Several different work areas within the English language.
Life on Scilly and Lgr 11
Parts of Lgr 11 that are emphasized in Life on Scilly are marked in bold;
In years 7–9 Content of communication
- Current and subject areas familiar to the pupils.
- Interests, daily situations, activities, sequences of events, relations and ethical questions.
- Views, experiences, feelings and future plans.
- Living conditions, traditions, social relations and cultural phenomena in various contexts and areas where English is used. Listening and reading – reception
- Spoken English and texts from various media.
- Spoken English with some regional and social variants.
- Oral and written instructions and descriptions.
- Different types of conversations, dialogues, interviews and oral communications.
- Literature and other fiction in spoken, dramatized and filmed forms.
- Songs and poems.
- Oral and written information, as well as discussions and argumentation for different purposes, such as news, reports and newspaper articles.
- Strategies to understand details and context in spoken language and texts, such as adapting listening and reading to the type of communication, contents and purpose.
- Different ways of searching for, choosing and assessing texts and spoken language in English from the Internet and other media.
- Language phenomena such as pronunciation, intonation, grammatical structures, sentence structure, words with different registers, as well as fixed language expressions pupils will encounter in the language.
- How texts and spoken language can be varied for different purposes and contexts.
- How connecting words and other expressions are used to create structure and linguistically coherent entities. Speaking, writing and discussing – production and interaction.
- Different ways of working on personal communications to vary, clarify, specify and adapt them for different purposes.
- Oral and written narratives, descriptions and instructions.
- Conversations, discussions and argumentation.
- Language strategies to understand and be understood when language skills are lacking, such as reformulations, questions and explanations.
- Language strategies to contribute to and actively participate in conversations by taking the initiative in interaction, giving confirmation, putting follow-up questions, taking the initiative to raise new issues and also concluding conversations.
- Language phenomena to clarify, vary and enrich communication such as pronunciation, intonation and fixed language expressions, grammatical structures and sentence structures.