Oxford English 5A Aug. 2005. Module 1: Getting to know you Module 2: Me, my family and friends Module 3: Places and activities Module 4: The natural world.

Oxford English 5A

Aug. 2005

Module 1: Getting to know you

Module 2: Me, my family and friends

Module 3: Places and activities

Module 4: The natural world

Module 1

Getting to know you

Unit 1 Can I do Unit 1 Can I do this?this? Vocabulary:

P2:cross, traffic light, wait

P3:go out, dinner time

P4:underground, station, wait for,

drink, or, smoke, go out, sign, mean

P5:make a noise, leave rubbish

Sentence structure:

Can I/we…? Yes, you can. No, you can’t.

Don’t….No….

Which sign means…?What does this sign mean?

Functions:

Asking about and recognizing common signs in English.

Giving and responding to simple instructions, warnings and prohibitions.

Asking for and giving/denying permission to do simple things.

Suggestions:

1. Make signs.

2. Role play.

3. Talk about common school prohibitions.

Vocabulary: P6:want, brush, glue, tape, a pair of scissors

P7:French fries, BigMac, McChicken

P8: have a picnic, sandwich,

P9: rice, noodles, vegetables

Unit 2 This is what I wantUnit 2 This is what I want

Sentence structure:

Can I have some…?

What do you want? What does he/she want?I/We want…,please. He/she wants…please.

I’ve/We’ve/They’ve got….

Here’s some….Here are some….

There you are.

Functions:

Asking about and expressing wants.

Suggestions:

1. Set up market stalls and play shop assistants and customers using shopping lists.

3. Find out what your friends have got for the school picnic or class party.

2. Find out the things they need to make some cards , wrap a present or post a letter.

Vocabulary: P10: uniform, need, new term, start

P11: salt, flour(flower), bake

P12: but

P13: dear(expensive), cheap, buy,wear

Unit 3 This is what I needUnit 3 This is what I need

Uncountable nouns: salt, sugar, butter, milk, flour, jam

Sentence structure:

What do you/we need?What do you need for …?I/We need….What does he/she need?He/She needs…

Can I have …?

I’ve got…but I need….…but….(the usage of the conjunction)

Functions:

Asking about and expressing needs.

Making simple comparisons between objects.

Requesting things needed to complete a task.

Suggestions:

1. Discuss and make a list of necessary things for school/a picnic/a birthday party.

3. Show objects and ask the students to make simple comparisons between objects.

2. Discuss and make a list of ingredients needed to make fruit jelly/iced fruit tea.

Module 2

Me, my family and friends

Vocabulary: P16: way

P17: come home, do homework, at half past…

P18: chase mice(pl.), in the evening, at night, go outside

Unit 1 MeUnit 1 Me

P19: group

Sentence structure:

What time do you…?I …at…./At…..

What time does he/she…?He/she…at….At….

What do you usually do at…?

Functions:

Asking what people do regularly and when they do it.

Talking about daily routine.

Suggestions:

1. Sing and act out the song on page 16.

3. Carry out a class survey on daily routines and write a report about the results of the survey.

2. Talk about and write about daily routine on Sundays

4. Write a little story about their pet’s daily routine.

Vocabulary: P20:clap, know, afraid, show, nod, shout, wave, hooray

P21: full, angry, tired, sick

P23: restaurant, menu, dessert, drinks, sausage, carrot, cabbage, potatoes, tea

Unit 2 Are you happy?Unit 2 Are you happy?

Sentence structure:

What do you like?What don’t you like?I like…but I don’t like….

Are you…or…?Is he/she…or…?

Do you like the…one?

Functions:

Describing and asking about people’s feelings briefly.

Expressing likes and dislikes.

Asking about likes and dislikes.

Suggestions:

1. Sing and act out the song on page 20.

3. Make a menu.

2. Role-play various feelings.

4. Use a menu and role-play discussing food preferences in a restaurant.

Vocabulary: P25: first, second, third, fifth, eighth, ninth, twelfth, twentieth, twenty-first, thirtieth, on the…of…

P27: invitation, make an invitation

Unit 3 A birthday party Unit 3 A birthday party

Sentence structure:

When’s your birthday?My birthday is on the first of May.My birthday is on May 1st.

