FICHA TÉCNICA
Consultoria
CEMOQE MOÇAMBIQUE
Direcção
Manuel José Simbine (Director do IEDA)
Coordenação
Nelson Casimiro Zavale
Belmiro Bento Novele
Elaborador
Florina Chuluma
Revisão Instrucional
Nilsa Cherindza
Lina do Rosário
Constância Alda Madime
Dércio Langa
Revisão Científica
Alberto Mabui
Revisão Linguística
Alberto Mabui
Maquetização e Ilustração
Elísio Bajone
Osvaldo Companhia
Rufus Maculuve
Material Áudio
Rufus Maculuve
Impressão
CEMOQE, Moçambique
MENSAGEM DA SUA EXCELÊNCIA MINISTRA DA EDUCAÇÃO E DESENVOLVIMENTO HUMANO
MODULE INTRODUCTION
Dear student, Welcome to the English Module. This is module one of first cycle and it has threeunits. In this module one, you will
continue to study what you have already learnt in the previous grades. You will develop more your ability in speaking, listening, reading and writing.
You are learning English as a foreign language, so it important to practice oral communication, learn simple expressions and improve the vocabulary. For example, you are going to learn how to introduce yourself to other people, to talk about your family, about your daily activities, about your community, among other
topics. You will see, it is easy and funny!
All the lessons, instructions, explanations, tests and the key will be in English. To succeed in your study, you need to work in groups, and with other colleagues at CAA (Centro de Apoio e Aprendizagem), you will find out it is easy to study!
Let us work!
MODULE ORGANIZATION
The first English Module has 3 units. Here is the description of the units:
Unit 1: Family and friends
Unit 2: English in Mozambique
Unit 3: School and daily activities
As you can see dear student, we will study all these units in this module.
Depending on the contents, some units have more lessons than the others. Each lesson has a topic, an introduction, contents, learning objectives, time, activitiesand the feedback. At the end of a unit, there is a Unity Activity – exercises covering the contents of the unit. At the end of the module, there is a Module Activity - which covers the contents of the module, this is a preparation for the final test.
The lessons are organised as following:
√ Number of the lesson
√ Theme of the lesson
√ Introduction of the lesson
√ Learning objectives
√Hours of study
√ Contents (include exercises on the CD players)
√ Assessment
√ Correction Key
The CD players will help you to listen to the pronunciation. It is important that you repeat what you hear because by doing this; learning will be more effective and funny.
• The interaction with other students at Centro de Apoio e Aprendizagem
(CAA) will help you to improve your proficiency, but you must practice.
Let us work!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
We hope that by the end of this module 1, you will be able to:
√ Review greetings and introductions;
√ Share experiences about family and friends;
√ Draw personal conclusions about the reasons why you learn English.
√ Discuss the importance of planning your daily activities (including time
for study)
LEARNING RESULTS
• Tell and retell stories about families and friends;
• Write simple compositions about family and friends;
• Draw a family tree;
• Complete forms requiring information about yourself and your family;
• Ask and answer questions about the importance of English in
Mozambique;
• Talk about geographical boundaries or borders of Mozambique;
• Talk about some neighbouring countries;
LEARNING GUIDE
• For the learning success of the present module you will need some
advices that will help you to understand this module clearly. Here are
some of the advices:
• you need to spend 2 to 3 hours daily to study each lesson and do the
given exercises;
• your studies should take place in an appropriate place (quiet place), it can
be at home, or at CAA;
• during your reading, you should take notes of the basic concepts,
structures and other important aspects about the topic;
• present your doubts to your mates, teacher or your tutor to help you;
• sum up the learned lessons;
• the end of each lesson, you must do the given exercises, and after that
you can check your answers with the given answers in the feedback;
• during your lessons, you will find some pictures to help you in your
learning.
ASSESSMENT CRITERION
Throughout each lesson of a thematic unit there are presented activities,
reflection that will help you to evaluate your performance and improve your
learning. At the end of each thematic unit, a unity review will be presented,
containing the contents covered in all the lessons, which aims to prepare you for
the test. The activities are accompanied by a correction key with answers. You
should check it after completing the exercises. If you have more than 70% of
the correct answers, then we believe you are capable to sit for the test
successfully.
