Unit 1: Who's He?
Language for literary response and expression
Reading:
Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Writing:
Unit 2: This is My Life!
Language for literary response and expression
Reading:
Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Writing:
Unit 3: Jaw Droppers!
Language for Information
Reading:
Grammar:
Vocabulary:
Writing:
Language for literary response and expression
Reading:
- Narratives - mysteries
- Recalling details in a chapter of a novel.
- Analyzing a story-line.
Grammar:
- to + infinitive
- infinitive clauses
Vocabulary:
- Describing language
Writing:
- Narratives - Mysteries / Creating suspense
Unit 2: This is My Life!
Language for literary response and expression
Reading:
- Autobiographies
- Inferring meaning using contextual clues
Grammar:
- Past perfect tense
- Past perfect continuous tense
Vocabulary:
- Proverbs
Writing:
- Autobiographies / Writing an autobiographical text.
Unit 3: Jaw Droppers!
Language for Information
Reading:
- Identifying a process
Grammar:
- Participles as adjectives
- Providing information about nouns
- Providing information about verbs
- Subordinate clauses with relative pronouns.
Vocabulary:
- Abstract nouns
- Adjectives that behave as nouns
Writing:
- Explanation texts / connecting paragraphs to develop a main idea.
English writing
5 writing stages:
1. Prepare
Think about your topic and what ideas you want to present.
Write down your thoughts so you can see how they will relate to each other.
2. Rough Draft
Write your ideas down on paper. Use full sentences either than just phrases. Make sure you have a beginning, middle and end.
3. Revise
Make it better by adding details, thoughts and good order.
4. Edit
Now is the time to correct spelling, punctuation, capitals and grammar.
5. Publish
Time to share your finished work on your website.
Unit 1: Mystery Term 1
Unit 2: Autobiographical text Term 1
Unit 3: Explanation text Term 1
- Does the title tell me who or what the narrative is going to be about?
- Does the orientation tell me when and where the narrative takes place?
- Does the writer state clearly what the problem is?
- Does the mystery deepen and become more exciting?
- Is the mystery or problem solved in the end?
- Does the writer tell me how the characters do or feel after the mystery or problem is solved?
- Is the suspense effective?
Unit 2: Autobiographical text Term 1
- Have I indicated in the title who the autobiography is going to be about?
- Have I provided background information about myself in the introduction?
- Have i provided details for each significant event?
- Have I described places, people and events from the first-person point of view.
- Have I told the reader how I feel about the events then and how I feel about the events now?
- Have I told the reader how each event has influenced the writer's life?
- Have I used the correct tense when writing reported speech?
- Have I used the past tense to recount events that took place in the past?
- Have I used present tense to talk about my feelings about things now?
- Have I used time words and phrases to remind the reader about the passage of time?
- Have I reminded the reader again about the main message of the text in the conclusion?
Unit 3: Explanation text Term 1
- Have I written a title that tells the reader the purpose of the explanation?
- Have I written an introduction to tell the reader the main idea of the explanation?
- Have I included a series of paragraphs to explain the parts of the phenomenon or steps involved in the process?
- Have I used connectors to indicate clearly how one point or example is linked to another?
- Does my conclusion provide more information about the topic?
- Have I used passive sentences where it is not important to say who the doer of the action is?
This is a autobiography text about my self
--------> I am showing my reading, writing, speaking and listening skills here |
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