Syllabus design
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The document outlines a syllabus design presentation for intermediate level English learners aged 17-19. The goals of the syllabus are to introduce students to interesting topics, enable language use in communication, and apply learning practically. The syllabus is organized thematically with 5 topics per theme and includes multiple text types. Language elements like grammar, vocabulary, and phonology are focused on for each topic. Communicative tasks integrate the 4 skills of reading, listening, speaking, and writing. Critical thinking tasks encourage analysis and evaluation. Assessment is through written exams focusing on writing skills.
![TABLE OF CONTENTS
Childhood •Optimism In childhood – Kimika Hahn
•Bullying The Dolls’s house – Katherine Mansfield
•Disappointment Games at Twilight – Anita Desai
•Wishes End of Term – David Daiches
•Sibling Rivalry Topdog/ Underdog – Suzan Lori Parks
Social concerns •Child Labour The Chimney Sweeper – William Blake
[Rights] •Racial Equality – Maya Angelou
Discrimination
•Gender In equality Shakespeare’s Sister – Virginia Woolfe
•Animal Rights A campaign against Bull Fighting – Ad Film
•Senior Citizenship Senior Citizens – Vikram Karve
Facet’s of the •Insecurity Once upon a time – Nadine Gordimer
World •Women’s world The Cairo rooftop – Naguib Mahfooz
[Trans. William Hitchins, Olive Kenny]
•Imperialism Shooting an Elephant – George Orwell
•Social divides Modern Society – Neil Adams
•Ideological Gulliver’s Travels – A voyage to Lilliput –
differences Jonathan Swift](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/syllabusdesign-121216085121-phpapp01/85/Syllabus-design-8-320.jpg)
![Syllabus Lists
▫ Language Elements:
Grammar
Lexis [Vocabulary]
Phonology](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/syllabusdesign-121216085121-phpapp01/85/Syllabus-design-10-320.jpg)
![Data Processing Communicative tasks Critical Thinking
Topics Reading Listening Speaking Writing Task
Advertisement- A Guessing Recognizing Describing Letter to the Animal Testing,
campaign against meaning from the effect of visuals newspaper Caged birds & pets,
bull fighting context non verbal Act out how a editor – issue security dogs,
sounds [e.g. caged parrot of ill-treatment neutering –
grunts] feels of animals Ill-treatment?
• Find out facts, write
a report.
Senior Citizens – Inferencing, Tone of Speech and A Pamphlet – Care of
Vikram Karve predicting dialogues gender – Highlighting grandparents
outcomes switch the old the through illness –
man to an old ‘advantages’ what do the youth
lady- how of an Old contribute?
would the Home Conduct a survey.
speech
change?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/syllabusdesign-121216085121-phpapp01/85/Syllabus-design-16-320.jpg)
Syllabus design
- 1. SYLLABUS DESIGN PRESENTATION BY: SHAGUFTA MOGHAL ATIA GUL BAHAR & SHUMAILA NAJEEB
- 2. • Level of learners: Intermediate • Age: 17-19 Years • Grade: 12
- 3. GOALS: • Introduce students to a wide range of topics of interest. • Enable them to use language in actual communication. • Students will be able to extend what they learn to practical application. • Students will develop knowledge and understanding of: ▫ the contexts, purposes and audiences of texts ▫ the forms and features of language ▫ the structures of texts.
- 4. Learning skills and strategies Students will develop skills in: • • responding to and composing a range of texts • • effective communication • • individual and collaborative learning • • investigation, imaginative and critical thinking, and synthesis of ideas • • reflection as a way to review, reconsider and refine meaning and learning.
- 5. Value of Learning Students will come to value and appreciate: • • the role of language in developing positive interaction and cooperation • • their developing skills as users of English • • the pleasure and diversity of language and literature • • the role of language and literature in their lives • • the study and use of English as a key to learning • • reflection on their own processes of learning • • English as a language of communication and culture • • appropriateness, subtlety and aesthetics in language use.
