English for Fifth Graders:

Instructor: Fernanda NunesEmail: fgsnunes@gmail.comCourse date: February 2014

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course aims to provide a more fun and more meaningful first encounter with English as a foreign language for 5th graders public state schools in Brazil. The topics to be covered during the three-week course are: Introducing oneself and Others, Families, School Objects/subjects. At the of each unit, students will have gained the ability needed to communicate effectively by engaging in online activities and discussions that will provide opportunities to put the course content into practice, not only in the online classroom, but also in their real world contexts.

COURSE GOALS:

By the end of the course, you will… have developed a positive attitude toward learning English through

English. have improved their oral English abilities. know how to function in English in a more communicative way by

recalling the vocabulary and the structures learned. become more aware of the importance of speaking English in class

in order to able to use the target language to communicate with others.

Course Syllabus

gain an understanding of how they can apply, outside they classroom, what they learned in the course.

COURSE SITE: https://anvill.uoregon.edu/anvill7/node/3974

ASSESSMENT:

Participation in the discussions 25% Assignments 25% Voiceboard 25% Journals 25%

OUTLINE OF TOPICS

Week 01 – Me and others

Week 02 – Families are different

Week 03 - My school is cool