The CD players will help you to listen to the pronunciation. It is important that
you repeat what you hear because by doing this; learning will be more effective
and funny. The interaction with other students at Centro de Apoio e
Aprendizagem (CAA) will help you to improve your proficiency, but you must
practice. Let us work!
Dear student, now we are going to start with the unit 1. Let us work!
UNIT 1: FAMILY AND FRIENDS
UNIT INTRODUCTION
Dear student, we all have a family and
friends. Do you say ‗hi‘ to your father?
Of course, no, you should say‘ good
morning / afternoon….‘ In this Unit 1,
you will learn about family and friends,
how to greet, how to introduce yourself
and talk about your family members and
friends. This unit contains 3 lessons and
8 hours of study.
Lesson 1: Introductions and greetings;
Lesson 2: Family related vocabulary
Lesson 3: Grammar (Present simple
tense and Present continuous simple);
LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Share experiences about family and
friends.
LEARNING RESULTS
• Ask and answer questions about your family;
• Tell and retell stories about families and friends;
• Write simple compositions about family and friends.
• Draw a family tree.
TIME: 8 HOURS
AUXILIARY MATERIALS
Audiovisual aids, books, handouts and so on.
LESSON 1: INTRODUCTIONS AND GREETINGS
INTRODUCTION
In the previous grades, you learned about greetings and introductions. In this
lesson, you are going to learn it again.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
√ Review greetings and introductions;
√ Introduce yourself to other people in formal and informal situations.
TIME: 2 hours
Contents
1.1.1 Greetings
Formal greetings
Informal greetings
Conversation 3: In this dialogue two students are greeting each other.
Student A: Hello, Ana.
Student B: Hi, Paulo. How are you?
Paulo: I‘m fine, thanks. How are you?
Ana: I‘m fine, thanks.
Paulo: Bye, Ana!
Ana: introduction
Practice the conversations again. Pay attention to the pronunciation!
1.1.2 Introductions
• Formal introduction
Listen and repeat – script 2
Conversation 1: In this dialogue, Mrs. Cossa and Mr. Tembe introduce
themselves.
• Mrs. Cossa: Good afternoon. I‘m Mrs.Cossa. I‘m a Maths teacher. I‘m
from Gaza.
• Mr. Tembe: Good afternoon. I‘m Mr.Tembe. I‘m an English teacher. I‘m
from Maputo.
• Mrs Cossa: How do you do?
• Mr. Tembe: How do you do?
Conversation 2: In this dialogue a teacher is introducing a new student
to the class.
• Teacher: Good morning, class. This is a new student. What is your name?
• Student: Good morning, teacher. My name is Miguel.
• Class: Hello, Miguel!
Informal introduction
Repeat the dialogues while listening. Did you manage to pronounce and
understand it? If you did not, repeat it again. If you did, congratulation!
Proceed with the lesson.
1.1.3: Grammar focus
ACTIVITIES
FEEDBACK
LESSON 2: FAMILY RELATED VOCABULARY
INTRODUCTION
Dear student, in this lesson, you should use some words related to family like:
grandmother /grandfather, mother, father sister, brother and more. You will read
a family tree description. You can listen to the scripts and pay attention to the
pronunciation.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of this lesson you should be able to use vocabulary related to family.
• Understand a family tree;
• Use correctly expressions like:
―How many…?‖ ―What‘s your / brother‘s / name?‖ ―How old is your /
sister?‖
• Review vocabulary about family and friends;
TIME: 3 hours.
Contents
1.2.1 Family members
Script 3
Listen to the vocabulary and repeat the words after the narrator. Pay attention to the pronunciation and follow the instructions.
• Listen and repeat: mother, father, sister, son, daughter, grandmother, grandfather, husband, wife, uncle, aunt, niece, nephew, cousin, brotherin-law, sister-in-law, grandson, granddaughter, and how many brothers have you got? What‘s your mother‘s name? How old is your sister?
