FORM 4 KBSM ENGLISH LANGUAGE SCHEME OF WORK

2015
TERM 1:
WEEKS
1-4

THEME /
TOPIC
People

12 JAN - 29 MAY 2015 (20 WEEKS)

LEVEL
1

Friends,
Countrymen ...
Lion Dance

5 -8

Environment

Wildlife
Warriors
2
Environmental
Degradation

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use
Talking about oneself
Giving instructions and
advice

Listening for important

details
Reading a web page:
Skimming for gist
Scanning for details
Identifying main ideas
Exchanging ideas and
opinions on friendship
and supporting details
Understanding context
clues
Summarising and
paraphrasing main
ideas
Writing about social
Writing a description of
customs of a Malaysian a festival
ethnic group

Living Photographs
Understanding rhythm
and rhyme
Reciting a poem

Persuading someone to Presenting information

do something
in a cluster diagram
Reading an article:
Identifying main ideas
Reading topics of
Understanding context
current interest and
clues
exchange ideas
Summarising and
paraphrasing main
ideas
Expanding notes and
outline
Giving opinions
Writing a formal letter
of complaint

Leaving No Footprints
Recognising elements
in story

Describing the setting

Understanding setting

Talking about themes

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Subject-verb
agreement
Modals:
need to, should
Artilces
Punctuation:
apostrophe
Vocabulary
Compound words
Countable and
uncountable nouns

F4

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES

1 Listen and complete a diagram

2 Express personal ideas and
opinions
3 Answer Wh-questions
4 Match words with meaning
5 Shorten sentences
6 Write a summary
7 Write a description of a festival
8 Identify the setting
9 Form compound nouns
10 Identify and classify nouns
11 Deduce the theme
12 Fill in the blanks
13 Complete texts

Thinking Skills:
evaluating
giving casual
explanation

1 Group discussion
2 Write a dialogue using
persuasive language
3 True / False statements
4 Answer Wh-questions
5 Match words/phrases with
meaning
6 Identify main ideas
7 Complete a diagram
8 Write a summary
9 Write a formal letter of complaint
10 Identify elements in a story
11 Arrange events in sequence
12 Describe plot
13 Identify themes
14 State the simple past tense
form of given verbs
15 Punatuate sentences
16 Fill in he blanks
17 Complete texts

Thinking skills:
identifying true /
false statements

Multiple Intelligence
intrapersonal visual
- spatial
Learning How to
Learn /
ICT Skills:
Acquisition: using
the blurb

Sound System
Vowel / I /, / i: /
Stress and intonation

Describing setting
Talking about plot
and understanding it

Talking about themes

Grammar
Tenses:
Simple present
Simple past
Present perfect
Punctuation: capital
letters, full stop,
comma
Vocabulary
Word families:
derivatives
Word association
Sound System
Consonants: / w /
and / v /

ACTIVITIES

Multiple
Intelligences:
bodily - kinaesthetic
ICT Skills:
Internet for
research

TEST 1
(9 March - 13 March 2015)
1

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THEME /
TOPIC

10 - 12 Values
People
Dare to
Dream

LEVEL

13 - 15

Health
Social Issues

Special
People

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use
Talking about one's
dreams

Listening to important
details
Converting information
into a table
Exchanging opinions on Reading an interview
topics of interest
Identifying supporting
details
Understanding context
clues
Summarising: reducing
the length of the text
Giving opinions
Write an interview
Initiate a discussion

