Kid’s Box 4 syllabus

After completing the course Kid’s Box 4, the student will achieve the following results:

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

🤝Communicative functions

• Making comparisons.
• Describing people.
• Talking about daily routines and their frequency.
• Expressing sequences of actions.
• Expressing opinions and feelings.
• Describing people in connection with what they are doing.
• Describing places.
• Talking about sports you can learn to play or want to do.
• Expressing actions from the past.
• Expressing the cause of an action.
• Talking and asking about actions in the past.
• Describing sequences.
• Talking about competences in the past.
• Stating the consequences of an action.
• Expressing where objects are.
• Expressing indeterminate quantities.

💬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 simple structures and according to some given example. (8-9 sentences)
• The student is able to join a conversation using familiar vocabulary and structures.

👂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 find some needed information in the text (scanning).
• The student is able to identify relevant information on written posters and simple maps.

✍️Writing

• The student is able to make up a composition according to some given plan.
• The student is able to fill in a form or card with your personal data.
• The student is able to write short letters, e-mails or postcards with personal information and information about your immediate surroundings.

📝Grammar

• Revising have got, want to, can.
• Simple Present
• Adverbs of frequency: sometimes, always, never.
• Before – after.
• Use of adjectives.
• Relative sentences with who and where.
• Adverbs of manner.
• Learn to do, want to do.
• Simple past (regular and irregular verbs), statements, questions and answers.
• Because.
• Ordinal numbers from 1 to 20.
• Could – Couldn’t
• Conjunction so.
• Comparatives with adjectives of more than two syllables.
• Superlative form of adjectives.
• Prepositions into, out of, round
• Expression of quantity: a bag / bottle / bowl / box / cup / glass of want someone to do (something)

🗣️Vocabulary

• Jobs
• Adjectives
• School subjects
• Describing people
• Sports
• Telling the time
• Exploration and adventures
• Hobbies
• Health and illnesses
• Electronic devices and current technology.
• Animals at the zoo.
• Food
• Parties and festivities.

🔤Phonics

• Vowel sounds: /ae/, /ei/ and /ɑ:/ in conjunction with various written letters
• Sounds /i/, /i:/ and /ai/ connected with various written letters
• Words with mute consonants
• Sounds /b/, /f/ and /v/ connected with various written letters
• Sounds /d/ /t/ or /id/ with the ending –ed in the simple past.
• The sound /ɜː/ written in different ways.
• The sound /ʌ/ connected with various written letters.
• The sounds /θ /, /ð / and /d/ connected with various written letters.
• Number of syllables in a word

🎨CLIL

• Maths: measuring
• Sport: ball games
• Literature: poems, plays and novels
• Music: body percussion
• Science: endangered animals; skeletons; food
• Technology: robots

👪Values

• Valuing others
• Being kind and polite
• The importance of being safe on the road
• Taking care of the world and valuing the importance of recycling