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English Curriculum |
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Lower Secondary Levels |
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The English courses for M.1, M.2 and M.3 follow the Thai curriculum and use books from the New Headway series which includes text books and workbooks. |
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M.1 |
Main course |
Additional course |
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M.2 |
Main course |
Additional course |
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M.3 |
Main course |
Additional course |
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M.1 Main Course - อ.21101
1st Term
Focus on Grammer and Vocabulary |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
1
Hello Everybody! |
- Verb ”to be”, possessive adjectives
- Countries, everyday objects
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8 |
2
Meeting People |
- Questions, negatives, short answers, possessive
- Family, opposite adjectives, food & drink
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8 |
3
The World of work |
- Present simple 1, questions & negatives
- Verbs, jobs
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8 |
4
Take it easy! |
- Present simple 2
- Verbs, leisure activities
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9 |
5
Where do you live? |
- There is/are, prepositions of place, some/any this, that, these, those
- Rooms, household items, places
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9 |
6
Skills and ability |
- Can/can’t, could
- Countries & languages, verbs
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9 |
7
Then and now |
- Past simple 1, regular/irregular verbs, time expressions
- Verbs, spelling – silent letters
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9 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.1 Main Course - อ.21102
2nd Term
Focus on Grammer and Vocabulary |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
8
A date to remember |
- Past simple 2, negatives & ago, time expressions
- relationships
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8 |
9
Food you like! |
- Countable and uncountable nouns
- Food & drink
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8 |
10
Bigger and better! |
- Comparatives & Superlatives, have got
- City & country
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8 |
11
Describing people |
- Present continuous, possessive pronouns
- Clothes, describing people
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9 |
12
Planning the future |
- Going to, infinitive of purpose
- The weather
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9 |
13
General knowledge |
- Question forms, adverbs & adjectives
- Feelings
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9 |
14
Life experience |
- Present Perfect V’s past simple
- Past participles, at the airport.
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9 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.1 Additional Course - อ.21201
1st Term
Focus on Listening and Speaking |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
0
Intro |
- Students and teacher will talk about themselves, their classmates, ask questions, and get to know each other.
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xx |
1
Meeting people |
- Introductions: Formal and Informal
- Questions for personal information
- Begin conversations and respond appropriately
- Greetings, Partings, and small talk
- At a party Role-play
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xx |
2
Shopping |
- Asking for help in a market
- Questions in a clothes shop
- Show you understand
- Numbers and prices
- Shopping Role-play
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xx |
3
Food and Eating out |
- Ordering meals
- Asking about items on the menu
- Talking and expressing opinions about food
- Asking about and describing different food dishes
- Restaurant Role-play
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xx |
4
Staying with
a Family |
- Greetings and Introductions
- Understanding directions
- Understanding rules
- Asking permission
- Study abroad and opinion
- Exchange Student Role-play
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5
Banks,
Post Offices
Etc… |
- Bank Services
- Services and mail at the Post
- Accepting and declining services
- Change money, exchange rates, and commission
- At the Bank and Post Office Role-play
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6
At an Airport |
- Check in and Immigration
- Providing information and giving clear answers
- Asking for information about transportation, facilities, etc.
- Greeting friends and people you don’t know
- Airport Role-play
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7
Hotels |
- Asking about services and facilities in a hotel
- Check in and your room
- Making a complaint
- Hotel Role-play
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8
Travelling |
- Asking about travel details
- Time and directions
- Checking information
- Different types of transportation
- Taking a trip Role-play
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9
Tourism |
- Asking for information at an Information office
- Making and responding to suggestions
- Following a guided tour
- Places you visit on holiday
- Tourist Police Role-play
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10
Review |
- Reviewing all materials from previous Units(1-10)
- Review Quiz: to test for students understand
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xx |
Total |
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M.1 Additional Course - อ.21201
2nd Term
Focus on Listening and Speaking |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
11
Helping |
- Helping customers
- Taking and pawing on messages
- Understanding and following instructions
- Being polite and asking others not to do things
- Saying goodbye to visitors
- Giving help and taking messages Role-play
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12
Goods and services |
- Asking about products and services
- Making and responding to requests
- Place and product order
- Comparing, choosing, and alternatives
- Ordering , choosing, and comparing products activity
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13
Phone calls |
- Making and receiving calls
- Taking and leaving messages
- Spelling names, addresses, and telephone numbers
- Leaving voicemail messages
- Telephone conversation Role-play
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14
Talk and presentation |
- Understanding and organizing presentations and talks
- Recognizing signposts that speakers use listening for stresses on important words for better understanding
- Practicing giving a presentation
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15
Seminars and expressing opinions |
- Asking for clarification and explaining what you mean
- Agree and disagree with others
- Give and ask opinions
- Interrupting someone to make a point
- Group discussion about recent local problem
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16
Class schedules |
- Asking about and understand class schedules
- Understanding announcements about lectures
- Understanding instructions for homework
- Apologizing for delays
- Project about class schedules
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17
Review |
- Reviewing all materials from previous Units(11-16)
- Review Quiz 2: to test for students understand
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18
World news |
- Students will listen to the teacher read articles or talk about recent events from around the world.
