Life on Scilly

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.