Scheme of Work – Year 7

This scheme of work is a guide for teachers teaching Year 7 classes. It incorporates the use of the Gateway to English 1 textbook
and workbook and represents one year’s study. Teachers should feel free to change, modify, supplement and vary the content of this
scheme according to their students’ needs and abilities. There is a lot of material in the two books and it is unlikely that all eighteen
units will be completed in full.

Although every effort should be made to move sequentially through the textbook, it is expected that some materials might be
selectively left out. In order to make this selection more systematic, topics have been differentiated into three categories. These are
denoted in the following way:

* represents work suitable for academically challenged learners (and presupposes study by average and able students).
** represents work suitable for academically average learners (and thereby includes higher level achievers).
*** represents extension work suitable for academically able learners.

Teachers should take advantage of the ICT resources available at their respective schools to supplement the activities in this
scheme of work wherever possible.

Teachers should also be conscious of the fact that diagnosis of student needs and areas of concern and improvement should be an
ongoing process, using both formative and summative assessment.

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 Year 7 Scheme of Work
Core Textbook: Gateway to English 1

Listening and Grammar &

Dates Unit/Topic Writing Reading Vocabulary Study Skills
Speaking Language use

UNIT 1 Genre: Descriptive * Brochure * Dialogue * Have/has (got) * Clothes * Using a glossary
* Character (adventure session * Nouns * Physical
Yusri and you descriptions (1st camp) (Discussion on Attributes
9-21 Jan and 3rd person): * Narrative (camp clothing) * Parts of the
core journal) body
* Introductions
Focus on: Focus on:
(a) Handwriting (a) Direct questions
(b) Use of capital (b) Identifying
letters sequence of
(c) Full stop Events
(c) Simple inference

UNIT 2 Genre: Descriptive * Narrative (Ghost *** Biodata of a * Possessive ‘s * Family

** Brief personal story) penfriend * Subject relationships
Family and friends descriptions (listening) pronouns * Rooms in a
23 – 4th (3rd person): Focus on: * Regular plurals house
February core (a) Why questions * there is/ there *** Countries and
(b) Finding explicit are nationalities
* Extended information ** Computer terms
description (c) Simple
(1st person): inference
extension (d) Continuing a
text (by
Focus on: predicting
(a) Basic from the
paragraphing context)
Informal letter
format (in
3

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E-mail)

UNIT 3 Genre: Descriptive * Superman * Discussing * Can/can’t * Abilities * Making a study

* Extended * Short biography routines and * Verbs * Hobbies timetable
description (3rd (Helen Keller) interests * Present simple
6-18 Feb Life can be a person): core (making tense
challenge Focus on: interrogatives) * Telling the time
Genre: Narrative (a) Who questions * What time +
*** Superheroes in (b) Pronoun present simple
action: reference
extension (c) Applying own
experiences
Focus on:
(a) gathering
information on
interests,
routines and
making a
biodata

UNIT 4 Genre: Descriptive * Real animals, * Exchanging * Present simple * Animal names * Dictionary skills
* Description of fantasy animals information (singular and * Animal parts (alphabetical
20-4th Mar Animals around the fantasy animals: through yes/no plural questions + * Size and colour order)
world core Focus on: questions short answers) * Adjectives
(a) Predicting * Adjectives
Focus on: content before nouns
(a) Using a table to (b) Information
plan content transfer to table
(b) Proof-reading (c) Collating
(capitalisation, information from
verbs, text
paragraphing (d) Inference and
(c) Expanding deduction
notes * Summary skills 1

Focus on
(a) Classifying into
groups
(b) Generalising

6 Mar – UNIT 5 Genre: Factual * Interview (a * Recording * Verb ‘to be’: * Animal * Using a

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17 March * Description, veterinary officer) information present tense classification dictionary and
Man and animals problem and *** Animal poem from a forms (+ve, -ve (wild/farm/pet thesaurus
solutions: * Narrative telephone and questions) animals)
core (traditional story) conversation * Contracted forms * Basic medical
and a medical * Present simple terms
Focus on: Focus on: consultation (negative)
(a) Allocating (a) Finding * Common
sentences to explicit and * Making an irregular plurals
paragraphs implied information appointment by
(b) Sequencing (b) Evaluating telephone
sentences in characters
paragraphs * Question and
answer to
complete a
survey form

