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Antonio Etoro
Dias Catama
Jacó Manuel Culabo
Jeremias Henriques
Miguel Faustino
Vasco Anastácio

TWO UNIT SYLLABUS AND ONE MONTH SCHEME OF WORK, GRADE 10

(Licenciatura em Ensino de Ingles)

Universidade Rovuma
Nampula
2022
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Antonio Etoro
Dias Catama
Jaco Manuel Culabo
Jeremias Henriques
Miguel Faustino
Vasco Anastácio

Essay to be submitted to the Department of Letters and

Social Sciences, English Course third year, in partial
fulfilment of the subject: Didactics of English IV.

Lecturer: Samuel Canda, MA

Universidade Rovuma

Nampula

2022
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SYLLABUS

GRADE 10

UNIT 8: LIFE AFTER SCHOOL

Learning objectives Contents Basic competences Assessments and standards Weeks Hours
Students will… Students will be able to… Students can…
✓ Discuss what they would ✓ Describe and ✓ Make a short
like to do after school; Functions compare different presentation on future
✓ Discuss advantages and ▪ Asking for and giving types of jobs; plans;
disadvantages of business information; ✓ Identify possible ✓ Describe and compare
partnerships; ▪ Classifying; fields of studies different types of jobs;
✓ Discuss the importance of ▪ Comparing and contrasting; vocational training); ✓ Describe possible
pursuing a career; ▪ Recognizing and describing; ✓ Identify self- fields of studies;
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✓ Discuss job opportunities ▪ Explaining; employment ✓ Describe self- 2
hours
in their communities; ▪ Giving advice possibilities; employment weeks
✓ Talk about professional ▪ Making future plans; ✓ Make and present possibilities;
orientation; ▪ Making inquiries; future plans; ✓ Sustain a conversation
✓ Discuss local initiatives ▪ Predicting. ✓ Make inquiries about of interview type;
for small business Topics job opportunities; ✓ Write letter
promotion in the 1. After school ✓ Describe how to start application for a job;
community; 2. What would you do? small cooperatives / ✓ Read jobs
3. Finding out about professions advertisements;
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✓ Discuss jobs and qualities 4. Pursuing a career business ✓ Read prospectus of

required for the jobs. 5. Opportunities in your partnerships; educational
community. ✓ State the importance institutions;
6. Words you need to talk about of the linkage ✓ Write formal letters;
business finance between professional ✓ Write CVs;
Vocabulary activities and rural ✓ Use adjectives
✓ Topic related vocabulary. economy and social describe personal
Grammar development of the characteristics;
✓ Adjectives describing community; ✓ Use conditionals;
personal characteristics; ✓ Take part in a job ✓ Use modals;
✓ Gerunds; interview; ✓ Use gerunds;
✓ Tenses; ✓ Write a letter of ✓ Use tenses.
✓ Conditionals; application for a job
✓ Modals.
Skills:
Speaking
▪ Conduct a debate;
▪ Talk and make decisions;
▪ Talk about career option;
▪ Talk about future plans;
▪ Make predictions;
Listening
▪ Listen and take notes;
▪ Listen for details;
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▪ Listen for specific

information (job
announcements);
▪ Listen to the key points.

Reading
▪ Locate main ideas in the text;
▪ Read and answer a
questionnaire;
▪ Read and summaries a text;
▪ educational institutions;
▪ Reading for specific
information.

Writing
▪ Fill in a form;
▪ Write a formal letter;
▪ Write a letter of complaints;
▪ Write compositions;
▪ Write CVs.

Cross Cutting Issues

• English cultural issues;
• Health and hygiene (symptoms, causes and prevention of the
COVID-19);
• Environmental issues (floods and droughts, vegetation and so
forth).
• Technology (communication, transport, cinema, etc.).
• Drugs and basic rules of good eating.
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GRADE 10
UNIT 9: NEW TECHNOLOGY
Learning objectives Contents Basic competences Assessments and standards Weeks Hours
Students will… Students will be able to… Students can…

