1. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND THE REFORM
THE NATIONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

2. THE DOCUMENT
English language has a main role in the educational process
of a human being
It also promotes the acquisition of communicative abilities
through the use of strategies in order to achieve autonomy
and social integration
These strategies aim to improve abilities necessary to build
up general linguistic competence.

3. 1st GRADE and 1st BIENNIO Language acquisition should happen
in a meaningful linguistic and
emotional context through the use of
motivating activities which enable the
acquisition and the use of lexis within
easy structures.

4. 1st GRADE and 1st BIENNIO The material to be used should be :
Songs, rhymes, stories,
games,sound chains
The description of familiar places
(home, school, town)

5. 1st GRADE and 1st BIENNIO The description of food, meals and
traditional local and national recipes
The description of ordinary and famous people who play an important emotional role in the child’s life, everyday events and situations which are of evidence

6. RECEPTIVE SKILLS
Listening global oral comprehension which takes into account paralinguistic, extra-linguistic and prosodic issues.
Reading understanding of simple texts in order to grasp either familiar or already known words.

7. RECEPTIVE SKILLS Listening texts should be chosen according to:
Learners’ age
Cultural and linguistic background
Learners’ ability in using different strategies

8. RECEPTIVE SKILLS Reading texts – some examples : Adverts Postcards
Instructions within visual messages
Slogans

9. PRODUCTIVE SKILL SPEAKING – INTERACTION
The usage of language in a communicative context in pair or group work ( language games, memory games, drama, sketches)
Particular attention must be paid to intonation and pronunciation

10. LANGUAGE LAB 1st grade-biennio
Ordinary meaning : a space where learners through the use of technology can practice the language
In the Recommendations :
particular way of teaching and learning a foreign language through
the use of multimedia…

11. LANGUAGE LAB 1st grade-biennio
Its peculiarities :
Choice of the material useful for teaching the foreign language (drawings, posters, cartoons, images)
within short and flexible linguistic modules

12. LANGUAGE LAB 1st grade-biennio
Wide range of activities :
listening ( songs, rhymes, chants)
drama and miming ( short sketches,
dialogues ; musical and choral
performances)