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Semester Planner
Semester 1, 2020 – 2021
SUBJECT: English

GRADE: 2 International

Subject Synopsis: The Y2 English course objectives are developed with the support of the My Pals are Here English textbook
and student workbooks.
The overarching aim of the course is to develop effective language use. Students' proficiency in language use is assessed by their
attainment of the learning outcomes. Their language use is reflected in the following areas of language learning: Listening and Viewing,
Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Representing, Writing and Representing, Grammar, and Vocabulary. Listening, Reading and
Viewing are receptive skills, which are required for the making of meaning from ideas or information. Speaking, Writing and Representing
are productive skills that enable the creation of meaning. Grammar and Vocabulary, which constitute knowledge about language, are the
building blocks that are required for the application of the receptive and productive skills for effective communication. The skills of Viewing
and Representing are integrated with Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing to take into account the importance of developing
information, media and visual literacy skills in the teaching and learning of English Language.

Schoolwide Learner Goals:

Academic Achievers Confident Critical Thinkers who: Technologically Active and

who: Communicators who: Literate students who: Responsible Global
Citizens who:
a. Meet or exceed year a. Demonstrate a. Apply rational, higher a. Effectively use a. Understand and
level expectations proficiency in order thinking skills technology to respect their own and
b. Demonstrate reading, writing, access, organize, other cultures
academic growth speaking and evaluate, create and b. Demonstrate good
c. Strive for continuous listening communicate citizenship and social
improvement b. Work collaboratively information responsibility through
with others b. Understand serving others
c. Use creative forms of responsible use of c. Understand the
expression social media, importance of an
communication and active and healthy
networking tools lifestyle
d. Understand and
 demonstrates a set
of universal virtues

TERM 1
Week Syllabus Focus Area/ Learning Objectives Resources Assessment
Learning Topic (What students will know and can do) Student Book (Formative/Summative)
Reference
Week 1 Unit 1 – The Things We Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 4-12
Wear Reading Workbook page 4-12
Week 2 Unit 1 – (Cont.)  Read the introductory poem aloud
with rhythm and expression. Reading checklist/rubric
 Read the story aloud with Comprehension quiz
expression.
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
 Construct a story from sequenced
pictures.
Grammar
 Use ‘a pair of’ for items that come in End unit mini test
twos. (grammar, vocabulary,
 Tell the difference between spelling, punctuation)
‘wearing’ and ‘putting on’.
 Form sentences using these two
terms.
 Identify and use the comparative
and superlative adjectives taught on
this page.
 Form sentences using these
adjectives.
Speaking
 Talk about their favourite clothes. Checklist
 Name and list vocabulary related to
clothing.
Vocabulary
  Identify parts of their own clothing.
 Name and list vocabulary related to
accessories for clothing.
 Name and list the taught adjectives
 Use vocabulary related to the theme
of the unit.
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognize and pronounce the
beginning blends ‘br’ and ‘cr’. Checklist
 Recognise and pronounce the
beginning blend ‘dr’.
 Distinguish between the beginning
blends ‘br’, ‘cr’ and ‘dr’.

Week 3 Unit 2 – Wishes and Pupils will be able to use Text Book pages 14-14
Dreams Workbook page13-24.
Week 4 Unit 2 – (Cont.) Reading Skills
Reading checklist/rubric
 Read the introductory poem aloud
with rhythm and expression. Comprehension quiz
 Identify the sequence of a story.
 Read the story aloud with
expression.
 Tell the difference between fiction
and non-fiction.
 Give an example of a non-fiction
story.

Writing

 Practise creative writing.

Writing sample/rubric
Grammar

 Form sentences beginning with ‘I

wish to’.
  Differentiate between wishes that
can come true and wishes that
cannot come true.
 Ask and answer questions using
‘has’ and ‘have’. End unit mini test
 Say that we use ‘I shall/will’, ‘We (grammar, vocabulary,
shall/will’ and ‘he/she/it/you/they will’ spelling, punctuation)
to show future time.
 Form sentences using the
construction ‘will/shall + infinitive’
 Say that the words ‘and’, ‘when’ and
‘because’ are connectors and that
connectors help to join two parts of
a sentence.
 Form sentences using these
connectors.

Vocabulary

 Identify, name and list the

vocabulary items related to
occupations

Phonemic Awareness

 Recognise and pronounce the

beginning blend ‘pr’. Checklist
 Distinguish between the beginning
blends ‘fr’, ‘gr’ and ‘pr’.

