FORM 1 KBSM ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK

2011

TERM 1: 3 JAN - 27 MAY 2011

WEEKS

THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use

1
2-3

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

ACTIVITIES

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES

ORIENTATION
People

Family
Circle

Introduce self, family

and others
Talk about self and
family
Write description
about self and family
members.

Listen to a taped
message on nuclear
and extended
families.
Note important
details

Read a folk tale

about family
Read a poem
Act out sections
of a text
Read an exerpt
from a story.

Write simple rules

Write a simple
account of
experience

Identify main ideas

Give sequence
of events.
Talk about
values in the text.
Talk about a
character in a
story.

Recount what
happens during a
festival.
Write a simple letter
describing a family
member

Draw conclusions

Compose simple
dialogues.
Introduction to
poem.
*The River
Compose simple
poems

Grammar
Simple Present
tense for:
Habitual actions
Adjectives
Punctuation:
Capital letters
Commas
Full stops
Question marks
Exclamation marks

Sound System:
s/s/ and sh/
Dictation

Vocabulary:
Family relationships
Dictionary skills
Building a work bank

Introducing self and

others.
Makeup descriptions
Talk about daily
actions.
Punctuation
Describing people
Writing about daily
activities.
Describing family
celebration.
Write a letter to friend
Write a simple
account of
experience
Describing a character
Sequence sentences
Blank filling
Building a word bank

Thinking Skills
Analyze
information.
Make decisions
Learning How
to Learn Skills
Obtain
information from
the dictionary
newspaper,
encyclopedia.
ICT Skills
Use the internet
Values:
Affection
Preparation for
the Real World:
Be aware of the
intercultural
differences

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THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
People
1
Talkl about self and
Listen to a book
Read a story on
classmates
review.
hospitality
Find out about your Note important
Read a poem on
classmates
details
friendship
Welcome and invite
Read an exerpt of
friends to a function
a story
and to one's house
Act out a section
Circle of
Accept and decline
of a text
Friends
invitations
Apologize for
mistakes
Complement others
2
Find more details in Tell how events
simple text
and values in the
text are similar to
one's life.
Make simple
3
Send an electronic
predictions
card
Make a greeting card
Introduction to
Write a letter
short story:
describing a friend
Flipping Fantastic
Health

2
Live
Smart

Talk about lifestyles of

teenagers
Respond to
questions politely by
giving information

Ask and respond to

questions

Listen to a talk on
healthy living
Tell what the text is
about Note
important details
Scan for details
Prepare a menu
Read and
understand food
label
Write a paragraph on
food habits

Read a story on
sharing and caring
Talk about where
the story took
place
Give sequence of
in the text
Change text to
pictures
Understand
figurative language

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar:
Questions words:
what, whom
Adjectives
Personal Pronouns:
I, we. You, she, he,
it they
Sound system:
b / b/ and p /p/

ACTIVITIES

Talk about yourself

Learn to invite
Respond to invitation
Apologize and
complement friends
Write a letter
Create own greeting
card.
Collect and discuss
quotations
Vocabulary:
Read exerpt from a
Words to describe a short story
person's qualities
Read poem
Building word bank WH Questions
on describing words Describing people
Prefixes: un-, dis-,
Write paragraph
im-, inBlank filling
Multiple choice
questions
Write a letter
describing a friend

Grammar:
Modals : must,
should not, must not
Yes / No questions

Discuss on healthy
lifestyle.
Write on health issue
Answer WH Questions
Understand food label
Listen to a talk
Sound system:
Make a scrapbook on
d /d/ and t /t/
healthy living
Open ended questions
Vocabulary:
Write a letter to friend
Food categories
Blank filling
Building a word bank Sequence sentences
on food and exercise Write a paragraph on

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
ICT Skills
Send electronic
cards
Values
Hospitality
Multiple
intelligence
Make cards
Make a book of
quotations
Knowledge
Acquisition
Find quotations
and proverbs

