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NAME: _______________________________________

GRADE: ___________ CLASS “_________”

SCHOOL YEAR: 2023-2024

 English What do you know
Pedagogical Module 1 about your school?
Curricular Threads: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts

Fifth Grade EGB

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Back to
School Fun!
I like to go back to school!
It is exciting to learn about
new things. It is lots of fun
to meet other kids and make
new friends! I always bring
my notebook and pencil
to class. I sit at my desk
in my classroom and listen
to my teacher. I love school!
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What do you like about your school?

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 Lesson A

Communication and Cultural Awareness

My School

Exercise 1. Complete the following information.

I am in grade:
School:
Teacher:
My favorite
subject:
My best friend’s name:

On the first day of school, I feel:

My favorite
school celebration:

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Exercise 2. Now, ask a partner about their answers.

Write the questions first.

Example: Grade: What grade are you in?

a. School:

b. Grade:

c. Teacher:

d. Favorite subject:
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e. Best friend’s name:

f. Favorite school celebration:

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 Oral Communication

How well do you know your classmate?

Exercise 1. Pair work.

Ask and answer.

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An Interview with My Classmate

What is your name? How old are you?

What is your favorite subject What is your favorite food

this school year? to eat for lunch?

What do you like to do at recess? Who are your friends at school?

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Exercise 2. When you finish, prepare a presentation for the class

and tell everybody about your classmate.

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Reading
Exercise 1. Review the simple present tense.

I, You, We, They He, She, It

eat sleep write go

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eats sleeps writes goes

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(no need to add -s or -es)

Mi
(add -s or -es)

We use the simple present tense to talk about routines.

Exercise 2. Read about the Robinson family routine. Circle all the verbs
in the simple present tense that you find.

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My family loves to have everything neat and clean every morning.
My mother makes the bed before she goes to work. I set the table
for our breakfast, and my father washes the dishes after we eat our food.
Then, my sister Susan takes out the the garbage, and finally we take the
bus to school.

Exercise 3. Your turn! Write about your family’s routines using

the verbs from the box in the simple present tense. You can talk
about yourself and your family.

sleep work wash eat go walk

Example: My dad works late.

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 Writing
The Zoo Comes to School

Imagine! An elephant escapes from a zoo, and arrives at your

school! Don’t be scared! Write a description of the elephant
for the zookeeper.

1. The elephant’s ears are very big.

2. (eyes)

3. (tail)

4. (legs)

And now, a giraffe arrives behind him!

Write the description!

1.

2.

3.

4.

And now, two tigers.

1.

2.

3.

4.
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Vocabulary

scare. to make someone

feel afraid

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Assessment

Speaking Grammar
Choose a verb from the box and fill each blank with the verb
in the simple present.

finish visit be like run

1. I all the way home after school.

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2. Many students their exams on time.

3. He to see his mother
every day.
Talk about your parents 4. Those books very old.

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to the class. Describe your

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5. Susy her family
mother and your father and
every week.
explain what they look like and
their jobs to your classmates.

Writing
Write a paragraph of 20-25 words describing the activities that
you do at home during the weekend. Use the simple present tense.
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Vocabulary
Complete the sentences with the words from the box.

school book glue board teacher

a. I was cutting many pictures and now I need the to paste

them on my poster.
b. My has beautiful classrooms and a great playground.
c. My teacher writes sentences on the , and I have to
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copy them.
d. María Elena is going to read a about cats and dogs.
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e. Ms. Marcia Arellano is the name of our new .

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 English What are your
Pedagogical Module 2 favorite foods?
Curricular Threads: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts

Fifth Grade EGB

Food in Ecuador 5
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Values

9 Health care

Food, food, food!

I love to eat different foods! There are
many types of foods in Ecuador. We have
many fruits and vegetables. We also have
dairy products like milk and butter and
meat from animals. My favorite food is
fritada. What is your favorite food?
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Using the words from the text, complete the • I like

following sentences. Share your answers with
your classmate. • I don’t like

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 Lesson A

Communication and Cultural Awareness

What foods do you like to eat?

Important Foods
Exercise 1. Complete the categories in the circle with
Every time you eat, the words from the box.
you put food inside your
body. There are different
types of food, and we usually
mix them when we are
preparing a recipe. Fruits
and vegetables are very
important in your diet to
grow strong. Dairy is food
made with milk and it has
calcium which is good for
your bones. Grains provide
us with energy that help
our muscles to stay strong.

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Banana Pasta Tomato

Cheese Rice Fish

Ice cream Egg Apple

Vocabulary
Carrot Steak Yogurt Chicken
recipe. instructions to prepare
food
Exercise 2. Pair work. Look up two different examples
fruit. foods like apples or for each type of food and write them on the lines.
bananas that grow on a tree

vegetables. a plant that you • Fruits:

eat; for example a potato,
• Dairy:
an onion
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dairy. products made from milk • Grains:

calcium. an important mineral • Vegetables:

found in dairy products
• Proteins:

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Reading

What food is good for you?

Exercise 1. Pair work. Ask a partner: "In which category do we put ...?"