Which…do you like?Which one?

What am I doing?

Functions:

Identifying what people are doing.(present continuous tense)

Asking and giving a date.(days of the month)

Asking about and expressing a preference.

Suggestions:

1. Students use a calendar to identify their birthdays.

3. Talk about birthday present preferences.

2. Carry out a survey to identify all the birthdays in the class.

4. Make a birthday party invitation.

6. Guess what the other students are doing.

5. Role-play the birthday party:giving and receiving a birthday present; making choices of food and drinks.

Module 3

Places and activities

Vocabulary: P31: hall, toilet(bathroom), fan, cupboard, hundred

P33: timetable, subject, Science, Art and craft, Physical Education, Maths, Music, lesson, break, quarter, then

P 34: tram

Unit 1A day at schoolUnit 1A day at school

Sentence structure:

How many …are there…?

Which subject do you like?

What time do you …?At…. (a quarter past/to…)

How do you go …?I go…by….I run/walk/ride a bicycle to….

Functions:

Asking and describing school life.

Counting things up to one hundred.

Expressing likes and dislikes about subjects.

Talking about common modes of transport.

Suggestions:

1. Draw the floor plans of Wendy’s school.

3. Talk about and design their timetable.

2. Students talk about and write a description of their own school.

4. Discuss modes of transport to school.

Vocabulary: P35: too, pencil case

P36: fifty, sixty, seventy, eighty, ninety, note, money, count

Unit 2 Let’s go shopppingUnit 2 Let’s go shoppping

Sentence structure:

How much money have you got?I’ve got….

Which one?The big blue one.

It’s too….

How much …?

Excuse me.

Functions:

Asking about and expressing likes, dislikes and wants.

Talking about money and the price of things.

Suggestions:

1. Make bank notes and tell the other how much money they have got.

2. Students use their money and a price list to role-play shopping.

Vocabulary: P39: follow, rule, swimming pool, dangerous, play with

P 41: North Country Park, South underground station, bin

Unit 3 Follow the signs! Unit 3 Follow the signs!

Sentence structure:

Don’t….

Which one means…?

Why not?

Functions:

Talk about signs and rules.

Suggestions:

1. Make signs for swimming pool and beach.

2. Write a story which invovles a family who follow and obey lots of signs in the course of a day out.

Module 4

The natural world

Vocabulary: P44: wild animals (farm animals), top, zoo-keeper, jungle

P45: crocodile, if, busy, peel

P46: through, bar

Unit 1 Wild animalsUnit 1 Wild animals

Sentence structure:

Does it…?Can it…?Is it…?

What …?What colour…?Where…?

Functions:

Talking and writing about an animal in terms of name, appearance, habits and habitat.

Read short animal poems and write their own poems.

Suggestions:

1. Guessing game: What animal do I like?

2. Students draw an animal they like and write a poem or a simple description for their picture.

Vocabulary: P47: ugly, cocoon, spell

P48: insect, lay eggs, caterpillar, grow, become

Unit 2 ButterfliesUnit 2 Butterflies

P49: body, feeler, wing

Sentence structure:

Let’s look at/read….

I don’t know.

How do you spell that in English?

Functions:

Talking about the life-cycle and changes of a butterfly.

Asking and responding to questions about English (spelling).

Talking about the butterflies they like and dislike.

Suggestions:

1. Play a spelling game.

2. Make a poster to identify the different parts of a butterfly.

3. Draw leaves, cocoons, caterpillars , butterflies and a sun , then use the pictures to demonstrate the life-cycle and changes of a butterfly.

Vocabulary: P50: place, Tiananmen Square,Yu Garden, West Lake, Li River, Ocean Park

P 51: map, aquarium, shark, dolphin, diver, dive pool, seal, ocean theature

Unit 3 Parks and places in ChinaUnit 3 Parks and places in China

P52: catch a bus, sea, island, tower, high, brave

Sentence structure:

I know.I don’t know this place.

Let’s….

Functions:

Know the English names of important places in China.

Talking about geographical locations.

Using Let’s … to make simple suggestions.

Suggestions:

1. Show the students photographs of famous places in China: identify them and talk about them.

2. Students make a brochure to introduce different places in China to the tourists.

3. Write a similar story after reading the story on page 52.