English Foundation Bilingual School L1&2

Bilingual schools foundation course: Level 1

Course objective

• In this level bilingual children (Grades 3-5) will polish their writing skill which is a big challenge during the school year.
• They will also learn basic grammar rules related to their grades( Check the table of content)
• They will learn a lot of children vocabulary and practice speaking with the teacher.
• The course primarily aims to
  • Improve the children’s  writing ability (making better sentences, summarizing, paraphrasing )
  • Improve the children’s literacy skills (e.g. defining the main idea, making inferences)
  •  Improve the children’s grammar skills   

Course length

2 weeks (Total 10 hours) – (45- 60) minutes every day. 

Couse book:

Online worksheets / PowerPoint presentations

Online Media:

Zoom

Additional Services                    

Students will do “ A little” homework and send the answers through their parents(Whastsapp)

Course  content & Grammar Lessons

• Understanding different types of subjects , different types of verbs in sentences  - types of sentences
• Identifying objects( direct and indirect)
  • He sent me a message
  • He sent a message to me
• Common nouns and proper nouns  
  • Europe, England, London, Mohamed, The Red Sea, January, Monday 
• Understanding  subjects and predicates
  • The movie theatre will show  Spiderman part 4 on the weekend.
• Proper punctuation
  • Using the comma , and capitalization
• Prefixes and suffixes
  • (Dis__, un__, il__less, ful, ment,)
  • Careful, careless, Unkind, unhappy, disagree, disapprove
• Understanding different kinds of adjectives and adverbs  and other parts of speech
  • Manner adverbs , frequency adverbs, time adverbs, place adverbs , one syllable adjectives, multisyllabic adjectives, comparatives , superlatives 
• Subject and verb agreement
  • He is a good boy.
  • He was at the park last weekend.
  • He likes video games.
  • He has a beautiful pet.
• Understanding similes and metaphors
  • Tom swims like a fish.
  • Tom is a fish. 

Literacy skills

1. Understanding and writing the  main idea
2. Identifying the topic sentences
3. Making inferences

Writing skills

1. Writing simple sentences
2. Summarizing  and paraphrasing a text

Bilingual schools foundation course: Level 2

Course objective

• In this level bilingual children (Grades 6-9) will polish their writing skill which is a big challenge during the school year.
• They will learn basic grammar rules related to their grades( Check the table of content)
• They will learn a lot of children vocabulary and practice speaking with the teacher.
• The course primarily aims to

1. Improve the children’s  writing ability (making simple, compound, and complex sentences, summarizing, paraphrasing, writing essays)
2. Improve the children’s literacy skills (e.g. defining the main idea, making inferences)
3.  Improve the children’s grammar skills

Course length

2 weeks (Total 10 hours) – (45- 60) minutes every day. 

Couse book:

Online worksheets / PowerPoint presentations

Online Media

Zoom

Additional Services

Students will do “ A little” homework and send the answers through their parents(Whastsapp)

• Phrases and clauses
  • Is it a phrase or a clause?
  • Identify appositives and appositive phrases
  • Identify dependent and independent clauses
  • Is the sentence simple, compound, complex, or compound-complex?
  • Combine sentences using relative clauses
• Antonyms , synonyms , homographs, homophones…etc
  • Patients / patience
  • Rein/rain
  • Stationery / stationary
• Tenses
  • Present tenses
  • Past tenses
  • Future tenses
• Reported speech structures
  • The teacher said he would cancel the test.
• Proper punctuation
  • Using the comma , and capitalization
•  Compare and contrast  structures
• Order of words in the sentences and figures of speech
•  Subject-verb agreement
  • Our team is the winner.
• Cause and effect structures