English as a Second Language (Core), Secondary Cycle Two — Year 3

Unit 1: Culture

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

• Using English: Explores cultural products from English-language cultures
• Using English: Compares cultural products from English-language cultures wi
• Using English: Explores daily life practices from English-language cultures
• Using English: Compares daily life practices from English-language cultures
• Using English: Explores communication conventions from English-language cul
• Using English: Compares 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: Health and Well-Being
• Using English: Uses information
• Using English: Personal and Career Planning (Cycle 1) / Career Planning and
• Using English: Uses creativity

• Using English: Uses knowledge of targeted grammatical structures to constru
• Using English: Uses targeted grammatical structures to express oral and wri

Unit 3: Strategies

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

• Using English: selects which ones to use for a given task

• Consolidating English: your lifelong strategies and functional language

• Using English: Tries to communicate with someone who speaks English; learns

Unit 4: Texts

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

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