In the second 50-hour unit, it is assumed that the following objectives will be addressed.
New Objectives for Unit II
- give prepared talks on familiar topics
- conduct an informal interview
- retell a narrative
- other
Possible Objectives from Unit I for Review and Reinforcement
- practise the behaviours of effective speakers
- recognize and use oral presentation elements effectively
- organize information, thoughts, and opinions in an appropriate form
- participate in small and large group discussions, observing the courtesies of group discussion
- express own response to a story, poem, play, event or experience
- other
Oracy: Listening
New Objectives for Unit II
- recognize speaker's overall plan of organization including transitional expressions
- analyze the overall effectiveness of group discussions, interviews, oral readings, and talks
- other
Possible Objectives from Unit I for Review and Reinforcement
- recognize listening as an active process that requires listeners to anticipate a message, set a purpose, attend, seek and check understanding by making connections, and making and confirming predictions and inferences
- summarize and make notes from a presentation
- distinguish between fact and opinion
- other
Language Study Concepts
(list key language concepts for this unit)
Literacy: Writing
New Objectives for Unit II
- write and document a concise factual report
- write a paraphrase and summary of a speech heard or a passage read
- write an effective descriptive passage
- other
Possible Objectives from Unit I for Review and Reinforcement
- use the writing process
- use appropriate pre-writing and planning strategies
- develop ideas previously explored into draft form
- revise compositions
- practise the behaviours of effective writers
- develop effective paragraphs in narrative, expository, descriptive, and persuasive prose
- organize ideas in multi-paragraph compositions
- experiment with a variety of forms of writing such as poem, play, anecdote, and short story
- other
Literacy: Reading
New Objectives for Unit II
- make and defend an informed critical response
- recognize common allusions and discuss their significance in context
- differentiate between literal and figurative statements and between the denotative and connotative
- recognize stylistic devices and techniques such as characterization, foreshadowing, flashback, simile, metaphor, hyperbole
- other
Possible Objectives from Unit I for Review and Reinforcement
- recognize that reading is an active process which requires readers to make connections, find meaning, make and confirm predictions, make and confirm inferences, and reflect and evaluate
- practise the behaviours of effective, strategic readers
- distinguish the characteristic differences among prose (fiction and nonfiction), poetry, and plays
- respond personally, critically, and creatively
- read a wide range of material for personal enjoyment and extension of experience
- identify and assess ideas and values again ideas and techniques in various oral, literary and media texts
- summarize information read
- other
