Borj AL- Barajneh Third Intermediate Public School

Subject: English Language AcademicYear :2018-2019

Grade Nine Teacher: Hana Al- Hajj

UNIT
MONTH NUMBER UNIT TITLE LESSON TITLE OBJECTIVES GRAMMAR WRITING

October Present Tenses: ‐Write about the qualities

1.Building Self‐Confidence
2.Broken Wing
3.Get in the Habit (part one)
4.Get in the Habit (part two)
ONE Building Self‐Confidence 5.Setting Goals
6.What All Children Want their
Parents to Know(poem)
‐Use context clues to figure
out the meaning of
unfamiliar words.
‐Predict from previewing
‐Demonstrate critical
understanding of a text.
‐Identify the author’s
purpose.
‐Determine main idea
Simple, of self‐confidence
Progressive,
Perfect, ‐Compare and contrast
Perfect Progressive between a self‐confident
person and low
selfconfident one
-write a narrative essay
(official tests)

‐Study suffixes

‐Fill in an outline.

November Two Crafts 1.Crafts ‐Comprehend printed Past Tenses: Choose a craft and explain
discourse Simple, how it is made ‐essay
2.The Arts and Crafts of Ancient Progressive, writing(official tests)
Lebanon ‐Fill in a cloze passage with Perfect,
appropriate Perfect Progressive
3.The Story of Silk in Lebanon vocabulary(listening)
4.Ancient Man(listening)

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 1.Science ‐Identify words and their Future Tenses ‐Write a biography
November 2.Resembling Parents antonyms Active and passive
4. Challenging Blindness ‐Determine the meaning voice ‐Choose a scientific
December 5.Heart Transplant of unfamiliar words by discovery and talk about
using context clues ‐ its impact on society ‐
7.Listening Activity Activate prior knowledge ‐ expository essay(official
Predict content of a tests)
selection
‐Scan a selection to form
questions
‐Scan to fill in a timeline ‐
Listen for specific
Three Scientific Discoveries
information

1.Olympic Games ‐Express attitude towards ‐Subject‐Verb ‐Write an Olympic oath

December an issue Agreement
January ‐Relate ideas to one’s
3.Kinds of Sports previous knowledge and
experience ‐Presentation about a
‐Use context clues to figure ‐Correlative player, a kind of sports
Four Sports 5.Owenmania out the meaning of Conjunctions
unfamiliar words
‐Scanning
6.Football Culture ‐Skimming ‐Negative Words ‐Advantages and
‐Fill in a chart Disadvantages of being a
‐Jig‐saw reading famous athlete.

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January 2.The Devil’s Triangle(part one) ‐Predict from previewing ‐Modal Verbs
content of a text (present or future)
4.The Devil’s Triangle(part two) ‐Use context clues to figure
out the meaning of ‐Prefixes
5. A Ghost Story(listening and unfamiliar words
speaking) ‐Complete missing parts of ‐Modal Verbs (past
a text form)
6.The Myth of the Dracula ‐Identify cause‐effect ‐Write a ghost story
Mysteries and Supernatural
Five relationship ‐Discuss ‐narrative essay
Events
7.Superstitions familiar
8.Official tests superstitions(speaking) ‐
Identify negative, positive,
or neutral connotations ‐
Identify slanted language ‐
Discuss the writer’s
attitude

February 1.Incident(poem) ‐Analyze the main ‐Reported Speech ‐Write a response to a

characters problem
2.Compassion is in the Eyes (characterization)
‐Fill in a story elements ‐Noun Clauses ‐Summarize the main
3.Hear my Cry ‐Predict content of a text ‐ (subjects & events of a story
4. Official tests(Accepting Figure out the meaning of objects)
Six Tolerance
Others) unfamiliar words by using
context clues
‐Demonstrate critical
understanding of the text ‐
Characterization
‐Cause‐effect relationship

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February 1.The Coming Climate ‐Elicit vocabulary related to ‐Word Order ‐Summarize the process
March climate of greenhouse effect
‐Comprehend written ‐Subject‐Verb
3.The Greenhouse Effect discourse Agreement
‐Discuss point of view
towards an issue ‐Learn
how greenhouse effect ‐Gerunds ‐Poster that
5. Amazonian Timbers, Inc happens ‐Suggest demonstrates the
(poem) solutions for global importance of trees
Seven Preserving our Planet
warming ‐Explain ‐Infinitives
cause‐effect ‐write a letter to the
relationship editor of a newspaper to
‐Demonstrate critical report an environmental
understanding of a text ‐ problem in your
Figure out the meaning of neighborhood
unfamiliar words by using
context clues

March 1.History of Money ‐Activate prior knowledge ‐Restrictive and ‐Advertisement for a job
Nonrestrictive clauses
3.Phoenician Trade Routes ‐Demonstrate critical
understanding of a text ‐Write a report about
4.Business Plans the advantages and
Eight Trade
‐Use context clues to figure ‐Order of Adjectives disadvantages of a job ‐
out the meaning of Write a questionnaire ‐
unfamiliar words Write a compare –
contrast paragraph ‐Write
a research paper
April 1.Teanagers ‐Demonstrate critical
understanding of a text ‐ ‐Adjective Clauses ‐Describe your
2.The Generation Gap Use context clues to figure relationship with your
out the meaning of parents
Nine The Generation Gap 3.Plea to Parents & Please Listen unfamiliar text
(poems) ‐Identify ideas in each
poem
4 & 5.Maybe You Were Right ‐Compare two poems

April Ten Natural Disasters 1.Earthquakes ‐Classify items into ‐what precautions would
established patterns ‐ ‐Adverb clauses be taken for any natural

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 2.Activity 4(emails) Comprehend written disaster of students’
discourse choice
3.Volcanoes ‐Discuss messages(emails) ‐essay writing
‐Predict from previewing ‐ (official tests)
4&5.The Dog of Pompeii (extra Label a picture
reading)
May 1.Mother Tongue ‐Scan to identify main idea
and supporting details ‐Conditional ‐Research about two
Sentences cultures
2.Laughter is the Best Behavior ‐Predict content of a text
Eleven Social Behavior
3.Dining Etiquette ‐Demonstrate author’s
purpose
6.Mending Wall (poem)

May 1.The Little Boy and the Flower ‐Predict from previewing
(part one)
‐Comprehend written ‐wish
2.The little Boy and the Flower discourse
Twelve Education
(part two)
‐Fill in a story elements
3 & 4.Kids can Save the Earth but chart
is it their Job (parts 1 & 2)