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GENERAL TEACHING PROGRAMME
GOLD FIRST
FIRST CERTIFICATE IN ENGLISH
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ÁREA DE LENGUA EXTRANJERA
INGLÉS
Gold First Teaching Programme
UNIT 1: BANDS AND FANS
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the present simple
- To know the form and use of the present continuous
- To use the present simple and the present continuous
- To talk about habits in the past: used to, would
- To know free time activities.
- To speak about music and people
- To speak about free time.
- To interview someone about personal information
- To speak about some photographs
- To speak about different attitudes to music
- To speak about the music they used to listen when they were younger
- To speak about the music they think they will listen to when they get older
- To listen to students’ talking about their free time
- To listen to people giving personal information
- To listen to five people talking about listening to music
- To read a text about music “tribes”
- To read a text about drumming up business
- To give personal information and opinions
- To read a text about a girl who is a punk and an insurance broker at the same time
- To read an email
- To write an informal email
- To write an invitation
- To know vocabulary about free time activities: verb/ noun collocations
- To deduce words in context
- To know phrasal verbs with take.
- To read a text about punks
- To read a text about how mp3s have ruined our listening habits
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Talking about habits in the past: used to, would
- Speaking about music and people
- Speaking about free time.
- Speaking about some photographs
- Speaking about different attitudes to music
- Speaking about the music they used to listen when they were younger
- Speaking about the music they think they will listen to when they get older
- Listening to students talking about their free time
- Listening to people giving personal information
- Listening to five people talking about listening to music
- Reading a text about music “tribes”
- Reading a text about drumming up business
- Reading a text about a girl who is a punk and an insurance broker at the same time
- Reading an email
- Reading a text about punks
- Reading a text about how mp3s have ruined our listening habits
- Writing an informal email
- Writing an invitation
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Present simple
- Present continuous
- Habits in the past: used to, would
B. Vocabulary
- Free time activities: verb/noun collocations
- Deducing words in context
- Phrasal verbs with Take
Sociocultural Aspects
- To debate about music
- To debate about music and life
- To show interest in discovering different kinds of music
- To show interest in discovering new kinds of life
- To think and talk about health and art
- To debate about other countries
- To respect other cultures
- To show interest towards other cultures and their art
- To think about happiness and art
- To think and talk about the relationship between art and people
- To debate about discovering different countries and cultures
- To debate about culture and ways to express feelings
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To talk about the relationship between animals and people
To respect people
To respect different tastes
To show interest towards Art
Education for peace
To respect different countries
Art and peace
Health education
To think about the importance of a healthy lifestyle
To debate about health and art
Consumer education
To debate about consumerism and culture
Road safety
To use the car carefully
To respect people
Education for equality
To show interest in discovering women in important fields exclusive to men
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 1, page 15
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1. Page 55
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 1
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 1, page 18
- DVD, Unit 1
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 1, page 15
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1, page 55
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- DVD, Unit 1
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 1
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 1, page 15
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- DVD, Unit 1
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 1
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB page. 6-15 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | |Students tell dates |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
| | | | |
| | |Students speak about school subjects and mathematics | |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(Unit Starter, SB pages |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |6-15). | | |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, page 6-15 (Reading) |Students read an article about music tribes |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about drumming up business |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read a text about a punk | |
| | |Students read an informal email | |
| |SB, pages 6-15 (Speaking) |Students read a text about a musician | |
| | |Students read an article about how mp3s have ruined our listening habits | |
| |SB pages 6-15 (Listening) | | |
| | | | |
| |SB 6-15 (Writing) |Students introduce themselves | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about their free time | |
| | |Students speak about music | |
| | |Students speak about the past | |
| | |Students speak about generations and music | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to people talking about free time | |
| | |Students listen to people talking about listening to music | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write about things they are doing now | |
| | |Students write a formal email | |
| | |Students write an informal email | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 6-15 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Free time activities |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Pages 15 (Writing) |Music |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser |Habits |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | |Themselves | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write emails | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser wor |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 6-15 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 2: RELATIVE VALUES
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of adverbs
- To know the form and use of verb patterns ing/infinitive
- To do a personality quiz
- To listen to an interview
- To speak about someone’s personalities
- To speak about families and ideal families
- To debate about siblings
- To debate about judging people’s character
- To speak about how they would feel if they had a gifted or famous brother or sister
- To speak about relations
- To debate about people who have or may have influence in someone’s life
- To debate about big and small families
- To listen to a radio discussion about birth order
- To listen to five people talking about one of their relations
- To listen to two people discussing about different relationships
- To read an article about siblings
- To read a text about famous parents
- To read a semi-formal letter
- To write a semi-formal letter
- To learn to choose an appropriate style when writing
- To know the use of suffixes and prefixes to form adjectives
- To know extreme adjectives
- To know phrasal verbs
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about someone’s personalities
- Speaking about families and ideal families
- Speaking about siblings
- Speaking about how they would feel if they had a gifted or famous brother or sister
- Speaking about relations
- Speaking about people
- Listening to a radio discussion about birth order
- Listening to five people talking about one of their relations
- Listening to two people discussing about different relationships
- Reading an article about siblings
- Reading a text about famous parents
- Reading a semi-formal letter
- Writing a semi-formal letter
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Adverbs
- Verb patterns
B. Vocabulary
- Formation of adjectives
- Extreme adjectives
- Phrasal verbs
- Family
- Relationships
Sociocultural Aspects
- To debate about personalities
- To debate and talk about the family
- To think and talk about relations
- To debate about the importance of people in someone’s life
- To think and talk about new family models
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To respect people
To respect new family models
To talk about other countries with respect and interest
To debate about the crisis
To respect different types of family
Education for equality
To respect men and women
Education for peace
To respect different countries
To respect people
Consumer education
To debate about consumerism
To debate about spending money and enjoying
Environment education
To care for animals
Education for equality
To respect people, no matter their sex, race or religion
To respect classmates and their interests
Health education
To debate about problem solving and health
Road safety
To use the car carefully
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 2, page 25
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1. Page 55
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 2
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 1, page 18
- DVD, Unit 2
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 2, page 25
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1, page 55
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- DVD, Unit 2
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 2
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 2, page 25
- DVD, Unit 2
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 2
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 16-25 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | |Students say telephone numbers |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |( SB 16-25) |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 16-25 (Reading) |Students read a personality quiz |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about friendship and famliy |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| |SB, pages 16-25 (Speaking)|Students read an essay | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 16-25 (Listening)|Students describe their personality | |
