English - Final Spn21 - Year 9 Scheme

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O Level Outcomes

Writing SkillsReading Comprehension and

Summary SkillsOral /Aural Skills

Students should be able to:

1. write in a variety of genres asprescribed by the O-Levelexamination, with attention toappropriate format, style andlength:

* narrative/recount of personalexperiences

* descriptive* expository* discursive/argumentative* formal letters* informal letters* speeches* brochures / leaflets* reports* magazine articles

2. interpret the question appropriatelyand maintain focus and the

readers interest throughout thecomposition

3.plan, organise and write inparagraphs


1. read and comprehend a variety ofgenres

2. understand and respondappropriately to written instructions,directions and questions.

3. identify specific information located atone or more points in a text (literalcomprehension)

4. identify implied meaning and makedeductions from information in a text

5. infer the meanings of unfamiliar wordsand expressions (e.g. idiomaticphrases) from their context in apassage

6. answer questions using the following

reading strategies:- use word recognition skills to check

meaning- use knowledge of cohesive devices

and text organization


1. speak audibly

2. read accurately and fluently,with an awareness of expressionand audience

3. understand and use the morecommon speech conventions ofsocial English

4. participate effectively in aconversation and developresponses to prompts

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SPN 21 SCHEME OF WORK

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4. arouse interest, maintainingcoherence and cohesion

5. choose a vocabulary and tonewhich is suited to its purpose andaudience, and use correct grammar

and punctuation

6. demonstrate consistency inlanguage usage

7.write legibly, and present workclearly

- use contextual clues (association of

words/ ideas and logical relationshipof ideas)

- use prior knowledge: familiar words,

word association, knowledge of thetopic/figurative language/connotations/ culture

- skim for gist and scan for details

7. select, retrieve, evaluate and combineinformation from a selected section ofthe text

8. summarise a given text to aprescribed word limit, paraphrase,and use their own words as much aspossible

9. show evidence of using cohesivedevices when writing a summary

10.edit summaries, adhering to theconventions of grammar


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Scheme of Work YEAR 9

This scheme of work is a guide for teachers teaching MA 3 classes, based mainly onGateway to English 3 and Excel in O-Level English. Teachers should feel free to change,modify, supplement and vary the content of this scheme according to their students needsand abilities. The first part of this scheme of work aims to continue the general andgeneric development of English skills and knowledge built in MB 1 and 2. The second partof this scheme of work signals the beginning of a more specific O-Level preparationcourse, which students will continue through MA 4 and 5, up to the O-Level exam.

The Form 3 scheme of work is not intended for Express stream students, thoughteachers may wish to utilise elements of the O Level preparation course in developingtheir schemes of work.


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Terms 1 & 2Core Textbook: Gateway to English 3 (GW3)

Supplementary Materials: Essential Grammar in Use (EGU), Grammar in Use (GIU)

Unit/Topic Writing Skills ReadingComprehension andSummary Skills

Oral/Aural Skills

Additional Skills

Grammar and LanguageUsage/ Vocabulary/ Study

Skills

GW3Unit 1

Main focus:Descriptionof whatpeoplewear

* Paragraphwriting: Making abudget

* Text messaging* Description:

Clothes fordifferentoccasions

* Conversation: Saving &spendingA family budget

* Product information:Washing machines

* Narrative: Shoppingdrama

* Conversation: Saving &spending

* Asking & answering questions:Needs & wants

* Role play: Shopping* Identifying & evaluating

specific information in adialogue: Buying DVDs

* Sharing personal experiences

* Comparative & superlativeadjectives (EGU: U84+85,GIU: U97-100)

* Present simple (GIU: U5-7,GIU: U2)

* Suffixes er, -orfor agents* Glossary Use* Dictionary Use

GW3Unit 2

Main focus:Factualnarrative

* Paragraphwriting: Changes

* Factual GuidedNarrative:Development ofthe telephone

* Survey report:Telephone Usage

* Personal memories:Childhood experience

* Dialogues:Grandparents &grandchildren

* Personal opinions:Mobile phones

* Magazine article:Healthy living

* Guided summary:

Eating habits

* Identifying & evaluatingfeatures in a picture: Modernliving

* Account of personalexperience: Changes in ourlives

* Carrying out a survey:Telephone usage

* Listening for specificinformation: A modern

grandmother

* Past simple (EGU: U10-12,GIU: U11)

* Present perfect (EGU: 15-20, GIU: U13-20).

