ENGLISH LANGUAGE I- GROUP E FIRST TERM 2016

Adjunct Teacher: Claudia Spataro

Teacher Assistant: Agustn Massa (Wednesdays)
Date

CLASS TOPIC

12/04
13/04
14/04
20/04

21/04
27/04

Upstream
Workbook

CULTURE CLASS: Main English speaking countries dictionary work (shamrock, leprechaun)
LEXICAL NOTEBOOK: House and Home / Technology and Telecommunications / Money and Shopping / Food and Health / Common
prepositions (in, on, at)/ Everyday expressions / Formal expressions / Lexical items from films and sitcoms
p.2-5
DICTIONARY WORK:
House and home
HOUSE AND HOME
VOCABULARY: House
p.5-11
False
or home?
Friends at
USE OF ENGLISH: Set
Home
expressions with house
(Think in
English
and home
N13)
VOCABULARY:
Common phrases with
house and home
p.12-14
VOCABULARY: Speller
p.7
TYPES OF HOUSES
VOCABULARY:
Matching
READING. British
p.15-22
houses through history
CASTLES

28/04

Extra set of
Handout of House
Upstream
Writing
VLE
copies
and Home
SS Book
Handout
COURSE INTRODUCTION: Teachers, objectives, contents, evaluation and VLE

p.16-17

The VLE
COMPUTING CLASS Room 8

VOCABULARY: Castles
and palaces

Date

CLASS TOPIC

04/05

WRITING:
1. The structure of an
academic paragraph
2. Characteristics of a
good academic
paragraph
3. Writing stages
PARTS OF A HOUSE
FURNITURE AND
APPLIANCES

05/05

11/05

12/05

Handout of House
and Home

Upstream
SS Book

WRITING
ASSIGNMENT 1
DRAFT 1: WHAT MAKES
HOME HOME
DEADLINE 12/05
p.23-30

Extra set of
copies

Writing
Handout

VLE

p.4-9

[Writing tab]
THE FEATURES OF
AN ACADEMIC
PARAGRAPH

p.9-15
p.15-23
Longman
Picture
Dictionary
(p.7-18)

DEADLINE FOR WRITING

ASSIGNMENT 1- DRAFT 1

VOCABULARY: Parts of
a house
VOCABULARY: The
garden
LISTENING: Home
appliances
An online READING
lesson about famous
houses around the
world

DESCRIBING THE
PLACE/AREA
WHERE YOU LIVE

p.31-39

p.8

18/05

THE PERFECT HOME

p.40-43

p.6-7

LISTENING: An ideal
home

19/05

REFURBISHING
HOUSES

p.43-50

p.14
p.9

VOCABULARY:
Collocations to describe
problems around the
house
USE OF ENGLISH: Key
word transformations
LISTENING: Doing up a
derelict house

23/05
27/05

Upstream)
Workbook

May week

p.4-6

Date

CLASS TOPIC

01/06

SMART HOUSES

Handout of House
and Home
p.50-55

ECO HOUSES

p.55-57

Upstream
SS Book

Extra set of
copies

WRITING:
The correction code
02/06

Paragraph writing
tasks

08/06

DEADLINE FOR WRITING

ASSIGNMENT 1- DRAFT 2

p.34
WRITING
ASSIGNMENT 2 DRAFT 1: p.58 (ex.c)
DEADLINE 15/06
p.60-69

p.24-30

p.8
p.14, 15

RENTING and
OWNING

09/06
15/06

Writing
Handout

LIVING ALONE VS
SHARING A
ROOM/HOUSE
DEADLINE FOR WRITING
ASSIGNMENT 2- DRAFT 1

p.70-82

LIVING IN THE CITY

GREEN CITIES

p.83-89
p.90-94

City Epithets
(Think in
English
N88)

VLE
LISTENING: A
commercial about a
smart house
WIKI: Advantages and
disadvantages of smart
houses
[Writing tab]
BRAINSTORMING
THE TOPIC
SENTENCE
SUPPORTING
SENTENCES/THE
CONCLUSION
VOCABULARY: Steps
for renting a house
VOCABULARY: Steps
for buying a house
VOCABULARY: Phrasal
verbs to talk about a
new home
LISTENING: Renting vs
owning
LISTENING: The
housing ladder in
London
READING: Londons
housing crisis

Upstream
Workbook

p.9

Date

CLASS TOPIC

16/06

LIVING IN THE
COUNTRY
CITY LIFE VS
COUNTRY LIFE

22/06

Handout of House
and Home
p.94-97

Upstream
SS Book

Extra set of
copies

Writing
Handout

p.97-100

VLE

Upstream
Workbook

VIDEO WATCHING:
Trailer of The Holiday

WRITING

p.24-30

Paragraph writing
tasks
23/06
REVISION
DEADLINE FOR WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2- DRAFT 2
27/06

1st TERM TEST

Topics: UNIT 1: TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS (N.B. You will be tested on all the topics that you have dealt with
Cecilia Chiappero)
UNIT 2: HOUSE AND HOME (N.B. You will be tested on all the topics and materials listed in this class schedule)
USE OF ENGLISH: Grammar in Use section of UNITS 1,2,3,4 and 6 of Upstream B2 (2011) + corresponding units from Access to FCE
(2009)
In the VLE you can find lots of activities and a mock test to revise all the topics for the term test!

29/06
30/06
07/07
13/07
07/07

Film The Holiday (p.100-103)

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 3 DRAFT 1: Handout of House and Home (p.102) DEADLINE 09/08
WINTER BREAK