Lesson 1 · Hello, English! Words I already know
I can recognize words I already know and say who I am.
Discovering English Together · Descubriendo el inglés juntos
Your pathway
Follow the steps in order: each one gives you what you need for the next.
I can…
- I can find cognates in English.
- I can say «I am…» with my name and career.
- I can use 3 classroom expressions.
- I can say what Asian Pacific Heritage is (All of May), use Cognates + I am… to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.
Cultural Corner · Asian / Pacific American Heritage Month
This week: Many languages live in the U.S. Which languages do you know? Write: «I speak Spanish and a little English».
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is in May. People learn about Asian and Pacific cultures in the U.S.
Cultural competency: I can say what Asian Pacific Heritage is (All of May), use Cognates + I am… to talk about it, and compare it with Honduras.
Jazz and Louis Armstrong · Louis Armstrong (trumpet and voice)
Jazz is music from the U.S. It started in New Orleans. Louis Armstrong is a famous jazz musician: he plays the trumpet and sings.
Create your own learning resource for Lesson 1
A comic strip, a labelled picture, flashcards, a grammar chart… You choose what to learn and how, SofIA helps you prepare it, and you print it (Letter size) or save it as PDF.
Elige qué aprender y cómo; SofIA te ayuda a prepararlo y tú lo imprimes en tamaño carta o lo guardas en PDF.
Linguistic Passport · A1.1
This lesson helps you with these statements. After the lesson, open your Passport and mark your level.
- Listening I can recognize English words that I already know from Spanish or other languages (cognates such as university, hospital, technology).
- Listening I can understand simple classroom and tutorial instructions (Open the link, Listen and repeat, Work in pairs).
- Reading I can recognize key words of my career in the course titles of a study plan in English.
- Spoken interaction I can say that I don't understand and ask the person to repeat, to speak more slowly or to spell a word.
- Spoken production I can say who I am with «I am…»: name, career and university.
- Online interaction I can post a short message in a forum and reply to classmates with a question or a comment.
- Language I can spell my name and an email address aloud (the alphabet, at, dot).
- Plurilingual and intercultural I can compare a sentence in English and in Spanish and explain one difference (I am 19 / Tengo 19 años).
- Learning to learn I can start my career glossary and my career program in English and add to them in every lesson.
- Learning to learn I can use SofIA to create my own flashcards or mini-lesson and check them myself, without asking AI to do graded work.