O Level Outcomes

Reading Comprehension and

Writing Skills Oral /Aural Skills
Summary Skills

Students should be able to: Students should be able to: Students should be able to:

1. write in a variety of genres as 1. read and comprehend a variety of 1. speak audibly

prescribed by the ‘O’-Level genres
examination, with attention to 2. read accurately and fluently,
appropriate format, style and 2. understand and respond with an awareness of expression
length: appropriately to written instructions, and audience
directions and questions.
* narrative/recount of personal 3. understand and use the more
experiences 3. identify specific information located at common speech conventions of
* descriptive one or more points in a text (literal social English
* expository comprehension)
* discursive/argumentative 4. participate effectively in a
* formal letters 4. identify implied meaning and make conversation and develop
* informal letters deductions from information in a text responses to prompts
* speeches
* brochures / leaflets 5. infer the meanings of unfamiliar words
* reports and expressions (e.g. idiomatic
* magazine articles phrases) from their context in a
passage
2. interpret the question appropriately
and maintain focus and the 6. answer questions using the following
reader’s interest throughout the reading strategies:
composition
- use word recognition skills to check
3. plan, organise and write in meaning
paragraphs - use knowledge of cohesive devices
and text organization
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 4. arouse interest, maintaining
coherence and cohesion
5. choose a vocabulary and tone
which is suited to its purpose and
audience, and use correct grammar
and punctuation
6. demonstrate consistency in
language usage
7.write legibly, and present work
clearly
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- use contextual clues (association of
words/ ideas and logical relationship
of ideas)
- use prior knowledge: familiar words,
word association, knowledge of the
topic/figurative language/
connotations/ culture
- skim for gist and scan for details
7. select, retrieve, evaluate and combine
information from a selected section of
the text
8. summarise a given text to a
prescribed word limit, paraphrase,
and use their own words as much as
possible
9. show evidence of using cohesive
devices when writing a summary
10.edit summaries, adhering to the
conventions of grammar
2
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This scheme of work is a guide for teachers teaching MA 5 classes, based mainly on
SEBD 5, Key Skills in Writing and Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary
Writing. Teachers should feel free to change, modify, supplement and vary the content of
this scheme according to their students’ needs and abilities. The focus of each unit is
stated which will form the main objective for the unit. The essential genres of writing
outlined in the Form 5 outcomes have been targeted. If teachers choose to omit any
units, they should find ways to incorporate the writing genre of that unit into the course.

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Core Textbooks: Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 5 (SEBD5)
Key Skills in Writing (KSIW)
Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary Writing (KSIC&S)
Supplementary Materials: Essential Grammar in Use (EGU)
Grammar in Use (GIU)
Talk is Cheap (TIC)

Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
SEBD5 * KSIW Unit 13 * Ordeal at sea - * Listening – Wake up! It’s a * Word Classes revision
Unit 1 * Examination Summary crash! /determiners
Survival Techniques * KSIC&S Unit 7, 8, 9 * Speaking – The oral * Verb Forms- Participles 1
* Punctuation examination * KSIC&S Unit 1,2,3
Focus: * Vocabulary - Crisis words
(revision)
Fictional * Refining concepts
* Composition – * TIC
Narrative introduced by the texts in
Surviving a car (a) Adventure
crash (b) Cars and Driving MA4
SEBD5 * Punctuation - * Longhouse life - * Oral Reading 1 – Volume and * Verb Forms - Irregular past
Unit 2 Uses of quotation Inferring word meanings Speed tense verbs.
Borneo marks * KSIW Unit 4,5 and 6 * Verb Forms - Participles 2
* TIC
* Directed * Vocabulary questions * Vocabulary - Phrasal verbs
Focus: (a) House and home
composition – * Summary – Omitting * Dictionary use
Report
An excursion to minor and repeated
Writing
Niah details.
* KSIW Report 2

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
SEBD5 * Punctuation – * Song of survival * Speaking – Expanding basic * Verb Tenses – A review
Unit 3 Using hyphens * Reading skills - answers 1: Yes/No questions * Verb Tenses – Present and
Living With * Composition - Cohesion 1 past perfect continuous
Change Life changes * Summary - Linking * TIC * Note making – Using flow
* KSIW – Narrative short sentences (a) Getting old diagrams
Focus:
2 (b) Teenagers
Personal
Narrative
Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
SEBD5 * Punctuation – * The dashing water taxis * Speaking – Expanding basic * Comparatives and
Unit 4 Dashes * Topic sentences answers 2: superlatives
Brunei’s * Composition – * Summary – Common wh- questions * Word formation: prefixes
Capital City City of the Future mistakes in summary * Vocabulary – Foreign
* TIC words in English
Focus:
(a) Future * Dictionary use
Descriptive
* Finding grammatical
Writing
information

