This document outlines the contents and activities for an English language learning unit titled "Let's Get Started". The unit aims to develop students' oral and written English skills, language awareness, and sociocultural awareness. It contains 8 sessions with activities focusing on vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, speaking, writing, and self-assessment related to topics like personal information, hobbies, daily routines, household chores, and unusual jobs. The sessions include tasks like role-playing dialogues, completing sentences, answering true/false questions, and drafting and writing profiles.

1. UNIT 1 “LET'S GET STARTED”
Breaking the Ice!

2. Table of Contents:

3. Aims
Give personal information Listen to a dialogue
for gist / detail.
Talk about likes and
dislikes. Write a class contract.
Read online chat & text
about unusual jobs Write a personal
description.

4. Aims
Recognize and use vocabulary (daily routines and
household chores).
Understand & use Present simple/continuous + -ing
Practise pronunciation: sentence stress
Develop students' learning strategies.
Integrate & foster key competences.
Assess progress & participation in the learning process

5. Contents
Oral and written skills:
Language awareness
Sociocultural aspects & intercultural awareness

6. Oral & written skills: listening to
A dialogue (hobbies) & A dialogue & completing
identifying sport. sentences with words
from a box.
5 sentences
and
writing them

7. Oral & written skills: oral interaction
Talking about rights and Role-playing dialogue
duties: class contract. about hobbies.

8. Oral & written skills: oral production
Students' introduction Talking about a member
in English of your family.
Expressing likes and
dislikes (hobbies)

9. Oral & written skills: reading
A text for gist for Online chat &
unusual jobs. answering True / False
& I don't know questions
Inferring activities
from photos.

10. Oral & written skills: writing
Completing a table Drafting notes for
using personal a description.
information.
Writing a final version of a description
from previous notes.

11. Language awareness:
Functions and linguistic exponents:
1. Expressing tastes & preferences
2. Debating class behaviour rules/modals:
can, cannot
3. Describing daily activities & household chores.
4. Frequency adverbs: present simple &
continuous

12. Language awareness:
Vocabulary:
personal information, hobbies, jobs, routines &
household chores: go climbing, listen to music,
microwave, dishwasher, lay the table, make lunch,
lawnmower, etc.
Pronunciation: sentence stress

13. Language awareness
Reflection upon learning:
Use of strategies to organise, acquire, remember
and use vocabulary and expressions related to the
topics of the unit.

14. Sociocultural aspects & intercultural
awareness
Reading a text about hobbies, activities
& filling the gaps in it.
Listening to a recording about Sweden;
answering true/false & matching people-activities
Reading a text about Carnegie Hall & matching
pictures/sentences

15. STUDENTS ACTIVITIES
SESSION 1 A Pact with the Devil
A1Lead-in: students and I will introduce ourselves.
15’
A2Brainstorming on useful expressions of the
English class 10’
A3Drafting rights & duties for a class contract
to be agreed and signed by everyone 20’
A4Listening to a clip about daily activities;
matching pictures and words 10’

16. SESSION 2 Familiarize with the topic
A1Vocabulary Matching sentences & music,
leisure activities 10'
A2ICTGrammar Identifying grammatical rules:
present simple vs. present continuous 20'
A3 ICT Vocabulary Household chores + -ing form
10'
A4Writing Activities from a list of verbs by including
the time you do the activities 15'

17. SESSION 3 Dealing with routines and activities
A1Reading a text (online meeting) two friends for gist 10'
A2Listening to text again for detail by answering
sentences; matching people/activity (T/F) 20'
A3 ICT Grammar Matching sentences & daily routine
pictures; completing text with verb form 10'
A4Writing 4 true sentences & a false one (relatives)
Speaking asking if they are true/false 15'

18. SESSION 4 Between Grammar & the Deep
blue Sea!
A1 Reading a text (daily activities) for gist / detail,
answering, matching options 20'
A2 Listening Warm up. To a text (household chores),
repeating voc. & pronunciation 5'
A3 ICT Vocabulary (Verb+ -ing form) Matching
household chores with correct room 10'
A4ICT Grammar Applying grammatical rules:
present simple vs. present continuous 20'

19. SESSION 5 Brush up your knowledge!
A1 ICTReading Doing a puzzle (computers),
identifying extra letters & writing sentences 10'
A2 Grammar Warm up. Completing with –ing form,
writing sentences, questions(likes &dislikes) 15'
A3 Vocabulary Translating words & sentences
(biography verbs, hobbies, daily activities) 10'
A4 ICT Speaking After writing 4 household chores in a
table, asking & answering questions 15'

20. SESSION 6 Enhancing your views & skills
A1Reading a text (unusual jobs at N. Y’s Carnegie
Hall)
practicing skimming & scanning 20'
A2Listening After reading for detail, answering
questions & listening to it to check 15'
A3 ICT Grammar Doing a puzzle (household
chores) & review of vocabulary “The Hangman”
20'

21. SESSION 7 Logging, logging, logged!
A1Listening to a text (two classmates) for gist;
again for detail & fill in the gap 10'
A2 Writing 5 sentences after listening to them twice 10'
A3 ICT Listening to a dialogue (hobbies) for gist
Pronunciation of words about tastes 10'
A4 ICT Speaking perform a dialogue following model;
take part in a new role interaction 25'

22. SESSION 8 Get Cracking! Reinforcing contents
Reinforcing contents
A1Reading as a warm- up a text about a girl’s profile &
matching activities with paragraphs 10'
A2Writing-Final task Completing a table about daily routines
making notes & writing profile 25'
A3Self-assessment doing check-test of the unit 20'