Explanatory note

Sociolinguistic competence
Ability to construct short, simple, coherent, cohesive and logical utterances of various functional styles in oral and written speech based on the understanding of various discourse types while reading and listening as well as ability to choose language forms, use and modify them within the framework of communicative settings based on the content areas for beginner level of learning.
Discourse competence			Ability to recognise the peculiarities of discourses by their genre (songs, poems, rhymes, riddles, fairy tales, academic texts, forms, instructions to games and etc.) related to various communicative settings based on the content areas for beginner level of learning.
Strategic competence			Ability to express themselves in a short way, produce separate utterances mainly consisting of memorised items; knowledge of national-cultural peculiarities of language and speech phenomena; verbal/non-verbal means of compensation in communicative foreign culture settings, which are used for filling in the lacunas of linguistic, pragmatic and socio-cultural character related to various communicative settings based on the content areas for beginner level of learning.
Social competence			Ability to engage with people of other cultures in FL in the framework of communicative settings based on the content areas of beginner level of learning.

Academic plan for the 1^st grades (66 hours)

№	Units	Themes			Hours
I term				18h
	I		Greetings		4
4-5	Lesson 1		Hello! My name’s Zumrad.		1
6-7	Lesson 2		How are you?		1
8	Lesson 3		Where are you from?		1
9	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
	Unit II		I’m in class 1		4
11	Lesson 1		It’s a pen.		1
12	Lesson 2		How old are you?		1
13	Lesson 3		What’s this?		1
14	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
			Revision 1		1
	Unit III		My family		4
17	Lesson 1		This is my mother.		1
18	Lesson 2		I have a sister.		1
19	Lesson 3		My sister is little.		1
20	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
	Unit IV		My friend		4
23	Lesson 1		I’m a boy.		1
24	Lesson 2		I have a friend.		1
25	Lesson 3		He’s seven.		1
26	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
29			Revision 2		1
II term				14h
	Unit V		Toys and colours		4
30	Lesson 1		I have a ball.		1
31	Lesson 2		It’s purple.		1
32	Lesson 3		I like it.		1
33	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
	Unit VI		The parts of the body		4
36	Lesson 1		Touch your nose.		1
37	Lesson 2		Left hand, right hand.		1
38	Lesson 3		Robot, jump!		1
39	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
42			Revision 3		1
	Unit VII		Seasons		4
43	Lesson 1		Winter is white.		1
44	Lesson 2		What colour is winter?		1
45	Lesson 3		It’s warm.		1
46	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
49			Revision 4		1
III term				18h
	Unit VIII		The world around us		4
50	Lesson 1		What’s the weather?		1
51	Lesson 2		I can ski.		1
52	Lesson 3		I can fly a kite.		1
53	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
	Unit IX		Domestic animals		4
56	Lesson 1		I have a horse		1
57	Lesson 2		She has a sheep.		1
58	Lesson 3		On the farm.		1
59	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
62			Revision 5		1
	Unit X		Wild animals		4
63	Lesson 1		I’m a tiger.		1
64	Lesson 2		I havetwo wings.		1
65	Lesson 3		In the zoo.		1
66	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
	Unit XI		Vegetables		4
69	Lesson 1		It’s a carrot.		1
70	Lesson 2		Is it a cucumber?		1
71	Lesson 3		I have pumpkins.		1
72	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
75			Revision 6		1
IV term				16h
	Unit XII		Fruit		4
76	Lesson 1		I like apples.		1
77	Lesson 2		Is it a fruit?		1
78	Lesson 3		At the market		1
79	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
			Revision 7		1
	Unit XIII		Things we can do		4
82	Lesson 1		I can draw a cat.		1
83	Lesson 2		I can count.		1
84	Lesson 3		We can play.		1
85	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
88			Revision 8		1
	Unit XIV		Fairy world		4
89	Lesson 1		I have a magic wand.		1
90	Lesson 2		Magic watermelon.		1
91	Lesson 3		Little Mook.		1
92	Lesson 4		Let’s play!		1
95			Revision 9		2
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Academic plan for the 2^nd grades (68 hours)

Pages	Units and themes			Hours
Unit 1 All around me				4
6	Lesson 1	A – apricot, B – bee	1
8	Lesson 2	I have ...	1
10	Lesson 3	This is my friend.	1
12	Lesson 4	Let’s play!	1
Unit 2 Days of the week				4
14	Lesson 1	I can ...	1
16	Lesson 2	What’s your favourite day?	1
18	Lesson 3	Sunday, Monday ...	1
20	Lesson 4	Let’s play!	1
21		Revision 1	1
Unit 3 My free time				4
22	Lesson 1	I like ...	1
24	Lesson 2	On Sunday we ...	1
26	Lesson 3	What’s that?	1
28	Lesson 4	Let’s play!	1
Unit 4 My hobby				4
30	Lesson 1	I collect trains.	1
32	Lesson 2	What’s your hobby?	1
34	Lesson 3	I have eight planes.	1
36	Lesson 4	Let’s play!	1
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