MERIDIAN YOUNG LEARNERS COURSE OUTLINE

Level: Pre-A1 Stage/2/4

Age Range: 6-9

Course Objective: To enable SS to talk about food, parts of the body/animal parts, clothes and house objects

Core Course book: Bright Ideas Class Book 1 Units 5-8

General Supplementary Material: Bright Ideas Activity Book 1 and Bright Ideas 1 Teacher’s Pack (Ideas Bank – ps. 129-132)

Aims Vocabulary Grammar Listening/Reading/Writing Pronunciation Core Materials

Sessions Ss will be Food and What do you have To identify the main parts of The sound /ch/ Bright Ideas Class Book 1 – Unit 5,
1-9 able to talk drink for…?/I have….. a plant Lessons 1-8 (ps. 50-59) - add link to
about food Teacher’s Book (Unit 5 – Lessons 1-8)
(Unit 5) they like and Fruit and Do you like…?/Yes, I To read a story about food
don’t like vegetables do/No, I don’t from trees in Liberia and to
and be able answer questions Bright Ideas Activity Book 1 – Unit 5,
to say what Plant parts Lessons 1-8 (ps. 38-45)
they have Create a picture dictionary –
for based on Bright Ideas
breakfast, Activity Book 1 – Unit 5
lunch (p.100)
and dinner
 Aims Vocabulary Grammar Listening/Reading/Writing Pronunciation Core Materials

Sessions Ss will be Body and face We/Plural Nouns To read a selection of The letters /g/ Bright Ideas Class Book 1 – Unit 6,
10-18 able We’ve got… riddles from Scotland and and /gg/ Lessons 1-8 (ps. 60-69) - add link to
to describe Animal parts Horses haven’t got… complete a matching Teacher’s Book (Unit 6 – Lessons 1-8)
(Unit 6) different ani activity
mals and Activities Can you/they…?
talk about (ability)/Yes, I/they Bright Ideas Activity Book 1 – Unit 6,
what they can/No, I/they can’t Lessons 1-8 (ps. 46-53)
can and Create a picture dictionary –
can’t do based on Bright Ideas
Activity Book 1 – Unit 6
(p.101)
 Aims Vocabulary Grammar Listening/Reading/Writing Pronunciation Core Materials

Sessions Ss will be Clothes Present Continuous To listen to a description of The sound /sh/ Bright Ideas Class Book 1 – Unit 7,
19-27 able to talk What are you the human life cycle and Lessons 1-8 (ps. 72-81) - add link to
about Hair and face wearing? identify the different stages Teacher’s Book (Unit 7 – Lessons 1-8)
(Unit 7) different I’m wearing…. of growth
items of
clothing and Has he/she To read a poem about life in Bright Ideas Activity Book 1 – Unit 7,
describe got…?/Yes, he/she Istanbul, Turkey and answer Lessons 1-8 (ps. 54-61)
what they has/No, he/she questions
are wearing. hasn’t
SS will be He’s/She’s got… Create a picture dictionary –
able to talk based on Bright Ideas
about Activity Book 1 – Unit 7
different (p.102)
hairstyles
 Aims Vocabulary Grammar Listening/Reading/Writing Pronunciation Core Materials

Sessions Ss will be Rooms in a Prepositions of Place To read a letter about a The sound /- Bright Ideas Class Book 1 – Unit 8,
28-36 able to talk house – in/on/under canal boat home in The ing/ Lessons 1-8 (ps. 82-91) - add link to
about Netherlands and answer Teacher’s Book (Unit 8 – Lessons 1-8)
(Unit 8) objects/furn Furniture There’s…/There questions
iture in their are….
homes and Materials Create a picture dictionary – Bright Ideas Activity Book 1 – Unit 8,
where based on Bright Ideas Lessons 1-8 (ps. 62-69)
different Activity Book 1 – Unit 8
items are. SS (p.103)
will be able
to talk about
rooms in
their homes
 Formative
Aims Vocabulary Grammar Listening/Reading/Writing Pronunciation Core Materials Assessment of
Learning

Extra Bright Ideas Bright Ideas Bright Ideas Create a learning journal – Bright Ideas Bright Ideas Class SS describe their
activities Class Book 1 Class Book 1 Class Book 1 – based on Bright Ideas Activity Class Book 1 – Book favourite food,
and - Units 5-8 – – Units 5-8 Units 5-8 Book 1 – Units 5-8 (ps. 105- Units 5-8 1 - A Collage animal, clothes and
review to 112) (favourite room in their house
consolidate food/animal/cloth using their collage
and review Cross- es/ room in their
SS learning curricular/Literacy and Cultur house) Units 5-8
e – OUP Bright Ideas 1 Units (ps. 92-93) SS complete
5-8 (if not covered review activities
previously) Bright Ideas Class for units 1-8 in
Book 1 – Writing class – Bright Ideas
Practice Units 5-8 Activity Book 1 –
(ps. 97-99) ‘Pre A1 Starters’
(ps. 85-94)
Bright Ideas
Activity Book 1 –
Extra Grammar
Practice Units 5-8
(ps. 74-77)