Week 5 Unit 3 – Writing is Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 26-37
Exciting Reading Workbook pages 25-38.
Week 6 Unit 3 – (Cont.)  Read the introductory poem aloud
with rhythm and expression.
 Name and list examples of writing.
 List the names of different text
 types. Reading checklist/rubric
 Identify the title, author/writer and
characters of a story. Comprehension quiz
 Say that a story has a beginning, a
middle and an end.
 Identify the different parts of a story.
 Draw their own story webs.
Writing
 Write their own stories. Writing sample/rubric
 Write their own poems.
Grammar
 Identify and use the modal ‘can’ to
express ability.
 Form sentences using ‘can’.
 Identify and use the adjectives:
hardworking, lazy, neat, untidy, quite, End unit mini test
noisy, ugly, beautiful (grammar, vocabulary,
 Form sentences using these spelling, punctuation)
adjectives.
 Say that in many poems, the last
words of every pair of lines end with the
same sound or rhyme.
 Pupils will be able to write
party invitations and acceptance
notes to one another.
Speaking
 Say what lists are used for.
Checklist
 Make their own lists.
Phonemic Awareness

 Pupils will be able to recognise and

pronounce the beginning blends ‘bl’
Checklist
and ‘cl’.
Week 7 Unit 4 – Once Upon a Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 38-48
Time Reading Workbook pages 40-50.
Week 8 Unit 4 – Once Upon a  Read the introductory poem aloud
Time (Cont.) with rhythm and expression.
 Talk and write sentences about their
Reading checklist/rubric
favourite stories.
 Identify the beginnings, settings and Comprehension quiz
endings of stories.
 Say that adverbs tell us more about
verbs.
 Read and comprehend the
passages.
 Answer questions based on the
passages
Grammar
 Say that we add ‘-ed’ to many verbs
when we talk about something that End unit mini test
has already happened. (grammar, vocabulary,
 Identify and use verbs in the simple spelling, punctuation)
past tense.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary
items related to people and things in
stories
Writing Writing sample/rubric
 Write their own beginnings of
stories.
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognise and pronounce the
beginning blend ‘sl’. Checklist
 Distinguish between the beginning
blends ‘gl’, ‘pl’ and ‘sl’.

Week 9 Review

Week 10
 TERM 2
Week Syllabus Focus Area/ Learning Objectives Resources Assessment
Learning Topic (What students will know and can do) Student Book (Formative/Summative)
Reference
Week 1 Unit 5 – Holiday Time Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 50-60
Reading Workbook pages 53-62
Week 2 Unit 5 – Holiday Time  Read the story aloud with Reading checklist/rubric
(Cont.) expression.
Comprehension quiz
 Read the introductory poem aloud
with rhythm and expression.
Grammar
 Say that compound words are two
words that are joined together to
form a new word.
 Identify and use compound words.
 Say that when we talk about things
End unit mini test
that have already happened, we use (grammar, vocabulary,
verbs in the simple past tense. spelling, punctuation)
 Identify and use the simple past
tense form of regular and irregular
verbs
 Revise and use prepositions.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary
items related to people and things
found in an airport
Writing
 Identify the conventions of writing Writing sample/rubric
postcards.
 Practise creative writing.
Speaking
 Talk and write about what they did
during their previous holidays.
Checklist
 Form sentences using the
construction ‘I want to…’.
Phonemic Awareness
  Recognise and pronounce the Checklist
beginning blend ‘st’.
 Distinguish the beginning blends ‘sc’,
‘sp’ and ‘st’.
Week 3 Unit 6 – Helping Out Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 64-72
Reading Workbook pages 66-74
Week 4 Unit 6 – Helping Out  Read the introductory poem aloud
(Cont.) with rhythm and expression.
Reading checklist/rubric
 Suggest and list ideas for helping to
make their town the tops. Comprehension quiz
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Grammar
 Use ‘can’ with the main verb when
talking about what we are able to do.
 Form sentences that begin with ‘I
can…’.
 Say that the subject pronoun tells us End unit mini test
who or what a sentence is about. (grammar, vocabulary,
 Form sentences using the words spelling, punctuation)
‘can’ and ‘cannot’.
 Say that we use verbs in the simple
past tense when the action has
already happened.
 Identify and use the regular and
irregular verbs in the simple past
tense taught on this page.
 Say that the object pronoun has
something done to it by the subject.
 Form sentences using object
pronouns.
 Use the modals ‘should’ and ‘should
not’ to express obligation.
 Form sentences using these modals.
Vocabulary
  Identify and use the vocabulary items
taught on these pages.
 Form sentences using these
vocabulary items.
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognise and pronounce the
beginning blend ‘sw’. Checklist
 Distinguish between the beginning
blends ‘sk’, ‘sn’ and ‘sw’.

