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ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES READING 1 Reading for Students should be 1. Reading 1. Explains the need 1. Preview the 1. Passages Students to: maximum retention able to: strategies e.g. for, and value of a reading 2. Magazines and 1. preview and recall 1. preview passages. preview, question, flexible reading materials by newspaper cuttings passages correctly. 2. read carefully a recite, recall, and strategy, which reading the main 3. Recommended 2. correctly read a given passage. review. allows for ideas which and supplementary given passages 2. Reading from previewing, intensive have been text books passages. or concentrated developed or reading, repeated amplified. reading and active 2. Read the recall of information. given passage 2. Shows students how to apply some reading strategies adopted for use in schools. WRITING Students should be 1. Story or passage 1. Presents story or 1. Read the 1. Model essays Students to: Writing to highlight able to: highlighting main passage to students. story or passage 2. Story books 1. read given main and supporting 1. read through a and supporting 2. Exemplifies provided. 3. Passages materials ideas topic; ideas outlines using the 2. Identify the 4. Feature articles accurately; 2. jot down main and story or passage outline of story on contemporary 2. jot down supporting ideas as 3. Leads the students on passage issues appropriately main they occur to identify main and 3. Write down 5. Textbook and and supporting supporting ideas the main and course books on ideas. supporting idea other subject areas 1  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be 1. A diagram 1. Identifies and 1. Listen to the Picture chart Students to: SPEAKING able to: showing the mouth produces materials teacher and 2. Recorded 1. describe the General 1. identify and list which comprises for the correct imitate the materials e.g. audio process of speech Introduction to organs of speech the tongue, teeth pronunciation of production of and video tapes production. speech production. and lips (speech sounds. sounds. 3. Newspapers, 2. identify and 2. describe the organs). 2. Emphasizes the 2. Practice the magazine, cuttings. list organs of process of speech 2. Words, phrases, correct articulating articulation of speech production. sentences should movements of the the sounds production. 3. listen to and form the content speech organs in the emphasized by 3. identify produce different for highlighting pronunciation of the teacher. correctly and sounds (vowels and sounds. specific sounds. produce selected consonants). consonants and vowels sounds. Grammatical Students should be 1. Different 1. Leads the 1. Listen 1. Various passages Students to: Accuracy Nouns able to: passages students to define attentively to the 2. Course book 1. define nouns 1. define nouns. highlighting nouns nouns. teacher. 3. Pictures and correctly. 2. identify the features 2. Sentences 2. Explains the 2. Read materials drawings. 2. identifying the of nouns. highlighting nouns features of nouns given by the features of nouns 2. state the use of 3. Guides students teacher. 3. make articles with nouns. to make sentences 3. Define nouns sentences with with nouns using 4. Identify and nouns using articles. give the features articles. of nouns 4. Make sentences with nouns. 2  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES 1 LITERATURE Students should be 1. Literature as a 1. Explains literature 1. Listen to the 1. Course book. Students to: Introduction to able to: concept. to the students. teacher 2. Story books on 1. define literature I 1. define literature. 2. Types of oral 2. Leads students to definition and folktales, myths and literature. 2. identify features of literature. give examples of the explanation of legends. 2. identify literature. types of oral literature. 3. Other relevant literature and its 3. identify features of literature..2. Explain oral resources. two major oral literature. literature and categories of oral it’s categories. and written. 3. narrate some folktales or songs as examples of oral literature. READING 2 Reading for Students should be 1. Reading from 1. Selects 1. Read the 1. Passages Students to: maximum retention able to: passages for appropriate passages passage. 2. Selections from 1. correctly read and recall 1. read passages. maximum recall on: and materials. 2. Recall other subject areas. given passages. 2. recall salient points - diet and nutrition, 2. Asks students to mentally or 3. Recommended 2. recall correctly in a given passage. including addition read selected record notes on text/supplementary salient points in 3. review the passage. of nutrients, like passages and the salient points readers. passages given vitamin A in sugar materials in class. or main ideas. 3. review and iodine in salt. 3. Explains the 3. Reread the passages. meaning of reading given passage for maximum recall. and the relevant questions for maximum retention and recall. 3  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES WRITING Students should be A story or passage. 