BUDGET OF WORK IN ENGLISH

LISTENING
BEC/PELC No.

OJECTIVES

Recognize rising and falling intonation in sentences

1.1

Identify the stressed and unstressed syllables

1.2

Recognize pauses and stops in utterances that signal meaning

Follow 3 4 step directions heard

Get information from a conversation listened to

4
5

Note details in a selection listened to:

Identify setting, suspense, climax in the story
Give the main idea of a selection listened to:
Tell what the story/poem/news is about in two or three sentences

Classify related ideas from news/stories heard

Sequence events in the story listened to through groups of sentences/guided questions

Give a report from a news item/radio broadcast heard

Predict the outcomes of stories heard

10

Infer the feelings of characters based on the stress and volume of the voice

11

Give conclusions to situations/news/oral report heard

12

Evaluate ideas and make judgments on oral tests

12.1

Distinguish between fact and opinion

SPEAKING
BEC/PELC No.
1
1.1

OJECTIVES
Use words presented under auditory discrimination in sentences
words with stressed and unstressed syllables
Use the dictionary
to interpret marks for correct accent
select appropriate meaning from several meanings given
to locate words using guide words

1.2

Locate information in a book, magazine, newspaper

Give series of directions using sequence signals e.g. first, then, next, etc.

Use courteous expressions in appropriate situations e.g. telephone conversation

Use the plural form of nouns in sentences

use expressions denoting quantity

Use possessive form of singular nouns

5.1

Use possessive form of plural nouns

Use the different verb forms (regular and irregular)

present form
past
future

6.1

Use the verb that agrees with the subject in number

6.2

Use easily confused verbs

Use a variety of sentences as to structure

declarative
interrogative
imperative
exclamatory

7.1

Construct simple sentences with modifiers and compliments

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OJECTIVES

Use object pronouns (me, him, her, us, them, you)

8.1

Use the object pronoun that agrees in number with its antecedent

Use words that describe persons, places, animals, events (adjectives)

9.1

Use positive, comparative and superlative forms of regular adjectives

10

Use adverbs of place and time

11

Use prepositions and prepositional phrase

12

Talk about topics of interest in 5-6 sentences

READING
BEC/PELC No.
1
1.1
2
3
3.1
3.2

OJECTIVES
Decode words in stories read using phonetic analysis
e.g. /ze/z/ - breeze
/th/ - thank
Read orally stories/poems with correct stress and intonation
Show enjoyment of stories/poems read
Do accurate, slow reading in order to follow common directions in:
prescriptions
medicine labels
simple experiments
Decode meaning of unfamiliar words
through structural analysis
words with affixes and inflection endings
compound words and their components words written as
one word (backyard)
two words (security guard)
hyphenated (sister-in-law)

3.3

use context clues

3.4

use the dictionary to get appropriate meaning to a given word

learn synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

Note significant details that relate to the central theme

4.1

Locate answers to wh- how and why questions that are explicitly stated in the tests

4.2

Demonstrate knowledge of story grammar by being able to identify setting, characters and main events in the story

4.3

Find descriptive words/action words in selection read

Give the main idea of a 2-paragraph text

5.1

Identify the main idea that is implied or explicitly stated

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5.2

OJECTIVES
Evolve a title in topic form for a text based on the main idea or big idea
e.g. Big Idea
Monica is healthy.
Title (in topic form)
Healthy Monica

5.3

Skim the general idea on what the material is about

Organize ideas

6.1

Classify related ideas/concepts under proper heading

6.2

Give a heading or title for texts read without title

6.3

Identify sub-heading for given heading

6.4

Outline a 2-paragraph passage

Sequence events/ideas

7.1

Sequence the major events/ideas in a selection

7.2

Arrange a set of given events in logical order to make a story

e.g. time order, space order, both space and time order

7.4

Outline a story read

7.5

Use the outline as a guide in retelling or summarizing

Perceive relationship

8.1

Identify statements/events that show cause-effect relationship

8.2

Give cause-effect relationship in paragraph/passages read

8.3

Use the word because/so that to identify statements that show cause-effect

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OJECTIVES

Predict outcomes

9.1

Give an appropriate ending to a given situation and give justification for such ending

10

infer

10.1

character traits from a selection read

11

Draw conclusions based on information given

12

Evaluate ideas and make judgments

12.1

Tell whether an action or event is reality or fantasy

12.2

Distinguish between facts or opinion

12.3

Compare and contrast text information with prior knowledge

12.4

Evaluate the likelihood that a story could really happen

12.5

Determine an authors perspective on the central topic

WRITING
BEC/PELC No.
1
2

OJECTIVES
Write the correct spelling of words with stressed and unstressed syllables
e.g. words with silent letters
words ending in ph sounded as f
Write sentences/paragraphs giving simple directions in doing something
e.g. making a project
playing a game

Write from dictation

Write paragraph according to order of time, events and location

Write simple friendly letters observing the correct format

Write a paragraph based on an outline

Write a variety of texts

letters, paragraphs using a variety of sentences
riddles, mottoes, sayings

Write a paragraph/short story from ones experience

Compose riddles, slogans and announcements from given stimuli

e.g. semantic maps, planned activities/programs

10

Write sentences on situations/comic strip presented

11

Write paragraphs from a given stimuli

Descriptive
Narrative
Diaries
Journals

12

Compose riddles, slogans, announcement from given stimuli