Kid’s Box 1 syllabus

After completing the course Kid’s Box 1, the student will achieve the following results:

• 🤝Communicative functions
• 💬Speaking
• 👂Listening
• 📖Reading
• ✍️Writing
• 📝Grammar
• 🗣️Vocabulary
• 🔤Phonics
• 🎨CLIL
• 👪Values

🤝Communicative functions

• Greetings and farewells.
• Introduce yourself and your classmates.
• Ask basic information about a person: name and age.
• Talk and ask about where things are and describe them.
• Describing an animals’ characteristics and features.
• Describe and ask about another person’s physical features.
• Talk and ask about what you are wearing and what other people are wearing.
• Talk and ask about possession.
• Talk and ask about another person’s skills.
• Talk and ask about what other people are doing at the moment.
• Talk and ask about tastes for food.

💬Speaking

• The student is able to recite or sing a very simple song with correct pronunciation and intonation.
• The student is able to answer the questions orally using simple vocabulary and structures.
• The student is able to describe an object or a person using simple structures and according to some given example. (3-4 sentences)
• The student is able to join a short everyday talk on the given topics: meeting a new friend, toys, school, family, animals, food

👂Listening

• The student is able to recognize the teacher’s commands and react to them.
• The student is able to understand a story based on familiar vocabulary and constructions and accompanied by visual aids

📖Reading

• The student is able to recognize separate letters and previously learnt words.
• The student is able to read simple sentences based on familiar vocabulary and structures.

✍️Writing

• The student is able to reproduce separate letters and previously learnt words.
• The student is able to copy words and simple structures from the example.

📝Grammar

Grammar is introduced by structures, not grammar rules.

• It is… It isn’t… Is it…? – Yes, it is. No, it isn’t.
• They are… They aren’t… Are they…? – Yes, they are. No, they aren’t.
• I have got… I haven’t got… Have you got…? – Yes, I have. No, I haven’t.
• He/She has got… He hasn’t got… Has he got…? – Yes, he has. No, he hasn’t.
• I can… I can’t… Can you…? – Yes, I can. / No, I can’t.
• Where is? – It’s on/in/under…
• What are you doing? – I’m…ing.
• What’s he/she doing? – He’s / She’s…ing.
• I like… I don’t like… Do you like…?

🗣️Vocabulary

• Introducing yourself
• Numbers 1-10
• Primary and secondary colours
• School things and classroom actions
• Family members
• Toys and games
• Pets and wild animals
• Body parts
• Descriptive adjectives
• Action verbs
• Clothes
• Transport
• Rooms in the house and furniture
• Food
• Senses

🔤Phonics

• initial /s/ with the letter s
• initial /p/ with the letter p
• initial /b/ with the letter b
• /t/ with the letter t
• initial /d/ with the letter d
• /æ/ with the letter a
• /e/ with the letter e
• Initial consonant groups /gr/, /br/ and /fr/
• /i/ with the letter i
• /ɒ/ with the letter o
• /l/ with the letter i
• /ʌ/ with the letter u
• /h/ with the letter h
• /ai/ with the letters i, e, y

🎨CLIL

• Maths: adding
• Art: mixing colours, fruit in paintings
• Science: senses
• Geography: habitats
• Sports: things for sports

👪Values

• Making friends
• Being kind and polite
• Looking after pets
• Loving nature
• Working in teams
• Keeping clean