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Reg.nr.: 2011/011959/07
English First Additional Language
Study Guide 2/2
Grade 7
LESSON ELEMENTS
Vocabulary
The meaning of new words to fully understand the text/content.
Tips
A useful hint to help improve skills.
Language structures and conventions
Key language elements that must be studied, understood and applied to the content of the lesson.
Activity
Core content and questions to test the learner’s knowledge.
For the curious
Encouragement to do in-depth research about the content. Expand the activity and exercise to such an extent that learners are encouraged to explore.
Sample
RECOMMENDED READING
All the texts for this year are either in the facilitator’s guide or this study guide. However, read as much as you can – even 30 minutes a day will help to broaden your vocabulary, develop your imagination, and improve your memory. There is something magical about reading and being transported to new worlds. Find books you have been meaning to read and go on new adventures! There are also suggestions for further reading throughout the study guide.
Sample
INTRODUCTION
This study guide is organised into 4 units and 18 lessons. Each lesson is taught over 2 weeks.
• Unit 1 has five themed lessons.
• Unit 2 has four themed lessons and a mid-year examination.
• Unit 3 has five themed lessons.
• Unit 4 has four themed lessons and a year-end examination.
At the end of units 2 and 4, you write exams.
Each lesson has 4 sections:
1. Listening and speaking
2. Reading and viewing
3. Writing and presenting
4. Language structures and conventions
Each of these sections contains activities. At the beginning of each lesson is a list of the topics covered in that lesson. At the end of each lesson are remedial and extension activities, which you may complete if time allows.
1
LESSON 1: Digital citizen
YEAR PLAN
2
LESSON 2: Whodunnit?
LESSON 3: It was a dark and stormy night …
LESSON 4: Ancient Egypt
LESSON 5: The lighthouse
LESSON 6: The rabbit in the moon
LESSON 7: Be kind
LESSON 8: Unreality TV?
LESSON 9: How sweet it is!
LESSON 10: Snow animals
LESSON 11: The Age of Discovery
LESSON 12: Voices of Africa
3
4
LESSON 13: Our strange world
Sample
LESSON 14: No place like home
LESSON 15: Here be dragons …
LESSON 16: Telling the bees
LESSON 17: Shipwrecked!
LESSON 18: Easy, breezy …
Units 3 and 4 (terms 3 and 4) are in this study guide, and units 1 and 2 (terms 1 and 2) are in study guide 1/2.
LESSONS:
10. Sno w animals 11. The Age of Discovery 12. V oices of Africa 13. Our strange world 14. N o place like home
Language structures and conventions
Writing and presenting
• Collective nouns
• Noun clauses and adjectival and adverbial clauses
• Abbreviations, initialisms, acronyms, clipped words, and truncation
• Comparative and superlative adjectives
• Complex sentences with relative clauses
• Common and proper nouns
• Singular and plural
• Spelling test
• Homographs, homonyms, and homophones
• Personal, possessive, and demonstrative pronouns
• Prepositions
• Bias, prejudice, and stereotypes
• Rhetorical devices in language
• Personal, relative, and reflexive pronouns
• Subject and predicate
• Synonyms and antonyms
• Complete a comprehension activity
• Follow prompts to complete a form
• Write an interview
• Write an agenda and minutes
• Write a comprehension and language test
• Write a narrative/descriptive essay
Reading and viewing
• Read an information text
• Summarise the text
• Read a movie screenplay
• Discuss the screenplay and answer questions
• Read poems
• Read about writing an agenda and minutes
• Read visual texts
• Read a short story
Listening and speaking
• Listening comprehension
• Take part in a discussion
• Listen to an interview
• Adapt an extract from a folk tale into a drama
• Role play a meeting
• Listen to and discuss a newspaper article
• Prepared reading
• Give directions
UNIT 3: Weeks 1 – 2
In this lesson you will:
• do a listening comprehension
• take part in a discussion
• read an information text
• summarise the text
• complete a comprehension activity
• follow prompts to complete a form
• revise collective nouns
LESSON 10: Snow animals
• learn about noun clauses and adjectival and adverbial clauses
• revise abbreviations: initialisms, acronyms, clipped words, and truncation
Sample
SECTION 1 Listening and speaking
‘Are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never see an elephant except in a picture book?’
