Kid’s Box 6 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

• Revision:
  • Describing places, animals, possessions.
  • Asking about quantities.
  • Asking about how often something happens.
  • Giving advice.
  • Expressing obligation.
• Talking about plans for the future.
• Talking about actions which are going to happen based on evidence.
• Talking about actions connected by relative clauses.
• Making predictions about the future.
• Talking about actions which are connected.
• Describing what was happening at a moment in the past.
• Give and receive directions using a map.
• Talking about non-specific quantities.
• Talking about what happened in the past and how it will affect the present.
• Describing clothes and paintings.
• Talking about possibility.

💬Speaking

• The student is able to recite poems or sing a song with correct pronunciation and intonation.
• The student is able to describe an object or a person using familiar structures. (10-12 sentences)
• The student is able to take part in spoken interaction spontaneously.

👂Listening

• The student is able to understand a story based on familiar vocabulary and constructions and accompanied by visual aids. The story may contain some unknown words.
• The student is able to guess the meaning of some unknown words from the context.

📖Reading

• The student is able to read a text based on familiar vocabulary and structures, including some unknown words.
• The student is able to deduce information from diverse texts about subjects of interest.
• The student is able to identify relevant information on written posters and simple maps.

✍️Writing

• Reproduce simple texts using previously presented models.
• Fill in forms or cards with personal information and data.
• Write short letters, e-mails or postcards with personal information and information about your immediate surroundings.
• Write simple stories and descriptions.

📝Grammar

• Revision: Present Simple, Present Continuous, can, have got, how many, how often, must, should, there’s, has got
• going to (plans)
• Relative clauses: who, where, which
• Will (predictions)
• Connectors: after that, because, before, then, when
• Past Continuous and Past Simple.
• Countable and uncountable nouns: enough, too many, too much
• Present perfect with for, since, still
• Quantifiers: some, any, no, every, someone, anyone, no-one, everyone, something, anything, nothing, everything, somewhere, anywhere, nowhere, everywhere
• Modal verbs: may, might
• Present perfect with just, yet, already
• Regular and irregular past participles

🗣️Vocabulary

• Homework
• New technologies
• Adjectives
• Theatre
• Myths and legends
• Mythological animals
• Current means of transport
• Space travel
• The countryside
• Cardinal points
• Adventures and expeditions
• Food
• Seas and oceans
• Free time and hobbies
• Clothes
• Countries and nationalities

🔤Phonics

• Pronunciation of compound names
• Sounds /θ / and /ð / associated with the written letter th.
• Contractions ‘ll, ‘’m, ’re, ’s, n’t.
• Words with ‘y’.
• Sounds /k/ and /g/
• Written letter gh.
• Sounds /b/ and /v/.
• Stressed syllables in words.
• The sound /ʌ/.
• The suffix –ed: sounds /id/, /d/, /t/.
• The correct intonation for expressing different feelings.
• Intonation in word lists.
• The sounds /θ /, /ð / and /d/.

🎨CLIL

• Literature: myths and legends
• Art: landscape paintings and artists
• Science: solar system, microorganisms, food chain
• Music: musical genres and styles
• History: history of dresses around the world
• Language: the origins of the English language

👪Values

• Value the importance of the responsible use of new technologies.
• Value the importance of the safety at home.
• Value the importance of living together at home
• Value the importance of sharing problems.