LISTENING:

• Listen appropriately for a sustained period of time (6 minutes) and for a variety of purposes (to seek information, to gain knowledge, for instructions, for enjoyment)

• To listen carefully in order to effectively participate in class discussions/activities.

• To listen for gist or specific information and make predictions when listening to short dialogues, descriptions, conversation or songs.

• Understand classroom commands.

SPEAKING:

• Use a wide vocabulary of learned sentence structures appropriately to communicate.

• To participate and contribute in discussions, conversations, class and group meetings, dramatisations and to express their feelings and reactions to a given text or a specific situation.

• To identify and talk about main ideas on a given topic and be able to accept and refuse the ideas and opinions of others.

• To infer meanings and draw conclusions

• To prepare and present well-organised presentations for 2 minutes on topics such as personal life, school life, shopping, families, interests and hobbies.

• To use a wide vocabulary of both learned and newly acquired and use learned sentence structures, which enables the listener to understand messages conveyed.

• To comment on and respond to the events and characters' feelings in different types of texts; ie (letters, stories and poems.)

• Speak accurately and fluently, using correct word order and structure.

• Use correct punctuation.

READING :

• To find and select reading materials for pleasure, instruction, research and information.

• To start to find morals and meanings from a range of genres and other literary styles and make a connection to their own daily life.

• To recognise and distinguish between the different literary styles and genres.

• To identify and describe elements of a story (setting, plot, characters and theme) and to recognize that stories have structures such as beginning, middle and end.

• To identify the main idea, to recognise cause and effect and to draw conclusions.

• To understand the organisation of different types of texts- format and layout of letters, lists, recipes, stories, poetry, plays and dialogues.

• To understand the ideas, feelings and attitudes expressed in various texts

• To use dictionaries, to recognise, select and use different parts of speech.

• To make predictions about events and characters before and during reading a story.

WRITING:

• To use punctuation, spelling correctly.

• To use in relevance and correct context learned and newly acquired vocabulary.

• To write simple sequence stories and other texts with a beginning, middle and end, characters, setting and events of approximately 100 words using a format, suitable for the literary style.

• To plan, draft and edit to produce a complete piece of work.

• To criticise and analyse their own work and the work of others.

• Write in a consistent legible style.

• To summarise and review selected readers (20-25 sentences)

• To submit a portfolio work based on the unit of inquiry 'genres' to include poems, formal/informal letters and stories.