Details of the English Syllabus
Details of the English Syllabus
The course we provide will be to aid your children in doing the best they can when at school, the syllabus will include:
4 to 14 years [There are 12 levels which covers the following topics at different complexity levels]
Speaking skills:
- English accent pronunciation training
- Pronunciation
- Use of phonetics to aid in identifying speech sounds (as child progresses start to use less “ah bihkih” and use “abc”).
- Voice modulation and tone
- Speaking at an even pace
Reading skills
- Pronunciation
- Reading at an even pace
- Comprehension of assigned texts
- Reading fiction, non-fiction, academic texts, newspapers, journals
- Interpreting and understanding passages and pictures
- Vocabulary building
Writing skills:
- Correct usage of vocabulary in a sentence
- Proper grammatical constructions
- Spellings and their rules- 24 new words each week
- Appropriate usage of punctuation- commas, semi-colon, hyphen, apostrophe, etc.
- Letters- Formal vs Informal
- Essays- Academic vs Imaginative
- Cursive writing (if required)
- Using a thesaurus/ dictionary
Listening skills:
- Understanding spoken speech
- Interpreting information over spoken language
- Understanding tone and intention in spoken language
- Listening to understand information and responding to questions asked
The level of difficulty for each skill will be assigned according to the age and current linguistic capabilities of each child
Grammar:
- Parts of Speech
- Nouns
- Pronouns
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Prepositions
- Conjunctions
- Interjections
- Determiners
- Modals and Auxiliaries
- Phrases, Idioms, and Figures of Speech
- Clauses and Conditionals
- Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentences
- Clauses and Conditionals
- Active and Passive voice/ Direct and Reported Speech
Tenses:
- Present Simple, Present Progressive, Present Perfect
- Past Simple, Past Progressive, Past Perfect
- Future Simple, Future Progressive, Future Perfect
- Homophones, Homonyms, Homographs
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Antonyms and Synonyms
- Rhyming words
- Compound words
Learning Creative communication and storytelling skills
- Creative Speaking
- Storytelling
- Speeches
- Personal essays
- Poetry
- Short fiction- short stories, blog pieces, etc.
- Wring using picture/ word/ sentence prompts
- Speculative/ Imaginative essays
- Academic essays
- Structuring events for narratives
- Short plays
- Sentence Development
- Capitalization
- Punctuation
- Further Punctuation
- Nouns and Verbs
- Adjectives and Adverbs
- Compound Words
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Dictionary Surfing
- Sentence Development
- Capitalisation
- Punctuation
- More Punctuation
- Fluency of Speech
- Further Speech Development
- Word Parts and Counterparts
- Writing Basics
- Using Phrases
- Punctuation
- Confusing Words
- Ambiguity in English
- Writing Techniques
- Referencing Skills
- Writing Formats
