🎯 Consolidated English Curriculum (Grades 6–9)
🧩 Main Themes
● Our Community: School, where I live, community services, urban/rural life,
friends, hobbies, health, environment, leisure
● Our Heritage: Festivals, customs and traditions, famous places in Vietnam,
ethnic groups
● The World Around Us: Cities and countries, natural wonders, disasters, science,
technology, energy, transportation
● Vision for the Future: Future homes, careers, life on other planets, English
globally
🎧🗣📖✍️ Language Skills Progression
Listening: Identify sounds, stress, rhythm; understand 80–180 word
dialogues/monologues on familiar topics; grasp main ideas in reports, announcements,
daily life situations.
Speaking: Share personal information, exchange ideas, speak clearly on familiar topics,
and give prepared opinions or mini-talks.
Reading:
- Cloze-test (A passage about 150-180 words): Grammatical items, Collocation,
Word form, Word choice...
- Reading Comprehension (A passage about 180 - 200 words): Main idea, Pronoun
Reference, Factual questions, Vocabulary, Negative factual...
Writing: Express opinions on familiar topics with support.
🧠 Language Knowledge Summary
Phonology: Single vowels, diphthongs, consonants & consonant clusters,
word/sentence stress, rhythm, intonation
Vocabulary: Thematic vocabulary connected to main themes and grade-level topics.
Grammar Progression:
- Tenses: Past Continuous, Present Continuous, Future Continuous, Future Simple,
Present Simple, Past Simple, Past Perfect & wish
- Modal verbs: should, might → suggestions, deduction, possibility
- Sentence types: Simple, Compound, Complex
- Question forms: Yes/No, Wh-questions
- Verb patterns: V-ing, to-infinitive, suggest + V-ing/that
- Comparisons & quantifiers: as...as, different from, some, a lot of
- Articles & pronouns: a/an, the, zero article, mine/yours
- Prepositions & connectors: in/on/at, although, however