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What’s Included in This Bundle?

What’s Inside Each Week?

📋 Week 1: Human Rights

Sub-Strands:

• Polite Language: Telephone Etiquette – Identify polite words and phrases, role-play telephone dialogues

• Extensive Reading: Independent Reading – Identify print and non-print texts, read for information

• Grammar: Compound Nouns – Identify, categorize, and form compound nouns

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Why should one be polite when speaking over the telephone?

• Why should one read widely?

• Why should we use compound nouns when communicating?

🔬 Week 3: Scientific Innovations

Sub-Strands:

• Oral Presentations: Songs – Identify features of songs, use performance techniques

• Intensive Reading: Simple Poems – Identify persona, discuss voice, explain meaning

• Grammar: Collective Nouns – Identify, classify, and use collective nouns

Key Inquiry Questions:

• What makes a song more interesting?

• How is a poem different from a passage?

• What are the different types of nouns?

🌍 Week 5: Pollution

Sub-Strands:

• Listening Comprehension – Identify main ideas, respond to oral questions

• Intensive Reading – Answer questions, infer meanings

• Grammar: Primary Auxiliaries – Identify and explain functions of primary auxiliary verbs

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Why is it important to listen keenly?

• How can one improve the way they read?

• Which words describe actions and which ones describe state?

💬 Week 7: Consumer Roles & Responsibilities

Sub-Strands:

• Selective Listening – Distinguish between specific and general information

• Intensive Reading – Identify reading strategies, select main ideas and details

• Grammar: Verbs and Tense – Identify verbs in simple present and simple past tense

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Why is it important to get the main points from an oral text?

• Why should one read for main ideas?

• Which words would you use to describe something that you did yesterday?

👥 Week 9: Relationships: Peers

Sub-Strands:

• Pronunciation – Identify and pronounce words with sounds /ɒ/, /ɔː/, /θ/, /ð/

• Study Skills: Reference Materials – Select and use reference materials

• Grammar: Adjectives – Identify and use gradable and non-gradable adjectives

• Intensive Reading: Short Story – Identify dialogue and repetition

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Why are some words in a sentence pronounced with greater force than others?

• What is the importance of reference materials?

• Which words describe nouns?

• What types of stories are interesting to read?

📝 Week 10: Rehabilitation

Sub-Strands:

• Conversational Skills: Disagreeing Politely – List ways of disagreeing politely, use conversational strategies

• Reading Fluency: Poem – Identify techniques of reading fast, preview and skim

• Grammar: Adverbs – Identify adverbs of frequency and degree

• Writing: Apology Letters – List parts of a letter of apology

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Which words or phrases are used to show politeness?

• Why should we display appropriate expressions when reading a text?

• Why should one use adverbs correctly?

• Why do people write letters?

📖 Week 13: Choosing a Career

Sub-Strands:

• Conversational Skills: Interviews – Identify polite words and expressions, use polite words

• Extensive Reading: Non-fiction – Identify print and non-print materials

• Grammar: Adverbs – Identify adverbs formed from adjectives

• Intensive Reading: Lessons Learnt – Identify lessons learnt in a short story

Key Inquiry Questions:

• Why is it important to use polite language during an interview?

• What is the importance of reading widely?

• Why do we form words from other words?

• What issues in the society are addressed by stories?