Аннотация

The English for Life Reader for Grade 4 contains examples of a novel, folklore, short stories, dramas, and various information and media texts, such as newspaper and magazine articles, poems, advertisements, brochures, posters, and notices. These are the texts suggested as teaching support material for Grade 4 by the Department of Basic Education.
The English for Life Reader provides a volume of reading material that is easy to access, and which has been chosen specifically for the Grade 4 learner. The content is interesting, thought-provoking and exciting and offers examples of texts that can be found in everyday life. The Reader can be used on its own as a supplement to classroom material, or in conjunction with the English for Life Grade 4 textbook for English as Home Language.

Аннотация

In English for Life Grade 4 you will be covering a range of interesting, thought-provoking and often humorous texts with integrated activities through which you will also improve your language use for some of your other subjects. These texts form the basis for extending your understanding and application of language use and communicative skills, for interpreting and responding to a variety of visual material and for reading, understanding and responding to literature.
Furthermore you will participate in assessing your progress and language competence by using various methods and instruments such as rating scales, checklists, and rubrics. You will continuously listen and speak, read and view, write and present and at the same time you will practise using English functionally, fluently and creatively by producing a range of language texts for particular purposes, audiences and contexts, both orally and in writing. You will have the opportunity to role play or play-read dramas, and to write your own stories and poems.
English for Life Grade 4 is an integrated language textbook for learners taking English as their Home Language.