| | |Students speak about different cultures | |
| |SB pages 16-25(Writing) |Students speak about families | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about friendship | |
| | |Students speak about different relationships | |
| | |Students speak about music | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to an interview about families | |
| | |Students listen to five people talking about their relations | |
| | |Students listen to two people talking about relationships | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |Students write notices | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |To write some interview questions | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser–Unit 1|Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 16-25 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Families |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Relationships |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB Pages 25 (Writing) |Friendship |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser-Unit 2|Students write an essay | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB – Progress test |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 16-25 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 3: THINGS THAT MATTER
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the present perfect and the present simple
- To know the form and use of as, like
- To know the comparative and superlative forms of adjectives
- To read an article about football
- To read a blog about pets
- To read an article about what makes someone happy
- To read a text about giving everything away
- To speak about the things that matter to them
- To speak about their passions
- To speak about activities they have or they haven’t done
- To speak about luxury
- To compare lifestyles
- To listen to a millionaire talking about his life
- To listen to a student comparing two photographs
- To write an article
- To write a description about an important possession
- To know vocabulary about money
- To know ed adjectives
- To know the form and use of prepositions
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Reading an article about football
- Reading a blog about pets
- Reading an article about what makes someone happy
- Reading a text about giving everything away
- Speaking about the things that matter to them
- Speaking about their passions
- Speaking about activities they have or they haven’t done
- Speaking about luxury
- Comparing lifestyles
- Listening to a millionaire talking about his life
- Listening to a student comparing two photographs
- Writing an article
- Writing a description about an important possession
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Present perfect and past simple
- As, like
- Comparatives
- Superlatives
B. Vocabulary
- Ed adjectives
- Prepositions
- Money
Sociocultural Aspects
- To debate about important things in life
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about solutions to the crisis
- To think and talk about life
- To debate about luxury and money
- To debate about animals and pets
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To respect people
To talk about other countries with respect and interest
Consumer education
To think and talk about consumerism
Road safety
To drive carefully
Environmental education
To respect animals
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 3, page 35
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1. Page 55
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 3
- Exam Maximiser Exam Maximiser, Use of English 1, page 18
- DVD, Unit 3
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 3, page 35
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1, page 55
- DVD, Unit 3
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 3
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 3, page 35
- DVD, Unit 3
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 3
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 26-35 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | |Students tell the time |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet | Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the Unit |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| | | |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |( SB pages 26-35) |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Students use digital formats | |
| |Book |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 26-35 (Reading) |Students read a text about football |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about horses |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read a text about happiness | |
| |SB, pages 26-35 (Speaking)|Students read a text about giving it all away | |
| | |Students read articles | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 26-35 (Listening)| | |
| |SB page 25 (Writing) |Students speak about sports | |
| |Internet - Online Skills |Students speak about football | |
| | |Students speak about pets | |
| | |Students speak about happiness | |
| | |Students speak about money and happiness | |
| | |Students speak about money | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to a millionaire | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an article | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 26-35 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Money |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Pages 34 (Writing) |Happiness |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Sports |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | |Health | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an article | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 26-35 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 4: BATTLING NATURE
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of narrative tenses
- To know the form and use of articles in English
- To speak about the Antarctica
- To speak about health and nature
- To speak about survival skills
- To speak about different experiences
- To give an advice
- To listen to a review about a book about two journeys to the South Pole
- To listen to two students talking about survival skills
- To read a story about a man who has shipwrecked on a desert island
- To read an article about battling with nature
- To read a pilot’s story
- To read a text about a disastrous day
- To read a text about Death Valley
- To read an article about record-breaking walk
- To write a story
- To use time expressions
- To know idioms about the body
- To know collocations and idioms about the weather
- To know the form and use of negative prefixes
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about the Antarctica
- Speaking about health and nature
- Speaking about survival skills
- Speaking about different experiences
- Listening to a review about a book about two journeys to the South Pole
- Listening to two students talking about survival skills
- Reading a story about a man who has shipwrecked on a desert island
- Reading an article about battling with nature
- Reading a text about a disastrous day
- Reading a pilot’s story
- Writing a story
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Narrative forms
- Articles
B. Vocabulary
- Idioms: the body
- Collocations and idioms: weather
- Negative prefixes
Sociocultural Aspects
- To debate about nature
- To show interest in discovering nature
- To think and talk about the effects of nature and the environment in our health
- To think and talk about the use of mobile phones
- To debate about languages
- To debate about languages, countries and cultures
- To think and talk about school
- To debate about habits
- To think and talk about talent
- To debate about ways to help the environment
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries with respect and interest.
To show interest towards learning languages
To respect animals
To respect nature
Environmental education
To respect the nature
To show respect towards animals
To debate about ways to help the environment
Education for equality
To be aware of equality to get a job, focusing on qualities and skills
To respect classmates
Health education
To debate about nature and health
To think and talk about health and animals
To have healthy habits
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 4
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 2, page 32
- DVD, Unit 4
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 4
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 4, page 45
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1, page 55
- DVD, Unit 4
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 4
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 4, page 45
- DVD, Unit 4
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 4
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 36-45 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 36-45) |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| | | | |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 36-45 (Reading) |Students read two stories about a desert island |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read instructions |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read an article about battling with nature | |
| |SB, pages 36-45 (Speaking)|Students read a pilot’s story | |
| | |Students read a text about Death Valley | |
| |SB pages 26-33 (Listening)|Students read an article about record-breaking walk | |
| | | | |
| |SB page 44 (Writing) | | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about Antarctica | |
| | |Students tell a story | |
| | |Students speak about the weather | |
| | |Students speak about nature | |
| | |Students give advices | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to an interview | |
| | |Students listen to students talking | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |Students write about activities they did yesterday | |
| | |Students write about activities they didn’t do yesterday | |
| | |To write an article about the school | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 36-45 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Weather |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Travelling |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB Page 44 (Writing) |Extreme experiences |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Antarctica | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 36-45 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 5: EAT YOUR HEAR OUT!