* Sentence connectors:Similar & contrasting ideas

* Phrasal verbs (EGU:U107+108, GIU: U124)

* Formation of new words


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Unit/Topic Writing SkillsReading

Comprehension andSummary Skills

Oral/Aural Skills

Additional SkillsGrammar and LanguageUsage/ Vocabulary/ Study

Skills

GW3Unit 3

Main focus:Comparison of twocountries

* Paragraphwriting:

Childrens needs* Comparison: Two

countries* Letter: Request

for sponsorship

* Interpreting statisticalinformation: Four Asian

countries* Personal narrative: Child

labour

* Interpreting pictures & relatingto own experience: Living in

poverty* Collating information in an

interview: A charity* Carrying out group tasks:

Planning a charity activity

* Present continuous (EGU:U3+4, GIU: U3)

* Comparative adjectives* Comparisons: using more,

fewer(EGU: U86+87,GIU: U97-100)

* Acronyms* Prefix tele-* Internet searching:

Charities



Oral/Aural Skills


SkillsGW3Unit 4

Main focus:Personalnarrative

* Narrative: Apersonalexperience

* Expression ofviews:Advantages &disadvantages ofTV

* Radio interview & quiz* Story: TV quiz

programme* Interpreting a TV guide

* Interpreting & describingphotos

* Discussion: Using the media.* Sequencing information: Radio

programme* Listening for specific

information: Radio requests.* Making radio requests* Reading aloud

* Prepositions of time: for&since (EGU: U19+97)

* Replacement of clause orsentence by so (I hope so),or not(I hope not) (EGU:U41, GIU: U49)

* Nouns & noun phrases


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

GW3Unit 5

Main focus:ProductProcessdescription

* Letter to thepress: Personal

opinions* Paragraph

writing: Newsitem

* Describing aprocess:Producing anewspaper

* Newspapers: News &feature articles

* Guided summary: Newsstory

* Discussion: Newspapercontents and organisation

* Describing a picture:Car accident

* Sequencing & interpretinginformation in an interview:Car accident

* Conversation: Giving personalinformation, expressing pointsof view

* Conjunction: so that(EGU:U109, GIU: U60)

* Past passive (EGU: U21,GIU: U40-42)

* Internet searching: Sedna

GW3Unit 6

Main focus:Picturestory

* Anadvertisement:includes

persuasivefeatures

* Narrative: basedon picturesequence

* Magazine article:Advertising

* Comic story: Bash

Street Kids* Poetry: Jimmy Jet

(in section B Review)* Interpreting

advertisements* Using the glossary

* Discussion: Talking aboutadvertisements

* Listening for specific

information: Radioadvertisements

* Reading aloud: Comic story

* Superlatives with long &short adjectives (EGU:U84-85)

* Past continuous. (EGU:U13+14, GIU: U12)

* Conditional clauses withunless (EGU: U110-111,GIU: U39)

* Words with positiveconnotations

* Onomatopoeia* Prefix re-

GW3Unit 7

Main focus:Imaginative narrative

* Imaginary story:A natural disaster

* Factual information:Tuvalu

* Personal narrative:Global warming

* Factual information:Wind power

* Discussion: Man and theenvironment

* Identifying & interpretinginformation: Radio discussion

* Listening to check predictions:Solar powered cars

* Present passive (EGU:U21, GIU: U40-42)

* Connectors for introducingeffects & results: as aresult, therefore,consequently


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills


Comprehension and

Summary Skills

Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

* Making suggestions about apicture: Solar energy

* Preparing a group report: Solarenergy

* Game: Energy conservation

* 2nd conditional (EGU:U112, GIU: U34-37)

* Map reading: Australia

GW3Unit 8

Main focus:

Personalletter

* Paragraphwriting: factualinformation Japan

* Direct speech:Layout andpunctuation

* Personal letter:Family news

* Historicalaccount: Mercurypoisoning

* Guided poetry:Haiku

* Dialogue: Industrialdispute

* Diary: Minamatadisease

* Multi-formatinformation: doctorsnotes, memo, etc

* Personal letter: Familynews

* Summary: Doctorsmemoirs

* Transferring specificinformation to a map: Japan

* Role play: Eliciting information* Making predictions about

sequence of events* Listening for specific sequence

and dates* Discussion: Political action

* Reported speech:Statements (EGU: U49,GIU: U45+46)

* Could/couldntfor past

ability (EGU: U31, GIU:U25+26)

* Past perfect (EGU:U21-22)


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

GW3Unit 9

Main focus:NaturalProcessdescription

* Paragraphwriting: A picture

sequence* Poster: Protecting

turtles* Natural process:

Life cycle ofturtles

* Personalnarrative: ABrunei shipwreck

* Factual description:Marine life

* Personal narrative:Voluntary conservationwork

* Guessing & checkingguesses

* Inferring vocabularyfrom context

* Information transfer to atable

* Finding impliedinformation

* Finding supportingevidence

* Making suggestions,expressing feelings & personal

opinions: Snorkeling & diving;Turtle conservation

* Listening for specificinformation in a dialogue,checking guesses

* Role play: Asking andanswering questions

* Reported speech:Yes/No questions (GIU:

U48)* a/an/the for first &

subsequent reference(EGU: U64-69, GIU:U65-67)

* Prefix: sub-, pre-, ex-

GW3Unit 10

Main focus:Expressionof opinionsand views

* Expressingopinion:Organising pointsin an argument

* Expressing anopinion: Do weneed cars?

* Description: Familyprofile.

* Report: Black people inAmerica

* Short story: The GoldCadillac

* Quotations and titles* Poem: Dreams

* Discussion: Lifestyle & dreams* Asking and answering

questions: Dream car* Identifying sequencing of

events

* Reported speech:Wh- questions. (GIU: U48)

* Sentence adverbs toexpress attitudes

* Using a map key: The USA

Terms 3 & 4Core Textbook: Excel in O-Level English


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

ExcelUnit 1

* Reporting: ARoad Accident(Model)An UnfortunateIncident (Task)

* Factual information inacademic format: 1200Tiny Islands

* Inference andimplication: Mustafasdurian, Ah Chaisworkshop

* Discussion/ expressingopinions: What can we do tomake roads in Brunei safer?

* Past & Present tenses* Past tense verbs* Parts of speech* Suffix y, -al* Recycling words from the

main text* Editing writing (spelling

mistakes)* Considering common

mistakes (omission ofs,the same as)

Excel

Unit 2

* Reporting: Pulau

Harimau as atouristdestination.(Model)Victoriaville as astudy centre(Task)

* Focus onintroduction,conclusion andsequencing ideas

* Factual information in

academic format: WillBangkok Disappear?

* Unfamiliar vocabulary incontext: Puan Habbibah

* Account of personal

experience: Your best holidayexperience/ A place you wouldlove to visit

ORConversation/ asking andanswering questions: What Idid on my last holiday

* Linking ideas

* Recycling words from themain text

* Present tense verbs* Use of the with place

names* Editing writing (present

verb forms)* Considering common

mistakes (etc., there arevs they are)


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

ExcelUnit 3

* Writing a letter toa friend: DearAzlan (Model)Dear Uncle(Task)

* Focus onintroduction,conclusion anduse of tenses

* Fictional narrative:Inside Leos Mouth

* Examining the SummaryQuestion

* Conversation/ asking andanswering questions: What isyour favourite film/ book?


* Mixing past and presentverbs

* Infinitive verbs* Use of the* Editing writing (past tense

sentences)* Considering common

mistakes (using the withsuperlatives)



Oral/Aural Skills

Additional Skills

Grammar and LanguageUsage/ Vocabulary/ Study

Skills

ExcelUnit 4

* A magazinearticle: Fatt KimLoong. (Model)The girl with therecord number ofO-Leveldistinctions.(Task)

* Focus onrhetoricalquestions, directand reportedspeech

* Factual narrative inacademic format: TheMulu Caves of Sarawak

* Figurative language* Using summary skills:

Letter to Munir

* Discussion/ makingsuggestions and expressingopinions: How can we makeBrunei a more popular placefor tourists to visit?

