English for Kids-5A

Oxford Beehive – Level 5A

(Units Starter – 5)

💬 Course Description

General Overview
Oxford Beehive 5A continues to strengthen fluency, accuracy, and creative expression. Through real-world contexts, students practise advanced sentence forms and develop awareness of how English connects them to people, ideas, and cultures worldwide.

Level 5A Focus
This half-level (Starter – Unit 5) introduces the present perfect, be going to, past continuous, and comparative structures while expanding students’ vocabulary across familiar and global themes. Learners also engage in writing genres such as interviews, travel blogs, persuasive reports, reviews, and recipes.

Learners encounter:
• 🌍 Topics that connect daily life with global cultures
• ✏️ Structured Writing Focus lessons for real-world communication
• 🎭 Creative projects that transform ideas into tangible work
• 🤝 Stories that nurture confidence, reflection, and empathy

🎓 Skills Focus

Listening · Speaking · Reading · Writing · Grammar · Vocabulary · Culture · Projects

💡 Social-Emotional Themes

Helping others · Effort · Confidence · Perseverance · Sportsmanship

🌟 Tagline

Level 5A – Connecting English to the World around Us!

📘 Learning Outcomes Summary

By the end of Level 5A, learners will —

• Use present perfect, be going to, past continuous, and comparative structures confidently.
• Communicate clearly through functional language suited to each topic.
• Write blogs, reviews, reports, and guides with appropriate tone and structure.
• Reflect social-emotional values through meaningful stories and projects.
• Demonstrate global awareness in cultural contexts.

🧩 Unit-by-Unit Descriptions

📖 Unit-by-Unit & Lesson-by-Lesson Overview

Starter Unit – Big Numbers!

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Integrated Lesson: Numbers (101–1,000) · Measuring words · Question tags.

Unit 1 – Travel in the City

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Words: Places in a city
2️⃣ Lesson 2 – Grammar: Present perfect statements and questions with since/ever/never
3️⃣ Lesson 3 – Words & Grammar: Travel and movement phrases
4️⃣ Lesson 4 – Story: The Tickets (Helping others)
5️⃣ Lesson 5 – Skills & Culture: Life in the countryside and city in the UK and Thailand + Writing focus (Interview)
6️⃣ Lesson 6 – Project & Review: Make and play the Travel through the City board game

Unit 2 – The Seasons

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Words: Seasonal activities
2️⃣ Lesson 2 – Grammar: be going to for plans and comparisons
3️⃣ Lesson 3 – Words & Grammar: Weather expressions and comparisons with (not) as … as
4️⃣ Lesson 4 – Story: The Three Brothers (Making an effort)
5️⃣ Lesson 5 – Skills & Culture: Weather and seasons in Vietnam and Norway + Writing focus (Travel blog)
6️⃣ Lesson 6 – Project & Review: Make a seasonal activities guide

Unit 3 – The Environment

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Words: Environmental topics
2️⃣ Lesson 2 – Grammar: Present perfect with already/just/yet
3️⃣ Lesson 3 – Words & Grammar: Reducing waste and pollution (review)
4️⃣ Lesson 4 – Story: The Repair Shop (Being confident)
5️⃣ Lesson 5 – Skills & Culture: Energy sources in Germany and Chile + Writing focus (Persuasive report)
6️⃣ Lesson 6 – Project & Review: Make a poster about the Four Rs

Unit 4 – A Trip to the Theatre

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Words: Theatre vocabulary
2️⃣ Lesson 2 – Grammar: Past continuous and past simple
3️⃣ Lesson 3 – Words & Grammar: Describing performances and actions
4️⃣ Lesson 4 – Story: A Star on Stage (Dealing with anxiety)
5️⃣ Lesson 5 – Skills & Culture: Famous theatres in Australia and Italy + Writing focus (Review of a show)
6️⃣ Lesson 6 – Project & Review: Act out a play

Unit 5 – World Food

1️⃣ Lesson 1 – Words: World foods
2️⃣ Lesson 2 – Grammar: Present simple statements and questions
3️⃣ Lesson 3 – Words & Grammar: Expressions with hope, think, know
4️⃣ Lesson 4 – Story: The Cooking Competition (Winning and losing)
5️⃣ Lesson 5 – Skills & Culture: Bread in France and India + Writing focus (A recipe)
6️⃣ Lesson 6 – Project & Review: Make a restaurant menu and act out a role play