Human Ambitions and Moral Choices

Read a reflective essay on ambition and give a talk on your career aspirations; listen to a radio talk on responsible decision-making and write a short story about a moral choice; use double, emphatic and modified comparatives and the the… the… correlative; and compare the European literary traditions from the classical age to the Enlightenment with African oral traditions.

2

Moral Integrity

Read a feature article on accountability and give a speech on responsible citizenship; take notes on a talk about anti-corruption values and write a cause-and-effect essay on how corruption damages an economy; master subject–verb agreement in its hardest cases; and analyse the features of a novel through an extract from Trollope's The Way We Live Now.

3

Rules and Regulations

Read about the tragedy of the commons and discuss rules and freedom in a seminar; listen to a radio explainer on how a law is made, analyse the register of legal English and write a notice for a notice board; use inversion for dramatic and rhetorical effect; and study the key elements of drama through Sophocles' Antigone.

4

Radio and Television Programmes

Read about misinformation and check claims with the SIFT routine; give a balanced talk on the influence of radio and television; analyse the register of a radio phone-in and design a programme poster; use every way English expresses the future; and study how radio and television drama tell stories through sound and image, writing a short radio script.

5

Living Fairly

Read about equality and equity in a community and practise mediating a dispute; listen to a talk on equality before the law and write a problem–solution essay on resolving a conflict; use all four forms of the present tense precisely, including in literary summary; and summarise and comment on a novel, using Dickens's Oliver Twist.

6

Life and Nature

Read an essay on natural resources and give a guide's talk on a Rwandan national park; listen to a ranger's talk on wildlife conservation and write a formal report on protecting the environment; use adjectives and adverbs precisely in description; and explore figurative language in prose and poetry about the natural world.

7

Weather and Our Daily Life

Read about Rwanda's two rainy seasons and how weather shapes daily life, and talk about conditions and their effects; listen to and give a weather forecast, analysing its special register; build sensory description with precise sentence patterns and design a weather-safety poster; and study the sound and structural devices of poetry through Shelley's "The Cloud".

8

Social Interactions

Read about face and politeness and practise expressions for respectful interaction; listen to apologies and compliments as speech acts; master the vowel and consonant sounds of English and word stress; and use intonation, tag questions and rhetorical conditionals to interact naturally and politely.

Units

Human Ambitions and Moral Choices

Moral Integrity

Rules and Regulations

Radio and Television Programmes

Living Fairly

Life and Nature

Weather and Our Daily Life

Social Interactions

Units

Human Ambitions and Moral Choices

Moral Integrity

Rules and Regulations

Radio and Television Programmes

Living Fairly

Life and Nature

Weather and Our Daily Life

Social Interactions