▪ Identify and Functions ✓ Ask and answer about ✓ Discuss aspects to

debate about ▪ Arguing; instruments used in consider when buying
technological ▪ Asking and giving information; science and and choosing
tools used for ▪ Giving and following technology (e.g., TV, equipment;
sustainable instructions; computer…); ✓ Draw and label different
development; ▪ Comparing and contrasting; ✓ Ask and answer parts of instruments
▪ Identify the ▪ Describing; questions about used in science and
advantages and ▪ Discussing; science, technology technology;
disadvantages of ▪ Explaining; and innovation; ✓ Explain how solar
science, ▪ Expressing opinion; ✓ Describe energy is used in their 2 64
technology and ▪ Identifying. improvements in community; weeks hours
innovation in their living standards as a ✓ Follow written and oral
lives; Topics result of the use of instructions;
1. New technologies for a better
life;
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▪ Discuss the 2. Technology and community modern technology in ✓ Listen and fill in the
potential of new development Mozambique; gap;
3. Buy me a cell phone or a
technology and ✓ Give instructions and ✓ Putting information in a
microwave?
innovations that 4. Invention, innovation and explanation how to use sequence;
can improve the discovery different appliances; ✓ Read and understand
Vocabulary
living standards of ✓ Give instructions on articles about
Topic related vocabulary
the society; how to use modern communication and
Grammar
▪ Talk about the technological technology;
Countable and uncountable nouns;
impact of science, The Passive: Present and Past; equipment (e.g., ✓ Read instructions on
technology and Verbs: computer, DVD, diagrams;
innovation in the do/make/manufacture/produce/invent. microwave…); ✓ Write about the
community daily Skills ✓ Identify and describe importance of the use of
life. Speaking the functions of technology in
▪ Listen and ask/answer science and farming/health/industry;
questions;
technological ✓ Write description of
▪ Listen and follow instructions;
▪ Listen and take notes; equipment. instruments.
▪ Listen for details;
▪ Listen for general information.
Listening
▪ Listen and ask/answer
questions;
▪ Listen and follow instructions;
▪ Listen and take notes;
▪ Listen for details;
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▪ Listen for general information.

Reading
▪ Read and follow instructions;
▪ Read for details;
▪ Read for general information.
Writing
▪ Write interview questions;
▪ Match words/sentences to
pictures;
▪ Rearrange sentences and
paragraphs;
▪ Report conversation;
▪ Write a description of a process.

Cross Cutting Issues

• English cultural issues;

• Health and hygiene (symptoms, causes and prevention of the
COVID-19);
• Environmental issues (floods and droughts, vegetation and so
forth).
• Technology (communication, transport, cinema, etc.).
• Drugs and basic rules of good eating.
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ONE MONTH SCHEME OF WORK

School: Marcelino dos Santos Secondary School
Grade: 10
Subject: English language
UNIT 8: GENERAL OBJECTIVES:
At the of the 8th unit, students should be able to:
✓ Discuss what they would like to do after school;
✓ Discuss advantages and disadvantages of business partnerships;
✓ Discuss the importance of pursuing a career;
✓ Discuss job opportunities in their communities;
✓ Talk about professional orientation;
✓ Discuss local initiatives for small business promotion in the community.

COMPETENCES
✓ Describe and compare different types of jobs;
✓ Identify possible fields of studies vocational training);
✓ Identify self-employment possibilities;
✓ Make and present future plans;
✓ Make inquiries about job opportunities;
✓ Describe how to start small cooperatives/business partnerships;
✓ State the importance of the linkage between professional activities and rural economy and social development of the community;
✓ Write a letter of application for a job
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UNIT 9: GENERAL OBJECTIVES

At the end of the 9th unit, students should be able to:

▪ Identify and debate about technological tools used for sustainable development;
▪ Identify the advantages and disadvantages of science, technology and innovation in their lives;
▪ Discuss the potential of new technology and innovations that can improve the living standards of the society;
▪ Talk about the impact of science, technology and innovation in the community daily life.

COMPETENCES
✓ Ask and answer about instruments used in science and technology (e.g., TV, computer…);
✓ Ask and answer questions about science, technology and innovation;
✓ Describe improvements in living standards as a result of the use of modern technology in Mozambique;
✓ Give instructions and explanation how to use different appliances;
✓ Give instructions on how to use modern technological equipment (e.g., computer, DVD, microwave…);
✓ Identify and describe the functions of science and technological equipment.
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WEEKS STUDY UNIT CONTENTS TEACHING METHODOLOGY BIBLIOGRAPHY Hours

AIDS Assignments per
week

WEEK 1 Number of lessons 10th Grade, English language

students’ book, ✓ Classroom Class 10-student’s
classroom 4
discussions; 1
1. After school book. hours
discussions
18/04/2022 ✓ Individual
2. what would you and additional
- UNIT 8 texts. and Group
22/04/2022 do?
works.
3. Finding out
LIFE AFTER
about professions
SCHOOL

10th Grade, ✓ Classroom English language

4. Pursuing a students’ book, discussions; Class 10-student’s
career classroom 1 4
4. Opportunities discussions ✓ Individual book. hours
WEEK 2 in your and additional and Group
25/04/2022 community. texts.
- works.
4. Words you
29/04/2022 need to talk about
business finance
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UNIT 9 ✓ Classroom English language

1. New 10th Grade, discussions; Class 10-student’s
technologies for a students’ book,
WEEK 3 better life; classroom ✓ Individual book. 4
2. Technology discussions and Group 1 hours
02/05/2022 and community and additional
- works.
development texts.
06/05/2022
3. Media
NEW
TECHNOLOGY communication
4. Buy me a cell ✓ Classroom English language
phone or a 10th Grade, discussions; Class 10-student’s
WEEK 4 microwave? students’ book,
classroom ✓ Individual book. 1 4
5. Invention,
09/05/2022 innovation and discussions and Group hours
- discovery; and additional
13/05/2022 texts. works.
6. advantages and
disadvantages of
technology
science

Reference: CABINDA, Manuel & PAIZZE, Daphne. Learning English 10th class, 1st ed, Longman Moçambique Lda, Maputo 2008.