Presented by: Walaa Abdel-Rahman Manal Nasrallah Nour El-Tayeb Unit / Lesson Format

Unit Format:  Unit format defines as :  It is an expression which includes the organization of the unit contents, shape, number of lesson activities and exercises.

Unit Format:  *The characteristics of the format:  Sentences, paragraphs, short texts and long texts.  Pictures, colors and front size.  *The reasons for the different format of the stages:  1. Students age.  2.students needs.  3.Academic and vocational.

The three school stages :  Lower primary stage grade ( )  Upper primary stage grade ( 5 – 10 )  Secondary stage grade ( 11 – 12 )

Unit Format and Lesson :Format  The number of units differs from one stage to another.  The number of lessons in each unit differs from one stage to another.

As it is clear below: Secondary Stage ( 11 – 12 ) Higher Primary Stage ( ) Lower Primary Stage ( ) No. 12 (5-7) No. of Units 10 (5-7) No. of lessons in each unit

The Sequence of the Four Language Skills : lower primary stage Skills1 st grade Listening and speakingThe 1 st period Speaking and writingThe 2 nd period Listening and speakingThe 3 rd period Speaking and writingThe 4 th period Listening and speakingThe 5 th period Reading and writingThe 6 th period

The Upper Primary Stage: Skills6 th grade Listening and readingThe 1 st lesson Listening and speakingThe 2 nd lesson Listening and speakingThe 3 rd lesson Reading and writingThe 4 th lesson

The Upper Primary Stage: Skills7 th grade Listening and readingThe 1 st lesson Language(Grammar)The 2 nd lesson Listening and speakingThe 3 rd lesson Writing(Punctuation and Dictation)The 4 th lesson

Upper Primary Stage: Skills10 th grade ReadingLesson 1&2 Writing and VocabularyThe 3 rd lesson LanguageThe 4 th lesson WritingThe 5 th lesson Listening and SpeakingThe 6 th lesson LanguageThe 7 th lesson Integrated SkillsThe 8 th lesson

The Secondary Stage: SkillsGrade 11 ReadingLesson 1 & 2 Vocabulary developmentLesson 3 Listening and speakingLesson 4 Language ( Grammar)Lesson 5 Integrated SkillsLesson6 Reading and LanguageLesson 7 & 8 Writing and VocabularyLesson 9&10

Briefly we can some up previous things as : SkillsGrade Listening, Speaking and Writing1 & 2 Language skills and Language aspects3 & 4 Language skills, Language aspects and vocabulary development 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 Lg skills, Lg aspects, Integrated skills and vocabulary development 10, 11 & 12

Obviously As we introduced before.. The lessons in all three stages do not have the same sequences of language skills and language aspects.

Moving to, How many lesson does each textbook have? All the textbooks have the word lists at the end of the book. Lessons in the bookGrade Unit * Periods 18 * 6 = 108 1, 2, 3, 4 Unit * Lessons 24 * 4 = 96 5,6,7 18 * 6 = * 6 = * 7 = * 10 = * 10 =

How many English Language Period are taught in UNRWA and Government schools every week? UNRWAGovernmentalGrade year - Lesson / week year - Lesson / week Grade ( 5 – 9 ) Grade ( 5 – 7 ) Grade ( 8 – 10 ) No UNRWA Secondary schools in Gaza strip

IS the number of lessons allocated for teaching English sufficient to the lessons in the book?  The number of the lessons allocated is sufficient to the lessons in the book.  We asked the teachers in UNRWA and government schools.

What do English Language teachers say?  English teachers say that curriculum is not long, it is suitable and there is enough time to teach the curriculum.  They do not justify their answers. This is mean that they know how to plane and how to teach.

English For Palestine  We learn from the experience of our presentation that English for Palestine develops Students’ abilities gradually to improve themselves.

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