Knowledge
Acquisition
Findout ways of
cooking
Multiple
intelligence
on healthy living
Preparation for
the Real World:
Consumer
education

WEEKS

Write a letter about a Write a paragraph on

hobby
teenagers' lifestyle

food habits or
teenagers' lifestyle

THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

ACTIVITIES

Grammar:
Question word:
what
Simple Past Tense:
Regular verbs
Spelling rules
Time and place
expressions
Modals: must, should

Exchange information
Give advice on road
safety
Read news report
Comment on pie chart
Write stories
Answer questions
based on table.
Listen to a talk
Open-ended questions
Blank Filling
Complete a mind map
Answer wh-questions
Write a recount of an
accident
Note expansion essay

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES

USBF 1

10 ,11,12 Social
Issues

Ask and respond

politely to question
on accidents
Give advice to drivers
and passengers

Listen to a talk on
road safety
Follow sequence of
ideas
Read news report
Scan for details
Listen to details

Read a story of an
accident victim

Ask and respond to

questions for
clarification

Read a pie chart

Write a paragraph on
road safety and
preventing accidents

Match main ideas

with paragraphs
Talk about the
setting in a story

Sound system:
f /f/ and w /w/
Vocabulary:
Words related to
road traffic
Words webs on the
road safety

Better
Safe
than
Sorry

13, 14,15 Social

Issues

School
days

Recount an accident Draw conclusions

Identify cause and
effects

Introduction to
poem:
Mr. Nobody

Talk about school

and class activities
Ask questions to get
information on extracurricular activities

Listen to a talk about

about school thirty
years ago
Note important
details

Read an excerpt
from a story on
school of the future
Read a poem about
school.
Act out sections
of the text

Identify main points

Identify main ideas

Write an
anouncement

Understand how a
poet describes a
scene.
Tell how events in
the text are similar
to one;s life

Grammar:
Listen to a talk
Prepositions of time: aRead a story
by, after, on
Give opinions
Adverbs of manner Complete table
Talk about time
Sound system:
Blank filling based on
k /k/ and g /g/
timetable and dialogue
Write a reply letter to
Vocabulary:
friend
Words related to
Open-ended questions
school
Answer WH questions
Suffixes: -er,
Write paragraphs
-or , -ess
Write about school
rules

Values:
Consideration for
others.
Moderation
Multiple
Intelligences:
Understand
tables and pie
chart
Knowledge
acquisition:
Use personal
observation as
a source of
information
Preparation
for the Real
World:
Understand
bumper stickers
Thinking Skills
Identify true and
false statements
Make
associations
Knowledge
acquisition
Set up an
exhibition on
schools
Values
Self discipline
Cooperation
Multiple

3 Write a letter about

Write paragraphs
Understand
Read poem
school
with main ideas and figurative language Building a word bank
Write rules for games supporting details
on school life
and clubs
Set up an exhibition
WEEKS THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION
LANGUAGE
ACTIVITIES
CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
CONTENT
16,17,18 Values
1
Talk about
Listen to a talk on
Read an excerpt
Grammar:
Ask for information
advertisement
advertising.
from a story about Countable nouns
Write announcement
Ask for the price of
Note important
brand-conciousness Spelling rules
Write letters
products
details
Uncountable nouns Listen to a talk
Articles
Punctuation
Read advertisement
2
Make enquiries about Tell what the text is
Talk about values Questions words:
to enquiries.
products
Scan for certain
in the text
what, when, why,
Read short story
Making
Recount a shopping details.
Change text to
where, who.
Blank filling
Choices
experience
Identify supporting
dialogue
Sound system:
Answer wh-questions
Fill in an order form details.
Describe a characte s /s/ , z /z/ and es / iz/ Matching information
Dictation
Fill in an order form
3
Write a letter about a Draw conclusions
Write a letter about a
present
Understand
Vocabulary:
present
advertisements
Words related to
Short story:
things
Flipping Fantastic Building a word bank
on the things that
people use.