1. Presents story or 1. Read the story 1. Model essays Students to: Writing to highlight able to: 1. Arrangement of passage. or passage 2. Story books 1. read given main and 1. read through a topic ideas in logical 2. Leads students to provided. 3. Passages materials supporting ideas in 2. arrange the ideas in sequence with re-arrange all the 2. Arrange ideas 4. Feature articles on accurately. paragraphs a logical sequence. introduction and ideas in a logical in a logical contemporary 2. arrange forming paragraphs. conclusion. sequence. sequence issues. correctly the 3. write appropriate 3. Leads students to forming 5. Textbooks, course ideas in logical introduction and identify appropriate paragraphs. books on other sequence. effective conclusion. introduction and 3. Write subject areas. 3. write correctly conclusion for appropriate appropriate selected topics. introduction and introduction and conclusion on conclusion. selected passages based on the outline. 4  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Vowels and 1. Reads materials 1. Listen to the 1. Story books Students to: SPEAKING able to: consonant sounds. on topics under teacher’s 2. Magazines and 1. re-tell the Production of 1. re-tell what they 2. Listening to content column. reading of newspaper cuttings stories/speeches vowel and have listened to; speeches based on 2. Leads discussion selected on relevant topics. they have consonant sounds 2. explain key words the following on selected topic materials. 3. Course book listened to. in passages and expressions on -The family under content. 2. Discuss the 2. explain some what they have -The school 3. Develops and selected topics keywords and listened to: - Places of worship organizes students with the expressions. -Consumer, market for play-lets on teacher. and society. selected topics. 3. Participate in -Transportation play lets on -epidemics, e.g. selected topics HIV? AIDS, malaria, polio, tetanus, etc. GRAMMATICAL Students should be 1. Different 1. Explains the 1. Listen 1. Various passages Students to: ACCURACY able to: passages different types of attentively to 2. Course book 1. list the types NOUNS 1. list to the types of highlighting nouns nouns e.g. proper, the teacher. 3. Pictures and of nouns. nouns. 2. Sentences high- common, concrete, 2. Read drawings 2. explain 2. explain types of lighting nouns etc. materials given correctly the nouns with examples 2. Guides students to by teacher. types of nouns. 3. make sentences identify such nouns 3. Explain types 3. generate with nouns from given passages of nouns with appropriate and sentences. examples: sentences using 3. Leads students to 4. Make nouns. make sentences with sentences with nouns types of nouns. 5  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES Introduction to Students should be 1. Literature pieces 1. Explains literature 1. Listen to the 1. Course book Students to: Literature 2 able to: 2. Categories of to the students. teacher’s 2. Short story 1. identify 1. identify features of written literature. 2. Leads students to explanation on books from features of written literature. 3. The ways give examples of literature. different places in written 2. explain literature as literature reflects types of written 2. Explain the country and literature. a carrier of language different aspects of literature. written literature outside. 2. discuss and culture. culture. 3. Leads students to and its 3. Recorded literature as a distinguish the basic categories. audio/video tapes carrier of devices of literary 3. Identify the of tales, story language and composition. various ways sessions, drama and culture. literature poetry readings. 3. re-tell some reflects the short stories moral values of narrated in the society. books or novels. 3 READING Reading for main Students should be 1. Identifying main 1. Selects a passage 1. Read and re- 1. Selected Students to: ideas able to: ideas in a given relating to auto- read the passage from the 1. identify 1. identify main ideas passage-a passage mobiles (road safety) passage. subject area on accurately main from given passages relating to auto- 2. Guides students to 2. Work in pairs automobiles ideas. 2. differentiate mobiles. read and re-read the or groups to 2. Pictorial aids. 2. differentiate between main and 2. Positioning of passage. identify main 3. Course book between main supporting ideas from main ideas in given 3. Guides students to ideas. and supporting a given passage passage; beginning, identify main ideas 3. Write main ideas. middle or end ideas in exercise books 6  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES WRITING Students should be 1. Types of 1. Guides students to 1. Identify Selected topic Students to: Composition able to: composition identify the different different types stories, passages, 1. identify Writing 1. identify the various - narrative types of composition of course books, correctly various types of composition - descriptive in groups or as a composition supplementary types of writing - argumentative whole class. writing. readers composition. 