*Course outline is subject to change
Overall Curriculum Expectations
By the end of this course, students will :
Listening and Speaking
- demonstrate the ability to understand, interpret, and evaluate spoken English for a variety of purposes;
- use speaking skills and strategies to communicate in English for a variety of classroom and social purposes;
- use correctly the language structures appropriate for this level to communicate orally in English
Reading
- read and demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts for different purposes;
- use a variety of reading strategies throughout the reading process to extract meaning from texts;
- Â use a variety of strategies to build vocabulary;
- locate and extract relevant information from written and graphic texts for a variety of purposes
Writing
- write in a variety of forms for various purposes and audiences;
- organize ideas coherently in writing;
- Â use correctly the conventions of written English appropriate for this level, including grammar, usage, spelling, and punctuation;
- Â use the stages of the writing process.
Socio-cultural Competence and Media Literacy
- use English and non-verbal communication strategies appropriately in a variety of social contexts;
- demonstrate an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizenship, and of the contributions of diverse groups to Canadian society;
- demonstrate knowledge of and adaptation to the Ontario education system;
- demonstrate an understanding of, interpret, and create a variety of media works
Outline of Course Content
Student-Teacher Introductions
Topics:Â Â
- Eating habits of North Americans, Groceries, Cooking
- Word associations and relations
- Strategies/Resources for Success
Assignments and Tests:
- Journal (daily free writing) and other
- portfolio entries
- Writing Conventions Test (1)
Grammar:
- Subject and Object
- Be
- There is/are
- Question forms- yes/no
- Information Questions
- Final Punctuation
- Negation of Be, Do, Will simple present
- Simple sentence: subject and object
- Capitalization of first word
- Capitalization of proper nouns
Topics:
- Habits and Routines
- Responding to Teachers and Peers
- Non Verbal Communication
- The Classroom
- Academic/Personal/Community Differences in
- behaviour
Assignments and Tests:
- Student-Teacher Conference
- Individual Presentation: topics TBA
- Reading Test (2)
Grammar:
- Count and non-count nouns: singular, plural, regular,
- irregular
- Apostrophe: contractions and possessive
- Possessive form of proper nouns
- Articles
- Demonstrative Pronouns
- Impersonal Expressions
- Have, Can
- Simple Present
- Simple past regular and irregular
- Let’s
Topics:
- Regional Differences
- Citizenship- Levels of Government
- Current Issues in Canada and the World
- Diverse Societies
Assignments and Tests:
- Biographical letter
Grammar:
- Cardinal umbers
- Ordinal Numbers
- Simple future
- Present Progressive
- Contractions with be, do
- Imperative forms
- Possessive
- High frequency adjectives
- Comparative/Superlative
- Some, any, every, all
Topics:
- Types of Media
- TAP (Topic, Audience, Purpose)
- Sources of Information
- Creating Media Texts
Assignments and Tests:
- News Report
- Media Project
Grammar:
- Adverbs to modify adjectives
- Adverbs of time and frequency
- Too
- Conjunctions: and, but, or, because
- Prepositions of location, direction and time
Final Evaluation:
- Final exam
- Student-teacher conference