19-20

MID YEAR EXAM

Intelligences
Kinaesthetic

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Preparation for
the Real World:
Learn to cope
with
advertisements
Become
sensitive to
different cultures
Become aware
of consumer
issues

TERM 2: 13 JUN - 18 NOV 2011 (22 WEEKS)

WEEKS THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION
CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
24-25 Values
1
Talk about Malaysian Listen to a story
Read a poem
life.
about a good citizen. about a soldier's
Respond
Follow sequence of death.
Proud to
appropriately to
ideas.
be
questions.
Read a text on royal
Malaysian
symbols
2
Deal with unfamiliar Literature:
words.
Flipping Fantastic
Talk about
Malaysian flag

26-27

Science
&
Technology

Its a
Small
World
After All

Sound system
m/m/,n/n/ and ng
l/l/,ee/l:/.e/e/
Vocabulary
Words related to
places.
Collective nouns
Building a word bank
on collective nouns
Listen to a telephone Read two poems
Grammar
conversation.
on inventions
Possessive
Note important
pronouns:
details.
Talk about
mine,yours,his,hers,
Listen and follow
characters in the
ours
directions
poem.
The and zero article
Read encyclopedia Tell how events
Punctuation
extracts
in the poem are
apostrophes
Scan for details
similar to one's life Prefix:tele
Identify supporting
details
Understand
Understand notefigurative language Dictation
taking
in the poem
Identify cause and
Vocabulary
effect
Introduction to
Abstract nouns
Write a paragraph
graphic novel:
Words related to
on television
Black Beauty
ideas or qualities
Write a description
Building a word bank
on the role of
on ways of

Write a letter about

Draw conclusions
plans for a visit.
Write a diary entry
about a holiday home
Write a postcard

Talk about ways of

communication
Give the required
information

Write an email
message giving
directions to one's
home

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Article for the unique
things.
Comparatives
and superlatives
Prepositions of
place and direction.
Simple future tense:
will be going to

ACTIVITIES
Talk about Malaysia
Write about Malaysia
Listen to a talk about
good citizen.
Read an article on
Malaysian's royal
symbols.
Write a letter.
Write a diary entry.
Write a postcard
Create folder on
recycling.
Read a poem.

Talk about various

communication
devices.
Write a description
about electronics
gadgets
Listen to telephone
conversation
Read information
in encyclopedias
Write a paragraph
about modern gadget
Read a poem
Miming and acting

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking skills
Make decisions
Compare and
contrast

Learning How to
Learn Skills
Prepare a folder on
recycling
Values
Good citizenship
Loyalty

Thinking skills
Make inferences
or conclusions
Make decisions
Learning How to
Learn Skills
Prepare posters
on modern
inventions
Multiple
Intelligences
Kinesthetic

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33-35

gadgets in daily life

THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION
CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
Environment
Make simple rules
Read a story on
1
Talk about recreation Listen to an account courage and
parks
of a nature holiday
compassion
Keep It,
Give a simple
Note important
Green,
account of
details
Make a simple
Keep It,
preferences
Read announcement prediction
Clean
Follow directions
Scan for details
Talk about values
2
Write and present
in the text
plans
Change text to
Identify supporting
picture
3
Discuss ways to
details
solve air pollution
Read a diagram on Act out how to
Make a simple
acid rain
save a dugong
predictions
Write anouncement
Write instructions on for a competition
saving the
Draw conclusions
environment
Predict outcome
Black Beauty
Recount an incident
USBF 2
Values
1
Ask and respond
Talk about raising
Read a story on
questions
funds
love and
My
Listen to a talk on
compassion
Brother's
becoming a volunteer
Keeper
Follow sequence
of ideas
Read a news report
Understand the
meaning of words
using contextual
Talk about
clues
characters Talk
Scan for details
about values in the
Read a chart
text Talk about the
writer's message
2
Discuss how to raise Rearrange sentence
money
to form a paragraph
Seek clarification
Write anouncement *Black Beauty
3

