Level 1

Summary

Pet Shop introduces students to a variety of common animals and related vocabulary. Students will be provided with the opportunity to practice the unit's vocabulary with a pet shop shopping role-play scenario. Students will learn to play the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson.' Phonics skills development materials are included, as well as one additional vocabulary recall development card game.

Vocabulary Words

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, a, alligator, an, animal, ant, anything-else, apple, are, ax, bad, bag, ball, banana, bear, bed, bird, black, blue, buy, cage, castle, cat, color, come, cup, customer, desk, do, dog, dollar, duck, elephant, farm, fish, food, give, go, good, green, have, he, her, here, his, horse, I, kangaroo, like, lion, many, match(verb), me, money, monkey, more, mouse, my, name, no, not, octopus, our, pencil, pet, pet-shop, please, put, rabbit, red, rule, salesperson, she, shop, sit, sorry, stand, table, tank, teacher, the, they, to, turtle, want, washroom, we, what, white, yellow, yes, you, your

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Fast food restaurant continues to build on the basic verbal communication skills developed in the previous unit by allowing them to continue playing the roles of 'customer' and 'salesperson,' but with a restaurant role-play scenario. Students will learn a variety of common food vocabulary. Phonics skills development continues, with the introduction of practice of 5 additional consonants.

Vocabulary Words

bun, chicken, chili, dangerous, down, eat, free, hamburger, help, ketchup, ice-cream, lettuce, line, meat, powder, restaurant, safe, server, tomato, up, bacon, coffee, cookie, drink(verb), drink(noun), flour, fork, fries, game, juice, land(noun), milk, onion, peach, pickle, play(verb), tea, thing, water, write, barbecue, beginning, big, bowl, car, egg, end, fast, hot, house, jump, mustard, nut, pizza, rice, sauce, slow, small, yell, yogurt

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Students will learn the words for most common articles of clothing. Their speaking skills will be developed with a two-person deduction card game. In this game, one student will need to narrow down which of the clothing outfits depicted on a set of 18 cards matches the one "secret" card held by their partner. They'll do this by asking questions, which their partner will answer. Students can also participate in a game where different characters' personal preferences are discussed. Phonics learning will expand with 5 more consonants being focused on and the introduction of a fun tile-based phonics matching game that will utilize some of the high-frequency vocabulary words that the students have already learned.

Vocabulary Words

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, beautiful, belt, book, boot, box(noun), brown, button(clothing), clothing, coat, collar, dance, dog-collar, door, dress, fan, find, gift, glasses, glove, gown, happy, hat, hear, helmet, jacket, jeans, jet, jumpsuit, long, loud, mall, pants, partner, pink, place, pocket, purple, quiet, sad, scarf, scissors, secret,* sleeve, shirt, shoe, short, shorts, shout, skirt, sock, stop(verb), story, straight, suit, sweater, swimming, swimming-suit, t-shirt, take, tall, tie, touch, turn, umbrella, very, vest, watch(noun), wear, zip, zipper

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Students will learn most of names for body-parts. Communication practice will take place with several options for card-based and tile-based games either deducing the correct monster card or building monsters, based on answers from a partner about how many of each body-part the monster shown on a "secret" card has. Phonics learning will continue with new letters and sounds (including a first vowel) being introduced to letter recognition and tile matching phonics activities.

Vocabulary Words

arm, body, ear, eye, finger, face, foot, gray, hand, head, knee, leg, lip, monster, mouth, nose, part, tail, thumb, tooth, body-part, chicken-leg, hand-fan, back, chin, different, draw, hair, hip, hoof, horn, nail, neck, need, picture, same, shell, shoulder, stomach, toe, tongue, win, wing, chicken-wing, finger-nail, toe-nail, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, ankle, bone, brain, brush(noun), close(verb), elbow, flower, fur, heart, move, open(adj), open(verb), pen, prize, quiz, rib, see, song, sun, tusk, yawn, sunflower, count(verb), number, question, safely, tell, use

Summary

This unit features expansion of students vocabulary in several key areas. Speaking practice will include a variety of Knowledge-Gap games and one Opinion-Gap activity. Students will learn to talk about how many family members different characters have, describe options based on the shapes they are constructed from, and discuss various vehicles. Students will get a review of the names of different articles of clothing from Unit 3. Phonics learning and letter recognition will continue with the introduction of more new sounds (including two more vowels).

Vocabulary Words

21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, adult, aunt, bike, baby, bell, blond, boat, boy, brother, bus, can(verb), chair, child, children, circle, cousin, cry, cube, dad, daughter, diamond, envelope, family, father, friend, girl, grand, granddaughter, grandfather, grandma, grandmother, grandpa, grandson, husband, kid, know, look, make, mama, man, mom, mother, new, old, older, orange(color), oval, paper, person, plane, queen, rectangle, school, school-bus, shape, sister, son, square, star, starfish, start, sunhat, take(travel-by), think, time, train, tree, triangle, truck, tube, uncle vehicle, van, violin, why, wife, will(verb), woman, work, work-glove, yacht, young, younger

Summary

This unit reviews the learning content of Unit 1, while adding more animals to students' vocabulary knowledge. Students will also review their learning from Unit 4 as they discuss the body-parts that different animals have and learn about animal life-cycles. Letter recognition practice concludes with 5 final letters. Students will have practiced consonant-word matching with all of the primary consonants and will moving on to focusing on vowels in the next level. 

Vocabulary Words

40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, baby-alligator, baby-camel, baby-crab, baby-crocodile, baby-dolphin, baby-elephant, baby-horse, baby-kangaroo, baby-monkey, baby-octopus, baby-shark, baby-snake, baby-starfish, baby-whale, baby-zebra, bear-cub, bee, bug, butterfly, calf, camel, caterpillar, chick, cold(adj), cool, cow, crab, crocodile, cub, dolphin, dry, duckling, favorite, fox, fox-cub, frog, fruit, fun, funny, giraffe, goat, goat-kid, grass, half, hard(density), hay, hippo, key(button), key(lock), kitten, know, lamb, leaf, lion-cub, mat, mix, owl, penguin, pig, piglet, pup, puppy, shark, sheep, sleep, snake, soft, special, spider, strong, tadpole, tap(noun), tiger, tiger-cub, trade, try, vegetable, warm, weak, wet, whale, wolf, wolf-cub, zebra, zoo, zookeeper