8th

ENGLISH CONTENTS
grade of Primary School
Second Semester

Week/ Month /
Date

Contents

1
August
01 02

Vocabulary: Geographical features

Grammar: Comparative adjectives
Reading Comprehension:
Thats better!

2
August
08- 09

Vocabulary: Geographical features

Grammar: Comparative adjectives
Function: Making comparisons
Comparing
Writing: Comparisons about the U.S.,
Japan and Brazil

3
August
16 (10/08)

Grammar Practice Comparisons

Short, long and irregular comparative
adjectives

4
August
22-23

5
August
29- 30

Week/ Month /
Date
1
September
5- 6

2
September
12 - 13

Grammar Review/Practice: Comparative

adjectives
New grammar content: Asas Comparisons
Progress Test
Communication / Function:
Asking for tourist information

New grammar content: Less than

Comparisons
Progress test revision and feedback
Review Different types comparisons

Contents
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Final test of the unit

Skills- Activities:
Reading: A magazine article about bizarre
pets
Listening: A pet shop owner talking about
guinea pigs and hamsters
Reader: Rip Van Winkle Chapter 1 and 2

Review of Rip Van Winkle and

Grammar Check:
Personal pronouns and verb To Be
Adverbs of Frequency

 Reader: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Discussion and activity: What are you afraid

of?
Before reading- activities
Chapter 1

3
September
19 - 20

Week off - Break

National Holidays Fiestas Patrias

4
September
26- 27

Reader: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Chapter 2 and 3

Week/ Month /
Date
1
October
3-4

2
October
10 - 11

Contents
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3
October
17- 18

Progress Test of reader: Rip Van Winkle and

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Reader: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Chapter 4
Grammar Checks and activities about
the reading:
Sequencing words: at first, then, later, etc.
Suffixes: -er and ly
Movie: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Without lessons
Teachers Day
(Acto y Da del Profesor)

4
October
24- 25

Week/ Month /
Date

Reading Comprehension activities :

Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow
Final Test of the reading unit

Contents

1
November
7-8

Reading Comprehension and language focus:

Thats the best day of my life!
Vocabulary: Feelings and emotions

2
November
14 - 15

Grammar: Superlative adjectives

Grammar: Superlative adjectives- Irregular
Grammar: The least + adjective

3
November
21 - 22

4
November
28 -29

Week/ Month /
Date
1
December
5-6

2
December
12

Progress Test
Communication / Function:
Making a phone call
Grammar: Comparative and Superlative
adjectives and sentences
Progress test revision and feedback
Grammar review and practice of all the
contents
Reading: Guiness World Records
Final Test of the Unit

Contents
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Skills:
Reading: Color your emotions
A magazine article about colors
Listening: Teenagers talking about their
favorite colors
Special activity to end the school year.