ENGLISH CONTENTSCONTINGUTS D'ANGLÈS YEAR 4
1r Trimestre
STORY: "JACK AND THE BEANSTALK"

TEXT LEVEL WORK

Listen and respond appropiately giving easy explanations about the story.
Make contributions when talking about the plot and the solution of the story and take turns in discussion.
Create word banks related to the story.
Make glossary cards with the main verbs.
Begin to create short dialogue.
Recognise how dialogue is presented in stories eg. through exclamations, using speech marks and indicating who is talking using "said".
Be aware of different voices in stories using dramatised readings, showing differences between the narrator and different characters.
Present drama to others.
Investigate and collect sentences/phrases for story openings and endings and use them to retell the story.
"Retell" the story using pictures and key words.
Begin to write portraits of characters using story text to describe behaviour and characteristics.(Making a poster).
Choose and use relevant vocabulary for character descriptions.
- SENTENCE LEVEL WORK: Grammatical awareness:
  - Identify the story verbs and use them when talking and writing.
  - Use present tense (to be and to have) in context: to describe the characters.
  - Distinguish between present and past tense.
  - Use present tense for dialogue.
  - Recognise that past tense is used for narration.
  - Extend knowledge of adjectives in order to describe characters.
  - Use the terms singular and plural appropiately.
  - Use speech marks correctly in writing.
  - Use the term comma appropiately in relation to reading.
  - Use prepositions of place when retelling the story.

WORD LEVEL WORK: (PHONICS)
- Use spelling strategies: practise new spellings by "look, say, cover, write, check" strategy.
- Use the apostrophe to spell shortened forms of words eg. isn't, aren't, can't.
- Collect new words from readings and topics and categorise them using personal dictionaries or glossaries.
- Investigate common vocabulary for introducing and concluding dialogue eg. said, exclaimed, answered. Collect examples from reading.

2nd Term

THE VIKINGS

Work on the key words: nouns and verbs.
Create dialogue for the play.
Work in groups to write the script.
Act out the play.
Prepositions.

2nd and 3rd Term

ALADDIN retold by Sue Arengo. Oxford. Elementary 1.

TEXT LEVEL WORK

Reinforce reading and comprehension.
Compare literature of the same genre. (Fantasy/Magic).
Identify the characters of the story. (speaking)
Describe the characters using adjectives and verbs to have/to be. (Produce character profiles)
Identify the main parts of the story (beginning, middle, resolution).
Use language of time to sequence events in the story (oral/written).
Change the ending of the story.
To act out the play.
Give an opinion about the book.

SENTENCE LEVEL WORK

Revise direct speech.
Reading: read with intonation and pauses at the end of sentences.
Explore the function of verbs: the past for stories.
The use of adjectives for description.
Experiment using different adjectives in the story.
Introducing synonyms/opposites.
Revise terms singular and plural.
Transfer sentences from singular to plural and viceversa.
Identify linking and time words.

WORD LEVEL WORK

To use key words: sequence words, verbs, adjectives, nouns.
Learn new spelling words with "look, say, cover, write, check" strategy.
Make own glossaries to learn the words.

3rd Term

EARTH DAY

Read and understand environment poems.
Identify the 4 issues cause environment problems: pollution/contamination; overfishing; global warming;
Explore the key words in environment poems: nouns, adjectives and verbs.
Identify possible solutions for environment problems.
Experimenting using different verbs to create the poem.
Work collaboratively creating the environment poem.
Follow a writing frame to produce the poems.
Produce environment signs for the school to display.
Talk about how to be friendly earth day.