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of countable and uncountable nouns
- To know the form and use of expressions of quantity
- To know the passive forms of verbs
- To know the form and use of passive reporting verbs
- To speak about daily diets from around the world
- To describe the diet most people have in their country
- To compare different restaurants
- To show agreement
- To read a text about why people love chilli
- To speak about restaurants and eating out
- To read a text about food and chilli
- To read a text about the history of cooking
- To read an article about why cooking
- To read a text about the most famous restaurant in America
- To read an article about the most famous restaurant critic in America
- To read an article about the Hard Rock Café
- To read a text about a celebration
- To read a review
- To listen to a radio programme about the history of cooking
- To write a review
- To write a text about giving information and recommendations
- To know vocabulary about food
- To know vocabulary about food around the world
- To know phrasal verbs with turn
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about daily diets from around the world
- Speaking about the diet most people have in their country
- Comparing different restaurants
- Speaking about restaurants and eating out
- Reading a text about food and chilli
- Reading a text about the history of cooking
- Reading a text about the most famous restaurant in America
- Reading an article about the Hard Rock Café
- Reading a review
- Listening to a radio programme about the history of cooking
- Writing a review
- Writing a text about giving information and recommendations
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Expressions of quantity
- Passive forms
- Passive reporting verbs
B. Vocabulary
- Food
- Food around the world
- Phrasal verbs with turn
Sociocultural Aspects
- To debate about food
- To show interest in discovering food from different countries
- To talk about restaurants
- To debate about health and food
- To show interest in discovering the history of cooking
- To debate about sports
- To thing and talk about politics and sports
- To think and talk about women’s boxing
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about healthy lifestyles
- To think and talk about fitness and keeping fit
- To debate about food
- To debate about means of transport
- To think and talk about public transport
- To think and talk about TV and sports
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To respect people, no matter their age
To debate about education and sports
To debate about means of transport and their use
Education for peace
To respect different countries
To debate about boxing
Health Education
To think and talk about sports and health
To debate about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles
To debate about healthy food
To think and talk about keeping fit
To have healthy habits
To debate about a healthy diet
Education for equality
To respect classmates
To debate about sports and men and women
Road safety
To use the car carefully
To show interest towards different means of transport
To show interest towards public transport
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1. Page 55
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 5
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 3, page 46
- DVD, Unit 5
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 5
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 1, page 55
- DVD, Unit 5
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 5
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 5, page 45
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 5, page 45
- DVD, Unit 5
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 5
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 46-54 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | |Students say prices |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
| | |Students speak about money | |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the Unit |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 46-54) | |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 46-54 (Reading) |Students read a text about chilli abd tastes |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about food and cooking |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| |SB, pages 46-54 (Speaking)|Students read an article about a restaurant | |
| | |Students read a text about celebrations | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 46-54 (Listening)| | |
| |SB page 53 (Writing) |Students speak about food | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about daily diets | |
| | |Students speak about restaurants | |
| | |Students speak about cooking | |
| | |Students describe a personal experience | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to students talking | |
| | |Students listen to ac extract from a radio programme | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a description | |
| | |Students write messages, texts, emails | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser– |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 46-54 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Money |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Page 53 (Writing) |Restaurants |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Food |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a description | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 46-54 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
UNIT 6: ON CAMERA
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the future tenses
- To know the form and use of the future perfect and the future continuous
- To speak about the future
- To speak about Arts
- To speak about live performances
- To speak about street performers
- To give opinions
- To talk about the advantages and disadvantages of being a circus performer and a street performer
- To speak about their favourite painting or photograph
- To speak about hopes, arrangements, intentions and predictions
- To speak about cinema and films
- To read a discussion about Art
- To read an article about the future of entertainment
- To read a text about fiction and reality
- To listen to people talking about Art
- To listen to people talking about theatre
- To read a report on suggestion for a college cinema
- To write a report
- To learn to plan and organize ideas to write a text
- To know vocabulary about Arts
- To form adjectives from nouns
- To form nouns from verbs
- To know expressions with get
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about the future
- Speaking about live performances
- Speaking about street performers
- Talking about the advantages and disadvantages of being a circus performer and a street performer
- Speaking about their favourite painting or photograph
- Speaking about hopes, arrangements, intentions and predictions
- Speaking about cinema and films
- Reading a discussion about Art
- Reading an article about the future of entertainment
- Reading a text about fiction and reality
- Listening to people talking about Art
- Listening to people talking about theatre
- Writing a report
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Future Forms
- Future perfect and continuous
B. Vocabulary
- Arts
- Word formation: adjectives from nouns; nouns from verbs
- Expressions with get
Sociocultural Aspects
- To show interest in discovering forms of Art
- To show interest in theatre and cinema
- To think and talk about the future
- To think and talk about the future of entertainment
- To think and talk about health and art
- To debate about other countries
- To respect other cultures
- To show interest towards other cultures and their art
- To think about happiness and art
- To think and talk about the relationship between art and people
- To debate about discovering different countries and cultures
- To debate about culture and ways to express feelings
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To talk about the relationship between animals and people
To show interest towards art
Education for peace
To respect different countries
Art and peace
Health education
To think about the importance of a healthy lifestyle
To debate about health and art
Consumer education
To debate about consumerism and culture
Road safety
To use the car carefully
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 6, page 67
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2. Page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 6
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 3, page 46
- DVD, Unit 6
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 6
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 6, page 67
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2, page 107
- DVD, Unit 6
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 6
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 6, page 67
- DVD, Unit 6
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 6
- DVD, Unit 6
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 58-67 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students use and know numbers in English |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | |Students say prices |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
| | |Students speak about money | |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet | Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the Unit |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 58-67) | |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 58-67 (Reading) |Students read a text about the future of entertainment |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text some predictions |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| |SB, pages 58-67 (Speaking)|Students read an article about from fiction to reality | |
| | |Students read a report on suggestion for a college cinema | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 58-67 (Listening)| | |
| |SB page 66 (Writing) |Students speak about art they like | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about performances | |
| | |Students speak about paintings | |
| | |Students speak about entertainment | |
| | |Students speak about the future | |
| | |Students speak about movies | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to people talking in 8 different situations | |
| | |Students listen to dialogues | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a report | |
