E COLE B ILINGUE I NTERNATIONALE
B ILINGUAL I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL
8th Grade / 4e O.I.B. English
6 hours/week
Teacher : Mrs Sandra Blemings
Literature Textbook: Literature, McDougal Littell
Grammar Book: English Workbook Second Course, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Vocabulary Book: Wordly Wise 3000 Book 8 K. Hodkinson and S. Adams
Novel: Animal Farm by George Orwell
Play: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
General Objectives:
The focus of this course is reading, understanding and analysing a variety of texts, in
preparation of the IGCSE programme in 9th and 10th grades. The final year of the British Key
Stage 3 programme in reading comprehension and writing will be the core curriculum. There
will be frequent opportunities to develop skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Grammar and spelling strategies will also be included to enable pupils to gain a better
understanding of the English language.
Each week the students will do vocabulary enrichment, comprehension development and
novel work, with accompanying written activities. Oral participation is also very important.
Other material taken from the KS3 workbooks
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English at Key Stage 3 (Grade 8 Final Year)
Speaking and Listening
Throughout this final year of Key Stage 3 students will learn and develop skills that will
enable them to communicate more effectively. They will improve their listening skills and
their ability to interpret tone of voice and gestures.
Reading
The emphasis of class time will be on the skills of reading and writing. In Grade 8 they will
have the opportunity to read and respond to a range of texts: novels, poetry, fiction and nonfiction. They will read modern texts and writing from other historical periods. The skills they
will develop are: reading for research, reading for meaning, and understanding the author's
style.
Writing
Throughout their reading they will identify a range of techniques to make their own writing
more effective. The major writing styles they will develop are: writing to imagine, explore,
entertain; writing to inform, explain, describe; writing to analyse and comment; and writing to
persuade and argue. They will also be developing their writing skills in looking at how to
plan and structure their work.
READING
1. Fiction and plays
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Understand characters and their development
Comment on the setting of stories and plays
Understand relationships and their development
Understand the importance of openings
Study the Shakespeare play in an informed way
2. Non-fiction
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Understand autobiographies
Understand travel writing
Identify key points in leaflets
Read advertisements with understanding
Compare the content of different newspapers
Read for information and research
3. Poetry
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Understand poetry that tells a story
Comment on the use of imagery
Comment on the structure of a poem
Compare poems on a certain theme
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5 Rue Bansac 63037 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex
Tel : 04 73 98 09 73
Fax : 04 73 90 62 23
Email : [email protected]
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B ILINGUAL I NTERNATIONAL S CHOOL
WRITING
1. To inform, instruct, explain and describe.
Writing to inform
 Conventions of information texts
 Writing your own information text
 When does information become persuasion?
Writing to instruct
 Giving clear instructions
Writing to explain
 Conventions of an explanation text
Writing to describe
 Describing people
 Describing places
 Describing memories
2. To imagine, explore and entertain
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writing poetry
creating characters
creating a setting
writing a dialogue
structure (beginning, middle, end)
narrative perspective (1st /3rd person)
3. Writing to persuade and argue
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Persuasive letters and other texts
Persuasive speeches
Persuasive arguments
Discursive arguments
4. Writing to review, analyse and comment
 Writing reviews
 Analysis and comment
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5 Rue Bansac 63037 Clermont-Ferrand Cedex
Tel : 04 73 98 09 73
Fax : 04 73 90 62 23
Email : [email protected]