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Comprehensive Language Skills Curriculum

The document outlines a 3-week English textbook unit with activities to develop students' generic skills. Over the 3 weeks, students will work on reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, speaking and listening exercises. Activities include role-playing conversations, setting up learning corners, games to reinforce lessons, and group projects involving cutting and pasting rearranged texts. The goals are to improve students' collaboration, communication, critical thinking and other skills through interactive lessons integrating English learning and real-world tasks.

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Comprehensive Language Skills Curriculum

The document outlines a 3-week English textbook unit with activities to develop students' generic skills. Over the 3 weeks, students will work on reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, speaking and listening exercises. Activities include role-playing conversations, setting up learning corners, games to reinforce lessons, and group projects involving cutting and pasting rearranged texts. The goals are to improve students' collaboration, communication, critical thinking and other skills through interactive lessons integrating English learning and real-world tasks.

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of Textbook/ Textbook Focus Generic Skills Tasks & Activities Resources/Remarks


Periods Workbook
3 TB pages 1- Warm Up & Reading Skills Collaboration - Rearrange parts Copies of an email cut up
4 Read and understand an email skills, of an email into jigsaw puzzle pieces
WB pages communication - Set up the ‘Class
1-3 skills, critical mailbox’
thinking skills, - Play ‘The
information Mysterious
technology Note’ game
skills, problem
solving skills
1 TB pages 1- Grammar Collaboration - Role play Kevin A coloured star for each
4 Infinitives skills, and his family pupil
WB pages communication - Write about
1-3 skills, self holiday plans
management
skills
1 TB page 6 Grammar Collaboration Role play Kevin and his
WB page 5 Express agreement with ‘too’ and ‘not skills, family
…either’ communication
skills,
1 TB page 7 Grammar Collaboration - Role play Kevin Four small packets of
WB page 6 Indicate degree and quantity using skills, and his family sugar
general determiners communication - Write a script
skills, critical with a similar
thinking skills, conversation and
perform it

