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 Two 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 Two English topics:
1.
FORM TWO ENGLISH TOPICS: 1 – 4 & 6 - 8: LISTENING, SPEAKING,
COMPREHENSION, VOCABULARY BUILDING, PRONUNCIATION, PARTS OF SPEECH AND TENSES.
Topics
1 up to 4 and 6 up to 8 deals 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: LISTENING TO VARIOUS SIMPLE ORAL TEXTS
Topic
2: TALKING ABOUT EVENTS
Topic
3: ASKING FOR SERVICE
Topic
4: LOCATING PLACES
Topic
6: GIVING DESCRIPTIONS
Topic
7: TALKING ABOUT CULTURAL ACTIVITIES
Topic
8: EXPRESSING OPINIONS
2.
FORM TWO ENGLISH TOPICS:
5 & 9 - 10: READING,
PRONUNCIATION, VOCABULARY BUILDING, COMPREHENSION AND LITERARY INTEPRETATION
(ANALYSIS)
Topics
5 & 9 up to 10deals 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 5: ANALYSING INFORMATION FROM THE MEDIA
Topic 9: READING FOR COMPREHENSION
Topic 10: INTERPRETING LITERARY WORKS
Topics
11 deals 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 11: WRITING CARDS AND MESSAGES
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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