Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1&2
5-16
Jan
Theme /
Chapter
People
Level
Language for
interpersonal use
PROGRAM
1
- Writing and talking
about wedding customs
and rituals.
- Comparing and
contrasting between
two weddings
- Reading dialogues
and determining the
language functions
- Making sentences to
express specific
functions
- Reading a variety
texts
- Listening and ticking
correct answers
- Reporting similarities
and differences
between two weddings
- Writing a paragraph
on weddings
- Presenting a report in
class
- Reporting information
gathered
- Writing a composition
- Completing a mind
map
- Role playing using cue
cards
- Pronouncing words
with /I/ and /i/ sounds in
a poem.
- Listening and
completing a mind map
- Interviewing people
- Scanning for details by
ticking true or false
statements
- Finding meaning of
words using contextual
clues
KNOWING
ME
KNOWING
YOU
(UNIT 1)
- Reading a poem
aloud.
- Choral reading
- Matching meanings to
the expressions used in
the poem
Grammar
Language
forms and
functions
Sound
system
Vowel
sounds //
/i:/
Diphthongs
/e/ / a/ /i/
Educational
emphases
Thinking skills
Preparation
for the real
world
Multiple
intelligence
Literature
Component
Poem:
Introduction to
poetry
Week
/s
/date
Theme /
Chapter
3&4
Environment
19-31
Jan
SAVING EVERY
DROP
(UNIT 2)
Level
Language for
interpersonal use
1
- Recalling past
experiences on water
shortage by
completing a mind
map
- Keeping a journal
- Role playing
- Exchanging ideas
- Pronouncing words
with /v/ /w/ sounds in
a poem
- Brainstorming about
organizing an event
- Giving opinions on
water conservation
- Learning a format of
a formal letter
- Completing a letter
of complaint
- Responding to a
letter of complaint
Grammar
Language for
aesthetic use
- Reading the poem
aloud.
Language
forms and
functions
Sound
system
Consonants
sounds /v/ /w/
Educational
emphases
Knowledge
acquisition
Preparation
for the real
world
Future studies
Thinking skills
multiple
intelligences
ICT
Literature
Component
Poem: Living
Photograph
Jackie Kay
Week
/s
5&6
2-14
Feb
Theme /
Chapter
Social
Issues
Level
1
REACHING
OUT
(UNIT 3)
7
16-21
Feb
Language for
interpersonal use
- Sharing and
recording past
experiences
- Role playing to
practice language
functions.
- Presenting a
group report
- Role playing to
place an order for
a wheelchair
- Keeping a
discussion going
- Reading about
peoples
experiences
- Sharing feelings
- Writing an argumentative
composition
- Predicting the outcome of
events
- Giving a talk on Alzheimers
Disease
- Listening to a conversation
- Skimming and scanning to
identify fact / opinion
- Reading for details, making
inferences, moving beyond the
text
- Using a thesaurus
Grammar
Language for
aesthetic use
- Listening to a
poem to sequence
of events
- Choosing
appropriate
descriptive words.
The simple
past tense
Modals
should and
need
Educational
emphases
The
simple
past
tense
Modals
should
and
need
Knowledge
acquisition
ICT
Multiple intelligences
Future studies
Thinking skills
Literature
Component
Reading excerpts
to determine
setting.
- Reading excerpts
to determine
characters
Sound
system
Poem: Living
Photograph
Jackie Kay
9
2-6
Mar
Health
CHECKING
UP ON
HEALTH
(UNIT 4)
1
2
Initiating and
keeping discussion
going
10
Values
9-13
Mar
DECIDING
ON DAMS
(UNIT 5)
10-11
- Sharing
information on
dams
- Reading and
matching
opinions
- Giving opinions
on building dams
- Problem solving
and decision
making
- Discussing
consequences of
land clearing
Present Perfect
Tense
Revision on the
Simple Past Tense
Stress on the four
Syllable words
Thinking skills ICT
Knowledge
acquisition
- Reading and
listing
characteristics of
characters
- Reading the
poem aloud.