2. list the elements of - expository 2. Leads students to 2. List the 2. list the composition 2. Elements of list the elements of elements of elements of composition: composition. composition composition - Introduction 3. Gives notes to - body, students on the - conclusion and various types of stages of writing composition LISTENING AND 1. answer questions Listening to 1. Reads materials on 1. Listen to 1. Story books Students to: SPEAKING on what they have speeches based on topics under context teacher’s 2. Magazines and 1. answer Speeches: listened to. the following: column. reading of newspaper cuttings questions on Production of 2. summarize what - safety on the roads 2. Presents recorded selected on relevant topics. what they have vowel and they have listened to. - corruption materials for more materials. 3. Other resources listened to. consonant sounds - tribalism discussion. 2. Listen to e.g. recorded tapes 2. summarize in passages - drug abuse 3. organizes debates recorded radio broadcast, etc. stories/passages - child labour and for the students. materials and presentations. trafficking ask questions. 3. Participate in debates 7  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES GRAMMATICAL Students should be Passages and 1. Reads passage 1. Listen 1. Passages Students to: ACCURACY able to: sentences highlight and sentences to attentively to 2. Course book 1. identify noun Noun Phrases 1. identify the features noun phrases students the teacher. 3. Pictures and phrases in given of noun phrases in a 2. Leads them to 2. Read drawings sentences or given sentences or identify noun materials passages passage phrases in the provided by the 2. generate 2. make sentences passage teacher appropriate with noun phrase 3. Guides students to 3. Make sentences using make sentences sentences with noun phrases. using noun phrases. non phrases in their exercise books LITERATURE Students should be 1. African and non 1. Tells folktales to 1. Listen to and 1. Story books on Students to: Introduction to able to: African tales. students. retell folktales folktales 1. identify folktales I 1. identify features of 2. Features and 2. Leads students to 2. Explain 2. supplementary correctly features folktales themes retell stories folktales readers of folktale 2. retell folktales 3. Leads students to 3. Identify the 3. recorded folktales 2. retell folktale 3. explain the themes identify the features features and 4. narrative folktale 3. explain the of folktales and theme of themes of themes of folktales folktales folktales 8  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES 4 READING Reading for main Students should be 1. Main ideas from 1. Selects 1. Pay attention 1. Magazines and Students to: ideas able to: selected passages appropriate passages and practice with newspaper 1. extract main 1. extract the main.e.g prose, poems and materials. examples given. cuttings. ideas accurately. ideas from given that may vary in 2. Guides students to 2. Read selected 2. Recommended 2. differentiate passages. theme, scope and read and re-read the passages and texts between main 2. differentiate content. passage. materials 3. Supplementary and supporting between main and 2. Differentiating 3. Guides students to provided. readers. ideas. supporting ideas form between main and identify main ideas. 3. Practice main 4. Other resources a passage supporting ideas in 4. Explains the idea identification a given passage relative positions of from the text main ideas sentences 4. Practice and in passages ask questions. WRITING Students should be 1. Arrangement of 1. Guides students to 1. Re-arrange 1. Passages Students to: Guided able to: ideas in logical re-arrange ideas ideas they 2. course books 1. generate main composition 1. jot down main and sequence. generated in logical generated in 3. supplementary and supporting Writing – Telling a supporting ideas. 2. Development of sequence. logical sequence. readers ideas story 2. arrange ideas outline to full. 2. Leads students to 2. Produce and 2. arrange ideas generated in logical produce a first draft; review the draft: in logical sequence. introduction, body, introduction, sequence. 3. write a short conclusion. body and 3. write a narrative essay conclusion narrative essay. 3. Write a composition. 9  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS AND GUIDE LEARNING RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be Sentences, 1. Identifies and 1. Listen to the 1. Recorded Students to: SPEAKING able to: paragraphs, passages, produces materials teacher and materials e.g. 1. identify Vowel sounds 1. identify long and plays, poems should for the correct imitate the audio and video correctly, long (long and short short vowels in given form the content for pronunciations of production of the tapes. and short vowels vowels) sentences. highlighting the sound the target sounds in sounds in 2. Newspaper/ in sentences. 2. listen to and involved. context. context. magazines. 