English Curriculum for CCIs

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Sessions	30
Duration of each session	1 hour
Age	16, 17, 18

Index

Module 1: Phonemic awareness

Lesson plan 1: Letter sound relation, Vowels – Short and long sound.
Lesson plan 2: Diagraphs

Module 2: Question words and sight words

Lesson plan 3: Question words
Lesson plan 4: Sight words
Lesson plan 5: Use of question and sight words

Module 3: Tenses and sentence formation

Lesson plan 6: Simple past tense
Lesson plan 7: Simple present tense
Lesson plan 8: Simple future tense
Lesson plan 9: Present perfect tense
Lesson plan 10: Present continuous tense

Module 4: Student vocal interactions

Lesson plan 11: Debate
Lesson plan 12: Picture describing
Lesson plan 13: Individual speaking practice
Lesson plan 14: Peer Interactions

Module 5: Conversation - Questions and Answers

Lesson plan 15: Dialogue
Lesson plan 16: Fillers
Lesson plan 17: Telephonic conversation

Module 6: Create your own story

Lesson plan 18: Finish the incomplete story
Lesson plan 19: Create own stories

Module 7: Recap

Lesson plan 20: Various activities
Lesson plan 21: Various activities

Module 8: Storytelling

Lesson plan 22: Benefits of storytelling
Lesson plan 23: Understanding a story
Lesson plan 24: Preposition

Module 9: Recap

Lesson plan 25: Various activities
Lesson plan 26: Various activities

Module 10: Interview

Lesson plan 27: Understand INTERVIEW
Lesson plan 28: Visiting a bank
Lesson plan 29: Going on an outdoor trip
Lesson plan 30: Individual Interviews

The following 3 modules include mostly facilitator’s instructions. Students would be active listeners.

Module 1	2 hours
What will be covered?	Phonemic awareness
How it will be covered	Students will be taught the letter sound relation from the alphabet. Students would also be taught sounds which is when two letters are combined. Example: diagraphs and blends. Example: Th, Sh, Wh , Bl, Sp. This can be taught using videos and songs.
Outcomes	This concept will help the students to understand how words are made and make it easy for them to pronounce the word. By breaking the words to phonemes students can understand and recognise the words the facilitator speaks. This will help in developing vocabulary and encourage word comprehension.
Reason	Starting the curriculum with letter sound relation would help students

Module 2	3 hours
What will be covered	Question words and Sight words
How it will be covered	Students will be taught What, where, why, who and when which are the question words. They will be then taught how to answer these questions by using sight words. These words can be taught through word cards. While teaching this concept comprehension and sentence formation can also be taken.
Outcomes	This will help them understand the difference between questions and answers while formulating the questions and statements. Learning to frame and ask questions will help them engage in meaningful conversations and clarify their understandings. Encourages to gain more information about a particular topic.

Module 3	5 hours
What will be covered	Tenses and sentence formation, present perfect tense, present continuous tense,
How it will be covered	The three simple tenses- simple past, present and future will be taught by discussing any particular event. Students will be explained the use of the simple tenses first in easy terms. It is used to describe daily occurrences, habits, explain routines etc. For example: What happened today morning? To answer this, students can narrate the event in sentences using past tense.
Outcomes	Students can engross in conversations with the understanding of simple tenses. They can identify situations and thus could help in deeper comprehension

From this module onwards, students would participate more, peer learning would be encouraged.

Module 4	4 hours
What will be covered	Student vocal interaction- Picture describing, debate, student interaction, talk about this item
How it will be covered	Pictures having different situations would be shown to students. Students have to talk about the picture in sentences.
Outcomes	This helps in increasing the ability to understand. This helps students create their own sentences without the teacher’s intervention.

Module 5	3 hours
What will be covered	Conversation – Dialogue
How it will be covered	Students will be asked to be in pairs. They will be given different situations like- talking to a vegetable vendor, talking on the phone with a friend or ordering your favourite food. The students would be presenting this in front of their fellow classmates.
Outcomes	This concept will help students increase fluency as students would be engaged in practicing dialogues in real life context. This will also enable the students to express themselves fluently. Since the conversation will be practiced using familiar situations and topics, this will give students confidence to speak in English more frequently.

Module 6	2 hours
What will be covered	Create your own story
How it will be covered	Students would be asked to narrate a story one by one on the spot. It could be a made-up story or narrate an event happened in their daily routine. Then students would be made into pairs and asked to make one story. This can done by making illustrations or role plays.
Outcomes	The process of creating own stories helps students develop imagination and build creativity. Creating own stories also help students in developing problem solving skills This encourages them to think and use new words and use them in their story.

Module 7	2 hours
What will be covered	Games: Game- Recap with various activities

Module 8	3 hours
What will be covered	Story telling
How it will be covered	Each student would be presenting their own story, They can read a story from a story book, they can create a story by themselves or narrate a real life incident. Students would be asked to present their work individually. They can present their story through puppets, illustrations or role plays or as an TV anchor.
Outcomes	Students would be listening to their peers and learning new ideas and vocabulary. They could help each other in sentence formation and simple tenses. This process could help in better understanding.

Module 9	2 hours
What will be covered	Game- Recap with various activities

Module 10	4 hours
What will be covered	Interview
How it will be covered	Students themselves can be divided in to interviewees and interviewer’s panel. The facilitator can suggest few questions or the interviewer’s panel could make some themselves. Mock interviews can be conducted. The students would feel more comfortable to answer the questions as it is asked by their friends.
Outcomes	This practice will help students to tackle an interview process and be prepared as it will play as a mock interview.