ENGLISH LANGUAGE PANEL

YEARLY PLAN 2016

FORM FOUR NEW SCHEME OF WORK

New Literature Texts ( since 12 January 2015) :

1.
Poem
:
A Poison Tree ( A Poetry Collection Selected by Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom)
2.
Short Story :
Leaving No Footprint (Retold by Clare West)
3.
Short Story :
Changing their Skies ( Retold by Jennifer Bassett)
4.
Drama
:
Five Short Plays (Martyn Ford)

Week & Date

Unit/Theme

Level

Language for Interpersonal Use

Sound
System

Educational
Emphases

Chapter One

Week 1
4-8 Jan

Week 3
18-22 Jan

Grammar

Class Administration

JANUARY

Week 2
11-15 Jan

Language for Informational Use

Chapter One
Theme :
People
Knowing you
Knowing me
Chapter Two
Theme:
Environment
Saving Every
Drop

1,2,3

1,2,3.

Writing and talking about wedding customs

and rituals.
Comparing and contrasting between two
weddings.
Completing a mind map.
Problem solving and decision making.

Writing a composition.
(Descriptive Essay compare
weddings)

Language
forms and
functions.

Newspaper report.

Recalling past experiences on water shortage.

Keeping a journal.
Giving opinions on water conservation.
Learning the format of a formal letter.
Completing a letter of complaint.
Responding to a letter of complaint.

Vowel
sounds.
Diphthongs.

Writing a letter of complaint.

Interviewing people and writing a
survey report.

Language
forms and
functions.

Consonant
sounds.

Thinking
Skills.
Multiple
intelligences.

Week 4
25-29 Jan

Week 5
1-5 Feb
Week 6
8-12 Feb
CNY
Week 7
15-19 Feb

Week 8
22-26 Feb
Week 9
29 Feb 4 Mar

Chapter Three
Theme :
Social Issues
Reaching out

Chapter Four
Theme:
Health
Checking up on
health

Sharing and recording past experiences.

Role playing to place and order for a wheel
chair.

Reading about peoples experiences. Sharing

feelings
Discussing organ donation.
Planning a visit to an organization.

Sentence
stress and
intonation.

Knowledge
acquisition.
ICT
Multiple
intelligences

Argumentative Writing.
Journal Writing.
Reading for details, making inferences,
moving beyond the text.
Skimming and scanning to identify
fact or opinion.

The Present
Perfect Tense.
Simple past
tense.

Stress on four
syllable
words.

Thinking
skills.
ICT.
Knowledge
acquisition.

Homophones

Thinking
skills.
Preparation
for the real
world.

Language for Aesthetic Use

Reading poem aloud.

Literal & Figurative meaning.
Poetic devices : Rhyme, Personification, Theme, Setting, Metaphor & Simile.
Matching meanings to expressions used in poem
Picking out the idea from each stanza

UJIAN SETARA 1

Week 11
14-18 Mar

Week 13
28 Mac 1 Apr

Simple Past
Tense.
Modals, should
and need.

POEM :A Poison Tree ( A Poetry Collection Selected by Pie Corbett and Valerie Bloom)

Week 10
7-11 Mar

Week 12
21-25 Mar

Writing an argumentative essay.

Writing a letter of appreciation.
Writing a report.
Giving a talk on Alzheimers Disease.

CUTI PERTENGAHAN PENGGAL 1

Chapter Five
Theme :
Values
Deciding on
dams
Short Story
Changing their
Skies ( Retold by

Sharing information on dams.

Problem solving and decision making.
Discussing consequences of land
clearing.

Descriptive Essay
Writing an article.
Writing a summary.
Summarising short passages.
Presenting a speech.

Language for Aesthetic Use

Completing sequence of events.

Reading and listing characteristics of characters
Find evidence from short story how feelings and mood are created.

Gerunds.
Gerunds after
prepositions.
Infinitives.

Week 14
4-8 Apr

Week 15
11-15 Apr
Week 16
18-22 Apr

Week 17
25-29 Apr
Week 18
2-6 May

Chapter Six
Theme:
Science and
technology
Going High Tech
Chapter Seven
Theme :
People
Looking up
Lifestyles
Chapter Eight
Theme:
Environment
Caring for the
Environment
Short Story
Leaving No
Footprint
(Retold by Clare
West)

Week 19-21
9-13 May
16-20 May
23-27 May

Week 22-23
30 May-3 Jun
6-10 Jun
Week 24

Jennifer Bassett)

Picking out similes or metaphors.

Point of view.
Determining the themes and moral values from excerpts.

Sharing experiences about Internet

shopping.
Reading short texts and transferring
information into chart.
Discussing ways to solve a problem.

Process and Procedures

Writing a report.
Simulating shopping over the internet.
Interviewing people about their jobs.
Writing a report.
Presenting a report in class.

Passive
construction.
Logical
connectors.
Sequence
connectors.

Consonant
clusters.

Preparation
for the real
world.
Thinking
skills.
Multiple
intelligences.

Sharing experiences on eating foreign

food.
Completing a conversation.
Making enquiries, placing an order and
giving feedback.

