2024 SECOND YEAR SPECIFICATIONS                                           

•	ENGLISH FILE ELEMENTARY  4th Edition   Units 3 to 10  (St's book & Workbook)

•	THE EARTHQUAKE

OMIT: 	UNITS:  1, 2, 11, 12
                  	SECTIONS : 6 A    9 B   10 C
     
OPTIONAL: Can you understand this text ? in the Revise & Check sections. 
                       6 C (but include 6-WRITING)

 NOTE:    U. 4A: Teach Possessive Pronouns 
                  U. 6B: Revise Objective Pronouns (Grammar Bank 6A p. 134) 
                                          Like vs Would Like  
                  U. 8 A: After 8 A, teach “Past Continuous”
                  U. 9A: Revise How much/many                      
                  U. 9C: When doing this section, cover Vocabulary Bank page 152     

The coursebook gives intensive practice of the four skills: Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing.

SPEAKING There are plenty of speaking activities with stimulating topics.

VOCABULARY Every lesson in the book has a clear lexical aim. Many lessons are linked to the Vocabulary Banks which help present and practise topic-based vocabulary in class and help for revision.

LISTENING AND VIDEO
All the listening and video materials can be found on The Teacher’s Resource Centre, Classroom Presentation Tool, Online Practice, student’s eBook and the Class audio CDs.

 VIDEO
*Practical English sections There are six video episodes. We suggest you deal with Episode 1 even if unit 1 is not included in the syllabus.
*Video listening: (pp 35, *51, 83, 99 optional*, 67) These instances of video help students further develop their listening skills so make the most of them.
*Revise and Check: It’s 2-page section every two units. The right-hand page provides a series of skills-based listening challenges in the street interviews included in the section called Can you understand these people?

EF STUDENT’S BOOK ONLINE PRACTICE For students to practise and develop their language skills. Students can find the class audio and videos here. Encourage your students to use it. They access it following the instructions found in the card inside the Student’s Book.
TEACHER’S GUIDE We strongly recommend the use of this book which will guide you throughout the course. Besides the notes corresponding to each unit, you will find interesting and highly useful photocopiable material to use with your students: grammar, communicative and vocabulary activities. It also includes the Teacher’s Resource Centre containing all the Student’s Book audio/video files and scripts, detailed lesson plans from the Teacher’s Guide, answer keys, all the photocopiable activities from the T’s guide, the Workbook audio files and scripts and Tests and Assessment material. 

UNIT TESTS We recommend the Quick and File Tests.

We suggest that you join OXFORD TEACHERS’ CLUB, and click on English File Teacher’s Site for useful resources. www.oup.com/elt/teacher/englishfile and refer your students to www.oup.com/englishfile 
WRITING Consult the Writing Section in the Student's Book.
                    See 2024 Types of Writing for Teens and Adults on our website.
                    
READER Start with ‘The Earthquake’ in July, as students will have acquired more knowledge of the language to deal with the story by that time. We advise you to carry out the activities throughout the book. You will find the worksheet for The Earthquake at: 
                                  www.ucl.dk/media(3248,1030)/Factsheets_for_The_Earthquake.pdf
We suggest you use the audio CD to help students to further develop their listening skills.

Please help your students develop their reading skills by encouraging them to read the story and exploit it through different activities. By no means should you give them just a summary to study by heart. 

For further Grammar practice you may consult ‘Essential Grammar in Use’ (Elementary) by R. Murphy and ‘Oxford English Grammar basic e-book´, by M. Swan and C. Walter.

                                                       NOTE FOR THE FINAL TEST
                                       Past Continuous will be tested in the final exam.