLABUS

Area: Foreign Languages (English)


Stage: Secondary Education



UNIT 1
This is Me!

OBJECTIVES

Throughout this unit, the student will be able to achieve the following
points:

> Practice reading for gist and looking for specific information by
completing multiple matching activities and answering to multiple
choice questions.
> Learn vocabulary talking about themselves and their friends and
family members.
> Study and practice the use of be, have/have got and possessives.
> Practice listening for gist and looking for specific information by
answering True/False type questions and doing sentence completion.
> Learn and practice talking about themselves.
> Practice the pronunciation of final s
> Learn to write a personal profile.
> Revise the contents learnt by completing the activities of the
Revision section for Units 1-2.

CONTENTS


Listening
- Listen to people talking on a radio show and circle true (T) or false
(F) as they listen to the show.
- Listen and complete sentences.
- Listen and repeat sentences so as to practice pronouncing the final s.
- Listen and tick the correct sounds.


Speaking
- Introduce the concept of personal profiles.
- Answer some very general and simple questions about the profiles.
- Talk about differences
- Describe what things and people are like and talk about what they
possess.
- Develop students' ability to recognise and use words related to family
members.
- Form pairs and ask each other about their families.
- Form pairs and ask and answer the questions about their best friend.
- Say how their lives are similar or different to Paula's, Seb's or
Sienna's.
- Practice talking about themselves and describing other people.
- Use their notes and the phrases in the Phrase Bank! to tell the class
about themselves.
- Talk about things that belong to people.

Reading
- Learn and identify words and phrases to talk about themselves and
their friends.
- Practice reading for gist and specific information in texts in which
young people are talking about themselves, their family and their
friends.
- Read some personal profiles and answer questions.
- Read and understand the functions and usage of the verbs be and
have/have got.
- Choose the correct form of either be or have/have got in some
sentences.
- Look at a family tree, read the text and choose a word from the box to
go in each gap.
- Look at some pictures and match each word or phrase with the pictures.
- Read and understand the functions and usage of possessives.
- Read the sentences and, using the word in bold, complete each gap with
the correct possessive.
- Read and develop the skills necessary to produce a personal profile.
- Read a profile about a person in a magazine or on a website and decide
if the statements are true (T) or false (F).
- Read a personal profile again and match each paragraph with a
statement.
- Language Lab: focus on key language skills required to achieve this
kind of writing task


Writing
- Complete a table about personal profiles.
- Write their choices and reasons for friendship with a person.
- Complete some sentences by writing one letter in each gap.
- Do exercises 1-3 on pages 4 and 5 of the Workbook.
- Look at some pictures, tick which items they've got and write complete
sentences.
- Do a class survey about the items they've got and complete a chart.
- Do exercises 1-4 on pages 5 and 6 of the Workbook.
- Draw their own family tree using the family tree in exercise 1 as
guide.
- Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 7 and 8 of the Workbook.
- Complete a profile using their own information.
- Complete an exercise by putting the words of each sentence in order
and using 's or s' where appropriate.
- Complete a dialogue by replacing the word in bold with the correct
possessive.
- Do exercises 1-4 on pages 8 and 9 of the Workbook.
- Write what they have in common with Zara.
- Do exercise 1 on page 9 of the Workbook.
- Write a personal profile similar to Zara's by using a Planner in the
Plan your project! section.


Language knowledge and use

Linguistic knowledge:

. Grammar
- be, have/have got, possessives


. Vocabulary
- topic vocabulary (talking about themselves and their friends, family
members)


. Pronunciation
- pronunciation of final s
Learning reflexion:
- Use of the Writing and Vocabulary Databases to organise, acquire,
remember and use language.
- Progressive use of learning resources, such completing the Revision
and the Check your Progress sections every two units.
- Reflection on the use of grammar structures adapted to different
communicative aims by using the Grammar Database.
- Start using self-evaluation and self-correction strategies by
completing the Planner section and the Quick Check section of the
Grammar Database.
- Accept mistake as a part of the learning process.
- Show active participation in group works and activities by singing
songs and doing online projects in the Songs and webquests section.
- Show self-confidence and initiative to express themselves in public by
studying the Speaking Database and completing all the Speaking
activities.



BASIC COMPETENCES


|Basic Competence |Page |Activity |Evaluation Criteria|
|C1 |Linguistic |SB pages |All the activities of the |Show interest in |
| |communicative |8, 11 |unit use the language as an |learning English |
| |competence. | |instrument of communication.| |
| | | |E.g. reading the Grammar | |
| | | |sections of the unit. | |
|C2 |Mathematical |SB page 8|Students do a class survey |Be able to use |
| |competence. | |and complete a chart. |mathematical |
| | | | |concepts in |
| | | | |English. |
|C3 |Knowledge of |SB pages |Students read texts of |Express curiosity |
| |and |6-7 |teenagers from countries |in learning about |
| |interaction | |such as Ukraine, India or |Social Science in |
| |with the | |the USA |English. |
| |physical | | | |
| |world. | | | |
|C4 |Competence in | |Student's CD-ROM and web |Feel pleasure in |
| |information | |pages: |using new |
| |and | |www.macmillanexams.com // |technologies in |
| |communication | |www.macmillanenglish.com |order to revise and|
| |technologies | | |extend what they |
| | | | |have learnt. |
|C5 |Social and |SB pages |Education for Peace: |Be willing to have |
| |civil |6-9 |Understand the importance of|friend and respect |
| |competence. | |family and friendship. |family. |
| | |SB page |Moral and Civic Education: |Be willing to |
| | |10 |the importance of respecting|respect others. |
| | | |everybody regardless of | |
| | | |their appearance. | |
|C6 |Cultural and |SB page |References to actress |Show pleasure in |
| |artistic |12 |Jennifer Aniston, singer |learning cultural |
| |competence. | |Adele and to Harry Potter |facts from other |
| | | |books. |countries. |
|C7 |The competence|SB pages |Students complete the Review|Show interest in |
| |of learning to|22-23 |section for Units 1-2 |learning how to |
| |learn. | |revising the contents learnt|learn English. |
| | | |in the units. | |
|C8 |The competence|SB page |Use the Planner of the Plan |Be willing to |
| |of personal |13 |your Project! section so as |listen to and |
| |autonomy and | |to organise their writing |interact with |
| |initiative. | |task in an autonomous way. |others. Have a |
| | |SB pages |Show initiative when doing |positive attitude |
| | |145-155 |the Quick Check in the |towards own ability|
| | | |Grammar Database section. |to participate in |
| | | | |class activities. |
|C9 |The emotional |SB page |Students learn to work in |Enjoy group |
| |competence. |156 |groups respecting each other|participation. |
| |(Castilla la | |and admitting both their own|Show respect for |
| |Mancha) | |success and their |others in the |
| | | |classmates'. |group. |
| | | |E.g. Sing the Song for Units|