Saint John’s School – Meruya

Scope and Sequence

Sy 2017-2018

Subject : English
Class : Grade 8

First Quarter

Week Instructional Objects Resources

Chapter 1: FIRE
1.1 Identifying metre, paraphrasing, explaining figurative language,
summarising.
1.2 Comparing lead news reports from different newspapers
1.3 Understanding how headlines position the reader
1.4 Editing materials and discuss sequencing notes for informative
purposes.
1.5 Understanding the idea of a target audience.
1.6 Preparing questions to be used for a short interview.
 footage of eruption of Mount Etna in 2002
(Courtesy of YouTube
 Cambridge English Checkpoint coursebook pp. 4 - 5
 Cambridge English Checkpoint coursebook pp. 2
 Cambridge checkpoint English Coursebook
 Cambridge checkpoint English Coursebook pp. 6-7
Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 51 – 53
You Tube / dvd
Cambridge English Checkpoint Workbook pp. 26 – 27

Cambridge English Checkpoint courseboook p. 8 – 9

Cambridge English Checkpoint

workbook pp 6 – 7
Chapter 2: GAMES AND SPORTS Cambridge English Checkpoint pp. 16 – 18

1.1 Identifying persona workbook page 10 – 11

 1.2 Identifying key information
1.3 Researching information Cambridge English Checkpoint pp. 19-20
1.4 complex sentence construction
1.5 sequencing using precise vocabulary Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook page 20

Cambridge English Checkpoint workbook page 13

Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook page 32
Chapter 3: WATER
1.1 Haiku Semi-colons Google searched
1. 2. Phrases with past participles
1.3. Countable and uncountable nouns Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebookpp. 36 - 38
1.4. Describing a process
1. 5. Non-sentences
Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 39 - 44
1. 6. Collective nouns
1. 7. Formal reports
 identifying key facts
 summarizing
 sequencing
 paraphrasing
 identifying writer’s effects

Second Quarter

Week Instructional Objects Resources

Chapter 4: THE FEAST Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp.49 – 50

1.1 Comic writing Worksheet 4: teachers’ resource

 1.2 Time adverbs and adverbial phrases
1.3 Verbs of perception Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 54 – 56
1.4 Blank verse
1.5 Adjectival endings Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp.54 – 57
1.6 Stage directions
1.7 Using lists in description Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 59 – 63
1.8 Descriptive devices
 identifying writer’s effects
 deducing meaning of vocabulary
 interpreting character
 noticing structure
 summarising
 paraphrasing
 blank verse

Chapter 5: OTHER LIVES

Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook 66 – 67
1.1 Formal letter writing
1. 2. Biographical writing
1. 3. Connectives versus semi-colons
1.4. Parallel structures Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook
1. 5. Job advertisements
pp. 74 – 75
1. 6. Curriculum Vitae (writing)
 vocabulary definition
 explaining imagery
 identifying writer’s effects Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 78
 inferring writer’s attitude
 recognising cultural context
 structuring
 planning
 precise description
  job advertisement
 CV construction
 job application letter
 poetry comparison

Worksheet 6: Short story writing frame

Chapter 6: THE RACE
(Coursebook Activity 15) pp. 77 – 78
1.1 Language skills : match verbs with prepositions
1.2 Recognizing difficult word spellings (letter g and doubling the l).
Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 83 – 88
1.3 Writing skills : Wiriting a diary entry, planning a short story, and writing a
short story
1.4 Modernise fable.

 vocabulary building, summarising

 interpreting writer’s effects
 appreciating humour and irony
 comparing fiction and non- fiction accounts
 implicit meaning and viewpoint.

Third Quarter
Week Instructional Objects Resources
Chapter 7: Time and History Cambridge English Checkpoint pp.
1.1 Recognising reader positioning

1.2 Explaining imagery, and comparing poems workbook page47,48,49

1.3 Reading a timetable Cambridge English Checkpoint pp. 94-101

1.4 Recognising a sonnet

1.5 Writing skills -- labelling, imaginative staged prose

Chapter 8: EXOTIC PLACES

1.1 Vocabulary extension,
Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook page 111-127
1.2 Summarising, explicit comprehension, recognising stereotypes,

1.3 Analysing stylistic effects,

1.4 Selecting quotations, paraphrasing

Internet sources
1.5 Character assessment, narrative duration,
Teacher’s Resource CD
1.6 Identifying stages, implied meaning

1.7 Writing skills -- instructions, genre transformation (non-fiction to fiction), Cambridge English Checkpoint workbook pages. 52-58
magazine article, sequencing, linking, description of objects

Chapter 9
Travel and Transport

1.1 Travelogue, travel advertisements, journey schedule, web review, novel, Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 129-141
technology article
 1.2 Reading gap-filling, selecting, paraphrasing, explaining stylistic effects, Cambridge ecnglish checkpoint workbook pp.
word associations, summarising, evaluating persuasiveness, inferring, 59-66
predicting

1.3 Writing skills place description, modelling style.

Internet sources

Teacher’s Resource CD

Fourth Quarter
Week Instructional Objects Resources
Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook 66 – 67
Chapter 10
Animal behaviour
1.1 Paraphrasing, selecting facts, evaluating strength of vocabulary

1.2 Responding to poetry, comparing poems, comprehension Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook
pp. 74 – 75

1.3 Writing skills --planning an argument, sequencing, editing, summary

Cambridge English Checkpoint Coursebook pp. 142-154
1.4 News report -- composing headlines, debate speech
Cambridge English Checkpoint workbook pp. 75-81

Internet sources
 Internet sources
Chapter 11:
(Youtube)
Music and Dance music or film version of Peter and the Wolf (music by Prokofi ev)
1.1 Explaining figurative language • Billy Elliot (fi lm and stage musical)
1.2 Vocabulary extension, definitions, summarising, paraphrasing  Street dance clip, e.g. www.youtube.com/watch?
1.3 Writing skills-- press statement, formal letter, performance description, v=Ey8Ui63VgH
dialogue
1.4 Speaking and listening skills-- class discussion, agreeing with partner,
performing dialogue Cambridge English Checkpoint workbook pp. 76-81

Cambridge English Checkpoint coursebook 151-169

Teacher’s Resource CD

Internet Sources
Chapter 12
A Load of Nonsense
1.1 Identifying humour, paraphrasing, defining
1.2 Explaining writer’s effects, Cambridge English Checkpoint pp. 173 – 183
1.3 Identifying irony and poetry analysis
1.4 Writing skills -- process description, rap poem, picture description,
nonsense verse, dictionary defi nition, coining words, adopting viewpoint Cambridge English Checkpoint workbook pp.82-87
1.5 Speaking and listening skills -- working with a partner, class discussion,
show and tell, performing a rap, shared presentation on a poem, oral
evaluation, group work
Teacher’s Resource CD