​SUMMARY

Welcome to Basic 2. Instructional materials, activities and resources meet the capabilities of "The Survivor" (Equals grade 6/7 native user outcomes).  
Language usage needs to make sense to the learner. The focus is on application instead of theory. 
Basic 2 incorporates a 'Whole Language Approach' and '21st Century Skills'.  Reading, writing, speaking and listening - are taught in an integrated fashion along with critical thinking, problem-solving, reasoning and analysis.​

​MODULE OUTLINE

  • Lesson 1
  • Lesson 2
  • Lesson 3
  • Lesson 4 
  • Lesson 5
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True Love Stories:
Your friend Zanele discovers an old, undelivered love-letter. She is determined to find the mystery girl from the photo that came with the letter. Let's help two people live their 'happily-ever-after-story'! ​
After completing these 11 tasks, you will be able to:
  • understand and choose the right words for the situation 
  • match up similar words 
  • discern similar sounding words (homophones) 
  • read and find meaning in a message 
  • brush up your writing skills  
  • discuss and debate relationships  
  • improve your English listening skills
Disability is not Inability:
Mrs Olive is not happy with Kabelo. Help him to get back into her good books by completing several tasks.​
After completing these tasks you will be able to:
  • understand and choose the right words for the situation
  • find the difference between the sounds ch and sh
  • read and find meaning in a message
  • brush up your writing skills in: formulating questions, identifying sentences and paragraphs and writing the ending to a story
  • discuss and debate about: working together for a common goal and the situation, problems and possible assistance for various groups of disadvantaged people
  • improve your English listening skills
See the Able not the Label:
Mrs Olive liked the story. She wants us to write a story like this every week. This week we must come up with an exciting second part for "The lame woman and the blind man." We also have to deal with other potential disasters that might pop up around the office.
After completing these tasks you will be able to:
  • read and find meaning in a message 
  • brush up your writing skills in: practicing spelling of verbs with consonants doubling, changing sentences from present to past tense, writing selected words, paragraphs and direct speech as well as writing a dialogue 
  • discuss and debate about: learning from others, fact and fiction
  • give direction
  • improve your English listening skills
Zolzni's First Job:
A clever idea suddenly comes to you. Eureka! It’s up to you to make the pieces fit together. It won’t be easy, but if you apply what you’ve learned so far, you might be able to impress Mrs Olive.
After completing these 11 tasks you will be able to:
  •  understand and choose the right words for the situation
  • discuss the pronunciation and meaning of similar sounding word 
  • read and find meaning in a message
  • brush up your writing skills by writing your own story
  • discuss and debate a first job and related subjects as well as the details of a job advertisement and how to decide to apply 
  • ​improve your English listening skills
Waste not Want not:
For your next story you turn to Christina for inspiration. You start off thinking that you’ll write about Christina’s first job experience, but you soon realise that this story is more about waste, saving and preparation. Complete all tasks and impress the ever so stern Mrs. Olive. 
After completing these tasks you will be able to:
  •  understand and choose the right words for the situation. 
  • break up words into syllables. 
  • guess the meaning of unfamiliar words in sentences. 
  • recognise pronunciation of ‘silent e’ and ‘y’.
  • read and find meaning in a message.
  • brush up your writing skills by listing ideas on how to save and writing for fun, collaborating with others
  • discuss and debate about topics relating to ‘bad times’ and saving tips
  • improve your English listening skills