Week 5 Unit 7 - Feelings Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 74-83
Reading Workbook pages 76-
Week 6 Unit 7 - Feelings (Cont.)  Read the introductory poem aloud 84. Reading checklist/rubric
with rhythm and expression.
Comprehension quiz
 Suggest and list ideas for helping to
make their town the tops.
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing
 write their own recounts according to Writing sample/rubric
the conventions taught on page 78
Vocabulary
Worksheet
 Identify and use vocabulary related to a
fair and feelings.

Phonemic Awareness
 recognise and pronounce the ending
blends ‘nk’ and ‘nd’. Checklist
 Recognise and pronounce the ending
blend ‘ng’.
 Distinguish between the ending blends
‘nk’, ‘nd’ and ‘ng’.
Week 7 Review

Week 8 Exam Week Semester 1 Summative

Assessment.
Week 9 Unit 8 – What was It Like
Then?
Week 10 Unit 8 – What was It Like
Then? (Cont.)
Pupils will be able to use Text Book pages 86-96
Reading Workbook pages 87-98
 Read the introductory poem aloud
with rhythm and expression. Reading checklist/rubric
 Identify the text type ‘personal Comprehension quiz
recounts’.
 Discuss and list the differences
between Singapore in the past and
Singapore today.
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing Writing sample/rubric
 Write a postcard, telling a friend
about Chinatown.
 Write a report based on the
information gathered.
Grammar
 identify and use the verbs in the
simple past tense that are taught on End unit mini test
(grammar, vocabulary,
these pages.
spelling, punctuation)
 form questions using the
interrogative pronouns ‘who’ and
‘what’.
 Identify and use the prepositions
taught on this page.
 Form sentences using these
prepositions.
Speaking
 Talk about and list what they know
and what they want to know about Checklist
Vietnam in the past.
 Devise questions and practise
interviewing skills.
Vocabulary
 identify and use the vocabulary items
 taught on this page.
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognise and pronounce the
ending blend ‘sk’.
Checklist
 Distinguish between the ending
blends ‘nt’, ‘mp’ and ‘sk’.

Singapore International School @

Semester Planner
Semester 2, 2020 – 2021
SUBJECT: English

GRADE: Year 2 International

Subject Synopsis: The Y2 English course objectives are developed with the support of the My Pals are Here English textbook
and student workbooks.
The overarching aim of the course is to develop effective language use. Students' proficiency in language use is assessed by their
attainment of the learning outcomes. Their language use is reflected in the following areas of language learning: Listening and Viewing,
Reading and Viewing, Speaking and Representing, Writing and Representing, Grammar, and Vocabulary. Listening, Reading and
Viewing are receptive skills, which are required for the making of meaning from ideas or information. Speaking, Writing and Representing
are productive skills that enable the creation of meaning. Grammar and Vocabulary, which constitute knowledge about language, are the
building blocks that are required for the application of the receptive and productive skills for effective communication. The skills of Viewing
and Representing are integrated with Listening, Reading, Speaking and Writing to take into account the importance of developing
information, media and visual literacy skills in the teaching and learning of English Language.

Schoolwide Learner Outcomes:

Academic Achievers Confident Critical Thinkers who: Technologically Active and Responsible
who: Communicators who: Literate students who: Gloabal citizens who:
a. Meet or exceed year a. Demonstrate a. Apply rational, a. Effectively use a. Understand and
level expectations proficiency in higher order thinking technology to respect their own and
b. Demonstrate reading, writing, skills access, organize, other cultures
academic growth speaking and evaluate, create and b. Demonstrate good
c. Strive for continuous listening communicate citizenship and social
improvement b. Work collaboratively information responsibility through
with others b. Understand serving others
c. Use creative forms responsible use of c. Understand the
of expression social media, importance of an
communication and active and healthy
networking tools lifestyle
d. Understand and
demonstrates a set of
universal virtues

TERM 3
Week Syllabus Focus Area/ Learning Objectives Resources Assessment
Learning Outcome Student Book (Formative/Summative)
Reference
Week 1 Unit 9 – Sounds Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 4-12
Reading Workbook pages 31-
Week 2 Unit 9 – Sounds (Cont.)  Read the introductory poem aloud 12
with rhythm and expression. Reading checklist/rubric
 Read and comprehend the passage.
  Answer questions based on the Comprehension quiz
passage.
Grammar
 Form adverbs.
 Identify and use the adverbs taught
on this page.
 Form sentences using these adverbs.
 Identify and use the onomatopoeic End unit mini test
words taught on this page as proper (grammar, vocabulary,
verbs. spelling, punctuation)
 Form sentences using these
onomatopoeic words and the modals
‘can’ or ‘cannot’.
Speaking
 Name and list the sounds that they
can hear around them. Checklist
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
related to sounds that animals, things
and people make
 Identify and use the onomatopoeic
words
Phonemic Awareness
 recognise and pronounce the ending
blends ‘sp’, ‘st’ and ‘ld’. Checklist

