Teaching Contract for Form 4

WEEK/DATES
WEEK/DATES

THEMES

TOPIC

TOPIC
Knowing
Me
Knowing
Week 1
You
Week 3/1/12
4
2.0
Saving
to
ENVIRONMENT Every
22/1/12
to 5/1/12
Drop
( 3 days)
26/1/12
(5 days)
1.0
THEMES
PEOPLE

LEVEL
LEVEL
1
1

2
WeekWeek
5
2
29/1/12
8/1/12
to to
2/2/12
12/1/12
(5 days)
(5 days)

3
2

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Talk about
LEARNING
wedding
OUTCOMES
customs and
ritual.
Reporting
Recalling past
similarities and
experiences on
differences
water shortage by
between two
completing a mind
weddings.
map.
Choral reading.
Reading a
newspaper report.
Reading the poem
Role playing
aloud.
using cue
cards.
Brainstorming
Interviewing
about organizing an
people.
event.
Finding
Writing a survey
meaning of
report.
words using
Giving opinions on
contextual
water
clues.conversation.
Presenting
information on a
campaign.
Problem

Week 3
solving and
EVENTS:15/1/12
decision
to
3
making.
15/1/2012-19/1/12
Hari Keputeraan Sultan Kedah (State Holiday)
Predicting the
22 26/1/2012
Chinese New Year (School Holiday)
(5 days)
outcomes of
events.

LITERATURE

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Reading a
LANGUAGE CONTENT
TEACHING
GRAMMAR:
Writing: 1
poem aloud.
LITERATURE
CONTRACT
Language
Choral
Forms and
Comprehensio
Reading.
Reading the
functions.
GRAMMAR: n / Grammar:
Writing: 1
poem aloud.
IN THE MIDST
5 forms
Language
SOUND
OF HARDSHIP
HE HAD SUCH SYSTEM: and functions.
Comprehensi
QUIET EYES
on /
Vowel
SOUND SYSTEM:
Grammar: 5
sounds /
Consonant
I / i:/
/v/ and /w/
Diphtongs /
Matching
eI/ /aI/
meanings to
WORD LIST:Writing: 1
/oi/
expressions.
Words beginning
Reading the
Identifying
with /v/ Comprehensio
and /w/
Writing: 1
poem to show
the rhyme
n / Grammar:
Words related
to
the effect of WORD LIST:
scheme in
5
environmental
repetition.
Comprehensi
Words to
prescribed
issues.
on /
describe
poems.
HE HAD SUCH wedding.
Grammar: 5
QUIET EYES
IN THE MIDST
OF HARDSHIP

Picking out
the idea from
each stanza.

IN THE MIDST
OF HARDSHIP

Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

WEEK/DATES

THEMES
3.0
SOCIAL
ISSUES

Week 6
5/2/12
to
9/2/12
( 5 days)

Week 7
12/2/12
to
16/2/12
(5 days)
Week 8
19/2/12
to
23/2/12
(5 days)

TOPIC

LEVEL

LEARNING
OUTCOMES

Sharing and
recording past
events.
Using the
internet to
source for
information.
Writing a letter of
appreciation.
Listening to a
poem to
sequence
events.

Reaching
Out

Presenting a
group report.
Get meaning of
words using a
dictionary.
Keeping a
discussion
going.
Giving a talk on

LITERATURE

Listening to a
poem to
sequence
events.

NATURE

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
The Simple Past
Tense
Modals- should
and need

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

SOUND SYSTEM:
Sentence stress
and intonation

Choosing
appropriate
descriptive
words.

NATURE

Reading
excerpts to
determine
setting.

WORD LIST:
Words related to
social issues.

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5
Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /

Grammar: 5

NATURE
Alzheimers
disease.

EVENTS:
5/2/2012 Prophet Muhammads Bithday (Public Holiday)

WEEK/DATES
Week 9
26/2/12
to
1/3/12
( 5 days)

THEMES
4.0
HEALTH

TOPIC
Checking
up on
health

LEVEL

LEARNING
OUTCOMES

Reading about
peoples
experiences.
Skimming and
scanning to identify
fact or opinion.

LITERATURE

QWERTYUIOP

Week 10
4/3/12
to
8/3/12
(5 days)

2
3

Planning a visit to
an organization.
Discussing organ
donation.
Listening for
specific information
to complete a flow
chart.

Reading
excerpts to
determine
characters.