SEBD5 * Punctuation - * It’s all in the mind * TIC * Relative clauses

Unit 5 The colon * Summary – Rewording (a) Computers * Vocabulary – Memory
Memory * Directed the original passage (b) Crime verbs
composition – A * Interpreting graphs
Focus:
Crime Report
Newspaper
* KSIW –
Report
Newspaper
Report - Unit 8

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills
SEBD5 * Punctuation – * Animals at risk * Speaking – Expanding * Note making – Using more
Unit 6 Semi-colons * Summary – Simplifying basic answers 3: giving than one source
Sharing the * Composition – complex examples opinions * Word classes / sentence
World Setting out an * Reading skills– Cohesion connectors
argument 2 * TIC: * Vocabulary – General and
Focus:
* KSIW - unit 9 (a) Pets and animals specific words
Argumenta
tive
Writing
SEBD5 * Punctuation - * Sri Lanka * Oral reading 3 - Word endings * Adjective + verb
Unit 7 Parentheses * Summary – Maintaining constructions
The Indian * Directed coherence * TIC * Word formation :
Subcontine composition – * Reading skills – Fact and (a) Travel Verb – forming suffixes
nt A week in Nepal opinion * Facts from figures pie
* KSIW – Letters 2 charts and bar graphs
Focus:
Letter
Writing

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 Additional Skills
Reading
Grammar and Language
Unit/Topic Writing Skills Comprehension and Oral/Aural Skills
Usage/ Vocabulary/ Study
Summary Skills
Skills

SEBD5 * Punctuation – * Global warming * Listening –War on Waste * Interpreting statistics -The
Unit 8 Revision * Reading skills – Cause * Speaking – Expanding basic shrinking forests
The Planet * Directed and effect answers 4: agreeing and * Conditional sentences
in Peril composition – * Summary – Examination disagreeing * Word formation –
Convincing an practice Acronyms
Focus: audience * TIC
Writing * KSIW – Unit 7 (a) What if … ?
Speeches

SEBD5 * Punctuation – * Dawn of devastation * Listening – Hiroshima, the Fire * Vocabulary – Expressing
Unit 9 Revision * Summary – Examination * Speaking – For and Against disapproval
Hiroshima * Composition – practice * Verb Tenses – A revision
Hiroshima: a * TIC * Preparing for O – Level:
Focus: survivor’s (a) Fears Some final discussion
Personal story points
Recount

Unit 10 * Expository writing * Revision on passages * Oral practice on previous * Examination techniques
Past and types of questions examination passages and strategies
Papers

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 Upper Secondary (Forms 3-5) Resources List

Basic Texts (for each individual student)

*1. Gateway to English 3: A Secondary Course for Brunei Darussalam

*2. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 4 & 5

*3. Excel in ‘O’ English

4. Key Skills in Writing

5. Key Skills in Reading Comprehension and Summary Writing

Supplementary Materials (2-3 class sets per school)

*1. Secondary English for Brunei Darussalam 3

2. Murphy, ‘Essential Grammar In Use’, Cambridge University Press

3. Murphy & Altman, ‘Grammar in Use’, Cambridge University Press

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Other Resources (4 copies for each school to be used as teacher resources)

1. Keaney, G., ‘Talk is Cheap’, CFBT

2. Cowley, G., ‘Building Vocabulary’, CFBT

3. McCarthy and Redman, ‘English Vocabulary in Use: Pre & Upper Intermediate’, Cambridge University Press

4. Glover et al., ‘The Cambridge Revision Guide’, Cambridge University Press

5. Gower, ‘Grammar in Practice 1, 2 & 3’, Cambridge University Press

6. Millar & Tier, ‘Essential English Grammar 2 & 3’, Folens

7. Blake, ‘Effective Guide to ‘O’ Level English’, Longman

8. Cruz Yap, ‘O Level Language with Distinction: Vocabulary and Comprehension’, Marshall Cavendish Education

9. Hoosan, ‘The O Level Comprehension Book’, Longman

10. Vince, ‘Elementary/Intermediate/First Certificate/ Advanced Language Practice’, Macmillan

11. Stepheny, ‘Proficiency Writing’, Longman

12. Etherton, ‘General Certificate English’, Nelson

13. Reilly, ‘Skills in Non-Fiction 1’

14. Ho Lin Lee, ‘Longman Developing Situational Writing Skills’

15. Rajamanikam, ‘English Language (Yearly) Worked Solutions: 1996-2005 GCE O Level’, Redspot

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