- Students will state their own opinions, feeling, and ideas about said topic.
- Class will have group discussions about the different ideas of everyone in the class.
- Students will agree or disagree and state reasons for thinking so.
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Total |
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M.2 Main Course - อ.22101
1st Term
Focus on Grammer and Every Day English |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
1
Getting to know you |
- Tenses, questions
- Social Expressions 1
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10 |
2
The way we live |
- Present tenses, have/have got
- Making conversation
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10 |
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What happened next? |
- Past tenses
- Time expressions
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10 |
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The market place |
- Quantity, articles
- Prices
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10 |
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What do you want to do? |
- Verb patterns, future intentions
- How are you feeling?
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10 |
6
Places and things |
- What … like? Comparatives & superlatives
- A city break
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10 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.2 Main Course - อ.22102
2nd Term
Focus on Grammer and Every Day English |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
7
Fame |
- Present perfect & past simple
- Making Conversation2
Music of English – sounding polite
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10 |
8
Do’s and Don’ts |
- Modal verbs
- At the doctor’s
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10 |
9
Going places |
- Time & conditional clauses
- Directions
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10 |
10
Things that changed the world |
- Passives
- Telephoning
Intonation
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10 |
11
What if…? |
- Second conditional, might
- Exclamations
Sentence stress
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10 |
12
Trying your best |
- Present perfect continuous
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10 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.2 Additional Course - อ.22203
1st Term
Focus on Reading and Writing |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
0
Intro |
- Read examples of personal stories and profiles.
- Write detailed stories and personal profiles about yourself.
- Read their own stories to the class.
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1
Postcards |
- Read different postcards and learn postcard format.
- Learn how to write your own postcard.
- Learn about pen pals.
- Write postcards to friends, family, and/or pen pals.
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2
Stress |
- Read and study about stress in words and stress in life, tense, because, but and so.
- Write about your personal stress.
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3
T.V. & Media |
- Read about the media.
- Learn and write about survey reports.
- Complete reading comprehension activities.
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4
Making a living |
- Read about the crocodile hunter.
- Complete reading comprehension activities.
- Learn about ads.
- Writing your own ad
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5
On the move |
- Learn about different types of stories.
- Read a short story.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn and write about direction emails.
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6
Memories |
- Read a short story about memory.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Read and write a passage from a blog website.
- Write your own blog.
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7
Time off |
- Read short story about things to do when you have time off.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Poster reading and writing activity.
- Write about your time off.
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8
Adrenalin |
- Read about adrenaline rushes.
- Reading comprehension activities.
- Learn about organizing paragraphs.
- Write few paragraphs about anything you have done our want to do that gives you an adrenaline rush.
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9
Technology fix |
- Read about technology.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn about using pronouns.
- Write about your own opinions on technology.
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Total |
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M.2 Additional Course - อ.22204
2nd Term
Focus on Reading and Writing |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
10
Emails from abroad |
- Read different emails from different countries. Notice the culture differences.
- Reading comprehension activities.
- Learn about thank you letters, emails, and text messages.
- Write your own.
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11
Lives |
- Read about Caroline’s personal story about acting and drama school.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn and write about interviews.
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12
Making a difference |
- Read about people that have made a difference.
- Reading comprehension activities.
- Learn about opinion emails.
- Write your own opinion email.
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13
Talents & abilities |
- Read and learn about intelligence, being clever, and about people that are known for being intelligent.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Write about yourself: interests, activities, and personality.
