LIterature 1st Grade. Basic Level - TOPICS -

Literature 1st Basic Level

Topics:

UNIT 1: Our changing diet.
Jamie Olivier's school dinner (Newspaper article)

• Antonims.
• reading food labels.

Let's make a fruit Pavlova (Recipe)

• irregular past tense verbs.
• reading food labels.

UNIT 2: Inventions.
The high school that beat MIT (Newspaper article)

• Prefixes com- and con-.
• Identifying parts of speech.

The most useful inventions. (Web blog)

• Suffixes -ful and -less.
• Identifying parts of speech.

 UNIT 3: Studying abroad.
Choosing to study abroad.(Advertisement).

• Compound words.
• Writing and english journal.

 My travel journal. (Diary estract)

• Adjectives ending in -ed.
• Writing and english journal.

UNIT 4: Money and Budgets.
A student budget. (Magazine article).

• Prefixes in- and ex-.
• Creating a personal budget.

My money. (Web interview).

• Words Relating.
• Creating a personal budget.

UNIT 5: Our modern lifestyle.
Cell phone etiquette. (Newspaper letter).

• Transition words.
• Reading blogs.

Moblogging. (Magazine article)

• Word webs.
• Reading blogs.

UNIT 6: The olympics.
Choosing the olympic city. (Reference article).

• Suffix -ment.
• Understanding punctuation.

Unusual olympic sport. (Webpage).

• Words relating to sport.
• Understanding punctuation.

UNIT 7: Human achievements.
The world's oldets university. (Reference article).

• Word families.
• Recognizing survey question types.

21st century wonders of engineering. (Webpage).

• Superlative adjectives.
• Recognizing survey question types.

UNIT 8: Language and communication.
Which english will we speak? (Reference article).

• Loan words.
• Reading signs and symbols.

Sign langucge. (Reference article).

• Word families.
• Reading signs and symbols.

UNIT 9: Festivals and celebrations.
How do you celebrate? (reference article)

• Prepositions of time: at, in on.
• Reading tourist information.

My songkran festival journal. (Diary extract).

• Sensory verbs.
• Reading tourist information.

UNIT 10: Growing Older.
The age of adulthood. (Reference article).

• Prefix trans-
• Choosing the right word.

Firsts in life. (Web interview).

• Prefix sub-
• Choosing the right word.

UNIT 11: Look into the future.
What's your sign? (Reference article).

• Antonyms.
• Doing research on the internet.

Palm reading or hand reading? (Newspaper letter)

• Suffix -ness.
• Doing research on the internet.

UNIT 12: Folk tales and hoaxes.
The greedy innkeeper. (Folk tale).

• Adverbs.
• Understanding internet abbreviations and emoticons.

Internet hoaxes.

• Nouns that are also verbs.
• Understanding internet abbreviations and emoticons.