Author: Msomi Bora

TOPIC 4: EXPRESSING PERSONAL AND GROUP ROUTINE/HABITS Every person or group of people who stay together (school) has daily routine or activity. This can be expressed by different works, everyday, often, usually, daily, every month. Usually action is expressed in present simple tense or habitual aspect. The social area/ focus is on the following. Talking about One’s Home Routines/Habits My name is Gabriel. I’m a 12 year old Tanzanian living in Bunda town. I wake up early, at about 6 am, then I brush my teeth and take a bath before quickly having some breakfast. I usually have tea with chapati…

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TOPIC 3: USING A DICTIONARY DICTIONARY It is a kind of a book or reference that containing words of a language, arranged alphabetically and showing class and uses. Or, dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged in alphabetical order. We often use a dictionary to look up a word. We do this when we do not know what the word means. Dictionaries are organised to help us look up word easily For example, to look up the word ‘dormitory’ in the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 2005, do the following: 1. Find the section…

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TOPIC 2: GIVING DIRECTIONS Giving direction helps to show where someone he/she want to reach also through this topic students could have a knowledge on how to ask for directions and identify the four points of a compass; The Common words (prepositions) used includes: left, right, straight, crossing, opposite, near to, in front of, beside, behind, under, adjacent to, between, on, in, to, by, at, into, onto, etc. for different situations. The main purpose of this topic is to give compass direction mainly four cardinal points i.e. East, West, North, South. The compass is instrument for find direction. It has magnetized needle…

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TOPIC 1: LISTENING TO AND UNDERSTANDING SIMPLE TEXTS ABOUT A VARIETY OF EVENTS AND SITUATION Listening To and Understanding Simple Oral Texts on Events SPORTS DAY It was Sports Day at our school so students gathered at the playground which was full of students from different schools within the Morogoro region. At 4pm, a match between Kilakala Secondary School and Bigwa Secondary School, a sister school began. The referee called all players to line up at the centre of the football pitch and the coaches directed their teams to the centre of the football pitch. Spectators gathered and cheered at…

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TOPIC 3: THE PEOPLE OF AFRICAN ORIGIN IN THE NEW WORLD Black people or People of African origin in the New World are the millions of Africans that were moved in the New World as slaves as a result of capitalism. These African slaves were forcefully taken from Africa by the cruel European merchants to the New World for slavery during the Atlantic Slave Trade and their descendants who are still living in the America and Caribbean. They are known as Black People or the Negroes by the White racists. The New World is Americas and Caribbean Islands (West Indies). They were called…

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TOPIC 2: AFRICA AND EUROPE IN THE 15TH CENTURY Different historians advance various opinions about Africa and Europe before the point of contact with Europe. The afro-centric or Marxist historians do say that before the point of contact between the two Africa and Europe, the level of development was almost the same. In fact Walter Rodney in his book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, said that in some aspects Africa was above Europe e.g.in form of cotton cloth which was widely manufactured before the coming of Europeans. Local cotton from the Guinea coast…

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