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English Curriculum

Lower Secondary Levels
 

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

 

M.2

Main course

Additional course

 

M.3

Main course

Additional course

 
       
   
Upper Secondary Levels
 
         
         
       
         

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

8

2
Meeting People

  • Questions, negatives, short answers, possessive
  • Family, opposite adjectives, food & drink

8

3
The World of work

  • Present simple 1, questions & negatives
  • Verbs, jobs

8

4
Take it easy!

  • Present simple 2
  • Verbs, leisure activities

9

5
Where do you live?

  • There is/are, prepositions of place, some/any this, that, these, those
  • Rooms, household items, places

9

6
Skills and ability

  • Can/can’t, could
  • Countries & languages, verbs

9

7
Then and now

  • Past simple 1, regular/irregular verbs, time expressions
  • Verbs, spelling – silent letters

9

Total

 

60

 

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

8

9
Food you like!

  • Countable and uncountable nouns
  • Food & drink

8

10
Bigger and better!

  • Comparatives & Superlatives, have got
  • City & country

8

11
Describing people

  • Present continuous, possessive pronouns
  • Clothes, describing people

9

12
Planning the future

  • Going to, infinitive of purpose
  • The weather

9

13
General knowledge

  • Question forms, adverbs & adjectives
  • Feelings

9

14
Life experience

  • Present Perfect V’s past simple
  • Past participles, at the airport.

9

Total

 

60

 

       
         

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.

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

xx

2
Shopping

  • Asking for help in a market
  • Questions in a clothes shop
  • Show you understand
  • Numbers and prices
  • Shopping Role-play

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

xx

4
Staying with
a Family

  • Greetings and Introductions
  • Understanding directions
  • Understanding rules
  • Asking permission
  • Study abroad and opinion
  • Exchange Student Role-play

xx

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

xx

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

xx

7
Hotels

  • Asking about services and facilities in a hotel
  • Check in and your room
  • Making a complaint
  • Hotel Role-play

xx

8
Travelling

  • Asking about travel details
  • Time and directions
  • Checking information
  • Different types of transportation
  • Taking a trip Role-play

xx

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

xx

10
Review

  • Reviewing all materials from previous Units(1-10)
  • Review Quiz: to test for students understand

xx

Total

 

xx

 

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

xx

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

xx

13
Phone calls

  • Making and receiving calls
  • Taking and leaving messages
  • Spelling names, addresses, and telephone numbers
  • Leaving voicemail messages
  • Telephone conversation Role-play

xx

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

xx

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

xx

16
Class schedules

  • Asking about and understand class schedules
  • Understanding announcements about lectures
  • Understanding instructions for homework
  • Apologizing for delays
  • Project about class schedules

xx

17
Review

  • Reviewing all materials from previous Units(11-16)
  • Review Quiz 2: to test for students understand

xx

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.

xx

Total

 

xx

 

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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

10

2
The way we live

  • Present tenses, have/have got
  • Making conversation

10

3
What happened next?

  • Past tenses
  • Time expressions

10

4
The market place

  • Quantity, articles
  • Prices

10

5
What do you want to do?

  • Verb patterns, future intentions
  • How are you feeling?

10

6
Places and things

  • What … like? Comparatives & superlatives
  • A city break

10

Total

 

60

 

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

10

8
Do’s and Don’ts

  • Modal verbs
  • At the doctor’s

10

9
Going places

  • Time & conditional clauses
  • Directions

10

10
Things that changed the world

  • Passives
  • Telephoning
    Intonation

10

11
What if…?

  • Second conditional, might
  • Exclamations
    Sentence stress

10

12
Trying your best

  • Present perfect continuous

10

Total

 

60

 

 

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.

xx

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.

xx

2
Stress

  • Read and study about stress in words and stress in life, tense, because, but and so.
  • Write about your personal stress.

xx

3
T.V. & Media

  • Read about the media.
  • Learn and write about survey reports.
  • Complete reading comprehension activities.

xx

4
Making a living

  • Read about the crocodile hunter.
  • Complete reading comprehension activities.
  • Learn about ads.
  • Writing your own ad

xx

5
On the move

  • Learn about different types of stories.
  • Read a short story.
  • Reading comprehension activity.
  • Learn and write about direction emails.

xx

6
Memories

  • Read a short story about memory.
  • Reading comprehension activity.
  • Read and write a passage from a blog website.
  • Write your own blog.

xx

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.

xx

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.

xx

9
Technology fix

  • Read about technology.
  • Reading comprehension activity.
  • Learn about using pronouns.
  • Write about your own opinions on technology.

xx

Total

 

xx

 

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.

xx

11
Lives

  • Read about Caroline’s personal story about acting and drama school.
  • Reading comprehension activity.
  • Learn and write about interviews.

xx

12
Making a difference

  • Read about people that have made a difference.
  • Reading comprehension activities.
  • Learn about opinion emails.
  • Write your own opinion email.

xx

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.

xx

14
Describing things

  • Read and learn about Zaha Hadid.
  • Reading comprehension activity.
  • Learn about descriptive paragraphs.
  • Write your own descriptive paragraphs.

xx

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.

xx

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.

xx

17
Fantasy
& fiction

  • Write your own fantasy story.
  • Learn about mind mapping.
  • Share your story with the class.

xx

18
Dreams & goals

  • Think about your plans and goals for your future.
  • Write an essay about them.
  • Read your essay to the class.

xx

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.

xx

Total

 

xx

 

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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

10

2
Get happy!

  • Present tenses-simple/continuous,
    present passive
  • Sport and leisure

10

3
Telling tales

  • Past tenses-simple/continuous/perfect
    Past passive
  • Irregular verbs, making negatives

10

4
Doing the right thing

  • Modal verbs 1-obligation & permission
    Have (got) to, can, be allowed to
    Should must
  • Nationality, countries, adjectives

10

5
On the move

  • Future forms
  • The weather

10

6
I just love it

  • Questions with like
    Verb patterns
  • Describing food, towns, and people
    Collocations

10

Total

 

60

 
 

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

10

8
Just imagine

  • Conditionals
    Time clauses
  • Base and strong adjectives
    Modifying adverbs

10

9
Relationships

  • Modal verbs 2-probabilty
    Must, could, might, can’t
    Must have, could have, might have, can’t have
  • Character adjectives

10

10
Obsessions

  • Present perfect continuous
    Time expressions
  • Compound nouns

10

11
Tell me about it!

  • Indirect questions
    Question tags
  • verb & noun collocations, idioms

10

12
Life’s great events

  • Reported speech
    (statements, questions, request/commands)
  • Birth, marriage, death

10

Total

 

60

 

 

M.3 Additional Course - อ.42202
1st Term

Focus on Reading and Writing

Unit

Content

Hours

1
Our Changing Diet

  • 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

10

2
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

10

3
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…

10

4
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.

10

Total

 

40

 

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

10

6
Folk Tales and Hoaxes

  • Adverbs
  • Recognizing sequence/sequencing markers
  • Characteristics of various types of folk tales

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

10

8
Leisure-time Activities

  • Survey sports and recreation
  • Idioms and vocabulary
  • Watch, play, do, listen

10

Total

 

40

 
         
 
 
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