GRADE 10 TERM 1



TEACHING PLAN - GRADE 10 ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE: EXEMPLAR

SCHOOL: _______________________________ TEACHER: _________________

GRADE: _________ YEAR: _________________

|GRADE 10 TERM ONE [11 weeks] |

| |LISTENING & SPEAKING |READING AND VIEWING |WRITING & PRESENTING |LANGUAGE STRUCTURES |

| |[1 hour] |[4 hours] |[3 hours] |[1 hour] |

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| |Task 1 |Task 2 |Task 3 |Task 4 |

| |Listening for Comprehension |Writing [50] |Writing [25] |Controlled Test [35] |

| |[15] |Essay |Transactional |Test one: Language in context (35) |

| |[Weeks 6-7] |Narrative / Descriptive / Argumentative |[Weeks 8 and 9] |Comprehension/ summary and language |

| | |[Weeks 1, 2 and 3] | |[Weeks 9-10] |

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|GRADE 10 TERM TWO [11 weeks] |

| |LISTENING & SPEAKING |READING AND VIEWING |WRITING & PRESENTING |LANGUAGE STRUCTURES |

| |[1 hour] |[4 hours] |[3 hours] |[1 hour] |

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|Formal Assessment Tasks |

| |Task 5 |Task 6 |Task 7 |

| |Oral: |Literature: [35] |Mid-year examinations: [250] |

| |Unprepared Speech [15] |Contextual Questions [10] |Paper 1: Language in context [70] |

| |[to be completed by weeks 17 and 18] |Literary Essay [25] |Paper 2: Literature [80] |

| | |[weeks 17 and 18] |Paper 3: Writing [100] To be written one month before the formal exams |

|GRADE 10 TERM THREE (11 weeks) |

| |LISTENING & SPEAKING |READING AND VIEWING |WRITING & PRESENTING |LANGUAGE STRUCTURES |

| |[1 hour] |[4 hours] |[3 hours] |[1 hour] |

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| |Task 8 |Task 10 |Task 9 |

| |Oral |Oral |Controlled Test [35] |

| |Prepared Speech [10] |Prepared Speech [10] |Test two - Literature: |

| |[Ongoing from Term 2 and completed in |[Ongoing from Term 2 and completed in |Contextual [10] |

| |week 30] |week 30] |Essay [25] |

| | | |[Weeks 31 to 33] |

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|GRADE 10 TERM FOUR (9 weeks) |

| |LISTENING & SPEAKING |READING AND VIEWING |WRITING & PRESENTING |LANGUAGE STRUCTURES |

| |[1 hour] |[4 hours] |[3 hours] |[1 hour] |

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|Formal Assessment Tasks |

| |Task 11 |

| |End-of-year examinations |

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| |Paper 1: Language in context [70] |

| |Paper 2: Literature [80] |

| |Paper 3: Writing [100] – to be written one month before the formal examinations |

| |Paper 4: Orals [50] |

COMPREHENSION SKILLS

1. Skimming and scanning text: titles, headings, sub-headings.

2. Predicting using given information.

3. Understanding the purpose of introductions, conclusions and topic sentences.

4. Using word-attack skills, surrounding textual context cues to work out meaning of unfamiliar words.

5. Reading for main ideas.

6. Determining meaning by using word choice and language structure, word roots, word families, prefixes and suffixes.

7. Comparing, contrasting, synthesizing.

8. Writer’s approach: serious, formal, ironic, sarcastic.

9. Direct and implied meaning.

10. Denotation and connotation.

11. Socio-political and cultural background of texts where relevant.

12. Knowing how words from other languages, street slang and ethnic terms affect meaning.

13. The effect of selections and omissions / ellipsis on meaning.

14. The effect of emotive and manipulative language.

15. The ability of language and images to reflect and shape values and attitudes.

16. Discerning language that reinforces stereotypes, and language which is racist and sexist.

17. The effect of figurative language and rhetorical devices.

18. Recognising how multiple meanings (polysemes), common allusions, idiomatic language affect meaning.

19. Understanding cause and effect in text, explicit and implied.

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