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Traditional Culture

Read a Rwandan legend, a myth and a praise poem; listen to an account of a traditional wedding and narrate a ceremony yourself; use the past simple, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous to tell events in order; tell apart the genres of oral literature from myths to tongue twisters and draw out their moral lessons; and compose a short epic poem of your own.

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Living Together in Community

Read a story about a family that must give away its first calf, listen to a radio feature on a savings group and role-play a scene from a story; join ideas with coordinating and subordinating conjunctions and use personal, reflexive and relative pronouns precisely; learn the forms, types and key elements of prose; and interpret and summarise a prose passage before starting the project "Guardians of culture".

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Morals and Life Lessons

Read a story about money sent to the wrong number and the values a community lives by; listen to a retelling of Tolstoy's tale of a man who wanted more land, trace how he changes and role-play a moral conflict; use adverbs, comparatives and superlatives, adjectives for feelings and correlative conjunctions precisely; classify and compare characters and show how their actions reveal moral values; and write a story of your own that carries a moral lesson.

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Tradition and Modernity

Read an extract from a novel about a grandson torn between his grandfather's herd and a science school, and analyse its narrator's point of view; listen to an elder and a young woman talk across the generation gap and act out a family scene; use correlative conjunctions, adjective and adverb phrases and idiomatic expressions; study the elements and types of plot; and write an essay on how a traditional ceremony has changed.

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Read and Write for Children

Read an African Storybook tale built on repetition and learn the vocabulary of children's stories; listen for rhythm and emotion in rhymes and retell a story with expression; use cohesive devices and direct and indirect speech; compare children's and adult literature and explore the genres, elements and messages of writing for children; and build clear sentences with well-chosen synonyms and antonyms to write a children's story of your own.

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