English Subject A Curriculum Preview
Aims to address the communicative needs of the third year secondary school students. Aims to make the learning of English a pleasurable experience through a wide variety of purposeful activities. Provides varied opportunities to develop the students’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing competencies.
1 st Grading Kinds of Sentences Simple Tenses Progressive Tenses Punctuation Direct and Indirect Speech Personal Pronouns Paragraph Development
2 nd Grading Consistency of Verb Tense Modals Adjectives in a Series Degrees of Comparison of Adjectives and Adverbs Gerunds and Gerunds Phrases Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases
3 rd Grading Participles and Participial Phrases Exposition Active and Passive Voice Subjunctive Mood Conditional Clauses Parallelism Narration
4 th Grading Noun Clauses Breaking Down Long Sentences Inverted Word Order in Sentences Consistency of Verb Tense in Narratives Transitional Devices or Discourse Markers Figures of Speech
“No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ― Confucius
Source: English III (New Edition) by Josefina Payawal- Gabriel, Ph.D. and Edda Manikan- Martires