2. produce produce different 2. long and short 2. Emphasizes the 2. Practice the 3. Supplementary different speeches with vowels e.g. sleep/slip, correct articulatory articulation of readers. speeches with reference to long and port/pot, leave/live, moments in the the sounds reference to long short vowel sounds. these/this, sport/spot, pronunciations of emphasized by and short vowel cord/cod, forks/fox the sounds the teacher in sounds. context. GRAMMATICAL Students should be 1. Sentences, 1. Selects suitable 1. Mention the 1. Family tree Students to ACCURACY able to: paragraphs, passages paragraphs and different kinds diagram 1. mention words Vocabulary 1. mention words should form the passages of people in the 2. Supplementary associated with Development (The associated with the content 2. Uses a family family text. family life. Family) family 2. Family relations diagram to explain 2. Explain in 3. Course book. 2. write correctly 2. write effectively uncle, nephew, sister- the difficult their own words 4. Pictures of about activities about activities in-law, niece, relations such as the meaning of a objects in the connected with connected with family ancestor, fiancée cousin, nephew, particular home. family life. life. - Things in the home: and aunt. relationship. wares, hearth, pantry, 3. Leads students to 3. Works on a -Activities within the write about some passage related family: courtship, family activities in to family in the marriage, divorce, etc. the home. class. 10  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LITERATURE Students should be 1. African and Non- 1. Leads students to 1. Identify the 1. Story books on Students to: Introduction to able to: African tales. identify the moral features of folktales 1. identify moral folktales 2 1. identify the moral 2. Didactic lessons. lessons in tales. folktales 2. Supplementary lessons learnt lessons to be learnt 3. Entertainment 2. Leads students to 2. Dramatize the readers 2. narrate from folktales. 4. Magical features dramatize the folktales 3. Recorded folktales 2. narrate folktales folktales 3. Narrate folktales folktales Narrate folktales 5 READING Reading for Students should be 1. Identifying main 1. Selects a passage 1. Read and re- 1. Selected Students to: supporting ideas able to: and supporting relating to road read the passage passages on road 1. identify 1. identify supporting ideas in a given safety. 2. Work in pairs safety accurately ideas in selected passage 2. Guides students to or groups to 2. course book supporting ideas passages 2. Differentiating read and re-read the identify 3. Recommended from passages 2. identify key words between main and passage. supporting ideas texts. 2. identify and expressions that supporting ideas in 3. Guides students to in assigned 4. Selection from correctly key signal details a given passage identify supporting paragraphs. other subject words and ideas in the passage 3. Write areas. expressions that supporting ideas signal details. in exercise books 11  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES WRITING Students should be 1. Narrative 1. Stresses the 1. Listen 1. Passages Students to: Continuous Writing able to: composition – a few importance of the attentively to 2. Supplementary 1. express (Narrative) 1. express themselves paragraphs on correct usage of what is being readers themselves concisely and memorable events, punctuation, simple taught. 3. Stories accurately accurately through a incidents and past sentences, etc. 2. Write two or through a few few paragraphs of experiences e.g. My 2. Guides students three paragraphs paragraphs. narrative composition first Day at School. to develop which should be 2. write correct, 2. write punctuated 2. Well punctuated paragraphs and link connected. well punctuated sentences for a sentences, tenses them together. sentences for a narrative composition mostly in the past. narrative composition LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Sentences, 1. Identifies and 1. Listen to the 1. Recorded Students to: SPEAKING able to: paragraphs, produces materials teacher and materials.e.g. audio 1. identify Speeches 1. identify consonant passages, plays for correct imitate the and video tapes. correctly (consonant sounds) sounds in given should form the pronunciation of production of the 2. Newspaper/ consonant sounds sentences and content for high- the target sounds in sounds in magazines. occurring in passages lighting the sounds context. context. 3. Supplementary given materials. 2. listen to and involved. 2. Emphasizes the 2. Practice the readers containing 2. produce produce different 2. Consonants e.g. correct articulator articulation of passages on: different speeches with Back/pack, movements in the the sounds The family speeches with reference to pull/fool, Goat/toad, pronunciation of emphasized by The school, places reference to consonants road/load, the sounds. the teacher in of worship, etc. consonant things/tins, context sounds. thought/taught, then/den, fox/box, voice/boys 12  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES GRAMMATICAL Students should be 1. Different 1. Leads students to 1. Listen 1 Various passages Students to: ACCURACY able to: passages define pronoun attentively to 2. course book 1. define pronoun Pronouns 1. define pronoun highlighting the 2. Explains the the teacher. 