Charge of the Light

Brigade
Understanding rhythm
and rhyme
Reciting the poem
Describing the setting

F4

ACTIVITIES

Grammar
Adverbs of degree
(adverb of degree +
adjective)
Interrogative pronouns

1 Talk about one's dream

2 Express opinion
3 Listen and circle correct
answer
4 Answer wh-questions
5 Match words with meaning
6 Shorten sentences
7 Write a summary
8 Write an interview
9 Interpret meaning of stanzas
10 Identify the message
11 Deduce theme and moral values
12 Identify adverbs of degree
13 Fill in the blanks
14 Construct sentences
15 Construct questions
16 Form words using suffixes
1 Match speech bubbles to
pictures
2 List names of diseases
3 True / False statements
4 Identify main ideas
5 Match words/phrases with
meaning
6 Write a summary using linking
words
7 Write an article
8 Arrange events in sequence
9 Identify the setting
10 Construct sentences
11 Identify themes
12 Complete a table
13 Complete sentences
14 Complete texts
15 Punctuate sentences

Vocabulary
Suffixes: ~ment, ~ion,
~hood, ~ship
Dictionary skills:
spelling of long words
Describing the theme
Understanding theme

Expressing concern and

offering help
Responding to
questions politelly by
giving the required
information

Reading a fact sheet:

Scanning for details
Presenting information
in a web diagram
Using dictionary to find
meaning of words

Changing their Skies

Retelling story in one's
own words
Describing plot
Narrating sequence of
events

Conversing with people

one meets for the first
time

Identifying main ideas

Understanding context
clues
Summarising:
Linking main ideas

Talking about setting

Writing an article

Talking about themes

Understanding the
themes

Good Health
2

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

Sound System
Consonant: /k/

Grammar
Verb forms
Past perfect tense
Imperatives
Punctuation: colon
Vocabulary
Homonyms
Word association
Sound System
Consonant: / r /

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking skills:
evaluating
ICT Skills:
Internet for research
Knowledge
Acquisition: using
different sources to
complete a project

Thinking Skills:
making association
ICT Skills:
Internet and library
research

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16-18

THEME /
TOPIC

LEVEL

Values
People

Talking about
personal experiences

Listening for important

details

Random Acts
of Kindness

Exchanging ideas and

opinions

Reading a narrative
Identifying supporting
details
Locating evidence to
support statements
Understanding context
clues
Summarising: identify
main events in correct
sequence

TERM 2:

21-23

Drawing conclusions
Predicting outcomes
Writing a simple
narrative

Grammar
Adjectives
Comparison of
adjectives
Modals
Articles
Punctuation: semi
colon
Vocabulary
Adjectives of quality
for describing
character

Understanding
figurative language
Understanding poetic
devices

Negative prefixes

ACTIVITIES
1 Practise expressions used in
discussion
2 True / False statements
3 Answer Wh-questions
4 Find evidence to support
statements
5 Match words with meaning
6 Write a summary using linking
words
7 Write a simple narrative
8 Interpret poetic devices
9 Identify message
10 State moral values learnt
11 Deduce the message/values
12 Complete a table
13 Complete sentences
14 Complete texts

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills:
identifying true /
false statements
Learning How to
Learn: using title
page and table of
contents

THEME /
TOPIC
Science and
Technology

15 JUNE - 30 OCT 2015 (20 weeks)

LEVEL
1

Wired Youth
2
Airbags

F4

Initiating and keeping a

discussion going

Living Photograph
Reciting a poem
Retelling the poem
Talking about values
and messages

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

MID-YEAR EXAMINATION (18 MAY - 29 May 2015)

19-20

WEEKS

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use
Exchanging information
Making enquiries about
a product
Reading the text of an
informal talk
Choosing and Ordering Following sequence of
a product
ideas
Identifying main ideas
Understanding context
clues
Summarising:
sequencing events
Writing a talk
Writing a formal letter to
order a product
Drawing conclusions

Drama 1
Describing setting
of the drama
Describing the plot
Narrating sequence
of events

Talking about themes

or issues

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
Grammar
Nouns functioning as
adjectives
Conjunctions
Sentence connectors
Sequence connectors
Vocabulary
Synonyms and
antonyms
Thesaurus skills
Sound System
Stress in four syllable
words

