English Syllabus

Third cycle of basic

Education

Education is not the learning of facts it is rather the

training of the mind to think

UNIT 5
Customs and Traditions
Approximate time: 14 hours

Objectives

Have information about most common holidays in order to develop knowledge of countries traditions
to discuss among classmates using spoken and written skills
Recognize days of the week and months of the year from a written text and apply it into lively
conversations

Contents
Concepts
Contents

Procedures

Attitudes

Listening

Being Polite with classmates

participation

Dates

Identifying and tell the months

of the year

Holidays

Listening about your

countries traditions
Classifying most common
traditions celebrated from a
listened conversation
Illustrating and picking
information about vacation

Traditions

Grammar in context

Being interested of
classmates questions and
answers
Cooperating with other
students in groups activities
Sharing information with other
classmates
Being Patient with classmates
language level

Achievement Indicators
5.1 Identifies and use the
correct day and month about
peoples birthday in oral input
5.2 Identifies and write the
information of peoples
favorite tradition
5.3 Identifies future tenses of
an audio conversation
5.4 Accurately pronounce the
days of the week and months
of the year
5.5 Tells the dates of most
famous national holidays

Future will and going to

Ordinal numbers from 1st to

31st
Possessive adjectives
Verb to have

Vocabulary
Days of the week

preparations from an audio

recording
Listening short conversation
of national and international
holiday events
Speaking
Practicing saying days of the
week
Telling months of the year

Asking and telling peoples

age and date of birth
Asking information for future
vacation plans using future
tense

Months of the year

Describing common activities

celebrated during holidays

Vacation Items

Discussing vacations

Future tense: will and going to

Useful Expressions
When is the holiday
celebrated?
What is your favorite holiday?
Will you travel for next
vacations?
What will you do for next
holidays?
Are you going to stay with

Talking about years off

Practicing making decisions
Talking about vacation
preparations
Discussing traditions
Making conversation about
national traditions
Reading
Reading and recognize dates

using ordinal numbers

Cooperating by sharing
information gotten within the
activities
Treating all classmates
equally

5.6 Tells and asked peoples

age and date of birthday
5.7 Gives information about
national holiday activities
5.8 Writes about international
holidays
5.9 Write grammatically
correct sentences in the
present tense.
5.10 Writes the day of the
week
5.11 Writes up to 5 line
paragraphs describing most
common actions done by
family members during
vacations
5.12 Read and ask
information of international
traditions.
5.13 Read and recognize
dates of holidays on a
calendar

relatives?
When is your birthday
celebrated?
Travel collocations
Birthdays dates
Will your family celebrate .?

Reading and Matches date of

birth of classmates.
Comprehending an article
about years off
Analyzing a travel itinerary
Getting information about
national traditions
Reading e-mails about
vacations
Writing
Writing and spell months of
the year
Writing days of the week and
most common activities during
these days
Writing dates using ordinal
numbers
Writing most common
holidays activities
Writing international and
national traditions
Writing e-mails from tradition
activities
Summarizing your favorite
tradition
Rewriting text about holidays