English as a Second Language (Core), Secondary Cycle One — Year 1

Unit 1: Culture

Cultural products and daily-life practices from English-language cultures, explored and compared with the learner’s own — the intercultural strand.

• Discover: Explores cultural products from English-language cultures
• Discover: Explores communication conventions from English-language cul

Unit 2: Language Repertoire

Functional language and vocabulary by broad communicative area — sentence patterns and grammar in the service of getting a message across in English.

• Using English: Invites other speakers to contribute to exchanges and to mai
• Using English: Asks if others are in agreement/disagreement
• Using English: Expresses capabilities
• Using English: Expresses feelings
• Using English: Expresses interests, tastes and preferences
• Using English: Gives/refuses permission
• Using English: Expresses needs, wants and obligations

• Using English: Makes suggestions
• Using English: Invites others
• Using English: Accepts or refuses invitations
• Using English: Contributes to teamwork and harmonious exchanges
• Discover: Social routines: greetings, apologies and warnings
• Discover: Describing and giving opinions
• Discover: Getting and giving help

• Discover: Uses targeted vocabulary related to the immediate environmen
• Discover: Uses information
• Discover: Health and Well-Being
• Discover: Citizenship and Community Life
• Discover: Uses creativity
• Discover: Cooperates with others

• Discover: Uses rising and falling voice pitch to convey meaning
• Discover: Uses targeted mechanics to write and produce texts

Unit 3: Strategies

Learner strategies — communication, learning, self-management and metacognitive moves that help a francophone learner keep going in English.

• Discover: Uses physical actions to convey or support messages
• Discover: Uses less precise words or expressions to replace unknown on
• Discover: uses them appropriately

• Discover: Maintains attention during task by purposely avoiding distra
• Discover: Assesses own progress by reflecting on what has been learned
• Discover: Manages an inventory of metacognitive strategies:

• Using English: Makes intelligent guesses based on prior knowledge of cues s
• Using English: Makes hypotheses based on prior knowledge, topic, task at ha
• Discover: Links new information to what is already known
• Discover: Constructs a meaningful sentence by putting together known w
• Discover: Uses a newly learned item in a new context

• Discover: Requests assistance, reiteration, precision and reinforcemen
• Discover: Reduces stress by reminding self of goals, progress made and

Unit 4: Processes

The response, writing and production processes — preparation, realisation and reflection — that scaffold a francophone learner’s English output.

• Discover: Uses strategies, guiding questions, prompts and knowledge of
• Discover: Answers guiding questions individually and expands on prompt
• Discover: Shares personal connections to texts with others to deepen u

• Discover: Identifies text components in model written texts
• Discover: Selects appropriate language
• Discover: Shares draft with others for feedback
• Discover: Writes final copy

• Discover: Identifies text components in model media texts
• Discover: Writes a focus sentence
• Discover: Uses appropriate media conventions

Unit 5: Texts

Text types, components and organisation — how English texts are put together and how a learner uses that to understand and produce them.

• Discover: Explores a variety of authentic popular, literary and inform

• Discover: Uses text components to construct meaning when listening to,