What will I learn?

Reading

• Have a general idea of the text
• Infer theme/ main idea
• Scan to answer short questions
• Make simple inferences using the context of the text and prior knowledge
• Deduce meanings of difficult words from context
• Read silently with comprehension and extract main idea and supporting details
• Scan to locate an opinion
• Comprehend/interpret text by applying critical thinking
• Apply world knowledge and own feelings / opinion to the text read

Listening and Speaking

• Identify a problem and propose a solution

Language Practice

• Recognize the function of, and use possessive pronouns
• Demonstrate the use of collective, countable and uncountable nouns

Writing

• Write a paragraph using a variety of pre-writing strategies such as brainstorming, mind mapping, outlining etc. to develop focus
• Write a simple unified paragraph on a given topic by:
• Writing a clear topic sentence
• Adding adequate supporting details to develop the main idea

Study Skills

• Doing free writing to overcome the fear of writing

Fun

• Developing charts and speaking about the visual messages