Reading and
listing
characteristics
of characters.

LANGUAGE
CONTENT

TEACHING
CONTRACT

GRAMMAR:
The Present
Perfect Tense
Revision on the
Simple Past
Tense

Writing: 1

SOUND SYSTEM:
Stress on foursyllable words.

Writing: 1

QWERTYUIOP
WORD LIST:
Words related to
health.
Terms for
diseases.

Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Week 11
11/3/12
to
15/3/12
(5 days)

WEEK/DATES

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

THEMES
5.0

Week 12
18/3/12
to
22/3/12
( 5 days)

Week 13
25/3/12
to
29/3/12
(5 days)

VALUES

TOPIC

LEVEL

Deciding on
dams

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Sharing information
on dams
Listening to a
dialogue and
answering true or
false questions.
Gathering
information via
media.
Giving opinions on
building dams.
Summarizing short
passages regarding
dams.
Completing a
graphic organizer.

LITERATURE

Reading the
poem aloud.
Relating the
situation in
the poem to
real life.

ARE YOU
PLAYING
FLUTE

STILL
YOUR

Selecting
images from
poems that
describe
moods.
Picking out
words which
appeal to the
senses.
ARE YOU STILL
PLAYING
YOUR

LANGUAGE CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Gerunds after
prepositions
Infinitives

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

SOUND SYSTEM:
Homophones
WORD LIST:
Words related to issue
of dams.

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

FLUTE

Week 14
1/4/12
to
5/4/12
(5 days)

WEEK/DATES

Week 15
8/4/12
to
12/4/12
( 5 days)

THEMES
6.0
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY

TOPIC

LEVEL

Going
HighTech
1

2
Week 16
15/4/12
to
19/4/12
(5 days)

Discussing
consequences of
land- clearing.
Presenting a
speech.
Picking out words
which appeal to the
senses.

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Sharing
experiences
about Internet
shopping.
Simulating
shopping over
the Internet.
Listening and
picking out
specific words.
Reading short
texts and
transferring
information
onto a chart.

Finding
evidence from
poem on how
feelings and
mood are
created.
ARE YOU STILL
PLAYING
YOUR
FLUTE

LITERATURE

Dramatising
the poem.

IN THE MIDST OF
HARDSHIP

Identifying
similes and
metaphors in
a poem.

IN THE MIDST OF

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Passive
Construction
Logical
Connectors
Sequence
Connectors
The prefix pre
SOUND SYSTEM:
Consonant
clusters
/sl/ /kl/
WORD LIST:

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

 Technology
terms.
Words
beginning
with /sl/ and /kl/.

HARDSHIP
Interviewing
people about
their job.

Initiating and

Week 17
22/4/12
to
26/4/12
(5 days)

WEEK/DATES

THEMES

TOPIC

Week 18
29/4/12
to
3/5/12
( 5 days)

7.0
PEOPLE

Looking
Up
Lifestyles

LEVEL
1

keeping a
discussion
going.
Writing a
report.

Revision

Writing: 1

IN THE MIDST OF
HARDSHIP

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Sharing experiences
on eating foreign
food.
Completing a
conversation.
Finding the origins of
food.

LITERATURE

Role playing
the
characters.

QWERTYUIOP

Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Concord:
Subject Verb
Agreement
Adjectives and
Nouns
SOUND SYSTEM:

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

Week 19
6/5/12
to
10/5/12
(5 days)

Role playing using

cue cards.
Making a verbal
complaint about a
product and
responding to the
complaint.
Finding synonyms
using a thesaurus.
Making inquiries,
placing an order and
giving feedback.

Rearranging
and
completing
the
sequence of
events

QWERTYUIOP.

Week 20
13/5/12
to
17/5/12
(5 days)

WEEK/
DATES
Week 21
20/5/12
to
24/5/12
( 5 days)

THEMES

TOPIC

8.0
ENVIRONMENT

Caring For
the
Environment

Discussing using
handphones.
Writing a composition.

LEVEL

LEARNING OUTCOMES

Sharing experiences on
environmental damage.
Reading short texts
and scanning for
information.
Listening to a forum
and completing a
graphic organizer.

Words from
foreign
languages.
WORD LIST:
Words from
foreign
languages.

Writing a
dialogue
based on the
short story.

Reading and
comprehendi
ng the short
story.