| | |Students write messages, texts, emails | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser– |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 58-67 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Movies |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Page 66 (Writing) |Performances |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Entertainment |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | |The future | |
| | |Cinema | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a description | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | |Progress test | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 58-67 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
UNIT 7: A HOME FROM HOME
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the modal verbs
- To express possibility and certainty
- To know the form and use of the relative clauses
- To know the form and use of so, such, too, very, enough
- To read an extract from a novel about emigration
- To read a text about the land of ice and fire
- To read a text about Motham
- To read a text about Cape Cod
- To speak about emigration
- To show agreement and disagreement
- To describe some photographs
- To describe a place
- To describe a famous place in a given country
- To speak about themselves
- To speak about past times in their lives
- To listen to the description of a monastery
- To listen to a woman talking on a travel programme
- To write an article
- To learn to add information on any topic
- To deduce meaning from context
- To know words and expressions to describe places
- To know vocabulary about travel
- To know expressions with world
- To deduce words in context
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Reading an extract from a novel about emigration
- Reading a text about the land of ice and fire
- Reading a text about Motham
- Reading a text about Cape Cod
- Speaking about emigration
- Describing some photographs
- Describing a place
- Describing a famous place in a given country
- Speaking about themselves
- Speaking about past times in their lives
- Listening to the description of a monastery
- Listening to a woman talking on a travel programme
- Writing an article
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Modal verbs
- Relative clauses
- So, such, too, very, enough
B. Vocabulary
- Deducing meaning
- Describing places
- Travel
- Expressions with world
Sociocultural Aspects
- To show interest in discovering places and cities
- To show interest in travelling
- To think and talk about emigration
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about consumerism
- To think and talk about their future
- To debate about summer holidays
- To debate about different ways to spend the time
- To think and talk about the planet
- To debate about their school
- To debate about driving
- To debate about adventure holidays
- To debate about taking risks
- To debate about their town
- To show interest in discovering new countries and cultures
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To respect people
To show interest in discovering new countries
Education for peace
To respect different countries
Consumer education
To debate about consumerism
To debate about spending money
To think and talk about festivals
To debate about holidays
To think about different aspects to spend money
To debate about cheap ways to travel
Environment education
To respect the environment during the summer
Education for equality
To respect people, no matter their sex, race or religion
To respect the planet
Health education
To think about holidays and health
Road safety
To use the car
To use different means of transport
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 7, page 77
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2. Page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 7
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 4, page 60
- DVD, Unit 7
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 7
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 7, page 77
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2, page 107
- DVD, Unit 7
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 7
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 7
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 7, page 77
- DVD, Unit 7
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 7
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 68-77 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 68-77) |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 68-77 (Reading) |Students read an extract from a novel |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a description of a country |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| |SB, pages 68-77 (Speaking)|Students read articles about Mothman and Cape Cod | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 68-77 (Listening)|Students speak about a novel | |
| | |Students speak about emigration | |
| |SB page 76 (Writing) |Students speak about familiar places | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students show agreement and disagreement | |
| | |Students describe photographs | |
| | |Students speak about foreign countries | |
| | |Students tell stories | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to people talking | |
| | |Students listen to a journalist interviewing a travel writer | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an story | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 68-77 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Countries |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Foreign countries |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB Pages 76 (Writing) |Emigration |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Beautiful places | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |Students write a short story | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 68-77 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 8: MOVING ON
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the reporting verbs
- To bring back to the present moment what others said previously
- To use reported statements
- To use reported questions and imperatives
- To listen to five people talking about the future of their profession
- To read an article about people who found success living and working in exotic locations
- To listen to people talking in different situations
- To listen to a job interview
- To read a job interview
- To speak about jobs
- To speak about a job interview
- To speak about working in a foreign country
- To repeat what others have said
- To read an article about successful people
- To read an informal letter about an interview for a job
- To read a text about a video game designer
- To read a letter of application
- To write a letter of application
- To deduce words in context
- To know collocations and phrasal verbs with work
- To know linking words and expressions
- To know concrete nouns
- To know abstract nouns
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Listening to five people talking about the future of their profession
- Listening to people talking in different situations
- Listening to a job interview
- Speaking about jobs
- Speaking about a job interview
- Speaking about working in a foreign country
- Reading an article about successful people
- Reading an informal letter about an interview for a job
- Reading a text about a video game designer
- Reading a letter of application
- Writing a letter of application
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Reporting verbs
- Reported statements
- Reported questions and imperatives
B. Vocabulary
- Collocations and phrasal verbs with work
- Linking words and expressions
- Concrete and abstract nouns
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about the labour market
- To debate about the job they would like to have
- To debate about different working options
- To debate about jobs
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about voluntary work
- To think and talk about jobs they would like to do
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries with respect and interest
To respect different places and cities
To think and talk about work
To show interest towards voluntary work
Consumer education
To think and talk about wages and the crisis
Health education
To debate about work and health
Education for equality
To be aware of equality to get a job, focusing on qualities and skills
To respect classmates
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 8, page 87
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2. Page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 8
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 4, page 60
- DVD, Unit 8
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 8
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 8, page 87
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2, page 107
- DVD, Unit 8
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 8
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 8, page 87
- DVD, Unit 8
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 8
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages78-87 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students know the numbers |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet | Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the Unit |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 78-87) | |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 78-87 (Reading) |Students read some statements |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about the ends of the earth |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read emails | |
| |SB, pages 78-87 (Speaking)|Students read a letter of application | |
| |SB pages 78-87 (Listening)| | |
| | | | |
| |SB page 86 (Writing) |Students speak about jobs | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students give advice | |
| | |Students speak about jobs in foreign countries | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to people intonation | |
| | |Students listen to people talking in three different situations | |
| | |Students listen to a job interview | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a letter of application | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 78-87 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Jobs |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Pages 86 (Writing) |Job interviews |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Jobs in foreign countries |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a letter of application | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 78-87 (Speaking) SB |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 9: LUCKY BREAK?
