Scaling Up 1

Vocabulary

This twenty- day course for beginners intends to build the students’ language knowledge starting
with the most basic vocabulary and structures. Every day of the course, the students will encounter
the most basic grammar forms contextualized with every-day language topics that the students can
relate to. It is the teacher’s role to set up lessons in a way that will promote the use of the day’s
target language as well as the use of structures previously seen in class, following the guidelines
provided.

Course objectives
General objective:

 Use basic English structures in short, every-day conversations.

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

 Use simple present tense effectively

 Use adjectives to describe people and objects
 Use personal pronouns effectively, differentiating subject from object pronouns
 Use possessive adjectives accurately to refer to ownership
 Use definite and indefinite articles
 Use present continuous to describe actions happening at the moment
 Use “going to” to talk about future plans
 Spell names, surnames and familiar words
 Read digits, tens, hundreds and prices.
 Read ordinal numbers
 Talk about languages and nationalities
 Talk about jobs and occupations
 Describe family relationships
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Day 1 Getting Acquainted Greetings

Objective: Students The Alphabet / Nato Alphabet Greeting people appropriately

will be able to: according to social contexts
Use the alphabet to Numbers: digits, teens and tens
spell their and Formal and informal greetings and
someone else’s Function: Telling your name and age responses
name. asking for someone’s name and age
Asking someone to spell their name Formal and informal self-introductions
Greet someone
properly and ask Supporting language: Personal
each other to spell Supporting language: Personal pronouns, verb to be (affirmative form)
their names pronouns, verb to be (affirmative form) and possessive adjectives

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Countries, languages and nationalities

Day 2 Countries, languages and nationalities Famous people, personal titles

Objective: Students
will be able to use Function: talking about people’s Function: asking and answering
verb to be to ask nationalities questions about your and other
and answer people’s nationalities
questions about
people’s personal Supporting language: Verb to be in
information affirmative, negative and question forms Supporting language: Verb to be in
affirmative, negative and question
Pronunciation: Verb to be contractions forms
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Physical features
Day 3 Parts of the body
Parts of the face
Objective: Students Function: Describing people and their
will be able to use features
physical features Function: Describing people and their
and adjectives to features Difference between tall-big, short and
describe people. small
Supporting language: verb to have
“She is short.”
“I have short hair” “Her eyes are small”
“he has long arms”
Speaking task: Describing a famous
person

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Day 4
Rooms in the house
Objective: Students Personal belongings Objects in each room of the house
will be able to use Nouns: singular and plural Countable and non-countable nouns
demonstratives to Demonstratives: this-that/ these-those
talk about personal Function: naming rooms in the
belongings house
Function: talking about the things I have naming objects in each
Students will be and don’t have room of the house
able to countable
and non-countable Speaking task: I Spy (describing objects
nouns to talk about Supporting language: Verb to have in a house
the things around affirmative and negative statements
the house Yes / no questions Supporting language: Adjectives
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Day 5 Function: Talking about food and drinks Function: Talking about quantities of
food and drinks
Objective: Students
will be able to use Food: dishes, fruit, vegetables, and
quantifiers to talk drinks Quantifiers
about food and
drinks.
Supporting language: there is / there Supporting language: food and drinks
are affirmative and negative forms +
some and any
Speaking task: presenting my favorite
recipe

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Day 6 Function: Talking about places in town Function: Talking about places in town

Objective: Students
will be able to use Places around town Giving and receiving directions
places in town
vocabulary to give
and receive Supporting language: prepositions of Supporting language: prepositions of
directions. place, definite article place, places around town, definite
article

Speaking task: telling a classmate where Speaking task: City map; telling a
different places in the city are. classmate how to get to different
places.
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Day 7 Function: Describing my day; what I do Function: Describing my day; what I do

and what I don’t do and what I don’t do
Objective: Students
will be able to
describe what they Every-day activities Every-day activities
do and don’t do on Days of the week Days of the week
their favorite day of Times of the day
the week
Supporting language: simple present Supporting language: simple present
tense, affirmative and negative forms tense, affirmative and negative forms
Prepositions: in, on, at
Speaking task: students describe what
they do and don’t do during their
favorite day of the week

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Day 8 Talking about days and dates Talking about special dates of the
year
Objective: Students Months
will be able to talk Seasons
Ordinal numbers
Holidays, birthdays, anniversaries
about what they
and other people Prepositions of time: in
Supporting language: months,
do on holidays
Supporting language: prepositions of seasons, and prepositions of time
time: on, at
Speaking task: holidays Vs.
Speaking task: What people do in celebrations
different months of the year
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Day 9 Function: Talking about jobs and Function: Talking about jobs and
occupations occupations
Objective: Students
will be able to talk
about what they Jobs and occupations Jobs occupations, and work
and other people responsibilities
do for a living
Support language: simple present and
places around town Support language: simple present and
places around town

