Latest form 4 English Schemes of Work

TERM ONE

· Define nouns

· Discuss the functions of nouns correctly

· Use nouns to bring out different functions in sentences

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 5-7

· Define paraphrasing

· Identify the importance of paraphrasing

· Paraphrase a given text correctly, neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 7-8

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

Hot seating

Labels with vague meanings

· Discuss the terms of reference of the scenario presented in the text

· Act out and dramatise the roles of the select committee members formed according to the scenario presented in the text

· Make a list of the labels around them on clothes, cutlery, medicine, phones and bottles

· Distinguish between labels that are straight-forward and the ones that are ambiguous

· Hot seating

· Charts

· Teachers guide page 9-10

· Define satire

· Identify the techniques that help satire to be achieved including juxtaposition, hyperbole, irony and humour

· Identify and explain satire in a given text correctly

· Teachers guide page 10-11

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· Describe some causes of street children

· Appreciate the importance of families

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Acquire and use new vocabulary

· Teachers guide page 11-13

· English dictionary

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· Define interrogative pronouns

· Identify the interrogative pronouns in given sentences

· Use interrogative pronouns correctly in sentences

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 13-15

· Reading

· Writing notes

·  Appreciate the need for paraphrase

· Identify the characteristics of a paraphrase

· Write a paraphrase of a given passage neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 15

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Define word stress correctly

· Place stress on the correct syllables in words

· Teachers guide page 17

· Summarize the  given passage in not more than ninety words

· Summarizing

· Wall charts with short poems

· Teachers guide page 18

Demystifying poetry

Medicinal value of the Lemon

· Appreciate the importance of the lemon

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 19-20

· English dictionary

· Identify relative pronouns

· Use relative pronouns in sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 20-22

· Correctly punctuate titles of full-length publications

· Correctly punctuate titles of parts of publications

· Incorporate short quotations within the text of their work

· Set off long quotations

· discussion

· Sample publications

· Teachers guide page 22-23

Sentence stress

· Identify the stress in homographs depending on how they are used in sentences

· Describe sentence stress

· Identify the stressed words in sentences given correctly

· Pronunciation

· Teachers guide page 24-25

· Appreciate the importance of good health

· Engage in role-play to elaborate on the topics given on health concerns

· Role play

· Teachers guide page  25-26

A Global Village

· Appreciate the effects of transportation and communication technology

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 26-28

· English dictionary

· Define participial phrases

· Identify them in sentences correctly

· Use participial phrases in sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 28-30

· Explain what a recipe is

· Give clear instructions on how to prepare a particular meal

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Sample recipe

· Teachers guide page 30-31

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

· Define an interview

· Describe the important things to be considered when conducting an interview

· Participate in a mock interview

· Role play

· Teachers guide page 32

· Discuss the reasons given in the given text as to why victims of rape do not report such cases

· Take down notes as they discuss

· Discussion

· Teachers guide page 33

Mother Fails to Save Daughter from Rape

· Appreciate the need for protecting girls from rapists

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 33-35

· English dictionary

· Define gerunds

· Identify gerunds in sentences

· Use gerunds correctly in sentences

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 35-37

· Appreciate the need to acquire instructions-writing skills

· Write instructions to friends and relatives correctly

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 37-38

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

-Making oral reports: police statements

· Identify acceptable manners in speech

· Identify the words and expressions that are helpful and socially acceptable in speech

· Describe the features of a good oral report

· Practice making oral reports

· Role play

· Teachers guide page 39-40

· Define stylistic devices

· Define onomatopoeia, repetition, alliteration, irony, sarcasm, personification, and allusion

· Identify the defined stylistic devices in  given texts

· Teachers guide page 40-41

Ntanya

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 41-43

· English dictionary

· Identify relative pronouns

· Use relative pronouns in sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page43-54

· Define letters of inquiry and request

· Write letters of inquiry and request correctly

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 45-46

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

· Identify the words from a list given whose meaning and word class would change depending on stress placement

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· Teachers guide page 47

· Appreciate the significance of interpretative reading as a study skill

· Identify the essential features of interpretive reading

· Apply interpretive reading skills

· Teachers guide page 48-49

Off with the old, on with the new

· Appreciate the value of generosity

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 49-51

· English dictionary

· Identify and discuss the typical endings of adjectives in sentences

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page 51-53

· Appreciate the usefulness of faxes  and e-mail in communication

· State the features of a fax and an e-mail

· Write neatly and legibly

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· discussion

· Teachers guide page 53-54

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussion

· Writing

· Present a brief skit  in class

· Use the appropriate tone to bring out the attitude in the various situations in the skit

· Role play

· Teachers guide page 55-56

· Describe the essential parts of a review

· Write a review correctly

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Teachers guide page 61-62

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

· Reading

· Writing

· Participate effectively in the group discussion based on the passage “Leaving Home.”