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14
Describing things |
- Read and learn about Zaha Hadid.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn about descriptive paragraphs.
- Write your own descriptive paragraphs.
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15
Healthy mind
& body |
- Read and learn about how to have a healthy mind.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn about organizing important ideas.
- Write about what you do, that is healthy and what you can do to be healthy.
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16
Weird & wonderful |
- Read about strange and wonderful things.
- Reading comprehension activity.
- Learn how you can make your own story interesting, expressing and describing your feeling, and write an essay choosing a topic you feel strongly about.
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17
Fantasy
& fiction |
- Write your own fantasy story.
- Learn about mind mapping.
- Share your story with the class.
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18
Dreams & goals |
- Think about your plans and goals for your future.
- Write an essay about them.
- Read your essay to the class.
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19
Biography |
- Learn about biographies.
- Research and find a biography that interests you.
- Write your feelings and opinions about the biography.
- Learn how to organize and write your own biography.
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Total |
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M.3 Main Course - อ.23101
1st Term
Focus on Grammer and Vocabulary |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
1
It’s a wonderful world! |
- Auxiliary verbs, Tenses-present, past, present perfect, Questions and negatives
- word formation, social expressions
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10 |
2
Get happy! |
- Present tenses-simple/continuous,
present passive
- Sport and leisure
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10 |
3
Telling tales |
- Past tenses-simple/continuous/perfect
Past passive
- Irregular verbs, making negatives
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10 |
4
Doing the right thing |
- Modal verbs 1-obligation & permission
Have (got) to, can, be allowed to
Should must
- Nationality, countries, adjectives
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10 |
5
On the move |
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10 |
6
I just love it |
- Questions with like
Verb patterns
- Describing food, towns, and people
Collocations
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10 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.3 Main Course - อ.23102
2nd Term
Focus on Grammer and Vocabulary |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
7
The world of work |
- Present perfect & past simple
Present perfect passive
- Phrasal verbs
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10 |
8
Just imagine |
- Conditionals
Time clauses
- Base and strong adjectives
Modifying adverbs
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10 |
9
Relationships |
- Modal verbs 2-probabilty
Must, could, might, can’t
Must have, could have, might have, can’t have
- Character adjectives
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10 |
10
Obsessions |
- Present perfect continuous
Time expressions
- Compound nouns
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10 |
11
Tell me about it! |
- Indirect questions
Question tags
- verb & noun collocations, idioms
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10 |
12
Life’s great events |
- Reported speech
(statements, questions, request/commands)
- Birth, marriage, death
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10 |
Total |
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60 |
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M.3 Additional Course - อ.42202
1st Term
Focus on Reading and Writing |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
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Our Changing Diet
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- Connector words such as First,… Second, …Third, ….Next, … Then
- Show the ability to understand and write sentences and text about food and beverage, health, welfare and well-being.
- Principles of reading aloud– The hypothesis of words from the end of a consonant and short vowel, long vowel, diphthong
- Tenses - past simple
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10 |
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Inventions |
- The main ideas on topics such as main idea and supporting details from print and electronic media such as newspapers, television, journals and websites on the internet.
- Use the dictionary
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10 |
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Studying Abroad |
- Sentence meaning and text about their education and occupation, travel services, places and language.
- Sentences used in reviews. Reasoning and the example I think… I feel…I believe…
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10 |
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Money and Budgets |
- Principles of reading aloud
– Pronunciation focus – stress in words and phrases
– Pronunciation link to message
- The main ideas on topics such as main idea and supporting details from print and electronic media such as newspapers, television, journals and websites on the internet.
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10 |
Total |
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40 |
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M.3 Additional Course - อ.42203
2nd Term
Focus on Reading and Writing |
Unit |
Content |
Hours |
5
Festivals and Celebrations |
- Festivals and celebrations around the world
- History of Halloween
- Ghost stories
- Planning a party
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10 |
6
Folk Tales and Hoaxes |
- Adverbs
- Recognizing sequence/sequencing markers
- Characteristics of various types of folk tales
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10 |
7
Which English Will We Speak |
- Colonization and language adoption
- English as a native language and English as an international language
- How languages change over time
- Main ideas and supporting details
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10 |
8
Leisure-time Activities |
- Survey sports and recreation
- Idioms and vocabulary
- Watch, play, do, listen
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10 |
Total |
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40 |
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