Broccoli Beans Rice Grapes Bananas Pasta Crackers Milk

Cheese Fish Yogurt Peaches Cabbage Lettuce Peas Meat Chicken

Fruit Vegetables Grains Protein Dairy

The Food Plate You Need

We all eat food to get the energy our body needs.
Sometimes, we do not make the choices that help us
stay healthy. The image you see here represents a
healthy way of eating: 50% of our daily diet should
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include fruits and vegetables. Eat meat, beans and

nuts because they have the protein you need.
When you choose dairy products like milk, cheese
or yogurt, you get calcium for your bones. Finally,
remember to include some grains like rice, pasta
or bread. Healthy choices will get you the food you
need, but you can also have candy like chocolate or
marshmallows sometimes!

Vocabulary
Exercise 2. Test your partner. Ask your partner the
choice. what we choose; following questions:
what we decide
a. What does 50% (per cent) refer to in the reading?
stay healthy. when you keep
your body without illnesses b. Give two examples of dairy products.
bone. hard part of the body
c. Do dairy products contain calcium?
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that makes the skeleton

candy. sweet foods like d. Give two examples of grains.

chocolate or caramel
e. Give two examples of candy.

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 Lesson B

Communication and Cultural Awareness

How can I order in a café?

At a Café Exercise 2. Pair work. Practice this conversation:

Waiter/waitress: Next, please!

What would you like?

Andy: Can I have a pizza, please?

Waiter/waitress: What pizza would

you like?
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Tip Waiter/waitress: Anything else?

“Café” is a French word we use in English. Andy: Yeah, I’d like some chocolate cake.
It is pronounced with two syllables, and the Waiter/waitress: Would you like a drink?
a is pronounced as the “a” in cat.
Andy: Yes, can I have a coke, please?

Waiter/waitress: OK, so that’s a Margarita

Audio pizza, a chocolate cake and a coke?
Listen to the recording What’s your table number?

Andy: Table 53. How much is that?

Exercise 1. Listen to the following conversation Waiter/waitress: That’s $10 (dollars), please.
and answer these questions.
Andy: Here you are.
a. Does the customer order a cheeseburger
or a double hamburger?
Exercise 3. Pair work. With this menu, practice
a conversation in a café.

b. What kind of cake does the customer order? Student A: Waiter/waitress

Student B: Customer

c. Is she going to order a drink?

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d. What is the table number of the customer? “Good night” only
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Customer: phrases Waiter/Waitress: phrases

to order in a café or restaurant to take an order in a café
• Start with a greeting: • What would you like to order?
“Hi/Hello, Good morning/Good evening.”
• Anything else?
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• To order, you can use sentences like:

"Can I have …please? I’d like... please". • Would you like a drink?
• Thank you.

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Language Through the Arts
Do you know what culinary art is?

Culinary Art

Culinary artists have to prepare food that tastes delicious and also
looks beautiful. They need to know about cooking techniques,
and also about nutrition. If you want to learn how to cook,
you need to start with a recipe and follow it step by step.
Here are some ways to cook:

• Bake • Peel
• Fry • Chop

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• Toast • Slice

Exercise 1. Match these cooking verbs with the images.

There is one extra verb.

peel fry mix bake

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toast chop slice

Vocabulary

bake. to cook inside an oven

Exercise 2. Pair work. Ask and answer with a partner.
fry. to cook food in hot oil
a. What foods can you fry?
toast. to make bread or other
food warm, crisp, and brown b. What foods can you bake?
by putting it near high heat
c. What foods can you mix?
peel. to remove the skin
of fruits and vegetables d. What foods can you slice?
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chop. to cut something into e. What foods can you toast?

pieces with a knife
f. What foods can you chop?
slice. to cut something into
thin, flat pieces g. What foods can you peel?

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 English What instrument
Pedagogical Module 3 would you like to play?
Curricular Thread: Communication and Cultural Awareness,
Oral Communication, Reading, Writing, Language Through the Arts

Fifth Grade EGB

Interviews 4

Ecuadorian
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My favorite music 3

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Values

7 Respect

Violinist from age 2!

Alex Jimbo Viteri is a young musician
from Guayaquil. He began to play the violin
at age 2 and played his first solo at age 6.

When he was 10 years old, he won

the competition “Young Ecuadorian
Soloists.” Today, he plays in many
countries with many different orchestras.
What a talented Ecuadorian!
You can find out more about this talented
musician at: https://bit.ly/2qWiokN
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Do you think that it is easy to be a musician? Do you know any musicians your age?

