Kid’s Box 5 syllabus

After completing the course Kid’s Box 5, the student will achieve the following results:

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

🤝Communicative functions

• Exchange personal information.
• Talk about daily routines.
• Talk about tastes and preferences.
• Ask and tell the time.
• Talk about plans and intentions for the future.
• Understand and give instructions about getting around the city.
• Talk about things that happened in the past.
• Describe objects depending on the materials they are made with.
• Understand and say dates.
• Talk about sensations and the senses.
• Give and take advice.
• Talk about personal experiences from the past, recent events and completed actions which are relevant in the present.
• Suggest and propose actions.

💬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. (9-10 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.

📝Grammar

• Like / love + ing / nouns
• ’d like + infinitive
• Short questions and answers in Present Simple
• Telling the time: What time is it? It’s quarter past one
• going to (plans, intentions and predictions)
• giving directions around the town
• prepositions of place
• Past Simple
• Past Continuous
• made of / made from / come from.
• (feel, taste, smell, look, sound) + like
• should / shouldn’t
• Present Perfect
• Modal verbs: can, must, should

🗣️Vocabulary

• School subjects
• Television
• Jobs
• Places in a city and addresses
• Natural disasters and verbs connected with them
• Types of materials
• Cooking food
• Senses and sensations
• The environment
• Sports
• The seasons

🔤Phonics

• /dʒ/ and /tʃ/ in conjunction with the letters j and ch
• /juː/
• schwa /ə/ in conjunction with the letters –er and –or
• /ŋ/, /m/ and /n/
• Words which include ‘ie’ and ‘ei’
• /s/ and /ʃ/ in conjunction with various letters
• Weak and strong syllables
• /Ʌ/ and /æ/
• Words with double ‘l’
• Rhyming words
• /z/ and /s/ in conjunction with the letters c and s
• Verbs in the past ending in –ght
• Spoken emphasis in words: the weak form of and
• Rhythm in sentences
• Words which end in –gh

🎨CLIL

• Geography: volcanoes
• History: ancient cities
• Science: teeth, plastic, optical illusions, extinct animals and fossils
• Technology: making cartoons
• Sport: Olympic Games and Paralympics

👪Values

• Value the importance of being respectful in class.
• Value the importance of emergency services and how they help people.
• Value the importance of saying the truth without hurting people.
• Value the importance of having friends.