Sweden Grade 5 - English Curriculum

The English curriculum for Grade 5 in Sweden emphasizes developing communicative skills, language awareness, and cultural understanding. Teaching is primarily conducted in English, utilizing various media and real-world resources. The curriculum covers five key areas:

1. Understanding: Comprehending spoken and written English, interpreting content, and employing strategies for evaluation and assimilation. 2. Expression: Communicating effectively in both spoken and written English. 3. Language Strategies: Utilizing various language strategies in diverse contexts. 4. Adaptability: Adapting language to suit different purposes, audiences, and situations. 5. Cultural Awareness: Discussing and reflecting on living conditions, social issues, and cultural aspects of English-speaking communities worldwide, comparing them with their own experiences.

Core Content:

• Communication Topics: Subjects related to education, society, work life, current events, thoughts, opinions, experiences, feelings, relationships, ethical issues, and various forms of fiction. It also includes living conditions, attitudes, values, traditions, and socio-political and cultural conditions in different parts of the world where English is used, including the global spread and position of English.
• Reception: Understanding spoken language (including social and dialectal variations), instructional, narrative, summarizing, explanatory, discursive, reporting, and argumentative texts, including film and other media. This also encompasses coherent spoken language, conversations (e.g., interviews), literature, fiction, various text types (e.g., manuals, popular science texts, reports), and strategies for listening, reading, searching, selecting, and evaluating texts and spoken language. Students also learn how words and phrases create structure and context in communication.
• Production and Interaction: Engaging in various forms of oral and written production and interaction, including formal settings, where students instruct, narrate, summarize, explain, comment, assess, justify opinions, discuss, and argue. This involves strategies for participating in discussions related to society and work, refining their own and others' communication, and using language to clarify causal connections and time aspects.

Knowledge Requirements: These are outlined for grades E through A, with increasing complexity and proficiency expected at each level. The requirements cover comprehension, strategy use, media selection and utilization, oral and written communication, interaction, and cultural awareness.