READY Teacher's Guide-April 2026 - Flipbook - Page 7
Topics
Getting Ready
• Review of Pre-Basic (Pre A1) &
Basic (A1) vocabulary and lexical
chunks
Unit 1: Amazing Houses
• my neighborhood
• all about the house
• items within the rooms
Unit 2: Farm to Plate
• farm and factories
• supermarket
• restaurant
Unit 3: School Days
• our English class
• student council
• friendship
Unit 4: What Happened?
• different times in history
• at the museum
Unit 5: Let’s Celebrate
• party
• end-of-the-year
Stories
My Dream House
Where does My Food Come From?
The Perfect Person for President
Bright History Magazine
The Time Capsule
The READY program gives great attention to multiculturalism and overall diversity through the topics and
characters that appear in texts and stories. Some of these topics may be personal to the pupils. The teacher
should always be aware and sensitive to all pupils’ needs and feelings.
8. The Value of Stories
READY is a topic-based program for young learners of English, incorporating stories as the anchors for each
theme. The use of “children’s literature can be an effective and enjoyable way to teach language,” (Brown
2004: 4). The stories provide an authentic, contextualized framework through which vocabulary and
language patterns, as well as reading concepts are illustrated and activated. Stories are “a springboard for a
wide variety of related language learning activities,” (Ellis and Brewster 2014: 6) that are designed to
develop pupils’ language skills. As such, the language that pupils are taught and exposed to in each unit is
reinforced and practiced through the stories.
Through the authentic context of stories, pupils are given an opportunity for natural communication. They
are motivating and interesting for young learners, encouraging them to ask and answer questions in the
target language. Stories expose pupils to the rhythm and intonation of a language, while also providing a
chance for review and re-entry of vocabulary and grammatical structures. Through stories, pupils are
motivated to develop comprehension skills, such as searching for meaning, predicting, and hypothesizing.
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