Quiz Topics
1. LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Everyday Social Interactions
Specific Competence: Students will use correct language for greetings, requests, introductions, invitations, apologies, compliments, and offers in daily social situations and phone calls. Learning Activities: Students will practice formal and informal greetings, polite ways to ask for things, introducing themselves and others, inviting people and responding, saying sorry, giving compliments, speaking in places like restaurants or hospitals, making and receiving phone calls, and offering help or things. Expected Standard: Language for social interactions and phone conversations is used correctly and politely.
1. LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Public Speaking and Performance
Specific Competence: Students will use correct language for debates, act in short plays, and recite poems. Learning Activities: Students will practice debates like those in parliament on important issues (e.g., HIV/AIDS, climate change). They will learn about parts of a play (characters, dialogue) and perform short plays on social topics. They will also learn about poem features (sound, feeling) and recite poems on important issues. Expected Standard: Language for debates, drama, and poetry recitation is used correctly.
1. LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Explaining Processes and Giving Directions
Specific Competence: Students will describe simple processes and give clear directions. Learning Activities: Students will practice explaining how to do simple tasks (like cooking a meal or making tea). They will use words that show order (first, then, lastly). They will also practice asking for and giving directions (e.g., go straight, turn left). Expected Standard: Processes are described and directions are given correctly.
1. LISTENING AND SPEAKING: Understanding and Using Figurative Language
Specific Competence: Students will understand and use proverbs, riddles, and idiomatic expressions. Learning Activities: Students will learn the meaning of proverbs and use them in social situations (e.g., “Every dog has its day”). They will practice riddles and learn their answers (e.g., “What has to be broken before you can use it? – An egg”). They will also understand and use idioms (e.g., “egghead” means very intelligent, “give a hand” means help). Expected Standard: Figurative language is used correctly.
2. READING COMPREHENSION: Understanding Spoken and Written Information
Specific Competence: Students will listen to and read information, then understand it. Learning Activities: Students will listen to passages, then retell what they heard or answer questions about it. They will read texts carefully to answer questions and find hidden meanings. They will also read many stories, books, and newspapers. They will practice quickly finding main ideas (skimming) and specific details (scanning). Expected Standard: Information heard and read is understood correctly.
3. COMPOSITION (WRITING): Basic Writing Skills
Specific Competence: Students will write correct sentences, spell words accurately, use punctuation marks properly, and write well-organized paragraphs. Learning Activities: Students will practice building complete sentences. They will learn and apply common spelling rules. They will use punctuation marks like full stops, commas, and question marks correctly. They will also practice writing paragraphs that have a clear main idea and supporting details. Expected Standard: Correct sentences, spelling, punctuation, and well-structured paragraphs are written.
3. COMPOSITION (WRITING): Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Specific Competence: Students will write stories with a plot, characters, and theme. They will also write clear descriptions of people, animals, or objects. Learning Activities: Students will practice writing stories, focusing on how the story unfolds, who the characters are, and the main message. They will practice describing things in detail so that the reader can clearly imagine them. Expected Standard: Well-written stories and accurate descriptions are produced.
3. COMPOSITION (WRITING): Practical Writing Forms
Specific Competence: Students will write informal letters and diary entries correctly. Learning Activities: Students will practice writing friendly letters, following the correct parts (address, date, greeting, main message, closing). They will also practice writing diary entries, including the date, time, topic, and notes from a personal point of view. Expected Standard: Informal letters and diary entries are written with the correct structure and content.
3. COMPOSITION (WRITING): Expository and Persuasive Writing
Specific Competence: Students will write informative essays and compositions that argue a point or discuss different sides of issues. Learning Activities: Students will practice writing essays that give information, using a title, main points, introduction, body paragraphs, and a conclusion. They will also practice writing to convince others of an opinion or to discuss different sides of a topic fairly. Expected Standard: Informative essays and well-argued or balanced discussions are written.
4. STRUCTURE (GRAMMAR): Parts of Speech
Specific Competence: Students will identify and use different parts of speech correctly. Learning Activities: Students will learn about nouns (names of people, places, things), pronouns (words that replace nouns), verbs (action words), adjectives (describing words), adverbs (describing verbs), prepositions (showing position), conjunctions (joining words), and interjections (exclamations). Expected Standard: Parts of speech are identified and used correctly in sentences.
4. STRUCTURE (GRAMMAR): Verb Tenses
Specific Competence: Students will use different verb tenses correctly to show when actions happen. Learning Activities: Students will learn to use the Present Simple (for habits), Present Continuous (for actions happening now), Past Simple (for finished actions), Past Continuous (for ongoing past actions), Future Simple (for future actions), Future Continuous (for ongoing future actions), Present Perfect (for finished actions with a link to the present), and Present Perfect Continuous (for actions continuing up to the present). Expected Standard: Verb tenses are used correctly to express time.