ENGLISH LANGUAGESCHEME OF WORK

FORM 2 2016

Week/ Theme Level Language for interpersonal use

Language for information use

Language for aesthetic use (LITERATURE)

Grammar Sound system

Vocabulary Educational emphases

PEOPLE

Chapter 1:What People Do

Week 1 – 5

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- Talk about daily routines

- Talk about friends

- Write a simple account on one’s friend’s ambition

- Write a letter to a friend on one’s ambition

- Read and understand excerpts of brochures on job descriptions

- Scan for details- Spell it right

- Listen to an interview with a firefighter

- Note important details

- Identify main ideas

- Talk about place and people

- Give sequence of events

- Talk about main characters

- Talk about values found in a short story

- Simple present tense for habitual actions

- ‘Wh’ words

r /r/ andl /l/

Antonyms - Learning How to Learn Skills- ICT- MI

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PEOPLE

Chapter 2:Villagers and their Livelihood

Week 6-9

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Lit component:Poem: I wonder

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- Ask questions politely to get information on a flyer

- Seek clarification to get certain information about an exhibition

- Read topics of interest and discuss certain points with friends

- Read and understand an article on Pulau Duyung- Scan for details- Spell it right- Listen to a television programme, ‘Meeting People’- Note important details- Describe an activity

- Identify supporting Ideas- Sequence ideas

- Make simple predictions- Identify key ideas- Write a description of a Malaysian handicraft

-Talk about the place and time-Talk about the place, time and characters in a story

- Subject- verb agreement

-Punctuation - capital letters and full-stops

s /s/ and z /z/

Synonyms - Preparation for the Real World

- Learning How to Learn Skills

- ICT

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PEOPLE

Chapter 3:Famous FacesWeek 10-13

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- Talk about one’s favourite personalities

- Express congratulations and respond appropriately

- Giving compliments and responding appropriately

- Participate in a class discussion

- write a card to one’s favourite personality

- Read and understand an article on a remarkable man

- Scan for details

- Sequence ideas in a diagram

- Take dictation- Listen to a

conversation - Note important

details

- identify main idea

- Make simple predictions

- Talk about the place and time

- Recite a poem on the environment

- Adjectives that show qualities

- -simple past tense

v/v/and v/w/

Antonyms - ICT - Value and

citizenship- Learning

how to learn skills

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ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 4:Stop Air Pollution!

Week 14-18

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- Ask questions to get information

- Answer questions and give details

- Participate in a discussion to find the best way to reduce air pollution

- Read topics of interest and discuss

- certain points with friends

- Read and understand an interview about air pollution- Scan for details - Take dictation- Listen to a news report on haze- Note important details

- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting details

- identify cause and effect- Identify key ideas- Write a composition on pollution in a town

- Compose a simple poem, stories

- Future tense using ‘going to’

- Punctuation

- question mark

Prefix “mis”

VCICT

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ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 5:Flood Woes

Week 19-21

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- Ask questions to get information

- Answer questions and give details

- Offer help and respond appropriately

- Complete a newspaper report

- Read and understand an Internet article on flash floods - Scan for details- Spell it right- Listen to a news bulletin on the after- effects of a flash flood- Tell what the text is about- Note important details- Identify main ideas

- Draw obvious conclusions- Design a thank you card to express appreciation- Write a simple account on a flash flood

- Talk about main characters

- Prepositions of direction

- Formation of the plural – words ending with ‘f’ and ‘fe’

Prefix ‘re’ VC

- Learning How to Learn Skills

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ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 6:Give Us Space to Run and Play

Week 22-23

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- Express satisfaction and dissatisfaction on a playground in one’s neighbourhood

- Participate in a discussion by agreeing or disagreeing with the opinions of residents of Taman Sri Jaya

- Read and understand a talk on the importance of play to children- Scan for details- Spell it right- Listen to a conversation between two concerned mothers - note important details- Identify main ideas

- Draw obvious conclusions- Identify key ideas- Write a simple account on a gotong- royong activity

- Act out sections of the text and role- play characters- Describe events

- Negative statements Punctuation

- Exclamation - mark

Suffix ‘ful’ - VC- Thinking Skills- MI

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SOCIAL ISSUES

Chapter 7:Time is Gold

Week 24-26

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- Understand the types of services available at a sports centre

- Make enquiries as to what a sports centre offers

- Make further enquiries (via telephone)

- Fill in a registration form

- Read and understand excerpts of a diary- Scan for details - Sequence ideas- Spell it right- Listen to a talk on how to spend the holidays beneficially- Note important details

- Read and understand a simple table- Identify main ideas- Write an account on how one spent the holidays

- Draw obvious conclusions

- Act out a section of the text and role- play characters

- Retelling a story from another point of view- Presenting the text in another genre

-Punctuation-apostrophe for contractions

- Article ‘the’

ed /t/ and ed /d/

Suffix ‘less’ VCTSMI

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SOCIAL ISSUES

Chapter 8:What Are Friends for?