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the conditionals
- To know the form and use of the third conditional
- To speak about role models from the sports world
- To speak about sports
- To speak about desires
- To speak about someone they would choose to be
- To speak about good and bad luck
- To speak about superstitions
- To speak about ambitions
- To read an article about Usain Bolt
- To read an article about superstitious athletes
- To read a text about an Olympic diver
- To read an essay about sports
- To listen to two students answering a similar question
- To listen to a radio programme about luck in sport
- To write an essay
- To learn to organize paragraphs and arguments
- To know collocations about success and failure
- To know word-building
- To know collocations with luck
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about role models from the sports world
- Speaking about sports
- Speaking about desires
- Speaking about someone they would choose to be
- Speaking about good and bad luck
- Speaking about superstitions
- Speaking about ambitions
- Reading an article about Usain Bolt
- Reading an article about superstitious athletes
- Reading a text about an Olympic diver
- Reading an essay about sports
- Listening to two students answering a similar question
- Listening to a radio programme about luck in sport
- Writing an essay
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Conditional forms
- Third conditional
B. Vocabulary
- Collocations: success and failure
- Word-building
- Collocations with luck
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about success
- To think and talk about good luck
- To show interest in sports
- To debate about superstitions
- To debate about sports
- To thing and talk about politics and sports
- To think and talk about women’s boxing
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about healthy lifestyles
- To think and talk about fitness and keeping fit
- To debate about food
- To debate about means of transport
- To think and talk about public transport
- To think and talk about TV and sports
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To respect people, no matter their age
To debate about education and sports
To debate about means of transport and their use
Education for peace
To respect different countries
To debate about boxing
Health Education
To think and talk about sports and health
To debate about healthy and unhealthy lifestyles
To debate about healthy food
To think and talk about keeping fit
Education for equality
To respect classmates
To debate about sports and men and women
Road safety
To use the car carefully
To show interest towards different means of transport
To show interest towards public transport
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 9, page 97
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2. Page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 9
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 5, page 74
- DVD, Unit 9
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Foucus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 9
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 9, page 97
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2, page 107
- DVD, Unit 9
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 9
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 9, page 97
- DVD, Unit 9
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 9
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 88-97 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students know the numbers |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 88-97 |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 88-97 (Reading) |Students read an article about sportspeople |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read a text about superstitious athletes |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read emails | |
| |SB, pages 88-97 (Speaking)|Students read an article about Tom’s monkey | |
| | |Students read an essay | |
| |SB pages 88-97 (Listening)| | |
| | | | |
| | |Students speak about sports | |
| |SB page 96 (Writing) |Students speak about sportspeople | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about famous people | |
| | |Students speak about superstitions | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to students talking | |
| | |Students listen to a journalist talking about a book about luck in sport | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 88-97 (Speaking) |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Sports |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Famous people |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| | |Sportspeople |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB Pages 96 (Writing) |Luck | |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Superstitions | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 88-97 (Speaking) SB |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 10: VIRTUAL FRIENDS
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of the conditionals
- To know the forma and use of different alternatives to if
- To know the form and use of participles in –ed
- To know the form and use of participles in –ing
- To speak about friendship
- To describe a friend
- To speak about activities it is best to do friends
- To speak about activities it is best to do alone
- To speak about virtual friends
- To speak about online friendship
- To listen to people talking about their closest friend
- To listen to two students talking
- To read a quiz about friendship
- To read a text about friendship
- To read an article about virtual people and real friends
- To read a text about someone’s best friend
- To read an informal email
- To write an informal email
- To learn to choose an appropriate style
- To read an article about a closest friend
- To express emphasis with what
- To know adjectives with self
- To know easily confused adjectives
- To know compound adjectives about personality
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about friendship
- Speaking about activities it is best to do friends
- Speaking about activities it is best to do alone
- Speaking about virtual friends
- Speaking about online friendship
- Listening to people talking about their closest friend
- Listening to two students talking
- Reading a quiz about friendship
- Reading a text about friendship
- Reading an article about virtual people and real friends
- Reading a text about someone’s best friend
- Reading an informal email
- Writing an informal email
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Conditionals: alternatives to if
- Participles (-ing, -ed)
- Emphasis with what
B. Vocabulary
- Adjectives with self
- Easily confused adjectives
- Compound adjectives: personality
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about friendship
- To debate about virtual people
- To think and talk about themselves and their classmates
- To debate about living in different countries
- To think and talk about hobbies
- To debate about leisure activities
- To debate about human relationships
- To debate about friendship
- To think and talk about different countries
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To show interest in different countries
To respect others race, religion and genre
To respect relationships
To respect animals
Environmental education
To respect nature
To love animals
Education for equality
To be aware of equality to get a job, focusing on qualities and skills
To respect classmates
To respect people
Consumer education
To debate about different ways to spend the time
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2. Page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 10
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 5, page 74
- DVD, Unit 10
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 10, page 107
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 10
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 2, page 107
- DVD, Unit 10
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 10
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 10, page 107
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- DVD, Unit 10
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 10
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 10, page 107
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 98-106 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates and years |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 98-106) |students/goldfirstOnline Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 98-106 (Reading)|Students read a quiz about frienship |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) | |Students read an article about friends |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read an article about virtual friends | |
| |SB, pages 98-106 |Students read a text about a best friend | |
| |(Speaking) |Students read an article | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 98-106 | | |
| |(Listening) |Students speak about friendship | |
| | |Students speak about their best friend | |
| |SB page 105 (Writing) |Students speak about virtual friends | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to five people talking about their best friend | |
| | |Students listen to students talking | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |Students write a description of a person | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 98-106 (Speaking)|Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |Friendship |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) |SB Pages 105 (Writing) |Virtual friends |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Their best friend |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| |Internet |Exam information | |
| |Online Skills, |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Grammar | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 98-106 (Speaking) SB|Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |Pages 179-199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | | |and will power |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit | |
UNIT 11: LIVING ON THE EDGE
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of mixed conditionals
- To express hypothetical meaning with wish and if only