· Teachers guide page 63-64

· Define symbolism

· Identify the symbolism used in the passage “The Banister.”

· Teachers guide page 64-65

Using the Internet as an advertising medium

· Appreciate the importance of the internet in people’s lives

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide page 65-67

· English dictionary

· Define adverbs

· Use adverbs in various positions in sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide page67-68

-Study of works of literature: Plot and synopsis

· Write a short summary of one of the literature setbooks

· Give an oral presentation of the summary in the class without making reference to the text or exercise book

· Write a synopsis of one of the literary works being studied

· Oral presentation

· Flash cards

· Teachers guide

· Read the passage entitled “The Benefits of Dancing” and write a summary of about 50 words on the social benefits of attending dances

· Summary writing

· Teachers guide

· Appreciate the dangers of racism

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide

· English dictionary

· Identify the various typical endings of adverbs

· Form adverbs form given words using the typically endings discussed

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide

· Write a good expository composition following the guidelines and the sample given

· discussion

· Teachers guide

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

Questionnaires

· Define a questionnaire

· Write a good question using the guidelines given by the teacher

· Teachers guide

· Read the poem “The Village well loudly in chorus.

· Answer the questions from the poem correctly

· Question and answers

· Teachers guide

· Understanding Poetry

· Appreciate the dangers of addiction to drugs

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Acquire and use new vocabulary

· Teachers guide

· English dictionary

· Define prepositions

· Identify the functions of prepositions in given sentences

· Make sentences with prepositions that serve different functions

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide

· Define creative writing

· Write a good imaginative composition

· Discussion

· Teachers guide

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Identify the signals that indicate that a speaker is claiming a turn during a conversation

· Participate in a conversation effectively and ensuring that turn-taking rules are observed

· Role play

· Teachers guide page 17

· Discuss the characteristics of animal folktales

· Answer the questions from the animal folktale given correctly

· Discussion

· Reading

· Wall charts with short poems

· Oral Literature for Schools

· Appreciate the diverse cultures of the world

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide

· English dictionary

· Define conjunctions

· Identify the functions of conjunctions in sentences

· Use conjunctions in sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide

· Define an autobiography

· Write a good autobiography using the guidelines given by the teacher

· discussion

· Sample publications

· Teachers guide

· Differentiate between formal and informal speech

· Discuss the situations where either could be used

· Write a formal speech of about three paragraphs on a topic of their choice

· Pronunciation

· Speaking

· Teachers guide

· Identify the important aspects of narratives that one should consider

· Outline the stylistic devices characteristic of narratives

· Answer the questions from the narrative “Hare and Elephant” correctly

· Role play

· Teachers guide

· Oral Literature for Schools

The Professional Touts

· Appreciate the dangers of corruption

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide

· English dictionary

· Differentiate between defining and non-defining clauses

· Use inversions with clauses correctly

· Identify the adverb clauses in given sentences correctly

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide

· Define a biography

· Write a brief biography of a good friend of theirs

· Write neatly and legibly

· discussion

· Sample recipe

· Teachers guide page 30-31

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

· Define proverbs correctly

· Outline the functions of proverbs as discussed in the conversation between Nyar Nam, Otieno and Ojuok

· Discuss the characteristics of proverbs

· Give examples of proverbs from their community and translate them into English

· Role play

· Teachers guide page 32

· Oral Literature for Schools

· Discuss the various points of view used in literature, that is, first person, third person and objective points of view

· Discussion

· Teachers guide

Grandfather

· Appreciate the importance of respecting elders

· Answer questions on the passage correctly.

· Infer meaning of the new words used

· Teachers guide

· English dictionary

· Describe the ceremony of ekereero in the passage “Women Call the Shots” in not more than 100 words

· Writing sentences

· Teachers guide

· Define a CV correctly

· Write a good own CV using the guidelines given by the teacher

· discussion

· Teachers guide

A Doll’s House

· Analyze the setting, characters, roles, themes, style and language use in the set text

· Discussing the issues raised

· Outline the various situations one may require to use negotiation skills

· Describe the process of negotiation accurately

· Engage in a mock negotiation on any given topic

· Role play

· Teachers guide

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