STARTER

UNIT

VOCABULARY

GRAMMAR

READING AND CRITICAL THINKING

What do you know?

Vocabulary: saying hello, personal objects, colours, days of the week, the classroom, classroom instructions, numbers 1–100, international words, the alphabet

Our world

WDYT? How are countries different?

Countries and nationality adjectives Adjectives to describe places

Top three places in the world

be: affirmative and negative

be: questions and short answers

Informational texts The Netherlands: a good place to be a teenager

Subskill: Identifying different types of text

Family

WDYT? What is a family?

Family
​Describing people
​Parts of the body and face
​Describing hair

Me and my family

have got: affirmative and negative Possessive ’s and s

have got: questions and short​ answers

A TV guide
​Meet the Putmans

Subskill: Predicting what a text is about

Eat well

WDYT? What’s the ideal meal?

Food and drink The shopping centre

Farmers’ market

Countable and uncountable nouns some, any, a lot of
​there is/are

A news story
Meatless Mondays

Subskill: Understanding the general idea

My time

WDYT? Why is it a good idea to organise your time?

The time
​Daily routines
​Free-time activities

Sloth calendar

Present simple: affirmative and negative

Present simple: Yes/No questions and short answers

Present simple: Wh- questions love/like/don’t like/hate + noun Object pronouns

An online article
Life in a K-pop academy

Subskill: Reading for detail

Tech life

WDYT? Does technology make the world better? How?

Abilities Technology nouns Adjectives

Smartphone gadget crafts

can and can’t
​can: questions and short answers
​Comparative adjectives Possessive pronouns

​A web page
Amazing robots!

Subskill: Reading for specific information

LISTENING

REAL-WORLD SPEAKING

WRITING

PRONUNCIATION

PROJECT

Grammar: subject pronouns and possessive adjectives, a/an and plurals, this/that/these/those, imperatives

A phone conversation about New Zealand

Subskill: Using visual clues

Meeting new people

A keypal message 

Subskill: Capital letters

Word stress

Design a new country and make a poster to introduce your country.

Creativity Using your imagination

A radio programme about unusual twins

Subskill: Using what you know

Talking about photos

An email

Subskill: Apostrophes

/ə/

Make a circle map of important people in your life.

Critical thinking Thinking about things in different ways

A street interview about shopping centres

Subskill: Taking notes while you listen

Ordering food

A blog post about food

Subskill: and and but

Silent letters

Plan your ideal meal.

Collaboration

Working well together

A conversation about a phone app

Subskill: Listening to complete sentences

Making plans

Notes and messages

Subskill: because

Pronouncing -es

/ɪz/

Make a digital poster about a typical day.

Communication

Asking for help and giving suggestions

A talk about technology

Subskill: Completing a table

Giving instructions

An advert

Subskill: Spelling

Spelling the sound //

Design a robot to solve a problem.

Creativity

Finding new solutions to problems