- To read a text about the kid who climbed the Everest
- To read a text about the North Pole
- To read a text about risk-taking
- To read a semi-formal letter
- To speak about people who go on adventures
- To speak about possibilities
- To speak about the riskiest sports
- To speak about taking risks
- To speak about sports
- To listen to someone speaking about extreme mountain biking
- To listen to a man talking about skateboarding
- To listen to a student talking
- To write a semiformal letter
- To make polite requests
- To use prefixes to work out meaning
- To know verbs, nouns and adjectives
- To know adjectives and verbs with prepositions
- To know the form and use of phrasal verbs with off
- To learn to organize paragraphs and arguments
- To know collocations about success and failure
- To know word-building
- To know collocations with luck
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Reading a text about the kid who climbed the Everest
- Reading a text about the North Pole
- Reading a text about risk-taking
- Reading a semi-formal letter
- Speaking about people who go on adventures
- Speaking about possibilities
- Speaking about the riskiest sports
- Speaking about taking risks
- Speaking about sports
- Listening to someone speaking about extreme mountain biking
- Listening to a man talking about skateboarding
- Listening to a student talking
- Writing a semiformal letter
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Mixed conditionals
- Wish
- If only
B. Vocabulary
- Prefixes to work out meaning
- Verbs, nouns, adjectives
- Adjectives and verbs with prepositions
- Phrasal verbs with off
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about taking risks
- To debate about security and taking risks
- To show interest in discovering new sports
- To show interest in discovering what other people do
- To show interest in discovering new countries
- To think and talk about the crisis
- To debate about consumerism
- To think and talk about their future
- To debate about summer holidays
- To debate about different ways to spend the time
- To think and talk about the planet
- To debate about their school
- To debate about driving
- To debate about adventure holidays
- To debate about taking risks
- To debate about their town
- To show interest in discovering new countries and cultures
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries and cultures with respect and interest.
To respect people
To show interest in discovering new countries
Education for peace
To respect different countries
Consumer education
To debate about consumerism
To debate about spending money
To think and talk about festivals
To debate about holidays
Environment education
To respect the environment during the summer
Education for equality
To respect people, no matter their sex, race or religion
To respect the planet
Health education
To think about holidays and health
Road safety
To use the car
To use different means of transport
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 11, page 117
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 11
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 6, page 88
- DVD, Unit 11
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam Focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 11
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 11, page 117
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3, page 149
- DVD, Unit 11
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 11
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 11, page 117
- DVD, Unit 11
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 11
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 110-119 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates and years |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 110-119) |students/goldfirstOnline Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 110-119 |Students read An article about the kid who climbed the Everest |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) |(Reading) |Students read a text about the North Pole |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read an advertisement about risk-taking | |
| | |Students read a review | |
| |SB, pages 110-119 | | |
| |(Speaking) | | |
| | |Students speak about adventures | |
| | |Students speak about encouragement | |
| | |Students speak about nationalities | |
| |SB pages 110-119 |Students speak about a person they would have liked to be | |
| |(Listening) |Students speak about the North Pole | |
| | |Students speak about cycling, skiing, driving | |
| |SB page 118 (Writing) |Students describe themselves | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about travelling | |
| | |Students speak about photos | |
| | |Students give their opinion | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to a man talking about extreme mountain biking | |
| | |Students listen to a man talking about skateboarding | |
| | |Students listen to a student talking | |
| | |Students listen to a teacher | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a review | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 110-119 |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. |(Speaking) |Life experiences |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Travelling |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| | |North Pole |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| | |Animals | |
| | |Continents | |
| |SB Page 118 (Writing) |Weather | |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a review | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| | |Exam information | |
| | |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| |Internet |Grammar | |
| |Online Skills, |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 110-119 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
UNIT 12: CRIME SCENE
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of modal verbs
- To express obligation, prohibition and necessity
- To know the form and use of have/get something done
- To speak about prisons
- To debate about punishments
- To speak about a novel
- To speak about their lives
- To listen to a journalist talking about places which used to be prisons
- To read a text about prisons
- To read an extract from a crime novel by Kate Atkinson
- To read a text about Sherlock Holmes
- To read a short story
- To write a story
- To use prefixes to work out meaning
- To know collocations with catch, follow, reach
- To know vocabulary about cybercrimes
- To know phrasal verbs with go
- To read a student’s report
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about prisons
- Speaking about punishments
- Speaking about a crime novel
- Speaking about their lives
- Listening to a journalist talking about places which used to be prisons
- Reading a text about prisons
- Reading an extract from a crime novel
- Reading a text about Sherlock Holmes
- Reading a short story
- Writing a short story
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Modal verbs
- Have/get something done
B. Vocabulary
- Collocations with catch, follow, reach
- Cybercrime
- Phrasal verbs with go
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about crime
- To think and talk about law and punishment
- To debate about prisons
- To show interest in discovering crime fiction
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To respect people
To debate about law
Consumer education
To think about different aspects to spend money
Road safety
To drive carefully
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 12, page 129
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 12
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 6, page 88
- DVD, Unit 12
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 11, page 117
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 12
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 12, page 129
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3, page 149
- DVD, Unit 12
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 12
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 12, page 129
- DVD, Unit 12
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 12
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 120-129 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates and years |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet | Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the Unit |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 120-129) | |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| |Book |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 120-129 |Students read a text about prisons |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) |(Reading) |Students read an extract from a crime novel |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read notes about Sherlock Holmes | |
| | |Students read a student’s report | |
| |SB, pages 120-129 | | |
| |(Speaking) | | |
| | |Students speak about prison | |
| |SB pages 120-129 |Students speak about working in a prison | |
| |(Listening) |Students speak about crimes and punishments | |
| | |Students speak about cybercrime | |
| |SB page 128 (Writing) |Students speak about crime fiction | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about a novel | |
| | |Students speak about a book-TV show-Film tour place | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to a journalist talking about places which used to be prisons | |
| | |Students listen to people talking | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a report | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 120-129 |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. |(Speaking) |Prisons |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Crime and punishments |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| | |Cybercrimes |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB Page 128 (Writing) |Law | |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write a report | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| | |Exam information | |
| | |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| |Internet |Grammar | |
| |Online Skills, |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 120-129 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199 (Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
UNIT 13: WHO ARE YOU AGAIN?