ACTIVITIES
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15

Role play
Write and practise a dialogue
Answer Wh-questions
Form wh-questions
Match words with meanings
Arrange events in sequence
Write a summary using
sequence connectors
Write a talk
Write a formal letter to order a
product
Describe the setting
Arrange events in sequence
Complete text
Identify theme
Pick out the synonym
Replace words with antonyms

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills:
comparing and
contrasting
Preparation for the
Real World:
occupations in the
field of science
and technology

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24-26

THEME /
TOPIC

LEVEL

Social issues

Expressing concern
and sympathy

Using a dictionary to
find meaning

Active
Ageing

Enchanging ideas on
how society can help
the elderly

Reading a poem or a
short story
Identifying main points
and supporting details
Understanding context
clues
Summarising: identify
main events in correct
sequence

A Mother's
Sacrifice

27-28

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use

Social Issues

Grammar
Present continuous
tense
Understanding messagesConcrete and
Talking about values
abstract nouns
Prepositions of:
time, direction,
position and purpose
Vocabulary
Figurative language
Thesaurus skills
Word association

Designing a card and

writing a letter to
express concern and to
comfort

Drawing conclusions
Writing an informal
letter to express
concern

Understanding
figurative language
Talking about the
poetic devices

Relating personal
experiences

Giving feedback about

a service

Converting information
to graphics
Reading extracts from
letters of complaint
Identifying text type
Skimming for gist
Finding evidence to
support statements
Understanding context
clues
Identify main ideas
Summarising and
paraphrasing main ideas
Writing a letter of
complaint
Expanding outline

Living No Footprints
Grammar
Describing characters
Adjectives used as
Understanding charactersnouns
Gerunds
Prepositions
Punctuation:
exclamation mark

F4

Charge of the Light

Brigade
Reciting a poem

Helping Hands

29

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

Making and responding

to a complaint about a
service

Vocabulary
Euphemisms
Word association
Prefixes

Talking about values

and messages

Sound System
Consonants:
/ eks /, / z /

ACTIVITIES

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES

1 Match expressions with

pictures
2 Role-playing
3 Look for meaning in dictionary
4 Answer MCQ
5 Answer Wh-questions
6 Deduce conclusion
7 Sequence events
8 Write a summary using
connectors
9 Write an informal letter
10 Interpret meaning of stanzas
11 Identify moral values
12 Deduce theme and message
15 Fill in the blanks
16 Construct sentences
17 Classify nouns
18 Complete texts

Thinking Skills:
making inferences

1 Present personal views

2 Practise expressions for making
and responding to complaints
3 True / False statements
4 Identify supporting evidence
5 Answering Wh-questions
6 Answer MCQ
7 Identify main ideas
8 Complete a diagram / table
9 Write a summary
10 Write a formal letter of
complaint about a service
11 Describe the setting
12 Arrange events in sequence
13 Describe characters
14 Identify theme and moral values
15 Match phrases with euphemism
16 Complete sentences
17 Punctuate sentences
18 Word formation

Learning How to
Learn:
Knowledge
Acquisition - using
bibliography
Values and
Citizenship
Education:
research stories of
courage /
organisations that
care for the disabled

Multiple
Intelligences:
linguistic verbal/bodily kinaesthetic
Learning How to
Learn /
ICT Skills:
on-line library
search

TEST 2 (10 AUGUST -14 AUGUST 2015)

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30-32

THEME /
TOPIC
Environment
People
For the
Common
Good

LEVEL
1

Recycling

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Interpersonal Use
Informational Use
Aesthetic Use
Responding to
questions politely by
giving the required
information
Exchanging opinions on
topics on current
interest
Making a speech to
persuade someone