Gerunds
Gerunds after
preposition
Infinitives
- Relating the
situation in the
poem to real life
- Selecting images
from the poems
that describe
moods.
- Picking out words
which appeal to the
senses.
- Finding evidence
from poem on how
mood and feelings
are created.
14-22 March: First Mid-Semester Break
Homophones
Thinking skills
ICT
Preparation
for the real
world
Poem: Charge
of the Light
Brigade
Tennyson
Poem: Charge
of the Light
Brigade
Tennyson
Week
/s
12 &
13
23
Mar3 Apr
14 &
15
6-18
Apr
Theme /
Chapte
r
Science
and
Technol
ogy
Leve
l
GOING
HIGHTECH
(Unit 6)
People
LOOKIN
G UP
LIFEST
YLES
(Unit 7)
2
Language for
aesthetic use
- Reading the
poem aloud with
expressions
- Dramatising
the poem
Grammar
Sound
system
- Passive
Constructio
n
- Logical
Connectors
- Sequence
Connectors
- The prefix
pre
Consonant
clusers
/sl/ /kl/
Concord:
Subject
verb
agreement
Adjectives
and nouns
Words from
foreign
language
Educationa
l
emphases
Preparation
for the real
world
ICT
Thinking
skills
Learning
how to learn
skills
Literature
Componen
t
Knowledge
acquisitions
ICT
Thinking
skills
Short story:
Leaving No
Footprint
Stories
from Asia
Retold by
Kay West
- Picking out
similes and
metaphors
- Identifying
similes and
metaphors in a
poem
- Writing a report
- Presenting the report in class
- Finding the origin of foods
- Listening and completing a table
- Interviewing people on their lifestyles
- Writing an essay
- Reading an article
- Reading for details, making
inferences, moving beyond the text
- Finding synonyms using a
thesaurus
- Role playing
the characters
- Writing a composition
- Writing a summary
- Writing a
dialogue based
on a short
- Completing
the sequence
of events
- Rearranging
the sequence
of events
story
We
ek /
s
16
&
17
2030
Apr
18
5-8
Ma
y
19&
20
Theme /
Chapte
r
Environ
ment
CARIN
G FOR
THE
ENVIRO
NMENT
(Unit 8)
Social
Issues
FACING
TEENA
GE
BLUES
(Unit 9)
Leve
l
1
Language for
interpersonal use
- Sharing experiences on
environmental damage
- Having a discussion
based on short texts
- Sharing experiences on
problems
- Relating experiences and
completing a table
- Agreeing or disagreeing
with a speaker
- Suggesting ways to solve a
problem
- Giving advice to teenagers
- Completing a
diagram to determine
rising action and
climax
- Rearranging
sequence of events
- Completing a
diagram to determine
rising action and
climax
- Reading poems to
determine the persona
- Writing events in a
poem in the form of a
diary entry
- Composing a poem
Grammar
Sound
system
Verb and
preposition
combinatio
ns
Adjective
and
preposition
combinatio
ns
Homographs
Punctuatio
n colon,
hyphen,
brackets
RevisionPresent
Perfect and
Simple
Past
Tenses
Consonants
sounds /kr/
/br/ /fl/ /bl/
Language for
aesthetic use
Education
al
emphases
Thinking
Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Literature
Componen
t
Short story:
Leaving No
Footprint
Stories
from Asia
Retold by
Kay West
Thinking
Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligence
s
Preparation
for the Real
World
Short story:
Leaving No
Footprint
Stories
from Asia
Retold by
Kay West
21
2529
Ma
y
Social
Issues
FACING
TEENA
GE
BLUES
(Unit 9)
- Sharing experiences on
problems
- Relating experiences and
completing a table
- Agreeing or disagreeing
with a speaker
- Suggesting ways to solve a
problem
- Giving advice to teenagers
- Reading poems to
determine the persona
- Writing events in a
poem in the form of a
diary entry
- Composing a poem
Punctuatio
n colon,
hyphen,
brackets
RevisionPresent
Perfect and
Simple
Past
Tenses
Consonants
sounds /kr/
/br/ /fl/ /bl/
Thinking
Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligence
s