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of modal verbs
- To express ability
- To know the form and use of the reflexive pronouns
- To read an article about identity crisis
- To read some forum extracts
- To read a text about text messages
- To read an article about the lost art of forgetting
- To read an informal email of apology
- To speak about resemblance
- To speak about face-blindness
- To speak about recording memories
- To speak text messages
- To speak about feelings
- To speak about different situations
- To listen to people talking in different situations
- To listen to people talking about daily life
- To write an informal email of apology
- To write an informal email
- To apologize
- To read a text about how mp3s have ruined our listening habits
- To make excuses
- To know phrasal verbs with come
- To know expressions with mind
- To know verbs with similar meanings
- To know expressions with time
- To read an article about learning to live again
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Reading an article about identity crisis
- Reading some forum extracts
- Reading a text about text messages
- Reading an informal email of apology
- Speaking about resemblance
- Speaking about face-blindness
- Speaking about recording memories
- Speaking text messages
- Speaking about feelings
- Speaking about different situations
- Listening to people talking in different situations
- Listening to people talking about daily life
- Writing an informal email of apology
- Writing an informal email
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- Modal verbs
- Reflexive pronouns
B. Vocabulary
- Phrasal verbs with come
- Expressions with mind
- Verbs with similar meanings
- Expressions with time
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about face blindness
- To debate about identity crisis
- To debate about mobile phones
- To apologize
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To respect people
To know how to apologize
Consumer education
To think about different aspects to spend money
Education for equality
To respect people, no matter their sex, religion, race.
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 13, page 139
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 13
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 7, page 102
- DVD, Unit 13
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 13
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 13, page 139
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3, page 149
- DVD, Unit 13
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 13
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 13, page 139
- DVD, Unit 13
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 13
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 130-139 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates and years |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 130-139) |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 130-139 |Students read an article about identity crisis |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) |(Reading) |Students read some forum extracts |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read some emails | |
| | |Students read a text about the lost art of forgetting | |
| |SB, pages 130-139 |Students read a text about learning to live again | |
| |(Speaking) | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| |SB pages 130-139 |Students speak about people and faces | |
| |(Listening) |Students speak about the past | |
| |SB page 138(Writing) |Students speak about memories | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, |Students speak about things they could improve | |
| | |Students speak about their feelings | |
| | |Students give an advice | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to people talking in eight different situations | |
| | |Students listen to students talking | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an email | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given | |
| | |topicstudents/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages130-139 (Speaking)|Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. | |About themselves |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |Give advices |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| |SB Page 138 (Writing) |Crisis |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Identity | |
| | |Apologise | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an email | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| | |Exam information | |
| | |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| |Internet |Grammar | |
| |Online Skills, |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 130-139 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179-199(Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
UNIT 14: SAY WHAT YOU MEAN
I. AIMS
- To know the form and use of it is
- To know the form and use of there is
- To know the subject-verb agreement
- To speak about people’s speech in different parts of the country
- To make about gestures to communicate
- To speak about communications between dogs and humans
- To read an article about inside a dog’s world
- To speak about dos and don’ts
- To speak about pets and the way they communicate
- To speak about animal communication
- To speak about pets
- To listen to people talking about communicating with people
- To read an extract from a book about how dogs communicate
- To read information about animals
- To read a text about how animals communicate
- To write a letter of advice
- To write an informal letter
- To know verbs about say, speak, talk, tell
- To know ways of speaking
- To know idioms about animals
- To improve the pronunciation of the English Language
- To improve the intonation of the English Language
- To recognize the word stress
II. CONTENTS
Communication Skills
- Speaking about people’s speech in different parts of the country
- Speaking about communications between dogs and humans
- Speaking about dos and don’ts
- Speaking about pets and the way they communicate
- Speaking about animal communication
- Speaking about pets
- Listening to people talking about communicating with people
- Reading an extract from a book about how dogs communicate
- Reading information about animals
- Reading a text about how animals communicate
- Writing a letter of advice
- Writing an informal letter
Language reflections
A. Language and grammar functions
- It is
- There is
- Subject/verb agreement
B. Vocabulary
- Say, speak, talk, tell
- Ways of speaking
- Idioms: animals
Sociocultural Aspects
- To think and talk about pets
- To debate about communication
- To debate about how animals communicate
- To show interest in discovering new ways of communication
- To think and talk about the use of mobile phones
- To debate about the use of computers
- To debate about languages
- To debate about languages, countries and cultures
- To think and talk about school
- To debate about habits
- To think and talk about talent
- To debate about ways to help the environment
CROSS-CURRICULAR TOPICS
Moral and civic education
To talk about other countries with respect and interest.
