scheme of work english for beginners 2 (esol) manor

Adult and Community LearningFAMILY LEARNING

Scheme of Work

Course: ESOL for Beginners 2 (ESOL) for Secondary school parents

Venue: Manor Community College

Tutor(s): Helen Lygo Term: Autumn 2011Dates:19 Sep – 5 Dec 2011

Start time:10.00Length of session:2 hrs

No of sessions: 10Total contact hours: 20 hrsHomework hours (if applicable):homework is set but no quantity of hours advised

Group profile: Parents and other carers at Manor Community College

Method(s) of initial assessment:Entry 1 Tests/Tasks

Learner levels (when available): Pre-Entry to Entry 2

Is accreditation internal or external, or both (i.e. where external accreditation is optional)? RARPA

If accreditation is external, who is the awarding body? N/A

Signature of tutor/assessor:

Date:

Name of Internal Verifier (if applicable):Signature:Date:

Awarding body course identification number is (if applicable):

Course aims: To improve reading and writing skills in

English to allow parents to support their children in transition to Secondary school in Britain

To build confidence in learners so they feel able to communicate better with their child’s school & in the wider community

To outline progression opportunities

Course objectives:1. Learners can confidently approach simple texts and

glean the required information from them2. Learners can write short letters and notes

appropriately3. Learners can enjoy reading and writing in English

Methods of assessment (please add the number of the objective you are assessing next to each method):

Initial and diagnostic assessments recorded in ILP

Listening to individuals, pair work, group work and whole class activities 1, 3

Observation of individuals, pair work, group work and whole class activities 1, 2, 3

Checking learners’ written work 2, 3

Session Topic/content Outline activity/notes Language ContentResources (See session plan for specific exercises/ books)

Core Curriculum ref.

1

Capital and lowercase lettersInstruction/study activity words

What do you want to achieve in reading and writing?Reading/Writing/Speaking/Listening – which skills do you use for each activity?Revision of upper and lower case letters and their names/matching upper and lowercase lettersInstruction words for use in classIntroduction to picture dictionaries and “New Words” tub.

Capital and lowercase letters

Imperatives:tick, cross, circle, write in lower case, write in capitals, copy, underline, match

word order with imperatives

Pictures of reading/writing etc skillsAlphabet cardsPicture dictionaries (and every week)New Words pot and blank cards (and every week)Pre-E Reading in class 1b sheet

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2

Personal detailsReading different sorts of texts, Making and writing greetings cards

Personal details – practising upper and lowercase lettersRecognising and naming different types of text.Adding appropriate information to each type of textReading test E1 or E2 depending on LCelebrations and corresponding greetings cards

Letter, email, note, sign, food tin, advertGreetings used on greetings cards and exclamation markHappy Birthday!Happy Anniversary!Congratulations!Good Luck!Get well soon!Happy New Year!

Pre-E My personal details sheet 2cPre-E Dear Mr Smith sheet 4b

E1 and E2 Diagnostic Reading testsPre-E Congratulations! sheet 4c

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3

Shopping lists, shopping quantities, plurals

Shopping centres and markets in GB and Ls’ countriesShopping centre wordsGleaning information from shopping centre textsElicit names for containers/quantities for groceries“I would like a packet of biscuits.”“I would like two bunches of flowers.”

lift, escalator, toilets, car park, telephone a packet of biscuitsa box of chocolates2 packets of biscuits2 boxes of chocolates etc etc

regular and common irregular plurals

E1 Going shopping 6b sheetE1 CDrealia – lots of shopping itemscards with names of shopping items (yellow) and shopping quantities (blue)

E1 A shopping list 6c sheet

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Formal lettersLetters to and from school

E1/E2 Writing TestA letter from the Hospital – gleaning information about addressee, writer, dates, times etcDifferent kinds of written communication and whyLetter from Manor CC to parents- gleaning informationWriting letter to teacher to explaining son/daughter has a hospital appointment and will be absent from school.

Dear Mr Jones……Yours sincerely….

Dear Sir/Madam…..Yours faithfully….

