Dear parents, Find below a summary of the topics which we will

Dear parents,
Find below a summary of the topics which we will study this month.
UNIT 1: Travel trouble (we will finish this unit).
• Vocabulary:
Air travel: departures, arrivals, boarding pass, land, check-in desk, queue,
trolley, take off, passenger, flight attendant, runway, hand luggage, suitcase.
At the station: receptionist, guest, backpacker, ticket office, guard, tourist
information centre, platform, reception, lift.
• Grammar:
Past simple & past continuous with while
While I was taking photos, he agreed to sign a football.
I saw a hot-air balloon while I was walking to school.
• Phonetics:
Pronunciation of past simple regular verbs:
/d/
/Id/
/t/
• Writing:
Tips for writing descriptive or historical texts (structures and verbs).
• Speaking:
Tips and expressions for having a conversation (I suppose that, maybe,
perhaps…).
UNIT 2: Sports and hobbies
• Vocabulary:
Sports vocabulary: archery, gymnastics, fencing, athletics, water polo,
trampolining, martial arts, net, rope, racket, hoop, crash mat, badminton,
tennis.
Hobbies: sing in a choir, do circus skills, collect cards, belong to a sports
club, go to drama class, do photography, do needlework, make models.
• Grammar:
Present perfect & past simple questions
Have you ever played tennis?
When did you go play tennis?
Present perfect: for & since
How long has she done gymnastics?
I have done gymnastics
for two years.
since last year.
• Writing:
Tips for writing biographical texts (“extreme adjectives” for emphasizing
texts).
• Speaking:
Tips for cooperative learning. Discussing ideas with your schoolmates.
UNIT 3: Healthy habits (we will start this unit)
• Vocabulary:
Food: an avocado, beans, beef, a chilli pepper, cinnamon, corn, garlic, prawns,
a lime, an onion, peanuts, turkey, guacamole, lemonade and vocabulary about
shapes, textures & tastes of food.
Everyday activities: drink fizzy drinks, do exercise, drink water, eat fruit
and vegetables, eat junk food, spend time on the computer, rest, go for
walks.
• Grammar:
Countable nouns: too & enough
There are too many tomatoes/ There aren’t tomatoes enough.
Uncountable nouns: too & enough
There is too much rice.
There isn’t rice enough.
Modal verbs for necessity: need to, don’t need to, needn’t
I need to eat more fruit.
You needn’t/don’t need to jog every day.
Modal verbs for obligation, prohibition and advice
You must eat fruit every day (obligation).
You mustn’t drink too much coke (prohibition).
You should do regular exercise (advice).
• Writing:
Tips for writing texts with arguments for and against an idea (connective
words or phrases like firstly, secondly, however, on the one hand, on the
other hand, etc.).
• Speaking:
Speaking tips. Using notes and questions for having a conversation about an
specific topic.
Adverbs of time.
At home you can help your child learn the vocabulary by working on some/all of
these activities:
• Ask them to talk about the last time they took a plane/train with you.
• Ask them to describe any historical event they have learnt in their History
lessons.
• Ask them to tell you about their last weekend: What they were doing on
Saturday afternoon and what happened in the meantime
• Ask them about their hobbies or the sports they like doing.
• Ask them to tell you how long they have been doing an activity.
• Ask them to investigate the biography of any famous person they like.
• Ask them to tell you about the activities they usually do in their daily
routine.
• Ask them to talk about food using too/enough with countable/uncountable
nouns.
• Ask them to mention some obligations, prohibitions or advices they have at
school (use the following modal verbs: must/ mustn’t/ should).
You may also find great ideas for activities and materials on the following
websites:
http://www.elihinkel.org/tips/tenses.htm
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.htm
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-continuous-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-continuous-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32SurxnE4s
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/countable-uncountable-nouns.htm
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-too-enough.php
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-too-enough.php
http://www.ejerciciodeingles.com/ejercicios-distinguir-too-much-too-many-enough/
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/108.html
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-99390.php
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/modals/must_not_need_not.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2786
Estimados padres,
A continuación pueden encontrar un sumario de los contenidos que estudiaremos
durante este mes.,
UNIDAD 1: Travel trouble (se dará por finalizada esta unidad)
• Vocabulario:
Air travel: departures, arrivals, boarding pass, land, check-in desk, queue,
trolley, take off, passenger, flight attendant, runway, hand luggage, suitcase.
At the station: receptionist, guest, backpacker, ticket office, guard, tourist
information centre, platform, reception, lift.
