KIDS

ACADEMIC PLAN
 KIDS

Academic Plan

KIDS

The KIDS section has 2 courses: DISCOVERY and ADVENTURES.

DISCOVERY
• Composed of 6 modules: levels 1 to 6.
• Each module has 15 exercises.

ADVENTURES
• Composed of 13 modules: levels 1 to 13.
• Each module has 15 exercises.

General Features

• Each course module works on a specific theme, considering context, exercises, and
vocabulary.
• All exercises were designed considering the appropriate language for the kids' age
group through new and varied activities, using videos, songs, vocabularies, and specific
games, such as memory game or connecting dots game.
• For each exercise completed, the student earns points for the ranking, competing with
other schools in the country.
• It mainly focuses on listening and speaking skills. The student's speech is evaluated by
comparing it to the pronunciation of one hundred native speakers.
DISCOVERY

• Main characters that lead the exercises throughout the modules: Bob, Mary, and
Robot.

Themes:

Level 1 – Colors, numbers, and greetings.

Level 2 – Human body parts and transportation.

Level 3 – Fruits, food, and home.

Level 4 - Toys, objects, and animals.

Level 5 – Weather and family.

Level 6 - School and review of all previous levels.

ADVENTURES

• Main characters that lead the exercises throughout the modules: James, Mikey, and
Kylie.
 Module 1 – Let’s go camping!

Themes:
• Greetings, family and friends, camping vocabulary, nature-related words, family
members, toys, and food-related vocabulary.

Grammar:
• Personal Pronouns.
• To Be Present Tense (affirmative).
• Possessive Adjectives (my, your, his/her).
• Indefinite Articles (a and an).

Functions of language:
• Teach simple interactions such as greetings and farewells.
• Teach how to give simple personal information.
• Teach how to speak about friends and family in a simple way.

Module 2 – The magic closet

Themes:
• Clothes vocabulary, colors, weather-related words, and seasons of the year.
Grammar:
• Demonstrative Pronouns.
• To Be Present Tense Aff (overview and introduction to we, you, them, but without
asking the students).
• Possessive Adjectives: my, your, his/her (practice).
• Prepositions in/on/under.

Functions of language:
• Teach how to talk about the position of things and people in a certain place.
• Teach how to talk about clothes in a simple way.
• Teach how to use the first action verbs and describe basic day-to-day activities.
• Teach how to describe the weather.
 Module 3 – Family album

Themes:
• Family members, professions, and nationalities

Grammar:
• Personal Pronouns.
• Verb To Be (affirmative, negative, and interrogative form).
• Possessive Adjectives.
• Demonstrative Pronouns.
• Definite (the) and indefinite (a/an) articles.

Functions of language:
• Teach how to understand and express more detailed personal information about
oneself and others such as family members and friends.
• Teach how to introduce oneself and others.
• Reinforce how to talk about the position of things and people in a certain place.

Module 4 – A day at the Zoo

Themes:
• Animals, nature, fruit, food, and adjectives.
Grammar:
• Do and doesn't (negative phrases).
• Verb Can (affirmative and negative).
• Possessive Adjectives (review).
• Possessive Adjectives (our, your, their).

Functions of language:
• Teach how to talk about other people as well as their belongings.
• Teach how to describe animals at a basic level.
• Teach how to describe food.
• Introduce simple action verbs and how to talk about likes and dislikes.
 • Teach how to talk about abilities, possibilities, and permission.

Module 5 – Space Time!

Themes:
• Astronomy-related vocabulary, feelings, emotions, and adjectives.
Grammar:
• Verb To Be (interrogative form).
• Verb To Be (negative form).
• Short Answers.
• Present Continuous.
• Linking Words (and, or, but).

Functions of language:
• Teach how to talk about ongoing actions.
• Reinforce talking about abilities, possibilities, and permission.
• Teach how to describe objects at a basic level.
• Teach how to describe feelings and emotions.
• Teach how to form more complex sentences using linking words.

Module 6 – This is our school

Themes:
• School-related vocabulary and routine verbs.
Grammar:
• Modal Verbs (can and can’t).
• Prepositions (in, on, at).
• Action Verbs.
• Frequency Adverbs.
• Simple Present (first person and third person; affirmative, negative, and interrogative
forms).
Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to talk about abilities, possibilities, and permission.
• Reinforce how to talk about the position of things and people in a certain place.
• Reinforce how to talk about likes and dislikes.
• Teach how to talk about daily activities.

Module 7 – We love traveling!

Themes:
• Transportation vocabulary, places in the city, days of the week, and time expressions.
Grammar:
• Verb To Be (review).
• New Action Verbs ('ing' form).
• Present Continuous.
• WH questions: Where, When, How.

Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to talk about ongoing actions.
• Reinforce how to talk about daily activities.
• Teach how to tell the time.
• Teach how to describe locations at a basic level.

Module 8 – We’re at Disney!

Themes:
• Colors, numbers, telling the time.
Grammar:
• Prepositions (from, to, at).
• Object Pronouns.
• WH questions: What, Who.
• WH questions (general review).
Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to tell the time.
• Reinforce how to describe locations.
• Reinforce how to talk about the position of things and people.
• Reinforce how to talk about daily activities.

Module 09 – Welcome to our city

Themes:
• Places in the city, activities, days of the week, time expressions, and adjectives.
Grammar:
• Prepositions (in, on, at, under, over, in front of, behind, between).
• Simple Present vs. Present Continuous
• WH questions.
• Adjectives.
• There Be (there is and there are).

Functions of language:

• Teach how to talk about time and frequency in a more complex way.
• Teach how to describe locations in a more complex way.
• Teach how to supply directions at a basic level.
• Reinforce how to talk about daily activities.
• Reinforce how to talk about ongoing actions.
• Differentiate daily activities from ongoing actions.

Module 10 – A day at the Museum

Themes:
• Objects, friends, art, and museum-related vocabulary.
Grammar:
• Present Continuous (review).
• Simple Past (introduction).
• There Be (there is and there are).

Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to talk about ongoing activities.
• Reinforce how to talk about daily activities.
• Reinforce how to describe locations and provide basic instructions.
• Reinforce how to describe the position of things and people in a certain place.
• Teach how to talk about the past.

Module 11 – We are the Champions!

Themes:
• Sports, games, working out, and leisure activities related vocabulary.
Grammar:
• More Action Verbs ('ing' form).
• Comparatives and Superlatives.
• Possessive "s" (genitive case).

Functions of Language:
• Reinforce the contrast between ongoing actions and daily activities.
• Teach how to talk about future activities.
• Teach how to compare things, actions, and people.

Module 12 – The Time Machine!

Themes:
• Dates, future and past events, action verbs, leisure activities, time expressions,
locations, and sports-related vocabulary.
Grammar:
• Future (be going to).
• Modal Verbs (Would + like)
• Superlatives
• General Review.

Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to talk about future activities.
• Teach how to talk about wishes and aspirations.
• Teach how to describe things, places, and people using superlative adjectives.
• Reinforce how to compare things, actions, and people.

Module 13 – Party time!

Themes:
• Party and general vocabulary review (food, clothes, toys, activities, number, colors,
and telling time).

Grammar:

• Modal Verbs (Would + like)

• Simple Past.
• Future (be going to).
• Comparative Adjectives.
• Superlative Adjectives.

Functions of language:
• Reinforce how to talk about actions in the past.
• Reinforce how to talk about future activities.
• Reinforce how to talk about wishes and aspirations.
• Reinforce how to compare things, actions, and people.

• Reinforce how to describe things, places, and people using superlative adjectives.