To show interest towards learning languages
To respect animals
To respect nature
Environmental education
To respect the nature
To show respect towards animals
To debate about ways to help the environment
Education for equality
To be aware of equality to get a job, focusing on qualities and skills
To respect classmates
Health education
To debate about nature and health
To think and talk about health and animals
ASSESSMENT
I. Communication skills
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3. Page 149
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Page 152
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 14
- Exam Maximiser, Use of English 7, page 102
- DVD, Unit 14
- Students’ Book. Communication activities. Pages 157-160
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- Students’ Book. Exam focus. Pages 200-207
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 14
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Audio MP3s
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
II. Language reflections
- Students’ Book. Progress Test 3, page 149
- DVD, Unit 14
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 14
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 14, page 139
- Students’ Book. Grammar Reference. Pages 161-178
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
III. Sociocultural aspects
- Students’ Book. Review, Unit 14, page 149
- DVD, Unit 14
- Exam Maximiser, Unit 14
- Students’ Book. Visuals for Speaking Tests. Pages 152-156
- Students’ Book. Writing Reference. Pages 179-199
- My English Lab
- Teacher’s online resource material
- Exam Maximiser: Common errors at Cambridge English: First, pages 104-110
- Exam Maximiser: Practice test: 113-128
BASIC COMPETENCES
| |
|COMPETENCE |LOCALIZATION |DESCRIPTION |ASSESMENT CRITERIA |
|EXPRESSION AND COMUNICATION SPHERE |
|Communication in the |SB pages 140-148 |All the activities in this book use language as a tool for written and oral |To show interest and curiosity towards the English Language |
|mother tongue and in | |communication |To show interest towards the anglosaxon culture |
|foreign languages (C1) | | | |
|Mathematical competence |SB |Students say dates and years |To use new technologies in order to revise what they have learnt |
|(C2) | | |To use new technologies while they are learning English |
|Digital competence (C4) |Internet |Students Students use internet and webs pages to search for information about the |To understand different cultures |
| |Online Skills |Unit |To enjoy learning about a new culture |
| |(SB pages 140-148) |students/goldfirst Online Skills. |To learn how to use different methodologies |
| |Online Teacher’s Resource | | |
| |Book |Read texts (emails, articles…) from different websites | |
| | |Students use digital formats | |
| | |Speak about social networks | |
| | |Use internet | |
|Cultural awareness and |SB, pages 140-148 |Students read an article about animals |To understand different cultural and linguistic manifestations |
|expression (C6) |(Reading) |Students read an article about animal facts |To enjoy learning by using different cultural manifestations |
| | |Students read an article about the animal world’s communication kings | |
| |SB, pages 140-148 |Students read an article about technology | |
| |(Speaking) | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students speak about languages | |
| |SB pages 140-148 |Students speak about languages and countries | |
| |(Listening) |Students speak about animals | |
| | |Students speak about future plans | |
| | |Students speak about pets | |
| |SB page 147 (Writing) |Students speak about communication between animals and people | |
| |Internet - Online Skills, | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students listen to five different speakers talking about communicating with people | |
| | |Students listen to short conversations | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
| | |They write an original text. | |
| | |They role play a situation | |
| | |They visit web pages in order to learn more about the given topic | |
| | |students/goldfirst | |
|RELATIONSHIPS AND INTERACTION SPHERE |
|Knowledge and connection |SB & Exam Maximiser – |Students learn and think about: studying, habits and proper methodologies |To develop a critical mind when observing reality |
|with the world and | | |To know the world they are living in |
|environment C3) | | | |
|Social and civic |SB Pages 140-148 |Students speak about: |To use the English language to communicate with other people |
|competences. |(Speaking) |Animals |To develop communication skills |
|(C5) | |The future |To express their own ideas and to listen to others |
| | |Languages |To know the anglosaxon culture |
| |SB Page 147 (Writing) |Communication | |
| |SB & Exam Maximiser- |Languages and countries | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | |Students write an essay | |
|PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT |
|Learning to learn (C7) |Eval. Formative |Students do self-assessment activities |To be aware of their level and of the skills they need to improve |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser |Students do exercises, practising what they have learnt in the unit (SB and exam | |
| |(Progress test)) |maximiser) |To show interest towards learning and studying |
| |Eval. sumativa |Exam Tips | |
| |SB and Exam Maximiser | |To develop strategies to improve their learning |
| |Evaluación sumativa | | |
| |SB |Students learn to use the book and the extra materials : | |
| |Self-assessment |Students’ Book | |
| |SB - Revison |Reading | |
| | |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| |SB |Visuals for speaking tests (152-156) | |
| | |Communication activities (157-160) | |
| | |Writing | |
| | |Writing reference (179-199) | |
| | |Grammar reference (161-178)). | |
| | |Irregular verbs | |
| | |Phrasal verbs | |
| | |False friends | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| | |Online Skills | |
| | |Exam Focus | |
| | |Exam information | |
| | |Progress Test | |
| | | | |
| | |Exam Maximiser | |
| | |Vocabulary | |
| |Internet |Grammar | |
| |Online Skills, |Listening | |
| | |Speaking | |
| | |Use of English | |
| | |Common Errors at Cambrdge First (104-109) | |
| | |Common Language Errors at CambridgeFirst (110-112) | |
| | |Practice test (113-127) | |
| | | | |
| | |To think about the strategies they have used (Reading, Listening, Speaking Strategy, | |
| | |Writing) | |
| | |To visit web pages to learn more and to improve | |
| | |students/goldfirst/ | |
| | |Online Skills. | |
|Being autonomous (C8) |SB Pages 140-148 (Speaking) |Students study on their own or do exercise in pairs |To listen and to speak showing a positive and polite attitude |
| |SB Pages 179 - 199(Writing) |Students prepare exercises they have to analyse, prepare and check: |To show personal initiative |
| |Progress test |Students do their homework (Progress test). |To develop personal qualities, such as initiative, determination |
| | |Students do assessment and self -assessment activities per Unit |and will power |
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