E1 Task 7 Writing Test sheet

Pre-E A letter from the hospital 14b sheetE1 A note to college 3c sheet

Printouts of Manor Community College September letter to parents/carers

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5

WeatherContent for postcardsWriting postcards

Feedback on Writing TestFive main types of weather

What a sentence is.Making stories of the seasons using pre-written sentences.

Content of a postcard, words to use

It’s windy, It’s raining, It’s a rainy day; It’s snowing, It’s a snowy day; It’s cloudy, It’s sunny

Full stop and capital letter

I’m in …….The food is ……

Pre-E Seasons 12c sheet

Pre-E A daytrip 15c sheet

Postcards of Cambridge/art/museums etc

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about weather, food, town/placeWriting postcard with frameFree writing of a postcard/stamping cards ready to post

The town is……The weather is,,,,.etc

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Job advertisements and applications

Hangman with vocab wordsMatching people to job advertsAbbreviations in advertsGleaning information from advertsMaking an application for a jobPlanning questions to ask at interviewListing job names from real job advertsRole playing interviews

Vocab for job applications:Lazy, hard-working, polite, rude, organised, disorganisedAbbreviations:Tel, ph, hrs, P/T, K, IT, Mon/Tues etc am/pmPresent continuousYes/no questionsintensifier ‘very’

E1 Person wanted 11b sheet

E1 A job application 11c sheet

Real job adverts from the paper

Sheep eating grass video file (to illustrate present continuous)

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Hospitals, prescriptions and medicines

“Simon Says” with body partsCrossword on body partsExpressions about common ailmentsListening for gist and detail to conversations at the doctor’sPractising conversations at doctor’sMatching pictures to labels of medicine typesLooking for information on real medicine packets and in exercise on sheet.

have got – indicating possession

Medicines vocab: capsules, cream, medicine, powder, tablets

dosage, recommended for, external use only, warning

E1 At the doctor’s 14a sheetE1 Medicine labels 14b sheet

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Reading the news, newspapers, Sentence structure and word order

Word order in English sentences (Establish subject,verb,object)Putting words in sentence in the correct order for standard English proseGleaning specific information from pictures and a few words in the newspaperGleaning a story from a few lines of text

word order: subject-verb-object(word order: subject-verb-adjective)

Vocab: article (in newspaper as opposed to advertisement already learned); headline

Ex1 & 2, Unit 93, Essential Grammar in Use, Murphy CUP 2007Short newspaper cuttings with pictures, egRoad to Disaster?Beauty Queens in CambridgeMisty Morning pictures

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in a newspaperGleaning what learners can from pictures and words in newspaper

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School reports, asking about students’ progress in school

More word order

Establish: subject verb (object) place then timePre-teach vocab for school reportsYear10/11 Report, GCSE GradesYear 9 Report, NC Grades and what national expectations are for each Key Stage.Gleaning information/answering questions from the reports

Vocab for school reports:target, behaviour, effort, (attainment), organisation

simple adverbs of place and time:here, there, now

Word order: subject-verb-place-timeWord order: subject-verb-prepositional phrase

Ex 3, Unit 93, Essential Grammar in Use, Murphy CUP 2007,

Real model reports from school

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Reading storiesListening to stories Reconstructing storiesHaving fun with writing

online dictionary

Reflection/evaluationProgression

Tutor reads story to learners with props to aid understandingLearners watch a story online and then reconstruct the story with pictures and pre-printed sentences, and make their story into a book

Introduce use of online learner’s dictionary to encourage independent learning

Play “Consequences”

sentence connectives: then, next

girl’s nameboy’s nameplaceobjectaction

Short stories/fairy taleseg One Snowy Night, Nick ButterworthProps for storywww.britishcouncil\learnenglishkids

Sets of pictures and wordsof story to reconstruct

http://dictionary.cambridge.org

Paper cut for “Consequences”

ILP Part 3 for learner reflectionEvaluation questionnaires

Information on other courses and careers advice

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Internal verifier: ____________________ Signature: ___________________ Date: ______________


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