ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK

January

Chapter 1: Famous Personalities

(People)

February

Chapter 2: Heroes Near and Far

(People)

March

1. Talk about famous personalities and

Chapter 3: To Serve, With Love (Social

Issues)

1. Talk about great leaders and their

1. Talk about social responsibilities.

Grammar
Simple present tense
Adjectives of colour, size
and shape
Grammar
Simple past tense
Words that signal past tense
Grammar
Adverbs of place
Articles with countable
nouns

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April

MID-SEMESTER BREAK (11.03.2016 19.03.2016)

Chapter 4: Bridging the Gap (Social
Issues)

Grammar
Subject-verb agreement
Positive and negative
statements
Contractions

1. Talk about the generation gap

between parents and their children
2. Agree and disagree politely
3. Read and understand friendly letters Vocabulary
4. Identify cause and effect
One word for a group of
5. Use concord, positive and negative
words
statements and contractions correctly
6. Write a reply to a friendly letter
Writing
7. Novel
Write a reply to a friendly
Chapter 4 Bobbies Ride
letter

Note taking chapter

summary

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Chapter 5: School Life (Social Issues)

1. Talk about school life
2. Read and understand a recount
3. Participate in class discussions and
give opinions on time management
4. Sequence events
5. Use the negative adjectives and
adverbs of time correctly
6. Write a recount by using the pictures
and notes given
7. Novel
Chapter 5 Saving The Train

May

Chapter 6: Teenage Concerns (Social

Issues)
1. Talk about teenagers problems and
concerns
2. Read and understand a transcript on
brand consciousness.
3. Seek clarifications and express
support for others
4. Use the modal verbs may and
might, and conjunctions
appropriately
5. Write an article for a school
magazine.
6. Novel
Chapter 5 A Birthday for Perks
Chapter 7: A Weighty Issue (Healthy)
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2.
3.
4.

Talk about ones favourite food

Listen to and understand a talk
Read and understand a fact sheet
Use comparison of adjectives
correctly
5. Write a composition giving your
point of view
6. Novel
Chapter 7 The Terrible Secret

Grammar
Negative adjectives with
non-, dis-, un- and im-
Adverbs of time
Vocabulary
Synonyms
Writing
Write a recount
Write about the theme of
courage

Grammar
Modal verbs may and
might
Conjunctions
Vocabulary
Antonyms
Writing
Write an article
Answer open-ended
questions

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Grammar
Comparisons of adjectives

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Vocabulary
Suffix -ly and -ness

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Writing
Giving your point of view
Sequence of events

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FIRST SEMESTER BREAK (27.05.2016 11.06.2016)

Chapter 8: Growing Pains (Health)

Grammar
Wh-questions
Modal verbs can and
must
Prefixes inter and pre

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June

1. Talk about advertisements and skin

care products
2. Request assistance and make
enquiries
3. Use WH-questions, modal verbs, pre- Vocabulary
fixes pre- and inter- correctly
Suffixes -ment and -ion
4. Write a simple speech
5. Novel
Writing
Chapter 7 The Terrible Secret
Write a simple speech
Identify true and false
statements
Chapter 9: Sound Body, Sound Mind
(Health)
Talk about good attitudes
Seek clarification and express hope
Listen to and understand a talk
Read and understand an article
Use personal pronouns, possessive
pronouns and adverbs of manner
correctly
6. Write a story
7. Novel
Chapter 9 The man at the station

July

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Chapter 10: Stormy Weather

(Environment)

Grammar
Personal pronouns
Possessive pronouns
Adverbs of manner

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Vocabulary
Word association

Writing
Write a narrative
Write a summary
Note taking chapter
summary
Grammar
Prepositions of Time
Prepositions of Place
Punctuation Mark:
Apostrophe

1. Talk about monsoon floods that

happened in Malaysia every year.
2. Make enquiries to obtain goods and
services
Vocabulary
3. Listen to and understand a
Phrasal Quantifiers
documentary
4. Read and understand an eyewitness
Writing
recount
Write a recount
5. Use Prepositions of Time and Place, Write about an eyewitness
and the Apostrophe correctly
recount
6. Write an eyewitness recount
7. Poem :
A Fighters Lines by Marzuki Ali

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Chapter 11: Flood Woes (Environment)

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August

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Grammar
Present Continuous Tense
Talk about flash floods.
Prepositions of Direction
Take down phone messages and relay Concrete Nouns
them.
Listen to and understand a news
Vocabulary
broadcast
Phrasal Verbs: verb +
Read and understand a newspaper
preposition
article
Use the Present Continuous Tense,
Writing
Prepositions of Direction, and
Write a factual article
Concrete Nouns correctly
Write a factual article
Poem :
A Fighters Lines by Marzuki Ali

Chapter 12: The Earth Moved

(Environment)
1. Talk about the earth changes.

September

Chapter 13: The Seas Around Us

(Science and Technology)
1. Talk about oceans.
Chapter 14: Sea Harvest (Science and
Technology)
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5.
6.

Grammar
Abstract Nouns
Sequence Connectors
The Simple Present Tense

Grammar
Article with Uncountable
Nouns
Preposition of

Grammar
Collective nouns
Plural nouns
Talk about activities that people carry Present continuous tense for
out from the sea.
future actions
Make enquiries about and
comparisons of services
Vocabulary
Read and understand a narrative
Similes
Listen to and understand a
documentary
Writing
Use collective nouns, plural nouns
Write a formal letter
and the present continuous tense for
future actions correctly
Write a formal letter requesting
services

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Chapter 15: The Dying Seas (Science

and Technology)
1. Talk about dying seas.
2. Take part in teacher-guided
discussions and defend your point of
view
3. Listen to and understand a
description
4. Read and understand a report
5. Form compound sentences, use
articles with proper nouns and plural
countable nouns, and the simple
future tense correctly
6. Write a short speech.

Grammar
Compound sentences
Articles with proper nouns
and plural countable nouns
Simple future tense

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Vocabulary
Idioms

Writing
Write a short speech

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