CONTENTS 4TH YEAR.BILINGUAL

-We will follow the book ENGLISH ALIVE 4 (Oxford). There are 9 units. We will cover 3 units each term.

-We will do extra material from different B1 level textbooks and websites. A plastic folder to keep photocopies and assignments is recommended.

-We will work on two different blogs:

               http://bilingualnorba.blogspot.com.es/

              
               http://4esobilingualnorba.blogspot.com.es/

-It is obligatory to read at least 1 reader each term. The reading work is 10% of your final mark. You must hand in a book review and prepare a presentation about each book. Both assignments must be finished on these dates:

               -31^ST OCTOBER: reader 1

               -27^TH FEBRUARY: reader 2

               -30^TH APRIL: reader 3

-Writing:

A description	Informal letter	Complaint letter
A news story	Formal letter	A diary entry
A life story	Application letter	Reporting information
An article	A discussion essay	A book/film review

-Oral:

Picture Descript./comparison	Money	Personal problems /advice
An accident	A community project	Celebrations
Your timeline	A job interview	Entertainment
Food and health	Great inventions	Polite excuses

 -HOMEWORK: Your homework will be checked every day. Your workbook, notebook, folders will be checked regularly. Your personal work will influence your mark.  

-Assignments (projects, compositions, presentations) will be handed in ON TIME.  

This year we will cover these contents:

GRAMMAR	SPEAKING	WRITING	LANGUAGE
-Present simple / present continuous. -Past simple / past continuous. -Present perfect (simple and continuous) / past simple -Future tenses -Future continuous and perfect -First, second and third conditional -Time clauses -Comparison of adjectives -Adverbs -Quantifiers and determiners -Modals -Modal perfects -Gerunds and infinitives -Relative clauses -Reported speech -Adverbs of manner and degree -Imperative -The passive -The causative -used to, be used to, get used to	-Greetings and formal and informal introductions -Classroom language -Talking about preferences -Exchanging personal information -Talking about differences -Describing photos (people, animals, places, rooms, objects) -Comparing and contrasting -Talking about natural disasters -Talking about routines and habits -Ordering food -Reporting the news -Talking about experiences and feelings -Talking about the environment -Talking about inventions -Exchanging information -Interviewing -Talking on the phone (formal / informal) -Telling a story -Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing -Discussing attitudes -Making suggestions -Talking about famous people -Talking about the past -Comparing pictures -Predicting the future -Making plans -Making travel arrangements	-Descriptions (people, places, a room, a sport, a game) -Informative reports (about animals, places, events, etc.) -Opinion essays -A film or a book review. -Blog entries -Comparisons -Plans -Predictions -An informal e-mail -A narrative -A photo description -A biography -Formal letters	-Basic information about punctuation -Word formation -Word order -Organizing your writing. Parts (introduction, body, conclusion). -Building paragraphs -Connectors and linking words -Prepositions -Past, present and future time expressions -Phrasal verbs -Collocations: get and lose; miss, catch, book.

A guide for your oral test: 

FIRST TERM

1• Talking about yourself; exchanging personal information; remembering your childhood

Tell me about yourself. When / where were you born? Where did you grow up?

What’s your city/ town like? What do you do? Where do you work? Tell me about your daily routine.

Where did you go to elementary/ high school? What were your best/ worst subjects?

Tell me about your childhood. What’s your favorite childhood memory? What kinds of sports or

games did you use to play when you were younger?

2• Describing positive and negative features; making comparisons; talking about lifestyle changes and

wishes

Do you live in a house or an apartment? What’s it like? Is your house or apartment (adjective)

enough for you? What’s your neighborhood like?

What do you wish you could change about your home/ school or job/appearance/ skills? Why?

3• Talking about recent past events

Have you been working/studying/exercising? What have you been doing lately/ in the evening/ on

weekends? How long have you been (activity)?

4• Talking about changes

How was life different 50/100 years ago? How did people use to shop/travel? What did people do

before supermarkets/the automobile/ the Internet? What did you do before personal computers/ CD

players/ cell phones?

Nowadays, how do most people get around? When do people usually shop? These days, what do

people do in the evening/on weekends?

In the future, what are people/cities going to need more of?

5• Talking about food and health

What’s your favorite food? Have you ever eaten something you didn’t like? What was it? What

did you think of it?

Have you or a relative ever been on a diet? What did you/he/she eat? What did you/he/she stop eating? Did you lose any weight?

SECOND TERM

6• Money; hopes; predicaments; speculations

What would you do if you found a wallet full of money in a taxi/ if a friend borrowed money and

never paid you back?

Where would you go on vacation if you had enough time and money?

Tell me about a recent predicament you were in. What did you do? What should /shouldn’t you have

done?

7• Talking about vacation

What do you like to do on vacation? Where do you like to go? What did you do on your last vacation? Have you made any vacation plans for this year? Tell me about your vacation plans. What are you going to do? Where are you going to go?

What do you need to do before traveling abroad for your vacation?

8• Abilities and skills; job preferences; personality traits; careers

What are your positive/negative personal traits? Would you like to be a teacher/doctor/novelist/pilot? Why or why not?

What kind of work would you like to do? What kind of job would you be good at? Why? 

9• Technology

What technology/ inventions do you use every day? What do you use a computer to do? How do

computers make your life easier/more difficult? How do computers affect the way people work and

spend free time? What kinds of problems does technology cause?

THIRD TERM

10• Complaints

Have you ever had a problem with a neighbor or classmate? How did you resolve it?

What requests did you make?

11• Holidays, festivals, customs, and celebrations

What’s your favorite holiday/festival? What do you like about it? How do people celebrate it? Is

there any special food or drink?

What’s you favorite season? What do you like about it? What do people do at that time of year?

What do you usually do on your birthday? How did you spend your last birthday?

Tell me about weddings in your country. What couples do before their wedding? What do guests do

during/after the ceremony? When do people give gifts? What kinds of gifts do they give?

12• Entertainment; movies and books; reactions and opinions

What is the last movie you’ve seen? What did you like/dislike about it? What new movie would

you most like to see? Why? What kinds of movies are you interested in? What’s your favorite

movie/musical/book? Tell me about it. Who is your favorite actor/actress/director/author? Tell me

abut him/her.

13• Polite excuses

What are some common excuses for being late/not accepting an invitation?