Introduction
English
Language Syllabus for Ordinary Level Secondary School has
various skills to test students. Most of these skills and sub skills are centered
on four language skills which are:
These four language skills have been covered in all
topics in a particular class. This article has compiled these topics into the
specific groups of language skills. Teaching & Learning Contents of All Form Four English Topics have been
divided into three (3) main areas.
The following are three Grammatical Areas you need to know when teaching
or learning Form Four English topics:
1.
FORM FOUR ENGLISH TOPICS 1 - 2 & 4: LISTENING, SPEAKING, COMPREHENSION, VOCABULARY
BUILDING, PRONUNCIATION, PARTS OF SPEECH AND TENSES.
Topics
1 up to 2 & 4 deal with Listening, Speaking,
comprehension, vocabulary building,
pronunciation, parts of speech and tenses.
In these skills, a teacher and students are expected to have more oral
activities than other activities. Other language skills may be applied but
listening and speaking should take the most of the spaces. In particular,
students have to speak English and listen to various media sources like TV,
Radio, etc. The following are all topics in this category:
Topic 1:
EXPRESSING ONESELF
Topic 2:
LISTENING FOR INFORMATION
Topic 4:
SPEAKING USING APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE CONTENT AND STYLE
2.
FORM FOUR ENGLISH TOPICS 3: READING, PRONUNCIATION, VOCABULARY BUILDING,
COMPREHENSION AND LITERARY INTEPRETATION (ANALYSIS)
Topic
3 deals with Reading,
pronunciation, vocabulary building, comprehension
and interpretation
(analysis) skills. These skills
require a teacher and students to do more reading. Students are guided to read
more for comprehension, vocabulary building, good pronunciation, and
appreciation of literary texts. All topics of this category can be found below:
Topic 3:
READING LITERARY WORKS
Topics
5 & 6 deal with writing,
punctuation and spelling skills. In this category, students and a teacher are
expected to be involved in more writing activities like letters, notes, etc. If
students are engaged well in this category, they can be better writers of
various texts. They can also be free of punctuation errors. The following are
the topics in this category:
Topic 5:
WRITING USING APPROPRIATE LANGUAGE CONTENT AND STYLE
Topic 6: WRITING APPLICATION
LETTERS
Conclusion
The
language skills mentioned above are just among of varieties of language skills
a teacher can use to interact with his/her students. The skills and sub skills
of English Language learning should thoroughly be applied by any teacher for
the students to have smooth learning of language.
Within
194 or 195 teaching days in a year, the teacher should help students achieve
the stipulated class competence, goals and objectives through applying various
skills, sub skills and other interactive teaching and learning activities.
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Reference
T.I.E
(2010) English Syllabus For Secondary
Schools: Forms I – IV, Ministry of Education and Vocational Training, Dar
es Salaam.
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