Form One English Schemes of Work {Revised and Final}

ENGLISH SCHEMES OF WORK FORM ONE

TERM ONE

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· Appreciate the nature of trickster narratives

· Explain the symbolic role of trickster characters in relation to society.

· Reading

· Teachers guide page 1-3

· Oral Literature for Secondary Schools

· Determine whether or not they lip-read or sub-vocalize

· Read without moving the lips or sub-vocalizing

· Teachers guide page 4-5

Karani and Kemunto

· Appreciate the need for both boys and girls to be involved in all household chores

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used correctly

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· Teachers guide page 5-6

· A good English dictionary

· Distinguish between common and proper nouns

· Use common and proper nouns correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 7

· Appreciate the importance of writing neatly

· Write neatly and legibly

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· discussion

Sample of good handwriting

· Teachers guide page 8-9

· Listen and talk about possible causes of accidents in the country and how they can be prevented

· Pronounce the sounds /l/ and /r/ correctly

· Newspaper reports on accidents

· Teachers guide page 10-11

· Appreciate the need to develop good silent reading skills

· Read silently without moving the head or pointing at words

· Teachers guide page12

The Sick Man

· Read the passage and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Appreciate the need to shun corruption.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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Anti-corruption posters

· Teachers guide page 13-14

· A good English dictionary

· Recognize abstract nouns

· Recognize concrete nouns

· Form abstract nouns from other word classes.

· Use concrete and abstract nouns in sentences correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 15

· Identify the commonly misspelt words.

· Learn to spell the commonly misspelt words correctly.

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

Sample

· Teachers guide page 17

· Identify and define ogre stories

· Appreciate the lessons we get from ogre stories

· Pronounce the vowel sounds /i/ and /I:/ correctly.

· Teachers guide page 19

· Appreciate the need of developing good oral reading skills.

· Explain the importance of understanding what they read aloud.

· Teachers guide page 20

· A good English Dictionary

Mlafi and Ndele

· Read and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Appreciate the need to show gratitude.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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· Teachers guide page 22-23

· A good English dictionary

· Distinguish between count and non-count nouns.

· Master spelling rules for count nouns.

· Use count and non-count nouns correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 24-25

· Discuss the features of narrative writing.

· Write a narrative.

· Use vocabulary and sentence structures correctly.

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

Sample

· Teachers guide page 26

· Listen and talk about their future careers using correct English

· Pronounce the sounds given correctly.

· Teachers guide page 27

· Use their voices to emphasize important ideas during oral reading.

· Reading audibly to an audience.

· Vary the tone of voice.

· Teachers guide page 27

Relating with Parents

· Read and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Appreciate the need to relate well with parents and guardians.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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· Teachers guide page 29-30

· A good English dictionary

· Use the definite and indefinite articles correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 30-31

· Use commas correctly in writing.

· Writing a composition that is free of grammatical and punctuation errors.

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

Sample

· Teachers guide page 31-32

· Define a riddle

· Describe what happens in a riddling session.

· Participate in riddling session

· Explain the functions of riddles.

· Teachers guide page 33

· Oral literature by OkumbaMiruka

· Appreciate the need to vary reading rate depending on purpose for reading.

· Read in word groups instead of individual words.

· Teachers guide page 34-35

What about this Child?

· Read and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Appreciate and shun the evils of child labour

· Recognize children’s rights.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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· Teachers guide page 36-37

· A good English dictionary

· Distinguish among personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns correctly.

· Use personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns correctly.

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· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 37-39

· Use final punctuation marks correctly.

· Use vocabulary and sentence structures appropriately in writing.

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

Sample

· Teachers guide page 39-40

· Pronounce correctly words with similar pronunciations but different spellings.

· Teachers guide page 41

· Explain why people visit a library

· Explain how reading materials are organized in a library.

· Display appropriate behavior in a library.

· Chalkboard

· Catalogued books

· Teachers guide page 42

Alfred Nobel-A Man of Contrasts

· Read and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Appreciate the need to change the world for the better.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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· Teachers guide page 44

· A good English dictionary

· Learn and use verbs correctly.

· Distinguish between action and stative verbs.

· Use the present simple tense correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 45

· Recognize various types of sentence construction errors

· Write properly constructed sentences.

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 47-48

· Pronounce the sounds /l/, /r/, /t/ and /d/ correctly.

· Identify other sounds they find problematic.

· Teachers guide page 49

· Familiarize themselves with the alphabetic order of words in a dictionary.

· Look up words easily in a dictionary

· Use a dictionary effectively.

· Chalkboard

· Teachers guide page 50

Gender Violence and HIV/Aids

· Read and answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Explain the connection between gender violence and the spread of HIV.

· Appreciate the need to shun detrimental socialization.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

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· Teachers guide page 51

· A good English dictionary

· Distinguish between regular and irregular verbs in the past tense.

· Form the past tense of regular and irregular verbs.

· Use the past tense of regular and irregular verbs correctly.

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page52-54

· Appreciate the need of keeping a diary.

· Make entries in a diary.

· Use different formats of addresses in informal letters.

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

Sample

· Teachers guide page 55-56