Basic Curriculum for Grade 4

Units to be covered/Comprehensive Vocabulary Areas

1. Vocabulary for Animals and Family: Includes names of animals, family members, and foods.
2. Numbers and Emotional Expressions: Numbers up to 100 and emotional states, with basic phrases for expressing preferences.
3. Daily Activities: Vocabulary related to routines, such as waking up, sleeping, and eating.
4. Countries and Nationalities: Vocabulary about different countries and nationalities.
5. Cultural Origins: Vocabulary related to a person’s descent or background.
6. Clothing and Physical Appearance: Basic types of clothing and features of appearance.
7. School and Household Vocabulary: School supplies, household items, and furniture.
8. Activities and Locations in the Neighborhood: Vocabulary concerning shops and other public places.
9. Sports and Hobbies: Vocabulary for tennis, cooking, and dance activities.
10. Comprehension Strategies: Basic phrases and questions for dialogue and understanding oral narratives.
11. Descriptive Adjectives: Knowledge of adjectives that describe personal traits, like friendly and hardworking.
12. Temporal and Frequency Terms: Words related to time (e.g., yesterday, tomorrow) and frequency (e.g., often, never).
13. Cohesive Language: Vocabulary that enhances text coherence, such as “after,” “then,” and “because.”
14. Grammatical Tenses: Understanding various tenses, including simple past, simple future, and continuous future.
15. Extensive Vocabulary: A broad vocabulary encompassing foods, classroom items, public transport, neighbourhood locations, home, family, professions, clothing, weather conditions, animals and toys.

Reading and Comprehension Skills

1. Contextual Understanding: Ability to use context clues to decipher unfamiliar words.
2. Information Retrieval: Skill in quickly locating specific information within a text (scanning).
3. Identifying Main Ideas: Proficiency in pinpointing the central theme of a text (skimming).
4. Temporal and Key Vocabulary Usage: Utilizing temporal words and key terms to enhance comprehension of the text.
5. Predictive Skills: Ability to formulate predictions about the content’s progression.
6. Visual Organizers: Employing visual aids to support text understanding.
7. Strategies for Managing Unknown Words:
   • Utilizing the text layout for clues and leveraging bold, underlined, or colored text for emphasis and referring to the title for context and using diagrams and images to aid comprehension.

Oral Comprehension Skills and Temporal Vocabulary

1. Oral Comprehension: Skills in understanding spoken texts, such as short films and movies
2. Past Tense: Proficiency in using the past tense in context.
3. Temporal and Frequency Keywords: Key terms related to time and frequency, including:
   • Time references: yesterday, today, tomorrow, the day/week/month/year after, the previous day/month/week/year, last year, once upon a time.
   • Frequency indicators: often, never, always.
4. Cohesion Keywords: Terms that enhance text coherence, such as: after, then, later, because, however.

Greek cultural themes

• Customs and Traditions: Various Greek practices and festivities.
• Significant Holidays: Observances such as OXI Day, Christmas, the Three Hierarchs, March 25th, April 1st, Sarakosti, and Greek Easter.
• Mythology and History: Exploration of Greek mythology and ancient history through storytelling, videos, and theatrical performances.