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LISTENING SPEAKING READING WRITING
1. Distinguish changes in meaning of sentences caused by stress
e.g. This is your dress.
(It’s yours.)
This is your dress.
(It’s definitely a dress.)
2. Follow a series of directions listened to -
  • labeling diagrams
  • completing a chart

3. Give the main idea of a selection listened to











  1. Note details in selections
listened to-
  • identify the setting, main and secondary characters, climax and ending of the story

  1. Sequence events of a story
listened to through guided questions
1. Increase one’s speaking vocabulary
    1. Relay information accurately using different discourse (statement, questions, commands)
    2. Use the correct intonation
  • Yes-No questions
  • Questions introduced by interrogatives


2. Use courteous expressions on appropriate situations
  • Participate in club meetings
  • Conducting an interview

  1. Ask and answer questions using
pictures/dialogues/comic strips
3.1 Change statements into questions 3.2 Use tag questions
  • negative and positive
e.g. We get food from the forest, don’t we? You don’t buy junk food, do you?

4. Retell a selection listened to –
  • news broadcast
  • fiction stories
    1. Read orally/recite poems cast for a verse choir
    2. Give accurate announcements
  • Give a report based on an interview
1. Decode meaning of unfamiliar words using
  • structural analysis
  • words with affixes
  • prefixes and suffixes
  • the dictionary
  • words with multiple meanings
  • context clues

    1. Learn some common idioms
e.g. stone’s throw
    1. Use figurative language to describe people and events
  • Simile; Metaphor; Hyperbole

2. Follow a series of directions in-
  • experiments
  • prescriptions
  • cooking

3. Tell the big ideas/key concepts implied in each paragraph of the story read- 3.1 Give the details that support the big idea 3.2 State the main idea of a paragraph that is explicit or implied
4. Note significant details
    1. Identify the events of the plot of a story, poem, short plays

5. Sequence the key concepts/big ideas to show wholeness of the story/selection
    1. Use a story grammar to show sequence of episodes in a story

1. Write a composition showing
  • introduction
  • body
  • conclusion






2. Write specific directions on given situations e.g. interpret a diagram/road map
3. Write a model composition - arrange details in orderhome reading reportdiariesminutes of meeting
4. Write a summary of what was read
5. Write from dictation
5.1 Reconstruct a dictated text by taking down important notes

6. Give possible cause/effect to situations/news stories heard





7. Analyze ideas as to what could happen next from stories heard















8. Make inferences
    1. Infer the mood of certain
events through the speaker’s actions/ intentions/utterances






5. Use nouns- - plural of compound nouns, - gerunds 5.1 Use nouns that are plural in form but singular in meaning e.g. news, measles
6. Use a variety of sentences as to structure
  • simple
  • simple subject with compound predicate
  • compound subject and simple predicate
  • simple subject and compound predicate
  • compound predicate and compound subject
  • compound
  • using connectors and and but
  • complex
  • dependent and independent clause

7. Use indefinite pronouns
7.1 Use the verb that agrees with the indefinite pronouns
8. Use verbs 8.1 Use the different verb forms
  • present perfect form
  • active and passive voice
  • expressions about future plans – hope-can; wish, could if were

6. Organize ideas
    1. Make a heading/sub-heading for paragraphs in a selection
    2. Identify the key concept/ sentence that make up the story
    3. Identify the details, heading for an outline
    4. Make a three-point outline of an expository text read

  1. Perceive relationship

    1. Tell the relationship expressed in the selection as to cause and effect
    2. Give other possible causes to a given effect and other effects to a given cause
8. Predict outcomes
8.1 Give other events that could happen next
8.2 Draw pictures of incidents/characters that is possible to happen
8.3 Give possible endings to a selection
9. Infer
  • traits of character
  • the general mood of the selection
  • how the story would turn out if some episodes were changed
- alternative actions taken by characters
  • alternative actions taken by
characters

6. Write reported statements in a story form 6.1 Change statements, questions, requests and commands to reported sentences



7. Write an ending to a given situation






8. Write a model composition
  • write about one’s
feelings/reactions using the correct form of the verb





9. Write an outline of a story read
  • Write a two to three point sentence outline


















9. Evaluate and make judgments
    1. Distinguish advertisement from propaganda


9. Use adjectives 9.1 Use descriptive words and phrases
  • too + adj. + nominal
e.g. too short for
  • adjective + enough
e.g. old enough
  • two-word adjective
e.g. two-story building 9.2 degree of comparison of irregular adjectives 9.3 adjectives in series
10. Use adverbs
  • degrees of comparison of
adverbs
  • words that can function as
adjective /adverb
11. Use direct and indirect discourse
12. Talk about topics of interest
  • use a variety of sentences
  • preposition and prepositional phrases


10. Draw conclusions based on information given 10.1 Evaluate if a conclusion made is justifiable 10.2 Identify sufficient evidences to justify a conclusion/generalization
11. Evaluate ideas/make judgement 11.1 Give opinions about information read 11.2 Determine the purpose of the author 11.3 Identify author’s device to bring out his message
12. Use the library resources effectively 12.1 Use card catalog, atlas, almanac, and other general references 12.2 Get information from newspapers and other references
  • Parts of a newspaper
Information one gets from each part

10. Organize one’s thoughts in writing
  • information
  • description
  • resume



11. Respond in writing based on stimuli and triggers
  • application letter
  • directions
  • ads for work, editorials



12. Fill out forms
  • Information Sheet
  • Community Tax Certificate
  • Bank Notes




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