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL

Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

QWERTYUIOP

LITERATURE

Writing: 1

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Verb and
preposition
combinations.
Adjective and
preposition
combinations.

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

SOUND SYSTEM:
Homographs

Week 22
30/5/10
to
3/6/10
(5 days)

Week 23
30/5/10
to
3/6/10
(5 days)

Exchanging ideas and

opinions about the
environment.
Identifying main ideas
and supporting details.
Making predictions.

Having a discussion
based on the short
story.
Identifying cause and
effect.
Writing a composition
on deforestation.

Completing a
diagram to
determine
rising action
and climax.

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL

Writing: 1
WORD LIST:
Words related to
environmental
issues.

Rearranging
sequence of
events.

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL

Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

EVENTS:

WEEK/DATES

THEMES

TOPIC

LEVEL

LEARNING OUTCOMES

LITERATURE

LANGUAGE CONTENT

TEACH
CONTR

Week 23
27/5/12
to
31/5/12
( 5 days)

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Week 24
3/6/12
to
7/6/12
(5 days)

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Week 25
10/6/12
to
14/6/12
(5 days)

Week 26
17/6/12
to
21/6/12
(5 days)

EVENTS:

9.0
SOCIAL
ISSUES

Facing
Teenage
Blues

Sharing experiences on
problems.
Listening to problems and
jotting down key points.
Reading an article on
depression.

Making decisions and

coming to a consensus.
Interviewing a school
counselor.
Giving advice to
teenagers.

Writing events in a
poem in the form of a
diary entry.

HE HAD SUCH QUIET EYES

Composing a poem.

GRAMMAR:
Punctuation- colon,
hypen, brackets
Revision- Present
Perfect and Simple
Past Tenses.
SOUND SYSTEM:
Consonant sounds /kr/
/br/ /fl/ /bl/

HE HAD SUCH QUIET EYES

WORD LIST:
Words related teenage
issues.
Words beginning
with /kr/ /br/ /fl/ /bl/

Writing:

Compreh
on /
Gramma

Writing:

Compreh
on /
Gramma

WEEK/
DATES

Week 27
24/6/12
to
28/6/12
( 5 days)

Week 28
1/7/12
to
5/7/12
(5 days)

Week 29
8/7/12
to
12/7/12
(5 days)

EVENTS:

THEMES

TOPIC

10.0
SCIENCE AND
TECHNOLOGY

Moving
Ahead

LEVEL

LEARNING
OUTCOMES
Sharing
experiences.
Watching a video
advertisement and
taking notes.
Reading for
details, making
inferences,
moving beyond
the text.

Matching meaning
of expressions.
Finding meanings
to words using
contextual clues
and the dictionary.

Role playing
buying a product.
Writing a letter of
complaint.
Predicting the
cause and effect
of actions and
decisions.

LITERATURE

Reciting the
poem in
various
musical styles.
NATURE

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Prepositions of
direction
Prepositions of
purpose

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

SOUND SYSTEM:
Consonant
sounds /s/
/zem/ /sp/

Picking out
lines to show
personification
NATURE

Writing the
poem from a
different point
of view.
NATURE

WORD LIST:
Words beginning
with /s/ /zem/
and /sp/.

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

WEEK/DATES

THEMES

TOPIC

Week 30
15/7/12
to
19/7/12
(5 days)

Week 31
22/7/12
to
26/7/12
(5 days)

Week 32
29/7/12
to
2/8/12
(5 days)

LEVEL

LEARNING
OUTCOMES

Completing a table
on meals.
Discussing a meal
plan.
Searching for
information on health
topics.

11.0
HEALTH
Healthy
Living

Reading food labels

and exchanging
ideas.
Giving advice to
health problems.
Choosing the most
suitable word.
Making enquires
about a product and
making decisions
based on
information.
Discuss the attitude
of Malaysian youth
on fitness.
Comparing reasons.

LITERATURE

Dramatising
the poem.

ARE YOU STILL

PLAYING YOUR
FLUTE

Deciding point
of view.
Reading a
poem and
deciding the
persona.

ARE YOU STILL

PLAYING YOUR
FLUTE
Rewriting the
poem in the
form of drama.
ARE YOU STILL
PLAYING YOUR
FLUTE

LANGUAGE
CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
Prepositions of
time
Prepositions of
association
SOUND SYSTEM:
Consonant
sounds /k/ /ks/
/z/
WORD LIST:
Words to
describe health
problems.
Words beginning
with /k/, /ks/
and /z/.

