Scheme of Work For 3 Weeks: You'll Be Hearing From Us Shortly

Scheme of work for 3 weeks:
You’ll be hearing from us shortly
This scheme covers approximately 10 × 45-minute lessons plus homework. It gives

integrated Reading, Writing, and Speaking and listening opportunities across a wide
range of activities.
Previous knowledge dramatic monologue, satire, formal letter writing

Linked to Secondary 1 curriculum objectives Stage 9: Reading fiction; Writing
fiction; Phonics, spelling and vocabulary; Grammar and punctuation; Speaking
and listening
Objectives • to study satirical poetry
• to take part in paired and group speaking and listening activities
• to write concisely and cohesively
• to convey viewpoint
• to make notes
• to perform to an audience
Skills • to infer
• letter writing
• to create character; script dialogue
• Copy of poem ‘You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly’ by U.A. Fanthorpe;
examples of job advertisements; audio recording equipment (optional)
Resources
• Teacher’s Resource CD: Unit 3 Worksheet 3: Dialogue punctuation;
Unit 10 Worksheet 11: Writing a monologue (Coursebook Activity 13)
Coursebook: Units 7, 10
Checkpoint links
Workbook: Unit 10 exercise 7
Differentiation can be achieved by composition of groups and the role of
Differentiation
different students in feeding back to the whole class on behalf of their group.
Activities
These activities offer a mixture of individual, paired, group and whole class tasks at
different stages. You will be monitoring, making notes and assessing the standard of
different aspects of speaking and listening skills throughout the scheme of work.
Week 1: Group work

1 Introduce the topic of the potential conflict situations in everyday life. Elicit from
the class examples of where two people meet and are forced into a dialogue, despite
being likely to have different views or attitudes.
2 Ask the class to suggest common situations in which one person has power or advantage
over the other in a dialogue. Discuss reasons for the inequality of the relationship.
3 Read the poem ‘You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly’ to the class (without giving its
title or giving an explanatory introduction). Ask the class to:
a describe the situation in the poem
b say what kind of poem it is
c say what they recall about it
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Scheme of work for 3 weeks: You’ll be hearing from us shortly
d give their first impressions

e suggest a title for it
4 Ask the students to form groups of three or four and give each group a copy of the
poem. Ask the students to share the reading of it out loud again. They discuss and
make notes in response to the following questions about the poem:
a Comment on the title of the poem.
b Describe the format / layout of the poem.
c What appears to be unacceptable about the interviewee in the eyes of the interviewer?
d What can be inferred about the character of the speaker of the poem?
e Who or what is being satirised in this poem, and why?
f Which lines do you find ambiguous / humorous?
g What is the effect of the use of ‘we’ in the poem?
h Why are the utterances of the interviewer inappropriate?
i Which words and phrases are particularly effective, and why?
j Comment on the final line.
5 Ask different members of each group to give feedback to the class on different
questions. Discuss as a class the various responses and comment on their validity.
6 Homework task: ask the students to fill in the gaps of what the interviewee might have
said in each of the seven places where it is clear something has been said, so that the
poem is now a dialogue.
Week 2: Paired work

1 Students in pairs swap their homework and combine and adapt the two sets of ideas
for the unspoken half of the dialogue, ensuring it has continuity of form and linkage
of content.
2 Pairs perform their dialogue version of the poem to the class. Class discusses each
version and teacher gives feedback.
3 Students discuss options and agree on a name and background for both interviewer
and interviewee, creating characters for each of them.
4 Students decide on what the job is, and write a one-paragraph advertisement for it.
5 Students write in bullet points a subtext of the advertisement which indicates the kind
of person the company wants to appoint, i.e. the qualities the interviewer is revealing
in the poem which cannot be mentioned in a job advertisement.
6 Students write their own version of an interview script, based on the job they decide
upon, in which one of the speakers is sarcastic / insulting to create satire / humour.

Scheme of work for 3 weeks: You’ll be hearing from us shortly
Week 3: Individual work

1 Students draft the letter, promised in the poem, which the interviewer sends the
interviewee. They edit it and produce a final copy of the letter, which is read to the
class. Class votes on the most convincing letter, in the context. Teacher collects letters
for assessment of writing.
2 Students write a response to the letter sent by the interviewer, in which they complain
about the way the interview was conducted. These are read out to the class.
3 Students work on their own dramatic monologue poem set in a workplace. They go
through the following stages:
a Plan a situation and persona and audience.
b Decide on a form and layout.
c Draft a version of the poem of similar length to the stimulus poem.
d Give the poem a suitable title.
e Swap with a partner for advice on how to improve the poem.
4 Students read their poems to the class and discuss. Alternatively, the poems can be
audio recorded, listened to, discussed or judged. Evaluative comments can be made
by students and teacher.
5 The poems are copied out neatly or typed, and a classroom display is created.

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This scheme covers approximately 10 × 45-minute lessons plus homework. It gives

Previous knowledge dramatic monologue, satire, formal letter writing

Week 1: Group work

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d give their first impressions

Week 2: Paired work

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Week 3: Individual work

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