Week 3 Unit 10 – Where do They Pupils will be able to use Text Book pages 15-
Live? Reading 24
Week 4 Unit 10 – Where do They  Read the introductory poem aloud Workbook pages 14- Reading checklist/rubric
Live? (Cont.) with rhythm and expression. 24.
Comprehension quiz
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing
 Write a non-fiction story about Writing sample/rubric
animals and their homes.
 Grammar
 Form questions with the
interrogatives ‘which’, ‘what’ and
‘whose’.
End unit mini test
 Identify and use the vocabulary items (grammar, vocabulary,
taught on this page. spelling, punctuation)
 Identify and use:
o The interrogatives ‘who’ and ‘where’.
o The prepositions ‘under’, ‘in’ and ‘on’.
o The vocabulary items taught on this
page.
 Say that the apostrophe shows who
or what something belongs to.
 Identify and use the adjectives taught
on this page.
Vocabulary
 Name and list some animals and their
homes.
 Say that a command is something
that must be obeyed.
 List things in alphabetical order.
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognise and pronounce the ending Checklist
blend ‘lp’.
 Distinguish between the ending
blends ‘lt’, ‘lk’ and ‘lp’.
Week 5 Unit 11 – The World of Pupils will be able to use Text Book pages 30-
Colour Reading 36
 Recite the colour poems on this Workbook pages 28-
page. 36. Reading checklist/rubric
 Understand the imagery and
Week 6 Unit 11 – The World of Comprehension quiz
metaphors used in the poems.
Colour (Cont.)
 Read the story aloud with expression.
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
 Writing
 Write their own colour poems.
 Interpret graphs.
Writing sample/rubric
 Make their own graphs.
Grammar
 Identify and use the comparative
adjectives ‘darker’, ‘lighter’ and
‘paler’.
 Form sentences using these
vocabulary items and comparative End unit mini test
adjectives. (grammar, vocabulary,
spelling, punctuation)
 Identify and use the possessive
adjectives ‘my’, ‘her’, ‘his’, ‘their’, ‘our’
and ‘its’.
 Identify and use the demonstratives
‘this’, ’that’, ‘these’ and ‘those’. Checklist
Speaking
 Talk about camouflage in the natural
world.
Vocabulary
 Revise and add to their knowledge of
adjectives related to colour.
 Identify and use the vocabulary
related to colour
 Say and list how and why we make
use of certain colours for safety
purposes. Checklist
Phonemic Awareness
 Recognise and pronounce the long
vowel ‘e-e’.
 Distinguish between the long vowels
‘a-e’ and ‘e-e’.
Week 7 Unit 12 – The World of Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 38-
Plants Reading 48
Week 8 Unit 12 – The World of  Read the introductory poem aloud with Workbook pages 37-
Plants (Cont.) rhythm and expression. 48. Reading checklist/rubric
 The conventions governing the text type Comprehension quiz
‘instructions’.
 The imperative verbs found in
instructions.
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing
 Use commas to separate things in a list. Writing sample/rubric
 Write a story in the context of the unit.
Speaking
 Talk about what they know about plants.
Grammar
 Identify and use the plural form of the
irregular nouns End unit mini test
 Construct questions and answers using (grammar, vocabulary,
the verb ‘like’ in both the positive and spelling, punctuation)
negative forms.
 Use personal pronouns as subjects in
the first, second and third person.
 Identify and use the verbs in the present
continuous tense
 Form sentences using these verbs in
the present continuous tense
 Identify and use the verb ‘have/has’ to
mean ‘possess’.
 Form sentences using ‘have/has’.
 Identify and use the quantifiers ‘many’
and ‘some’ in positive and negative
sentences.
 Form sentences using these quantifiers.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
related to garden
Phonemic Awareness
Checklist
 Recognise and pronounce the long
 vowel ‘i-e’, ‘o-e’.
Week 9 Review

Week 10 Unit 13 - Hobbies Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 52-
Reading 59
Week 11 Unit 13 – Hobbies (Cont.)  Read the introductory poem aloud Workbook pages 51-
with rhythm and expression. 60. Reading checklist/rubric
 Read and comprehend the passage. Comprehension quiz
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing
 Write instructions in sequence.
 Write a story in the context of the unit. Writing sample/rubric
Speaking
 Talk about their hobbies.
 Identify and use the reflexive Checklist
pronouns
 Interpret a graph.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
related to hobbies
 Arrange things in alphabetical order Worksheet
to the second letter.
 Recognise and pronounce the
vocabulary items
Phonemic Awareness Checklist
 Recognise and pronounce the long
vowel ‘u-e’, ‘o-e’, ‘i-e’, ‘a-e’ and ‘e-e’.