* Adjectives formed fromverbs


* Countable anduncountable nouns

* Editing writing (misuseduncountable)

* Considering commonmistakes (commonincorrect verb forms)


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

ExcelUnit 6

* A formal letter:Dear

Headmaster(Model)

Dear DistrictOfficer (Task)

* Narrative in academicformat: Hasan and the

Communists* Identifying key points to

include in a summary* Paraphrasing in a

summary

* Constructing an interview withan older citizen about growing

up in Brunei in the past

* Suffix ness* Make vs Do


* Passive infinitive verbs* Countable and

uncountable nouns* Editing writing (review of

previous units)* Considering common

mistakes (unwantedabout, sekian, terimakasih)

ExcelUnit 8

* Descriptivecomposition(describingplaces): Describea street you know(Model)Describe yourlocal market(Task)

* Narrative in academicformat: The Rear-GunTurret

* Guided summary(including directspeech)

* Speech presentation: A one-minute speech promotingBrunei to overseas tourists

* Commonly misused words* 2-part verbs* Recycling words from the

main text* Present perfect tense vs

past simple* Agreement of subject and

verb* Editing writing (verb

forms)* Considering common

mistakes (so and very +too)


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

ExcelUnit 9

* Discursivecomposition(advantages anddisadvantages):Owning a car(Model)Studying abroad(Task)

* Narrative in academicformat: Seized by aCrocodile

* Guided summary* Counting words in a

summary

* Conversation/ makingsuggestions and expressingopinion: Is building more roadsa solution to solving trafficproblems?

* Compound words withprepositions

* Using markers* Use of one* Repeating sentence

structure.Preposition + -ing

* Unnecessary prepositions* Editing writing (everybody

vs every body,punctuation of directspeech)

* Considering commonmistakes (misuse ofquestion marks)


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Oral/Aural Skills


Skills

ExcelUnit 10

* Discursive /argumentativecomposition(expressing yourown views):Supermarkets vstraditional shops(Model)Is discipline inschool too strict?(Task)

* Narrative in academicformat: Into Space

* Summary practice:Writing economically

* Group Discussion: Is disciplinein schools important?

* More prefixes* Using definitions* Using markers* Interesting adjectives* The colon* Comparisons* Editing writing

(comparative forms,subject-verb agreement,spelling)

* Considering commonmistakes (a cheap price,although but)


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Upper Secondary (Forms 3-5) Resources List

Texts marked in with an asterisk (*) should already be in schools

Basic Texts (for each individual student)

*1. Gateway to English 3: A Secondary Course for Brunei Darussalam

*2. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 4 & 5

*3. Excel in O English

4. Key Skills in Writing

5. Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary Writing

Supplementary Materials (2-3 class sets per school)

*1. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 3

2. Murphy, Essential Grammar In Use, Cambridge University Press

3. Murphy & Altman, Grammar in Use, Cambridge University Press


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Other Resources (4 copies for each school to be used as teacher resources)

1. Keaney, G., Talk is Cheap, CfBT

2. Cowley, G., Building Vocabulary, CfBT

3. McCarthy and Redman, English Vocabulary in Use: Pre & Upper Intermediate, Cambridge University Press

4. Glover et al., The Cambridge Revision Guide, Cambridge University Press

5. Gower, Grammar in Practice 1, 2 & 3, Cambridge University Press

6. Millar & Tier, Essential English Grammar 2 & 3, Folens

7. Blake, Effective Guide to O Level English, Longman

8. Cruz Yap, O Level Language with Distinction: Vocabulary and Comprehension, Marshall Cavendish Education

9. Hoosan, The O Level Comprehension Book, Longman

10. Vince, Elementary/Intermediate/First Certificate/ Advanced Language Practice, Macmillan

11. Stepheny, Proficiency Writing, Longman

12. Etherton, General Certificate English, Nelson

13. Reilly, Skills in Non-Fiction 1

14. Ho Lin Lee, Longman Developing Situational Writing Skills15. Rajamanikam, English Language (Yearly) Worked Solutions: 1996-2005 GCE O Level, Redspot


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