Detailed Syllabus for English, 4th Year of the New Secondary

0  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Daily Life 1- Analyze relevant issues a) Even in the USA, the land of the fat, a) Students in groups of five (5) related to daily life. nearly 30 million people do not have analyze a written document from enough to eat. a newspaper, magazine or the 2- Express and support internet on abortion or the opinions about abortion b) Homeless is on the rise in Haiti. equality of the sexes. and equality of the sexes. c) More than 35% of Americans think b) In a brainstorming activity, 3- Compare and contrast that abortion should be permitted only students debate the pros and human rights and the death in case of rape, of incest or to cons of the adoption of death penalty in various English- safeguard the life of the mother. penalty in our constitution. speaking countries. d) There are more job opportunities c) Listening to a tape or CD, 4- Conduct a survey on and a better chance of succeeding in students hear about the living homeless and poverty in life when you live in a city. situation of the homeless on one urban area. Champs-de-Mars and propose solutions on how to improve 5- Identify and discuss their life in the community advantages associated with (Students may choose to work as city life. teams or individually). 1  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Daily Life a) Adjectives (kinds and position) d) In a role-play situation, students act as survivors of the b) Form and use of the possessive case January 2010 earthquake, and share opinion about the best c) Comparative and Superlative attitude to adopt if such disaster hits Haiti once again. d) Auxiliary verbs e) In an out-of-class research e) Question tags projects, students in groups of five (5) investigate why people f) Relative pronouns and clauses prefer to live in big cities instead of rural areas. Cultural Content a) The termination of pregnancy as a freedom of choice in Haiti and the USA b) Human rights in the Caribbean from the eyes of Amnisty International c) Death penalty in various States of the USA. 2  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Health 1- Examine and analyze a) Health is better than wealth. a) Students in groups of five (5) health contributions by analyze a text on alternative alternative medicine in b) Condoms, faithfulness and medicine and express in a well- Haiti. abstinence campaigns can not prevent written paper their opinion about 100%, HIV/AIDS from spreading the wide spread use of it in 2- Understand the main among the population. Haiti. Afterwards, students idea and supporting present their paper to the class details of texts and c) The H5N1 virus (Avian Flu) can be followed by questions and documents related to deadly to people who come into direct discussion. health care. contact with infected birds or eat uncooked poultry. b) In a role-play situation, 3- Predict consequences students simulate a conversation of unprotected sex. d) The World Health Organization between a doctor and a patient (WHO) is concerned about the rising who has been affected by the 4- Express individual tide of obesity which sends medical Avian Flu. perspectives on the links costs soaring. between obesity and heart c) Using reading skills such as: disease. (Intensive reading, information transfer and paraphrasing), 5- Compare technological students answer questions on development in the field Technological development in of medicine among the field of medicine. English-speaking Caribbean countries. 3  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Health a) Possessive adjectives and pronouns d) Students on special assignment in their respective b) Reflexives pronouns neighborhood, conduct a survey on the links between obesity and c) Be as an auxiliary verb heart disease. Then, they analyze the results and present their d) May and can for permission and findings to the class for possibility discussion and debate. e) can and be able for ability e) In a research done with the help of different sources, f) Interrogative adjectives and pronouns students in groups of five (5) compare the minimum drinking age and alcohol taxes between Cultural Content the USA and Canada. a) Autism and down’s syndrome in Haiti and the USA. b) Fitness programs and sports in various English-speaking countries. c) Minimum drinking age and alcohol taxes in the USA and Canada. 4  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Travel 1- Compare and contrast a) Statistically, the chances of your a) Upon listening a recorded major tourist destinations. plane crashing is little more than three radio broadcast on tourist in a million but the headlines do not destinations in the Caribbean, 2- Express and justify always convey the same impression. students through a brainstorming opinion on how to promote activity, justify appropriate Haiti as a tourist b) Don’t worry, be happy by taking a measures to be taken by the destination in the cruise to the Bahamas in order to live government to create and Caribbean. life to the full. improve tourist clusters and resort areas throughout the 3- Conduct a survey and c) Labbadie, Côte des Arcadins, country. analyze the results on how Jacmel and Île à vache are considered important domestic the best tourist destinations in Haiti b) Students conduct small group traveling is to high school with many resort areas. discussions on what could be students. better destinations for foreign d) Haitians living abroad take pride in visitors in Haiti. 4- Analyze texts related to sending remittance to members of their travel and tourism. family and in participating in rural c) After reading three texts from parties. different newspapers and 5- Investigate and propose magazines, students work in solutions, to increase the groups to analyze why tourism is number of Haitians living an important source of earnings abroad, to visit Haiti on a for many countries. regular basis. 5  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Travel a) Prepositions d) In a project outside the classroom, to analyze the cost- b) Ought, should, must, have to, need effectiveness of large-scale for obligation marketing and huge investments in the tourism industry c) The past and perfect tenses (Construction of hotel chains, creation of tourist clusters d) Will + infinitive and be going to etc…), students in an oral presentation followed by a e) The future tense debate and discussion report to the whole class the work done. f) Do used as an auxiliary and do used as an ordinary verb e) In a role-play situation, students simulate an interview between a Haitian migrant in the Cultural Content USA applying for PTS and an immigration officer. a) Comparison between Labaddie and Miami beach. b) PTS (Protected Temporary Status) for Haitians and other central American nations. c) Holliday traveling: Haiti, Dominican Republic and the USA. 6  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Environment 1- Investigate and a) More efficient public transportation a) In a brainstorming activity, propose solutions to and car pooling would greatly help