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5
Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

WEEK/DATES
Week 33
5/8/12
to
9/8/12
( 5 days)

THEMES
12.0
VALUES

TOPIC

LEVEL

Loving Our
Country

Week 34
12/8/12
to
16/8/12
(5 days)

Week 35
19/8/12
to
23/9/12
(5 days)
EVENTS:
31/8/2010- National Day (Public Holiday)

LEARNING OUTCOMES
Talking about patriotism.
Dictation.
Reading an article on the
Twin Towers.
Completing a fact sheet.

Agreeing or disagreeing
with opinions.
Finding words with the
same meaning.
Completing a crossword
puzzle with antonyms.
Initiating and keeping a
discussion going.
Writing a descriptive
essay.
Writing ones opinion.

LITERATURE

Revision
QWERTYUIOP

Revision
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Revision

LANGUAGE CONTENT
GRAMMAR:
The Past Perfect Tense
Adverbs of Degreethoroughly, completely,
nearly
SOUND SYSTEM:
Sentence stress in
statements and
questions.
WORD LIST:
Words to describe the
beauty of our country.

TEACHIN
CONTRAC

Writing: 1

Comprehe
on /
Grammar:

Writing: 1

Comprehe
on /
Grammar:

Writing: 1

QWERTYUIOP

Comprehe
on /
Grammar:

WEEK/DATES

THEMES

TOPIC

LEVEL

Week 36
19/8/12
to
23/8/12
(5 days)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

LITERATURE

LANGUAGE CONTENT

TEACHING
CONTRACT

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

13.0
ENVIRONMENT
Week 37
26/8/12
to
30/8/12
(5 days)

Week 38
2/9/12
to
6/9/12
(5 days)
Week 39
9/9/12
to
13/9/12
(5 days)

EVENTS:
5/9/2010 -11/9/2010- School Holidays

Preserving
Nature
1

Sharing information on
wetlands.
Discussing activities in a
wetland.
Carrying out an experiment
on peat.
Reading a text on wetland
site.
Designing a brochure for a
wetland.
Planning a trip to a wetland.
Scanning for words to
complete a table.

Revisio
n

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL

Revisio
n

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL
Discussing aspects of a
brochure and making
decisions.
Drawing a food web.

Revisio
n

THE FRUITCAKE
SPECIAL

GRAMMAR:
Conjuctions
eitheror,
neithernor
Conjuctions-
although, however
SOUND SYSTEM:
Contractions d and
m.
Silent g /n/,
Silent l /m/, /lm/,
/r/ sounds.
WORD LIST:
Words to describe
wetlands.
Words with silent g
/n/,
silent l /m/, /lm/,
/r/ sounds.

Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5
Writing: 1
Comprehensio
n / Grammar:
5

10/9/2010-11/9/2010- Hari Raya Aidilfitri (Public Holidays)

THEMES

TOPIC

LEVEL

LEARNING OUTCOMES

LANGUAGE CONTENT

WEEK/DATES

Week 40
16/9/12
to
20/9/12
( 5 days)

Week 41
23/9/12
to
27/9/12
(5 days)

Week 42
30/9/12
to
4/10/12
(5 days)

Week 43
7/10/12
to
11/10/12
(5 days)
EVENTS:

14.0
People

Promoting
Our Crafts
1

Sharing experiences about

arts or crafts.
Reading about lotus shoes.

Reading short excerpts to

give opinion.
Brainstorming and making
decisions.
Listening and completing a
graphic organizer.
Initiating and keeping a
discussion going.
Writing a summary or
description.

REVISION

GRAMMAR:
Types of sentences:
simple sentence,
compound sentence,
complex sentence.
SOUND SYSTEM:
The diphthong sound
/eu/
The /e/ and /^/ sounds
WORD LIST:
Words to describe
different types of crafts.

TEACHING
CONTRACT

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Writing: 1
Comprehensi
on /
Grammar: 5

Week 44
31/10/10
to
4/11/10
(5 days)

REVISION

Week 45
7/11/10
to
11/11/10
(5 days)
Week 46
14/11/10
to
18/11/10
EVENTS:

FINAL YEAR EXAMINATION

Discussion of Final Year examination paper

17/11/2010- 18/11/2010- Hari Raya Haji (Public Holidays)

19/11/2010 -1/1/2011 School Holidays