* Following a
story

UNIT 6 Genre: * Multi-format * Identifying * Demonstratives: * Environment and ** Proof-reading

Argumentative information – opinions and this, that, these, Conservation
Animals in danger * Short letter to text, attitudes in a those
newspaper table, graph, conversation * Prepositions of
3rdApril-15t expressing map, pictures place: Where
h
Apri opinions: (endangered * Discussing is/are…?
core animals) pictures and
identifying
*** Animal poem * Newspaper differences
reports and
Genre: Descriptive letters (captured
* Description of python)
an animal:
core Focus on:
(a) Extracting and
Focus on: collating
(a) Expanding information in
notes in varied formats
paragraphs (b) Identifying
(b) Proof-reading explicit
(punctuation, information
paragraphing)

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 UNIT 7 Genre: Narrative * Childhood * Comparing * Time concept: * Household items *** Basic research
*** Childhood experiences homes of the past, present, skills for locating
17 -29 Brunei memories experiences: past and future information
April core Focus on: present day * Time
(a) Finding explicit prepositions: in,
Focus on: and implicit *** Life in Kg Ayer on, at
(a) Concept of the information in the 60’s * Time expressions
past, present (b) Application to with ago
and future own * Possessives his,
experience her, their, my,
(c) Pronoun your, our
reference

** Summary skills 2
(word association)

UNIT 8 Genre: Factual * Identifying * Time * Substances and *** Creating a list of
1- 13 May * Past tense * Multi-format keywords prepositions: in, materials points
Ancient Egypt descriptive and information – for, from, to *** Peer checking
narrative: text, inserts, * More irregular and editing
core map, timeline past tense verbs *** Choosing
(Egypt) * Past tense relevant
Genre: Narrative * Use of dictionary
*** Factual Focus on: sequencing definitions
narrative (1st (a) Finding explicit adverbs
person): and implied
extension information
(b) Transferring
Focus on: information into
(a) Use of a flow diagram
sequencing
adverbs
(b) Creating a list of
points
(c) Peer checking
and editing

UNIT 9 Genre: Narrative *** Summary skills 3 * Past simple * Artifacts and its * Planning a story
* Fantasy story- a (simple negative uses * Editing
9-21 May Discovering the past journey through paraphrasing) ** Past simple ** Expanding
time: reducing a list of interrogatives points on a table
core words into a * Irregular verbs ** Using a

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 single word or ** Past simple: had flowchart for
Focus on: phrase * Past/ present planning
(a) Past tense contrast ** Paragraphing
description *** Proofreading
(b) 1st person
narrative

UNIT 10 Genre: Narrative * Greeks legend: * Reading aloud * Determiners ** Character

** Short play, Odysseus and ** Drama * Some and any adjectives
22 May – Stories and plays writing dialogue: Cyclops performance * Past simple
3rd June extension (yes/no
Focus on: questions)
Focus on: (a) understanding * There was/were
(a) Making titles character
(b) Character descriptions
description (b) understanding
(c) Setting, setting,
problems and problems and
solutions solutions in a
narrative

UNIT 11 Genre: Narrative *** Narrative ** Past simple: ** More character

* Guided (complete more irregular adjectives and
5 – 16 Just a bit of Wood summary graded novel) verbs household
June *** Imaginative Focus on: ** Adverbs of objects.
story: core (a) Understanding manner with –ly
development of suffix
Focus on: extended story
(a) Linking short (b) Character
sentences with relationships
and/but/so (c) Finding
(b) Planning a story examples and
reasons to
support
opinions

UNIT 12 * Book report: ** Short biography ** Expressing * Past simple * Terms related to * Developing
3rd July – extension (Mohandas opinions (wh-questions) books good reading
15 July Finding out Focus on: Gandhi) habits
(a) Identifying the Focus on:
title, author, (a) inferring
main characters meanings from

