Macmillan English 4 – course planner - 160 sessions (45 minutes each)
Unit / Reading(1 session) / Comprehension and vocabulary
(1 session) / Language building
(1 session) / Grammar
(1 session) / Fluency
(1 session) / Spelling and reading for enrichment
(1 session) / Class writing
(1 session)
Unit
1
7 sessions / The Sun and the Wind (play) / Comprehension: multiple choice
Vocabulary: short words in longer words / revision – nouns / proper nouns / adjectives / adverbs / Past Simple – irregular verbs / Holiday clothes (for different weather) / Spelling: ey words
Reading for enrichment: The Great Fire of London / the next scene of the play
Test Unit 1 (1 session)
Unit
2
7 sessions / Volcanoes (information/explanation) / Comprehension: ordering steps in the explanation
Vocabulary: words and definitions, riddle / plural – o words / Past Continuous / Forest fires (fire fighting in Australia) / Spelling: ire words
Reading for enrichment: When there's a fire in the jungle / The Sun / information writing on Vesuvius
Test Unit 2 (1 session)
Unit
3
7 sessions / Clever Polly (short story) / Comprehension: Who said it?
Vocabulary: What can you do? What can you eat? / homophones / direct speech / Past Continuous and Past Simple / Sea life (sea creature food chain) / Spelling: le words
Reading for enrichment: Why do we eat? / dialogue
Test Unit 3 (1 session)
Unit
4
7 sessions / Restaurants and recipes (lists and instructions) / Comprehension: true or false
Vocabulary: food words / alphabetical order / proper nouns / infinitive of purpose / Let's go! Cafe. (cafe snacks) / Spelling: ar words
Reading for enrichment: Fascinating food facts / instructions
Revision units 1-4 (2 sessions)
Test Units 1-4 (1 session)
Project work (2 sessions)
Unit
5
7 sessions / Journey to Jo'burg (moder fiction - extract) / Comprehension: cloze
Vocabulary: adjectives / alphabetical order / noun-verb agreement / modal verb should / Wheels (moving with wheels) / Spelling: dge words
Reading for enrichment: Soraya's blanket / characters in stories
Test Unit 5 (1 session)
Unit
6
7 sessions / A long journey (letter) / Comprehension: true or false
Vocabulary: rhymes / codes / comparative / superlative (-er/-est) and irregulars / will to express the future / South African journey (South Africa, travelling by plane) / Spelling: soft g words
Reading for enrichment: How people learnt to fly / letter
Test Unit 6 (1 session)
Unit
7
7 sessions / The ant and the beetle (fable) / Comprehension: multiple choice
Vocabulary: synonyms / comparative / superlative with more/most / pronouns / The lazy mouse (re-telling a story with a moral) / Spelling: silent k and w words
Reading for enrichment: All about ants / story structure
Test Unit 7 (1 session)
Unit
8
7 sessions / An animal dictionary / An animal encyclopaedia (alphabetical texts) / Comprehension: literal – words and definitions
Vocabulary: alphabetical order – words in a dictionary / possessive nouns - singular / few/fewer/the fewest; little / less / the least / Animals in danger (endangered animals) / Spelling: silent b words
Reading for enrichment: Teaser (riddle) / Undersea tea (very simple shape poem) / dictionaries – words and definitions
Test Unit 8 (1 session)
Unit
9
7 sessions / Lions / The 'Veggy” Lion (poetry) / Comprehension: literal
Vocabulary: collective nouns / statements and questions / question words / South African safari / Spelling: syllables – one- and two-syllable words
Reading for enrichment: The last laugh / rhymes
Revision Units 5-9 (2 sessions)
Test Units 5-9 (1 session)
Project work (2 sessions)
Unit
10
7 sessions / Open Day (play) / Comprehension: multiple choice
Vocabulary: dictionary work – word meanings and spellings / irregular plurals / first conditional / Welcome back! (party food) / Spelling: prefix re
Reading for enrichment: Matiwara's name game (traditional African story) / continuing a playscript
Test Unit 10 (1 session)
Unit
11
7 sessions / Celebrating success – Amy Johnson (biography) / Comprehension: sequencing
Vocabulary: compound words / adverbs of time / question tags / Bravery awards (brave actions, computer games) / Spelling: soft c
Reading for enrichment: Celebrating the sunshine (poem) / writing a biography (using notes)
Test Unit 11 (1 session)
Unit
12
7 sessions / The flying house (extract from The Wizard of Oz) (narrative fantasy adventure) / Comprehension: true or false
Vocabulary: thesaurus work - synonyms / direct speech (split sentences) / too+adjective, adjective+enough / Hollywood (and favourite films) / Spelling: silent letters within words
Reading for enrichment: The weather forecast (weather symbols and descriptions) / descriptive writing (describing a setting)
Test Unit 12 (1 session)
Unit
13
7 sessions / Hurricane Harry (newspaper report) / Comprehension: cloze procedure
Vocabulary: categorising / classifying thematic weather words / reported speech / Present Perfect / Caribbean adventure (The Caribbean and music) / Spelling: -or suffix
Reading for enrichment: Wind (poem) / writing own newspaper report
Revision Units 10-13 (2 sessions)
Test Unit 10-13 (1 session)
Project work (2 sessions)
Unit
14
7 sessions / It's a knock-out (football story) (story with familiar setting) / Comprehension: Who said it?
Vocabulary: homonyms / adverbs of place / Present Perfect with yet and just / Extreme sports / Spelling: two-syllable words with medial double consonants
Reading for enrichment: Fascinating football facts / planning and writing a story sequel
Test Unit 14 (1 session)
Unit
15
7 sessions / The Olympic Games (information text with chart) / Comprehension: reading a chart
Vocabulary: alphabetical order according to 1st, 2nd and 3rd letters / subject and object / exclamations with What (a/an) / Sports champions (favourite sports) / Spelling: o sounds like u (nothing)
Reading for enrichment: The Story of Dawn Fraser (biography) / information in chart form
Test Unit 15 (1 session)
Unit
16
7 sessions / The Martian and the Supermarket (fantasy adventure) / Comprehension: sentence completion
Vocabulary: overused words: said – suggesting alternatives / possessive adjectives / making offers and suggestions / The solar system (the planets) / Spelling: three-syllable words
Reading for enrichment: The professor and the ferryman (story with a moral) / using dialogue / continuing story
Test Unit 16 (1 session)
Unit
17
7 sessions / The visit (recount) / Comprehension: sequencing
Vocabulary: thesaurus work – synonyms and antonyms / apostrophes of possessions (plural) / gerunds / Zoo vets (zoos, zoo vets and nurses) / Spelling: al as prefix and suffix
Reading for enrichment: Endangered animals (chart) / writing recount (from personal experience)
Test Unit 17 (1 session)
Unit
18
7 sessions / What is a friend? (poetry including an acrostic poem) / Comprehension: literal questions
Vocabulary: rhyming words / possessive pronouns / relative clauses with who / The big quiz / Spelling: el words
Reading for enrichment: The world and its countries (poem) / acrostic poems
Revision Units 14-18 (2 sessions)
Final test (2 sessions)
Wrap-up (1 session)
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