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Week Dates Learning Outcome Contents & suggested activities

By the end of these sessions, students will

be able to: Class 1: Students introduce themselves. They exchange
- name the class rules and evaluation information through speed dating and or a match-
criteria by competing in an on-line game. making game.
26 Jul -
Week 1 - review the simple present and simple
31 Jul
past through practical exercises, writing Class 2: Students tell interesting stories and ask about
activities, and an oral presentation to talk their partners' lives.
about their lives using at least 10 verbs in Grammar: Review: Simple Present and Simple Past
the past form.
Class 3: Students come up with short texts regarding
their partners' life events or even last holidays. Students
also write scripts for newscasts or roleplays using past
tense and verbs describing routines.
2 Aug - After learning the vocabulary of the week, Grammar: Past tense review
7 Aug students will be able to highlight important Class 4: Students listen to stories on the news or
Week 2
Holiday people and events through oral stories in general about accidents or anecdotes. They
7 Aug presentations. report and ask/answer comprehension questions
(Touchstone 4 pages 1-10. Book: Four corners 4 pages
10-11)
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
Vocabulary: Verbs + ing, to + verbs
Class 5: Present students with a video or a short
reading of the recent history of a country (town or
community) they report on what has been happening in
that place using present perfect continuous.
After reading articles and watching videos Class 6: Students work in pairs and research on the
9 Aug - recent history of a country or community (blacks, LGTB,
Week 3 about historical events students will be
14 Aug indigenous population etc) and they come up with
able to talk about recent cases.
written and oral presentations on what has been
happening. Then, their peers take the quiz to test
comprehension.
Grammar: Present perfect continuous
Vocabulary: Sequencers and expressions to tell stories

16 Aug - BOOK REVIEW #1

Students will be able to apply their
21 Aug
Week 4 knowledge by presenting their project
Holiday
findings and taking the 1st midterm.
16 Aug
1st term exam: Weeks 1 to 3

Class 9: Students bring to class amazing headlines

taken from the news (international newspapers) and
exchange them and discuss how they would have
Students will be able to discuss
23 Aug - reacted to any of the situations.
Week 5 information on the articles given and found
28 Aug
by them. Class 10: Students listen and discuss on the best
inventions in history
Grammar: Passive voice
Vocabulary: News
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Class 11: Students either watch a scene from a movie

(the Godfather, How to get away with murder, Law and
Order etc) and in groups come up with a list of felonies
and or crimes watched. Then they individually write a
police report on what happens using *get, *be, *should,
*catch (in the passive form) then paste reports around
the classroom or an online whiteboard, choose
After reading and listening about crimes someone else's report and respond writing a sanction
30 Aug - and sentences around the world, students to the offender.
Week 6
4 Sep will be able to discuss different Class 12: Students research some of the laws
punishments and sanctions. established in Colombia. Then they come up with their
opinions on whether they should be banned or not or if
they must be obeyed. Students also create their own
'legislation' for English class or the University and
present them in class. Then classmates vote for the
best/more innovative ideas.
Grammar: Passive of modal verbs
Vocabulary: Crime and punishment

Class 13: Students watch or listen to some stories on

people's coincidences (Touchstone page 54 exc A) and
come up with comprehension questions on how those
are coincidences or not.
By working collaboratively in small groups,
6 Sep - students will be able to talk about strange Class 14: Students go to their family members asking
Week 7
11 Sep events using a series of situations and people for coincidences or strange events that had
models provided. happened to them. Then they write down people's
answers and present these results using an infographic.
Grammar: So do I - Neither do I / Past perfect
Vocabulary: Strange events/ folk tales (ghost/UFO/
spirit...)