TERM 4
Week Syllabus Focus Area/ Learning Objectives Resources Assessment
Learning Topic (What students will know and can do) Student Book (Formative/Summative)
Reference
Week 1 Unit 14 – Are You Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 64-72
Hungry? Reading Workbook pages 63-
Week 2 Unit 14 – Are You  Read the introductory poem aloud 72
Hungry? (Cont.) with rhythm and expression.
Reading checklist/rubric
 Recognise the conventions of
instructions, specifically recipes. Comprehension quiz
 Arrange instructions in order
 Read and comprehend the passage.
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Speaking
 Talk about and list their favourite Checklist
food.
Writing Writing sample/rubric
 Write their own recipes, using
imperative verbs.
Grammar
 Say that we use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before the
names of things that we can count.
 Say that we do not use ‘a’ or ‘an’
End unit mini test
before the names of things that we (grammar, vocabulary,
cannot count. spelling, punctuation)
 Identify and list the uncountable
nouns which are taught
 Say that we use ‘much’ before
uncountable nouns.
 Say that we use ‘many’ before
countable nouns.
 Say that we use ‘How much…’ to ask
for the price of things.
 Ask for the price of things using ‘How
much…’.
 Say that we use words such as ‘a
slice of…’ or ‘a bottle of…’ before
uncountable nouns.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
related to kitchen
 Phonemic Awareness

 Recognise and pronounce the vowel

Checklist
sounds ‘ai’ and ‘au’.
 Recognise and pronounce the vowel
sounds ‘aw’ and ‘ay’.
 Distinguish between the vowel
sounds ‘ai’, ‘au’, ‘aw’ and ‘ay’.
Week 3 Unit 15 – We can Make Pupils will be able to Text Book pages 76-84
Things Reading Workbook pages 76-
Week 4 Unit 15 – We can Make  Read about a play. 84 Reading checklist/rubric
Things (Cont.)  Read and comprehend the passage.
Comprehension quiz
 Answer questions based on the
passage.
Writing
 Write commands using imperative
verbs.
 Write a story in the context of the Writing sample/rubric
unit.
Speaking
 Talk about the things that they can
make. Checklist
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
related to art and craft items
Phonemic Awareness Worksheet
 Recognise and pronounce the vowel
blends ‘ea’ and ‘ee’.
 Recognise and pronounce the vowel Checklist
blend ‘ie’.
 Distinguish the vowel blends ‘ea’,
‘ee’ and ‘ie’.
Week 5 Review

Week 6 Exams Semester 2 Summative

Assessment.
Week 7 Unit 16 – Sports and the Pupils will be able to use Text Book page 86-96
Games Reading Workbook pages 85-96.
Week 8 Unit 16 – Sports and the  Read the introductory poem aloud
Games (Cont.) with rhythm and expression. Reading checklist/rubric
 Recognise the conventions of Comprehension quiz
instructions, specifically recipes.
 Read and comprehend the poem.
 Answer questions based on the
poem.
Writing
 Write a story in the context of the
unit.
Speaking Writing sample/rubric
 Talk about and list some sports and
games
Grammar Checklist
 Form sentences using the verb ‘like’
in both its positive and negative
forms.
 form sentences using the verb ‘enjoy’
in its positive and negative forms.
 Form sentences using verbs in the
past continuous tense End unit mini test
 Say that we use the past continuous (grammar, vocabulary,
tense when we talk about things that spelling, punctuation)
were taking place some times in the
past.
 Identify and form the regular positive,
comparative and superlative
adjectives taught on this page.
 Form sentences using these
adjectives.
 describe an event using the simple
past tense.
Vocabulary
 Identify and use the vocabulary items
 related to sports and games
 identify and use the verbs associated
with sports and games.
 Identify and use the ordinal numbers
 Form sentences using these ordinal
numbers.
Phonemic Awareness
 recognise and pronounce the vowel
sounds ‘oa’ and ‘oo’. Checklist
 Recognise and pronounce the vowel
sounds ‘ou’ and ‘ow’.
Distinguish between the vowel sounds ‘oa’,
‘oo’, ‘ou’ and ‘ow’.
Week 9 Review
Week 10