Transcript English language and literature

Private language and IT grammar school
Leonardo da Vinci
Split
English language and literature
Teacher: Sandra Kovačević
4 years course, 140 lessons per school year
5 vocabulary and grammar tests per year (english in use)
5 listening and reading tests per year (comprehension)
5 writing tasks per year (writing)
5 speaking exams per year (spoken production)
1st grade
• Reading and vocabulary (A)
Topics: The art of beauty, The power of tourism, Happines, Disappearing worlds, Teenage
gangs
• Grammar and listening (B)
Present tenses, past tenses, narrative tenses, expressing the future, first and second conditionals
• Listening, speaking and vocabulary (C)
Topics: First impressions (personality adjectives), One journey different travellers (persuading
and negotiating), Be a good sport! (giving and reacting to the news), Making our voices heard
(verbs+prepositions), Sorry is the hardest word (phrasal verbs)
• Culture, vocabulary and grammar (D)
Topics: British fashion – verb patterns, America on the move – used to and
would, Fat America – present perfect, Make a difference – collocations, Young
people’s rights – modal verbs
• Writing (D)
A story, a personal letter, an opinion essay, a letter to a newspaper
2nd grade
• Reading and vocabulary (A)
Topics: Word on the street, Taste, Think differently, A day in life, Art is everywhere
• Grammar and listening (B)
the passive, reported speech, third conditional, defining relative clauses, participle
clauses
• Listening, speaking and vocabulary (C)
Topics: How to spend it (describing amounts), Don’t shout, I can see (noun suffixes),
Important decisions (giving presentations), Can’t live without… (describing gadgets),
What’s the point of art? (Debating)
• Culture, vocabulary and grammar (D)
Topics: Traditional festivals – have/get something done, A Walk in the Woods (Bill
Bryson) – reported questions and demands, Do the right thing – speculating
about past, iPeople – non-defining relative clauses, On stage – determiners
• Writing (D)
a formal letter of complaint, a report, a covering letter, a for and against essay,
a review
3rd grade
• Reading and vocabulary (A)
Topics: Challenges, Real education, Hoarders, Perfect people, A word is born
• Grammar and listening (B)
tense revision, future tenses, articles, determiners, habitual behaviour, past modals
• Listening, speaking and vocabulary (C)
Topics: Do the right thing (words with self-), Urban stories (antonyms), One man’s
trash (adjectives), Face value (active listening), A good read (phrases with point)
• Culture, vocabulary and grammar (D)
Topics: Belief and commitment (Nelson Mandela) – past perfect and past
perfect continuous, Songlines – future time clauses, Lost treasures – verb
patterns, Frankenstein (Mary Shelly) – future in the past, Shakespeare – talking
about ability
• Writing (D)
an article, describing a place, a story, a letter to a newspaper, a book review
4th grade
• Reading and vocabulary (A)
Topics: Who controls the news?, Before I die…, A right to eat, What’s new?, Utopia?
Grammar and listening (B)
speculations about past, present and future, conditionals, the passive, reported speech,
participle clauses
Listening, speaking and vocabulary (C)
Topics: Making the headlines (idioms), The golden years (discussing old age), Feeding
the world (phrases with face), Digital footprints (phrases with under), Have your voice
heard (a debate)
• Culture, vocabulary and grammar (D)
Topics: Truth or lies – emphasis and inversion, The Road Not Taken (Robert
Frost) – unreal situations, The origins of food – adjective + noun collocations,
First? – verb patterns in reported speech, The power of words – rethoric,
global politics
• Writing (D)
an article, an opinion essay, a for and against essay, a report
Book reports
• first grade: book by choice
• second grade: William Shakespeare’s Othello,
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat
• third grade: Victorian literature
• fourth grade: Ernest Hemingway’s
The Old Man And The Sea, George Orwell’s
Animal Farm and 1984