O Level Outcomes

Reading Comprehension and

Writing Skills Oral /Aural Skills
Summary Skills

Students should be able to: Students should be able to: Students should be able to:

1. write in a variety of genres as 1. read and comprehend a variety of 1. speak audibly

prescribed by the ‘O’-Level genres
examination, with attention to 2. read accurately and fluently,
appropriate format, style and 2. understand and respond with an awareness of expression
length: appropriately to written instructions, and audience
directions and questions.
* narrative/recount of personal 3. understand and use the more
experiences 3. identify specific information located at common speech conventions of
* descriptive one or more points in a text (literal social English
* expository comprehension)
* discursive/argumentative 4. participate effectively in a
* formal letters 4. identify implied meaning and make conversation and develop
* informal letters deductions from information in a text responses to prompts
* speeches
* brochures / leaflets 5. infer the meanings of unfamiliar words
* reports and expressions (e.g. idiomatic
* magazine articles phrases) from their context in a
passage
2. interpret the question appropriately
and maintain focus and the 6. answer questions using the following
reader’s interest throughout the reading strategies:
composition
- use word recognition skills to check
3. plan, organise and write in meaning
paragraphs - use knowledge of cohesive devices
and text organization
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 4. arouse interest, maintaining
coherence and cohesion
5. choose a vocabulary and tone
which is suited to its purpose and
audience, and use correct grammar
and punctuation
6. demonstrate consistency in
language usage
7.write legibly, and present work
clearly
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- use contextual clues (association of
words/ ideas and logical relationship
of ideas)
- use prior knowledge: familiar words,
word association, knowledge of the
topic/figurative language/
connotations/ culture
- skim for gist and scan for details
7. select, retrieve, evaluate and combine
information from a selected section of
the text
8. summarise a given text to a
prescribed word limit, paraphrase,
and use their own words as much as
possible
9. show evidence of using cohesive
devices when writing a summary
10.edit summaries, adhering to the
conventions of grammar
2
 Scheme of Work – YEAR 10

This scheme of work is a guide for teachers teaching MA 4 classes, based mainly on
SEBD4, Key Skills in Writing, and Key Skills in Comprehension and Summary Writing.
Teachers should feel free to change, modify, supplement and vary the content of this
scheme according to their students' needs and abilities. The focus of each unit is stated
which will form the main objective for the unit. The essential genres of writing outlined in
the Form 5 outcomes have been targeted. Some SEBD4 units have been left out of this
scheme (Unit 4 Visitors to Brunei-Muara, Unit 6 World of Work; Unit 7 The Fat of the Land;
Unit 9 Health Matters). This is partly due to time constraints, and it was also thought these
were the less effective units. However, teachers are free to include these units if they
wish.

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Core Textbook: Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 4 (SEBD4)
Key Skills in Writing (KSIW)
Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary Writing (KSIC&S)
Supplementary Materials: Essential Grammar in Use (EGU), Grammar in Use (GIU), Talk is Cheap (TIC)

Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Unit 1 * Personal * Reading: The overseas * Introduce yourself to the class * Complete and incomplete
Narrative experience (a) speaking clearly, loudly sentences
SEBD4
(a) KSIW p42 * Summary (b) p10, SEBD4 * Vocabulary – word sets
(Unit 1)
(b) KSIW p51: (a) SEBD4 1.3 * Word Classes
Younger * TIC
Teacher (b) The Cambridge Revision
Days (a) Family p42
selects Guide p223-229
(b) Goals and Ambitions
Focus: appropriate
p55
Personal topic, or
(c) Friends 1&2 p50-51
Narrative teacher's
(d) Tell Me 1&2 p82-83
own topic

Unit 2 * Personal Letter * How a Malay baby is * Explain: How you got your * Tenses: Present simple
(a) KSIW Unit 3 named name or and past simple
SEBD4
(b) SEBD4 Unit 2 * KSIC&S Unit 7, * Types of Nouns
(Unit 2) * TIC
Understanding the
What's in a (a) Movies 1&2 p68-69
Question
Name? (b) Music 1&2 p70-71
(c) School Days 1&2
Focus:
p74-75
Personal
Letter

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Unit 3 * Fictional * Grave Robbers * TIC * Vocabulary
Narrative * Picture Summary Use various exercises to * How to use a Thesaurus
SEBD4
(a) SEBD4 p50- encourage speaking of English * Adjectives, adverbs, past
(Unit 3)
54, adapt and practice at answering 'on tense, pronouns
Spine
to suit class the spot' questions
Chillers
(a) Fears p48
Focus:
Fictional
Narrative
Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Unit 4 * Describing Places * Exploding Mountains * Interview * Skimming and Scanning
(a) KSIW Unit 1 * Summary: Making Notes (a) provide questions/ * Dictionary Work
SEBD4
KSIC&W Unit 8 p66-70 structure for an * Vocabulary – word sets
(Unit 5)
ex 1-2 interview * Using 5 senses
Earth, Air,
* TIC
Water, Fire
(a) Travel p89
Focus: (b) House and Home
Describing p58-59
Places