2 TB pages 8- Vocabulary & Speaking Collaboration - Role play a


9 Worlds related to dining at a restaurant skills, restaurant scene
WB pages communication - Set up
7-8 skills, creativity, rrestaurant
study skills corners
1 TB page 10 Informaation Literacy Collaboration Role play a waiter and
skills, numeracy customer in pairs
skills, self
management
skills
2 TB pages Extended Reading & Writing Collaboration
11-12 Read an email skills,
WB pages Plan and write an email communication
9-10 skills,
information
technology
skills, critical
thinking skills,
creativity
1 TB page 13 Listening Communication
Extract details from a conversation skills, critical
thinking skills,
1 TB page 14 Speaking Collaboration Role play Sue and
Make and respond to suggestions skills, Kevin
communication
skills, critical
thinking skills,
1 TB page 15 Phonics Communication
Vowel sounds/ee/and/oo/ skills, study
skills
3 TB pages Warm Up & Reading Skills Collaboration Baby pictures of pupils
17-20 Read and understand an explanation skills,
WB pages text communication
11-14 skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
2 TB page 21 Grammar Collaboration Role play Ken and his A large shirt, a medium
WB page 15 Talk about the same kind of item using skills, mother sized shirt and two small
‘other’ and ‘another’ communication shirts of the same size
skills
2 TB pages Grammar Collaboration - Role play all
22-23 Connection to give explanations and skills, four scenes
WB pages rrelate cause and effect communication - Play
16-17 skills, creativity, the’Execuses,
critical thinking Execuses,
skills, Excuses game
2 TB pages Vocabulary Collaboration - Set up learning - Model replica of
24-25 Name and identify parts of the body skills, corner for ‘Our the human
WB page 18 communication Wonderful skeleton, charts,
skills, critical Body’ books and other
thinking skills, - Play a guessing materials on the
study skills game human anatomy
- Do the ‘Lets - Copies of
Find Out More appendix 2.1
About The
Body’ activity
2 TB pages Extended Reading & Writing Collaboration Rearrange a jumbles up - A copy of the
26-28 Read an explanation text skills, explanation text explanation text on
WB pages The features of an explanation text communication TB pages 27-28
19-20 Complete an explanation text skills, critical with paragraphs
thinking skills, jumbled up
problem solving - Sheets of coloured
skills paper
- Each group to
bring a pair of
scissors and glue
1 TB page 29 Listening Communication
Extract details from a radio show skills, critical
thinking skills,
1 TB page 30 Speaking Collaboration
Ask and answer ‘yes/no’ questions skills, critical
thinking skills,
1 TB page 31 Phonics Communication
Vowel sounds/ai/and/au/ skills, study
skills
3 TB pages Warm Up & Reading Skills Collaboration - Complete a K- - Pictures of marine
33-36 skills, W-L chart animals
WB pages communication - Set up an ‘Ocean - Three pieces of
21-23 skills, critical Research Centre’ poster paper
thinking skills, - A copy of
study skills appendix 3.1 for
each group
- Reference books
and other
resources on
oceans
- A globe or an atlas
1 TB page 37 Grammar Collaboration Play a guessing game
WB pages Add information to a noun using skills,
24-25 relative pronouns communication
skills, critical
thinking skills,
1 TB pages Grammar Collaboration - Watch a - A short
38-39 Adverbs skills, documentary on documentary film
WB pages communication marine creature on marine
26-27 skills, critical - Play the ‘ creatures
thinking skills - Guess What I’m - Flashcards of
creativity Doing game adverbal phrases
2 TB pages Vocabulary Collaboration Research on ocean Photographs of marine
40-41 Name ocean animals skills, animals creatures on TB page 40
WB page 28
2 TB page 42 Information Literacy Collaboration - Reference
Skim through books and articles for skills, study materials on five
information skills interesting ocean
animals
- A copy of
Appendix 3.2 for
each pupil
1 TB page 45 Listening Communication
Extract details from an information skills, critical
report thinking skills,
1 TB page 46 Speaking Collaboration
Give an oral presentation skills,
communication
skills, study
skills
1 TB page 47 Phonics Communication
skills, study
skills
3 TB pages Warm Up & Reading Skills Collaboration Set up ‘Learning Books, posters and other
49-53 Read and understand a biography skills, Centre’ reading materials on
WB pages communication extradinary people
31-34 skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
2 TB pages Grammar Collaboration Roleplay Mrs Smith and
54-55 Reflexive pronouns to refer to the doer skills, the two pupils
WB pages receiver of an action communication
35-36 skills,
2 TB pages Vocabulary Collaboration
56-57 Adjectives to describe extraordinary skills,
WB pages people communication
37-38 skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
3 TB pages Extended Reading, Information Collaboration - Role play Select a short extract from
58-60 Literacy & Writing skills, characters on one of Joy Cowley’s
WB pages Read a biography communication page 59 books
39-40 Plan and write a biography skills, critical - Write a
thinking skills, biography and
study skills compile
biographies in a
book titled our
Heroes and
Heroines’

1 TB page 61 Listening Communication


Extract details from an interview skills, critical
thinking skills,
2 TB page 62 Speaking Collaboration
Conduct an interview skills,
communication
skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
1 TB page 63 Phonics Communication
Long/ee/vowel sound skills,
3 TB pages Warm Up & Reading Skills Collaboration Set up a ‘Travel Corner’ Travel brochures, travel
65-68 Read and understand an email skills, guides, atlases or a globe
WB pages communication
41-44 skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
1 TB page 69 Grammar Collaboration Role play the Chin
WB page 45 ‘Am/is/are going to’ to express plans skills, family
and intentions communication
skills,
1 TB page 70 Grammar Collaboration Role play Julian and his
WB page 46 Preposition of time skills, classmates
communication
skills,
2 TB page 71 Grammar Collaboration Play the ‘Tourist guide’ - Make a simple
WB page 47 Preposition of direction skills, game copy of the school
communication map for each pupil
skills, - Provide copies of
maps of two
tourist destination
for each pupil
2 TB pages Grammar & Vocabulary Collaboration - Role play the - Pictures of various
72-73 ‘Would rather’ and ‘prefer…to….’ To skills, Chin family on beach and sea
WB pages indicate preferences Words related to communication pages 72 and 73 sports
48-49 the beach acctivitiesand sea sports skills, - Create a travel - Copies of
brochure appendix 5.1
- Sheets of coloured
paper
2 TB pages Extended Reading and Writing Communication A variety of postcards
74-76 WB Read and understand a postcard skills, creativity,
page 50 The features of a postcard critical thinking
Write a postcard skills, study
skills
1 TB page 77 Listening Communication
Extract details from a journal entry skills, critical
thinking skills,
study skills
1 TB page 78 Speaking Collaboration
Recount events in sequence skills,
communication
skills,
1 TB pages 1- Phonics Communication
4 Vowel sound/ow/ skills, study
WB pages skills
1-3

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