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COURSE OF STUDY
ENGLISH LANGUAGE FORM 1
NAME:________________________________
CLASS:__________________
TOPIC
STATUS
KNOWS
1.
2.
3.
READING:
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Skim and scan for details
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Identify main ideas & supporting details
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Make predictions, giving reasons
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Understand the meaning of words using contextual clues
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Locate information in various texts
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Follow sequence of ideas / events / directions
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Read and draw conclusions
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Note important details
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Interpret linear and non-linear texts
 Identify cause and effect
SPEAKING:
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Introduce and talk about self, family and others
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Welcome and invite friends to a function
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Accept and decline invitations
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Apologize for mistakes
Compliment others
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Initiate a discussion
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Talk on various topics
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Recount an experience / incident
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Seek clarification
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Talk about one’s feelings and preferences
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Express concern & sympathy
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Respond to questions politely, giving the required
information
Make inquiries
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Relate personal experiences
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Deliver speeches
 Retell a story in own words
WRITING
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Write simple rules (for school, games, clubs)
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Write a simple account of experiences
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Make an electronic greeting card
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Write a paragraph on food habits
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Write a paragraph on teenagers’ lifestyles
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Prepare a menu
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Write a paragraph on road safety
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Fill in an order form
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Write a diary entry about a holiday
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Write a postcard
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Write a paragraph on television
HAS NOT
MASTERED
HAS
MASTERED
4.
5.
6.
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Write an announcement
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Write instructions on saving the environment
 Write a recipe for happiness
ESSAYS:
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Write informal letters
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Write e-mails
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Write a story on moral values
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Write an account of an event / incident
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Write a description
 Write a factual essay
COMPONENTS OF A GOOD ESSAY:
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Use different types of introductions
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Give appropriate content points
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Write clear thesis sentences
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Write clear topic sentences (TS)
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Provide elaboration and examples to support TS
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Conclude essays well
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Use the correct format
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Use interesting and appropriate words/phrases
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Use a variety of sentences
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Use idioms, proverbs, quotations
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Use appropriate connectors to link points
 Use description and dialogues effectively in stories
LITERATURE
Poems:
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Recite the poem with feeling and expression
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Relate poem to real life
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Identify themes and moral values
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Give meaning of words and phrases in the poems
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Answer comprehension questions
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Give opinions and suggestions
Novel 1:

Identify the themes and provide evidence
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Identify moral values/message and provide evidence
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Describe events and give appropriate evidence
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Describe characters and provide evidence
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Describe setting
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Act out / mime out sections of the novel
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Describe how events/values in the text are similar to one’s
life
Novel 2:

Identify the themes and provide evidence

Identify moral values/message and provide evidence

Describe events and give appropriate evidence

Describe characters and provide evidence

Describe setting

Act out / mime out sections of the novel
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7.
Describe how events/values in the text are similar to one’s
life
GRAMMAR
Building Sentences:
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Simple Sentences
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Compound Sentences
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Complex Sentences
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Active and Passive Sentences
Tenses:
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Present Tense –instructions, habitual actions /
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Past tense
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Future tense – will, going to
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Present Continuous Tense
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Past Continuous Tense
Verbs:
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Regular and irregular verbs
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Negative verbs
Adjectives:
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Possessive adjectives
Adverbs:
 Adverbs of Manner
Pronouns:
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Possessive Pronouns
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Demonstrative Pronouns
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Personal Pronouns
Nouns:
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Countable and uncountable nouns
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Collective Nouns
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Abstract Nouns
Prepositions:
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Prepositions of Time – at, before, by, after, on
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Prepositions of Direction
 Prepositions of Place
Conditional clauses – if
Conjunctions: and, but, or
Sentence Connectors & Sequence Connectors
Articles: the, zero article
Determiners:
Subject verb Agreement – verb ‘to be’ and have
Modals: must, should, should not, must not
Yes / No Questions
Question Words – what, whom. why, when, where, who, whose,
which
Comparatives and superlatives
8.
9.
10.
11.
VOCABULARY
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Homophones
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Homographs
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Prefixes – un, dis, im, in, tele
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Suffixes – er, or, ess
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Phrasal verbs
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Idioms and proverbs
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Similes
WORD BANK:
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Words to describe family relationships
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Words to describe a person’s qualities
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Words to describe food categories
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Words to describe food and exercise
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Words related to road traffic/road safety
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Words related to school / school life
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Words related to things that people use
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Words related to places
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Words related to ideas and qualities
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Words related to ways of communication
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Words related to the environment
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Words that show quantity
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Words related to people and buildings
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Building big words from small words
PUNCTUATION:
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Comma
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Apostrophe
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Exclamation Mark
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Question Mark
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Capital Letters
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Full stop
FORM ONE TOPICS:
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Family Circle
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Circle of Friends
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Live Smart
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Better Safe Than Sorry
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School Days
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Making Choices
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Proud To Be Malaysian
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It’s A Small World after All
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Keep It Green, Keep It Clean
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My Brother’s Keeper
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We Did It
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Our Changing World