3. recommended 2. identify the 2. identify the features pronoun. features of pronouns 2. Read text features of of pronouns 2. Sentences high- 3. Guides students to materials pronouns 3. make sentences lighting pronouns make sentences with provided by the 3. make with pronouns pronouns. teacher. sentences with 3. define pronouns. pronouns 4. identify pronouns in sentences 5. Make sentences with pronouns. LITERATURE Students should be 1. African and Non- 1. Narrates 1. Retell myths/ 1. Supplementary Students to: Introduction to able to: African tales myths/legends to legends. books 1. identify two myths and legends 1. identify the features comprising myths students 2. Explain 2. Story books on features of of myths and legends and legends. 2. Leads students to myths and myths and legends. myths/legends 2. explain the themes 2. Features/themes retell myths/legends legends. 3. Course book 2. explain the of myths and legends of myths and 3. Guides students to 3. Identify the 4. Other relevant themes of myths 3. retell myths and legends explain the themes themes and resources and legends. legends - magic and features of some features of 3. retell myths - supernatural myths and legends. myths and and legends. - superstition legends 13  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES 6 READING Reading for Students should be 1. Identifying main 1. Selects a passage 1. Read and re- 1. Selected Students to: supporting ideas able to: and supporting ideas to be read in class. read the passage. passages from 1. identify 1, identify in a given passage. 2 guides students to 2. Work in pairs course book. accurately supporting ideas in 2. Differentiating read and re-read the or groups to 2. Selection from supporting ideas selected passages. between main and passage. identify other subject areas. from passages 2. identify key supporting ideas in a 3. Guides students to supporting ideas 2. identify words and given passage. identify supporting in assigned correctly key expressions that ides in the passage. paragraphs. words that signal signal details 3. Write details. supporting ideas in exercise books. WRITING Students should be 1. Narrative 1. Exemplifies 1. Listen 1. Passages Students to: Continuous Writing able to: composition – a few outlines using a story attentively to 2. Supplementary 1. read given (Narrative) 1. jot down main paragraphs on or passage. what is being readers. material. and supporting ideas memorable events, 2. Guides students to taught. 3. Stories 2. jot down ideas as they occur. incidents and develop paragraphs 2. Jot down main as they occur. 2. arrange the ideas experiences.e.g A and link them and supporting 3. arrange ideas in a logical day I will never together. ideas. in logical sequence. forget. 3. Arrange ideas sequence 3. write punctuated 2. Well punctuated in logical 4. write a sentences for a sentences, tenses sequence narrative narrative mostly in the past. forming a composition. composition. narrative. 14  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Listening to 1. Identifies and 1. Listen to and 1. Recommended Students to SPEAKING able to: sentences or short produces materials imitate the text. 1. identify The vowel 1. identify vowel passages where the for correct production of the 2. Course book. correctly the sounds/i/ and /i/ /i/ and /i/ vowels are pronunciation of sounds. 3. Prepared drills. vowels /i:/, /i/. 2. produce the vowels highlighted. the vowels. 2. Practice the involving charts and 2. produce the correctly. 2. Long and short 2. Emphasizes the articulation of cards. vowels correctly. 3. differentiate vowel sounds e.g. correct articulator the sounds. 3. differentiate between the vowels seat/sit, pool/pull, movements in the between the long knowing that /i:/ is a fool/full, sleep/slip pronunciation of vowel and short long vowel and /i/ is a the sounds. vowel. short vowel sound. GRAMMATICAL Students should be 1. Sentences 1. Leads the 1. Listen 1. Passages Students to: ACCURACY able to: highlighting verbs students to define attentively to the 2. Recommended 1, define verb Verbs 1. define verbs 2. short passages verbs teacher. text 2. identify 2. identify verbs in highlighting verbs 2. Explains the 2. Read materials 3. Pictures and correctly, verbs sentences and features of verbs. provided by the drawings. in sentences and passages 3. Guides students teacher 4. Sentence strips passages 3. make sentences to make sentences 3. Identifying 3. make with verbs with verbs and give the sentences with features of verbs. verbs. 4. make sentences with verbs 15  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LITERATURE Students should be 1. African and Non- 1. Narrates myths 1. Retell myths 1. Supplementary Students to: Myths and Legends able to: African tales and legends to and legends. books. 1. retell and 1. identify the moral comprising myths students 2. Identify the 2. Story books on explain the lesson to be learnt and legends 2. Leads students to themes and myths and legends themes of from myths and 2. Features/themes retell myths and features. 