—Sir David Attenborough
With global warming, this might soon be the only way to see these animals … Our world is not limitless, we all rely on the natural world around us.
1937
World population: 2.3 billion
Carbon in the atmosphere: 280 parts per million
Remaining wilderness: 66%
1997
World population: 5.9 billion
SampleCarbon in the atmosphere: 360 parts per million
Remaining wilderness: 46%
2020
World population: 7.8 billion
Carbon in the atmosphere: 415 parts per million
Remaining wilderness: 35%
How do you feel about these statistics? What is your opinion on how people treat the natural world? Do you think we will just keep using the earth until we have used it all up? Share your opinions with your facilitator or the class. Do not be afraid to say how you feel – you are entitled to your opinion and point of view. Make yourself heard!
Our country has some of the most beautiful and unique animals in the world. Majestic lions and our critically endangered rhinos that we fight to protect. But there are other animals in different parts of the globe that also need our help – they need everyone’s help.
Let’s read on about the animals on the opening page of the lesson. You may know something about them or perhaps they are unfamiliar to you. One thing remains the same, no matter where animals live, they deserve our care and protection.
Polar bear
STATUS
Vulnerable (At high risk of extinction in the wild.)
POPULATION
22,000–31,000
HABITATS
The Arctic Ocean, sea ice, and adjacent coastal areas.
SampleThe polar bear’s Latin name, Ursus maritimus, means ‘sea bear’ which suits them perfectly as they spend much of their lives in, around, or on the ocean – mostly on the sea ice. Polar bears rely on sea ice for travelling, hunting, resting, and raising their cubs. But the sea ice is melting due to climate change and polar bears are spending more time on land, where they are often attracted to areas where humans live. The survival and protection of the polar bear habitat are urgent issues that can no longer be ignored.
snow leopard
STATUS
Vulnerable (At high risk of extinction in the wild.)
POPULATION
Total estimated 4,080–6,590
HABITATS
Cold high mountains
SampleThe snow leopard’s powerful build allows it to climb very steep slopes with ease. Its hind legs give it the ability to leap six times the length of its body! A long tail provides balance and agility and wraps around the resting snow leopard to protect it from the cold. For thousands of years, this magnificent cat was the king of the mountains. The mountains provided everything they needed such as blue sheep, Argali wild sheep, ibex, marmots, pikas, and hares. Snow leopards are found in 12 countries including China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, and Mongolia, but their population is dropping.
We will read a story about a snow leopard later in the lesson.
arctic fox
STATUS
Least concern (At relatively low risk of extinction.)
POPULATION
Several hundred thousand
HABITATS
Tundra
SampleThese small foxes have some useful adaptations for living in the icy Arctic. Their thick fur coat keeps the fox’s body at a snuggly 40°C. Their long, fluffy tails act like a blanket, keeping the fox warm when it wraps the tail around its body to sleep. Arctic foxes have small ears which reduces heat loss because less is exposed to the cold.
Their feet also have a layer of thick fur, like built-in snow boots. This helps muffle an arctic fox’s footsteps, making it harder for prey to hear them. And their white coats make it difficult for predators such as wolves, polar bears, and golden eagles to spot them among the ice and snow.
The Arctic fox lives inland, away from the coasts. They are dependent on smaller animals to survive. Arctic foxes also hunt for sea birds, fish, and other marine life. When smaller rodent numbers are scarce and difficult to find, it leaves the Arctic fox vulnerable.
• A complete guide with all the texts (contemporary and classic) for comprehension exercises, speeches, and reading included.
• Contains tips for better writing, critical reading and understanding.
• Various levels of questions and activities to develop language skills and critical thinking.
• Complete explanations on grammar and syntax
• Practical examples of writing tasks.
• Encourages independent reading and research and broadens vocabulary.
