CYCLE 4 PURPOUSES

At the end of this cycle, students are expected to:

-       Identify the main idea and some details from a variety of short oral and written texts, using their knowledge of the word.

-       Understand and use information from different textual sources.

-       Produce shorts, conventional texts that respond to personal, creative, social, and academic purposes.

-       Adapt their language to unexpected communicative needs.

-       Recognize and respect differences between their own culture and the culture of English-speaking countries.

-       Express some judgments and opinions about issues that are interesting to them or resemble their everyday reality.

-       Use appropriate registers in a variety of communicative situations.

-       Master linguistic resources to understand the relationship between the parts of a statement or text.

-       Edit their own or their classmates ‘writings.

-       Use grammar, spelling, and punctuation conventions.

-       Participate in formal communicative situations.

-       Keep communication flowing, identify breakdowns and use strategic resources to repair it when necessary.

SOCIAL PRACTICES F THE LANGUAGE

SOCIAL PRACTICES F THE LANGUAGE
DOING WITH THE LANGUAGE	KNOWING ABOUT THE LANGUAGE	BEING THROUGH THE LANGUAGE
Communicative actions carried out in concrete interactive situations, which, besides the production and interpretation of oral and written text, are necessary to accomplish the communicative aim associated with participating in specific competencies	Series of aspects, concepts, and topics for reflection on features, characteristics, and elements of the language.	Refer the aspects related to the role of intercultural education in general and to language diversity in particular as well as the multiple functions they carry out.
SOCIAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
FAMILIAR AND COMMUNITY	LITERARY AND LUDIC	ACADEMIC AND EDUCATIONAL

 

PURPOSE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING FOR CYCLE 4

The purpose of English Language Teaching for Cycle 4 in Basic Education is for students to consolidate their proficiency in English in basic communicative situations and develop specific competencies particular to social practices of the language within a range of communicative situations, in which they understand and produce, in general way, oral and written texts about different topics.