ENGLISH SYLLABUS FORM 1

FIRST TERM
Grammar: Grammarway 2
Introduction: Parts of speech
Unit 17: Nouns and articles
Unit 8: Pronouns and Possessives
Unit 6: Relatives
Unit 16: Adjectives, Adverbs and comparisons
Unit1: Present Continuous and Present Simple
Unit 2: Past Simple
Unit 3: Past Continuous
Literature: My Family and other animals by Gerald Durrell.
Writing:
- Structure of a composition
- Paragraphing
- Structure of a letter
- Formal and Informal language
- Writing an Informal letter
- Writing postcards and notes
- Narrative: writing a story
- Letters giving news
- Letters of advice
- Letters of application
- Book reports

Comprehension:
Unit 1 Crime fighters:
- A clever way to catch a thief
- As good as singing your name!
Unit 2 The Olympic Games:
- The most important thing…
- The marathon
Unit 3 Drawing with light
- A new art form?
- How to take better pictures
Unit 4 A land apart
- Introducing Switzerland
- Understanding statistics
Listening and speaking:
- Using a dictionary
Vocabulary and listening exercises:
- Body language and personal qualities
- Jobs, places, giving directions
- Environmental problems
- Holidays and travel
Team Magazine 1, 2

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SECOND TERM

Grammar:
Unit 20: Prepositions
Unit 4: Present Perfect Simple
Unit 7: Present Perfect Continuous
Unit 9: Modal Verbs I
Unit 14: Reported Speech
Unit 12: Modal Verbs II
Unit 18: Some / Any / No, A lot of / Much / Many, (A) little / (A) few

Literature: Grandad’s Magic Gadgets by Helen Everett-Camplin

Writing:
- Choosing a theme (DAFTI system)
- Writing a proper introduction (STOAP system)
- Writing emails : apology / thank you
- Writing conclusions (SCARF system)
- Writing a pros and cons essay
- Describing people
- Describing places
- Letters of complaint

Comprehension:

Unit 4 A land apart:

- William Tell and the apple

Unit 5 New sources of power:

- Renewable energy
- The solar cooker
- The clockwork radio

Unit 6 Daring rescues:

- The Rescue
- The Scarlet Pimpernel

Unit 7 Dolphins:
- Man’s best friend?
- Arion and the dolphin

Listening and speaking

- Shops and shopping
- Celebrations
- Restaurants
- Cooking methods
- The Supermarket
- Food
- Parts of the body
- Sports and health

Team magazine 3, 4

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THIRD TERM:

Grammar:
Unit 5 The Future
Unit 10 The Infinitive / -ing form
Unit 15 Conditionals
Unit 19 Questions and Question Tags
Unit 11 Past Perfect Simple / Past Perfect Continuous
Unit 13 The Passive

Literature: Selection of poetry

Writing:
- Letters requesting information
- Writing a report assessing good and bad points
- Writing an article
- Film reviews

Comprehension:
Unit 8 As easy as ABC
- Turning pictures into words
- A new way of writing

Unit 9 Staying Alive

- Girl against the jungle
- Emergency instructions

Listening and speaking:

- Forms of entertainment
- Films and TV
- Books and newspapers
- Describing paintings
- Technology
- Computers
- Telephones

Team magazine 5, 6

Assessments
Assessment marks will be awarded as follows:

Term 1
Behaviour : max of 5 marks
Participation : max of 5 marks

Academic work:
Listening comprehension test : max of 10 marks
Writing (H.W.) : max of 10 marks
Grammar test : max of 20 marks
Other classwork and homework : max of 10 marks

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Term 2
Behaviour : max of 5 marks
Participation : max of 5 marks

Academic work:
Homework : max of 10 marks
Classwork : max of 10 marks
Tests : max of 20 marks
Neatness and organisation of copybooks : max of 10 marks

Term 3
Behaviour : max of 5 marks
Participation : max of 5 marks

Academic work:
Homework : max of 10 marks
Classwork : max of 10 marks
Tests : max of 20 marks
Neatness and organisation of copybooks : max of 10 marks

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