OREL VINE SCHOOL
YEAR 11 ENGLISH LANGUAGE COURSE OUTLINE 2021 -2022
TERM I | TERM II | TERM III |
Unit 1A: Leisure, sport, travel & pastimes Reading; skimming and scanning, selecting points for summary, making notes using your own words and looking at writers’ language choices. | Unit 2A: People, society, lifestyles, relationships Reading, expanding notes, sentence structure, vocabulary building, summary style, collating texts, how writers achieve effects | Unit 3A: Ideas, art, science, technology Reading, collating texts, analyzing style, vocabulary building, advanced punctuation |
Unit 1B: Leisure, sport, travel & pastimes Directed writing; diaries, formal and informal letters, considering the audience, choosing s style | Unit 2B: People, society, lifestyles, relationships Directed writing, persuasive writing, analyzing techniques, writing publicity material, drawing inferences, writing in role, targeting an audience | Unit 3B: Ideas, art, science, technology Directed writing, expressing and supporting a view, collating and ordering information, reports, and articles |
Unit 1C: Leisure, sport, travel & pastimes Composition; planning continuous writing, descriptive compositions, using adjectives and imagery | Unit 2C: People, society, lifestyles, relationships Composition, composing narratives, engaging the reader, dialogue punctuation | Unit 3C: Ideas, art, science, technology Composition, making a case, constructing an argument, presenting a discussion, using rhetorical devices, and improving spelling. |
Week 1 Lesson 1
L.O(s) Explore how we can identify and unpack the explicit meanings of a text. Keywords
Week 1 Lesson 2
L.O(s) Explore how we can extract detailed and implied meanings from a text.