COURSE OUTLINE

ENGLISH 8

UNIT I: HOW DO YOU SUSTAIN CLOSE FAMILY TIES?

Lesson 1: Appreciating My Family as a Unit
 Telephone Conversation(African Literature) 5
 Idiomatic Expressions 7
 Sensory Images 9
 Satire and Irony 10
 Parallelism 13
 Scanning and Logical Connectors 16
 Volume and Projection 19
 Presenting Information through Graphic Organizer 25
Lesson 2: Bridging Gaps within the Family
 Once Upon a Time by Gabriel Okara 34
 Collocations 36
 Tone and Mood 40
 Cohesive Devices 43
 Skimming 48
 Pitch and Word Stress 53
 Rhythm and Intonation 58
 Evaluating Essay through Outlining 68
Lesson 3: Maintaining Family Harmony
 The Mask by Maya Angelou 78
 Local Culture 81
 Authors’ Purpose and Technique 82
 Simple Present Tense 86
 Juncture and Rate 89
 Extensive and Intensive Reading 90
 Stance and Behavior in Delivering a Speech 92
 Writing an Informative Speech 96

UNIT II: HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE?

Lesson 1: Analyzing Community Problems and Solutions
 The Injustice Done to Tou Ngo by Guan Hanqing 103
 Irony 130
 Types of Conflict 133
 Problem-Solution Grammatical Signs 137
 Interpreting Information Presented through Tables 141
 Writing an Expository Paragraph 149
Lesson 2: Taking Care of Your Community’s Natural Resources
 Haikus of Basho, Issa and Shiki 157
 Literal vs. Figurative Language 158
 Elements of Poetry: Structure 160
 Cause and Effect Grammatical Signs 166
 Interpreting Information Presented through Graphs 172
 Making Predictions about the Contents of a Listening Text 176
 Writing a Persuasive Text 181
Lesson 3: Being an Active Community Youth Member
 The Man Who Spurned the Machine by Chuang Tzu 188
 Hyperbole and Litotes 189
 Interpreting Aphorism 190
 General to Particular Grammatical Signs 191
 Entertainment Speech 195
 Interpreting Information through Information Maps 198
 Writing a Factual and Personal Recount 204
 UNIT III: WHAT CAN YOU DO TO CONTRIBUTE IN NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT?
Lesson 1: Expressing Loyalty to your Country
 Ta-in and Ta-na 214
 Affixes: Prefix and Suffix 216
 Elements of Plot 220
 Modals 222
 Determining the Purpose of a Speaker 225
 Making a Concept Map 229
Lesson 2: Offering Yourself to the Nation
 The Crystal Heart ( A Vietnamese Legend) told by Aaron Shepard 235
 Types of Context Clues 239
 Theme vs. Modal of the Story 241
 Two Types of Conjuctions 243
 Expressions of Agreement and Disagreement 246
 Noting Important Details when Listening 248
 Writing an Informative Essay 252
Lesson 3: Honoring Your Motherland
 I am Filipino by Carlos P. Romulo 260
 Propaganda Techniques 263
 History in Literature 267
 Intensifiers 269
 Distinguishing Facts from Opinion 271
 Persuasive Speech 273
 Writing a Bibliography 281

UNIT IV: WHY DO YOU NEED TO SECURE YOUR PLACE IN GLOBAL

COMMUNITY?
Lesson 1: Rising Up Amid Global Competition
 The Victory by Rabindranath Tagore 290
 Using Print Materials for Vocabulary Building 295
 Flashback and Foreshadowing 300
 Tenses of the Verb/ Simple Past and Past Present Tenses in Journalistic Writing 304
 Positions of a Topic Sentence 311
 Making Inferences as a Listening Skill 316
 Writing a News Report 321
Lesson 2: Preserving Your Culture in a Multicultural World
 An Arab Shepherd is Searching for His Goat in Mount Zion by Yehuda Amichai 328
 Denotative and Connotative Meanings 329
 Interpreting Symbolism 331
 Transforming Passive Voice to Active Voice, and Vice Versa 334
 Declamation Speech: Selection and Delivery 338
 Interpreting Instructions and Rules 341
 Writing an Opinion Article 347
Lesson 3: Acknowledging Boundaries among Different Worlds
 The Story of the Merchant and the Genie translated by Andrew Lang 356
 Word Webs 359
 Relationship between Setting and Characters 362
 Changing to Direct to Indirect Speech 364
 General and Specific Statements 369
 Summarizing as a Listening Skill 372
 Nonverbal Communications 374
 Writing a News Feature Article 380