3. Recommended myths/legends legends of myths and legends 3. Identify moral short stories 2. identify moral 2. narrate any myths legends. 3. Guides students lessons. 4. course book lesson learnt and legends - magic to identify their 4. Narrate myths 5. other relevant 3. narrate any - superstition moral lessons. and legends resources myths and - supernatural 4. Guides them to legends in their narrate some myths communities and legends 7 READING Reading to answer Students should be 1. Reading and 1. Selects suitable 1. Read selected 1. Recommended Students to: specific questions able to: answering specific contemporary materials on text. 1. read selected 1. read selected questions that passages. contemporary 2. Supplementary passages. passages address questions on 2. Draws suitable issues. readers. 2. answer 2. answer specific issues highlighting comprehension 2. Respond to 3. Selections from specific questions. - knowledge level questions from teachers’ other subject areas. questions drawn - translation level selected passages. questions on 4. Newspapers and from the - interpretation 3. Questions drawn passages read. magazines. passages. level. should cover all 3. Answer levels of questions on all comprehension e.g. levels of where, when, how, comprehension. when. 16  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES WRITING Students should be 1. A few 1. Discuss the 1. Listen 1. Selected topics: Students to: Continuous Writing able to; paragraphs on the language devices attentively to the 2. passages\ 1. express them (Descriptive) 1. express themselves description of most appropriate for teacher. 3. Supplementary accurately accurately through some objects in the descriptive essays. 2. Produce a readers. through descriptive types of house, the school, 2. Guides students draft: 4. feature articles. descriptive type composition. the streets, etc. to develop introduction, of essay. 2. write punctuated 2. A few paragraphs on body and 2. write well sentences on a paragraphs on descriptive essays. conclusion. punctuated descriptive description of 3. Stresses the use of 3. Review the sentences on a composition people e.g. My well punctuated draft given descriptive Best Friend. sentences in the past 4. Write a essay topic. or present. descriptive essay on topic given LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Listening to 1. Produces 1. Listen to and 1. Recommended Students to: SPEAKING able to : sentences or short materials for correct imitate the text. 1. identify the Spoken English 1. identify the vowel passages where the pronunciation of the production of the 2. Course book vowel /e/ The vowel /e/ /e/ vowel can be vowel. sound. 3. prepared drills correctly. 2. produce the vowel found. 2. Emphasizes the 2. Practice the involving charts and 2. produce the correctly 2 Note: /e/ is correct articulatory articulation of cards vowel correctly. represented in movements in the the sound different forms = pronunciation of the 3. Repeat after e, ea, a, ai ue, ie as sound. the teacher in: pen, read, any, during drills said, friend 17  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES GRAMMATICAL Students should be Regular verbs 1. Explains the 1. Listens 1. Recommended Students to: ACCURACY able to: form their past different ways attentively to the text 1. give examples Verbs 1. list some verbs participle forms by verbs form their teacher. 2. Passages of verbs. 2. give the past and adding-ed to the past participle 2. Mention 3. Course book 2. supply the past past participle forms simple form, while forms. examples of verbs 4. Sentences strips and past of verbs irregular verbs 2. Guides students 3. Read materials participle form of 3. make sentences have different to give the past and provided by the verbs. using different forms ways of forming past participle form teacher 3. make of verbs theirs e.g. of regular and sentences using call – called – irregular verbs. forms of verbs. called eat – ate – eaten LITERATURE Students should be 1. The storyline 1. Reads story from 1. Listen to the 1. Recommended Students to: Introduction to able to: from the chapters. the text to the teacher attentively literature text 1. read chapters recommended 1. read chapters from 2. Illustrations or students. 2. Read the 2. Picture charts correctly. literature text the text. examples from 2. Listen while selected chapters 3. Dictionary 2. summaries 2. summaries the other sources, as students read. 3. Ask questions chapters chapters read. well as similar 3. Makes where necessary. 3. identify moral 3. identify moral incidents corrections and 4. jot down moral lessons from lessons from the happening around gives explanations lessons as reading chapters. chapter. us. where necessary. is going on. 18  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES 8 READING Reading to answer Students should be Reading and 1. Selects suitable 1. Read selected 1. Recommended Students to specific questions able to: answering specific contemporary materials on text. 1. read selected 1. read selected questions that passages. contemporary 2. Supplementary passages. passages. address questions 2. Draws suitable issues. readers. 