Finding the origin of foods.

Reading for details, making inferences.
Writing an essay.
Writing a summary.

Subject-verb
agreement
Adjectives and
nouns.

Words from
foreign
languages.

Thinking
skills
ICT
Knowledge
acquisition.

Sharing experiences on environmental

damage.
Exchanging ideas and opinions about
the environment
Having discussion based on short texts.

Reading short texts and scanning for

information.
Listening to a form and exchanging.
Making prediction.

Verb and
preposition
combinations.
Adjective and
preposition
combinations.

Homographs

Knowledge
acquisition
ICT
Thinking
skills.

Language for Aesthetic Use

Reading and listing characteristics of characters.

Find evidence from short story how feelings and mood are created.
Identifying similes and metaphors in short story.
Determining the themes and moral values from excerpts.

PEPERIKSAAN PERTENGAHAN TAHUN/ BINCANG JAWAPAN

CUTI PERTENGAHAN TAHUN

Chapter Ten

Sharing experiences on problems

Relating experiences and completing a table

Listening to problems and jotting down

key points.

Punctuationcolon, hyphen,

Consonant
sounds

Thinking
skills

13-17 Jun
Week 25
20-24 Jun
Week 26
27 Jun- 1 Jul

Theme:
Science and
technology

Making decisions and coming to a consensus.

Agreeing or disagreeing with a speaker.
Suggesting ways to solve a problem
Giving advise to teenagers.

Listening to true or false statements.

Reading an article on depression.
Interviewing a school counselor
Writing a short report.

brackets.
Present perfect
Simple past
tense.

Sharing experiences
Completing a table
Writing a letter of complaint.
Role playing buying a product

Listening and completing short passages.

Writing a summary
Predicting the cause and effect of actions
and decisions.
Writing a descriptive composition.

Prepositions of
direction
Prepositions of
purpose

Consonant
sounds

Knowledge
acquisition
ICT
Future studies

Completing a table on meals.

Role playing

Listening to a conversation and

completing an exercise.
Discussing a meal plan.
Search for information on health topics
Reading for details, making inferences.

Preposition of
time.
Preposition of
association.

Consonant
sounds

Future studies
Thinking
skills.

Talking about patriotism.

Agreeing or disagreeing with opinions.
Initiating and keeping a discussion going.

Listening to short texts and answering true

or false statements.
Finding words with the same meaning.
Writing a descriptive essay
Writing a summary

The past perfect

tense
Adverbs of
degree

Sentence
stress in
statements
and
questions

Knowledge
acquisition
ICT
Multiple
intelligences

Sharing information on wetlands.

Discussing activities in a wetland
Initiating and continuing a discussion on
wetland activities
Discussing aspects of a brochure and making
decisions

Listening and completing a chart.

Finding words with the same meaning
Drawing a food web
Writing a summary

Conjunctions
either, neither
nor
- although,
however

Contraction

Knowledge
acquisition
Multiple
intelligence
ICT

Week 27
4-8 Jul

HARI RAYA PUASA

Week 28
11-15 Jul

UJIAN SETARA 2

Week 29
18-22 Jul

POEM
A Poison Tree

Week 30
25-29 Jul

Chapter Eleven
Theme:
Health
Healthy Living

Week 31
1-5 Aug
Week 32
8-12 Aug
Week 33
15-19 Aug

Week 34
22-26 Aug
Week 35
29 Aug-2 Sept
Week 36
5-10 Sept

Chapter Twelve
Theme:
Values
Loving Our
Country

Language for Aesthetic Use

Literal & Figurative meaning.

Picking out the idea from each stanza

Poetic devices: Rhyme, Personification, Theme, Setting, Metaphor & Simile.

Chapter Thirteen
Theme :
Environment
Preserving Nature

Drama
Five Short Plays
( Martyn Ford)

ICT
Multiple
intelligences

Language for Aesthetic Use

Completing sequence of events.

Reading and listing characteristics of characters.
Point of view.
Determining the themes and moral values from excerpts.

Week 37
12-18 Sept
Week 38
19-23 Sept

Cuti Pertengahan Semester 2

Chapter Fourteen
Theme : People
Promoting our
crafts

Sharing ideas about crafts

Sharing experiences about our arts or crafts
Reading short excerpts to give opinion
Brainstorming and making decision
Initiating and keeping a discussion going

Reading for details, making inferences

Listening and completing a graphic
organizer.
Writing a paragraph on experiences
shared

Week 39
26-30 Sept
Week 40
4-7 Oct
Week 41
10-14 Oct
Week 42
17-21 Oct
Week 43
24-28 Oct

Revision

Peperiksaan Akhir Tahun 2016

Discuss exam papers

Week 44
31 Oct- 4 Nov

Introduce Form 5 Syllabus (Novel)

Week 45
7-11 Nov

Introduce Form 5 Syllabus ( Poem)

Week 46
14-18 Nov

Introduce SPM Paper1and 2 format

Week 47
20-25 Nov

Form 5 syllabus

Types of
sentences:
Simple
sentence,
Complex
sentence

The
diphthong
sound

Thinking
skills
Knowledge
Acquisition