by Elaine Gallagher
GRADE 4
- Talking about past events
- Talking about future plans and intentions
- Expressing simple comparisons
- Expressing likes and dislikes
- Describing manner and frequency
- Holidays
- Shops
- Work
- Hobbies/sports
- Food
- Weekend/ seasonal activities
- Past simple tense of regular and common irregular verbs
- Going to future
- Adverbs of manner and frequency
- Comparatives and superlatives of adjectives
- Link word; but
- Vocabulary specific to the topic area
- Vocabulary specific to the subject areas
- Adverbs of frequency, e.g. sometimes, often, never
- Adverbial phrases of frequency, e.g. every day, once a week
- Expressions of past time, e.g. yesterday, last night
MORE REVIEW WORDS and PHRASES
- Family matters: using the future, describing people, possessives
- Play time: frequency, time expressions, every day, six o’clock
- School’s out: holidays, present / future, when, where, why, who
- Sports: likes and dislikes, present continuous, questions
- Memorable meals: food, cooking, talking about a meal
- Future with going to
- Nice work: jobs, work, quickly, well, occupations
- Shop around : describing ways of shopping, sequencing: first, next, after, finally
- In class: Talking about the past, comparison / superlative the best, the most difficult, easiest
NEW WORDS AND PHRASES
(Vocabulary fluency increases gradually, over time and with practice.)
GRADE 5
- Talking about the future — informing and predicting
- Expressing preferences
- Talking about events in the indefinite and recent past
- Giving reasons
- Stating the duration of events
- Quantifying
- Festivals
- Cars and bicycles
- Special occasions, e.g. birthday celebrations
- Entertainment, e.g. cinema, television, clubs
- Music
- Recent personal events
- Present perfect tense including use with for, since, ever, never, just
- Connecting clauses using because
- Will referring to the future for informing and predicting
- Adjectives and adverbials of quantity, e.g. a lot (of), not very much, many
- Expressions of preference, e.g. I prefer, I’d rather
- Vocabulary specific to the topic area
- Vocabulary specific to the subject areas
- Expressions relating to past and future time, e.g. two days ago, in the future
GRADE 6
- Expressing and requesting opinions and impressions
- Expressing intention and purpose
- Expressing obligation and necessity
- Expressing certainty and uncertainty
- Travel
- Money
- Fashion
- Rules and regulations
- Health and fitness
- Shopping
- Open and first conditional, using if and when
- Present continuous tense for future use
- Past continuous tense
- Modals connected to functions listed above, e.g. must, have to, need to, might
- Infinitive of purpose
- Vocabulary specific to the topic area
- Vocabulary specific to the subject areas
- Further expressions relating to future time, e.g. the day after tomorrow, in a year’s time
MORE NEW WORDS AND PHRASES
- Friends: frequency, giving reasons, recently, a few days ago
- Dream machines: probability, could, cheaper, faster, more popular
- ¿Cover to cover: books and films, narrating an event, describing a character, the funniest, the most enjoyable
- A “big bang»: festivals & special occasions, during, dates: 4th of July, 31st of December, 16th of September, celebration, etc.
- Ordinal numbers: fourth to the thirty-first
- Watch it: expressing opinions, I prefer
- Going for gold : recent and indefinite past, for, since, ever, never
- The world tomorrow: possibly, probably, is certain to, certainly, definitely not, absolutely not
- Present time: describing events, sequencing, for my birthday, in December, on the 3rd, for Christmas
- On the ball: badly, fast, hard, regularly, have to, must, need
- Season tickets: in the winter, colder, the wettest, sunbathing, swimming, because, giving reasons
- It’s history: describing past events, how much? how many? Frequency
- That’s rich: money, ability, skills; If I’m successful, I’ll be rich.
- Gerunds: good at + —ing: He is good at swimming.
- What on Earth….? opinions, describing, have to, must, need; If we ban cars, the air would be cleaner.
- In great shape: health, have to, don’t have to, need, don’t need
- Wild dreams: describing animals, asking open-ended questions, much, many, more, less, few, little, less
- Followers of fashion: describing what people wear, shopping, expressing frequency, never, occasionally, often, unusually, always, conditionals (first).
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