2. answer 2. answer specific highlighting comprehension 2. Respond to 3. selections from specific questions - knowledge level question from teacher’s other subject areas questions drawn - Translation level selected passages questions on 4. Newspapers and from the -interpretation level 3. Questions drawn passages read. magazines passages. should cover all 3. Answer levels of questions on all comprehension e.g. levels of where, when, how, comprehension. why, what. Students should be Letter Writing: 1. Guides students to 1. Identify types 1. Sample letters Students to WRITING able to: Types identify types of of letters. 2. newspaper 1. identify types Letter Writing 1. identify the types 1. Formal letters 2. Discuss types Magazines of letters. of letters 2. Informal 2 Leads students to of letters cuttings 2. explain types f 2. explain types of discuss and explain 3. Textbooks. letters. letters types of letters 19  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Listening to 1. Produces 1. Listen to and 1. Recommended Students to: SPEAKING able to: sentences or short materials for imitate the text. 1. identify the Spoken English 1. identify the vowel passages where the correct production of the 2. Course book. vowel /e/. The vowel /e/ /e/. vowel can be found. pronunciations of sound. 3. Prepared drills. 2. produce the 2. produce the vowel 2. /e/ is a short the vowel 2. Practice the using charts and vowel correctly. correctly. vowel. /e/ mostly 2. Emphasizes the articulation of the cards. 3. give words 3. list words where uses the letter a as correct sounds. where the vowel the vowel can be in tap, cap, trap but articulatory 3. Repeat after the can be found. found. it is represented as movements in the teacher during ai in words like pronunciation of drills. plait, plaid. the sounds. GRAMMATICAL Students should be 1. Main verbs are 1. Guides student 1. Listen 1. Recommended Students to: ACCURACY able to: verbs that stand on to define main and attentively to the text 1. define main More on Verbs 1. define main and their own. The main auxiliary verb teacher. 2. Passages and auxiliary auxiliary verbs. verb is the 2. Leads students 2. Read materials 3. Supplementary verbs 2. identify main and prominent verb that to identify main provided by the readers 2. identify main auxiliary verbs really tells us what and auxiliary teacher. 4. Sentence strips and auxiliary 3. make sentences a noun or pronoun verbs from given 3. Identify main verbs with main and does in a sentence sentence and auxiliary 3. make auxiliary verbs 2. Auxiliary verbs verbs from sentences with can only help a sentences. main and main verb to form a 4. Work on auxiliary verbs sentence exercise given by the teacher 20  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LITERATURE Students should be 1. The storyline 1. Read story from 1. Listen to the 1. Recommended Students to Recommended able to: from the text. the text. teacher literature text. 1. read chapters Literature text 1. read chapters from 2. Illustrations or 2. Listen while attentively 2. Picture charts correctly. the text examples drawn students read 2. Read the 3. Dictionary. 2. summarise 2. summarise the from other sources 3. Make selected chapters chapters into chapters read. with similar corrections and 2. Ask questions notebooks. 3. answer questions happenings gives explanations where necessary 3. answer drawn from the where necessary 4. Answer questions chapters questions correctly. 9 READING Listening Students should be 1. Listening for 1. Selects appropriate 1, Pay attention 1. Essays written Students to: comprehension able to: main ideas from passages and and practice by teachers and 1. read given 1. listen to given selected passages materials with examples students on the passages. passage. on: 2. Explains the given. relevant topics 2. identify 2. extract main ideas Cleanliness, meaning of main 2. Read selected 2. supplementary accurately, main from given passages meningitia, safety ideas passages and readers ideas from the on the roads, 3. illustrates with materials 3. Recommended passages corruption, drug examples provided. text abuse, medicines 4. Ask student to read 3. Practice the global warming materials in class main ideas identified from the text 21  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES WRITING Students should be 1. Types of letters 1. Guides student 1. Identify types 1. Recommended Students to: Letter Writing able to: - Formal and to identify types of letters. text book 1. identify types 1. identify the types Informal letters of letters. 2. Identify 2. Sample letters of letters. of letters. 2. Format 2. The formats of formats of letters (formal and 2. identify the 2.identify the different Formal letters have formal and 3. Copy informal) different formats formats of letters two addresses, informal letters teacher’s model. 3. Newspaper/ of letters. 3. write specimen opening salutation, 3. Leads students 4. Learn to write magazine cuttings. 