Newsletter- Summer 98

Dear parents:

You are kindly informed that in our English classes these subjects have been covered during 6 weeks since 7th  July to 19th August.

Skills                    Participating in group games   

Reading •

• Repeating the words and letter sounds
• Being able to use classroom language
• Being able to answer every day routine questions
• Being able to describe different pictures using short and simple sentences
• Being able to use simple sentences and talk about jobs
• Being able to identify and match the words with similar sounds
• Being able to fill in the blanks and write the missing letter
• Being able to read short and simple sentences aloud
• Being able to search the words on the board and circle the appropriate one
• Being able to read short story books in class
• Being able to hear the word, spell it and write it on the board
• Being able to take part in group activities
• Being able to describe and talk about their family members and their occupations
• Being able to listen and sing the people’s song
• Watching educational video about jobs ( Steve & Maggie )
• Watching short animation and describing the pictures using simple sentence (City mouse & Country mouse)

Writing  

Listening               

Speaking               

Vocabularies

The words containing these sounds: ( ai, ay, ae ) ( ee, ea ) ( tr, gr, st) ( ie, igh, i-e), ( o-e, oa, ow ) ( fl, bl, sn ) ( th, ch, sh )

For example: day, rain ,cake ,lake ,gate ,tail ,meat , feet , tree, train, grape , green, kite, pie , nose, boat , snow, snail ,…

Summer Festival

• Jobs festival

(The  students take part in this project by getting familiar with different jobs, making related crafts, talking and writing short sentences about each occupation)

                               Games

• Word search
• Tic-Tac-Toe ( one who finds the words faster can place X or O in the grid )
• Telephone game ( each group member whispers a word in his friend’s ear, the last student has to write the word on the board)
• Word identifying
• Word matching
• Back writing (the students write on each other’s back, so their friend should say the letter and its sound)