Write a story about

communication
LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Negative verbs
Conditional clauses:
If
Simple past tense
Irregular verbs
Punctuation
Sound system
th,
Dictation
Vocabulary
Smaller word in big
words
Words related to
environment
Homophones
Building a word bank
Grammar
Some,each,will
*to show request
*to affirm

Sound system
ch.j
Vocabulary
Homographs
Building a word bank
on words that show
quantity

ACTIVITIES

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills
Express views on
Making inferences
recreation parks.
or conclusions
Read an
Compare and
announcement
contrast
Understand a diagram Make decision
Draw action plan
Learning How to
Find about
Learn Skills
environmental
Prepare folders on
organizations
saving earth
Write instructions on
saving the
Values
environment
Courage
Compassion
Multiple
Intelligences
Kinesthetic
Talk about ways of
raising funds
Listen to a talk
Read news report
and charts
Write a paragraph
Make a scrapbook
Write a story about
caring families

Thinking skills
Make decisions
Solve problems

Values
Compassion
Knowledge
Acquisition
Make a scrapbook
on contribution
of science and
technology
to the disabled
and the sick

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caring families
THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION
CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
Values
1
Talk about setting
Listen to a talk by
Read poem
records
an achiever
about confidence
Talk about
Note important
Recite lines to
achievements
details
notice rhyme
Read an introduction Retell the story
about Lat
of the poem
We Did
Scan for details
Act out scenes
It
Follow sequence
in the poem
of ideas
Find meanings of
unfamiliar words
2
Identify main ideas
Black Beauty
3
Discuss what
Identify supporting
records Form 1
details
students set
Write a paragraph
on a national symbol
Write an account
of a national event
Write a story on
patriotism

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Demostrative
pronouns: this,these
that,those
Phrasal verbs
Present Continuous
Tense
Possessive adjective
my,your,his,her,our
Sound system
l/l/,v/v/,aa and a
Dictation
Vocabulary
Words related to
people
Words related to
building

ACTIVITIES
Talk about kinds
of records
Read about early
life of a cartoonist
Find out about
famous Malaysian
Write descriptions
of a national symbol
and an event
Read a poem
Retell the poem
Role play the poem
Write an account
of a national event
Write a story on
patriotism

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills
Give opinions
Values
patriotism
Citizenship
Multiple
Inteligence
Kinesthetic

Knowledge
Acquisition
Prepare a folder
on Malaysian
heroes

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THEME/ LEVEL LANGUAGE OUTCOMES/ CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

CHAPTER
Interpersonal Use
Informational Use Aesthetic Use
Science
1
Talk about changing Listen to a radio
Read a poem
&
world
broadcast
about change
Technology
Follow sequence
Find out the
of ideas
meaning of words
Read extracts
from an interview
Our
Scan for details
Changing
Write instructions
World
on how to use an
ATM
2

Discuss what you

would do if you were
in charge of the
country

Understand the
meaning of words
using contextual
clues
Identify main ideas
Complete a chart

Tell how values

in the poem are
similar to one's
life

Write the ending of

a story
Write a recipe of
happiness

Compose simple
lines
Convey the poet's
message in
own words

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Irregular plurals
WHQ
Conjunctions:
and,but,or
Tenses and time
expressions
Sound system
h/h/ and y/j/
Dictation

Talk about changes

Read about changes
Write about changes
Write a story
Write an instructions
and a recipe
Read poem
Write the ending of
a story
Write a recipe of
happiness

Vocabulary
Building big words
from small words
Similes
Building a word
bank on similes

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REVISION

42 -43

YEAR END EXAMINATIONS

Prepared by: _____________________

Puan Harjinder Kaur

ACTIVITIES

Checked by:

Learning How to
Learn Skills
Prepare a class
folder on the world
of the future
ICT Skills
Listen to a
broadcast
Preparation for
the Real World
Learn how to use
the ATM

Verified by:
Puan Julaila Bt Yahya
Head of English Department

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills
Make decision