• Repeat the listening if necessary.
• Well done! Now you have practiced the words, let us continue.
1.2.2 The family tree
• A family tree is a representation of a family, its members or relatives like
father, mother, children and more; we can find the roots of a family by
using this tree. So, dear student be ready to draw your family tree. Look
at the picture.
Cossa‘s family tree
Dear student, notice the lines that connect the boxes! Now, read the explanation:
• two boxes connected with a horizontal line = married
• the children are represented with a vertical line from your parents
Now, listen and repeat the description of Cossa family tree:
Script 4:
Abel Cossa is married to Maria. They are husband and wife. They have got one
son and two daughters. Their names are: Tony, Camila and Anita. Tony is
married to Sara and they have got one son - Carlos and one daughter-Carla.
Anita is married to Alex and have got two daughters-Ana, Melita and one sonPaulo. Sara is daughter-in-law and Alex is son-in-law. Carla, Carlos, Ana,
Paulo and Melita are grandchildren. Melita is Paulo‟s sister. Carla is Ana‟s
cousin. Alex is Carla‟s uncle. Sara is Melita‟s aunt. Sara is Camila‟s sister-inlaw. Alex is Tony‟s brother-in-law.
Repeat the listening if necessary. 4:
Abel Cossa is married to Maria. They are husband and wife. They have got one son and two daughters. Their names are: Tony, Camila and Anita. Tony is married to Sara and they have got one son - Carlos and one daughter-Carla. Anita is married to Alex and have got two daughters-Ana, Melita and one sonPaulo. Sara is daughter-in-law and Alex is son-in-law. Carla, Carlos, Ana, Paulo and Melita are grandchildren. Melita is Paulo‟s sister. Carla is Ana‟s cousin. Alex is Carla‟s uncle. Sara is Melita‟s aunt. Sara is Camila‟s sister-inlaw. Alex is Tony‟s brother-in-law.
Repeat the listening if necessary.
1.2.3. Grammar focus
Look at these sentences:
Cossa‟s family tree = the family tree of Cossa Mozambique‟s flag = the flag of Mozambique Melita is Paulo‟s sister = Melita is sister of Paulo; Maria is Abel‟s wife = the wife of Abel is Maria; this is Sandra‟s car = the car of Sandra.
The apostrophe‗s shows a possession
Note:
Possessive forms
a) We use „s for names: This is Dany’s room.
b) A singular noun ending -s can take only ‟ or ‟s
• This is Gomes‟ book. This is Gomes‟s book.
c) A plural noun ending -s takes only ‟
• The boys‟ room. The Moyos‟ house.
Remember to read these explanations every time that you have doubt.
Possessive adjectives
ACTIVITIES
mother, grandmother Ruth. They live in the country and enjoy living there
because it is very calm.
a) Mr. Capenda is ___________ to Mrs. Capenda.
b) Mrs. Capenda is Mr. _______ wife.
c) Colin is _____________brother.
d) Ana is _________, _________, _________, ________ and _______sister.
e) Mr. Capenda‘s ____________ name is Ruth.
f) The family lives in the____________________________.
Take time to do the exercises. Read the notes again if necessary.
Now that you have done the exercises, compare your answers with the
answers in key answer. We hope that you did well.
FEEDBACK
LESSON 3: PRESENT SIMPLE AND PRESENT CONTINUOUS
INTRODUCTION
Dear student, this lesson will be about grammar. You are going to learn when
and how to use Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense. There
are three forms of a verb: Affirmative, Interrogative and Negative. There are
regular verbs and irregular verbs. You will find a list of verbs at the end of this
module. Let us work!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By the end of this lesson you should be able to:
• Use verbs in the Present Simple Tense and Present Continuous Tense, in three forms: affirmative, negative and interrogative.
• Write a simple composition about your family, using present simple tense.
• Use Present Continuous Tense to talk about present actions.
TIME: 3 hours.
CONTENTS
1.3.1. Present Simple Tense.
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