Curriculum Shule Direct Kenya Secondary School Form 2 English

English Form 2 Syllabus

  1. Listening and Speaking
    1. Pronunciation
      1. Further practice on problematic sounds
      2. Stress and intonation
      3. Rhyme in poetry
      4. Word play (puns)
    2. Listening Comprehension and note taking
      1. Listening and responding to myths, legends and songs.
      2. Features of myths
      3. Features of legends
      4. Features of songs.
      5. Listening and responding to information on: issues of social responsibility, drugs and substance abuse, anti-corruption, information technology.
      6. Skills of attention and turn taking through use of dialogues.
    3. Mastery of content
      1. Interviews
    4. Etiquette
      1. Telephone etiquette
    5. Non verbal skills in listening and speaking
      1. Facial expressions, gesture and eye contact.
      2. Bowing/curtsying.
  2. Grammar
    1. Parts of Speech:Nouns
      1. Collective nouns
      2. Compound nouns
      3. Use of phrasal quantifiers e.g. a piece of advice
      4. Possessives
    2. Parts of Speech: Pronouns
      1. Number and person in pronouns.
      2. Indefinite pronouns.
    3. Parts of Speech:Verbs
      1. Auxiliary verbs - Primary Verbs
      2. Auxiliary verbs - Modal Verbs
      3. Aspect - Perfective aspect
      4. Aspect - Progressive aspect
      5. Future time
    4. Parts of Speech:Adjectives
      1. Adjectives: Recap
      2. Order of adjectives
    5. Parts of Speech:Adverbs
      1. Adverbs: Recap etc
      2. Adverbs of place and degree
      3. Comparative and superlative forms of adverbs
    6. Parts of Speech:Conjunctions
      1. Prepositions: Recap etc
      2. Complex prepositions e.g. in spite of
      3. Conjunctions: Recap etc
      4. Subordinating conjunctions e.g. because, when, that, which
      5. Interjections
      6. Identification and usage in sentences
    7. Phrases
      1. Constituents of verb phrases and examples
      2. Constituents of adverb phrases and examples
    8. Clauses
      1. Independent clauses (relative and adverbial clauses).
      2. Subordinate clauses (relative and adverbial clauses).
      3. Compound sentences.
      4. Complex sentences.
      5. Active voice.
      6. Passive voice.
  3. Reading
    1. Reading Skills
      1. Scanning and skimming
      2. Using reference materials (library, encyclopedia and internet).
      3. Interpretive reading.
    2. Intensive reading
      1. Study of novels, plays and poems
      2. Focus on characterization
      3. Focus on themes
      4. Aspects of style
    3. Extensive reading
      1. Literary and non literary materials on the contemporary issues such as: social responsibility, gender responsiveness, human rights: Biographies
      2. Novels
      3. Plays
      4. Poems
    4. Comprehension Skills
      1. Recall, comprehension, applications and analysis
      2. Summary and note making.
  4. Writing
    1. Spelling
      1. Commonly misspelt words
    2. Building sentence skills and paragraphing
      1. Sentence variety; using simple sentences
      2. Sentence variety; using compound sentences
      3. Sentence variety; using complex sentences
      4. Devices of developing paragraphs: Giving reasons/examples, comparing and contrasting.
      5. Devices of developing paragraphs: Using idiomatic expressions, using facts and rhetorical questions.
    3. Punctuation
      1. Quotation marks
      2. Apostrophe
      3. Hyphen
    4. Study Writing
      1. Summaries
      2. Descriptive essays
    5. Creating writing
      1. Poems
      2. Imaginative composition
      3. Business letters
    6. Institutional Writing
      1. Business letters
      2. Posters
      3. Advertisements
    7. Personal Writing
      1. Personal journals
      2. Shopping lists
    8. Social Writing
      1. Invitations
    9. Public Writing
      1. Telephone messages
      2. Filling forms
      3. Letters of apology

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