Secondary Form 5

Language Awareness in the new curriculum

Content standards Focus Learning Standard

1.1.2
1.1
Understand independently
Understand meaning in Understand specific details
specific information and details
a variety of familiar when listening to texts on
in extended texts on a wide
contexts familiar topics
range of familiar topics and
some unfamiliar topics

2.1
Communicate Communicate a point of view 2.1.4
information, ideas, clearly Explain and justify the point of
opinions and feelings view of classmates or others
intelligibly on familiar
topics

3.1
Understand a variety of
texts by using a range
of appropriate reading
strategies
to construct meaning
Recognise the attitude or
opinion of the writer in a variety
of text types on familiar topics
3.1.5
Recognise independently the
attitude or opinion of the writer
in extended texts on a wide
range of familiar topics and
some unfamiliar topics

4.1
Communicate
intelligibly through
print and digital media
on familiar topics
Communicate information 4.1.2
clearly Explain advantages and
disadvantages of i) ideas ii)
plans or iii) arrangements

Extract taken from Form 5 syllabus, section 8: Form 5 Grammar and Language
Functions

Form 5 Grammar Form 5 Main Language Functions

1. Future simple (using shall); future perfect simple;
future perfect continuous; temporals (using: when,
before, after, until, etc.)
2. Third Conditional and mixed conditionals
3. Gerunds and infinitives (using: make, let)
4. Reported speech: commands and questions
1. Modals for requests, offers and suggestions, necessity,
deduction, advice, criticism
2. The passive: impersonal and personal structures
3. Causative forms (using: have or got)
4. Explaining effects usingdetermining verbs (caused, led
to)
5. Making comparisons to explain opinion (for time using
in the old days, in the past, nowadays, now)
6. Connecting words expressing a contrast
(using:although, however, on the other hand)
7. Using conditional sentences to explain reasons
8. Phrases to show opinion (for example:in your opinion)