My sample thematic syllabus, Tesol part 2. Grade 12, duration 1 year

1. SYLLABUS DESIGN
PRESENTATION
BY: SHAGUFTA MOGHAL
ATIA GUL BAHAR
& SHUMAILA NAJEEB

2. • Level of learners: Intermediate
• Age: 17-19 Years
• Grade: 12

3. GOALS:
• Introduce students to a wide range of topics of interest.
• Enable them to use language in actual communication.
• Students will be able to extend what they learn to
practical application.
• Students will develop knowledge and understanding of:
▫ the contexts, purposes and audiences of texts
▫ the forms and features of language
▫ the structures of texts.

4. Learning skills and strategies
Students will develop skills in:
• • responding to and composing a range of texts
• • effective communication
• • individual and collaborative learning
• • investigation, imaginative and critical thinking,
and synthesis of ideas
• • reflection as a way to review, reconsider and
refine meaning and learning.

5. Value of Learning
Students will come to value and appreciate:
• • the role of language in developing positive interaction
and cooperation
• • their developing skills as users of English
• • the pleasure and diversity of language and literature
• • the role of language and literature in their lives
• • the study and use of English as a key to learning
• • reflection on their own processes of learning
• • English as a language of communication and culture
• • appropriateness, subtlety and aesthetics in language
use.

6. • Type of Syllabus: Thematic
• Rationale:
 Focus on the meaning of language, ratherFlexibility in
content choice
 Flexibility in tasks and activities
 Themes related to students’ level and interest
 Variety of topics and text types
 Scope for recycling learning and ideas
 Balance and progression of skills within each unit

7. Syllabus Organization
▫ Organizing Principle – Themes
▫ 5 Topics for each theme
▫ Multiple text types within each theme

8. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Childhood •Optimism In childhood – Kimika Hahn
•Bullying The Dolls’s house – Katherine Mansfield
•Disappointment Games at Twilight – Anita Desai
•Wishes End of Term – David Daiches
•Sibling Rivalry Topdog/ Underdog – Suzan Lori Parks
Social concerns •Child Labour The Chimney Sweeper – William Blake
[Rights] •Racial Equality – Maya Angelou
Discrimination
•Gender In equality Shakespeare’s Sister – Virginia Woolfe
•Animal Rights A campaign against Bull Fighting – Ad Film
•Senior Citizenship Senior Citizens – Vikram Karve
Facet’s of the •Insecurity Once upon a time – Nadine Gordimer
World •Women’s world The Cairo rooftop – Naguib Mahfooz
[Trans. William Hitchins, Olive Kenny]
•Imperialism Shooting an Elephant – George Orwell
•Social divides Modern Society – Neil Adams
•Ideological Gulliver’s Travels – A voyage to Lilliput –
differences Jonathan Swift

9. TABLE OF CONTENTS
Relationships •Love and When I was one and twenty – A.E. Houseman
Heartache
•Generation gap Marriage is a Private Affair – Chinua Achebe
•Mother’s love A mother’s Love – Helen Steiner Rice
•Strengthening Make me feel important – Jamie Jefferson
relations
•Family Bonds A Fitzgerald Family Christmas – Movie
Evolving •Changing From a dictionary of the English Language –
Language Interpretations Samuel Johnson
• Spelling and The Prologue – the Canterbury Tales
Pronunciation
•Transition in The Middle English – the language in transition
Language
•Poetic Language To a Mouse – Robert burns
•Spoken English Pride and Prejudice – Movie

10. Syllabus Lists
▫ Language Elements:
 Grammar
 Lexis [Vocabulary]
 Phonology

11. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHONO-
FOCUS LOGICAL
FOCUS
Social
Concerns
Child
Labour
‘The
Chimney
Scarcely, Misery,
Sweep, innocence,
Regular and
irregular verbs
/ai/
Sweeper’ Soot, spoil, coffin of Past and present
black, woe participle
Poem
William
Blake
Racial
Discrimi-
‘Equality’ Dimly, faintly, boldly,
painful, marching,
Adverbs of
Manner,
/ei/
nation confess, compelling Adverbial
beating, nightly Phrases and
clauses
Poem –
Maya
Angelou

12. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHON
FOCUS O-
LOGIC
AL
FOCUS
Social Gender ‘Shakespea Evidently, genius, Subordinating /δυ/
Concerns Inequality re’s Sister’ ignorance, shrank, conjunctions, Use
heiress, poached, of Idioms,
escapade, fortune, Complex
adventurous sentences,
Adjuncts, Satire,
Essay -
Virginia
Woolfe
Animal Advertisem Calf, spear, cape, Modals: ‘Should’, Rhotic /
Rights ent- A matador, ‘ought’ and r/
campaign spectators, arena, ‘Should not’
against bull latch, hooked,
fighting blood sport
Ad film

13. THEME TOPIC TEXT LEXICAL ITEMS GRAMMAR PHONO-
FOCUS LOGICAL
FOCUS
Social Senior ‘Senior Redoubtable, Compound and Consonant
Concerns Citizensh Citizens’ Intrepid, effeminate. complex clusters
ip Menacing, sentences, /str/, /bl/
exasperation, Connectors of
premium, reason and
indefatigable, choice
metamorphosis,
drastic
Short
Story-
Vikram
Karve

14. Shaping the Syllabus
• Matrix format
• Charting text selections over a grid for the 4
communication skills
• A separate Task for Critically Evaluating the text
and extending it beyond the text book.

15. Data Processing Communicative tasks Critical Thinking Task
Topics Reading Listening Speaking Writing
The Chimney Skimming, Retaining Role Play – Make a print Drawing a
Sweeper – Scanning for chunks, Enact a ad – a skilled comparison with child
William Blake key words Recognizing scene from a chimney labour in Pakistan –
rhythmic poem, say sweeper search 5 articles.
patterns the lines in available for Write your own.
correct tone hire – add
visuals
Equality – Text Recognizing Interaction, Make posters Comparison with cast
Maya Angelou Cohesion, word order dialogue for a peaceful differences in the
Identifying patterns between poet rally for racial subcontinent-
elements of and equality prevalent today? Take
subjectivity of oppressor a poll about attitudes.
writer 10 students, 10
grownups.
Shakespeare’s Skimming, Listening for Interview of A diary entry ‘To write great
Sister – Recognizing specific the character by literature, a
Virginia Woolfe syntactic information, described in Shakespeare woman must have
patterns, Stressed the story – ‘My sister is money and a private
Scanning for words a rebel’ place’, Evaluate w.r.t.
key words the world today.

16. Data Processing Communicative tasks Critical Thinking
Topics Reading Listening Speaking Writing Task
Advertisement- A Guessing Recognizing Describing Letter to the Animal Testing,
campaign against meaning from the effect of visuals newspaper Caged birds & pets,
bull fighting context non verbal Act out how a editor – issue security dogs,
sounds [e.g. caged parrot of ill-treatment neutering –
grunts] feels of animals Ill-treatment?
• Find out facts, write
a report.
Senior Citizens – Inferencing, Tone of Speech and A Pamphlet – Care of
Vikram Karve predicting dialogues gender – Highlighting grandparents
outcomes switch the old the through illness –
man to an old ‘advantages’ what do the youth
lady- how of an Old contribute?
would the Home Conduct a survey.
speech
change?

17. Manner of Assessment
• The Examination for Intermediate level are only taken in
the written format.
• Therefore the tasks have many activities based on
writing skill, in order to enable students to express
themselves in the written exam.