STEM Schools in Egypt -English Language Department G.

10- Cycle 5: Inspiring People

Grade 10 Modular Cycles

Cycle (5): Inspiring People
Writing Features: 1) Word Choice, 2) Organization, 3) Ideas, 4) Sentence Fluency, 5) Voice, and 6) Conventions (should be revisited in each
writing session)
N.B. All page numbers mentioned in this document correspond to the soft copy of the referred books.

Structured
Theme Week Class Session 1 Class Session 2 Class Session 3 Independent
Work
Inspiring Week 1 Lead-in Lead in Lead in Library List of
People Check H.W http://www.teachingideas.co. literary works
Hawking quotation uk/sites/default/files/punctuati
http://www.brainyquote.com/slides Listening & Vocabulary on.pdf
how/authors/top_10_stephen_haw ENL. 1.2.2
king_quotes.html ENL.1.2.4 http://www.teachingideas.co.
http://www.eslvideo.com/eslvideo_ uk/punctuation/fill-in-the-
Listening& speaking quiz_int.php?id=26000 punctuation
ENL. 1.2.1 sub-skills:
ENL. 1.2.5 -Note-taking. Writing
ENS. 1.5.1 -Listen for details. ENW. 1.2.2
Watching a video about -Identify the topic. ENW. 1.2.3
10 Inspiring People From The 20th Vocabulary Writing Academic English,
Century p. 67: 80
ENV.1.1.1 Part 2: Writing an Essay,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=VBGqlflIH5s Chapter 4: From paragraph to
Vocab essay
Discussion
Intensive care, survive, bullet,
committed to, deprive of, weapon, Sub-skills
Grammar &Vocabulary belief, powerful voices,
ENV.1.1.4 -Body paragraphs (thesis
My addition statement pitfalls & transition
Philanthropist, social activist, http://www.breakingnewsenglish.co
colonialism, racism, nun, saint, signals between paragraphs)
m/1410/141014-malala- -The concluding paragraph
charity, segregation, revolution

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Listening: yousafzai.html -Essay outlining

ENL. 1.2.1
ENL. 1.2.5 Reading
http://www.bbc.com/news/technol ENR. 1.3.1
ogy-30290540 ENR. 1.3.1
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.c Award, declare, campaign,
om/1412/141209-stephen- committee, suppression, servitude
hawking.html
Speaking& Listening
Sub-skills ENL.1.2.1
-Listen for specific information ENS.1.1.1
-Identify types of listening ENS.1.1.2
(interview, talk, documentary, https://en.islcollective.com/resou
film) rces/printables/worksheets_doc_
docx/guess_who_-
Reading _the_famous_people_game_-
ENR.1.2.1 _speaking_about_personal_infor
ENR.1.2.4 mation/people-elementary-
http://www.bbc.com/news/technol a1/1524
ogy-30290540
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.c A speaking game
om/1412/141209-stephen- -Introducing one self.
hawking.html -Speaking clearly & loudly.
-Using eye contact.
Sub-skills -Good posture.
-Finding important details
-Use clues from the text to figure
out what the author doesn‟t tell
you
ENV.1.1.2
ENV.1.4.1
Sub-skills
-Guessing meaning from
context

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-Using online dictionaries

Vocab
Renown, artificial intelligence,
cosmologist, synthesize, out-
invent, prospect, revamp,
consequences, decently, pre-
eminent, motor neuron disease,
biological evolution, out-smarting,
out-investing, out-manipulating.
(Note: the listening source is the
same for the reading)

H.W

2 Lead-in Lead in Reading for pleasure

An indigenous Listening Discussion of homework Literature
(Indian ENL. 1.2.3 Lead-in
American) ENL. 1.2.5 E-STEM Reviewing previous chapters
activist to save https://www.youtube.com/watch?v Earth Science, Unit 18 and setting the scene.
the planet. =27gtZ1oV4kw ENR. 1.2.1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v ENR 1.2.3 Treasure Island
=M_EK_9m1H88 Energy resources and fossil fuels Chapters 8 & 9
Sub-skills Any of the following drama
Sub-skills - Synthesizing information from techniques could be used
-Listen for specific information different reading resources. -Hot seating
-Identify types of listening, a -freeze frame
speech & documentary film Listening -Thought tapping
ENL 1.2.4. -Slow motion
ENL.1.2.2 ENR. 1.1.1

