Fields of Study: Languages

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Students should be able to Identify both countable and uncountable nouns
Differentiate between the two
Determine them by their characteristics.
Use them in contextual sentences.
Recognize and identify nouns that are both countable and uncountable.

Nouns and Noun Phrases with the Definite Articles

Identify a noun and a noun phrase
Explain what makes for a noun phrase-attaching the definite article.
Build up noun phrases.
Explain the exception in the use of ‘the’ as definite article with nouns.]
identify the two positions of noun phrases in sentences
a)as subject
b)as object of the sentence

Letter Writing – informal letter

Explaining what an informal letter is
Listing types of informal letters
Writing an informal letting using the appropriate layout.
Writing a well punctuated informal letter to the appropriate persons

Letter Writing – informal letter

Explaining what an informal letter is
Listing types of informal letters
Writing an informal letting using the appropriate layout.
Writing a well punctuated informal letter to the appropriate persons

Continuous writing – Narrative

Expressing clearly through a narrative composition.
Writing well-punctuated sentences for a narrative composition.
Selecting appropriate words for writing a narrative composition
Generating enough topic sentences for a good narrative composition.
Using the appropriate tense form usually the past tense for writing a narrative essay.

Reading to comprehend supporting details

Students should be able to listen carefully and attentively to identify the supporting ideas.
Differentiate between main and supporting ideas in a prose passage.
Retain both main and supporting ideas identified
Recognize words that signal details/illustrations and examples in a prose passage.

Reading to comprehend main ideas or story line

Students to listen attentively to identify the words that indicate main points in a speech, chat conversation etc.
Retain key words or key sentences in a speech, chat, conversation etc. discourse.

Listening to tell the meanings of words in context

Students should be able to listen attentively to passages presented orally with understanding
Identify new words from the passage or selection
Tell the general meaning of the words
Explain the meaning of the words in the context in which they were used in the selection.
make other sentence with the words to reflect the contextual meanings.

Listening for summary through identifying key words

Students should be able to listen attentively to a presented material (speech,lecture,passage etc.)
Identify key words that signal main ideas
Identify key sentences signaled by the relevant key words
put the sentences together in a summary form