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Reading
Here is an interview with Justin Bieber. He is on the
program Music Scene at Radio 567 about Tip
a concert in Mexico next week.
Interview sounds like a similar word
Before you read the interview, you need to review in Spanish: entrevista. Did you see that?
the vocabulary for instruments:

1 Guitar

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5 Maracas
6 Accordion
4 Saxophone

3 Harp
2 Keyboard/Piano Interview with Justin Bieber
Here we are at Radio 567, with our program
Music Scene. Last night we talked to Justin
Bieber in a phone interview to ask him about
his favorite instruments. You can listen to our
7 Violin interview now.
8 Drums
Music Scene: Hey, Justin, how are you tonight?
Grammar Tip
Justin: I’m doing just fine. I have a big concert
When you want to compare two things, next week in Mexico.
add -er to the adjective with one syllable
+ than. If the adjective has more than one Music Scene: Well, we wanted to ask about
syllable, add “more” + than. your favorite instruments.
Justin: Great! I love drums. They are louder
Exercise 1. Listen to the names of the instruments. than the maracas. I really like guitars. They
Practice the names of the instruments with sound cooler than the saxophone. And, my
a classmate. Listen again and practice again. favorite is the keyboard. I can play it louder
or softer than the other instruments.
Now, read the interview and check your answers.
Music Scene: Thanks for your time Justin!
Exercise 2. Take turns reading the parts of the Good luck with your concert next week.
dialogue in the interview in the box on the right
the right side outloud. One classmate can take
Exercise 3. Use these adjectives to make sentences
the role of Justin, and the other takes the role
to compare two instruments.
of the of the radio show host. Then, change.

Vocabulary soft, loud, big, small, cool, interesting, expensive

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cool. great
Exercise 4. Underline the comparisons in the
loud. a lot of volume
dialogue with Justin.
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soft. a little volume

Example: The harp is softer than the drums.

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 Lesson B

Communication and Cultural Awareness

Young Musicians Around Even though Serena is talented, she has to

the World work very hard to be an excellent pianist.
She practices four or five hours
Serena Wang was 10 years old when she played a day, every day.
the piano for the first time with a symphony
orchestra in China. Can you imagine playing
the piano in front of 500 people with 50 other
musicians? After that concert, everyone was
astonished by Serena’s talent. When she was
15, she was invited to play with the United
Nations in a special ceremony. In December,
2016, she appeared as a soloist with the China
Philharmonic Orchestra when they toured
the United States.
Serena started her piano lesson when she was
four. After playing for only eight months, she
won a prize. When she was five, she became
the youngest winner for piano playing at a

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university in the United States. Since then,
she has won award after award, and she
became quite famous!

Everyone has special talents. Maybe your talent will not be the best Exercise 2. Pair work. One
in the world, but it makes you different from others. classmate asks these questions
and the other classmate answers
Exercise 1. Look at the boxes and identify the talent in each one. Then,
them. Then, change.
mark them with the amount of talent you have for each one using: None
(N), Some (S), or a lot (AL). a. Do you play the piano?
Would you like to learn?
b. What are your special talents:
sports, cooking, math,
writing, singing, drawing,
or something else?
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c. Do you practice your talent

every day? Do you practice
for hours each day? What do
you think would happen if
you practice your talent for
four hours every day?
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 Writing

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Grammar Tip Exercise 1. Compare the groups Kidz Bop and the
Quichua Mashis.
Remember, when we compare two nouns,
we use the comparative form of the adjective. Use your opinion, the information from the texts,
When we compare three or more nouns, and the adjectives below.
we use the superlative form.
famous old young cool
Comparatives
Add -er to the adjective, and than, popular well-known interesting
when the word is short.
Example: The Quichua Mashis group is newer than
Example:
the Kidz Bop group.
faster than richer than older than
a.
Add more... than when the adjective
has three syllables or more. b.

Example: c.
more intelligent than
d.
more wonderful than
e.
f.
Superlatives
g.
Add the and -est to the adjective when
the word is short.
Example:
the smartest the biggest the coldest

Add the most to the adjective, when the

word has three syllables or more.
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Example:
the most beautiful
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the most impressive

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Assessment

Reading
My band is such a gr
eat group! Alan is in
Read the following description of a band charge of playing th
e drums and he likes
and then make a drawing of it. It's ok to use hit them with sticks to
like a rockstar! Jose
comic drawings! our guitar hero and ph is
he is always creatin
songs and lyrics. N g new
athaly is the vocal si
and she has a swee ng er
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likes to hear. My br dience
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violin, and I play th th e
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Listening Speaking
Dictation: Listen to your teacher and write the Imagine that you have the chance of writing a song
comparative and superlative forms that will become very famous in the future. Present
of the adjectives you hear. your choices to the class.
a. a. Describe what the song will be about.
b. b. Say what language you will write the
song in.
c.
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c. Choose a group who can sing your song.

d.
d. Name several countries where the group
e. will sing your song.

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 Assessment What instrument would you like to play?

Grammar
Fill in the blanks with the correct form of the adjective.

a. Salsa is (loud) than baby lullabies.

b. The violin has the (beautiful) sound of all the instruments.

c. Shakira is the (good) dancer of all.

d. The drums are (difficult) to play than the guitar.

e. I think Marta has the (pretty) voice of all of the singers.

Writing Vocabulary
Write a paragraph about your favorite music Write sentences with vocabulary words related to
group. Use a topic sentence. Give three reasons music. Write as many words as you can!
why you like them. Use a concluding sentence.

I’m completing this self-evaluation based on what I learned in the module

Self-evaluation I check the box that most applies to me.

I do it I can’t do it
Topics I do it very well. I can improve.
somewhat well. without help.
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I can write questions about a reading.

I can write a story about an animal musician.
I can use the comparative and superlative
form of the adjectives in my sentences.

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