Week 27-29

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- Talk about qualities one looks for in a friend

- Participate in class discussions by agreeing, disagreeing and giving opinions

- Read and understand an article on how to build a healthy friendship- Use headings and subheadings to look for information- Scan for details- Take dictation- Listen to the views of three students on friendship- Note important details

- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting details- Follow sequence of ideas- Draw obvious conclusions - Identify key ideas- Reply a letter from a friend to offer advice

- Act out a section of the text and role- play characters

- Negative- adjectives - using ‘im’

and ‘un’

Synonyms ICTMITS

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HEALTH

Chapter 9:Looking Good, Feeling Great!

Week 30-32

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- Ask questions politely to get information on acne

- Give instructions orally

- Give advice

- Read and understand a letter on what beauty means- Scan for details - Spell it right- Listen to a talk on personal hygiene- Note important details

- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting details- Follow sequence of ideas- Identify key ideas- Apply process writing skills on the topic of proper dental care

- Talk about values found in a novel

Connectors- sequence connectors

Conjuctions- ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘so’, ‘or’

es /iz/,ies /aiz/and ves /vz/

Synonyms Knowledge Acquisition TS

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HEALTH

Chapter 10:Food for Thought

Week 33-36

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- Give advice on a healthy diet

- Participate in a discussion by giving advice and suggestions

- Read topics of interest and share information with friends

- Read and understand a talk on the importance of breakfast- Scan for details- Take dictation- Listen to the advice on proper ways to cook vegetables- Note important details

- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting details

- Make simple Predictions- Identify cause and Effect- Apply process writing skills on the topic ‘What is a Healthy Diet’

- Talk about how events, characters and values in the text are similar to those in one’s life

- Modal verbs –‘must’, ‘may’ and ‘can’

- Preposition ‘of’

Ending sounds /s/ and s /z/

A group of words that are related to one word

Preparation for the Real World

KAICT

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HEALTH

Chapter 11:Fun Ways to fitness

Week 37-38

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Lit Component:Short Story:One is one and All Alone

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- Understand the sports activities offered during a sports awareness campaign

- Persuade a friend to try a sports activity

- Make further enquiries about the activities offered

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-read and understand a web page on skateboarding-scan details-take dictation-listen to a briefing before a cross-country race-note important details

-identify main ideas-identify supporting details-follow sequence of ideas-write an account of a sports events-draw obvious conclusions

- say what one thinks about the text

- adjectives comparison

- possessive pronouns

- Past tense ‘-ed’, /d/ and ‘-ed’, /id/

-a group of words that are related to one word

ICTLHLS

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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Chapter 12:Going Organic

Week 39-40

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- Talk about a trip to an agrotourism farm

- Give oral and written instructions to make compost

- Read topics of interests and discuss certain points with friends

- Read and understand an article on organic farming- Follow sequence of ideas in a diagram- Scan for details- Spell it right- listen to the views on organic farming- Note important details

- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting ideas- Write a simple account on a trip to Happy Agrofarm

- Talk about values found in the text

Uncountable nouns

Prepositions of place

Stresses in two or three syllable words

Contextual clues

ICTKALHLS

Science and 1 - Participate - Read and understand an - Talk - Simple present - Stresses Contextual ICT

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Technology

Chapter 13:Our Green Heritage

Week 41-42

in a discussion

extract from an encyclopedia on unusual plants

- Scan for details - Follow sequence of

ideas in diagrams- Spell it right- Listen to a description

about a nature trip- Identify main ideas- Identify supporting

detail- Follow sequence of

ideas

about values found in a text

tense for facts are generally true

- Future form using “will”

In compound words

clues KALHLS

SCIENCE AND 1 - Talk about latest - Read and understand - Talk - Adverbs of - Contraction Change KA

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TECHNOLOGY

Chapter 14:Innovations in Technology

Week 43-44

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Innovations

- Participate in a class discussion by agreeing, disagreeing and giving opinions- Read about the latest innovations and discuss the changes and benefits they bring to man

- Identify key ideas- Write a composition describing one’s innovation

an article on robots - Scan for details- Spell it right- Listen to a talk on

technology and its effects

- Note important details

- Identify main ideas

about the place and time

- Give sequence of events

place and time

- Punctuation apostrophe to show possession

nouns to adjectives

TSICT

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