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Unit 5 * Formal Letter – a * The Ferry Crossing * TIC * Abbreviations
letter of * Summary SEBD4 p135 (a) Driving p29 * Prepositions
SEBD4
complaint about (refer ex. p.123) * Modal Verbs
(Unit 8)
a particular
On the
transport service
Move
Focus:
Formal
Letter
Unit 6 * Past Year * Hassan * TIC * Vocabulary – using
Question: a * Summary: direct to If you... p61 contextual clues p171
SEBD4
narrative based indirect speech * More Adjectives – to
(Unit 10)
on a given (a) express attitude
Once Upon
sentence. See Unit 8, p97-98
a Time
(a) K
Focus: SIW Narrative
Narrative
Unit 1 p45
Unit 7 * Describing Events * Black Mamba * TIC * Personal pronouns
KSIC p31 * Summary: changing the Have you ever....? * Review: present and past
SEBD4
(a) personal point of view p56 continuous
(Unit 11)
experience (b) Books and Reading * Vocabulary – words of
It
p28 movement
Happened
* Modal Verbs
to Me
Focus:
Describing
Events

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
Unit 8 * Eye Witness * The Great Fire of * Role Play: reporter and witness * Vocabulary – Fire Words
Report London SEBD4 p213
SEBD4
(a) SEBD4 p222 * Summary * TIC * Modal Verbs: should, must
(Unit 12)
and/or (a) Selecting relevant Questions Game * Countable and
Fire! Fire!
(b) KSIW Unit 5 information SEBD4 p38-39 uncountable nouns
Focus: (b) Linking Ideas
Eye- KSIC&W Unit 9
Witness
Report
Unit 9 * Describing People * Marianne North * O-Level oral practice – * Adjectives, conjunctions,
KSIW p14-22 (a) KSIC&W p79-83 interview relative clauses, contrast,
People
* Summary * TIC present/past participles
Focus: (a) KSIC&W p83 refer p.14, 21
Describing
People

Unit 10 * *TIC * Adjectives, participles,

* Lijiang
(a) interview type questions five senses
Various (a) KSIC&W p84
Brochures/leaflet (b) pair work (own choice,
Topics
s/ speeches most worksheets have
Focus: pair-work at the end of
Brochures, each unit)
Leaflets,
Speeches,
etc

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Notes:

1. KEY SKILLS IN COMPREHENSION AND SUMMARY - Only the first part of each Unit will be used in Form 4 to introduce concepts and skills. The
remainder of each unit can be covered in Form 5. However, all of the Summary units may be covered in Form 4.
2. KEY SKILLS IN WRITING – As a general rule, only Units 1 to 6 will be used in Form 4, the remainder to be covered in Form 5.

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 Upper Secondary (Forms 3-5) Resources List

Texts marked with an asterisk (*) should already be in schools.

Basic Texts (for each individual student)

*1. Gateway to English 3: A Secondary Course for Brunei Darussalam

*2. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 4 & 5

*3. Excel in ‘O’ English

4. Key Skills in Writing

5. Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary Writing

Supplementary Materials (2-3 class sets per school)

*1. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 3

2. Murphy, ‘Essential Grammar In Use’, Cambridge University Press

3. Murphy & Altman, ‘Grammar in Use’, Cambridge University Press

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Other Resources (4 copies for each school to be used as teacher resources)

1. Keaney, G., ‘Talk is Cheap’, CFBT

2. Cowley, G., ‘Building Vocabulary’, CFBT

3. McCarthy and Redman, ‘English Vocabulary in Use: Pre & Upper Intermediate’, Cambridge University Press

4. Glover et al., ‘The Cambridge Revision Guide’, Cambridge University Press

5. Gower, ‘Grammar in Practice 1, 2 & 3’, Cambridge University Press

6. Millar & Tier, ‘Essential English Grammar 2 & 3’, Folens

7. Blake, ‘Effective Guide to ‘O’ Level English’, Longman

8. Cruz Yap, ‘O Level Language with Distinction: Vocabulary and Comprehension’, Marshall Cavendish Education

9. Hoosan, ‘The O Level Comprehension Book’, Longman

10. Vince, ‘Elementary/Intermediate/First Certificate/ Advanced Language Practice’, Macmillan

11. Stepheny, ‘Proficiency Writing’, Longman

12. Etherton, ‘General Certificate English’, Nelson

13. Reilly, ‘Skills in Non-Fiction 1’

14. Ho Lin Lee, ‘Longman Developing Situational Writing Skills’

15. Rajamanikam, ‘English Language (Yearly) Worked Solutions: 1996-2005 GCE O Level’, Redspot

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