3. write specimen addresses. correct heading, to write addresses addresses 4. Textbooks. addresses body of the letter, correctly with or correctly. correctly. closing and signature without Informal letters have punctuations. one address, opening salutation, body of the letter and closing. LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Listening to 1. Produces 1. Listen and 1. Recommended Students to: SPEAKING able to: sentences or shot materials for imitate the text. 1. identify the Spoken English – 1. identify the vowel passages where the correct production of the 2. Course book. vowel /a/:/ The vowel /a: / /a:/. vowel can be found pronunciation of sound. 3. Prepared drills 2. produce the 2. produce the vowel 2. /a:/ is a long vowel the vowel. 2. Practice the using charts and vowel correctly. correctly. sound. Notice that in 2. Emphasizes the articulation of cards. 3. give examples 3. give examples of writing, the vowel correct the sounds. of words. words containing the /a:/ may take the articulatory 3. Repeat after containing the vowel. letter a as in pass, or movements in the the teacher sound. as in park, al as in pronunciation of during drills. calm, etc. the sounds. 22  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES Adjectives Students should be 1. The adjective is a 1. Leads students to 1. Listen 1. Course book. Students to: able to; word which define adjective. attentively to the 2. Various passages. 1. define 1. define adjectives. modifies the noun or 2. Explains the teacher. 3. Pictures and adjectives. 2. identify pronoun. features of 2. Read materials drawings. 2. identify adjectives. 2. Adjectives can be adjectives. given by the 4. Recommended adjectives from 3. make sentences identified by certain 3. Guides students teacher. text. sentences and with adjectives. suffixes e.g. – able, - to makes sentences 3. Define passages. full –ible, -ish, -ous. with adjectives. adjectives 3. make 4. Identify and sentences with give the features adjectives. of adjectives. 4. make sentences with adjectives. LITERATURE Students should be 1. The storyline 1. Reads the 1. Read chapters 1. Recommended Students to: Recommended able to: from the text chapters along with to be treated. literature text. 1. read chapters literature text 1. read chapters 2. Character analysis the students. 2. Discuss and 2. Course book. correctly. from the text. of the characters 2. Leads students to answer questions 2. discuss 2. discuss different both minor and make character on different different characters from the major characters analysis of the characters in the characters. text. characters in the text. 3. write short 3. write short notes text. notes on the on the characters. characters discussed. 23  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES 10 READING Reading for Students should be 1. Reading from 1. Selects 1. Read the 1. Passages Students to: maximum recall able to : passages for appropriate passages passage. 2. Selections 1. correctly read and retention 1. read passages. maximum recall on: and materials. 2. Recall mentally from other given passages. 2. recall salient points - corruption 2. Asks students to or records notes on subject areas. 2. recall correctly in a given passage. -Tribalism read selected the salient points or 3. Recommended salient points in 3. review the passage. -Drug abuse passages in class. main ideas. text/supplementa passages given. - Child labour and 3. Explains the 3. Reread the given ry reads. 3. review trafficking. meaning of reading passage and the passages. for maximum recall. relevant questions for maximum retention and recall. Letter Writing Students should be Letter writing 1. Guides students to 1. Identify the 1. Sample letters Students to: (Informal letter) able to: 1. Type: identify the format format of an 2. Newspaper/ 1. identify the 1. identify the format - informal letter of an informal letter. informal letter. magazine format of an of an informal letter. 2. Format: one 2. Leads students to 2. Discuss the cuttings. informal letter. 2. write an informal address, opening discuss the topic format of an 3. Recommended 2. write an letter. salutation, body of given. informal letter. text book. informal letter the letter and 3. Guides students to 3. Copy teacher’s correctly. closing. write an informal model. letter. 4. Writer an informal letter 24  ENGLISH STUDIES JS I FIRST TERM TOPIC PERFORMANCE CONTENT ACTIVITIES TEACHING AND EVALUATION WEEK OBJECTIVE TEACHER STUDENTS LEARNING GUIDE RESOURCES LISTENING AND Students should be 1. Place and manner 1. Produces 1. Listen 1. Recommended Students to: SPEAKING able to: of articulation. material for attentively to the text. 1. identify (Consonants /p/ and 1. identify 2. Consonants /p/ and teaching the place teacher. 2. Course book consonants /p/ /b/ consonant /p/ and /b/ as in; pat, pass, and manner of 2. Practice the 3. Prepared charts and /b/. /b/. tap, hope, bat, robe, articulation. articulation of and cards. 2. explain how 2. explain how and rob, bit. 2. Emphasizes the the sounds. and where they where they are 3. Pat-bat, pen-ben correct articulation 3. Repeat after are produced. produced. pox-box, pulb-bulb, of the consonants. teacher during 3. give examples 3. give examples of pray-bray, plot-blot. 3. Drills students drills. of words words cont