33-35

Values
People

2
A Rainbow
Nation
The Missing
Handbag

F4

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

Changing their Skies

Grammar
Talking about characters Connectors:
Describing them
conjunctions
Simple, compound
Reading points of views Talking about values
and complex
on current interest
and messages
sentences
Identifying supporting
details
Understanding context
clues
Vocabulary
Drawing conclusions
Homophones
Identifying cause and
Thesaurus skills
effect
Synonyms
Identifying points of
view
Summarising and
Sound System
paraphrasing
Consonant clusters
Write a speech
/ kl / and / kr /
Write a recount

Talking about one's

Reading a regular
feelings and preferences column in a newspaper
Scanning for details
Exchanging ideas/
Identifying main points
information/opinions on and supporting details
topics of current interest Making inferences
Understanding context
clues
Summarising and
paraphrasing main
ideas and supporting
details

Drama 1
Talking about characters
in the drama
Understanding them

Making and responding

to a complaint about a
service

Discussing the values

and messages
Exploring the literary
devices

Drawing conclusions
Write an article

Grammar
Prepositions
Phrasal verbs
Present tense
Vocabulary
Idiomatic expressions
Dictionary and
Thesaurus skills:
Phrasal verbs
Word association

ACTIVITIES
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17

Match answers to questions

Answer Wh-questions
Give meaning of words/phrases
Identify points of view
Identify cause and effect
Paraphrase sentences
Write a summary
Write a persuasive speech
Write a recount
Fill in the blanks
Identify moral values
Deduce theme and message
Find suitable synonyms
Complete a text
Construct sentences
Distinguish between simple,
compound and complex
sentences

1 Write a short dialogue:

complaining about poor
service
2 Answer Wh-questions
3 Match words with meaning
4 Identify main ideas and
supporting details
5 Complete a flow chart
6 Write a summary
7 Write an article
8 Arrange events in sequence
9 Describe characters
10 Identify theme and moral values
11 Complete a word web
12 Identify idioms and their
meaning
13 Form phrasal verbs
14 Complete a text
15 Construct sentences

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills:
evaluating
making
interpretation
Learning How to
Learn:
knowledge
acquisition - using
the index

Thinking Skills:
making inferences
Multiple
Intelligences:
verbal-linguistic /
bodily-kinaesthetic

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36-37

THEME /
TOPIC
Science and
Technology
Future
Gazing

LEVEL

LEARNING OUTCOMES/CURRICULUM SPECIFICATION

Informational Use
Aesthetic Use

Interpersonal Use
1

Talking about one's

special interests

Exchanging ideas and

opinions on topics of
current issues

Suggesting ways to
solve problems

Drama 1
Grammar
Retelling the drama usingPassive construction
own words
Adverb of manner
Future tense

Talking about the style

of language used

Vocabulary
New words: use
electronic dictionary
Thesaurus skills:
converting informal
language to formal
language
Word association
Sound System
Diphthong: / ei /

ACTIVITIES

1 Group discussion:
2 Suggest ways to solve problems
3 List main ideas and supporting
details
4 Answer Wh-questions
5 List the advantages and
disadvantages of genetic
engineering
6 Match words with meaning
7 Identify relevant points
8 Write a summary
9 Write a descriptive account
10 Interpret meaning of stanzas
11 Identify moral values
13 Complete a text
14 Identify informal langauge
15 Replace informal language
with formal language

EDUCATIONAL
EMPHASES
Thinking Skills:
solving problems
identify causes and
effects
Preparations for the
Real World:
Vision 2020 - A
planned city

END OF YEAR EXAMINATION (12 OCT - 30 OCT 2015)

38-40

Prepared by:
Pn.Yogamalar Chandrasekaran

F4

Reading descriptive
accounts
Following sequence of
events
Identifying supporting
details
Understanding context
clues
Summarising:
Idenitfying relevant
information
Paraphrasing
Drawing conclusions
Writing a descriptive
account

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

Checked by:

Verified by;
Pn. Roshidah bt Baharuddin
Head of English Panel

Pn. Aliza binti Rodin

Head of
Head
the Language
of the Language
Department
Department

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