COURSE OF STUDY

ENGLISH LANGUAGE FORM 3

NAME:________________________________ CLASS:__________________

TOPIC STATUS
KNOWS HAS NOT HAS
MASTERED MASTERED
1. READING:
Skim and scan articles for details
Identify main ideas & supporting details
Read and make predictions, giving reasons
Read and identify cause & effect
Read and draw conclusions / predict outcomes
Read and locate information in various texts
Read and identify problems & solutions
Understand the meaning of words using contextual clues
Follow sequence of ideas / events
Interpret linear and non-linear texts
2. SPEAKING:
Take part in discussions by making suggestions, agreeing and
showing preference
Respond to questions appropriately by stating, refuting and
giving details
Respond to statements and opinions by agreeing and
disagreeing politely
Request assistance and express support for others
Take part in discussions by agreeing, disagreeing, giving
opinions and defending ones point of view
Participate in conversations by giving support and expressing
appreciation
Participate in conversations by expressing concern / support
for others
Ask for assistance and respond politely
Participate in conversations by seeking clarification and
responding appropriately
Ask for assistance and express gratitude
Enquire about the service offered
Make inquiries on an advertisement
Take down messages for friends & family members and relay
messages orally
Tell a story about friendship
Relate personal experiences
Deliver speeches
Respond to questions orally
Retell a story in own words
3. WRITING
Reply an email on a school project
Write an article by expanding notes and outlines
Write a description of a famous personality
Write a speech by expanding notes and outlines
 Write a letter with guidance
Write a formal letter by expanding notes and outlines
Write a letter to a pen pal overseas on sport and exercise
Write an article by applying process skills
Write a simple report based on an itinerary given
Write a recount by expanding the notes and outlines given
Write a book review
Write a simple report with guidance
Write factual essays by expanding notes and outlines
Write stories on moral values by expanding the given notes
Write dialogues
4. COMPONENTS OF A GOOD ESSAY:
Use different types of introductions
Give appropriate content points
Write clear thesis sentences
Write clear topic sentences (TS)
Provide elaboration and examples to support TS
Conclude essays well
Use the correct format
Use interesting and appropriate words/phrases
Use a variety of sentences
Use idioms, proverbs, quotations
Use appropriate connectors to link points
Use dialogues and descriptions effectively in stories
5. LITERATURE
Poem 1: A Fighters Lines
Recite the poem with feeling and expression
Relate poem to real life
Identify themes and moral values
Give meaning of words and phrases in the poems
Answer comprehension questions
Give opinions and suggestions
Poem 2: Leisure
Recite the poem with feeling and expression
Relate poem to real life
Identify themes and moral values
Give meaning of words and phrases in the poems
Answer comprehension questions
Give opinions and suggestions
Novel: The Railway Children
Identify the themes and provide evidence
Identify moral values/message and provide evidence
Describe events and give appropriate evidence
Describe characters and provide evidence
Describe setting
Act out / mime out sections of the novel

Describe how events/values in the text are similar to ones
life
6. GRAMMAR
Building Sentences:
Simple Sentences
Compound Sentences
Complex Sentences
Active and Passive Sentences
Positive and negative sentences
Imperatives
Tenses:
Present Tense to show truth and fact, habitual actions, for
instructions
Past tense
Future tense will, going to
Present Continuous Tense
Past Continuous Tense
Future Continuous Tense
Present Perfect Tense
Past Perfect Tense
Verbs:
Regular and irregular verbs
Adjectives:
Comparison of adjectives regular and irregular forms
comparative/superlative
To describe qualities
Adverbs:
Adverbs of Place
Pronouns:
Possessive Pronouns
Demonstrative Pronouns
Personal Pronouns
Nouns:
Countable and uncountable nouns
Plural nouns
Prepositions:
Prepositions of Time at, before, by, after, on
Prepositions of Direction
Prepositions of Place
Prepositions of Position
Preposition of to show Quantity
Conjunctions: and, but, or, so, because
Sentence Connectors & Sequence Connectors
Articles: a, an, the, zero article
Subject verb Agreement
Modals: can, cannot, must, mustnt, may, might
 Question Words what, whom. why, when, where, who, whose, which
7. VOCABULARY
Base words
Quantifiers
Prefixes un, dis, im, non, in, tele, inter, pre, mis
Suffixes er, or, ess, -ion, -ation, -ness, -ly, -less
Word families derivatives
Word Relations
Contextual clues (pronouns)
Phrasal verbs
Compound words
Idioms and proverbs
Similes
Figurative Language
Synonyms and Antonyms
Formal vs Informal Expressions
8. PUNCTUATION:
Comma
Apostrophe
Exclamation Mark
Question Mark
Quotation Mark
Capital Letters
Full stop
9. FORM THREE TOPICS:
Special Ties
Political figures
Famous Personalities
Challenges Faced by Young People
Time Management
Teenagers and Careers
Mirror, Mirror
Take A Break!
Be Fit, Be healthy
Keep Malaysia Beautiful
For A Better Tomorrow
Natural Disasters
Sea Transportation
Jewels of The Sea
Amazing Sea Creatures