What to teach

A Path for Ages 8–12

Page 20 · What to Teach, & When

Older children can handle time, system and comparison. Build from routine, to description, to grammar they can actually use.

FOUNDATIONS MY DAY DESCRIBING LIVING & MOVING TIME REAL LIFE
Foundations Greetings & personal questions · Days, months & seasons · Numbers to 20
My day Morning routines · Telling the time · Subject pronouns
Describing the world Describing people & things · Comparatives & superlatives
Living & moving Places in town · Jobs · Health & sickness
Talking about time Present continuous · Past tense · The future with “going to”
Real life Shopping & money · Prepositions of place · Favourites & explaining why

Build a lesson from any of these topics →

Grammar is never the goal. Teach every structure through something a child would actually want to say.
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