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Lessons
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Term 1 Weeks 1&2
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - The features and structures of a brochure
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Reading a brochure
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - Designing and writing a brochure
- Lesson 4: Language - End-of-sentence punctuation
- Lesson 5: Language - Interjections
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Term 1 Weeks 3&4
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Everything you need to know about email
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - An email
- Lesson 3: Purposeful poetry 1 - The Shakespearean sonnet
- Lesson 4: Purposeful poetry 2 - Figures of speech
- Lesson 5: Writing and presenting - Write an email to your teacher
- Lesson 6: Language - Adjectives
- Lesson 7: Language - Ellipsis (dots)
- Lesson 8: Language - The apostrophe
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Term 1 Weeks 5&6
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Elizabethan England
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - A novel (Comprehension)
- Lesson 3: Reading and writing - Writing a summary
- Lesson 4: Reading and viewing - Literary text
- Lesson 5: Writing and presenting - A narrative essay
- Lesson 6: Language - Commas and brackets
- Lesson 7: Language - Adverbs
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Term 1 Weeks 7&8
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - The features of a newspaper article
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Reading a newspaper article
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - How to write a newspaper article and an obituary
- Lesson 4: Language - Verbs
- Lesson 5: Language - Fact and opinion
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Term 1 Extension: Literature based on "King of Shadows" by Susan Cooper
- Wk 1&2 Lesson 2: Ch 1 - Reading
- Wk 3&4 Lesson 3: Ch 2 - Introduction to the new Globe Theatre
- Wk 3&4 Lesson 4: Ch 2 - Listening comprehension - A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Wk 5&6 Lesson 5: Ch 7&8 - Reading and understanding
- Wk 5&6 Lesson 6: Ch 9&10 - Reading and summarising a novel
- Wk 7&8 Lesson 7: Ch 11&12 - Reading extracts from a novel
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Term 2 Weeks 1&2
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - A Novel - King of Shadows Ch13 - Summary
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Literary text - A Novel - King of Shadows Ch14
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - A descriptive essay based on a novel - King of Shadows Ch15
- Lesson 4: Language - Phrases and clauses
- Lesson 5: Language - Conjunctions
- Lesson 6: Language - Nouns
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Term 2 Weeks 3&4
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Prepared speech on social issue - Education for all
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Comparing stylistic techniques in speeches on social issues
- Lesson 3: Reading and viewing - Poetry based on social issues
- Lesson 4: Writing and presenting - Write a speech about a social issue
- Lesson 5: Language - Spelling conventions and rules
- Lesson 6: Language - Words, sentences, paragraphs and impressive writing
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Term 2 Weeks 5&6
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Comprehension and discussion - Book vs Movie
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - A newspaper article
- Lesson 3: Reading and viewing - Analysing poetry
- Lesson 4: Writing and presenting - Write a film review
- Lesson 5: Language - Prefixes, suffixes and dictionary work
- Lesson 6: Language - Types of abbreviation
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Term 2 Weeks 7&8
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Advertisements on radio, TV and online
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Read and analyse print advertisements
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - Create a successful advert by creating effects with words
- Lesson 4: Language - Pronouns
- Lesson 5: Language - Articles
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Term 2 Extension: Literature based on "King of Shadows" by Susan Cooper
- Wk 1&2 Lesson 1: Ch 16&17 - Coming back to the future
- Wk 1&2 Lesson 2: Ch 18 - The second-last chapter
- Wk 1&2 Lesson 3: Ch 19 - Completing King of Shadows
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Term 3 Weeks 1&2
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - The short story
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - "The Playground" by Beverley Naidoo
- Lesson 3: Reading and viewing - Analysing a poem
- Lesson 4: Writing and presenting - Write a short story
- Lesson 5: Language - Proverbs and idioms
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Term 3 Weeks 3&4
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - A drama or play
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - A play "Death Takes the Train"
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - A descriptive essay based on a play
- Lesson 4: Language - Colons and semicolons
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Term 3 Weeks 5&6
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Discussion on a research-based project
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Reading for information - critically
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting a project
- Lesson 4: Language - Prepositions
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Term 3 Weeks 7&8
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Listening to songs about time
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing - Reading and analysing song lyrics
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - Writing song lyrics
- Lesson 4: Language - Direct and indirect speech
- Lesson 5: Language - Speech marks, quotation marks and inverted commas
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Term 4 Weeks 1&2
- Lesson 1: Listening to directions and instructions
- Lesson 2: Reading and viewing instructions and directions
- Lesson 3: Writing instructions and giving directions
- Lesson 4: Language - Active and passive voice
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Term 4 Weeks 3&4
- Lesson 1: Listening to and discussing current news
- Lesson 2: Reading current news on the internet
- Lesson 3: Writing a news blog
- Lesson 4: Language - Rhetorical devices, hyperbole and understatement
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Term 4 Weeks 5&6
- Lesson 1: Listening and speaking - Questionnaires
- Lesson 2: Reading and analysing a questionnaire
- Lesson 3: Writing and presenting - Completing a questionnaire
- Lesson 4: Shape poetry (Part 1)
- Lesson 5: Shape poetry (Part 2)
- Lesson 6: Language - Hyphen and dash
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Term 4 Weeks 7&8 - Revision
- Revise videos required to complete the revision activities.
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