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 and setting context
(b) Expressing (b) supporting
personal views statements with
of the book examples
being read (c) Application to
own experience

UNIT 13 Genre: Factual ** Newspaper * Swimming * play/do/go + * Name of sports *** Proofreading
17 – 29 * Directed writing report (beach lessons (wh name of sport (tense use)
July Exercise is fun! * Personal letter rescue) –questions) *** Contrast of *** Using a diary
(informal letter) ** Personal thank present simple
Refer page 161 you letter and past simple
of Gateway 1 Focus on: ** Frequency
for letter layout: (a) Finding explicit adverbs
core information
Focus on: (b) inferring word
(a) Using the meaning from
present and context
past simple in
context

UNIT 14 Genre: Factual * Exposition * Understanding ** Predicative * Football terms – ** Note-taking skills
31 July-12 ** Contrastive (football facts) a description adjectives position, officials,
Aug Football description: * Poem ** Extracting * Comparing skills, locations,
extension * Football league specific sentences with etc.
table information adjective + er +
Focus on: * Match report from a radio than
(a) Sentence * Rules of a game discussion
construction for Focus on: * Describing
comparisons (a) Finding explicit (football kit)
information *** Comparing
(b) Simple personal
deductions information
(c) Collating
information
from parts of a
text
(d) Interpreting and
applying rules

UNIT 15 Genre: Factual ** Narrative (crime * Present * Name of sports

14 – 26 *** Commentary on story) continuous tense * Physical activity

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Aug Extreme sports a sport (full/contracted * Verbs
* Rules for sports Focus on: forms) ** Adjectives for
** Dialogue: (a) Transferring * Must/mustn’t for expressing
extension information to a obligation opinions
diagram
Focus on: (b) Following the
(a) Using commas sequence of a
in lists narrative

UNIT 16 Genre: Letter * Personal letter ** Identifying ** Going to + * Public transport ** Presentation
writing ** Weather map explicit and infinitive skills
28 Aug – Yusri’s Friday ** Personal letter: ** Bar graph implied * Past/ future time
2 Sept morning extension ** Route map information in a * Expressions
bank * How much/how
Focus on: Focus on: transaction many?
(a) Letter format (a) Scanning for ** Negotiating a
and layout specific taxi fare
(b) Envelope layout information * Eliciting
(b) Interpreting information in a
symbols, bar group
graph and a discussion
map

UNIT 17 Genre: Descriptive * Directions to a * Identifying a ** Comparative * Natural features ** Information

11-23 rd * Brief description place place from a sentences with * Parts of a plant mapping
Sept Brunei adventures of a place ** Narrative description more + adjective ** Abstract
information (adventure story) * Describing a + than adjectives
leaflet ** Interpreting place ** Imperatives for
*** Holiday directions directions
postcard:
extension Focus on:
(a) Collating
Focus on: information
(a) Using from parts of a
illustrations to text
support a text (b) Information
transfer to a
map
(c) Evaluating
decisions

UNIT 18 Genre: Descriptive * Information *** Identifying * Object pronouns ** More natural

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 * Biodata leaflet (Mt information ** Simple past features
25th – 7th Brunei Yakin! *** Imaginative Kilimanjaro) from an in-flight (more
Oct autobiography: ** Airline route map announcement wh-questions)
extension * Conjunctions:
Focus on: and, but, so,
Focus on: (a) Interpreting a because
(a) Using questions route map
to plan content (b) Inferring
meanings from
context

* Revision/Exam prep from 7 October onwards and end of year CCA activities

Chinese New Year 28th January ABDB Day 31st May-Wednesday Awal Tahun Hijrah 23rd September-
Saturday Saturday
National Day 23rd February Nuzul Al Quran- 12th June- Monday
Thursday
Israk Mikraj 24th April Sultan’s Birthday 15th July- Saturday
Monday
First Ramadhan 27th May Hari Raya Haji 2nd September
Saturday

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