English Advance (Level-4)

Week A

I can…

• talk about food and the senses
• talk about feelings and popular culture
• understand and use relative clauses, including defining and non-defining relative clauses, without making mistakes
• use extreme adjectives
• show that I know about adjective and nouns that commonly go together
• write an article
• describe feelings and emotions
• record vocabulary

Week B

I can…

• talk about dilemmas and communication
• talk about mysteries and inventions
• use modals of speculation to talk about the past and present
• speculate and discuss different hypotheses
• build vocabulary using affixes, eg anti-, –ness
• read aloud and use pauses and change in intonation
• paraphrase and reiterate what I want to say
• read a text and identify detailed information and arguments

Week C

I can…

• talk about relationships and describe people
• talk about cities and design
• use gerunds and infinitives accurately
• describe things with compound adjectives, eg English-speaking, densely-populated
• understand number and agreement (everybody has, people are, one of my friends is)
• analyse, build and evaluate arguments so I can reach an informed opinion
• show that I know about sounds which appear between words
• reflect on my learning

Week D

I can…

• talk about achievements and topics connected to behaviour
• talk about life stages and time
• talk about past and present habits
• use narrative tenses
• tell stories that describe personal experiences and anecdotes
• correct myself or clarify what I mean if I make a mistake
• respond in an appropriate way to someone telling me a story
• write a story
• use punctuation including parenthesis, commas and apostrophes

Week E

I can…

• talk about work and finance
• talk about topics connected to rituals and learning
• use hypothetical language to show that I can use zero, 1st, 2nd and 3rd third conditionals correctly
• use reporting verbs and understand that different verbs have different grammatical structures
• use language of discussion
• recognise and apply the rules of sentence stress to help make my pronunciation clearer and help me understand spoken English better
• deduce meaning of vocabulary from context
• listen for gist and specific information

Week F

I can…

• talk about science and social issues
• talk about health and development
• use future forms including future continuous and future perfect
• show that I know about word families and word building
• describe trends
• show that I know about shifting syllable stress
• take notes
• use linking words to describe cause and effect, eg because of, consequently
• use skimming and scanning techniques when I am reading