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