English First Additional Language
Gr
8
Year Planner 2010
ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
Prose
• Hound of the Baskervilles
• Stage Door – “All aboard”
• Short Stories:
“Landlady”
“My Lady Love, My Dove”
“Solution”
Poetry
•
“The new boy”
•
“Timothy Winters”
•
“Snake” (p. 107)
•
“The man who finds his son has become a thief”
•
“My dad’s amazing!”
•
“Steam shovel”
FILM STUDY:
“Madagascar Escape 2 Africa”
LANGUAGE
• Tenses (Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect)
• Negatives, questions, question-tags
• Active- and passive voice
• Reported speech
• Parts of speech
• Gender, plural and diminutive
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Homonyms and homophones
• Number and concord
• Proverbs and idioms
• Conditionals
• Spelling
• Summary
• Visual literacy
• Prefixes and suffixes
• Root words
• Punctuation
• Dictionary Usage
• Sentence structures
• Degrees of comparison
COMPREHENSION
• Multiple choice
• True/False + Quote
• Own words
• Fact and opinion + motivation
AURAL
Listening Tests
ORAL
• Prepared speaking
• Unprepared speaking / Conversation
• Reading
• Role-play
WRITING
• Narrative essay
• Paragraph
• Friendly letter
• Dialogue
• Diary entries
RESEARCH PROJECT
Investigation/Survey
9
Year Planner 2010
ENGLISH FIRST ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE
LITERATURE
Prose
• Stage Door – “All aboard” & “Hijack”
• Short Stories:
“Lamb to the slaughter”
“Man from the south”
“The wrong category”
Poetry
•
“O Captain! My Captain!”
•
“The Eagle”
•
“Adventures of Isabel”
•
“Praise of a Collie”
•
“Newspapers” p. 143
FILM STUDY:
To be announced
LANGUAGE
• Tenses (Indefinite, Continuous, Perfect)
• Negatives, questions, question-tags
• Active- and passive voice
• Reported speech
• Parts of speech
• Gender, plural and diminutive
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Homonyms and homophones
• Number and concord
• Proverbs and idioms
• Conditionals
• Spelling
• Summary
• Visual literacy
• Prefixes and suffixes