- 6. • Type of Syllabus: Thematic • Rationale: Focus on the meaning of language, ratherFlexibility in content choice Flexibility in tasks and activities Themes related to students’ level and interest Variety of topics and text types Scope for recycling learning and ideas Balance and progression of skills within each unit
- 7. Syllabus Organization ▫ Organizing Principle – Themes ▫ 5 Topics for each theme ▫ Multiple text types within each theme
- 8. TABLE OF CONTENTS Childhood •Optimism In childhood – Kimika Hahn •Bullying The Dolls’s house – Katherine Mansfield •Disappointment Games at Twilight – Anita Desai •Wishes End of Term – David Daiches •Sibling Rivalry Topdog/ Underdog – Suzan Lori Parks Social concerns •Child Labour The Chimney Sweeper – William Blake [Rights] •Racial Equality – Maya Angelou Discrimination •Gender In equality Shakespeare’s Sister – Virginia Woolfe •Animal Rights A campaign against Bull Fighting – Ad Film •Senior Citizenship Senior Citizens – Vikram Karve Facet’s of the •Insecurity Once upon a time – Nadine Gordimer World •Women’s world The Cairo rooftop – Naguib Mahfooz [Trans. William Hitchins, Olive Kenny] •Imperialism Shooting an Elephant – George Orwell •Social divides Modern Society – Neil Adams •Ideological Gulliver’s Travels – A voyage to Lilliput – differences Jonathan Swift
- 9. TABLE OF CONTENTS Relationships •Love and When I was one and twenty – A.E. Houseman Heartache •Generation gap Marriage is a Private Affair – Chinua Achebe •Mother’s love A mother’s Love – Helen Steiner Rice •Strengthening Make me feel important – Jamie Jefferson relations •Family Bonds A Fitzgerald Family Christmas – Movie Evolving •Changing From a dictionary of the English Language – Language Interpretations Samuel Johnson • Spelling and The Prologue – the Canterbury Tales Pronunciation •Transition in The Middle English – the language in transition Language •Poetic Language To a Mouse – Robert burns •Spoken English Pride and Prejudice – Movie
- 10. Syllabus Lists ▫ Language Elements: Grammar Lexis [Vocabulary] Phonology
- 11. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHONO- FOCUS LOGICAL FOCUS Social Concerns Child Labour ‘The Chimney Scarcely, Misery, Sweep, innocence, Regular and irregular verbs /ai/ Sweeper’ Soot, spoil, coffin of Past and present black, woe participle Poem William Blake Racial Discrimi- ‘Equality’ Dimly, faintly, boldly, painful, marching, Adverbs of Manner, /ei/ nation confess, compelling Adverbial beating, nightly Phrases and clauses Poem – Maya Angelou
- 12. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHON FOCUS O- LOGIC AL FOCUS Social Gender ‘Shakespea Evidently, genius, Subordinating /δυ/ Concerns Inequality re’s Sister’ ignorance, shrank, conjunctions, Use heiress, poached, of Idioms, escapade, fortune, Complex adventurous sentences, Adjuncts, Satire, Essay - Virginia Woolfe Animal Advertisem Calf, spear, cape, Modals: ‘Should’, Rhotic / Rights ent- A matador, ‘ought’ and r/ campaign spectators, arena, ‘Should not’ against bull latch, hooked, fighting blood sport Ad film
- 13. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHONO- FOCUS LOGICAL FOCUS Social Senior ‘Senior Redoubtable, Compound and Consonant Concerns Citizensh Citizens’ Intrepid, effeminate. complex clusters ip Menacing, sentences, /str/, /bl/ exasperation, Connectors of premium, reason and indefatigable, choice metamorphosis, drastic Short Story- Vikram Karve
- 14. Shaping the Syllabus • Matrix format • Charting text selections over a grid for the 4 communication skills • A separate Task for Critically Evaluating the text and extending it beyond the text book.
- 15. Data Processing Communicative tasks Critical Thinking Task Topics Reading Listening Speaking Writing The Chimney Skimming, Retaining Role Play – Make a print Drawing a Sweeper – Scanning for chunks, Enact a ad – a skilled comparison with child William Blake key words Recognizing scene from a chimney labour in Pakistan – rhythmic poem, say sweeper search 5 articles. patterns the lines in available for Write your own. correct tone hire – add visuals Equality – Text Recognizing Interaction, Make posters Comparison with cast Maya Angelou Cohesion, word order dialogue for a peaceful differences in the Identifying patterns between poet rally for racial subcontinent- elements of and equality prevalent today? Take subjectivity of oppressor a poll about attitudes. writer 10 students, 10 grownups. Shakespeare’s Skimming, Listening for Interview of A diary entry ‘To write great Sister – Recognizing specific the character by literature, a Virginia Woolfe syntactic information, described in Shakespeare woman must have patterns, Stressed the story – ‘My sister is money and a private Scanning for words a rebel’ place’, Evaluate w.r.t. key words the world today.
- 16. Data Processing Communicative tasks Critical Thinking Topics Reading Listening Speaking Writing Task Advertisement- A Guessing Recognizing Describing Letter to the Animal Testing, campaign against meaning from the effect of visuals newspaper Caged birds & pets, bull fighting context non verbal Act out how a editor – issue security dogs, sounds [e.g. caged parrot of ill-treatment neutering – grunts] feels of animals Ill-treatment? • Find out facts, write a report. Senior Citizens – Inferencing, Tone of Speech and A Pamphlet – Care of Vikram Karve predicting dialogues gender – Highlighting grandparents outcomes switch the old the through illness – man to an old ‘advantages’ what do the youth lady- how of an Old contribute? would the Home Conduct a survey. speech change?
- 17. Manner of Assessment • The Examination for Intermediate level are only taken in the written format. • Therefore the tasks have many activities based on writing skill, in order to enable students to express themselves in the written exam.