Unit 1 Our stories Unit overview Term 1 Resources


Additional resources (optional)


Listening and speaking Week 1


Learner's Book pp. 7–15 Literature Anthology


Magazines, newspapers and books


Activity 1 • Introductions: Self or others: Teach features and conventions of introduction, language use


Activity 3 • Listen to a short story: Identify main and


supporting ideas from a short story, take notes, share ideas and experiences and show understanding of concepts


Reading and viewing


Activity 5 • Pre-reading strategies: Recognise features of


text such as titles, headings, illustrations, recognise parts of book such as cover, title page, index, chapters, glossary, index


• Reading comprehension and reading strategies: Skimming and scanning, intensive reading, visualisation, inferring meaning and conclusions, fact and opinion, meaning of words


Week 2


Learner's Book pp. 16–17 Literature Anthology


Magazines, newspapers and books


Activity 9 • Storytelling: Teach conventions of


storytelling: Speaking skills, tone, pronunciation, tempo, intonation, eye contact, posture, gesture; tell story from own experience


Activity 7 • Literary text: short stories/folklore: Key


features of literature text: such as character, characterisation, plot, conflict, background, setting, narrator, theme


• Reading process: Pre-reading (introduce text), during reading (features of text), post- reading (answer questions, compare, contrast, evaluation)


• Pre-reading strategies: Recognise features of text such as titles, headings, illustrations, recognise parts of book such as cover, title page, index, chapters, glossary, index


Writing and presenting


Activity 8 • Write a narrative/descriptive paragraph:


Paragraph conventions: Topic sentence of paragraph, main and supporting ideas, use conjunctions for cohesion, explain requirements of text such as telling a story, use appropriate words and style, write in the past tense


• Focus on process writing: Planning, drafting, revision, editing, proofreading and presenting


• Writes a story based on a personal experience


• Remedial grammar from learners' writing


Language structure and conventions


Activity 2 • Spelling and punctuation: Full stop, comma,


colon, semicolon, capital and small letters; Dictionary use and spelling rules


Activity 5 • Vocabulary in context


Activity 6 • Sentence level: Simple sentences,


statements, simple present tense, simple past tense


Activity 7 • Vocabulary in context


Activity 8 • Reinforcement of grammar covered in previous phase


• Spelling and punctuation: Full stop, comma, colon, semicolon, capital and small letters, dictionary use and spelling rules • Remedial grammar from learners' writing


Assessment See suggestions for informal assessment within this unit.


Links with others subjects Life Orientation, Social Science, Arts and Culture Inclusivity


The contents of this unit meet the needs of all students through the recognition of diversity within the classroom. The selection of text types, activities, challenge and support work is intended to appeal to a wide range of individual learners.


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