ANNUAL SCHEME OF WORK ENGLISH FORM 4 (2010)

MONTH UNIT/THE LEVEL INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOME EDUCATIONAL WEEK

ME EMPHASIS
1 2 3 4 5
LANGUAGE FOR LANGUAGE FOR LANGUAGE FOR
INTERPERSONAL USE INFORMATIONAL USE AESTHETIC USE
January Portrait of a 1 i. Take part in i. Listen to a jazz Recite a poem Thinking Skills :
Young discussions chant : note identify causes
Person ii. Disagree politely important details
iii. Give advice ii. Read extract from a ICT Skills :
iv. Keep a journal of diary : scan for Internet search
daily experiences details
iii. Take note of main
ideas
2 i. Identify supporting Describe characters
details : understand through what they say
context clues or do.
ii. Summarize :
identify the topic
sentence

3 Write about one’s experiences Write an informal letter : Compose a simple rap
in an informal letter apply process writing skills poem

1 Talk about oneself i. Listen to a talk: The drovers wife: Thinking skill:
Friends, Give instructions and advice note important setting Evaluating
countrymen detail Giving causal
ii. Read a web page: explanations
skim for gist, scan
for detail Multiple
2 Exchanges ideas and opinions i. Jot down keywords Describe the place and intelligences;
on friendship and phrases. time the story took intrapersonal
place
 ii. Identify the main Visual spatial
ideas and Learning how to
supporting detail; learn / knowledge
understand context acquisition: using the
clues blurb
iii. Summarize:
identify the main
ideas
3 Write about the social customs i. Write an article
of a Malaysian ethnic group providing tips,
advise and
instruction
February Wildlife 1 Persuade someone to do i. Listen to a Monsoon history: Thinking skills:
warriors something conversation: note imagery in poem Identifying true or
important detail Recite a poem false statement
ii. Present information
in a cluster diagram Multiple
2 Read topics of current interest i. Jot down key intelligences: bodily-
and exchange ideas words and phrases kin aesthetics
ii. Read a magazine
article: identify ICT skill: internet for
main ideas ; research
understand context
clues
iii. Summarize:
identify the main
ideas
iv. Write a magazine
article: expand
notes and outline
3 Read an article and give Apply processes writing i. Understand
opinion skills figurative
language
ii. Talk about the
message in
poem and
write a
 paragraph on it