• Gramática:
Past simple & past continuous with while
While I was taking photos, he agreed to sign a football.
I saw a hot-air balloon while I was walking to school.
• Fonética:
Pronunciación de –ed en los verbos regulares de pasado simple:
/d/
/Id/
/t/
• Escritura:
Consejos para escribir textos descriptivos o históricos (uso de determinadas
estructuras y verbos adecuadas para este tipo de escritos).
• Conversación:
Consejos y expresiones para mantener conversaciones (I suppose that,
maybe, perhaps…).
UNIDAD 2: Sports and hobbies
• Vocabulario:
Sports vocabulary: archery, gymnastics, fencing, athletics, water polo,
trampolining, martial arts, net, rope, racket, hoop, crash mat, badminton,
tennis.
Hobbies: sing in a choir, do circus skills, collect cards, belong to a sports
club, go to drama class, do photography, do needlework, make models.
• Gramática:
Present perfect & past simple questions
Have you ever played tennis?
When did you go play tennis?
Present perfect: for & since
How long has she done gymnastics?
I have done gymnastics
for two years.
since last year.
• Escritura:
Consejos para escribir un texto biográfico (“adjetivos extremos” para
enfatizar expresiones).
• Conversación:
Consejos para un aprendizaje cooperativo. Discutir ideas y opiniones con los c
compañeros de clase.
UNIDAD 3: Healthy habits (se comenzará esta unidad)
• Vocabulario:
Food: an avocado, beans, beef, a chilli pepper, cinnamon, corn, garlic, prawns,
a lime, an onion, peanuts, turkey, guacamole, lemonade and vocabulary about
shapes, textures & tastes of food.
Everyday activities: drink fizzy drinks, do exercise, drink water, eat fruit
and vegetables, eat junk food, spend time on the computer, rest, go for
walks.
• Gramática:
Sustantivos contables: too & enough
There are too many tomatoes/ There aren’t tomatoes enough.
Sustantivos incontables: too & enough
There is too much rice.
There isn’t rice enough.
Verbos modales para “necesidades”: need to, don’t need to, needn’t
I need to eat more fruit.
You needn’t/don’t need to jog every day.
Verbos modales para “obligaciones, prohibiciones y consejos”
You must eat fruit every day (obligation).
You mustn’t drink too much coke (prohibition).
You should do regular exercise (advice).
• Escritura:
Consejos para escribir textos con argumentos a favor y en contra de una idea
(uso de palabras y frases que sirven para estructurar y enlazar las distintas
partes del texto: firstly, secondly, however, on the one hand, on the other
hand, etc.).
• Conversación:
Consejos para mantener una conversación en inglés. Notas y preguntas
preparadas de antemano para conversar a cerca de un tema específico (uso
de adverbios de tiempo).
En casa pueden ayudar a su hijo/hija a aprender lo estudiado en clase a través de
las siguientes actividades:
• Preguntar al niño/a a cerca de la última vez que tomasteis un tren/avión
juntos.
• Pedirle que describa un acontecimiento histórico que hayan aprendido en la
clase de historia.
• Preguntar al niño/a por lo que hizo el pasado fin de semana: ¿Qué estaban
hacienda el sábado por la tarde y qué pasó entretanto?
• Hablar con el niño/a a cerca de los hobbies y deportes que le gustan hacer.
• Preguntarles durante cuánto tiempo han estado haciendo una actividad.
• Pedirles que investiguen y que os cuenten datos sobre la biografía de algún
famoso que les guste.
• Preguntarles a cerca de las actividades que suelen hacer durante su día a día.
• Pedirles que hablen de comida utilizando “too/enough” con sustantivos
contables e incontables.
• Preguntarle sobre algunas obligaciones, prohibiciones o consejos que tienen
establecidos en su clase o escuela (utilizando los verbos modales: must/ mustn’t/
should).
En los siguientes espacios web, también pueden encontrar algunas actividades,
materiales y explicaciones gramaticales que son útiles para repasar y reforzar lo
aprendido en clase:
http://www.elihinkel.org/tips/tenses.htm
https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/es
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-present-continuous-1.htm
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-simple-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/present-continuous-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-continuous-use.html
http://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32SurxnE4s
http://www.englishpage.com/minitutorials/countable-uncountable-nouns.htm
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-lesson-too-enough.php
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/grammar-exercise-too-enough.php
http://www.ejerciciodeingles.com/ejercicios-distinguir-too-much-too-many-enough/
http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/108.html
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-99390.php
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/modals/must_not_need_not.htm
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2786