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Heroes and Citizenship

Read about Rwanda's national heroes and what makes a responsible citizen, tell life stories in the past simple, use must for duties and rules, study a famous speech and four tricky consonant sounds, and spot flashback and foreshadowing in a story.

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Leadership and Democracy

Learn the language of democracy and elections, find out how Rwandans choose their leaders, describe good leadership with the present perfect continuous and the passive, and use proverbs and idioms about leading.

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The Media

Compare newspapers, magazines, radio, television and online news, read and deliver a news bulletin, write adverts and short editorials, and use adverbs of frequency, the present perfect, word stress, repetition and dialogue.

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Education

Learn how Rwanda's education system is organised, talk about your ambitions with would like to, have to, when-clauses and (in order) to, write a formal email about a study opportunity, and hear the music of words in alliteration, assonance, consonance and English vowel sounds.

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The Environment

Read and talk about natural resources, forests and soil, and learn the English you need to argue for protecting them: used for / avoid + -ing, quantity words, modals of obligation, the first conditional, personification, hyperbole and intonation.

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Health

Read and talk about communicable and non-communicable illnesses, describe symptoms clearly at a health centre, write about malaria and other common diseases with real if-sentences, learn health loanwords, and use simile and metaphor.

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Gender Roles

Compare traditional and modern roles of women and men with respect and fairness: interview an elder about life in the past, use used to, could, was allowed to and should, pronounce -ed endings, and analyse point of view and subject matter.

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Introduction to Poetry

Read, recite and write poems. Learn what poetry is and does, how it differs from prose, the main types of poem, the elements (line, stanza, persona, theme, message) and the key devices: rhyme, rhythm, imagery, simile, metaphor, personification and alliteration.

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