students identify reasons related problems related to car reduce car pollution in cities. to car pollution. Then in groups pollution. of four (4) they discuss the issue b) People have always taken water for and propose solutions to reduce 2- Express and justify granted. But where is the water going to this phenomenon. opinion on how to come from to supply an ever-increasing manage the water crisis world population? b) Groups, alternatively in front around the globe. of the class, present their c) Haiti has become a disaster-prone solutions and answer questions 3- Create hypothetical country and now there should be strict asked by other classmates. real world situations policies in building earthquake-proof related to earthquake and houses accordingly. c) Students after reading solve them. newspaper articles on issues d) The outlook is bleak. A new climate related to the water crisis around 4- Analyze texts on regime could undermine ecosystems the globe, analyze in a well- renewable energy throughout the world, and the hole in written essay of about 130 sources. the ozone layer over Antartica is bigger words, while there is not enough than ever. water, that precious liquid is 5- Prioritize solutions being wasted, mismanaged and related to global warming. polluted. 7  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Environment a) Comparison of the present perfect simple and continuous d) In an out-of-class research project, students in groups of six b) The future perfect and the future (6) investigate reasons why hot perfect continuous summers will double in frequency by the year 2020. c) Habits expressed by will, would, should e) In a role-play situation, students simulate a conversation d) gerunds after prepositions emphasizing air pollution in Port-au-Prince, and the impact e) The verb mind of deforestation in many parts of the country. f) Prepositions used with adjectives and participles Cultural Content a) Earthquake in Haiti, California and Chile, what is the difference? b) Environmental awareness how is it seen in different English-speaking countries. c) Greenhouse gas emissions and the Kyoto protocol what have we done since then? 8  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Education 1- Express the pros and a) More money should be poured into a) In a problem-solving activity, cons of eliminating the education to provide more teachers and students in groups of five (5) baccalaureat first part by smaller class sizes. investigate the lack of reading Educational authorities. skills among students at the b) The literacy of all children should be secondary level in Haiti and 2- Construct meaning by an educational top priority for the propose solutions to improve drawing charts and government. that specific competency. diagrams from supported texts on the lack of c) It is said that more than 15.000 b) Upon listening a recorded reading and mathematical Haitian students attend University in the radio broadcast on the illiteracy skills of students at the Dominican Republic. That trend is quite rate in Haiti, which is the highest secondary level world- alarming. in the Caribbean, students say wide. and justify appropriate decisions d) Secondary school system in Haiti, to be taken by government 3- Investigate and the Dominican Republic and the USA, authorities. propose solutions to similarities and differences. problems related to the c) Using reading skills such as: illiteracy rate in Haiti. (Skimming, scanning and contextualized guessing), 4- Compare Haiti and students read a text on the Dominican higher limited capacity of the State education. University of Haiti, and prioritize solutions to reverse that alarming situation. 9  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Education 5- Predict consequences, a) The conditional tenses d) In an out-of-class research, if not much is done by students in groups of four (4) government in developing b) Infinitive and gerund constructions compare and contrast the countries, to reach the Secondary School system of objectives of the c) Active participle Vs passive Haiti and the United States. millennium in terms of participle education. e) In a role-play students assume d) Commands, request, invitations, fictious identities and interact as advice and suggestions students and teacher in a foreign language class. e) The passive voice f) Indirect speech Cultural Content a) Scholarship and loans in Higher Education in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the USA. b) Medical Schools in Haiti and the USA. c) Illiteracy rate in the Caribbean region, a comparison between Haiti, Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica. 10  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Topic Content Science And 1- Express and support a) Stem cell research opens the way for a) In a brainstorming activity, Technology opinions about genetic treatment of diseases such as: Diabetes, students discuss and debate engineering. Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. milestones in medical research. 2- Prioritize solutions b) Many geneticists support therapeutic b) In a role-play situation, resulted from working in cloning which could allow them to students interact on how modern the high-tech age. produce replacement parts for damaged Technology has revolutionized organs. the way many people work. 3- Compare internet access of people from c) Providing internet access to 50% of c) In an out-of-class research different English- the world’s population by 2015 is an project, students in groups of speaking countries. ambitious yet achievable goal. five (5) conduct a survey and analyze the impact of the 4- Conduct a survey and d) Online distance learning can provide internet on youngsters in their analyze the impact of the quality education for millions. respective neighborhoods. internet on people facing Afterwards they write a letter to social isolation and the Minister of Education to loneliness. report their findings. 5- Identify and discuss d) In a well-written problem- advantages associated solving task, students suggest to with the internet as a the government and the private powerful engine of sector, ways to equip both public economic growth. and private schools with labs and computers with access to internet. 11  Learning Activities and Thematic Domain Competencies Content Elements Tasks Grammatical Content Science And a) Coordinating conjunctions Technology e) Students in a project and b) Subordinating conjunctions creative task, compare the viewpoints of two educators, on c) Noun clauses online distance learning, in terms of providing quality d) Infinitives after go and come education to children in remote areas of Haiti. e) Had better, would rather, would prefer, would like and want f) Verb + preposition / adverb Cultural Content a) The new arrival of Netcom on the Haitian market. What in store for us? b) The paperless office in the 21st century, a dream or a reality? Case- study: Haiti, USA, Dominican Republic, Canada. c) Internet and cellular phones ten years from now in industrialized nations, emergent countries and developing nations. 12