📝 Lesson Outline — Units 3–5 (USA Learns) + ELLLO 1.03-1.04

1) Unit 3 — Numbers (数字)

Core Content

  • Vocabulary: Numbers 0–20, other common numbers

  • Grammar/Functions: Asking and answering “What is …?”

  • Everyday contexts: Phone numbers, addresses, zip codes

  • Skills: Listening for numbers and speaking them aloud

2) Unit 4 — Around the Clock (时间)

Core Content

  • Vocabulary: Times of day (morning, afternoon, evening, night)

  • Telling time with analog clock expressions (e.g., two fifteen, half past three)

  • Daily routine verbs (e.g., wake up, eat breakfast)

  • Grammar: Present continuous for routines

  • Functions: Asking for and giving the time; talking about daily activities

3) Unit 5 — The Calendar (日历 / 日期)

Core Content

  • Calendar terms: year, month, week, day, days of the week

  • Months of the year

  • Ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, etc.)

  • Functions: Asking When is …? (dates and birthdays)

  • Speaking about schedules and special dates

4) ELLLO 1.03 — Basic Verbs

Core Content

  • Short conversations featuring common action verbs

  • Practice simple sentence structures such as:

    • I walk.

    • She cooks.

    • They watch TV.

  • Asking simple questions using verbs

5) ELLLO 1.04 — Colors

Core Content

  • Conversations about colors and objects

  • Practice describing things using color vocabulary

  • Simple comparisons (e.g., This is red. / That is blue.)

🎧 Listening & Speaking Objectives

🎧 Listening Objectives

Students will be able to:

  1. Understand numbers and recognize them in spoken English.

  2. Hear and understand time and calendar expressions.

  3. Identify basic action verbs and adjectives like colors in short dialogues.

  4. Pick out key information from short conversations and respond appropriately.

🗣️ Speaking Objectives

Students will be able to:

  1. Say and ask about numbers (e.g., What is your phone number?)

  2. Tell and ask for time (e.g., What time is it?)

  3. Talk about dates and birthdays

  4. Use basic verbs to describe daily activities

  5. Describe objects using color vocabulary

🗣️ Oral Practice / Classroom Extension Questions

A) Numbers — Practice & Extension

  1. What is your phone number?

  2. How many people are in your family?

  3. Can you count from 1 to 20?

  4. What number do you see in this picture?

  5. What is the number of your house / room?

👉 Focus: speaking sequences, recognizing and producing numbers.

B) Time — Expression & Personal Routine

  1. What time do you wake up in the morning?

  2. What time do you go to sleep?

  3. Ask a partner: What time is it now?

  4. Do you have class in the morning or afternoon? Which time?

  5. What do you do at 7:00 / 12:00 / 6:30?

👉 Practice time telling + simple daily routine verbs.

C) Calendar & Dates — Personal Info

  1. When is your birthday?

  2. What day of the week is it today?

  3. What month do you like best? Why?

  4. Ask: When is the holiday (e.g., New Year)?

  5. Tell the date of an event you remember.

👉 Focus: months, days, and personal scheduling expression.

D) Basic Verbs — Describing Actions

  1. What do you do in the morning?

  2. Do you walk or ride the bus to class?

  3. What do you like to do after school?

  4. Tell me three things you do every day.

  5. Ask a partner about their daily activities.

👉 Helps students produce simple SVO sentences using common verbs.

E) Colors — Describing Objects

  1. What is your favorite color? Why?

  2. What color is your shirt / bag / phone?

  3. Do you prefer red or blue?

  4. Look around the room and describe two colored objects.

  5. Ask: What color do you like?

👉 Useful for simple descriptive language and adjective placement.

🧠 Activity Suggestions

✨ Pair Interviews

Students interview each other using question sets (numbers, time, routine, colors).
➡ For example:

  • When is your birthday?

  • What time do you eat breakfast?

🎧 Listening-Followed-By-Speak

Play an ELLLO 1.03/1.04 clip. Students listen first, then practice repeating and answering questions.

🎨 Real-Life Integration

  • Use real clocks/calendars in class for time/date dialogues.

  • Show classroom objects and have students describe colors and numbers.

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