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UNIT 3 Checkpoint English
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Year 9:
Recommended Prior Knowledge: Checkpoint English, Year 7. The Senses; Checkpoint English, Year 8, Myself and Others.
Context: The material for Year 9 Checkpoint English engages with the structure of the Checkpoint English test papers. The work also prepares students for
what they may expect during their IGCSE courses in First language English and Literature in English, so that passage between this stage and the next may
be a smooth one. Speaking and listening activities are included. Although speaking and listening is not assessed in Checkpoint, its importance as an
essential part of the curriculum continues to be stressed. Where the word Discuss is used, it is intended that students will work in pairs or small groups and
will report their conclusions to the class. Writing activities are also included as part of reading activities where appropriate.
Begin to make significant Work in groups and prepare and present a (2)
contributions to group discussions newscast of five or six items. You may use Unit 2 Checkpoint English 3 Sue
and help to plan and to give group real news items from newspapers, or TV Hackman Alan Howe, Sue Bonnett,
presentations. news; local or school news items; made-up Hodder Murray ISBN 0340887397
items that are typical of the news usually
read or heard. The newscast may end with
something light hearted (a commonly used
technique). Use on-the-spot reporters,
interviews and expert opinions. When your
newscast is ready, write a summary of the
two or three main points of each story and
then the headlines. See Resources. (2)
Writing to Inform, Explain and Writing to Inform, Explain and Persuade (4) Checklist
Persuade (Paper 1) (Paper 1) Explain that marks are given for:
Explain how to write two well made writing structured paragraphs in
paragraphs on two aspects of a topic (like which ideas are developed and
describing a creature that is dangerous – where one paragraph leads smoothly
para 1 – and explaining how you can keep to the next;
yourself from it – para 2). Writing in a fluent and easy to read
See resources (4) for checklist of points to style;
cover as an introduction to the following Writing with a sense of audience;
activities. Writing with varied sentence
structure;
Using full stops and commas
correctly (with additional credit for
Use the paragraph in Resources (5) to using other types of punctuation);
discuss the use of topic sentences and spelling correctly.
sequence and order within paragraphs. (5) Rewrite this paragraph to get the
sentences in a better order.
I really cannot work properly when I
am suffering with a cold, and today is
no exception. When I woke up this
morning I felt a bit thick in the head,
but I had this essay to do for
tomorrow. All yesterday I was feeling
awful and had a terrible sore throat.
Now it is Monday and my head is
going round in circles, so I had better
stop. I must have picked it up in the
cinema on Saturday because it was
very hot and everyone was coughing
and sneezing. It’s no good trying to
Structure their writing, using Write paragraphs using the topic sentences work when you cannot think straight.
paragraphs and sequencing events, in Resources (6). Even on Friday I didn’t feel quite
details and ideas within paragraphs. right.
Use the paragraphs in Resources (7) to (6) Topic Sentences
Use a range of increasingly complex revise and discuss sentence structure and Copy out topic sentence and add the
sentence structures to communicate style. rest of the paragraph.
meaning and to give fluency to their I am going to describe my favourite
speech and writing. Explain that paragraphs should usually meal to you in such a way that your
develop two or three linked ideas; the mouth will begin to water.
Use full stops, capital letters, sequence should be logical. The If I were able to make some changes
commas and question marks to paragraphs should not be lists. The first to the buildings and grounds of the
make meaning clear, and show paragraph should start with a clear topic school, my priority would be to…
awareness of other forms of sentence and the second paragraph should When the time comes for me to leave
punctuation. start with a sentence that suggests a link home, I think that I shall feel…
with preceding material. (7) Discuss the differences between
paragraph A and B in sentence
structure, style and use of
Remind and discuss the meaning of the punctuation.
terms audience and purpose. A:
Write paragraphs using appropriate I am very fond of my cat. She comes
persuasive language, e.g. You have just bounding into the room whenever I
had a holiday in the place of your dreams. call her. She is very friendly. She sits
Write a paragraph as in a letter to a friend, next to me in the evening. She is
Discuss concepts of audience and persuading her/him to go to the same very gentle. She never attacks me.
purpose in writing. place. She greets me with a quiet miaow
when she comes in in the morning.
Read advertisements and study She seems very intelligent. She has
aspects of their language. Read and discuss the use of language and her own ways of telling me what she
format in ads from an assortment of wants.
Begin to make significant magazines. B:
contributions to group discussions I am very fond of my cat, she is a
and help to plan and to give group In small groups decide on a product to sell. real character and highly intelligent.
presentations. Design an ad for a magazine. Write a The best thing of all is her
formal letter to a large supermarket friendliness. She seems to want to
Begin to develop a sense of manager trying to persuade her/him to be near to me and sits by me in the
audience and engage the readers stock your product. Prepare and make a evening after following me round my
attention tape recording of a radio ad for your garden during the day. In the garden
Write to persuade as a formal letter product. Prepare a short TV ad to perform she is always ready for a game,
and as the script of a commercial. to the class or to video. entertaining me by leaping out at
Feedback all material to class for sticks and lengths of garden twine.
discussion on how successful their Whenever I meet her there and call
attempts were at ‘selling’ their product. her name, she always responds with
Characters (Paper 2) two or three “miaows” and then rolls
Recognise implicit meaning and Characters (Paper 2) over on her back, waiting to be
study character. Read extracts from novels, short stories tickled. I could not have a better cat.
and plays and make notes on the (8) Pages 40-62
appearance and behaviour of the main Reading Between the Lines Fiction
Speak to explain, describe and characters.(8) and Poetry – Sue Bonnett, Letts
comment. Educational, 2001
In small groups describe a favourite ISBN 1840855770
character from a book or a film and explain,
with reference to incidents in the plot, why
they like the character.