Dare to 1 Talk about oneself and one’s i. Listen to a If: message in poems Thinking skills:
dreams dreams description of a i. Recite a poem evaluating
person: note ii. Rewrite a
important detail poem ICT skill: internet for
ii. Convert research
information into a
table Knowledge
2 Exchange opinions and topic i. Read an interview: Talk a about the acquisition: using
of interest identify detail; message in a poem difference source to
understand context complete a project
clues
ii. Summarize: reduce
the length of a text
3 Read a news paper report and Write an interview; apply
give opinion process writing skills
Initiate a discussion
Mac Special 1 Express concern and offer i. Listen to an The Necklace: Thinking skills:
people help informer talk: note Characterization making associations
Respond to question politely important details
by giving the require ii. Use the dictionary ICT skills: internet
information to find the library research
meanings of words
iii. Read a fact sheet
about Down’s
Syndrome: scan for
details
iv. Present information
in a web diagram.
2 Converse with someone one i. Identify main Describe characters and
meets for the first time ideas; understand write a description of
context clues character
ii. Summarize: linking
the main ideas.
 iii. Write a fact sheet
on a common
illness: expand
outline
3 i. Take notes of text
heard
ii. Apply process
writing skills
Wired youth 1 Share information i. Listen to a radio The sound machine: Thinking skills;
Make enquiries about product talk: note important conflict in a short comparing and
details story contrasting
ii. Read the text of an
information talk: Preparation for real
follow sequence of world: occupations in
ideas the filed of science
2 Make enquiries about a i. Identify main and technology
product, choose a product and ideas; understand
order a product context clues
ii. Summarize:
sequence events
iii. Write an informer
talk: expand notes
3 i. Draw conclusions
ii. Apply process
writing skill
April Random act 1 Exchange ideas and opinions i. Listen to a factual There’s Been a Death Thinking skills:
of kindness account: note in The Opposite identifying true or
important detail House: tone in poetry false statements
ii. Convert
information into a Drawing conclusion
graph
2 Exchange ideas and opinions i. Jot down key Learning how to
words and phrases learn: using the title
ii. Read a narrative: page and table of
identify supporting contents
detail; find
evidence to support
 statement;
understand context
clues
iii. Summarize:
identify main
events in the
correct sequence
3 Initiate and keep a discussion i. Draw conclusion; Write a paragraph
going predict outcomes stating one’s opinions
ii. Write a simple of the poems
narrative: apply
process writing
skills
Active 1 Relate personal experiences i. Listen to a Sonnet 18: Thinking skills:
ageing Express concern and sympathy telephone personification making inferences
conversation; note Recite a poem: choral
important detail reading Multiple
ii. Use the dictionary intelligences:
to find meaning linguistic- verbal /
2 Exchange ideas on how i. Jot down key bodily – kinesthetic
society can help the elderly words and phrases
ii. Read a poem: Learning how to
identify main ideas learn / ICT skills:
and supporting online library search
detail; understand
context clues
iii. Summarize:
paraphrase the
main ideas
3 Design a card and write a i. Draw conclusion Understand figurative
letter to express concern and ii. Write a letter language:
to comfort expressing personification
concern: apply
process writing
skill
May Helping 1 Respond to question politely Listen to a factual account: The drovers wife: Learning how to
hand by giving the require note important detail point of view learn / knowledge
 information Read extract from letters of acquisition: using the
Relate personal experiences complaint: identify text bibliography
type; scheme for gist
Convert information into a
diagram Values and
2 Give feedback about a service i. Find evidence; Retell a story from citizenship education:
understand context another point of view research on stories of
clues courage /
ii. Summarize: organization that care
identify main ideas for the disable
iii. Write a formal
letter of complain:
expand outline
3 Make a complaint about a Apply process writing skills
service; respond to a
complaint
Water, water 1 Offer advise i. Listen to a talk: Looking for a rain Multiple
everywhere note important god: visual imagery intelligences: visual-
detail spatial
ii. Read a brochure:
scan for the details Preparation for the
2 Discuss plans and make a i. Identify supporting real world / ICT
decision details; understand skills: internet search
Exchange ideas on topic of context clues on organization for
interest ii. Summarize: use water conservation
headings to
understand main
point
3 Make recommendation and Write a brochure for a water Understand figurative
suggest ways to solve a campaign: apply process language: similes,
problem writing skill metaphors
June The 1 Talk about one’s preferences i. Listen to a report: The sound machine: Thinking skills:
competitive note important rising action and making interpretation
edge details climax sequencing
ii. Write a report: Retell a story in one’s
present information own words. Multiple
drawn from tables intelligences:
 and graphs musical, logical-
iii. Convert mathematical
information into
graphs
2 Discuss plans and i. Read a report: Narrate sequence of
arrangements identify main ideas events
Make a decision based on the and supporting
agreement of the group details; interpret
non-linear texts
such as tables and
graphs; understand
context clues
ii. Summarize:
identify main ideas
3 Interview people using a Write a report: present State one’s opinion of
questionnaire report with the aid of graphs the text
from interviews; apply
process writing skills
For the 1 Respond to questions politely Listen to a panel discussion: The lotus eater: Thinking skills:
common by giving a required note important detail characterization-what evaluating making
good information 183 other says interpretations
2 Read topics of current interest i. Identify main Describe a character in
and exchange opinions ideas: jot down key a short paragraph Learning how to
Make a speech to persuade words and phrases learn / knowledge
someone to do something ii. Respond to acquisition: using the
questions orally index
read point of view:
identify supporting
details; understand
context clues
3 i. Draw conclusion; State one’s opinion of a
identify cause and character
affect; identify
point of view
ii. Summarize:
identify point of
view
 iii. Write a persuasive
speech: apply
process writing
skills
Earth 1 Talk about one’s past i. Listen to an The road not taken: Values and
matters experiences appeal: note theme in poetry citizenship education:
Disagree politely important details collective
Persuade someone to do ii. Read a journal: responsibility,
something scan for details involvement in world
Keep a journal organizations
2 Exchange opinions on topics i. Jot down key Talk about values in a
of interest words and poem and whether they
phrases are meaningful to one’s
ii. Identify life and write paragraph
supporting on this
details;
understand
context clues
iii. Summarize:
identify relevant
information
iv. Write a first
person recon:
expand notes
3 Suggest ways to solve i. Make inferences Talk about the theme in a
problems ii. Apply process poem
writing skill
A rainbow 1 Exchange information about i. Listen to a Monsoon history: Multiple
nation common interests conversation: cultural element in a intelligences: verbal-
Talk about one’s feelings and state what the poem linguistic / bodily –
preferences text is about; Recite poems kin aesthetic
note important
details
ii. Read a regular
column in a
news paper: scan
for the details
 2 Exchange ideas and opinions i. Identify
on topic of current interest supporting
details, make
inferences,
understand
context clues
ii. Summarize:
identify main
ideas and
supporting detail
3 Make a compliant about i. Take notes of the Rewrite the poem in
service and respond to a text heard another genre
compliant ii. Draw conclusion
iii. Write a regular
column for a
news paper:
apply process
writing skills
A culture of 1 Talk about one’s feelings Listen to a public Si tenggang’s Thinking skills
peace Write a message to persuade message: note important homecoming: setting making associations
youth to support world peace details and culture background Comparing and
2 Exchange ideas and opinions i. Read excerpts Describe the setting of a contrasting
on topics of current interests from two poem and story Learning how to
messages: learn: using the
identify main glossary
ideas and details;
understand
context clues
ii. Summarize:
ensure
readability
3 Read an article and give i. Take notes of the
opinions text heard
Initiate and keep a discussion ii. Predict outcomes
going iii. Write a public
message of
peace: apply
 process writing
skills
Future 1 Talk about one’s special Read descriptive Looking for a rain god: Thinking skills:
gazing interests accounts: follow sequence review of literary solving problem
of ideas element Identify causes and
Role play characters effect
2 Exchange ideas and opinions i. Listen to a Describe the setting of a Preparation for the
on topics of current interest opinions: story real world: vision
identify the main 2020- a planned city
ideas
ii. Identify
supporting
details;
understand
context clues
iii. Summarize:
ensure relevance
3 Suggest ways to solve a i. Draw Talk about the theme in a
problem conclusions story and write a simple
ii. Write a paragraph on it
descriptive
account: apply
process writing
skills