Preparation
for the Real
World
Short story:
Leaving No
Footprint
Stories
from Asia
Retold by
Kay West
Week
/s
Theme /
Chapter
Level
22-23
24&
25
Science and
Technology
- Sharing
experiences
- Completing a table
- Writing a letter of
complaint
- Role playing buying
a product
15-26
June
Language for
interpersonal use
MOVING
AHEAD
(Unit 10)
Sound
system
Consonant
sounds /s/
/zem/ /sp/
Educational
emphases
Literature
Component
Thinking Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligences
Future Studies
Short story:
Changing
their skies
Stories from
Africa
Week
/s
Theme /
Chapter
Level
26 &
27
Health
29
June
- 10
July
HEALTHY
LIVING
(Unit 11)
Language for
interpersonal use
- Completing a table
on meals
- Role playing
- Reading food
labels and
exchanging ideas
- Giving advice to
health problems
- Making decisions
- Making enquiries
about a product
and making
decisions based on
information
- Discussing the
attitude of
Malaysian youth on
fitness
10
Grammar
Sound
system
Educational
emphases
Literature
Component
Prepositions of
time
Prepositions of
association
Consonant
sounds /k/
/ks/ /z/
Thinking Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple Intelligences
Future Studies
Thinking Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple Intelligences
Future Studies
Short story:
Changing
their skies
Stories from
Africa
Week
/s
Theme /
Chapter
Level
28 &
29
Values
13-25
July
- Talking about
patriotism
LOVING OUR
COUNTRY
(Unit 12)
30
Environment
27
July30
Jul
PRESERVING
NATURE
(Unit 13)
31
Language for
interpersonal use
- Agreeing or
disagreeing with
opinions
- Initiating and
keeping a discussion
going
- Sharing information on
wetlands
- Discussing activities in
a wetland
- Planning a trip to a
wetland
- Initiating and
continuing a
discussion on wetland
activities
- Discussing aspects
of a brochure and
making decisions
Grammar
Language for
aesthetic use
- Rising / Falling
Intonation
- Dramatising
the poem
- Using notes for
choral reading
activity
- Identifying
stress and
intonation in
poems
- Identifying
tone and mood
in poems
- Rewriting the
poem in
dialogue form
- Dramatising a
poem
Adverbs of degree
thoroughly,
completely, nearly
Conjunctions
either or,
neither nor
Conjunctions
Although,
However
- Determining
the themes and
moral values
from excerpts
11
Sound
system
Educational
emphases
Literature
Component
Sentence
stress in
statements
and questions
Preparation
for the Real
World
Thinking
Skills
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligences
Drama: Five
Short Plays
Oxford
University
Press
Contractions
d and m
Silent g /n/,
silent l /m/,
/lm/, /r/
sounds
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligences
Drama: Five
Short Plays
Oxford
University
Press
32
Environment
11-14
Aug
PRESERVING
NATURE
(Unit 13)
- Sharing information on
wetlands
- Discussing activities in
a wetland
- Planning a trip to a
wetland
- Initiating and
continuing a
discussion on wetland
activities
- Discussing aspects
of a brochure and
making decisions
Conjunctions
either or,
neither nor
12
Conjunctions
Although,
However
- Determining
the themes and
moral values
from excerpts
Contractions
d and m
Silent g /n/,
silent l /m/,
/lm/, /r/
sounds
ICT
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligences
Drama: Five
Short Plays
Oxford
University
Press
Week / s
Theme /
Chapter
Lev
el
33 & 34
People
17-28
Aug
PROMOTING
OUR CRAFTS
(Unit 14)
2
3
35-37
37-38
39-40
41-42
43
46
13
Sound
system
Educational
emphases
Literature
Component
The
diphthong
sound //
Thinking Skills
Knowledge
Acquisition
Multiple
Intelligences
Drama: Five
Short Plays
Oxford
University
Press
The /e/
and //
sounds