FIRST TERM ENGLISH STUDIES SCHEME OF WORK FOR PRIMARY FIVE (5)/ BASIC FIVE

FIRST TERM ENGLISH STUDIES SCHEME OF WORK FOR PRIMARY FIVE (5)/ BASIC FIVE

                                              WEEK 1

Review of primary four third term work

                                         WEEK 2

1. Speech work: The tenses (Modal Auxiliaries)
2. Structure: Make sentences with ‘must, ought to, Have to,
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning  and comprehension
4. Grammar: Formal or official letters. Features And styles
5. Writing: Guided composition on how I spent my Last holiday
6. Dictation: Selected sentences from the passage Read.

                                        WEEK 3

1. Speech work: Sentences in the passive voice ‘with and without an agent’
2. Structure: Mastering of the passive voice Construction change active sentences into
   Passive voice.
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning and comprehension
4. Grammar: Relative clauses using words such as “who”, “which”, and “that”
5. Writing: Writing abbreviated forms of letters e.g. Telegrams format/content
6. Dictation: Selected sentences from the passage
   Read.

                            WEEK 4

1. Speech work: Intonation practice in statement Questions command and request
2. Structure: Paragraph from children’s novels. Good Neighborliness e.t.c
3. Reading:  Teaching of new words meaning and Comprehension
4. Grammar: Paragraphs major and minor Characters
5. Writing: My best friend.
6. Dictation: Selected sentences from the passage Read.

                              WEEK 5

1. Speech work: Reading poem on good Neighborliness
2. Structure: Selected poem based on the virtues of Good neighborliness
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning, and  comprehension
4. Grammar:  Formal letter to a village head or any Other constituted authority
5. Writing: Features of formal and informal letters
6. Dictation: Selected sentences from the passage Read

                                    WEEK 6

1. Speech work: Making polite requests
2. Structure: Sentence building on reported speech
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meanings and comprehension
4. Grammar: Choose the word from group B that Goes with each word in group A
5. Writing: Formal invitation
6. Dictation: Selected sentences from passage read.

                                          WEEK 7

1. Speech work: Using the telephone {Call and Response in telephone conversation}
2. Structure: Compare and contrast polite intonation And the rude or impolite tone/intonation in Dialogue
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning comprehension Comprehension
4. Grammar: Comparison of formal and informal Letters in request of formal feature
5. Writing: Guided composition on bicycle
6. Dictation: Selected Words from the passage read.

                           WEEK 8

1. Speech work: Intonation practice.
2. Structure: Reported speech
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning and Comprehension
4. Grammar: Writing the opposite of the underlined Words
5. Writing: Abbreviated forms of letter e.g. Telegram
6. Dictation: Selected Words from the passage read.

                              WEEK 9

1. Speech work:  Making reports of statements, Commands, questions changing reports to direct Speech.
2. Structure: Sentence building.
3. Reading: Teaching of new words- meaning comprehension
4. Grammar: Intonation practice on question Tags
5. Writing: Describing a house.
6. Dictation: Selected words from the passage read.

                                 WEEK 10

1. Speech work: Simple narrative on the virtue of Truthfulness
2. Structure: Attribute of Truthfulness
3. Reading: Teaching of new words, meaning and Comprehension
4. Grammar: Present tense and past tense
5. Writing:  My school
6. Dictation: Selected Words/ sentences from the passage read.

                        WEEK 11

1. Speech work: Direct and indirect speech
2. Structure: Sentence building
3. Reading: Teaching of new words meaning and Comprehension
4. Grammar: Debate “Corporal punishment should
   Not be enforced in school”
5. Writing: reply to an invitation letter
6. Dictation: Selected Words from the passage read.

WEEK 12: REVISION AND EXAMINATION