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Introduction
CEFR level: A1 

A.    Use of English 

B.     Speaking and Listening

C.    Reading

D.    Writing

A. Use of English

Upon the successfully completion of Year 6 English, students will be able to:

   1) identify basic parts of speech, including:

1.1.        nouns and pronouns (sing and pl.)

1.2.        verbs (past, present, and future tenses)

1.3.        adjectives, adverbs

1.4.        prepositions

1.5.        articles

1.6.        conjunctions

1.7.        interjections

   2) use basic punctuation: full stops, commas, apostrophes

   3) identify and use near-synonymous words appropriately

   4)  write on-topic, basic, single paragraphs

   5) identify and play with rhyme and alliteration

   6)   identify and play with onomatopoeia

   7)  identify and play with some common conversational idioms

Assessment, Learning and Teaching

Use of English (UE) is relevant to each of the four skills of: reading, writing, speaking and listening. Teachers taking care to constructively comment on ‘UE’, and including some criteria assessing it in their rubrics, will support students’ developmental progress.

B. Speaking and Listening

Upon the successful completion of Year 6 English, our students will be able to: 

    1)  speak for a variety of purposes (to greet, share an opinion, answer basic questions, make a request)

    2)  engage listeners with clarity and effect (vary register and use appropriate words)

    3)  use adjectives, intonation and register to clarify or convince

    4)  speak clearly and at a good pace and volume

    5)  listen politely and practice taking turns to speak and listen

    6)  identify and explain some similarities and differences between student’s own language and English to a non-speaker of Mongolian/English (e.g. a parent, a native English speaker)

C. Reading

With reference to a variety of age-appropriate texts (poetry, non-fiction, short stories and novel extracts), upon the successful completion of Year 6 English, our students will be able to:

1)         identify the main idea (and sequence) of a text

2)         identify the main purpose of a text: to persuade, inform, or entertain

3)         draw upon context to identify the likely meaning of new words

4)         summarise the main ideas within a text

5)         read a text aloud, with accurate pronunciation in the case of familiar words

6)         relate concepts from texts to their own lives and experience where appropriate

7)         revisit and build upon vocabulary skills in designated general and content-specific areas

                 1) use common English formatting conventions (see UE2, also: quotation marks, capital and lower-case letters)

                 2) draft and re-draft their own writing

                 3) develop and utilise a consistent ‘writing voice’

                 4) recognise and define common, ‘basic’ idioms, figurative language, and turns    of phrase 

                 5) stop, think and identify the correct homonym (there etc. / its etc. / your etc.)

                 6) construct logical arguments that draw on personal experiences

                 7) write a personal reflection (self-assessment) to an in-class event or text read

                 8) write a simple response to a teacher-supported reading of an excerpt from a great work of English literature