Class 15: Students talk about superstitions in

Colombia. Then, they team up and during class time, go
over the library or online and research superstitions
from all over the world (*break them down into
By the end of these sessions, students will continents) Students write down what it's considered
13 Sep - good or bad luck in the chosen country/countries.
Week 8 be able to describe real and hypothetical
18 Sep
situations using conditionals 0, 1 and 2.
Class 16: Students read and discuss different
hypothetical situations.
Grammar: Conditionals review (0-1-2)
Vocabulary: Luck/ Lucky charms

Class 17: BOOK REVIEW #2

Students will be able to apply their
20 Sep - knowledge of the topics from week 5 to 9
Week 9
25 Sep by presenting their project progress and
taking the 2nd midterm.
Class 18: 2nd term exam: Weeks 4 to 9

27 Sep -
RECESS BREAK BREAK
2 Oct
By the end of these sessions, students will Class 19: Students team up and come up with gossip
Week 4 Oct - 9
be able to identify the way verbs and about their peers (gossip based on their academic life,
10 Oct
pronouns change when reporting not physical appearance or personality) then one
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information as well as report the person of the team goes to another group to exchange
conversations they have heard/ had. that information with them. Once information is
exchanged, students must write on the board what they
heard/understood from their peers using the rules of
reported speech.
Class 20: Students research on worldwide or
Colombian famous gossip or fake news and discuss
how that affected people's lives.
Students role play a scene where gossip is spread.
Grammar: direct and reported speech
Vocabulary: Verbs used in reported speech (tell, ask,
say, refuse, etc.
Class 21: Students come up with a list of things they do
themselves and another one of the things they get done
and exchange answers with partners and make a list on
the board of both. Students listen to people talk about
By working collaboratively in small groups, their plans, they allocate those activities either on done
Week 11 Oct - students will be able to discuss errands by themselves or get them done (Four Corners 4 page
11 16 Oct and/or things that need to be solved using 105 exc 4-A)
a series of situations provided. Class 22: Students write down a short paragraph on
what they would do if they were rich and also what they
would get done by someone else.
Grammar: Passive causative (Get/have)
Vocabulary: Services
Class 23-24: Students team up and come up with a
design of a future society where people have many of
the ordinary actions done by either
18 Oct - By the end of these sessions, students will machines/zombies/or anyone-anything else. They role
Week 23 Oct be able to make predictions about how play a job interview where future employers state
12 Holiday things will be done in the future by directly what they want their candidates to get/have
18 Oct designing online surveys. done for them and the reaction of the candidates,
whether they'd accept it or not.
Grammar: Passive causative (Get/have)
Vocabulary: Services
Class 25: Students bring celebrities (remarkable
people) bios to class. Then, students have to read and
write questions using If clauses+past perfect and past
After learning about the use of the third modals in their answers (would have, could have, might
conditional, students will be able to have). Students take turns to answer their partners'
Week 25 Oct - communicate regrets in different life questions writing them down.
13 30 Oct situations by either writing a short
message or presenting their complaints to Class 26: Students either roleplay, write or video what
the class. their lives would have been like if they hadn't entered
the university.
Grammar: 3rd conditionals
Vocabulary: Life events idioms

Class 27: Students are shown a worksheet from the TV.

Students write the name of a classmate in each
sentence on the worksheet that they think best
1 Nov - After a lesson on tag questions, students matches the statement. Then, they ask their
Week 6 Nov will be able to confirm information and classmates tag questions to see if their statements are
14 Holiday check agreement both in written and right or wrong. Students receive one point for each
1 Nov spoken way. correct statement. The student with the most correct
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Class 28: Students pair up and choose a person they

admire (the person must speak English), write down a
series of questions (including tag questions to confirm
info) students must video themselves interviewing the
chosen person.
Grammar: Tag questions

Students will be able to apply their Class 29: Final exam (Weeks 10 to 15)
Week 8 Nov -
knowledge of the topics from week 10 to
15 13 Nov
15 by presenting the final exam.
Class 30: Book review/Project display

15 Nov - Class 31 Project Display

By the end of these sessions, students will
Week 20 Nov
apply their knowledge by showcasing their
16 Holiday
project results. Class 32 Feedback
15 Nov