I would like to be an English teacher so the required contents for teaching an English lesson follow closely the stipulations set out in the official laws which govern education in Spain. The curriculum highlights that learners should become autonomous learners therefore, students should be capable of following written instructions. In order to do this students need to have a good knowledge and understanding of 'Imperatives' and the present tense as well as a lexical knowledge of words such as 'Match' 'Read' 'Write' 'Draw' Fill in the gaps' etc.
Being able to use and understand the 'Present tenses' is the most important grammatical area at this level. As they have been working on these tenses throughout Primary school they shouldn't have too many difficulties. However, their Speaking and Listening skills may not be as well developed as their Writing or Reading skills. If CLIL types of activities are to be carried out in an English class students must have a certain level of fluency to be able to communicate with each other in order for the class to continue to use the target language and to not switch back to their mother tongues. I would prefer to employ a communicative approach in my future language classes but the worry is always there that the students will not have the required fluency to be able to discuss topics with their classmates. Therefore, apart from the typical structures of which students must have an adequate knowledge such as: There is/are, Can, Order of adjectives and nouns, Possessive 's' etc, it is necessary that students are able to use those structures in the real world in order to carry out activities.
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