Talking about famous people’s jobs

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Day 10 Mid-course assessment

Assign a listening task for those
Mid-course students who are not presenting.
presentations Reading assessment
Suggested tasks:
Students must be assigned one topic
seen in class, they must be assigned a  Asking the presenter a follow-up
task to do in groups or present for the question about their preferences
class.  Offering comments about
something they have in common
The task must encourage the use of the or completely opposite.
language seen in class (vocabulary and
structures)
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Day 11 Function: Talking about unusual jobs Function: Talking about dream jobs and
what someone needs to get them.
Objective: Students
will be able to talk Unusual jobs / interesting jobs Dream jobs
about their dream Personality descriptions What makes it a dream job
jobs and unusual
jobs Supporting language: simple present to
Supporting language: simple present to talk about facts and responsibilities,
talk about facts and responsibilities, simple present in question forms
simple present in question forms
Speaking task
Pair presentation: interviewing a
classmate about their dream job.

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Function: talking about preferred

Day 12 leisure activities and how frequently
Function: talking about preferred leisure they do things
Objective: Students activities and how frequently they do
will be able to talk things
about hobbies and Hobbies and leisure activities
leisure activities
Hobbies and leisure activities
Supporting language: adverbs of
frequency
Supporting language: adverbs of
frequency Speaking task: telling a classmate how
often they do their favorite activities
and what they never do. Finding
similarities and differences.
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Day 13 Talking about family relationships

Talking about family relationships
Objective: Students
will be able to talk Family vocabulary: step + in-laws
about family Family vocabulary: nuclear and
relationships extended family
Speaking task: explaining my family
tree
Speaking task: introducing my family

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Talking about clothes needed for

Describing clothes and what people are different kinds of weather
Day 14 wearing

Objective: Students Clothes and accessories

Clothes and accessories The weather
will be able to talk
about what they
and other people
Conversation: Contrast between Supporting language: Clothing items
are wearing
describing someone and describing what and seasons
they are wearing
Speaking task: Talking about what to
Supporting language: adjectives and wear and not to wear according to the
colors weather.
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Day 15 Talking about shopping and prices Talking about shopping, entertainment,
and prices
Objective: Students
will be able to use Numbers: digits, teens, tens and prices
numbers to talk Numbers: digits, teens, tens and prices
about prices
Supporting language: clothing and
accessories Supporting language: places around
town
Dictation: prices and amounts
Project: how much do you spend at the
cinema/ zoo/ amusement park/
bookstore/ convenient store/
supermarket…

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Day 16 Talking about your abilities in a job Talking about their own or someone
interview else’s hidden talents
Objective: Students
will be able to
describe their own Abilities and talents My hidden talents
abilities and talents

Support language: can in affirmative, Support language: can in affirmative,

negative and question forms negative and question forms

Show and tell: demonstration of a

Role-play: job interview
hidden talent. Ss can prepare a five-
minute mini-lesson to teach a
simple skill to their classmates. E.g.
origami, playing tic-tac-toe without
losing, etc.
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Making future plans

Day 17 Making future plans

Objective: Students Time markers where to place them in a

will be able to Time markers where to place them in a sentence
make future plans sentence

Support language: going to, leisure

Support language: going to, leisure activities, days of the week, time
activities, days of the week, time

Speaking task: Describing exciting

Special attention to pronunciation: I’m/ I
and/or boring weekend plans
am going to…

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Day 18 Planning a party Planning a party

Objective: Students
will be able to Party items Parties and celebrations/ making,
make plans for accepting and declining invitations
upcoming events
Support language: future with going to,
affirmative and negative statements, Support language: future with going to,
and yes/no questions. affirmative and negative statements,
and yes/no questions.

Speaking task: Planning a

celebration the invitation
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Comparing local and foreign customs

Day 19 Comparing local and foreign customs during holidays
during holidays
Objective: Students Local and foreign holidays, traditions
will be able to Local and foreign holidays, traditions and customs
compare customs and customs
and traditions Support language: simple present to
during local and Support language: simple present to talk talk about general truths and facts
foreign holidays about general truths and facts
Speaking task: Comparing holidays
based on the countries’ customs.

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Predicting my and my classmate’s

Day 20 Predicting my and my classmate’s future future

Objective: students
will be able to Present continuous to talk about
make predictions Present continuous to talk about future future plans
with different plans Levels of certainty
levels of certainty Levels of certainty Time expressions (future)

Support language: going to

Support language: going to
Speaking task: Predicting my
classmate’s future.