The English Immersion Programme (E.I.P.)
To accommodate students who are beginning English language learners, the school designed an English Immersion Programme to equip students with Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) as well as introduce them to academic language, referred to as Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP). Students in the EIP receive intensive lessons in English and join the mainstream for PE, Art/Music and Information Technology. The hope is that these students will leave the E.I.P. after three months and join the rest of the students on the I.B. Programme.
This is an example of the EIP Curriculum:
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION English
Immersion Program
|
Month |
KNOWLEDGE |
SKILLS |
RESOURCES |
|
1, 2, 3 Introducing Individual
Personality& Beyond |
Advanced Phonetics
KET/PET Vocabulary
Personal identification(age,
nationality, and address)
Relationships (family, peers, and
society)
Physical description (parts of the
body and appearance)
Personal traits
Basic story elements
Daily routines
|
Criterion A: Oral Communication At the end of the unit, the student
will beable to: ·
pronounce 200-300
sight words ·
respond to
greetings ·
exchange
personal information ·
describe family
members and answer simple questions about them ·
exchange
conversations in public settings (i.e. hospitals, restaurants, etc.) ·
interact in a
classroom environment ·
interact
extemporaneously
Criterion B: Visual Interpretation At the end of the unit, the student
will be able to: ·
describe,
exchange feelings, opinions and /or wishes about self and others ·
describe
their family ·
describe appearances ·
explain directions and navigate a map
Criterion C. Reading Comprehension At the end of the unit, the student
will be able to: ·
read grade
level stories ·
to identify
main characters ·
identify
simple plot elements ·
identify
different story types ·
identify
characteristics of a story ·
assign/identify
character traits ·
use context
clues to define vocabulary
Criterion D. Writing At the end of the unit, the student
will be able to: ·
write
personal characteristics ·
write
simple stories ·
write detailed
information pertaining to their daily routines ·
describe
places, people, things ·
use
simple and complex sentences ·
identify
parts of a sentence ·
use
conjunctions appropriately ·
develop
logic in basic writing
|
Interchange
Super Minds
Active Grammar 1
New Parade
Genius Sentences (computer based)
Spelling City (internet based)
Star Four (Internet Based) |
