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P5 English Language
• Joy of Learning
• Topical Coverage
• P5 Level Focuses
• P5 Key Strategies
• Assessment Format
• Home Support
Content
Joy of Learning
Being curious about things happening around us while enjoying the
learning process (use of newspapers)
Joy of Learning
What’s up newspapers – Oracy
• read on current affairs to find out what’s happening around us
• arouse students curiosity to read and find out more about related
topics of interest
• representing views and ideas creatively by responding to articles read
• working in groups/pairs to talk about ideas and share opinions
Joy of Learning
Writing
• produce writing with an awareness of the audience, purpose,
context and culture for various functional purposes
• focus on creative and personal writing to express ideas and share
experiences
Topic Coverage
Unit 1: Heartbeats in the Dark
Unit 2: Late but not Last
Unit 3: Basic Photography
Unit 4: Ride On!
Unit 5: Space Junk
Unit 6: When I Grow Up
Unit 7: Ten
Unit 8: What Happens When You Laugh
Unit 9: Amazing Friends
Unit 10: Preserving Food
P5 Level Focuses
Oracy Writing
Speak and represent (appropriate
for purpose, audience, culture &
context) widely
e.g. in expositions - reviews of
a movie/book/show
Review, revise, proofread and
edit to improve writing and
representation,
Transition-Action-Details,
What-Why-How Chart
P5 Key Strategies
KWL – Know - Want to Know - Learnt (Non-fiction texts)
• helps readers relate a new topic or information to what they
already know
• anticipate what they will be reading about
• Young readers to make use of the strategy as they read non-fiction
texts to help them understand
• become involved in the text by having them look for information they
want to know
P5 Key Strategies
SSR-Sustained Silent Reading
• 10 min silent reading
• sharing of book read by teacher or peers
• promote reading for enjoyment and sharing of good books
SR-Supported Reading (Narrative texts)
• reading for understanding and enjoyment
• predicting and questioning
• reading strategies
• text types
• text features
P5 Assessment Format
Assessment : CA1
Paper Booklet Item Type No. of Qns No. of marks/Qn Weighting Duration
2 - Vocabulary
MCQ
8 1 20% 50 min
Grammar MCQ 10 1 25%
Grammar Cloze
OE
10 1 25%
Editing for
Spelling and
Grammar OE
12 1 30%
Total 40 100%
P5 Assessment FormatAssessment : SA1 & SA2
Paper Components / Booklet Item Type No. of
Qns
Marks / Marks
per Qn
Weighting Duration
1 Situational Writing OE 1 15 27.5% 1h 10 min
Continuous Writing OE 1 40
2 A Grammar MCQ 10 1 47.5% 1h 50 min
Vocabulary MCQ 5 1
Vocabulary Cloze MCQ 5 1
Visual Text Comprehension MCQ 8 1
B Grammar Cloze OE 10 1
Editing for Spelling & Grammar OE 12 1
Comprehension Cloze OE 15 1
Synthesis/Transformation OE 5 2
Comprehension OE 10 1, 2 or 3
P5 Assessment Format
Assessment : SA1 & SA2
Paper Components / Booklet Item Type No. of
Qns
Marks /
Marks per
Qn
Weighting Duration
3 Listening Listening Comprehension MCQ 20 1 10% About
35 min
4 Oral Reading Aloud OE 1
passage
10 15% About 10 min
(5 min
preparation
time;
about 5 min
exam time)
Stimulus-based Conversation
OE
1 visual
stimulus
20
Total - - 100%
P5 Assessment Format
Assessment : CA2
Paper 10 Booklet Item Type No. of Qns No. of marks/Qn Weighting Duration
2 - Vocabulary
Cloze MCQ
5 1 12.5% 50 min
Visual Text
Comprehension
MCQ
6 1 15%
Comprehension
Cloze OE
15 1 37.5%
Synthesis/
Transformation
2 2 10%
Comprehension
OE
5 2 25%
Total 33 100%
Home Support
• Find quality age-appropriate texts
e.g. school & national libraries
• Exposure to different authors and genres
(Read regularly)
• Discuss books/articles read and shows watched critically –
perspective taking, state ideas/opinions & make a stand
• Develop a study routine – engage in self-study (with supervision)
Between 30 to 90 min a day
• Learn spelling & dictation weekly
• Build vocabulary on a regular basis
• Practise reading aloud
Thanks!Happy 2020