Structure English Grammar Primary 4 First Term Lesson Notes

Structure : English Grammar Primary 4 First Term

Week 1: Review of Previous Term’s Work

  • Focus: Revisit key concepts and skills from the third term.
  • Activities: Group discussions, review exercises, and practice tests.

Week 2: Speech Work and Reading

  • Speech Work: Practice expressing possibility and permission.
    • Objectives: Use appropriate words in discussions, construct oral sentences.
    • Activities: Group discussions, sentence construction.
  • Reading: Comprehension passage “The Kindness of the Village Dog.”
    • Objectives: Identify main ideas, use evidence for discussion, relate values to personal experience.
    • Activities: Reading, group discussions, and vocabulary exercises.

Week 3: Structure – Modal Auxiliaries

  • Focus: Practice using modal auxiliaries to express excuses, possibility, obligation, and permission.
  • Objectives: Engage in conversations, identify and use modal auxiliaries in sentences.
  • Activities: Role-playing, group exercises, and sentence creation.

Week 4: Expressing Obligations

  • Focus: Using ‘Must’, ‘Have To’, and ‘Ought To’ to express responsibilities.
  • Objectives: Understand and apply expressions of obligation in sentences.
  • Activities: Sentence creation, role-play scenarios.

Week 5: Expressing Permission

  • Focus: Using ‘Can’, ‘May’, and ‘Might’ for giving and asking for permission.
  • Objectives: Construct sentences showing permission, practice polite requests.
  • Activities: Group dialogues, sentence construction exercises.

Week 6: Understanding Possibility

  • Focus: Using ‘Might’, ‘Could’, and ‘May’ to discuss possibilities.
  • Objectives: Differentiate between certainty and possibility, create sentences.
  • Activities: Group discussions, practice sentences.

Week 7: Mid-Term Assessment and Break

  • Focus: Review and assess understanding of topics covered.
  • Activities: Mid-term exams, review sessions, and feedback.

Week 8: Revision of Modal Auxiliaries

  • Focus: Further practice on modal auxiliaries.
  • Objectives: Reinforce understanding and use of modal verbs in various contexts.
  • Activities: Review exercises, group activities.

Week 9: Review of Sentence Structures

  • Focus: Sentence formation using different tenses and modal verbs.
  • Objectives: Practice constructing sentences, review grammar rules.
  • Activities: Sentence construction exercises, peer review.

Week 10: Advanced Reading Comprehension

  • Focus: Understanding and analyzing more complex texts.
  • Objectives: Extract and discuss main ideas, supporting details, and values.
  • Activities: Reading passages, group discussions, and comprehension exercises.

Week 11: Comprehensive Revision

  • Focus: Review all topics covered during the term.
  • Objectives: Prepare for final exams, clarify doubts, and consolidate learning.
  • Activities: Revision exercises, Q&A sessions, and mock exams.

Week 12: Examination

  • Focus: Evaluate overall understanding of the term’s content.
  • Activities: Final exams consisting of objective questions, short answer questions, and true/false statements.