JC 2 English Language

Students will identify basic persuasive techniques used in advertisements and simple texts, such as appealing to popularity or using strong emotional words.

Students will learn to spot simple unfair ways people try to argue, like making fun of someone instead of their idea, or saying everyone believes something so it must be true.

Students will practice finding simple persuasive techniques and unfair arguments in social media posts, news headlines, and advertisements.

Students will practice incorporating modal verbs and hedging language to express degrees of certainty and nuance.

Students will learn strategies for integrating and refuting opposing viewpoints respectfully and effectively.

Students will learn how to make their own writing and speaking sound more believable by using facts, clear language, and showing they know their topic.

Students will explore how writers and speakers use words to make an audience feel emotions like happiness, sadness, or excitement, and discuss when this is fair or unfair.

Students will focus on building arguments using clear reasons and evidence, like examples, facts, and personal experiences.

Students will analyze how online videos, social media posts, and websites use different ways to persuade people, including pictures, sounds, and catchy phrases.

Students will practice discerning an author's perspective, bias, and underlying assumptions in various texts.

Students will read two or more texts on the same topic and identify what ideas they share and where they disagree.

Students will learn to take information from a few different sources and put them together to form their own understanding or answer a question.

Students will practice condensing lengthy arguments into precise, accurate summaries without losing essential meaning.

Students will learn basic ways to check if a source of information (like a website or a news article) is reliable and if the person writing it might have a bias.

Students will practice identifying the evidence used to support claims and deciding if it's strong enough or relevant to the point being made.

Students will explore how people's backgrounds and experiences can lead them to see things differently, and how this affects what they write and how we read it.

Students will learn about new words that come from science and technology, and how these words help us talk about new inventions and ideas.

Students will examine the role of metaphor and analogy in simplifying complex scientific concepts for a general audience.

Students will discuss how we talk about new medical technologies, like vaccines or new ways to treat illnesses, and the different feelings people have about them.

Students will discuss how we use words to describe artificial intelligence (AI) and robots, and what that means for how we think about them and ourselves.

Students will explore what 'privacy' means online, how our personal information is used, and how companies talk about collecting our data.

Students will discuss the language used around online safety, like 'cybersecurity' and 'data breaches,' and how to build trust in online spaces.

Students will discuss whether art is mainly for looking beautiful or if it should also carry an important message about society or life.

Students will explore how different types of support, like government funding or private sponsors, can influence what kind of art is created and shared.

Students will discuss how popular culture from around the world affects local traditions and customs, and how people try to keep their own culture alive.

Students will learn about the importance of preserving unique cultures, including their languages, stories, and art forms, especially for smaller communities.

Students will explore how the way we speak, including using different languages or dialects in different situations, helps show our identity and connect us to groups.

Students will discuss Singlish as a unique part of Singaporean identity, exploring when and where it is used and how it differs from standard English.

Students will analyze how literary works reflect, challenge, or perpetuate cultural stereotypes and narratives.

Students will look at how different words are used to talk about environmental problems, like calling it a 'crisis' or a 'challenge,' and how this changes how people react.

Students will learn how to read news about science, especially when scientists say they are 'uncertain' about some things, and how different groups might use this information.

Students will compare environmental messages that warn about big problems with messages that offer hope and solutions, and discuss which ones are more effective.

Students will learn to identify when companies pretend to be environmentally friendly (called 'greenwashing') by looking at their words and advertisements.

Students will discuss whether big companies or individual people are more responsible for protecting the environment, and how language is used to talk about this.

Students will discuss how environmental problems sometimes affect certain communities more than others, and how we can talk about these issues fairly.

Students will learn about people who have to move from their homes because of climate change, and discuss how we can talk about their challenges and rights.

Students will compare how different types of governments (like democracies and other systems) talk about their rules and try to convince people to follow them.

Students will look at how political leaders communicate with the public, especially when they try to connect directly with 'ordinary people' and challenge existing systems.

Students will discuss the idea that success comes from hard work ('meritocracy') and how this idea is talked about in society, and what it means for fairness.

Students will compare the words and phrases used to talk about people who are rich versus people who are poor, and how these words can affect our attitudes.

Students will learn about the special language used when countries talk to each other, negotiate, and try to solve problems peacefully.

Students will discuss the balance between caring for one's own country and working with other countries to solve big problems that affect everyone.

Students will discuss how new technologies like robots and artificial intelligence might change the types of jobs available and how we prepare for the future.