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Main Vocab. Sub-skills ENR. 1.1.5

Indigenous, ceremonies, ancestors, -Listening for main ideas ENS. 1.4.2
, activist, ice caps, massive storm -Listening for details -Sub-skills
and floods, suing the government, -Taking notes -Making inferences
flooding streets, to approach, -Distinguish fact & fiction
climate recovery plan, shrink, Speaking
catastrophe, greed, fundamental ENS. 1.5.2 H.W.
SS give a 2 minute short talk
Expressions & Idioms about the importance of fossil
ENV.1.2.2 fuels (coal, petrol, and gas).
pouring in, defining issues, down
the hall, call upon, bring forth, - Using the e.STEM Speaking
change the course of history rubric, focusing only on
“Introduction” & “Delivery”&
Reading “ORGANIZATION”&
ENR.1.2.1 “Presentation” & “Conclusion”
ENR.1.2.4 & Handling Audience Questions
http://www.denverpost.com/201
4/05/28/xiuhtezcatl-roske- Writing Units
martinez-14-wants-to-save-the- Unit 5 “Introductory
world Paragraphs”
Unit 8 “Writing Conclusions”
Sub-skills
-Finding important details
-Outlining what students read

Vocabulary & Structure (

Flipped classroom)
ENV.1.1.2
ENV.1.4.1

Sub-skills
-Guessing meaning from
context

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-Using online dictionaries

Vocabulary
Seasoned, conservation-minded,
crisis, hip-hop, catch, anti-
fracking, negotiate, advocate,
fierce, mouthpiece, claim,
indoctrinate, legend, pesticide,
rallies, coal ash, protest

H.W.
Based on Week 3 Hello! Unit 9 “A Good Hello! Unit 11 “Amazing Lead-in
module Hello! Education” People” Speaking
theme – Units 9 & 11 ENS.1.1.2
linked to Lead in Lead in Discussion on the importance
Mod. 1A Discuss the questions (before Discuss the questions (before of summary
when you start) p. 26 you start) p. 52
Reading
possible ENR.1.4.2
Reading & Vocab Reading & Vocab Recap
ENR.1.5.1 ENR.1.2.4 Continue recognition
ENR.1.5.3 ENR.1.3.5 exercises
ENS.1.5.2 Production (texts from the
Lesson 1 Sub skills book, “Reading for thinking”)
-Find important details (Ppt modified)
New vocab
Cruel, governess, orphan, Main Vocab
housekeeper, servant, lose touch Compete, Kung Fu, medal, muscle,
with, make friends, do an online powerlifting, wheelchair
course, keep in touch with
Activity
Reading & Vocabulary In their groups, students choose
John F. Nash Jr., Math Genius their favorite figure based on
Defined by a „Beautiful Mind,‟ specific selection criteria,
Dies at 86 determined by the teacher, e.g
well-known, encountering

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https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05
/25/science/john-nash-a-beautiful-
mind-subject-and-nobel-winner-
dies-at-86.html
New vocab
Fearlessness, moviegoers,
marvel, rivalry, legislative,
evolutionary, emeritus
professor, intractable problem,
devastate, miraculous
redemption, dazzling,
rationality, stigma, hound,
fierce, malignant, longstanding,
squish, arbitrary, psychiatric
ENL 1.2.5
Lesson 2
Sub-skill
-Use note taking strategies
-Listening for details.
Speaking
ENS.1.5.1
The speaking exercises of
lessons 1 & 2.
Sub-skills
-Supporting ideas with
explanation and justifications.
-Giving opinions (agreeing
/disagreeing).
challenges, achievements. It isn‟t
allowed to repeat any of the
characters. Then they deliver a 7
to 10 minute presentation, using
a rubric to peer evaluate each
other.
Post presentation
Students discuss the following
questions:
-What are the common
characteristics of successful
people?
-Suggestion: Students may be
given character traits to choose
from?
Grammar & Vocabulary
ENV.1.3.2
Grammar Way 3, Unit 9 “Relatives
(Relative Pronouns/Adverbs-
Identifying/Non-Identifying
Clauses”
H.W.
Some related assignments from any
considerable resource
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Grammar & Vocabulary

ENV.1.3.2
ENV.1.3.3
ENV.1.3.5
Grammar Way 3, Unit 6 “The
Passive”

H.W.
Exercises from Grammar Way