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This scheme of work is a guide for teachers teaching Year 8 classes. It incorporates the use of the Gateway to English 2 textbook
and workbook and represents one year’s study. Teachers should feel free to change, modify, supplement and vary the content of
this scheme according to their students’ needs and abilities. There is a lot of material in the two books and it is unlikely that all
fifteen units will be completed in full.
Although every effort should be made to move sequentially through the textbook, it is expected that some materials might be
selectively left out. In order to make this selection more systematic, some topics have been categorised as either core or
extension. Core topics relate more directly to the GCE O Level examination. Certain compositions, all grammar and all summary
work have been listed as core. If teachers decide to skip core materials, it is expected they would incorporate similar tasks into
their schemes of work by other means.
Reading texts (except for those presented with summary writing in mind) and vocabulary have not been categorised as either core
or extension, but a good variety of text types should be covered and students’ vocabulary should be expanded whenever possible.
Teachers should take advantage of the ICT resources available at their respective schools to supplement the activities in this
scheme of work wherever possible.
Teachers should also be conscious of the fact that diagnosis of student needs and areas of concern and improvement should be
an ongoing process, using both formative and summative assessment.
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Year 8 Outcomes
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Composition Reading Comprehension & Oral/Aural Skills
Summary
(iii) identify implied meaning and
2. interpret the question make deductions from
appropriately information in a text
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Composition Reading Comprehension & Oral/Aural Skills
Summary
In order to achieve the Form Two Outcomes students should develop competence in the following areas:
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Year 8 Scheme of Work
Core Textbook: Gateway to English 2
Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
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Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
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Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
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Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
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Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
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Unit / Topic Writing Reading Listening and Grammar & Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language Usage
(core)
* Library /internet
* Genre: Narrative * Quiz (response * Group * Tense revision: * Symptoms of research
Short play: to fear) discussion: Present perfect, fear (African-
UNIT 15 extension * Multi-format thinking of simple past, past * Boxing Americans)
Courage information: birth examples, continuous, past
* Genre: Narrative certificate, making passive
Dialogue: newspaper suggestions * Comparatives with
extension reports, captions, (feeling quantity
medical notes, frightened) expressions
quotations, * Reading / acting
narrative a short play
(Muhammad Ali)
* Guided summary
(Muhammad Ali)
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Lower Secondary (Year 7 and 8) Resources List
Basic Texts
Supplementary Materials
Other Resources
1. Bell, T et al. (2003), Web of Words: Grammar and Vocabulary Activities for Primary and Secondary Students, Brunei: CfBT
Multimedia Education
4. McCarthy, M & O’Dell, F (1994), English Vocabulary In Use: Elementary, Cambridge: CUP
5. Milliken, S. (2003), The Way Ahead in English: Secondary 2, Singapore: SNP Panpac
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6. Murphy, R. (1997), Essential Grammar In Use, Cambridge: CUP
7. Seaton, A. (2000), English Grammar for Students, Singapore: Learners Publishing (with accompanying workbook)
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LIST OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS
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Dayang Hajah Sofiana binti Haji Mahmud
SM Sultan Sharif Ali
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