Englisch – Klasse 10 · Unit 1
South Africa
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Everything for Unit 1 – our topic is South Africa. Work through the topics in this order and tick them off in your revision plan.
Introduction to South Africa (WAP)
Words and Pictures: watch the video about South Africa’s landscapes and animals, add your words to the class word cloud, find South Africa on the map – then listen and fill out the worksheet.
Start →Tenses Review
South Africa: life with – and without – load shedding. Headlines and a chart to start, then Thabo’s blog with ten tenses mixed up, flashcards and feedback.
Start →Modal Verbs
On safari in Kruger National Park: park signs to start, then discover, sort and practise can, could, may, might, must, mustn’t, needn’t, should, would – and their substitute forms.
Start →Active and Passive
Robben Island – from prison to museum: map and timeline to start, then all passive formulas (tenses and modals), verbs with two objects, formula cards and feedback.
Start →Aktiv-Passiv-Übersicht
Alle Zeiten im Aktiv und im Passiv gegenübergestellt – und wie du die Form von to be umwandelst.
Ansehen →Listening
Spelling Practice: listen and type what you hear, with difficulty rising from easy words to full e-mail addresses.
Go to area →AP 2022
Check the AP 2022 together (AT + HN), find your points and your grade, see the class results live and tell us what helps you most for the final exam.
Start →Pantsula – South Africa’s township dance
Watch the video and become a dance reporter: take notes, compare with a partner, check the facts and tell a friend about Pantsula.
Start →E-mail of complaint
Learn how to complain politely: useful phrases, linking words, improve an e-mail – then write your own e-mail to an airline and get feedback from the checklist.
Start →Exam Preparation: Reading and Use of English
Work with your STARK book: Reading pp. 26 and 32–36, Use of English pp. 58–67 – then check with the solution book and mark your mistakes in colour.
Start →Test: Passive and Vocabulary
Find the passive forms, use the passive in all tenses (with just, already, could, might …) and show what you know from the vocabulary pages 143–145.
Start the test →First Test Reflection
Look at your test: your points in Passive, Reading and Vocab, your strongest and weakest part, your strategy – then practise what you need most.
Start →Use of English
Word Families, Tricky Words and Keyword Transformation – revision of Year 9 plus new, more difficult words and structures from South Africa.
Go to area →Vocab Practice pp. 150–152
Growing up in Soweto, the language chameleon, trouble in town and a new school building – plus a mixed practice.
Start →Vocab Practice pp. 146–149
Shamwari, a controversial trade, a safari complaint and a comedy night. One card at a time – type the word or say it.
Start →Vocab Practice pp. 144–145
Three exercises about South Africa: Township, Entrepreneur and Gumboot dancing. One card at a time – type the word or say it.
Start →Vocab Checks
One vocab check per date, each with its book page and word range – scan the QR code, answer the tasks, then submit to see the solutions.
Go to Vocab Checks →✅ My revision plan for the exam on 24 November
Tick what you have done – your ticks are saved on this device.
- Tenses Review: Level 1 without help – and check my feedback
- Tenses Review: learn the flashcards (signal words, since/for, adverbs)
- Modal Verbs: rules and substitute forms (be able to, be allowed to, have to)
- Modal Verbs: mustn’t or needn’t? – all tasks correct
- Active and Passive: all formulas – Level 1 without help
- Active and Passive: verbs with two objects and the German translation
- Listening: Spelling Practice (all three levels)
- Use of English: Word Families – help cards and all tasks (incl. exam training)
- Use of English: Tricky Words – all three tasks
- Use of English: Keyword Transformation – all three tasks
- Vocab Practice pp. 144–145 – all three texts
- Vocab Practice pp. 146–149 – all four texts
- Look at my mistakes again and do the tasks one more time
💡 Don’t revise everything the night before! Do a little every day.