KWCA High School

Syllabus in English 10
Learning outcomes
1. Determine the effect of
textual aids like advance
organizers, titles, non-linear
illustrations, etc. on the
understanding of a text
2. Get information that can be
used in everyday life from
news reports, speeches,
informative talks, panel
discussions, etc.
3. Determine how connected
events contribute to the
totality of a material viewed
4. Differentiate formal from
informal definitions of words

Subject Matter

Strategies

Freytags Pyramid

Modelling

Preparing for Public

Speaking Situations

Presentation
-PracticeProduce
(PPP)
Method

Freytags pyramid
Pattern

5. Explain how the elements

specific to a selection build its
theme
6. Express appreciation for
sensory images used

Elements of a story

PPP Method

Sensory Images

Multimedia
approach

7. Identify features of
persuasive texts

Writing a Formal Essay

Formal
Theme
Writing

8. Identify the factors of public

speaking

Preparing for Public

Speaking Situations

9. Use reflexive and intensive

pronouns

Reflexive and Intensive

Pronouns

12. Formulate a statement of

opinion or assertion

13. Describe the techniques in

effective public speaking

p. 3

p. 8

1
Lecture

11. Describe and interpret the

ethics of public speaking

Page
no.
p. 8

Modelling

Connotation and
Denotation

10. Determine the implicit and

explicit signals, verbal, as
well as non-verbal, used by
the speaker to highlight
significant points

No. of
Days
1

p. 8

p. 18

p. 12

p. 3

p. 19

Lecture

Lecture
p. 32

Direct and Indirect

signals of a Speaker

Demonstrati
on

p. 14
Ethics of Public
Speaking

Writing a Paragraph
Stating an Opinion

2
Critical
Language
Approach
(CLA)
Film Viewing

p. 30

2
p.23

Strategies in Public
Speaking

Lecture

14. Single out direct and indirect

signals used by a speaker

Direct and Indirect

signals of a Speaker
Literary: Telephone
Conversation by Wole
Soyinka

15. Express insights based on the

ideas presented in the
material viewed

Responding to a
newspaper editorial

16. Employ the techniques in

public speaking in a sample
public speaking situation

Strategies in Public
Speaking

17. Explain the literary devices

used
18. Determine tone, mood,
technique, and purpose of the
author
19. Point out the effectiveness of
the devices used by the
speaker to attract and hold
the attention of the listener
20. Using words and expressions
that emphasize a point
21. Compare new insights with
previous learnings
22. Determine the roles of
discourse markers (e.g.
conjunctions, gambits,
adverbs) in signaling the
functions of statements made
23. Formulate a statement of
opinion or assertion
24. Compose a persuasive text of
three paragraphs expressing
ones stand on an issue
25. Use Modals
26. Make generalizations
27. Draw generalizations and
conclusions based on the
materials viewed
28. Show appreciation for songs,
poems, and other listening
texts
29. Examine how spoken
communication may be
repaired or enhanced
30. Evaluate literature as a way
of expressing and resolving
ones personal conflicts
31. Compose short persuasive

p. 32
p. 33
Role-playing

p. 41

Literary Devices
Literary Techniques
Mood and Technique
Mood and Technique
Using Effective
Language

Critical
Language
Approach

Simulation

Multimedia
Approach

p. 23

p. 27
p. 35
p. 51
p. 51
p. 93

Demonstrati
on

2
p. 40

Phrasal Verbs

2
Lecture
p. 6365

Literary Criticism

3
CLA
p. 70

Giving opinions on
current issues and
events
Writing a Persuasive
Speech

2
CLA

p. 98
2

Lecture
p. 65
2

More on Modals

Critical
Language
Approach

Literary Criticism

CLA

Intrapersonal
Communication

Simulation

Literary Criticism

CLA

p. 6365

p. 59

p. 6365

texts using a variety of

persuasive techniques and
devices

2
Writing a Persuasive
Speech

Formal
Theme
Writing

p. 98