St.

Francis Xavier’s College

Course Outline 2024 – 2025 Form 2 English (First Term)
Course Book Language Arts & Non-
Listening/
Cycle Writing language Arts/ LAC/
Reading Grammar Speaking
RAC
 Comparative & superlative adjectives
1 Unit 1 –
 Comparative & superlative adverbs
Why do we shop? Module 2 Language Arts:
 Making comparisons
Unit 3 Figurative Language:
 Conditional sentences about possible Writing #1:
2 Reading skills: metaphors and similes
situations (type 1) Leaflet
Identifying opinions & preferences
 Using would rather…(than) and
IP
3 prefer …(to)

4 Unit 3 –
How can we stay healthy & fit?  Present perfect tense Acrostic, Rhyming
Module 1
 Conditional sentences about facts ( type Writing #2: Poems
Unit 2
5 Reading skills: 0) Speech
Identify what a reference word refers to  Adverbs of degree Science: Passive voice
GD
 Adverbs of sequence
6

7 Writing #3:
 Using the simple present tense to talk Feature article
8 Unit 2 – Test Paper 1
about timetables and schedules
How digital communication changed our Writing #4
 Using the present continuous tense to IP Language Arts:
world? Exam practice
9 talk about arrangements and plans Figurative language:
 Past continuous tense (question Personification
Reading skills: analysis)
 Connectives of reason: as, because and
Understanding Connections between ideas
since
 Connectives of result: so, therefore and Listening
10 as a result Exam
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Course Outline 2024 – 2025 Form 2 English (Second Term)
Course Book Language Arts & Non-
Listening/
Cycle Writing language Arts/ LAC/
Reading Grammar Speaking
RAC

11
Unit 5 –
Why does wildlife matter?
Module 3 Language Arts:
12  Passive voice Writing #5:
Unit 4 Film appreciation
Reading skills:  Defining relative clauses One- sided
Matilda
Understanding simile, metaphor, rhyme  Non-defining relative clauses argumentative
personification and alliteration essay
GD
13

14 Unit 7 –
What do we (not) know? Language Arts:
Module 3
Writing #6: Short story
 Using be used to and used to Unit 5
15 Reading skills: Narrative story The Ex-poser
 Wh-words and to-infinitves
Understanding setting, tone and
GD
atmosphere
16

Writing #7:
17
Newsletter Test Paper 2
18 Unit 8 –  Using can, may, might and could to talk article
How powerful are our attitudes? about possibility IP + GD Cinquains, limericks &
 Nouns with and without articles Writing #8 shape poems
19
Reading skills:  Conditional sentences about unreal Reflection
Predicting content situations (type 2)
 Phrasal Verbs
Listening
20/21
Final exam
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Mode of Assessment 2024 – 2025 Form 2 English

Paper Marks

General English 75
Writing 60
Listening & Integrated Skills 60
Speaking 40
Test(s): 20
MySmartSTEAM: 5
Continuous Assessment Reading Portfolio: 10
Participation: 10
Dictation: 20
Total 300