Preface
The Grade 4 Let’s Learn English textbook is based on the reviewed National Curriculum Framework
2015. It aims at further providing pupils with adequate opportunities to actively engage in the use of
the English language and develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a gradual and
integrated manner. The activities in the textbook enable pupils to learn and practise the language in
a contextualized and meaningful way, focusing on key areas of language and literacy development,
with an emphasis on the development of oral skills. Additionally, a cross-curricular approach has
been adopted which enables links to be made with other subject areas like Science, History and
Geography, The Arts, and ICT.
The textbook constitutes 8 units with dierent, but interrelated, themes that are directly or indirectly
related to learners’lives or interest. The units consist of the following sub-sections:
Oral –The listening and speaking activities in each unit encourage pupils to build their condence
in a fun and informal way. These activities are interspersed throughout each unit and they provide
some key vocabulary related to each theme;
Reading comprehension - The reading activities introduce the main theme and some theme-based
vocabulary of a unit. The text is followed by post-reading activities to develop the reading skills of
pupils and to help gauge their understanding;
Vocabulary - Each unit consists of theme-based vocabulary activities to help pupils extend their
repertoire of words. For the reading comprehension, a box of keywords is found below each passage.
Though it is by no means exhaustive, the box of keywords is indicative of specic vocabulary items
to be pre-taught. This will naturally depend on the needs of the learners. Specic oral and written
activities in dierent units link to the vocabulary items and further encourage pupils to understand
the words in context and also use new words and expressions;
Grammar - The range of grammar activities provide opportunities for pupils to revise some main
grammar points and also to introduce new grammatical features, thus extending pupils’ essential
notions of English grammar for accurate language production both orally and in writing;
Writing - These activities enable pupils to produce dierent types of texts of varying lengths with or
without the support of a writing frame or model;
Phonics - A specic section for phonics activities helps to further build and reinforce pupils’
phonological and phonemic awareness in an explicit manner to develop their spelling, word
recognition, and decoding skills; hence, steadily leading them to read and write with condence;
End of Unit - This section consists of a variety of activities to evaluate pupils’ reading, writing,
grammatical, phonics, and vocabulary accuracy.
Each unit is accompanied by a short literacy story which complements the theme. The literacy stories
are presented as a separate collection to encourage pupils to enjoy reading in English, enable them
to develop their own personal library, and inspire them to begin reading with some independence,
albeit with continued assistance and support from the teacher as needed. While the focus is mostly
on developing literacy skills in English, concepts from other areas such as History, Geography, Values
and Citizenship Education are also integrated.
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