Program: Year 10 ESL
NWSC
2010
### / Topics / Activities + AssessmentsW1 / · Introduction to the course
· Academic writing
· English communication
· Grammar and spelling
· Interference of 1st language with the 2nd language
· Word order
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Class survey – areas of interest for ESL
· Pre-test: spelling
· Pre-test: grammar: composition
· Reading aloud for pronunciation
· Listening to partner on his/her summer holidays
· Pair-work on comparing word order: English with own native language
W2 / · On the set novel: characteristics of a story:
setting,
plot,
characterisation,
viewpoints,
and themes
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Pair-work on predicting the story, based on its cover and blurb
· Brainstorming on the characteristics of a story
· Note-taking from the board on the characteristics
· Taking turns, reading aloud, and stopping for any clarification and discussion
· Dramatisation of a part of the chapter and role-play
W3 / · The curve of the story:
beginning,
climax,
resolution
+ suspense
· Genre
· Form
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Note-taking
· Writing a short story individually
· Peer assessment on the story
· Conferencing with Teacher on tense consistency
· Library – silent reading of a novel, and later; report a summary to class
W4 / · Research skills on the computer
· Biographies and their contents
· Morphology: bio+ graphy – etc.
· Affixation: prefix, infix, suffix
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Google the biography of the writer of the set novel
· Write the biography in own words
· Pair-work on interviewing each other ; mini-biography
· Identifying affixation in a chosen page of a chapter – the novel
W5 / · Another chapter of the novel
· The tense system
· Punctuation
· Pronouns + point of view
· Facts and opinions
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Oral presentation on the chapter – a summary
· Categorising the tenses in the set pages – in pairs
· Note-taking
· Debating on a national/ international issue
· Writing your viewpoint on the topic for correction
W6 / · Intertextuality
· Audience
· Purpose
· Venn-diagram – demonstrating by hoolahoops and then on the board
· Science and three states of matter
· Spelling and pronunciation / · Library – demonstration of different texts with different purposes – group work
· Venn-diagramming on Book and Film: note-taking
· Writing an informative essay on the differences and commonality of Book and Film for another Year 10 class – exchange students between classes for oral presentations of their work
W7 / · Film and its characteristics
· “Dead Poets Society”
· Themes
· Spelling and pronunciation / · View the film
· Discuss in small groups – its messages
· Rating the film, with reasons
· Role-play
W8 / · Revision of the 1st term
· Guest speaker – writer
· Active listening / · Post-tests: grammar and spelling
· Workshopping on creative writing
· Holiday extra work: to be advised
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