LEARNING COMPETENCIESENGLISH ILISTENING

1.Adjust listening strategies (marginal, selective, attentive, critical) in relation to themain purposes of listening, one’s familiarity with the topic and level of difficulty of atext describing a process and narrating short accounts1.1 Determine the type of listening suited to a given text and employappropriate strategies called for to make sense of the text1.2 Listen to determine steps in a process in informative texts1.2.1 Listen to explanations of specific processes noting sequenceand cause-effect relationships1.3 Determine the information map suited to different text types, e.g.flowcharts (for narratives, processes, etc.), tree diagrams (for classifications and enumerations), and Venn diagram or grid (for comparison)1.4Identify the persons speaking and addressed, and the stand of thespeaker on issues pertaining to the home and family1.4.1 Identify the stand of the speaker based on the explicit statementsmade2.Listen closely to determine what to do and what not to do as indicated inannouncements, instructions and cautions given orally in emergency situations,weather bulletins, etc.2.1Listen to and carry out instructions given2.2 Distinguish what to do and what not to do in emergency situations (fire,typhoon, earthquake, etc.)3. Determine the content and feeling levels of utterances3.1 Identify the speech event, interlocutors and objectives of the speaker

3.2 Identify attitudes and feelings signaled by prosodic features (e.g. intonationand stress)4.Get information from rapid and distorted speech (e.g. commentary on a game,broadcasts on current events, etc.)4.1 Supply words not heard in a listening text4.2 Listen to clues to enable one to tune in to the topic5. Express appreciation for entertaining texts (anecdotes, jokes, fables, tales) insharing sessions5.1 Listen to appreciate the plot, character development, and theme innarratives5.2 Listen to single out the punch lines in jokes, anecdotes, tales and fables

SPEAKING

1.Speak in clear correct English appropriate to the situation and adjust rate,volume, and choice of register to suit the audience1.1Observe correct pronunciation of critical vowel and consonant sounds1.2Use correct prosodic patterns: intonation and stress, pausing andblending1.2.1 Respond to offers made (accept, turn down or negotiate changesin offers made)1.3 Give clear commands, requests and directions to get things done1.3.1 Give instructions, prohibitions, warnings2. Give information and express needs, opinions, feelings and attitudes in explicitterms2.1 Formulate responses to questions noting the types of questionsraised (yes-no, wh-questions, alternative, modal, embedded)

2.2 Convey, using visual aids (e.g. graphs, charts, etc.), information ontopics dealing with science and mathematics2.3Relay information obtained over the telephone and from radiobroadcasts 3. Observe social and linguistic conventions in oral interactional and transactionaldiscourse (e.g. interview, asking, and giving directions, etc.)3.1Ask and answer different types of questions when conducting aninterview3.2Use communication strategies (e.g. paraphrase and translation) to makeup for inadequacies in the use of English3.3Observe appropriate turn-taking and turn-getting strategies in oraldiscourse4.Arrive at a consensus by citing proof statements4.1Agree/disagree with assertions and observations made in radiobroadcasts and when sharing information on topics dealing with Scienceand Mathematics4.1.1 React to information shared in small group discussions

READING

1. Get information from the different parts of a book, current information fromnewspapers and data from general references in the library1.1Use the card catalogue to locate references in the library1.2Get information from the different parts of a book1.3Gather current information from newspapers and other print media2. Use different reading styles (scan, skim, read closely, etc.) to suit the text andone’s purpose for reading2.1Scan for specific information